Re: [HoE] Another Brainburners Question

["Alex Karls" <seventhirtyfour@hotmail.com>]

In a message dated 2/4/99 2:33:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
seventhirtyfour@hotmail.com writes:

>>Say, I was just wondering, for all of you Robert A. Heinlein fans 
>>out in the web, were the Skinnies (you know, tall, alien, deadly 
>>sykers from Banshee, handsome in a long cloak) named after the race 
>>of the same name from the wonderful Heinlein novel Starship 
>>Troopers?
>
>I doubt there is much by the way of resemblence, but its possible it 
>was a nod to Heinlein. In Starship Troopers, the Skinnies weren't 
>sykers and didn't have any powers, they were mostly just used as 
>cannonfodder.
>
>Then again, when PEG gets around to telling us what tore apart the 
>Unity, maybe it'll be the Bugs.

Ohhahha!!!! *sound of maniacal laughter*, I forgot about the Bugs!
Say it's so Shane, say it's so!

Alex.

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