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Jonathan Crocker
08-12-2014
05:35 UT
I'm re-reading "Space Viking" and one passage stands out, where Trask is just going to Marduk and encountering the attitudes of the locals about Space Vikings. At the reception he's at a table full of diplomats, and "No doubt they hadn't actually expected horns and a spike tail, or even tattooing or a nose ring..."

So that's it, the explosion of tattoos and nose rings in the last couple decades is because people all want to be Space Vikings.
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