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I liked it as well - reminds me of Vance's footnotes or the little quotes from various sources in Dune. A nice technique!
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Like kcaryths, I thought it was the 'control' one the whole time, and for much the same reasons. I am infamous for my ability to guess the perp a quarter of the way through most procedurals or mysteries, though.
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I wouldn't hazard a guess as to his religious orientation. I'm usually wrong about that! I very much enjoyed the discussion though!
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Cloud Computing is just a fancy name for 'On Someone Else's Computer'... There was an internet when he wrote the book, but it slightly predates the Worldwide Web. I was an IT director at the time for a bleeding edge physics based startup, and we all…
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Well it was definitely Toronto! I like Toronto a lot! There is a satisfying energy in Toronto which appeals to me, and I found myself often thinking "I could live here", which I may end up doing if I require asylum, as looks increasingly l…
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I too greatly enjoyed the book. The technology was acceptably described, and the people vividly drawn. The explorations of the moral and ethical questions involved were very interesting, Some of which I have explored myself in my SF games, and there…
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I am a very fast reader, and read with complete focus - If they are any good, generally sinking deep into the book and letting my imagination create that world, which I experience directly. I do not enjoy listening to books; first because the reader…
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(Quote) That's the kind of thing it kept doing to me, utterly throwing me off my game.
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For some reason I couldn't grasp this book. It writhed and fought me tooth and nail, like Merlin fighting Mad Madam Mim. I got about 10% of the way through and gave up. Hopefully I can go back to it later and try again. It took me three tries befor…
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I have read Make Room! Make Room!, which was good, but the other sounds interesting and will be totally new to me.
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(Quote) The first time I read it I was all "Puppets? Hilarious! But I didn't see that coming." The second time I read it I was like "Huh! I didn't notice this subtle inference the first time I read it... not this hint here... nor this…
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Good luck with it! It sounds fascinating, so keep us informed!
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It's StarCluster 4 - Wavefront Empire, which has a very different social structure, which is why I thought of EPT. People cannot bring standard current social values into the game, which forces them to change their ways of thinking. As you can imagi…
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Actually the Resource Number is the only bit not part of the game I mentioned. I came up with the resource number for you. That game has more detailed resources, but the resource number abstracts all that, so it's easier to track.
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(Quote) You are very welcome!
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Here is an idea: All people of the city have three organizations to which they belong. CLAN - A group of closely related families and retainers; GUILD - people one works with, who do the same job or related jobs; and CLUB - A social organization bui…
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(Quote) That was what I had remembered. Thank you, Richard!
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I could mention one, but it's one of mine, and I won't, so perhaps Empire of the Petal Throne?
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Waiting no longer. It IS the first... :D
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I just finished reading it for the - tenth? - time.
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I could see playing a number of evolving iterations of a story with the players deciding what changed in between, and deciding when we got to the real story, That could work well, if everyone were on board with the premise.
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I think the second eversion above is more like what Reynolds described, with areas of smooth and spiky skin interspersed. I got what he was doing - turning the story inside out in a series of inversions - like the alien ship had everted. I found it …
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Well I, for one, enjoyed our cast of characters. As iterations went on, approaching reality, they became more and more complex, which was fun.
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I felt it was no problem. Silas was the procrastinator supreme - pushed it to the last second, but pulled it all together in time, like pulling an all nighter to finish a project you've been supposed to be working on for weeks. We've all been there …
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I figured out where the ship was, and who Silas was by the second iteration - the Patagonia one. It didn't harm the narrative for me. I was pulling for ol' Silas.
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It worked well for me. Groundhog Day is like the grandfather of this style. I found it very entertaining and interesting.
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I am fine with either. I believe I have read something by A. A. Attanasio - the name is familiar anyway, but a look at Radix tells me it wasn't that. I have not read anything by Chandrasekera.
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I have finished!
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(Quote) Hehehehehe!
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(Quote) Note to self: "Remember to update list next weekend." (Skip to weekend) "Aha! I should remember to do this next weekend..." (Rinse...Repeat)