Visiting Your Old Digsbaron_wasteMarch 1 2013, 10:06:02 UTC
[That's a triple-word-score entendre, there, given the subject of this review post…]
War of the Worlds had been released what, four years earlier. It would have been more interesting for Adal's death to come about for the same reason the Sumerians would have lost any such 'uprising' (they've never faced one before? Oh no, you can bet Procedures were In Place), the real reason why Cortez and his boys won, indeed the cause of more deaths in military history than any sword or gun - disease. What Europe did to almost every other culture in the world, these surface dudes would have done for the Neomesopotamians tout de suite.
Poor Adal would have lasted about twelve hours before succumbing to tuberculosis, influenza, measles, tired blood and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
[The lame time-waster What Waits Below did at least work this in: The team of outsiders were extremely aware of the frozen-spiderweb fragility of the subterrenes they'd encountered, and the real possibility that they'd just killed them all. Jack Vance's bitter post-WWII tale “DP!” did the same: When volcanic activity forced a troglodyte race up to the surface in central Germany, the only question was whether bureaucratic indifference and blundering, German winter or the Soviets would do for them all. Either way, after a few months of misery they'd all perished.]
[That's a triple-word-score entendre, there, given the subject of this review post…]
War of the Worlds had been released what, four years earlier. It would have been more interesting for Adal's death to come about for the same reason the Sumerians would have lost any such 'uprising' (they've never faced one before? Oh no, you can bet Procedures were In Place), the real reason why Cortez and his boys won, indeed the cause of more deaths in military history than any sword or gun - disease. What Europe did to almost every other culture in the world, these surface dudes would have done for the Neomesopotamians tout de suite.
Poor Adal would have lasted about twelve hours before succumbing to tuberculosis, influenza, measles, tired blood and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
[The lame time-waster What Waits Below did at least work this in: The team of outsiders were extremely aware of the frozen-spiderweb fragility of the subterrenes they'd encountered, and the real possibility that they'd just killed them all. Jack Vance's bitter post-WWII tale “DP!” did the same: When volcanic activity forced a troglodyte race up to the surface in central Germany, the only question was whether bureaucratic indifference and blundering, German winter or the Soviets would do for them all. Either way, after a few months of misery they'd all perished.]
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