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(Quote) I forgot to mention that! Thank you! I have read both, and Heinlein's preferred ending is far better, so that is the version I would be nominating.
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So that would be "The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South Big Planet" AKA "Showboat World" by Jack Vance, "Downbelow Station" by C. J. Cherryh, and "Podkayne of Mars" by Robert He…
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(Quote) I meant Showboat World anyway, and it too is available in Kindle Format: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1619471205?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback so I will change my nomination to that!
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Then make that Downbelow Station by Cherryh. This is available in Kindle.
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(Quote) Then Big Planet by Vance
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(Quote) Moi aussi!
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I'm thinking Titan by John Varley, Rimrunners by C. J. Cherryh, and Podkayne of Mars.
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I'm open! Set it up!
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Ummmm... September flew by in a blur. I just bought it! Don't wait up for me!
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I couldn't tell you, @kcaryths! I find myself becoming fascinated by this or that area or time - usually for game purposes because I'm a game designer, but not always - and read in depth about it or, as I call it, 'go down the rabbit hole' and find …
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Well, then you should be happy! Or... is that me doing that 'logic thing' again? :D
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Weighted voting is simply voting ordinally - i.e. nominate 3 books, each voter ranks them first, second, and third. First gets three points, second gets two points, and third gets one point. Most points is the one selected. What it tends to do is ma…
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I'd be up for nomination-and-election thing. Maybe using a weighted vote.
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By the way Magitechnology is the subject of one of the games I released last month. I approach it differently.
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I'm right now playing in a game set along the Silk Road in Central Asia, so this is excellent grist for the setting mill! I could definitely see someone using the village as a setting there!
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Central Asia is an interest of mine, and from what I could see, the author did their homework. Since Central Asia is invisible to the USA - even after Afghanistan - we have little grasp of it. I thought the author tried hard to set this in a realist…
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I really liked the buried ethnicity - that felt so true. There should have been far more about it. Otherwise, again, I agree too much with both Richard and Chris above to bother repeating them. Again! :D
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Again, I can't add anything to the two previous replies. I agree totally with both.
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I did not like Chung Mae. I don't think we were supposed to like her. The other characters and their relationships were very well done. Convincing and real - and likeable. She was not. She was a vehicle for the magic.
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I pretty much agree with both Richard and Apocryphal here. it's a story of the effects of a magi-technological singularity on a small village. If any such village would survive such a revolution. It's optimism is unfounded.
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Aside from the fact that the technology in the book was not technological at all, the sweeping changes it brought rings true. The fracturing of the village was painful, but inevitable. It would have been destroyed and not rebuilt in the real world. …
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I'm not sure what the author was attempting, so I'm not sure if they succeeded. I would not say the read was enjoyable, but it was interesting. I always have problems with Magical Realism like this, because the people and relationships seem gritty, …
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I'm done!
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Questions are up!
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Working on them!
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This is my take as well.
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) I think yes.
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You're right Neil... I let my visceral disgust twist my thoughts. It is Authoritarian without being specifically Fascist.
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Nothing stood out for me for gaming use.