Can someone please describe to me a blaster. I am always coming up with diffrent guns and it really bothers me. That is the only thing I can't imagine.
Skinky;)
Rats, I had just finished a response and then decided to google "blaster" but didn't open a new tab before doing the serach! The jist of my comment was that I haven't paid clsoe attention to how i picture a blaster but when the new force recon book arrives i'll try to pay atttention to how i imagine a blaster.
Skinky, they look like umbrellas, all rolled up. You press a button and they unfold and spread out. On one end is a "U"-shaped handle with a keypad, press the right button and the muzzle extends telescopically from the front and turns into a barrel. That way Marines can infiltrate civilian populations fully armed and nobody realizes they have blasters until the last second before they are sizzled into ashes.
Skinky, you know we love and admire you more than almost anyone else on this site, but what ever am I gonna do with you? There are descriptions of the blasters throughout the books, on p. 212 of HANGFIRE, for instance, and in other places too. We are artists, storytellers, not company armorers. It's what the guys do with blasters rather more than how blasters work that make the stories interesting. If we described everything in intimate detail there'd be no room for your imagination to go to work. Now, if you are really having trouble imagining what a blaster looks like, go out and buy a Davidoff and a bottle Langavulin and after a few drinks and puffs you'll forget all about blasters.
In the beggning of the series I imagined the blasters on the cover art, but after book 6 I imagined the blasters from StarWars and I finally came to the conclusion that the guns our boys carry with them in Iraq are the perfect "Blasters". Damn! I know I'm about to get off topic but I thought I saw David on Saturday buying lumber at Home Depot. It turns out it was not him. Have you ever gone to a public place and then some guy comes up to you and says:"I think your series is great" Man, it must be hell with the press following you and David. I think it would be funny if you pulled over a guy/girl and are about to give him/her a tickit and they say they have read all of your books. Man, it must be hard to show your face around Richmond. Hey just to let you all know DO NOT READ: RED MARS, GREEN MARS OR BLUE MARS. They are soooooooooooooooooo boring. All the book tells you are how plants grow on Mars. Boring. Thanks Dan for the response.
Hey I hope we see the Bird people again. They were cool!