Robert Seeberger wrote:
Perdido Street Station is a Fantasy dressed up in Science Fiction
Drag.
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PSS was a very, very hard book to read. I wrote a review that said
something to the effect that I hadn't had to wade
David Hobby wrote:
I honestly don't know. I've heard about it, and have no desire
to read it. It could be that I'm put off by the classical
allusions, present even in the titles. Heavy-handed references
to THE CLASSICS usually signal a pompous and self-important
author. Not that I'm
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
I hate to do a me too - but, me too. The whole
Hyperion series taken together ranks among the finest
works of science fiction I have ever read - offhand, I
can't think of _anything_ I would put ahead of it, and
only a handful of other books that are even close.
George said:
Concur, great series. Simmons can write.
The first two are excellent, even if parts of _The Fall of Hyperion_ are
a mess and the ending isn't as clean as it should be. I was much less
impressed by the two Endymion books though.
Rich
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On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:06:48 +0100, William T Goodall
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http://books.scattersoft.com
So this is the SF top ten...
Hyperion, Dan Simmons 1
Foundation, Isaac Asimov =2
Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov =2
Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
On 2 Jun 2004, at 11:42 am, Gary Denton wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:06:48 +0100, William T Goodall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://books.scattersoft.com
So this is the SF top ten...
Hmmm, am I registered for this as well?
Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go
to
William said:
Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go
to http://books.scattersoft.com , click the 'registration' link and
follow the instructions.
When I try this it says Something or other mysteriously failed. Try
again later. int(999).
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Thanks to Erik raving about how good Hyperion is a few months ago, I
finally read it after looking at the cover and *not* buying it for 20
years or so.
Gawrsh its great. I ended up reading all four books one after the
other and will read them again at some
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Mentioning? Out of the Silent Planet was set on Mars, Peralandra on
Venus. Most of the science was ridiculous by todays standards but the
creation of alien species to tell a story, however allegorical, is really
the reason these books are classified as s.f.
There is
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:39:29 +0100, William T Goodall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm, am I registered for this as well?
Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go
to http://books.scattersoft.com , click the 'registration' link and
follow the instructions.
Gary said:
Everytime I fill it out it repeats the screen.
It seems to do that with IE6 here, but Mozilla is fine.
Rich
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On his Web log, Mark Kleiman wrote about a program for ordinary
Peruvians to replace `extralegal' property rights with legal property
rights. Unfortunately, his initial take was wrong:
http://WWW.markarkleiman.com/archives/_/2004/05/what_ive_learned_so_far_at_the_law_society_meetings.php
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002148.html#002148
Propane Drives Turbine To Harness Waste Heat, Reduce Pollution
...
A new patent pending technology is available which replaces the steam
turbine system with a Cascading Closed Loop Cycle (CCLC) system producing
an increase in MW output of
On 2 Jun 2004, at 3:14 pm, Richard Baker wrote:
Gary said:
Everytime I fill it out it repeats the screen.
It seems to do that with IE6 here, but Mozilla is fine.
Cookies. You must accept them. Where browsers have several different
levels from 'reject all' to 'accept all' move it at least a notch
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=571ncid=751e=1u=/nm/20040528/hl_nm/health_germany_condoms_dc
or
http://tinyurl.com/24zm5
Study Says Condoms Contain Cancer-Causing Substance
Fri May 28,12:09 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Most condoms contain a cancer-causing chemical and
their
In a message dated 6/2/2004 8:49:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Institute in Stuttgart,
Germany, said it found the carcinogen N-Nitrosamine present in 29 of 32
types of condoms it tested in simulated conditions.
Simulated
All testing employees were treated to dinner and a
movie first?
Well I heard testing results were skewed as they were
offered a cigarrette to smoke afterwards...
Damon :P
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Damon Agretto
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Qui desiderat pacem,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3770919.stm
Scaled Composites, the company behind the first private manned
spacecraft, will launch it into space on 21 June carrying an as yet
unnamed astronaut.
SpaceShipOne is built by aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan who hopes to win
the Ansari X-prize of
On 31 May 2004, at 11:06 pm, William T Goodall wrote:
Just to make things even more exciting I have calculated this table
using a simple trimmed mean where a single 'best' and a single 'worst'
rating are excluded and the remainder averaged. Since I'm throwing
away two scores for each book each
In the sort of move that only The Fool could love, the ACLU has
recently succeeded in purging references to the role of the Spanish
Missions ins settling California in the Seal of the City of Los
Angeles.
After all, we all know that the City of Los Angeles was a virtual
theocracy under the
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is
scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM
Greenwich time, so it started a little over an hour ago. There
will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight
hours after the start time. See my
On 2 Jun 2004, at 9:04 pm, iaamoac wrote:
In the sort of move that only The Fool could love, the ACLU has
recently succeeded in purging references to the role of the Spanish
Missions ins settling California in the Seal of the City of Los
Angeles.
After all, we all know that the City of Los Angeles
Can someone post the whole article for those of us
that don't want to start an account? Or do we have a
Brin-L account thre too?
Damon.
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Damon Agretto
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Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
David Hobby wrote:
Ah, what IS science fiction? I admit that the lines blur, so it
may be best to just appeal to authority. My own definition is that
Science Fiction books show slices of axiomatically derived alternate
realities. The author should start with a small number of non-standard
Damon Agretto wrote:
Can someone post the whole article for those of us
that don't want to start an account? Or do we have a
Brin-L account thre too?
I went to bugmenot.com, and found this account:
user name: utesfan
password: sierra
Page contains a link for a video of Enron employees behaving as
described:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml
When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into
California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy
traders celebrated,
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/294628|top|06-02-2004::13:07|reuters.html
The U.S. Army has issued orders preventing thousands of soldiers
designated to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan from leaving the military
even when their volunteer service commitment ends, officials said on
Wednesday.
The
And yet, the image of the goddess Pomona was permitted to remain. This
is an outrage.
Dave
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On 3 Jun 2004, at 12:27 am, Dave Land wrote:
And yet, the image of the goddess Pomona was permitted to remain. This
is an outrage.
If there were any Pomana worshippers in the area in question, they
might well be objecting first...
I don't think expired religions count in this question. They
This article pooh-poohs the idea of food affecting the
behavior of children with ADHD.
Major snippage...
I don't have any experience with ADHD children, but I
have plenty with hot* horses, and I guarantee you that
the type of grain supplement they receive _does_
My daughter has moderate
At 02:17 AM 6/2/2004 -0700 Richard Baker wrote:
George said:
Concur, great series. Simmons can write.
The first two are excellent, even if parts of _The Fall of Hyperion_ are
a mess and the ending isn't as clean as it should be. I was much less
impressed by the two Endymion books though.
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