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No dia 01/12/2012, ?s 22:34, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu: It may be that the plan of Pas is to send bios to Blue, not chems. Chems seem to have starte…
02 Dec 2012, 18:28
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Andrew Mason wrote (29-11-2012 16:02): -es. -es. (Whereas the o-acute is a matter of detail.) NB I said 'for me'. Very true. But it doesn't need to come to that, unless one is …
29 Nov 2012, 16:35
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About the only thing I think about the SotH is that it must be something of relevance for the reader. It can't be just some nifty industrial secret.…
29 Nov 2012, 02:31
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The problem with Jahlee lying about re-entry burn-up is... How would she, or anyone else apart from the Whorl's Crew, know there is such a thing as burning up on re-entry? No dia …
29 Nov 2012, 02:23
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I think I'm very much in agreement. Let's see what we know of it, after all: - the inhumi fly, apparently also at high altitudes - the settlers have found no inhumi bases on Blue …
29 Nov 2012, 02:16
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I think I've said this a number of times but, for me, 'hard sf' is that where the workings of science itself are a major driver of the plot. Little to do with being science-'realis…
29 Nov 2012, 01:56
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Didn't Anne McCaffrey have some such filiform beings land on a planet as well? I find the insistence on the unfeasibility of inhumi travel misguided, except when it aims to point …
28 Nov 2012, 13:57
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Andrew Mason wrote (25-11-2012 23:17): C'mon, ya can't say that and then leave us hangin, dyin to tear yer hypothessus to bits.…
26 Nov 2012, 14:48
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Are those the Tartarus books? I was quite close to getting them once, but then some reviewers who complained of poor and small type put me off. That would seem to be a problem with…
13 Oct 2012, 18:15
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Interesting, thank you for sharing. Aickman has been on my list of authors to explore, but I haven't yet found anything by him that is in convenient form for me (no collected work…
12 Oct 2012, 02:51
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No dia 02/10/2012, ?s 02:09, "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at clueland.com> escreveu: People have fought wars over the way one should say that we don't understand it.…
02 Oct 2012, 09:34
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No dia 02/10/2012, ?s 01:07, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> escreveu: But if anything, vertebrates (and higher ones at that) exhibit _less_ sexual dimorphism than other …
02 Oct 2012, 00:42
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I should point out that there's nothing specifically insectoid or even invertebrate about larvae. Individuals are said to be a 'larva' if they are significantly different from th…
01 Oct 2012, 15:55
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There's the whole the Church being the bride of Christ thing...…
30 Sep 2012, 19:23
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Naming: - There is no reason why the inhumi have to conform to the vironese convention, except maybe when they're named by or descended from some vironese person. - Isn't Jahlee'…
28 Sep 2012, 17:38
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No dia 23/09/2012, ?s 14:47, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: This is a ponderous observation. (Notice though that Abaia has independent 'agents', so Seawr...…
23 Sep 2012, 17:22
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David Stockhoff wrote (19-09-2012 04:17): You mean she originally wanted to get on the boat because she had received a gunshot? (And needed the be on the boat to recover, or somet…
19 Sep 2012, 11:14
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Obs: I'm not too fond of a Mother who can emerge as a ship and spout off Seawracks and yet can't repair Seawrack's arm. Nor do I understand what would an aquatic creature like Seaw…
19 Sep 2012, 03:03
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No dia 18/09/2012, ?s 20:07, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: The latter kind doesn't exist in that context. He did fire the shot. I'd be more comfortable …
19 Sep 2012, 02:59
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (18-09-2012 16:55): ? If her arm has been torn off, it has been torn off. Torn off. Not shot. Torn off. You might as well posit that she didn't lose her …
18 Sep 2012, 18:10
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? Wasn't Seawrack's arm bitten off by Babbie? It was missing, not shot.…
18 Sep 2012, 13:17
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No dia 02/08/2012, ?s 22:18, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: I stand by my original answer: That they prefer urban areas is the same reason, IMO.…
03 Aug 2012, 10:14
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No dia 02/08/2012, ?s 01:32, "James B. Jordan" <jbjordan4 at cox.net> escreveu: Rather I'm afraid that medieval without church is like Apple without Jobs. It's not that it wouldn'…
02 Aug 2012, 02:10
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No dia 02/08/2012, ?s 02:56, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: But what did you mean by it requiring a lot of work and their likeliness to be caught? Those are…
02 Aug 2012, 02:08
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No dia 01/08/2012, ?s 19:15, Ryan Dunn <ryan at liftingfaces.com> escreveu: I personally know people around their 90s who talk and write as if they were 30.…
02 Aug 2012, 00:30
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No dia 01/08/2012, ?s 19:04, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: Eh? Setting forest fires seems to me to be one of the most cost-effective ways of provoking dama…
02 Aug 2012, 00:28
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I just can't see what it is that those predictions, in jest or dead seriousness, reveal about their author's sinister (ha) politics. It has been stated they do, I'd like to know wh…
02 Aug 2012, 00:23
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I don't find 'socialism has taken over the free world' in those predictions. No dia 28/07/2012, ?s 23:31, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu:…
29 Jul 2012, 00:55
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No dia 28/07/2012, ?s 15:18, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> escreveu: I've read it again. I can see no connection between the predictions and your comments on them. You even …
29 Jul 2012, 00:52
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No dia 27/07/2012, ?s 18:59, Allan Anderson <rubel at goosemoon.org> escreveu: Almost no one predicted the end of the USSR and that did were derided. A prediction that the Russian…
28 Jul 2012, 00:00
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No dia 01/06/2012, ?s 21:05, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu: I happen to think women's (or men's, if it were the case) suffrage isn't a huge question in pract…
04 Jun 2012, 23:49
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No dia 01/06/2012, ?s 20:50, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: _Orthodoxy_ reads like a scathing attack on most non-catholic philosophy. I've met few priests a…
04 Jun 2012, 23:43
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I think you have to be a catholic or a 'paleoconservative' in order not to be offended by Chesterton, unless you are very well read (quality more than quantity), in which case you …
01 Jun 2012, 19:48
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No dia 28/05/2012, ?s 22:23, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com> escreveu: I'm not the kind to engage in public sex! It is generally accepted that any give…
28 May 2012, 21:37
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No dia 26/05/2012, ?s 19:56, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com> escreveu: Ha! You're clearly unfamiliar with the view that there are no 'rather's - every …
27 May 2012, 00:42
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Hey! Your ideas are only egregious in the etymological sense! The current Portuguese national anthem speaks of 'your egregious grandparents'; nobody knows what it means (the father…
23 May 2012, 11:14
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No dia 23/05/2012, ?s 01:43, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com> escreveu: Homem prevenido vale por dois. Of course, even the people with the most egregio…
23 May 2012, 02:38
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No dia 22/05/2012, ?s 19:37, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com> escreveu: Halt! There's someone hereabouts with no qualms about asserting the most groundl…
22 May 2012, 21:22
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No dia 22/05/2012, ?s 18:43, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com> escreveu: It's actually continually discussed here, not at all forgotten. Give the list so…
22 May 2012, 21:14
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No dia 21/05/2012, ?s 01:03, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com> escreveu: Na verdade ? 'Ant?nio', mas j? n?o havia... Now that you mention him, it would …
22 May 2012, 11:37
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No dia 20/05/2012, ?s 19:42, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com> escreveu: Muito interessante n?o s? por causa da Mandr?gora mas tamb?m por ecoar o coment?…
20 May 2012, 23:13
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No dia 20/05/2012, ?s 20:27, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: Yeah, I think people don't give this its due value. These days everyone's an expert in everythin…
20 May 2012, 23:02
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No dia 25/04/2012, ?s 09:47, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> escreveu: DRM is an anti-copy technology and it really is awesome news if it's being dropped by …
25 Apr 2012, 13:25
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You got a lot more out of this story than I thought could be there, Marc. Thanks.…
23 Apr 2012, 22:46
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David Stockhoff wrote (18-04-2012 13:00): You mean 'The House on the Borderland'? I don't find the themes or the settings familiar, but there may be something about the 'tone', wh…
18 Apr 2012, 12:11
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Marc Aramini wrote (17-04-2012 20:17): If I simply put your name in google images, I get a lot of pics of people who look like asian girls... is there something about your mascar…
17 Apr 2012, 19:25
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Well, it's an idea. Does it allow for something other then itself? I don't see anything right now, but it's always worth looking. Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (16-04-2012 17:14):…
16 Apr 2012, 16:21
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No dia 14/04/2012, ?s 16:40, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: E.g., if we are to believe the reports in a recent mediator case, the unarmed black who was kil…
15 Apr 2012, 01:27
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No dia 14/04/2012, ?s 22:37, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: And the Whorl is earthly tech. Not so with the Ship. Didn't know there was a literary SE!…
15 Apr 2012, 00:31
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Ok, Marc, this is where we part ways for a number of reasons: - I have much less confidence than you in the inerrancy of the judicial system. - You seemed to be considering the p…
14 Apr 2012, 15:16
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