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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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Now, **this** is funny: "I recently asked a veteran New York editor whether Wolfe could find a publisher today if he were just coming along as a young writer. ?Probably not, she a…
01 Jun 2007, 12:33
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Dang. How the heck? I've had one on order for months and months and I haven't gotten notification of shipping yet? Enjoy. Hope it has been worth the wait of several decades!…
14 Apr 2007, 11:07
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Greetings: "One of the most impressive narrative tours-de-forces I have ever read was _Fire_, by George R. Stewart (author of the SF classic _Earth Abides_)," Earth Abides was ex…
13 Apr 2007, 18:08
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Greetings: I've enjoyed several of Kurt V's works--Player Piano, SL-5--but at some point became highly unenchanted. So it goes. FPK3…
13 Apr 2007, 16:49
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Greetings: "All my moderately humble opinion, of course." Of course! :) FPK3…
12 Apr 2007, 18:32
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Greetings: "The HORARS of War (Blade Runner rip-off)" On the other hand, you might be saying (as you said in the previous title in your list) that it would be perceived as a BR r…
12 Apr 2007, 16:04
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Greetings: "The HORARS of War (Blade Runner rip-off)" If this is the one I'm thinking off...wasn't it written well before either the P.K. Dick tale, the Alan E. Nourse tale or th…
12 Apr 2007, 16:02
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Greetings: "In pondering the difficulties of filming a Wolfe novel, and there are many, I think it is a mistake for us to sell screenwriters and film directors short." Welllllll.…
12 Apr 2007, 15:16
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"While I was there I also picked up a copy of "Endangered Species". A good day out." Any day buying books is better than a day spent fishing. FPK3…
10 Apr 2007, 16:52
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Greetings: "The events of the Latro series would probably translate well but I'm not sure that the same sense of Latro's memory loss could be maintained throughout a film as are…
10 Apr 2007, 12:04
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Greetings: For me, it sometimes takes a long time to find music that fits a particular author, or a particular action. Sometimes it happens by accident and is so perfect it is sca…
10 Apr 2007, 00:44
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Greetings: "That's quite a selection. And I can see the merit in all those artists. "Are they all artists you would listen to anyway? Any specific to GW?" They are all folks I…
10 Apr 2007, 00:32
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Greetings: "Are we getting too off-list if I ask you what you listen to when you read POB?" My jumping off point was a combination of the soundtrack to the fillum (Master & Comma…
10 Apr 2007, 00:27
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Greetings: Wizard-Knight would work. Latro would work. Urth, etc., maybe not. As for music... Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer and a few other composers that mostly work in film would …
09 Apr 2007, 23:25
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Greetings: So there I was showing my father-in-law how to use Yahoo mail, make folders, open them, etc., and sort his mail, etc., when I opened my "Fiction" folder on my account. …
09 Apr 2007, 03:24
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So would this be a good time to mention on the Urth mailing list that a careful reading of "21", the final, uncompleted novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series mentions a strange figure…
08 Apr 2007, 12:08
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Which is what we fans of Patrick O'Brian say to ourselves, or to each other, when something good happens. For me, that would be finding "A Walking Tour of the Shambles". Even bett…
13 Mar 2007, 20:25
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