Re: Introducing Myself

2014-03-06 Thread William Taylor
-Original Message- From: Ellen S. To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Sent: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 11:38 am Subject: RE: Introducing Myself And then "Temptation" introduced a bunch more cliffhangers to the situation on Jijo, via the Buyur. I think the Buyur will p

RE: Introducing Myself

2014-03-06 Thread Ellen S .
And then "Temptation" introduced a bunch more cliffhangers to the situation on Jijo, via the Buyur. I think the Buyur will prevent the Jophur from winning, but I doubt they have any incentive to prevent the destruction of any part of the Commons civilization. ~E.S.

RE: Introducing Myself

2014-03-06 Thread Ellen S .
> From: albm...@centroin.com.br > William Taylor wrote: >> >> The 4th dimension is going to close down as the galaxy that Jijo is in >> breaks away from the other four galaxies. >> > It also mean that all the "magic" will go out from Jijo. Everything > that can't be explained by XX-cent technology

Re: Introducing Myself

2014-03-06 Thread ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
William Taylor wrote: > > The 4th dimension is going to close down as the galaxy that Jijo is in > breaks away from the other four galaxies. > It also mean that all the "magic" will go out from Jijo. Everything that can't be explained by XX-cent technology will cease to work. No more psychic power

Re: Introducing Myself

2014-03-06 Thread William Taylor
Wouldn't that be nice! Heaven's Reach ended on gigantic cliffhangers, such as WILL HUMANITY GO EXTICT!? :p Heaven's Reach ended with a giant rocket made of boo lifting off of Jijo. A long time had passed since Streaker had left. The cliffhangers of Jijo: The Jophur were in control the Gr

RE: Introducing Myself

2014-03-05 Thread Nick Arnett
That would be me. Don't know why I didn't see any notices about the held mail until the other day. Odd. Nick "Ellen S." wrote:AT LAST my messages from like 6 months ago when I joined the mailing list have materialized. Though I do wonder what took so long. I see references to messages that I k

RE: Introducing Myself

2014-03-05 Thread Ellen S .
AT LAST my messages from like 6 months ago when I joined the mailing list have materialized. Though I do wonder what took so long. I see references to messages that I know I have not gotten, so I think there's also something preventing my address from receiving some messages from this list. Who

Re: Introducing Myself

2014-03-04 Thread William Taylor
-Original Message- From: Charlie Bell To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Sent: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 6:22 am Subject: Re: Introducing Myself I doubt it’ll ever reach the volumes of The Old Days again (unless DB WRITES MORE UPLIFT BOOKS…) but there’s always room for discussion

Re: Introducing Myself

2014-03-04 Thread Charlie Bell
On 13 May 2013, at 5:42 am, E. S. wrote: > > > Also I don't have a screenname picked out for this list. I try > not to share my real name online. Hello. There are plenty of real names and plenty of ‘nyms here, so don’t be shy either way. “ES” or “zoon33” both seem reasonable enough - as

Introducing Myself

2014-03-02 Thread E. S.
Hello People, I'm new to this mailing list, so I decided to introduce myself. I'm a longtime fan of David Brin's Uplift series, I've read all the novels and short stories except the new one ("Gorilla, My Dreams"), and I've also read Contacting Aliens and bought the GURPS roleplaying book (sadly I