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

2010-02-21 Thread Martin Baxter
Do I WANT to know how far? "If all the world's a stage and all 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...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:12:45 + Sub

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

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Pardon me. Tired, didn't clarify. He was asking why Democrats see anything wrong with the Wasilla Wingnut. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yah

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

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Oh, yes. He wrote an op-ed piece somewhere, asking, basically, what was wrong with Sarah Palin. I was reading a Repairman Jack at the time I learned of that. Stopped reading it. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L

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

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Baxter
yers, who in bloody hell 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 Ha

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

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Baxter
B, I'm feeling the same way toward F. Paul Wilson as you are toward Simmons. "If all the world's a stage and all 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...@y

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 s

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

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Baxter
/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik 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: Hellic

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

2010-02-18 Thread Keith Johnson
Subject: Re: [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

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

2010-02-18 Thread Mr. Worf
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 wrote: > > > Remember the short lived TV series "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" >

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 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. O

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

2010-02-18 Thread Keith Johnson
Remember the short lived TV series "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" from 2000? That was a pretty cool show from back when SciFi, Showtime and others were always giving us cool new scifi. Steampunk personified... - Original Message - From: "B Smith" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.co

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 wrote: > > > I'm still waiting for "Boneshaker" to

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 ne