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The book rocked, speaking of SF and politics I remember reading a short
story YEARS ago about a US that selected 1 person (Joe/Jill Average) that
voted for everyone...seems like I remember the dude got hti by a bus going
to vote and nobody knew what to do then about the election????

On 10/19/06, Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

That was "Starship Trooper". Yes they made a terrible film based on that
book, but NOTHING like the book.



Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/19/2006 09:36:52 AM:

> Greetings:
>
> There is a Robert Heinlein (sp?) science fiction story in which
candidates
> for something (officer school, I think) are given a pointless and
> interminable task - which is also very difficult to do correctly - as
part
> of a qualification test. The main character simply gives up after a
while,
> with the observation that if that is what is expected of him then he
won't
> fit in.
>
> He passes.
>
> Darrell
>
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