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I'm up for it! Sounds interesting!
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(Quote) Not for me. I await illumination rather than write his book for him. (Quote) Andante is a slowish tempo and/or movement. So something about slow time and timing. (Quote) I already hate the two clocks! They have CP nonsense scribbled all ov…
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I am hopelessly behind, but refuse to quit! I'll post my thoughts long after you others have left the ring!
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(Quote) Oh! I definitely want to read it! I just totally forgot! I bought it as soon as it was announced!
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I have completely forgotten Cloud Atlas! Damn!
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Sounds good!
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Graduate (to finish a course of study or endeavor and begin a new level), graduation (marks of level, as graduations on a cylinder), gradual (to change over time), gradation (a ramp or incline, or a change from one thing to another in steps), grade …
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(Quote) Too little yet to tell. (Quote) I really have no idea. Alynna seems a cypher to me as of yet. (Quote) Not at all. Many authors use this device. (Quote) I really don't know. I have no clue as to the character of Alynna yet. Sandro seems be…
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How did you know I read music, Richard? Most non-classical musicians don't! This is interesting! The position of the notes on the staff indicate pitch. There is no key signature, no accidentals in the song, so you could potentially sing it in any ke…
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(Quote) That is the read order, Richard.
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(Quote) So should I do all three?
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(Quote) Yes! Very much so! (Quote) I have all three on Kindle - I wasn't sure they were all novellas. I wouldn't mind doing all three, I think! (Quote) Makes sense to me! I had no idea, having read no more than the blurb, which described Binti as …
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I'd like to run Binti - the Afrofuturist SF Nebula and Hugo award winner by Nnedi Okorafor. It's a novella, so it's short. I have not read it, but it looks interesting. Kindle I will try to find a print edition
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I have really enjoyed Dream Archipelago compared to The Islanders, and this may have been me. It wasn't until the end of the Islanders that I realized how to mentally handle the fact that CP was doing something that greatly irritated me, namely deli…
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If you don't mind, I'll take November as it's my birthday month!
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(Quote) Yes, I was indeed referring to Clarke's Law. And I agree about Andre Norton! Of course you know the corollary - "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology"?
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Unlike the rest of you, I didn't care much for this story. It was dull and predictable. CP again attempts to use technology as magic - the tactilist pigments - and fails through not understanding technology enough to lift my disbelief. His 3000 year…
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(Quote) Ha! I actually noticed that and wondered if it was a rhyme!
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(Quote) Absolutely! But hieroglyphs are so very cool looking!
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Whoa! Very cool! In fact my asssumption for why the Egyptians kept with heiroglyphics was always because it looked bad ass!
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Looks like a short list of volunteers! I'd better get something ready!
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I'm in!
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This isn't the first mention of of the war being thousands of years old in this book. I noticed it before - not sure which story... When Priest pulls stupid crap like that it really bothers me. Are the women in Priest's books more comfortable with …
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The only Spinrad book I ever read was The Iron Dream. It was meta-interesting, but not so inherently.
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I felt this ending was flat and confusing, so I guess it's unanimous. If CP was intending us to think of time distortions, there were not enough clues to point to that. It could be, or it could all be in Ordier's head, or it could be lies, and, fran…
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(Quote) Sounds like the roleplaying use of "race" to me, which I have always avoided in my own crap. In most RPGs, different 'races' DO have different technologies. (Quote) No reason at all. It seems odd that anyone would believe this for…
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Thank you, Neil! I did not know Hieroglyphs worked that way!
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I didn't actually recommend a book because I doubt anything I would recommend would be in your wheelhouse, Barner.
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Of these, the only one I would have any interest in would be the Man Who Fell to Earth. Of the others, Klara and the Sun might be more interesting than I think, so I would probably read it. These are the only genre fiction reads you can find, Barner…
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(Quote) > (Quote) Oh, definitely! At first I put it to 'the war is new and not limited yet', but that is not true in most of these stories.