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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:17:56 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <lc7t5k1d39nm9grj87rgpved77114is4j3@4ax.com>,
Joy Beeson  <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>
>Friday, 27 June 2025
>
>I have just finished Poul Anderson's _Agent of the Terran
>Empire_, which replaced Bulldog in my go bag.  I think the
>two are the same sub-sub genre, save that Bulldog doesn't
>know that his empire is doomed (And no Long Night ensued,
>albeit Vai Victus, as always, has been abundant.)  (Vae
>Victor hasn't been all that rare.)
>
>And that Flandry studiously avoids long-term relationships.
>
There are two exceptions but who they are are spoilers. 
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