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Discussion of written science fiction and fantasy.
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_Implied Spaces_, by Walter Jon WIlliams
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What an odd book. If this had been a first novel, I'd have unhesitatingly said "B+ -- Promising!" But it's /Walter Jon Williams/. And I know he can do better than this. Spoilers follow; you have been warned. * * * 1) Years ago, when I started reading Williams' early stuff, I thought "Wow, this guy has been reading a lot of Roger Zelazny". Remember... more »
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Fun milieu combos: Na'vi + fire lizard + what?
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After the release of James Cameron's "Avatar," oodles of people suddenly discovered a gnawing desire to inhabit ten-foot-tall skinny blue bodies with tails, cat-ears and bioluminescent freckles; and there was much pining and sighing. But before "Avatar," and in the realm of SF-lit, there was Pern. Everybody with an imagination wanted to be paired with a dragon,... more »
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75 Days
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75 days since Isaac Asimov's 90th birthday on January 2. I remember reading a short story in which Isaac Asimov was still alive in the year 2010 and dealing with a problem involving Three Law robots. Has anyone here read such a story.
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Alien Craft in "Across the Sea of Suns"?
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It's been a long while since I've read it, so maybe things would be clearer now than they were back when. I could never figure out which of the alien ships that were either hiddenin or came to visit the Solar System were part of the Mech civilization and which were sent by old organic civs. Or was one of them a renegade mech being?... more »
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Ringworld as a shared world?
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In a review of RINGWORLD'S CHILDREN [1] the reviewer says "I would like to see more Ringworld novels, but I don't want Larry Niven to write them." Does anyone here feel this way? I am unable to comment because I am unfamiliar with recent Niven in general and the third and fourth Ringworld books in particular, but I... more »
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The Arabian Night's Entertainment
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A crumbling volume of unknown provenance has wandered to the top of my to-be-read pile: The Arabian Night's Entertainment a new edition revised with notes by the Rev. Geo. Tyler Townsend, M.A. New York Hurst & Company Publishers no date given. Preface says that it's mostly founded on the version of... more »
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Frederik Pohl, _Stopping at Slowyear_
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Frederik Pohl, _Stopping at Slowyear_, 1992 Sometimes I use the phrase "You rat bastard" to express admiration, envy, and liking. When I finished _Stopping at Slowyear_ and called Frederik Pohl a rat bastard, there was absolutely NOTHING positive about it. Eric S. Raymond's review at <[link]>... more »
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"Hobbit" movie to start filming in July
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Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ent ertainment/8573948.stm Principal shooting for the two movies will take over a year with Guillermo del Toro directing and Peter Jackson and his wife producing the movies. Sir Ian McKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf.
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