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LEXICON Only a small one, this section. (Quote) Paphian: a prostitute, from Greek Paphos, the mythical birthplace of the goddess of love on the island of Cyprus. (Quote) A peccary is a wild pig. In Arizona they have wild pigs called javelinas, wh…
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Well, that describes my experience with this one.
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(Quote) When pigs fly makes sense.
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In Chapter V we learn that the Feast of Holy Katharine is one of the most important days to the Torturers. It's interesting, though, that their patroness is a saint who was resistant to torture. From Wikipedia: (Quote) "Of the trail of ink the…
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LEXICON (Quote) Lansquenets is a French spelling of German 'Landsknecht' mercenary soldiers. (Quote) Fulgorating: Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy. (Quote) Khaibit: from Egyptian myt…
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(Quote) Here a reference to snows - Urth is a cold place. each point of ice seems like the Claw of the Conciliator (a gem, and also the name of book 2 in the series). A triskele is a symbol with tri-symmetry, sometimes represented as three running …
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Interesting.
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LEXICON (Quote) In Zoroastrianism, Amesha Spenta (Avestan: Aməša Spəṇta) is a class of divine entities literally means "Immortal (which is) holy." Later Middle Persian variations of the term include the contraction 'Ameshaspand' as well a…
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@clash_bowley How so?
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Could do. I've never read any McIntyre before.
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Finally got to open mine today - looks great! Even the photographs in the interior rendered quite well.
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Can you explain further?
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Wool by Hugh Howey was also an internet serial before being published as a novel.
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Zelazny’s Lord of Light?
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I’d certainly be willing to read another by a different author. I liked the world itself, and thing an even harder story (one that used hard sociology as well as physics might be interesting. Whether I could write one is another matter. Not sure i c…
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The scenes between Barl and the flyer ambassador were the highlight for me. Also Lackland and his crewmates interacting with Barl. The engineering problems were a bit dullsville, but I liked the social problem solving.
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I too chuckled at the slide rules. It certainly doesn’t bother me that someone failed to predict the future. The prevalence of computing and mobile phone use is probably the single most unanticipated technology from the 50s and 60s.
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No surprise, and the repetitive nature is something of a tipoff. We found that with James Whites sector general and with Van Vogts Space Beagle, too. The repetition tends not to work for me, but episodic fiction I’m quite fine with, as long as the g…
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I thought the flyer ambassador, Lackland and some his crew were the most interesting. The aliens were surprisingly human, but I guess xenopsychology wasn’t really what Clement wanted to explore. Compare to Mievilles Embassytown.
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In general I enjoy hard sf, though this book really felt like it was written by an engineer As a thought exercise about solving a matter of physics, and I find that a little dull. There was very little human condition here, unlike most of the other …
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looks like a list of United Nations delegates.
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Where did you read this? One of the histories of ME?
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I am finished but probably won’t be available for discussion before Friday. But by all means start without me.
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I’ll set up a news thread when I’m back that people can follow. It won’t cover every new thread, though. I’m my feed using Chrome on IPhone I see all the threads in order of frequency. Threads with new content (invluding those I haven’t seen bef…
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Looked it up... The Book of the New Sun is a Dying earth story. Why it’s not called the book of the Old Sun I don’t know, but it’s far future earth when the sun is old and dim. The Long Sun series is followed by the Short Sun series. Not sure how Lo…
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@Ray_Otus that’s compelling, but not definitive (for me) since it’s certainly possible to have both an old planet earth and a new one, and for both to be blue. What happens in the Book of the Long Sun? Isn’t that about a generation ship? Couldn’t th…
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> @Ray_Otus said: > @clash_bowley said: > I assumed from the name (Urth) and the single moon, that this was, in fact, Earth. I am probably wrong. > > > > > > It definitely is. Why definitely? This bei…
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@Ray_Otus are you still not seeing the most recent posts on top? @rossum any advice?
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> @Ray_Otus said: > Ch. 6 > > I love how focused each chapter is. The last one was "paintings," and this one is "books." :) Kinda like Moby Dick! @dr_mitch Is it a case of the moon .now. having trees, or…
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Its pretty hard to predict when the last post will be.