X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fhrunkner-unnerby-and-the-shallowness-of-progress.md;h=32dfa4ff3eba03430069ac01628c50b5584133c2;hb=a9589b1b2308aeef44374a372057e202c5cadb3d;hp=39158bfc738055e67feee3135a159034b45f2fde;hpb=c25ced8c462d48f0c8667ec64634e8b57bf371ed;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/hrunkner-unnerby-and-the-shallowness-of-progress.md b/content/drafts/hrunkner-unnerby-and-the-shallowness-of-progress.md index 39158bf..32dfa4f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/hrunkner-unnerby-and-the-shallowness-of-progress.md +++ b/content/drafts/hrunkner-unnerby-and-the-shallowness-of-progress.md @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ Category: commentary Tags: literary critcism, review (book), deniably allegorical Status: draft -(**SPOILERS** for _A Deepness in the Sky_) +(**SPOILERS** for _A Deepness in the Sky_ by Vernor Vinge) Apropos of absolutely nothing—and would I lie to you about that?!—I've been thinking a lot lately about Hrunkner Unnerby, one of the characters in the ["B"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotThreads) [story](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoLinesNoWaiting) of Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_. -Our protagonists are spider-like nonhuman aliens native to a planet whose star mysteriously "turns off" for [TODO] years out of every [TODO]. +Our protagonists are spider-like nonhuman aliens native to a planet whose star "turns off" for [TODO] years out of every [TODO]. Sherkaner Underhill (mad scientist extraordinaire), Gen. Victory Smith (military prodigy, and Underhill's wife), and Sgt. Hrunkner Unnerby (an engineer, and Underhill and Smith's friend and comrade from the Great War)