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(Quote) The issues were as significant as portrayed, but I think Homewood hugged that line-of-too-far tightly even if he didn't quite cross it - and I am a techie, son of an engineer and a professional technical writer/illustrator. Of course he live…
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(Quote) Not only was there a high level of support in the US for neutrality, there was a shocking amount of support for Hitler.
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The questions are up! I invite anyone who has a good question not listed to post it up!
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@Apocryphal - we need a category for this book so I can put up questions!
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(Quote) This was great, Neil! Thank you! This shows the multiple layers of problems the Mark 14 had, so that each fix revealed yet another problem. Once the Mark 14s particular problems were licked, the submarine war became devastating to Japan. One…
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(Quote) As opposed to causal... I'm looking at you, Christopher Priest! ;D
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I will post my questions Monday!
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Awkward is one of those words that always looks like you spelled it wrong... The 'wkw" phoneme is particularly cluster fugly.
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(Quote) No, it's become apparent that there is no truth. If so there is no need to look. (Quote) Did he? Maybe he's not dead. Maybe someone wrote it for him. Maybe it's a temporal vortice thing. Maybe causality is only what you make of it. (Quote)…
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So - Awkward for me, not awkward for you. Sounds about right! :D
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(Quote) Hahahahahaha! :D
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(Quote) This is what makes reading CP awkward for me - if he were uninterested in such things, but set his works in our world, they could be assumed; but as this is his world, we can't assume anything. Things like tunneling make no economic sense un…
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Thank you, gentlemen!
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I have been finishing up the read on Final Harbor so I am late on this! I'll pick up as soon as possible!
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How is everyone doing with this book? Need extra time?
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(Quote) That bothered me too! Thank you for bringing it up, Ray!
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I really don't think one is supposed to understand the setting, @RichardAbbott! ;)
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(Quote) Except the southern continent is antarctic, colder than the northern continent.
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(Quote) That the neutrality thing is a specious farce? (Quote) Tunneling sets off my bullshit meter big time. This is obviously so important to Priest, and so stupid a concept that it gnaws at me... (Quote) It was an interesting story in places - …
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I have actually read the Sark Wikipedia entry - read it for all the Channel islands and other islands in the Channel... there are more, some inhabited!
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Hi Ray! Yes, I have. He knows submarines, for sure!
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(Quote) Wanted to me too this!
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(Quote) Same here! Thank you! (Quote) This book is, I think, one of magical realism, and "vortical altitudes" part of the magical thinking that informs the book. I admit it hurts my brain. (Quote) I think my previous point addresses this…
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(Quote) I wondered at that... (Quote) It wasn't Commis who required the purity of the glass, it was Lord, the illusionist.
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(Quote) Yes - I was about to mention that! Thank you!
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Looks like fun to me!
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(Quote) How did the Seignior get his hands on a thryme so quickly? 18 generations is `175 years. I doubt very much one was flown in. I also doubt thrymes had been discovered yet. The science and technology in that chapter seemed quite modern. One of…
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(Quote) I am beginning to think Priest is an elf, as in "Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes"
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(Quote) It's a GUT feeling...
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I keep getting pulled out of the introduced frame of a travel gazetteer by the willful ignoring of any pretense of consistency. The fact that one is a story with the barest trace of island description while the next is an island description with the…