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Jeff Wilson wrote (11-10-2011 08:30): FTA: +10 'Unfortunate' is an odd spelling for 'fair'.…
11 Oct 2011, 19:35
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Jeff Wilson wrote (10-10-2011 18:29): Awesome. +10. +2…
11 Oct 2011, 19:13
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James Wynn wrote (11-10-2011 04:20): What with never having time nor food to eat (Jerry, can you take this sentence to a.u.e? But crosspost it to somewhere I read!), I've always …
11 Oct 2011, 19:10
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David Stockhoff wrote (11-10-2011 03:47): The younger clone would be the same entity for everyone, including itself, except for the older clone. Which I don't think is an option…
11 Oct 2011, 19:06
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David Stockhoff wrote (10-10-2011 22:56): When the older dies, the older dies, regardless of having been copied into the younger. The entity may go on existing for third parties,…
10 Oct 2011, 23:00
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larry miller wrote (10-10-2011 16:38): Whoa. That would mean Gene Wolfe was cloned from a frozen embryo one night.…
10 Oct 2011, 21:46
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Jeff Wilson wrote (10-10-2011 08:30): There is no transferral of conscience. There is just duplication. If you duplicate it and the original dies, the original doesn't get anythi…
10 Oct 2011, 21:42
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Gerry Quinn wrote (19-09-2011 23:12): They did?…
20 Sep 2011, 11:31
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Antonin Scriabin wrote (19-09-2011 15:52): It is. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. Read. That's another matter.…
19 Sep 2011, 22:49
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No, the severin and the possibly constantinian ones really are square, all faces being the same size. Yes; I just found it interesting that Severus's name (I never saw an explanat…
24 Aug 2011, 00:12
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Sorry if this have been brought up before. Septimius Severus's triumphal arch in Leptis Magna (Libya) is an arcus quadrifons, i.e. a square with an arch in each side. I don't kno…
20 Aug 2011, 22:38
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No dia 2011/08/07, ?s 07:41, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: Yes :D I'm more impressed by what people do than by what they profess. That also applies to lite…
07 Aug 2011, 13:04
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I was getting worried I'd missed something in the story! I think you can't really say Brand is no worse than the others. No dia 2011/08/06, ?s 05:44, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gma…
06 Aug 2011, 08:01
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Thank you all for the input. I think it's very hard to create good villains, the more so of the kind I asked, while still having them believable and in line with the story. No di…
06 Aug 2011, 03:13
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No dia 05/08/2011, ?s 23:03, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: Yes! I've only seen the movie :P…
06 Aug 2011, 03:05
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It was written: Time for another query. Who are your favourite arch-villains? I mean, those who really rejoice in their villainy? Almost cartoonishly? (cartoon villains don't co…
05 Aug 2011, 15:30
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Am I a worse person on account of having placed a tick next to Lensman?…
04 Aug 2011, 15:44
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Craig Brewer wrote (03-08-2011 16:59): Geraldine Harris! Angela Carter.…
03 Aug 2011, 16:13
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Ha. The Book of the Long Sun is so much better!…
22 Jun 2011, 20:09
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No dia 2011/06/09, ?s 06:33, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> escreveu: That we may merrily make use of E = m c^2 or calculate the distribution of electrons around an atom regard…
09 Jun 2011, 08:46
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Gerry Quinn wrote (08-06-2011 19:49): Count me in! I don't know that that's the only problem with the 'photon wind', but the idea I have from the current and not-so-current pano…
08 Jun 2011, 21:17
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David Stockhoff wrote (03-06-2011 01:58): With all respect to JW, I find it contorted to the point of hurting. Precisely.…
03 Jun 2011, 10:38
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Gerry Quinn wrote (01-06-2011 17:27): D'oh. Good point.…
01 Jun 2011, 16:30
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Gerry Quinn wrote (01-06-2011 16:12): 'Workable', come on. Or does it raise it? But now, seriously speaking, is it really so firmly established that, say, the evolution of stars…
01 Jun 2011, 15:23
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Gerry Quinn wrote (01-06-2011 15:49): Can the speed of time, if such a thing exists, be slower the more one goes from Urth to Blue? (Independently of gravity, of course(?); I'm n…
01 Jun 2011, 15:03
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It was my impression he makes a very similar mistake (in structure) somewhere else, but I can't put my finger on it. I think it was even discussed recently. Not to take anything …
31 May 2011, 21:24
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Gerry Quinn wrote (30-05-2011 19:36): How many are there, recognisably red, in his sky? I find it obvious as can be in context. I do find the relativistic speed of the Whorl tro…
31 May 2011, 14:21
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No dia 28/05/2011, ?s 19:42, "Gerry Quinn" <gerryq at indigo.ie> escreveu: I think it's reasonably obvious: he visited a red sun, he saw a red sun in the sky, bingo, he thinks the…
30 May 2011, 01:21
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Well, if someone could come up with an integrated chronology for all of Gerry Anderson's stuff, it stands to reason that it will be very difficult to prove anything about the evolu…
28 May 2011, 09:17
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I meant readers suggested it, not the books. Then they left before that :) I suppose the Whorl took years to be peopled.…
28 May 2011, 09:10
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But we only have the narrator's word for it, and the narrator isnt omniscient. I don't think it's that. I think GW fretts paranoidly about the details when the details matter. …
28 May 2011, 09:08
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No dia 26/05/2011, ?s 20:57, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: It's the part where someone suggested a year of the whorl, in which all that plus typhon's d…
27 May 2011, 00:41
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No dia 26/05/2011, ?s 20:48, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: And which wasn't at all needed. That's why I find it strange that GW would do violence to hi…
27 May 2011, 00:39
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No dia 25/05/2011, ?s 14:31, Sergei SOLOVIEV <soloviev at irit.fr> escreveu: I agree and feel very strongly about this.…
26 May 2011, 19:15
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No dia 26/05/2011, ?s 18:17, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> escreveu: 'If you find the Buddha, kill the Buddha.'…
26 May 2011, 18:28
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Good heavens, no. Everybody knows it was Karl. But we're not talking about the ephemeral last ruler of a long standing empire. We're talking about a major conqueror who founded a…
26 May 2011, 17:55
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No dia 26/05/2011, ?s 16:45, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> escreveu: I don't like it. I think it's true, but that it applies to more contrived speculation. Then the problem…
26 May 2011, 17:21
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No dia 24/05/2011, ?s 13:48, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Indeed. In fact it's toM’S so it could be shortened to M’S, though it isn't. Cf joS? -> Z?, joaQUIM…
26 May 2011, 14:35
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No dia 25/05/2011, ?s 19:59, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: I think this list is ripe with people who like to mock others. I don't like that. But it may be my …
26 May 2011, 13:53
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I find the chronology overall very confusing but I'm certain it is just as GW intended it, because he didn't have any gun to his head not to make it correct. - Ymar both sounds a…
26 May 2011, 11:16
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No dia 25/05/2011, ?s 18:44, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Should we assume it's been unintentional the dozen odd times you've seemed to try it before?…
25 May 2011, 18:21
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If I didn't know better I'd think you were kidding, Jason.…
25 May 2011, 00:46
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No dia 24/05/2011, ?s 22:05, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> escreveu: I don't mind misattributions in general, but I do mind this one.…
24 May 2011, 21:33
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No dia 24/05/2011, ?s 21:59, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> escreveu: And of course, soon as I saw the name Casdoe, I though it had something to do with Cas and Dorc…
24 May 2011, 21:30
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Whooooa. I didn't use any such expression. I demand a clarification.…
24 May 2011, 20:59
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No dia 23/05/2011, ?s 18:01, "Gerry Quinn" <gerryq at indigo.ie> escreveu: +1 (I'm a dense reader myself, so I'm not implying my reading is the best)…
24 May 2011, 02:04
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No. You usually don't need any help in that regard. I wish you'd stop reacting that way, but that's who you are, and it doesn't get so much in the way once one gets the hang of i…
23 May 2011, 22:44
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Yes. Yes. What would that be? Give us some Stuff That Happens.…
23 May 2011, 22:17
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What is invisible? The near 1:1 correspondence with Romulus's story to you, because you don't want it to be the single most important part of it, because it wasn't what you expec…
23 May 2011, 22:14
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Yeah, the mentioning of fringe, not consensual or even just not enoughly discussed ideas as if they were canon annoys me to no end. Here as anywhere else. I should point out that …
23 May 2011, 22:10
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