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• Life on Carriers

>From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
>Subject: Re: C. J. Cherryh List
>Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 18:49:45 +0200 (MET DST)

[...]
> 	Certainly as The Fleet is run down they take on the social
> detrius of society, strip them of their past and indoctrinate them
> in new ways, they create an environment where ignorance propigates.
> Only the technical class know how to make things work but not necessarily
> how things work. The troops in the belly live in a world where things
> just happen and they only have to ponder orders. Cherryh portrays thems
> "dicing with the deep", i.e. playing games of chance as they hit
> jump space. It seems an echo of Samhain here in Ireland. Samhain
[...]
> in the barm brak, etc, etc. Would not going through jump be an analogous
> time when the normal rules break down? Remember the Troopers seem to
> take a different sort of jump drug that doesn't leave them totally
> incapicated during jump. [Maybe that's why they are all a bit mad :-]

Where did you get that? Have I missed a book? I know that _Rimrunner_(?)
and _DS_ contain descriptions of a carriers life, are there any other
books you refer to?, If so, could someone mail the title and ISBN to
Onno.Meyer@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (the reply doesn't belong onto
the mailing list).
Thanks in advance, Onno Meyer