Stalker
Banned
Reading Turtledove's final book of mega-series "World War - Colonization" "Homeward Bound" I run into an interesting character, a Lizard-cop, inspector Garanpo trying to trace ginger-smuggling from Admiral Peary down to Home.
That's a very shrewd male playing noodle and his manner of speech, his habits looked very familiar to me and that it suddenly struck me - why, of course, that's Lieutenant Colombo, Peter Falk under Lizard's scales...
And Turtledove really makes a hint to that: G-C, alveolar R-palatal L, plosive devoiced P- plosive voiced B... Garanpo - Colombo...
Has that also occurred to anybody?
That's a very shrewd male playing noodle and his manner of speech, his habits looked very familiar to me and that it suddenly struck me - why, of course, that's Lieutenant Colombo, Peter Falk under Lizard's scales...
And Turtledove really makes a hint to that: G-C, alveolar R-palatal L, plosive devoiced P- plosive voiced B... Garanpo - Colombo...
Has that also occurred to anybody?