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San Francisco Michael B or another locale (there are a lot of Michael Bennewitz's there!)? F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, sc…
29 Apr 2009, 17:28
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Tor is there as "Tor Books" and "Tor Webmaster"... F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Glou…
29 Apr 2009, 17:02
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If you are a deacon (we have four in our RC parish) and your wife dies, you've made a committment to become a priest... F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, squa…
20 Apr 2009, 16:25
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Funny...I was in junior high in the mid-1970's. We had "Voyage to Arcturus". And a lot of stuff by Robert Silverberg, Samuel Delany, and others that was pretty dang "adult". And a…
20 Apr 2009, 03:32
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Glad to see that we are once again at the level of "civil discourse". F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?…
02 Apr 2009, 19:32
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My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories are completely intermixed. Reality is intermixed with fantasy. You never know what he is going to say. An…
01 Apr 2009, 14:48
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If you download it, you're not "supporting" it...you're just (as James put its) "leeching" the bandwidth. Right click (PC), save target as, give it a name, and you have the .mp3 f…
30 Mar 2009, 18:22
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How dare you post an actual Wolfe question to this list! But anyway, I'm interested in such a pointer as well, for various friends who are in the same situation. F.P. Kiesche II…
18 Mar 2009, 18:34
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Well, I just stepped outside and checked. Nope, no full moon. F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The D…
18 Mar 2009, 14:11
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Ummm...it appears from the last comment that you may have wanted to send this off-list... F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, s…
17 Mar 2009, 16:57
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To follow up with "Against the Fall of Night", I'd also look to Clarke's "revision" (re-imagining?), "The City and the Stars". Also, in a similar vein, his novelette "The Lion of …
17 Mar 2009, 16:32
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Missed "The Last Frakking Special", if that was the name. Maybe it'll be on the DVD's when they are released. Amazon is already listing "Season 4.5". F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gib…
17 Mar 2009, 16:11
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That show jumped the shark at least a season ago. "They have a plan..." Nah, Ron Moore was just making it up as he went along. F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fa…
16 Mar 2009, 16:12
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What he said on the ones I did not mention. Long day, early morning, not enough coffee.. F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scri…
16 Oct 2008, 01:49
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Some of my personal favorites are listed below. You can get them in the single-volume set from Library of America and multiple trade and mass market paperback collections. They are…
16 Oct 2008, 01:47
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August Derleth nuked Cthulhu in one of his novels. I'd tell you which one, but some rat busturd stole it from me... F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square b…
05 Oct 2008, 11:42
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One (ex) D&D kid here. Can't recall having any problems any different from others my age. And I have a feeling that D&D kids are much more in tune with stuff in Wolfe's writings th…
21 Sep 2008, 00:40
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Here are the full lyrics to "Oh Shenandoah"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Shenandoah Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away you rolling river, Oh Shenandoah, I long to…
18 Sep 2008, 17:35
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Greetings: Like Swanwick, got bored with Sterling, Gibson is getting increasingly borderline with me. As for Stephenson, it's a split. I couldn't get through Snow Crash (but boug…
17 Sep 2008, 02:53
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Greetings: "A better translation of "hoplite" would simply be "heavily armored infantryman" instead of the term used in Wolfe (shieldman) which is a wrong interpretation of the an…
04 Sep 2008, 12:16
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I second the suggestion: Edward Whittemore's Jerusalem Quartet. Relatively recently republished by Old Earth Books, but ALREADY GETTING HARD TO FIND!!! So, run to ABE Books and se…
23 Aug 2008, 01:30
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Greetings: I posted a question at Tor's "community" site in their "forums". Hopefully we'll get a definitive (har har har, do ya smoke it?) answer from the editor of the book. F…
21 Aug 2008, 19:22
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Well, I don't know about Terry Goodkind, but I have about a half shelf full of John Ringo! F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, sc…
08 Aug 2008, 02:40
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Yep, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, IIRC. Made into a great short film, which was, again IIRC, used when "Twilight Zone" (the original) tried switching to a one hour format during…
18 Jun 2008, 19:56
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Funny you should float that theory...In the "Paladin of Shadows" series by John Ringo (military-oriented "technothriller"), the main character foils multiple terrorist attacks, des…
18 Jun 2008, 18:15
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The first written "steampunk" I came across was "The Difference Engine" by Gibson and Sterling. Around the same time, I was running a SF-RPG called "Space: 1889". Mars had canals,…
17 Jun 2008, 02:07
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Delany: In addition to Empire Star and Babel-17, I'd recommend the short work The Star Pit and the novel Nova. Especially Nova, as it involves the Tarot and stuff and that t…
16 Jun 2008, 18:47
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Matt--Are you a member of The Gunroom? If not, take a look! http://www.hmssurprise.org/ Lots of good stuff discussed for fans of Patrick O'Brian. F.P. Kiesche III "…
16 Jun 2008, 17:14
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Late reply to a long-forgotten party...way behind in all e-mails (over 4,500 unread and climbing!). Anyway, sometime Wolfe reader, located in NJ. Most recent Wolfe read was "Shamb…
16 Jun 2008, 16:43
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Greetings: Lots of steampunky good stuff out there. Here's a recent discovery. Warning! Vast cosmic timesink ahead!!! <http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/> Fred Kiesche…
14 May 2008, 13:44
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"There is no list. I did not receive your note and you are not reading this reply." There is nothing to see here. These aren't the droids you are searching for. You can go about y…
07 Mar 2008, 20:56
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Greetings: "Does anybody here have a Kindle?" Heavens, no. Ugly, lousy design, stupid design and way overpriced for a "unitasker". I've been reading eBooks on various PalmOS dev…
21 Dec 2007, 14:42
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Greetings: Is "New Sun" or any other Wolfe out on (legal) eBooks? I'm hoping that Baen and Tor (or Tor's corporate parent and their lawyers) eventually come to a deal and Baen di…
21 Dec 2007, 04:09
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Greetings: "Where I disagree with you is that I do think these discussions are interesting and are obviously one of the major reasons why people end up on this list." I noticed a…
17 Dec 2007, 21:48
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If they're powerful enough to toss around black holes and the like, or move the Moon, then moving it for travel times might be child's play...so maybe they moved the Moon for aesth…
16 Dec 2007, 10:50
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"Lune is a tricky subject. We know it LOOKS bigger than now. That may be because its closer. Why its closer we don't know. Maybe Wolfe assumes it would be closer do to gravitationa…
15 Dec 2007, 13:23
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"(Will anyone else admit to having read Niven?)" Sure. Tons through the 80's. Known Space was one of my favorite haunts. Around the time of the third RW novel and a few other thin…
06 Dec 2007, 04:35
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Gene Wolfe's "New Sun" as an homage to Borges? Hmmm...maybe I've finally got the hook to toss to my one friend who likes Borges but despises that darn Buck Rogers stuff. :) FPK3…
27 Nov 2007, 19:10
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Arrrr. They shuld've launched that there barkey this day. I'm just sayin' Captain Kiesche…
19 Sep 2007, 18:34
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Greetings: I'm working through "Shadow" for the first time since...ummm...mumble...looks up and whistles..can't be THAT LONG! Anyway, it is going to be a while before I feel conf…
24 Jul 2007, 14:27
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Greetings: Just saw on Amazon (US) that "Shadows of the New Sun" is listed as a trade paperback for $27.50 and a hardcover for $75.00. It's not (quite) out, with a publication da…
05 Jul 2007, 16:50
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"Remember, firecrackers and beer don't mix." That's true. Better to soak brauts in the beer than firecrackers. Firecrackers won't light after being soaked in beer.…
04 Jul 2007, 13:36
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Greetings: "The species is a million years old and for 990,000 of those years we were sort of half-smart animals scraping out a living. Then, all of a sudden, ten thousand years a…
21 Jun 2007, 15:42
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Are these even legit? Are they "digitized" from earlier audio books (tapes)? I don't see any such critter at Amazon or B&N, so I wonder how he/she is supplying them! FPK3…
14 Jun 2007, 18:37
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Greetings: A humorous look at the Tolkien-D&D links...111 installments worth!!! <http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?cat=14> FPK3…
12 Jun 2007, 14:22
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Greetings: "Well, at the risk of being labelled a nitpick, they are called halflings by the Gondorians. But it appears that it's a "real" word that can't be copyrighted." Nitpick…
05 Jun 2007, 16:53
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This part of the Wikipedia entry on D&D matches my recollections from the mid-70's when I was involved in gaming! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_and_dragons#Sources_and_In…
05 Jun 2007, 15:48
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Greetings: "One observation.... I've heard that Tolkien's work was a large inspiration for the Dungeon and Dragons tabletop games." There were a lot of things that inspired D&D.…
05 Jun 2007, 14:46
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"Any other Vance fans subscribe to the list?" You tell me... <http://texasbestgrok.mu.nu/archives/224757.php> <http://texasbestgrok.mu.nu/archives/225838.php> ;) "The Dying Ea…
05 Jun 2007, 00:59
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If Gene Wolfe is too difficult for readers, I hate to hear the reception that Young Herman Melville or Young John Dos Passos or Young Philip K. Dick or Young Samuel R. Delany, etc.…
01 Jun 2007, 17:01
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