[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Oh, Hellfire.

Please ignore my #725, I got carried away with a bit of Sci-Fi writing for a friend of mine, in reference to Kevin J. Anderson's "War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches".

Matter of fact, if the Admin Moderator would be so kind as to delete my #725 entirely, I should be very grateful.

I was writing two essays at once, one genuine and one fanciful, and I managed to combine the two before posting. While my friends and I enjoy early 20th-Century Science Fiction, I did not intend to post fanciful discussions of "invincible Martian killing-machines" on THIS Forum.

Much too H.G. Wells for JimRob's sandbox. I apologize.

[George W. Bush]

And at the end of the day, the invincible Martian killing-machines swept away all in their path, thus forcing us to work together.

LOL. I was kind of scratching my head over that unexpected turn in your prose.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Please ignore my #725... Matter of fact, if the Admin Moderator would be so kind as to delete my #725 entirely, I should be very grateful

i.e., my #715. My mistake.

My friend Jack Wilson (not his real name, of course) is a devoted Eastern Orthodox fan of Edgar Rice Borrough's Barsoomian tales of Mars, and I am a great fan of Wells and Verne. We each enjoy early Science Fiction; to each his own, and we trade discussions and criticisms from time to time.

Unfortunately, in this case, I accidentally combined a political essay I was writing for Free Republic together with a fanciful science fiction essay I was writing for my friend.

I accidentally posted both, together, as one essay. Most embarassing.

If you could kindly delete the entirety of Post #715, I might still salvage my pride. I'd be much obliged, and I'll be more careful with the "Cut&Paste" from now on.

Thanks, OP