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clash_bowley
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(Quote) One would think, wouldn't one? (Quote) Because cause and effect are broken? (Quote) Agreed entirely! That bit bugged me as well! (Quote) The author wants his cake, and Edith too... He wants this to be a different world, where anything can…
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(Quote) So it seems. (Quote) Has no one else noticed that these adepts just steal boats and leave them where they like? And no one says anything? Do they steal cars as well? Maybe they just want to avoid getting caught for stealing a boat? (Quote…
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(Quote) So far I haven't seen any glaring inconsistencies in logic or attempts to replace cause and effect by stupid author tricks, so, right now at least, I am doing fine with it.
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(Quote) I’m not sure about @clash_bowley, but I think he likes more scientific (logical?) and less literary stories. I have no problem with literary stories. What I have problems with are authors that ignore any pretense at cause and effect or logi…
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An extra week wouldn't go wrong with me.
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Wow.... just.... wow...
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I'd let the players decide.
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I'd use my own StarCluster 4 -Wavefront Empire. I mean I have it, and it's designed for Dune-esque gaming. Not that anyone else would use it...:D
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(Quote) Nightfall was aliens as well.
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My friend and game design collaborator Albert has a theory that that Herbert didn't write Dune - that Herbert co-opted it - because of the vast gulf of difference between Dune and - say - Whipping Star or The Lazarus Effect. My position is somewhat …
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(Quote) Yes. They also did the sequel The Gripping Hand, Footfall, Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno and many many others together. Pournelle is much better with human beings, so they split the work accordingly and made some great SF! (Quote) Oh! Kerr di…
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Niven is one of the Grandmasters - author of the Ringworld series, The Smoke Ring, the Beowulf Shaeffer stories, creator of the Puppeteers and Kzin, and some hard fantasy as well. Most of his works are in a vast loosley linked universe known as Know…
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(Quote) Whcih would imply that CP actually cares whether it makes any sense at all... ;)
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(Quote) Confusing is not the word for it! CP has given up even trying to make sense. You can't walk across the village square to get a drink of water without incurring temporal scrambling, AND EVERY VILLAGER IS NOT FOLLOWING THE ADVICE OF SOME SELF-…
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(Quote) If it was definitely Jacj, I think it could have been far more interesting. If Sandro THOUGHT it might be Jacj, but wasn't sure... But now the mystery is solved - and as Neil said, it's unearned. Sandro tripped across it.
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(Quote) This applies uniformly to life, not just travel. Travel - whether physical or mental - stories - broadens that perspective (Quote) I haven't the faintest idea. Maybe it's a local thing. That's what I thought when I read it. (Quote) Perhaps…
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My apologies to Neil and Barner - I completely forgot about Cloud Atlas until too late, tried to read it, and missed reading Vita Nostra while scrambling to get half of Cloud Atlas read - I just gave up at that point! I should have time for Olondria!
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(Quote) It is now in my treasure trove of witty remarks! :D
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(Quote) Hahahahahahaha! Yes! (Quote) THAT is so very Brit! (Quote)
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(Quote) Oooh! That was good! I was intending for something like "My disbelief needs a whole suspension bridge..." but I could never get it to come out naturally! Brilliant! (Quote) Yep! And what about air travel? They have an internet and…
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"Where we're going, we don't need logic!" (Quote) How in the world would anyone have any clue? No one asks anyone anything! (Quote) Is there a difference? I mean in this world of the Gradual, is there a difference? I am not at all sure. …
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(Quote) I agree. The adept is surly and non-communicative, but Sandro is also passively non-communicative, preferring to bitch about his exertions rather than ask any relevant questions. Which all, of course, is CP being 'mysterious' because he's wi…
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(Quote) There is a lot of frustration, but by this point I am used to dealing with CP inability to write from inside out organically, and his marked preference for exception based settings. By used to it, I mean like I am used to taxes. (Quote) CP …
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(Quote) Yes. You are correct. I have to deal with it one way or the other.
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(Quote) An excellent simile, Apochriphal! I hope I can get through it by gritting my teeth and refusing to examine what I am told... :P
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(Quote) He has barely mentioned the government before this, and not mentioned any member of it, yet now he hates the Generalissima so virulently he wants to kill her? And WTF is this contract about? It is the stupidest contract ever thought of. It a…
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I knew those two clocks would be nightmares for me! Magical realism strikes again.
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IIRC, there were a core of the same people, and a varying number of similar people.
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How these people get from island to island ahead of Sandro is interesting. Flying? No mention is made of flying in the islands. This version of the Dream Archipelago is very different indeed!
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Go on without me... I'd just be a burden... I'll get there some day...