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  • My guess is that it will be a combination of rookie-to-commander type career-building play (similar to 3: 16), and a sort of high-level Pendragon-like planetary commander approach (similar to RT, but planet-bound).

    Space Marines? About Damn Time! « Geek Related 2010

  • As strange as my incorporeal circumstance was, I clung all the more to a semblance of a sensual planet-bound body and surroundings appropriate to that form.

    Mandala « A Fly in Amber 2010

  • These included Nisi Shawl's "Good Boy" from her collection Filter House, a story of god possession facilitated by future technology, and Jason Sanford's Interzone story, "The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain," a dreamlike science fiction story about planet-bound humans taking to the skies.

    MIND MELD: More Nebula-Worthy Works of Fiction...Picked By Some of This Year's Nebula Nominees 2010

  • The Alpha Legion are encountered by a unit of Earth soldiers fighting a bitter planet-bound war, and also by John Grammaticus, the once-human agent of an alien cabal.

    08 « April « 2008 « I Can’t Stop Reading! 2008

  • The Alpha Legion are encountered by a unit of Earth soldiers fighting a bitter planet-bound war, and also by John Grammaticus, the once-human agent of an alien cabal.

    Legion by Dan Abnett « I Can’t Stop Reading! 2008

  • She'd been planet-bound, Varian had told him, on how many diverse planets did not signify, so that she felt it was high time she saw how the Explorers and Evaluators lived.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • I totally love, "planet-bound space opera of the postmodern sort," which totally beats out "A planetary romance in which Little Fuzzy meets The Italian Job," as a one-line description of the work under consideration.

    i am friend to the undertow i take you in i don't let go matociquala 2007

  • Whilst BSG was a space opera, Caprica is resolutely a planet-bound drama, focusing on the characters, the politics, the crime syndicates and scientists of their world.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Whilst BSG was a space opera, Caprica is resolutely a planet-bound drama, focusing on the characters, the politics, the crime syndicates and scientists of their world.

    Caprica: The Pilot Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Moore initially pitched "Caprica" as "a sci-fi version of 'Dallas,'" and while the show has moved well beyond that initial template -- among other things, it adds an organized crime component -- there's enough soap opera sheen left, coupled with the planet-bound setting, that I wonder how many "Galactica" fans will stick with it.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

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