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Was it discussed why ballistic tables for one planet could be mistaken for another? </Jeff> Differences in gravity would effect the range from a given inclination, no? Nate.…
25 Mar 2013, 06:38
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Books I consider the archetype of hard sf would be Rendezvous with Rama, The Invincible and His Master's Voice </Ant?nio> Baxter's Manifold: Time and Egan's Diaspora, for me. Vinge…
29 Nov 2012, 16:40
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It's been awhile since I read it, but Orwell's 1984 was science fiction and I can't remember any "science mistakes" in it. I wouldn't call it hard SF, though. Near-future SF withou…
29 Nov 2012, 16:36
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Another issue that hasn't come up is how spaceflight would evolve. Perhaps the inhumi's ancestors flew mindlessly toward Blue the way a moth flutters around a lamp, and a random fe…
29 Nov 2012, 02:14
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But if humans on Blue were all "good", wouldn't they all _let_ the inhumi feed from them, the way the Rajan does? Nate.…
29 Nov 2012, 02:07
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We should bear in mind, though, that the Rajan himself is very doubtful about whether the secret is really useful. "If you will, it is a great and terrible weapon. That is how the …
28 Nov 2012, 17:09
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If everyone on Earth stops having sex or doing needle drugs for what? a year? then we all go and get AIDS tests, then AIDS is cured. THAT sounds more likely than everyone being ni…
28 Nov 2012, 03:40
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If the Neighbors sent/brought the inhumi to the Whorl to judge what humans are like based on how the inhumi parasitizing them behaved, then how did they do so? If the Neighbors on …
27 Nov 2012, 22:57
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Perhaps most damaging to this story is the impossible premise that biological creatures could somehow achieve escape velocity purely on the power of wings. </Lee> Any possibility …
27 Nov 2012, 01:08
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Those humans who prey on other humans generally rely on stealth and deception. </Lee> The warlords the Rajan encounters following his return to Blue prey on other humans, without …
26 Nov 2012, 18:19
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I think this torturer guild secret is in direct parallel with the secret of the Inhumi. There also, we are told of a secret which will not be revealed. Later we apparently are told…
26 Nov 2012, 14:06
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A Fistful of Yags.…
28 Sep 2012, 18:51
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wolfe wiki says Jahlee = fake, counterfeit. I run 'fake' and 'counterfeit' through Hindi>English on google translate and get ???? / J?l? for 'counterfeit'. When I then run that ba…
28 Sep 2012, 18:14
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I don't have the story here to reread, but I think much of what makes that last line work so well is that whether or not it's in Quoquo's head is indeterminable. Nate.…
09 Sep 2012, 14:09
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My understanding is that the usage of "paper tiger" predates Mao by quite a bit. I keep thinking in school they told us Confucius made a reference to paper tigers in connection wi…
09 Sep 2012, 13:47
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I think the simplest answer is that terrorists prefer urban areas or resorts (eg the Red Sea beach resorts) as targets. A large scale forest fire doesn't affect as many people as a…
02 Aug 2012, 22:23
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Well, but without the Church and Christianity. So it's not actually medieval at all. </JBJordan> I assume you mean the society for creative anachronism? There are religions in ASO…
02 Aug 2012, 01:13
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Everyone SAYS the wall is 8000 years old. There's a bit in one of the books where Sam talks about historical claims nor adding up. Actually, that same scene might be in two of the …
01 Aug 2012, 21:43
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The main issue I see with discussing how much is "hidden" in ASOIAF is that the series isn't finished yet. Marc mentions the "fan theory" about one character's (Jon Snow) parentage…
01 Aug 2012, 18:15
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Was it 2 sets of twins in TSH? Or did they send one human and a changeling back to the real world and keep one human and a changeling in faerie (ie, is Bax a changeling, or a human…
04 May 2012, 12:56
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i had this thought while reading AEG (months ago) that reis was paving the way for a woldercanian invasion of earth. basically, that the woldercanians were "mice" who couldn't dire…
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