Oranges

Some oranges are sour, which I do not like. Some are sweet-and-sour, which I do like. When the balance shifts all the way to sweet, I'm unhappy again.

The particular kind of orange influences the flavor, but is clearly not wholly deterministic. I just had a bunch of clementines which tasted of berries, perhaps raspberry or blackberry. Cara-caras taste the way fresh navel oranges smell.

I like the whole citrus family.

Oranges

Some oranges are sour, which I do not like. Some are sweet-and-sour, which I do like. When the balance shifts all the way to sweet, I'm unhappy again.

The particular kind of orange influences the flavor, but is clearly not wholly deterministic. I just had a bunch of clementines which tasted of berries, perhaps raspberry or blackberry. Cara-caras taste the way fresh navel oranges smell.

I like the whole citrus family.

Books

_Overkill_, Robert Buettner

On the surface, a Baen-standard MilSF, subtype multiplanet mercenary.

Slightly below: a character study of an ex-soldier damaged by war, subject to flashbacks that are as surprising to the reader as they are to the other characters around him.

Further on: an alien which might have been more alien with less explanation, on a planet scaled up from Harry Harrison's Deathworld. (There are a whole bunch of similarities, even though Buettner claims he was stealing from Van Vogt.)

At the end: surprisingly humane humanity, plus a setup for a series.

Over all: pretty good.

Books

_Overkill_, Robert Buettner

On the surface, a Baen-standard MilSF, subtype multiplanet mercenary.

Slightly below: a character study of an ex-soldier damaged by war, subject to flashbacks that are as surprising to the reader as they are to the other characters around him.

Further on: an alien which might have been more alien with less explanation, on a planet scaled up from Harry Harrison's Deathworld. (There are a whole bunch of similarities, even though Buettner claims he was stealing from Van Vogt.)

At the end: surprisingly humane humanity, plus a setup for a series.

Over all: pretty good.