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I think the whole Micklegard-Novgorod setting would make for a fantastic RPG personally. I also like the casual integration of magic into life. That could be worked with nicely!
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Again, I find myself agreeing with @kcaryths. I found the Easter eggs I did notice fully consistent with the story of Travel Light, and feel that calling this a Young Adult book is a bit disingenuous. This is not a book written for a 'Young Adult' m…
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Why must the controversial aspect of her life and writings be addressed if that is not the object of the publishers? This is a story for children which - although it doesn't hide from reality - deliberately does not directly address those controvers…
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Well, for me it echoed Poul Anderson's epic Last Viking trilogy, about Harold Hardrede's amazing life moving from Norway to the Kievan Rus and then to Byzantium - Micklegard - back to Kiev, and finally taking the throne of a Scandinavian empire and …
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(Quote) Graphically showing who she had become, rather like a shortened form of Ent names, which are basically biographies of the Ent. She was each those things, and she was also all those things together.
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It ended logically and as well as it could have, I was pleased by the ending.
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The initial tone I found reminiscent of Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham and "Smith of Wooton Major", which are favorites of mine. The tone later moves to something more like Leaf by Niggle, but that is not a bad place to be either. I thoroug…
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(Quote) I would agree! :D
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I don't think it is analogous to our book here, Richard. Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region of China, so not at all third world, and Ordos is not some hill village. It's a city of over 2 million people, and the site of Ghengis Khan's mausoleum. …
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(Quote) Why is that not terrifying to you? :D
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I haven't been scared by a book. I have been squicked out, creeped out, startled, and shocked, but not scared.
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(Quote) <3
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Yes! Welcome back @MARCC! Good to see you!
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My heart always leans to SF, no matter the season... :D
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I started reading very late, and it did not hold my interest, so I stopped after a bit.
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Ugh! My three were the last three. Nothing from Heinlein, Cherryh, or Vance. Got it! :D
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I'm set!
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7) The Lost World 6) Showboat World 5) Erewhon 4) Downbelow Station 3) Ancient Sorceries 2) Podkayne 1) Mythago Wood I could see this being a very different list were I in a different mood!
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(Quote) Number each of the choices 1-7, with 7 being most wanted.
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I have read all but two of these, but not for decades. I seriously don't see how we could go wrong with any of them! This is going to takes some thinking...
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Does that mean someone might have to run a book they didn't vote for?
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I was not advocating for one or the other - either would work, though they would work differently. I just thought it had already been decided. Sorry I wasn't clear!
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I thought we would be voting for each person's choices for the month they are presenting? I.e. before the month I am presenting, we allocate our votes among the three books I have put forward for that month.
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(Quote) I forgot to mention that! Thank you! I have read both, and Heinlein's preferred ending is far better, so that is the version I would be nominating.
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So that would be "The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South Big Planet" AKA "Showboat World" by Jack Vance, "Downbelow Station" by C. J. Cherryh, and "Podkayne of Mars" by Robert He…
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(Quote) I meant Showboat World anyway, and it too is available in Kindle Format: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1619471205?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback so I will change my nomination to that!
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Then make that Downbelow Station by Cherryh. This is available in Kindle.
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(Quote) Then Big Planet by Vance
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(Quote) Moi aussi!
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I'm thinking Titan by John Varley, Rimrunners by C. J. Cherryh, and Podkayne of Mars.