Celestial Seasonings: Alt Earth

What if an intelligent species of fascist rats had evolved and forced the Colorado hippies of the 1970s into servitude making endless quantities of cider rather than freely concocting tea made from meadow pickings? Baen has the answer!

>1 EndofDiskOne: I... I have nothing to add to your description. GSS!

Not sure if Shoeshine Boy has a better or worse job than the apple toters.

I am just barely old enough to remember Mom buying at Celestial Seasonings direct from the founders. I still drink it.

Obligatory "font abuse" tag.

This was written shortly before he died and long after his stroke, which means it's probably terrible and this is the only publisher who would take it.

A Baen cover without cheesecake? What’s the world coming to?

>2 GSSex-noob: it's probably terrible : The LT rating is 2.17, so yes, it probably is.

JimmyCagneyVoice Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty rat. /JimmyCagneyVoice

(I have no idea how to generate angle brackets in this thing.)

>5 NomadUK: The following codes without any spaces between the t and semicolon: &lt ; and &gt ; (lt for 'less than' and gt for 'greater than'), gives you...

< angle brackets! >

>4 haydninvienna: Ooh, it's like I'm psychic. Or merely aware of history and well-read in SF.

@AndreasJ: And no 'splosions either!

@NomadUK: I "heard" it fine even without the <angle brackets>

(thanks @ScoLgo)

I think a few classic Baen cat people would take care of this issue nicely.

>8 daard23: Then we just need to find some dog people to get rid of the cat people...

>6 ScoLgo: Of course; should have thought of that. Ta.

The later Redwall books seem to have taken an odd turn....

>11 winterhugel: GSS!

But who do we get to get rid of the dog people? And does this end with gorillas, which the hippies stand no chance against?

>12 GSSex-noob: Probably ends with elephants.

#thereisalwaysanelephant.

>12 GSSex-noob: Nah, the gorillas will just die off when winter sets in.

>14 bam2001: Too late for the hippies, though.