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| (...) Candiru sez, "Smile when you say that!" :-, (...) This reminds me of the mixed-universe combat arguments you'll find in your typical sci-fi fandom newsgroups, like "5 Imperial Star Destroyers vs. 12 Earthforce Omega-Class Destroyers" or (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) You forgot the classic: "the Deathstar vs. the Enterprise!" (...) Of course, the SDF-1 would blow them both away :) --Karim (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Deathstar. Duh. maybe a couple hundred enterprise's would be able to kill the Deathstar... of course, if this were to happen in an episode of Star-Trek, the Enterprise would find a way. It's already happened in fact, only they changed the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Is this where I confess I was trolling for sci-fi fanatics? Seriously, I think the best answer to that is that it's a silly thought exercise, and that there is no answer. An ever better answer is that it's up to the scriptwriters, who do what (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My vision of spec-fic doesn't include watching tv to get it - I _read_ *books*, curious & quaint as that habit may seem. :) (...) Not quite - I've prolly seen at least 10 or 20 B5 episodes. [1] J [1] It airs at ungodly times, like 4 pm... (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Do you have any recommendations? I just finished _The Snow Queen_ and _The Summer Queen_ by Joan D. Vinge, and I need to cool down from a 1000-page, 20-year epic. :-, I would highly recommend _Hyperion_ and _Fall of Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons. (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Read The Final Encyclopedia a great book I read a couple weeks ago, but can't remember who the author was. Has anyone else read the Robotech novels? (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Call me quaint, but I like books that don't seem to go on forever without any sort of satisfactory resolution, answer to the questions posited, or point. So I didn't care for those much. Speaking of Vinge I think you might like her ex, Vernor (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Gordon R. Dickson. Not his best work but good. (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Try David Brin's "Earth" - Brin's description of the way that [what we call 'the Net'] evolves into over the next 50 years or so is fantastic. It's (relatively) easy to write about SF technology 100 or 1000 years in the future, but getting it (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hi, Quaint! :-, (...) So you're definitely *not* a Dune fan, eh? (...) The only satisfactory "future internet" book I've ever read was _The Long Run_ by Daniel Keys Moran, but that's really because of the politics involved with the story. (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| <36B3A268.14E3D21F@voyager.net> <F6EL0A.zJ@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Agreed. I am a voracious SF reader and once I find someone I like that I haven't heard of before, I buy (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| <36B3A268.14E3D21F@voyager.net> <F6EuCp.A3x@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Liked the first one, it was one of the best and most detailed ecologies I had run across till then. Tolerated (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yup! About the only Sci-fi novels I've ever read (Fantasy is more my thing when it comes to literature). Very good, IMHO. Did you get odd looks from your friends too, or was it just me? Jeff P.S. A Valkyrie could kick any other fighter from (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote ... (...) It seems to me that more & more authors these days are falling into this trap. I wonder how much of this is publisher-induced. "Hey, the first two sold like hotcakes, let's keep this thing going and milk it for all (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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