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Story I encountered
Jun
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https://elidyce.tumblr.com/post/185150544873/writing-prompt-s-you-have-the-strange
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2019-06-28 10:23 am (UTC)
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That could almost be from Terramagne. [except I don't think they'd be able to get away with their treatment of Rosetta for that long.]
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2019-06-28 02:37 pm (UTC)
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kengr
Well, she *did* volunteer.
But yeah. Folks lost sight of the fact that they were supposed to be the good guys.
Oh ick. I just remembered the bit from Heinlein's "Operation Nightmare" where an idiot ossifer thought one of the psychics was sleeping.
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2019-06-28 03:29 pm (UTC)
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siliconshaman
Huh.. I don't think I've read that one. That said.. I can guess.
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2019-06-28 08:56 pm (UTC)
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kengr
It was actually "Project Nightmare". and it's in "The Menace From Earth" collection.
It's also in the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/stream/Amazing_Stories_v27n04_1953-04-05_Gorgon776#page/n19/mode/2up
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2019-06-28 10:05 pm (UTC)
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siliconshaman
Oh! Yeah, I have read that... loooong time ago...
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Date: 2019-06-28 10:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-28 02:37 pm (UTC)But yeah. Folks lost sight of the fact that they were supposed to be the good guys.
Oh ick. I just remembered the bit from Heinlein's "Operation Nightmare" where an idiot ossifer thought one of the psychics was sleeping.
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Date: 2019-06-28 08:56 pm (UTC)It's also in the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/stream/Amazing_Stories_v27n04_1953-04-05_Gorgon776#page/n19/mode/2up
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Date: 2019-06-28 10:05 pm (UTC)