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Maybe the leaders of the Elder Isles tried to reform Sauron, and he did the Westernesse thing again? :open_mouth: Tolkien had Saruman and Gollum to fill the 'human bad guy' role. Sauron was more like Global Climate Change... B) Casmir was a socio…
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I am familiar with Sandestins through the Dying Earth books, and so I kind of knew how they worked.
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I've sent you a copy of OHMAS, Chris!
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If you question why kittens should speak exactly like the human characters, and with the same vocabulary, than I submit you will not fully appreciate this book.
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My experience is like Dr. Mitch's - essentially effortless and more so the deeper I got. Then again, I never analyze fiction at all, for any reason, and I am essentially watching all this unfold cinematically, being vastly entertained at no effort. …
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Hi Neil! These lands were not made up of whole cloth. They are various legendary places mentioned in Dark Ages and Early Medieval literature as if they existed, but which suddenly disappear from the record as it were. Ys was a land and great city s…
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Ppeople tend to either love Vance or be bewildered by people who love Vance. You are obviously in the second camp! :wink:
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The rankings? What do you mean?
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I realized in re-reading this book that I had based the fairies in On Her Majesty's Arcane Service entirely on Vance's fairies. I had thought they had been based on all the fairy stories I had read, but no, they are Vancean fairies. God I love them!…
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I liked Suldrun, and Dhrun and Glynneth, and Shimrod, and a host of minor characters, like Shimrod's friend with the tail, who died, and whose name I can't remember.
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It's the pettiness of the villains that makes their villainy more immediate. An ogre rapes a preteen girl and eats a child. That's told in an off-hand way. The little petty nastiness, on the other hand, is lovingly detailed. That's what humans are a…
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I have to agree on the fairies, more in the Fairy question. Ska are also awesome. The lands are great for one reason - they are tightly intermingled and of different scale, though all small. Nothing monolithic. You can go from land to land, by foot,…
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I have read virtually (possibly) everything Vance wrote at least once. These books are massive by Vance standards. But it's like a giant economy class Vance. Everything else is the same. Just more space for more quadruple twists.
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I read that, many decades ago! :smiley:
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I have started rereading it.
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Cities in Flight... with Rock and Roll!
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I read Waterspider in Analog or Galaxy or one of the other pulps at the time. I loved it's self-referential fun. I also recognized Dick's hand (Ugly phrase that!) in your High Strung scenario. :wink:
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As a child, I loved this book. It was my favorite Verne book by far! I read it maybe five or six times, but haven't read it since I was maybe thirteen. I have no idea how I would find it now. I personally was enthralled by all the ingenious ways the…
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I just talked to Richard, and he is fine with the book being nominated. I think it would an be excellent example of modern hard SF.
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I would like to nominate Far from the Spaceports by one Richard Abbott for a future read. Very interesting! We might be able to find the author, even! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017WODIUU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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Or to be more precise, I haven't read the Ballard, Gilman, or Russell novels, but I really like Ballard though I haven't read much of his work. So I would give Ballard 3, Gilman 2, and Russel 1 points.
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I see no poll! I would pick the Ballard novel. Never read it.
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Agh! Noooo! I'd have to discuss symbols and shit! I'd shoot my eye out! :wink:
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Only book of Melvilles I couldn't read. Loved his other stuff - Typee, White Jacket, Omoo, Billy Budd... not this thing. Dense as a fruitcake. Took me hours to read a couple pages. Not for the likes of me!
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Someone should look at the game board and pieces, and figure out some game rules that would work with them. They did this with Senet. May not be the original rules but they work fine! :smiley:
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All the cool kids come here! And me. I come here too.