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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social

Did his other books also have a running them of Very Serious Men deciding how to manage the woman problem, which the women then completely ignore?

aug 30, 2025, 2:29 pm • 1 0

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org

I mean, we just got to the Main Character’s birth, the entire first half of the first book was about his father and his father’s war buddy. And his 35 year old father marrying a 14 year old girl, but you know, Medieval Times(tm). (It’s probably been 40 years since I read Malevil, I don’t remember

aug 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org

much about it.)(Robert Merle also wrote Day of the Dolphin, which I have not read, though I vaguely remember seeing the movie)

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