Comments on: Completely Frivolous Interview: Alastair Reynolds http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/19/completely-frivolous-interview-alastair-reynolds/ Taking a different one on the news Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:41:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Sue Stewart http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/19/completely-frivolous-interview-alastair-reynolds/#comment-6995 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:45:48 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/19/completely-frivolous-interview-alastair-reynolds/#comment-6995 <i>I’ll take a mauling, I think. Obviously, I’d rather be mauled by a large number of lions (quick) than a small number of gerbils (slow). Actually, is there an accepted lower-limit on mauling capability? When does mauling become nibbling? </i> Superb. Perhaps you could cunningly select a non-mauling species as your method of execution? You could probably lead quite a long and happy life while waiting for a bathful of earthworms to maul you to death. I’ll take a mauling, I think. Obviously, I’d rather be mauled by a large number of lions (quick) than a small number of gerbils (slow). Actually, is there an accepted lower-limit on mauling capability? When does mauling become nibbling?

Superb. Perhaps you could cunningly select a non-mauling species as your method of execution? You could probably lead quite a long and happy life while waiting for a bathful of earthworms to maul you to death.

]]> by: Stephen Ball http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/19/completely-frivolous-interview-alastair-reynolds/#comment-6948 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:17:08 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/02/19/completely-frivolous-interview-alastair-reynolds/#comment-6948 I'm reading Revelation Space at the moment, and it's bloody brilliant. Top marks on "Animal" and "Gates of Delirium", too! I’m reading Revelation Space at the moment, and it’s bloody brilliant.

Top marks on “Animal” and “Gates of Delirium”, too!

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