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Re: SEV2
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Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:37:22 GMT
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On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:28:12 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com>
wrote:

Is this where I confess I was trolling for sci-fi fanatics?

My vision of spec-fic doesn't include watching tv to get it - I _read_
*books*, curious & quaint as that habit may seem.  :)

What's Earthforce?

Zoiks!  Someone neglected all five seasons of Babylon 5 in favor of Star
Trek!  (1)

Not quite - I've prolly seen at least 10 or 20 B5 episodes. [1]

J

[1] It airs at ungodly times, like 4 pm...



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  Re: SEV2
 
(...) 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)
  Re: SEV2
 
(...) 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)
  Re: SEV2
 
(...) 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)
  Re: SEV2
 
<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)
  Re: SEV2
 
<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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(...) 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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