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- Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:49 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: World's Worst Authors
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15518
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:51 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Third Craft, by James T. Harris
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9004
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:01 am
- Forum: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Topic: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Replies: 192
- Views: 559415
Some more cool lunar vehicles can be found in this book.
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:58 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Movies that never were
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9321
I'd have watched the Jodorowsky Dune , although I'm fairly sure it would have born no resemblance to the book. Well, even less than resemblance than Lynch's version. But the idea of Paul Atriedes as some sort of El Topo like figure, and with a story to match, with production design by Chris Foss and...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:56 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: 12 upcoming sci-fi remakes and revivals
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12417
Me too. While I didn't like Jules et Jim , I thought Fahrenheit 451 was excellent. Possibly because it failed so completely to look like any kind of plausible future, and instead just looked like the 1960s in a more forward-thinking part of Europe. Having said that, casting Julie Christie in two rol...
- Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:10 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Life on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19286
From what I understand, the US version is going to be open-ended - they're never really going to explain how he went back in time (which they sort of did in the original BBC version). In other words, they're going to milk it for as long as they can before it gets cancelled... On balance, I think I p...
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:46 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Dan Simmons and Jack Vance
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9499
Vance wasn't New Wave! He predates it by a decade at least. If not more. He wrote, chiefly, baroque space opera, and some of it was excellent - the Demon Princes series, for example.
The Songs of Dying Earth will be published by Subterranean Press - see here for the latest update.
The Songs of Dying Earth will be published by Subterranean Press - see here for the latest update.
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:41 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2008 Vote
- Replies: 53
- Views: 46948
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2008 Vote
- Replies: 53
- Views: 46948
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:13 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2008 Vote
- Replies: 53
- Views: 46948
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:24 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2008 Vote
- Replies: 53
- Views: 46948
- Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:48 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9050
- Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:37 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Dune: House Corrino
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9948
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:02 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Dune: House Corrino
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9948
Dune: House Corrino
I thought I'd inflict this review on you. It was originally written back in 2001. Imagine if Jeffrey Archer had written a sequel to Anthony Burgess's The Clockwork Orange . It stands to reason that Archer would have missed the point, and so too have Herbert Jr and Anderson. While their trilogy is a ...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:51 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Life on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19286
- Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:57 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Warehouse 13
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5568
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:03 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Does any of this sound familiar?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8385
Does any of this sound familiar?
See here . Okay, so the hacking isn't, but the "... the manifesto that the Lexicon recently put up, which pretty much took away posters’ freedom to share their true opinions on the book..." certainly does. 21st Century marketing - it's not the product that's shite, it's the consumers who a...
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:42 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Paul of Dune excerpt
- Replies: 75
- Views: 95314
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:30 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
Be fair. Purge and myself were discussing the subject like adults.Baraka Bryan wrote:yup. gotta love when it comes down to who's more childish than the other.
Then orald steps in and thinks childishly insulting one party is a valid means of discourse. I'm surprised his carer lets him near a computer.
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:43 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
You should look at Doctorow's website. If you found stuff that you would use in the class room there, you will find much, much more there. Doctorow has a huge online presence, and is outspoken on a several issues, including the free use of copyrighted material with a special set of rules to help wi...
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
Jewishness is not a race or religion. One can be born a Jew but never practice the mitzvot (though that obviously isn't the ideal). Someone can be born a non-Jew anywhere in the world and become a Jew by accepting the obligations of the Torah. The Jews are a nation. The laws of the Torah are the la...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:55 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:53 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
Anti-Zionist is nothing but a catch phrase, because it is much more acceptable than outright claiming to be anti-Jewish, which is what anti-Zionist ultimately amounts to. Absolute rubbish. It's quite easy to be anti-Zionist - opposed to the political aims of the Zionist movement - while not being a...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:36 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:34 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:41 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
If you mean better than they are treated in their own countries, then no, they are very much different. The situations couldn't be any more different. Israel unfortunately has allowed no shortage of Jew-haters to fill the Knesset with the type of anti-semitic garbage which is often found in the UN....
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:21 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
Jews were made subordinant to Muslims. Being made to pay a tax to escape death and expulsion =/= tolerance. They were infidels perpetually in the place of having to acknowledge Muslim superiority. So, that's be like the way Jews treat Arabs in Israel, then. The notion of some golden age of toleranc...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:07 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:07 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
There is a difficulty in saying Christians and Jews worship or believe in the same God, because so many Christians worship Jesus as a god, which is completely antithetical to the Torah and the God of the Hebrew Bible. This doesn't account for all Christians, but it would certainly seem to be the ma...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:20 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200271
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:18 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16144
So its good dump-fodder, huh? I shall acquire and suitably place the books in the crappatorium! I imagine there is nothing quite a satisfying as reading about hot, egg-laying Martian chicks while squeezing out an obscene one, right? I must disagree. I am a big ERB fan and while his books may not be...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
Hahahaha
Check out the Conservapedia entry on Dune It's hilarious, and was clearly written by a moron. I especially liked: "House Atreides, the "siridar-dukes" of the planet Caliban, are supposedly descended from the ancient Mycenaean kings Agamemnon and Menelaus. Why Herbert chose to include ...
- Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:53 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Persistence of Vision, by John Varley
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6071
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
I was reading Clarke's page on Wikipedia, and there's a section on his views on religion... and it struck me that ten years ago no one would have cared if an author had said he didn't believe in God. Then, any discussion on Clarke's views on religion would have been solely on his treatment of it in ...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:58 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
Just finished Rama II. What stood was out how well Clarke writes about religion and religious characters. Most athiest authors are condescending on one level or another towards religion, wheras Clarke is always extremely respectful, and his religious characters are often his best. Good book, now I'...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:46 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Paulo Bacigalupi has a new book out
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8661
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:57 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Not sure if anyone has seen these before...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9935
Not sure if anyone has seen these before...
Not sure if anyone's spotted these before - or even wanted to see them... They're reviews of the Legends of Dune trilogy:- The Butlerian Jihad The Machine Crusade The Battle of Corrin The reviews are both astonishing and amusing... The reviewer actually likes the first, but is then very disappointed...
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:28 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Review of Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6793
Review of Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries
Here's a review I wrote of the DVD of Frank Herbert's Dune back in June 2001. Frank Herbert’s Dune, adapted for the screen and directed by John Harrison In November 2000, the Sci Fi Channel screened a mini-series adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1966 novel Dune , the second attempt to adapt this comple...
- Wed May 21, 2008 1:06 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Warehouse 13
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4092
- Fri May 16, 2008 1:02 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:33 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: War of the Worlds (graphic novel), by H.G. Wells
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6699
- Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:02 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: John Clute is a heretic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13484
- Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:45 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Cenotaxis, by Sean Williams
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4688
Sean Williams is definitely worth trying. I happen to think that Saturn Returns (the first of the Astropolis trilogy) is not the best he's done. The Evergence trilogy (written with Shane Dix) is a lot of fun. The Orphans of Earth trilogy starts well, but gets a bit samey - although the ending is goo...
- Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:38 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: The Eye of Argon, by Jim Theis
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7711
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:37 pm
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: The Eye of Argon, by Jim Theis
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7711
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:09 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: V: The Second Generation
- Replies: 132
- Views: 131170
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:07 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Look to Windward, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16728
- Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:31 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Where Time Winds Blow, by Robert Holdstock
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6690
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:27 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Upcoming SF Movies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10469
John Carter has been in and out of pre-production for years. It was originally going to be a Kerry Conran project. They're remaking Barbarella ? Nooooooo! And Clash of the Titans ? WTF. What is wrong with Hollywood? Not content with remaking perfectly good old films, they now have to remake shit ol...
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:14 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Look to Windward, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16728
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Genre Best of Lists
- Replies: 44
- Views: 42903
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:47 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Look to Windward, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16728
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:30 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Look to Windward, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16728
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:34 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Look to Windward, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16728
I think Banks is one of the most interesting writers in the genre at the moment, but that doesn't mean all his books are perfect. But a bad Banks is still a damned sight better than a lot of other stuff that's been published. Btw, the Arabic in your signature is all wrong. Aside from not actually me...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:42 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Stations of the Tide, by Michael Swanwick
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5518
This is what I thought to it after I reread it last year... I last read Stations of the Tide over ten years ago. However, I'd forgotten very little of the plot - so the twist ending wasn't much of a twist. A bureaucrat visits the world of Miranda, shortly before its sole continent is inundated by th...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:24 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock - tanzeelat's review
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4938
Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock - tanzeelat's review
I first read this years ago, between 1986 and 1989. I remember appreciating Behold The Man at the time, but what I had forgotten was how well-written it is. Karl Glogauer is sent back through time via some off-stage sleight-of-hand to Biblical Israel. He wants to meet Jesus, for a variety of reasons...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:13 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Look to Windward, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16728
Look to Windward, by Iain M Banks
Since the publication of The Star Fraction , MacLeod has been linked with Banks: as well as their shared home-city of Edinburgh, there’s a similarity in tone in their fiction, and a common political dimension. In Cosmonaut Keep , MacLeod has based his story around a joke. And so too has Banks in Loo...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:41 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: A Game of Thrones, by George R R Martin
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5720
A Game of Thrones, by George R R Martin
There is little in A Game Of Thrones that can be counted as truly original. The setting is stock high fantasy: a mix and match of Dark Ages peasantry and Camelot-style pageantry. There are, fortunately, no elves, dwarves, gnomes or (gag) hobbits. But there are dragons (although they only appear near...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:33 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Loose Children of Men adaptation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9030
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:09 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6711
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:53 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8904
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:50 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6711
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:04 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6711
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
Wolfe is famous for writing short stories and novels which are also complex puzzles, and The Fifth Head of Cerberus is perhaps one of his best known ones. I think I might have worked it out... CAUTION: SPOILERS The Fifth Head Of Cerberus comprises three novellas, all sharing a common location, the t...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:03 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Paradox Men, by Charles Harness
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8357
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:25 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Gap Cycle, by Stephen Donaldson
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6314
The Gap Cycle, by Stephen Donaldson
Stephen Donaldson joined the ranks of bestselling genre writers with the twin trilogies of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever. The first book in this series had been rejected by 42 publishers when, in desperation Donaldson submitted it once again to his first choice of publisher, who had just had a cha...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:13 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Chasm City, by Alastair Reynolds
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5613
Chasm City, by Alastair Reynolds
This is Reynold’s second novel and set in the same universe as his debut, Revelation Space . But that’s where all resemblance ends — Reynolds has not managed to capture the same feel in Chasm City as that of the earlier novel. There are shared locales, and the action takes place around a generation ...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Zeitgeist, by Bruce Sterling
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5505
Zeitgeist, by Bruce Sterling
If there’s one thing Sterling does superbly, it’s extrapolate a plausible near-future out of today’s cutting-edge. Which means Zeitgeist must be a piss-take. Not only is it set in 1999 — and the plot leads up to the Millennium — but it features all the neat gizmos that did not exist then but might w...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:03 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Bold As Love, by Gwyneth Jones
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5892
Bold As Love, by Gwyneth Jones
It's fitting that the first puff on the back of the Bold As Love hardback is Bruce Sterling's, because Gwyneth Jones's novel is a very English version of what Sterling does so well for the US. In Sterling’s Heavy Weather , Holy Fire and Distraction , he has taken one element of American fringe cultu...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:55 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Paradox Men, by Charles Harness
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8357
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:54 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:52 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Time and Again, by Clifford D Simak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11848
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:53 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Time and Again, by Clifford D Simak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11848
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:42 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Time and Again, by Clifford D Simak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11848
I had to make a list of the books I was going to read over the next 4 months, just so I actually got around to reading the books I wanted to read. And then I went and bought The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon because it's on the BSFA Award shortlist, and had to cram that in before the e...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:12 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Time and Again, by Clifford D Simak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11848
Simak was one of my favourite authors when I was a kid, and I still have several of his novels. Other than Time and Again , I've not reread any of them for, er, decades. And after rereading that book, I'm somewhat afraid to. Mind you, I have enough books I've not read that I can't really afford to r...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:50 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Time and Again, by Clifford D Simak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11848
Time and Again, by Clifford D Simak
Time and Again was first published in 1951 under the title First He Died . It's also one of the earliest sf novels I ever read. I can distinctly remember reading it when I lived in Dubai - likely borrowed from Dubai Country Club's subscription library. That would be sometime between 1976 and 1979. ...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:48 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Where Time Winds Blow, by Robert Holdstock
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6690
Where Time Winds Blow, by Robert Holdstock
Where Time Winds Blow is, like many British science fiction novels of its time, literate, slightly mannered, and very considered in its treatment of its characters. Its central idea is the framework on which the entire plot is hung. On the world of Kamelios, winds blow in and out of time, picking u...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:44 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Paradox Men, by Charles Harness
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8357
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:22 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
Foundation is the first book in the Foundation trilogy. Prelude to Foundation was written years later. I remember enjoying the Foundation trilogy when I was a kid, but I reread it recently and thought it was terrible. Asimov is definitely a Golden Age of sf writer - i.e., he should only be read whe...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:18 am
- Forum: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Topic: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Replies: 192
- Views: 559415
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:40 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Dune, by Frank Herbert - tanzeelat's review
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10290
- Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:43 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Dune, by Frank Herbert - tanzeelat's review
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10290
- Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:20 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Dune, by Frank Herbert - tanzeelat's review
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10290
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:45 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6995
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:35 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Take Back Plenty, by Colin Greenland
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6244
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:24 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Take Back Plenty, by Colin Greenland
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6244
Take Back Plenty, by Colin Greenland
I remember the buzz when Take Back Plenty was published back in 1990. It "reinvented" space opera. Arguably Iain M Banks had done that three years earlier with Consider Phlebas , but Take Back Plenty was different. Colin Greenland's novel was a reworking of - and homage to - pulp sf tropes...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:13 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Against A Dark Background, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5372
Against A Dark Background, by Iain M Banks
Against A Dark Background was the first of Banks's non-Culture space operas. It's actually set within the Golter planetary system, located millions of light-years from its nearest neighbouring star. It could be a Culture novel - there's no reason why its story might not take place in some unexplore...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:04 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Dune, by Frank Herbert - tanzeelat's review
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10290
Dune, by Frank Herbert - tanzeelat's review
Some people have The Lord of the Rings , some people have Dune . They reread one of the two books on a regular basis. While I don't read Dune every year, it's the sf novel I've probably read the most times (and I haven't reread The Lord of the Rings since I was about nineteen). This year I read Dune...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:57 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter, by Iain M Banks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6995
Matter, by Iain M Banks
NOTE: THIS POST INCLUDES SPOILERS Matter is Iain Banks' first Culture novel since Look to Windward in 2000. So there was a great deal of eagerness - and not just by myself - when it was announced. Orbit clearly realised that Matter 's publication was an event - Waterstone's has been selling the har...
- Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:29 am
- Forum: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Topic: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Replies: 192
- Views: 559415
A few more notes on your bibliography: Songs of Muad'Dib also includes many of the haiku FH had published in newspapers. The Avalon Hill Dune game is a boardgame, not a RPG. Two expansion packs were also published - Spice Harvest and Duel . Also worth noting: Métal Hurlant No. 107 (January 1985) - D...
- Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:32 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: RIP Gary Gygax
- Replies: 67
- Views: 64220
- Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:12 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: Nebula Final Ballot Nominees
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6913
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:37 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Starship Troopers....III?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 34883
- Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:50 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Starship Troopers....III?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 34883
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:44 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Starship Troopers....III?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 34883
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:08 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: Tropical Nights at the Natatorium, by Richard Paul Russo
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5122
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:30 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Which First: FH Books or the New Ones?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 47008
I was at prep school (a British prep school is different to a US one), when I saw a lad in the year above me reading Dune . That would be in 1978 or 1979. Up to that point, all I'd read was Heinlein, Asimov and EE 'Doc' Smith. He told me it was very good. A year or two later, I got the first three b...
- Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:09 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Which First: FH Books or the New Ones?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 47008
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:14 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: The Dune Encyclopedia, Willis McNelly, ed.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15990
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:29 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: On-line SF Magazines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11054
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:21 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: On-line SF Magazines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11054
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:50 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: On-line SF Magazines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11054
On-line SF Magazines
Infinity Plus - reprint site, now sadly defunct. Some excellent stuff there, though http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/ SF Site - reviews and news. http://www.sfsite.com/ Locus - nuff said. http://www.locusmag.com/ SF Crownsnest - UK sf news and reviews http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/ SciFi Weekly - gloosy s...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:40 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Dr Who and Torchwood
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12900
I can't say I'm a fan of Torchwood. Russell T Davies clearly wants to be Joss Whedon, but since I could never understand the appeal of Buffy, I don't see what's so good about Torchwood. The characters are unlikeable, the plots are silly, and having snog each other and anything else that moves is... ...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:07 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733814
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:28 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733814
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:13 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: The movies that are better than the books
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11974
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:49 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Ten favorite books
- Replies: 32
- Views: 23376
My top ten sf novels: Undercover Aliens , AE van Vogt (1950) Dune , Frank Herbert (1965) Dhalgren , Samuel Delany (1975) The Ophiuchi Hotline , John Varley (1977) Where Time Winds Blow , Robert Holdstock (1981) Kairos , Gwyneth Jones (1988) Metrophage , Richard Kadrey (1988) Take Back Plenty , Colin...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:45 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7566768
Stations of the Tide is very good, although I didn't like quite as much as I did the first time I read it many years ago. My to read pile is embarrassingly large. I just finished Charles Stross' Glasshouse - well, I've been acquainted with the bloke for years, so I thought I should read something o...