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clash_bowley
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(Quote) I do indeed!
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And it's a literal Cold War... And I read it as @RichardAbbott did - that both surrendered to each other, though I am fairly sure the other soldier was an illusion from the gas.
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First, I am enjoying this book much more than the Islanders. The first story destroys any notion that the world of the Islanders has any connection to ours, as the physical laws which underlay it are completely different, and not rigorously applied.…
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I really liked Long Way and have continued on with the series. A Closed and Common Orbit is one of my favorites. I love how the two storylines complement each other,
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(Quote) Yes, Welcome back dr. mitch! :D
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End of the month, like May thirty-fifth...
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(Quote) Yes, Ray!
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(Quote) Ah! Yes! That is much what I was thinking!
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That was intended as a confirmation from experience, not a dispute... ;)
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I don't know to what extent the last scenes on the other earth were real. I am quite familiar with both peyote and psilocybin, two psychedelics the Aztecs would have easy access to, having taken quite a bit of both in the seventies, and the things s…
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I knew right away that Alex had betrayed her. I thought it was obvious. I had been waiting though the whole book to see it all come out. Then again, I immediately figure out whodunit in police procedurals - which I love - all the time. I also knew V…
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I explored that in one of my game settings - If the second Crusade had happened a little differently.
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I liked that the final location was not NOT our world. I had no problem with the many worlds at all. Perhaps the great leap the Aztecs made was this device, and at least some of their other advances were picked up from the other worlds. Perhaps not.…
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I thought the pace was fine. It took me too long because I was busy, not because I wasn't interested. I liked the gradual build up and care taken with illuminating - and of course building - the setting.
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In spite of what you may think I will be happy to stay the course. I think Islanders was not my cup of tea, but the others may be more suitable for me.
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There is nothing here I would especially like to bring into my games. Some things you mentioned I have already had in my games for decades - for instance longitivity and reinvention, where long life and a finite cranial data capacity make changes in…
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(Quote) I remembered that and was not surprised to read the later apparent contradiction that Glaund and Faiandland were the two two superpowers. Of course if they are separate stories, there is no contradiction...
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I found it easiest to read them as an anthology of completely separate short stories mixed in with random travel guide listings. Far more enjoyable.
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(Quote) It seems I forgot to select the enter button... D'oh!
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(Quote) They are not people, they are symbols. They are symbols set up as opposites to embody a principle the author wanted to play with. They have no life beyond that embodiment. They are characters the same way the letter X is a character. (Quote…
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(Quote) No - I've just been weirdly busy!
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(Quote) Same here!
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I voted on the poll.
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(Quote) That too!
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I Chose A Memory Called Empire as I have read The Princess Bride (a joy!) and Paladin's Grace is not my kind of book - I mean fantasy, the romance bit is fine!
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True enough! :p
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(Quote) This was my reply, which was not mentioned and thus looked like this was Richard's reply (Quote) Apologies. I was thinking about Bathurst and Kammeston and Yo. I had forgotten about Kaine. (Quote) We agree to disagree here. You seem to hav…
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(Quote) More circling back. Reinforcement in case you didn't get it yet. (Quote) No. They are both pretty much jerks in the book. (Quote) Like most authors, he hasn't the slightest idea on what the military actually do or how they work, so he make…
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(Quote) I missed that! D'oh! (Quote) It's Priest. There is no smoking gun. There may be a smoking jacket, or perhaps a smoking hot character which tangentially relates if you tilt your head and look at it sideways, but effects have no direct causes…
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(Quote) Ah! That fits!! Not Nordic, but English