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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Into the Real by John Ringo and Lydia Sherre
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:22:55 -0700
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:13:17 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 10/21/2024 11:23 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:01:57 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 10/20/2024 5:06 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>> Hello typers and reades.
>>>>
>>>>   =A0=A0=A0=A0"Into the Real" by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer.
>>>>
>>>>   =A0=A0=A0 The heroine of the story is a HS student Lynn Raven, a =
descendant
>>>> of a Lakota warrior.=A0 She is a bit heavy which has lead to lots of
>>>> ridicule by vicious Popular students.=A0 At the beginning of the =
story
>>>> she is absorbed in virtual war gaming.=A0 She has constructed male
>>>> ex-military persona for the war gaming and is quite high in the
>>>> rankings and hired by other parties to help defeat their opponents.
>>>> In her own words she loves to kill stuff.
>>>>   =A0=A0=A0=A0Her mother is a nurse working nights and is unaware of=
 her
>>>> daughter's gaming interests being mainly concerned with paying off
>>>> debts accrued after her husband's murder while he was working =
undercover.
>>>>   =A0=A0=A0 Suddenly Lynn is offered a chance to be a beta tester =
for the
>>>> game Transdimensional Hunter by one of the creators of the game.
>>>> She leads 2 teams=A0 to victory in a regional tournament.
>>>> "Into the Real" refers to the idea that this young woman has been a
>>>>   =A0typical gamer in that she spends all her time in the =
body-conforming
>>>> chair in front of her monitor.=A0 She, taking on the role of beta =
tester,
>>>> is forced to since it is an Augmented Reality game like the Pokemon
>>>> capture game played with smart phone and she has to go outside.
>>>> Unlike the Pokemon game the Transdimensional Monsters are vicious
>>>> and she has to use weapons to defeat the monsters and then collect
>>>> what they drop so she is forced to get into shape.
>>>>   =A0=A0=A0 Now throughout the story various power failures take =
place and
>>>> these are all clues which I put together but at the end of the story
>>>> I was totally correct.
>>>>   =A0=A0=A0 This is very similar to other stories where game players=
 are
>>>> training for wars or fighting them.=A0 Ringo and Sherrer do good =
work
>>>> and if you have time you should read this.
>>>>
>>>>   =A0=A0=A0=A0bliss
>>>
>>> I agree.  I read this back in May, here is my review.  And Baen sent =
me
>>> a replacement hardback for my falling apart MMPB.
>>>
>>> "Into the Real (Transdimensional Hunter)" by John Ringo and Lydia =
Sherrer
>>>     https://www.amazon.com/Into-Real-John-Ringo/dp/1982192577/
>>>
>>> Book number one of a two book science fiction series.  I read the =
well
>>> printed and terribly bound MMPB that I bought new from Amazon that =
was
>>> published by Baen in 2023.  I contacted Baen about replacing the MMPB
>>> since about 60 or 80 pages fell out as I was reading the book, a
>>> replacement is reputedly on the way.  I have ordered the second book =
in
>>> MMPB in the series which is due out in November 2024.
>>>
>>> Lynn Raven is a 16 year old girl living with her ER nurse widowed mom=
 in
>>> the Baltimore area of the USA in the 2040s.  Lynn moonlights after =
high
>>> school as an old mercenary named Larry Coughlin, a Tier One player in
>>> the WarMonger 2050 FPS (first person shooter) online game.  She =
collects
>>> guns and health in the game for resale for hard cash dollars, helping
>>> her mom out with the bills and saving money for college.   And she =
also
>>> torments boys in her school, killing their characters randomly in the
>>> WarMonger game.
>>>
>>> But Lynn has been noticed by the billionaire inventor, Robert Krator,=
 of
>>> WarMonger 2050.  And he wants her to move to his new game, an outside=
 AR
>>> (augmented reality) FPS game called TransDimensional Hunter, as a =
beta
>>> tester with free equipment and such.  He wants Lynn to step into the =
real.
>>>
>>> As usual with John Ringo books, he dedicated the book to:
>>> "As always
>>> For Captain Tamara Long, USAF
>>> Born: May 12, 1979
>>> Died: March 23, 2003, Afghanistan
>>> You fly with the angels now.".
>>> Lydia Sherrer dedicated the book to her husband.
>>>
>>> My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
>>> Amazon rating:  4.7 out of 5 stars (1,129 reviews)
>>=20
>> Do you think they sent a hardback because of the inconvenience ... or
>> because they couldn't find an MMPB copy that didn't fall apart when
>> they opened it?
>
>No idea.  I hope that the entire MMPB run was not defective.

When I first purchased the VHS of /The Living Daylights/ I ran into a
"burble" (as I called it) so bad I looked at the tape -- and saw a
round indentation right smack in the middle.

I returned for a new copy. When that had the same defect in the same
place, I did two things:
1. Returned for a tape of a different (but priced the same) film.
2. Concluded that CBS FOX had decided that Quality Control -- in any
form, whether of the blank tapes they purchased or the finished
products they sold  -- was superfluous.
I waited a few months and purchased a third copy from a different
store, figuring that it would be from a different run. It did not have
that defect; it had a less-annoying one later on in the film.

So, while it is possible that you just got a bad MMPB copy, it is also
possible that every MMPB bound by the same machine had the same
problem. That's the problem with mass production, and the reason
Quality Control was invented.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"