RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-21 Thread Martin Baxter
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade Wow. He always seemed pretty level headed. Sadly Simmons has gone far beyond that. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:09:50 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade Has Wilson

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:09:50 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade Has Wilson joined the ranks of wingnuttery? Damn shame because I love his Repairman

[scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-20 Thread B Smith
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaiju66@ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:43:40 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Baxter
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:50:22 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade The Helliconia book for me: Helliconia Spring, I think

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, another sob story in my long life -- I had all of the eps of Jules Verne on my mother's computer (obtained through means best not discussed) and, when I got my computer, I deleted my profile on her PC, remembered those eps (and two anime movies, including Cowboy Bebop: The Movie) as

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Baxter
...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:43:40 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade Snow Crash. Stephenson's writing is great but it never really engages me. I think I'd do better with an audiobook

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Baxter
hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:27:30 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

[scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-19 Thread B Smith
the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@... Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:43:40 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed

[scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-19 Thread B Smith
always giving us cool new scifi. Steampunk personified... - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:41:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed

[scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread B Smith
I feel the same way you do. I like the concepts but most of the stuff I've read never grabs me. I really tried to get into Cherie Priest's Boneshaker but something about it didn't click for me. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: I have yet to get into

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread Martin Baxter
I'm still waiting for Boneshaker to free itself from Queue Heck at the library. (A close friend read it and raved on it for weeks.) My first introduction to Steampunk (as was pretty much everyone else in SF) was Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine. And, like many in the genre, it

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread Mr. Worf
There's a topic for you. Which book or books have you tried to read multiple times but just haven't managed to finish? For me it is Stephen King's The Stand. I tried to read and finish it 9 times. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: I'm still

[scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread B Smith
Snow Crash. Stephenson's writing is great but it never really engages me. I think I'd do better with an audiobook version because I like the story. William Gibson's Spook Country. I made it through Pattern Recognition but Spook Country didn't hook me. I liked Walter Jon Williams work in the

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread Keith Johnson
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:41:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade I feel the same way you do. I like the concepts but most of the stuff I've read never grabs me. I really tried

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread Keith Johnson
: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade There's a topic for you. Which book or books have you tried to read multiple times but just haven't managed to finish? For me it is Stephen King's The Stand. I tried to read and finish it 9 times. On Thu

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread Mr. Worf
5:41:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade I feel the same way you do. I like the concepts but most of the stuff I've read never grabs me. I really tried to get into Cherie Priest's Boneshaker but something about

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-18 Thread Keith Johnson
: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade I agree. There has been some cool shows on showtime (Odyssey 5 for example.) There were some other shows such as anime and a scifi detective series set on Mars. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Keith Johnson