Author notes

Star Strip page 30

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on Oct. 22, 2014

Vera can be be very convincing. Even if she doesn't sound convincing you're still convinced. Lon is a cynic but he's one to play along. He likes to give people enough rope so they hang themselves and he can lean back and say "Told you so".

There are some problems with slave belts. Sure the wearer does everything you say and says "yes master" a lot but not necessarily with any particular skill or enthusiam. They're sort of like a very cheap bargin basement robo-femoid without the exo-dermal armor or built-in beam weapon. But the conversion is much easier, you just throw on the belt whereas robo-femoid conversion requires all kinds of apparatus and control crystals. This is the problem with recurring characters you refer to the story where they first appeared and no one remembers and you have to put in footnotes to remind them.