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By: Akane Mizuno

Akane Mizuno — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:43:21 +0000

Hmm. It’s now what, three weeks since Alex learned to fly? Why hasn’t he been to see the tablets yet? I mean, for all the characters knew, Nicodemus could have returned at any time….

By: MattM

MattM — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:18:38 +0000

Wait, what plug? They wouldn’t do that; they’d use him as a case study, and observe him until they couldn’t get any more information from his supposed corpse. THEN they’d bury him alive, thinking he’s dead. I suspect that, if he dies in Dreamland, since it’s his “soul” or spirit, he’d die in reality. But if he was in Dreamland when his body died in the real world, I’d suspect he’d find out something was wrong – very wrong – when he never “woke up” and suddenly found out he could get tired in Dreamland…

By: bmonk

bmonk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:20 +0000

Not bad for me either–I read that book probably 20-30 years ago.

By: TekServer

TekServer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:31:42 +0000

Having grown up with twin sisters, with a front row seat to all the drama between them caused by various boyfriends (and later husbands), I can tell you that Alex’s reaction to the growing bond between Dan & Nicole is totally in character. Twins have a bond that we non-twins can never fully understand; and anyone who can be perceived as coming between them (even in the most irrational way) is going to cause some strong, and mostly involuntary, negative emotional reactions.

We haven’t seen the same reaction to Nastajia by Dan, simply because he can’t see her. So in the irrational, emotional part of his brain, her existence will never be as “real” to him as Nicole’s is to Alex. (At least not until and unless he gets to Dreamland, where I predict that he and Nastajia will be fairly cool to each other, at least at first.)

By: TekServer

TekServer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:21:25 +0000

Nice reference! I just “read” (audiobook) that Heinlein story last year … what was the name of that!? … *searches desperately through Heinlein collection*

… “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls”.

(Darn OCD. That could have gotten ugly … )

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:06:22 +0000

OT: Is it just me or is the RSS-Feed broken? All I get is a blank page when I click on the link.

By: bmonk

bmonk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:22:23 +0000

Or, when they can’t find any brain activity, pulling the plug?

By: Omniscia

Omniscia — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:15:30 +0000

Now just wait until Alex wakes up and he either mixes up what Felicity says, or forgets completely.

By: bmonk

bmonk — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:02:47 +0000

Reminds me of Heinlein’s characters way to validate identity: one talked with a person about the Television series he claimed to have written, and concluded that he had to have written it, just by the way he knew it and his style of thinking about it. The personal connection–the best way to know someone is real. Even here…

By: Scott Christian Sava

Scott Christian Sava — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:49:33 +0000

That’s kind of it with Alex.
He’s not a jerk by any stretch of the imagination.
But he’s not the most articulate. And definitely not sensitive enough to notice when people need him to say the right thing.
So he comes off like a jerk.

It’s part of his immaturity.