On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <kurt@thepaw.org> wrote:

My only comment is that the character appears to be a cliched stereotype; the big bald strong guy. It would be more of an impact if he were more nondescript and not what was expected.

I remember my own shock when the all-powerful, ruthlessly practical and Machiavellian galactiv Emperor of The_Sten_Chronicles turned out to be a diminutive grandfatherly type whose main recreational passion was fly-fishing . . . to which purpose he had put half an Earth-like wilderness world off-limits to visitation by anyone else.

Richard Aiken

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