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[dsrtao]

Any hard, coherent space opera/MilSF coming from Britain is merely trying to climb out of the crater that Warhammer 40K produced when it dropped from orbit to fight space communist goat men with chainsaw swords.

From comment #23 on http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/07/14/when-guardian-columnists-say-dumb-things/#comments

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Saw that, bit my tongue. ;) You'll notice my soldiers wield "power swords" and "vibroknives", not those umrealistic chainswords... :-P