After seeing several messages with Greg Bear as subject, I am wondering if
anyone has read his new book, City at the End of Time. Are there any guidelines
on discussing books here without giving away too much (I'm new here, by the
way)?
As long as I am asking questions, does David Brin have
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Williams wrote:
After seeing several messages with Greg Bear as subject, I am wondering
if anyone has read his new book, City at the End of Time. Are there any
guidelines on discussing books here without giving away too much (I'm
new here, by the way)?
Giving
Let's ask him... ;-)
What *is* in the works, David?
(By adding Brin: to the start of the subject, it'll get to David. If the
subject drifts off, please replace that with Br!n or something like that,
which helps keep his inbound mail volume down.)
Nick
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, John
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From: Julia Thompsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussionmailto:brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Greg Bear
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Williams wrote:
After seeing several messages with Greg Bear
John Williams wrote:
...
As long as I am asking questions, does David Brin have any new
science fiction books in the works? I suppose the lack of new David
Brin SF accounts for the lack of SF discussion here?
John--
Hi. Yes, I'm sure that the lack of new books is what
causes off-topic
Thanks Nick and sorry I neglect Brin-L. Drowning for
time, alas.
(I blog sometimes at: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ )
First off... we've all just returned from a high
plains family odyssey -- from Denver (the World
Science Fiction convention) to Mt. Rushmore, Crazy
Horse, Devil's Monument
From: Olin Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is City at the End of Time part of the Eon series?
No, it is not related to Eon at all. City was just published this summer.
Frankly, I haven't completely decided whether I liked it or not. It is a rather
odd story, with elements of science fiction and
Taking this out of Dr. Brin's inbox, he doesn't need to have it cluttered
with my babbling about Teddy Harvia.
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, David Brin wrote:
2- I got a chance to do this fabulous panel with
much-talented artists Frank Wu and Teddy Harvia, in
which I essentially did stand-up
At 02:43 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
--
Mauro Diotallevi
The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90
degrees and try again.
Around what axis?
. . . ronn! :)
___
At 04:56 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote:
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, now I feel old
At 07:04 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote:
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to
At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote:
Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man
from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is
this offering:
Thirty years ago he was always a young man . . .
Tempus Fugit Maru
. . . ronn! :)
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:04 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
Google is becoming somewhat frightening at an exponential rate,
lately. I had no idea some of these features were built into the
engine:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote:
Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man
from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is
this offering:
Thirty years ago he was always a young
At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
There was a young lady named Bright
Who could travel
much
faster than light
She set out one day
In a relative way
And arrived there the previous night.
(Of course, it's been over 25 years since I last heard the limerick,
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
There was a young lady named Bright
Who could travel
much
faster than light
She set out one day
In a relative way
And arrived there the previous night.
(Of course,
At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote:
Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man
from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is
This is one of my favorites:
There was a young woman from Tottingham
Who had no manners or else had forgotten 'em
At tea at the Vicar's
She took off her knickers
Because, she explained, she felt hot in 'em
By the by, I *loved* the math limerick. It definitely tickled me.
Jim
A poet who didn't
On Aug 22, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 02:43 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
--
Mauro Diotallevi
The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone
90
degrees and try again.
Around what axis?
. . . ronn! :)
I'd try the t-axis ..
On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
That's because the proper medical term is cranio-rectal
intussception*, or CRI . . .
Didn't work on *that*, either.
Two problems here:
First, the medical term that Ronn! may be groping for
On 8/21/08, Pat Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest.
Plus three times the square root of four...
The last line of the limerick was the part that gave me the most
On 8/22/2008 9:57:51 AM, Jim Sharkey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
This is one of my favorites:
There was a young woman from Tottingham
Who had no manners or else had forgotten 'em
At tea at the Vicar's
She took off her knickers
Because, she explained, she felt hot in
'em
By the by, I
At 03:35 PM Friday 8/22/2008, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
That's because the proper medical term is cranio-rectal
intussception*, or CRI . . .
Didn't work on *that*, either.
Two problems here:
First,
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico?
I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought.
John
If you liked that you should read Blood Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music
Jon
On 8/21/08, John Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico?
I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought.
John
If you liked that you should read Blood Music
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 8/21/08, John Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico?
I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought.
John
If you
On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after
a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time.
(As in, not out in paperback yet.)
How about a limerick to cheer you up?
((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 *
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after
a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time.
(As in, not out in paperback yet.)
How about a limerick to cheer you
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote:
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after
a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time.
(As in, not out in paperback
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote:
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in
college after
a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote:
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in
college after
a
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:56:26 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Greg Bear
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote:
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest.
That's what Google is for: if you type the first four lines of the
limerick into the search box, it calculates
On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote:
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest.
That's what Google is for: if you type the first four lines of
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote:
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest.
That's what
Folks,
They needn't have ribaldry's taint
Or strive to make everyone faint.
There's a type that's demure
And perfectly pure
Though it helps quite a lot if they ain't.
Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man
from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but
On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote:
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to do the
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