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Mar. 28th, 2011 08:47 pmRaiding Baen's free ebook library for things to read; downloaded, among other things, David Weber's On Basilisk Station. Quote from the first page:
"We're riding a neotiger, Mr. President"
A neotiger. See, because it's the future, and plain old regular tigers aren't futuristic enough, even as figures of speech!
Although, to be fair*, reading the rest of the book, it really does benefit from constant unsubtle reminders like this, as otherwise the reader is quite likely to forget it's not actually set in the nineteenth century.
* And by 'fair', I mean 'snarky'
"We're riding a neotiger, Mr. President"
A neotiger. See, because it's the future, and plain old regular tigers aren't futuristic enough, even as figures of speech!
Although, to be fair*, reading the rest of the book, it really does benefit from constant unsubtle reminders like this, as otherwise the reader is quite likely to forget it's not actually set in the nineteenth century.
* And by 'fair', I mean 'snarky'