THE (ALMOST) UNDELETED

Yes, actually.

Hmmmm. Found p. 75 at work, but p. 74 is missing. Must have been an error I made when copying. If that is the case the only way to get the missing page is to get the document mailed to me again on interlibrary loan. That will have to wait for another day, Im afraid. I still have a few others to scan...

Ive been stuck in a rut lately. Ive been reading a lot of criticism and biographies to get over it. Hasnt happened yet. I emailed you the Pliocene Exiles series by Julian May. Four novels in .lit format (MS Reader), if you can stand it. Couldnt open them. Based on your recommendations Ive been mean...

Cant find them. Let me look at work tomorrow.

It's because too much in that book contradicts what BH & KJA have done. It would not mesh with the crap that they have put out. so was my thoughts too ... indeed article dealing with Jehanne Butler is miles away from the the KJA-BH work. :naughty: ah the DE :violin: so much truth in it :pray: I...

Hellooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when one sees prices for one exemplar of the book, :shock: why don't they announce a limited delux re-edition ... there is certainly a fist of dollar/euro do win ... http://www.google.com/products?q=Dune+Encyclopedia+buy&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&...

Here is a copy of the trailer with unblurred alien faces and subtitles. I think that this looks fantastic.

Ive been stuck in a rut lately. Ive been reading a lot of criticism and biographies to get over it. Hasnt happened yet.

Mandy wrote:Hey, I noticed that a lot of the smileys use the same code. Not a big deal, but I don't think it's hard to fix.

Had not noticed that before except for the laughing smiley. thanks. It does not appear to be difficult to fix. But it will have to go on the list.

Can we have the option to " mark all forums read " for the main Message Board index ? We have the option to "mark forums read" for the sub forums, but not for the overall board. I've always found it a useful tool. Some of these themes just don't have it (at least that I have bee...

Niven's not the best novelist on his own. He's usually dynamite when he and Pournelle and/or Barnes are working together, but generally speaking I prefer his short stories. Ringworld, though, I personally loved. I read it at a very young age when I was just getting into SF, and if fit my prejudiced ...

SandChigger wrote:
Omphalos wrote:I thought it was the documentary crew doing that because the alien didn't sign a release. Seriously.

That or its mouth parts resemble human genitalia.

The dick-faces have invaded, indeed, and they are pumping out shitty Dune prequels.

Ringworld Throne and Ringworld Children. Both sucked soiled ass.

Just finished Ringworld Engineers and I am starting on The Anansi Boys. Niven does a good job in that book (and the first) but I think I will wait to read the last one, I have heard it is not as enjoyable. I am reading Anansi for the first time, I picked it up at the same time as American Gods (whe...

Looks better than I first thought.... :) I have to agree. Looks like what Alien Nation should have been instead of a silly buddy cop show. What's with the blurred alien face in the trailer though? I thought it was the documentary crew doing that because the alien didn't sign a release. Seriously.

Robspierre wrote:Mid-October pretty much kicks off the awards season for movies Omph.

Rob

Is that how it works?

Liege-Killer wrote:I just read a short story by Asimov called "Galley Slave" that is both a robot story and a courtroom drama. Wasn't bad.

Is that one in I, Robot? Or was it in The Rest of the Robots? I have those books sitting in the pile.

Still say that this looks cool.

Release limited to two cities. Those Fuckheads!!!

At least it will be out on DVD quicker.

Release date announced. 10/16/2009.

Is that a typical date for big movies?

A year and a half later and this thing still makes me laugh so hard I cry when I read it.

I am not such a great fan of Gene Wolfe. I like some of his stuff. Others not so much.

I just finished Rocannon's World (LeGuin). I am utterly blown away. It was like reading fine literature of the period in which it was set. What a satisfying, brutal and true ending. It's the first part of a book I got at a library sale called Three Hainish Novels . I can't wait to read the rest. :c...

That does look good. Thanks guys!

Do you have the ability to move the "mark all topics read" option to the top of the page instead of the bottom? Sounds stupid but it's driving me nuts having to scroll down to the bottom (I never read any of the TV/Movie threads and that type of stuff). in 610nm? Not really. Actually I am...

He does have the paranoid, sick-of-it-all side of Baley down though.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Yea, I think so. Some of those stickies are dead topics. Ill get around to pruning maybe next year. We don't really have much to prune as it is, so I decided not to bother now.

Whoops! Knew I shoulda looked first.

Season 3 does lag a bit, but there are some awesome highlights in there too. The show does change in there somehwere too, from a space battle series to something more directed and goal-oriented. But I liked it all. So say we all!!!

Is there a way to ensure that links posted on the board open a new tab in Firefox/Explorer rather than removing me from the forums? I really don't like that. Sometimes I'll come back to the forums after following a link and the board will tell me there are no more new posts, even though I was only ...

Not sure what this is about, but I love Bruce Willis in SF Films.

The publishing industry is largely a joke anyway, and KJA is the biggest guffaw in there. Seriously, as our economy slips further and further back in size and people get more and more conservative with their money I keep hoping that all this crap and shit and dreck that permeates our lives will just...

Wouldn't the price factor tend to work against the development of use of the spice as a recreational drug among all but the filthy rich? Not to mention the withdraw aspects of REAL addiction? Semuta and the elacca drug seem the more likely candidates for youth abuse, maybe? Good point. What would y...

Have you read the Tiptree biography yet, L-K? It is really good. She had a wild life. lots of adventure and intrigue. No, I haven't. To be honest, I haven't even read any of her fiction. I do remember her interview from that Platt book I reviewed a while back, and it was one of the most interesting...

KJA's literary agent.

I think the subcategory "from an illegal mining operation" is a good one. Omph's is the legalistic mind. ;) Wouldn't it be fairly rare for words from the argots of illegal miners and smugglers to gain wide acceptance among the general populace? (Brings up the question of popular media in ...

Ahhhh. So that is what the 21st date was all about. That's strange.

I totally forgot about this. I think it aired last weekend. Anyone watch it?

Robspierre wrote:Now that you are a professional, time ot do all of the hack's Dune butcheries!

Rob

I've done just under half; five or so. I havent got the fortitude to do any more.

No Count of Monte Cristo or Ulysses for you huh? :) Actually I loved Ulysses. Never read the Count of Monte Cristo. When I made that comment I was referring to new books. I judge classics with a different standard. Actually, I can't get into really, really long character driven novels. With novels ...

Personally I have a mental block about books that big, no matter who wrote them.

Liege-Killer wrote:There's Orbit.

Thanks. Added. I had thought that they were an imprint of Tor, which is owned by McMillain, but now that I think of it, I believe that is Orb, not Orbit.

Hey guys! Someone on some web-site (sounds impressive, doesn't it?) credited me with doing a "professional review" of a book. Guess Ive hit the big time, huh? *chest puffed out*

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwor ... rID=104302

Baraka Bryan wrote:where's TOR fall?
searched at the imprints site and it said the company is St. Martin's or something

Tor is now owned by McMillan.

I'll add to this as I have time. Please make suggestions if you regularly visit SF publisher's sites. I'd like to have a complete listing, then keep it updated.

BIG Baen Bloomsbury Del Rey McMillian Penguin Group . Try also their useful subject catalog ) Random House Simon & Schuster St. Martin's Press Time Warner Books HIGH END Centipede Press Charnel House SMALL PRESS SF Arkham House Babbage Press Borderlands Press Dark Regions DAW Books Dedalus Book...

That one is listed on eBay too. I think I saw it last night.

SandRider wrote:define "unbearable".

firefox noscript can block it no problem.

I have no idea how long it would take to load
the video, and won't find out.

Are you sure? Its Frank Herbert speaking during an interview. I'm sure you've seen it already, but it is interesting.

OK. Seem to work fine. Although, my speakers are on the fritz and I cannot hear it. But I assume audio is no problem. Dial up users, is this going to be problematic for you? Can you block it, or does it even slow you down, since its not playing upon page load? Let's see how this works. If it gets to...

Hope this works.

Hardback DE available on Ebay. No dust jacket though, but it's $20.

Thanks. I like the cleaner look too. PHPbb3 is extremely versatile. Without the board it would not have been possible.

Hope I got all of the permissions correct. Let me know if you all cannot see specific things and Ill go fix the problem.

He's basically the Canadian KJA. They are buddies, aren't they? I get the feeling that Sawyer is capable of much more though. He's definitely not faking it; he's just not taking the time to do it right. Anderson is a total fucking faker who read enough space opera as a kid to muddle through. His Hu...

SandChigger wrote:I think some of Askaris' friends were going to join up, too. Maybe we should get him to send you a list. (I'm pretty sure "ionah" is one of them.)

Askaris knows to clue me in when one of the French cabal wants to join. That's how Ionah joined successfully.

Ive had a bunch of non-spammy people register lately, but I have not known any of them so I deleted them all. One of them was called "Susanspy," which I thought was kind of funny because Hyppo's real name is Sue. But if anyone has an OH friend they can vouch for, I will be OK approving th...

Ive had a bunch of non-spammy people register lately, but I have not known any of them so I deleted them all. One of them was called "Susanspy," which I thought was kind of funny because Hyppo's real name is Sue. But if anyone has an OH friend they can vouch for, I will be OK approving the...

What would parentheses look like on Dune? Hmmm...

Here is another book with quite a bit of legal content in it. Below you will find two blurbs with links at the bottom of each. The graphic image in this one does not link to anything, so please look to the end of each blurb. The first is to the literary review at Omphalos Book Reviews while the seco...

Was wondering if anyone out there has read any SF books that deal with legal issues or are courtroom dramas? I'v got a long list of stuff to review on this blog, but this is a topic that nobody has ever done any work in before, so Im kind of starting from scratch. Any help would be very much appreci...

In the middle of China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh. Excellent book. And CL, its another one that has a gay protagonist. You were wondering about any SF books that dealt with homosexuality a long time ago, IIRC, and this is a really, really well written one. Beautifully written, it seems.

Baraka Bryan wrote:even something simple like this would be an improvement.

edit: i had attached something but apparently it was more than 1000 pixels wide

edit2: shrunk it

Thanks! I like the fade out in "Almost"

Baraka Bryan wrote:oedipus
lesson: don't f*ck with your mom

With?

One day...one day.

I know that I put this up about a year ago, but I have been thinking about trickster gods a lot lately for some reason. I redrafted this after a sleepless night in Seattle recently thinking about Loki and Coyote. I'd love to year your comments on this one. Not sure at all if I am off base here. The ...

For those of you who do not like the cluttered look of the board (and I think it will change some more here), try using this URL as a link when you come in: http://tau.solahpmo.com/viewforum.php?f=40 That is to The Largely Undeleted only, without the other forums. You can still see if anything is go...

OK. I have moved Freakzilla's book discussions to the Archives section and set it up as forum with subforums. I think that they are locked (the intention was always to have them as archives only copies) but take a look and see what you think.

Looks great bro. Thanks.

GamePlayer wrote:The boards could use trimming. As others have said, we've got many dead forums already. Other than that, no complaints.

3

do you mean consolidate the number of forums, move dead topics to the archives, or both?

(Ghafla)

I'll be sure to do that over at Jacurutu, where that forum is.

I don't really care for subforums.. or a lot of forums. There are already a lot of underutilized forums here, hope you consider getting rid of a few of them, not deleting the content, just merging them with other forums. I am, actually. I'm considering moving all of Freak's reviews off the main pag...

Hi all, I have been doing a great deal of learnin' 'bout phpbb3 lately. It actually is radically different than phpbb2 is, especially in how fourms are created. two new things that we can have are link-only threads, and sub-forums. I'm a little ambivalent about both; I think that link-threads (where...

Oh, I did Gatsby too, I remember really liking it. I also remember reading some SF book, post-apocalyptic, everyone had to be inspected at birth to make sure they weren't "deviants", and they had a big mantra of what exactly constitued a proper human (they thought that the black people do...

Oh, I did Gatsby too, I remember really liking it. I also remember reading some SF book, post-apocalyptic, everyone had to be inspected at birth to make sure they weren't "deviants", and they had a big mantra of what exactly constitued a proper human (they thought that the black people do...

Eyes High wrote:WHAT!?

This is an old thread, Eyes. I just bumped it with a test message. Im figuring out how the new board works. This is from when Freak got Freakbanned from DN.

This board is really different, BTW.

The Martian Child was about an SF author.

Have you read the Tiptree biography yet, L-K? It is really good. She had a wild life. lots of adventure and intrigue.

Rakis wrote:It needs someone in the range of Hillary Swank...

Excellent idea.

Phaedrus wrote:Wow, it's been over 3 months since I've posted here?

I don't even know where the time goes.

Hi there stranger. Welcome back.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1416521178.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Having been described in the past as one of the United States' best unrecognized authors, Barry Maltzberg has always occupied an ambiguous place in my mind, as well as in the minds of many critics. Maltzberg is an award winning author ...

This was the first that I had heard of this. Thank god Kidman is not involved. She is a pretty shitty actress, and Tiptree is probably a bit too big for her.

Ill try to get 610 mn installed this week sometime.

Naw. She'd say that she prefers to root around like a cat, like she did at fuzzycons in the 70's, but the costume doesnt fit anymore.

Most English ones are actually more senryû

Those are the funny ones, right?

My list is similar, I read 1984 and Animal Farm in Junior HIgh, though. I didn't see A Seperate Peace on anyone's list. Nor Brave New World <~~ didn't that one prompt this topic? :) or... Beowulf Illiad & Odysey Are those long enough to be called "books"? I know y'all have seen me say...

Ill be there the 21st. Ill shoot you the contacts for the library soon. Both the archivists teach classes and have office hours, so you should call ahead and confirm that you are going.

A Thing of Eternity wrote:Hell if I remember.

But...didn't you just graduate last year?

Those lists looks similar to mine. I also read Lord of the Flies, The Princess of Cleves, The Canterbury Tales, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gulliver's Travels, Animal Farm, all the Shakespeare mentioned below, plus The Taming of the Shrew. The one about those rich fags in "East E...

Freakzilla wrote:Brave New World was required reading for my 11th grade English Lit class. Books never seem as good when you HAVE to read them.

I always felt that way too. But I fought through it all.

Ive read through four of those sections. Ive found that if you go quickly, you pick up a surprising amount of it.

1985. Ive got another one of her books, Oryx and Crake, sitting in the pile. I think its post-apocalyptic.

Oh, comeon. People are gonna want to dig to find out what you were like when you have moved on from being a landlord and assumed office somewhere. Might as well give them something to find to satisfy their curiosity.

In May I am headed to SC for a short trip. I will either be going to Fullerton or Riverside let me know which is more desireable. Probably Fullerton, as none of their stuff can go out by interlibrary loan. I have a trip to Fullerton scheduled for May 21, IIRC. When is your trip? We also have a new ...

Baraka Bryan wrote:read it and wrote a paper on it a few years back. sort of a feminist 1984.

TBH one of the few atwood books I can stand

You should post the paper here.

Gracia, amigo. BTW, the librarian I spoke to told me that the libraries at UC Riverside in California and the Toronto Public Library in Toronto, Canada have excellent collections that we FH fans would probably find interesting things in. Just FYI. :wink: I travel to Riverside occasionally for work, ...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/038549081X.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg The Handmaid's Tale is a chilling look at the horror that results when sexuality and democracy are repressed, and history and religious dogma are reinterpreted to aid in consolidation of authority. Interestingly Atwood stayed away from...

I got a reply from the library. They have most of the English language articles and I can probably get them through interlibrary loan, as they are not tear-sheets. I have a few more questions in, but I will try to get started on collecting these and doing...something...with them in the t hread that ...

SandChigger wrote:One of those glossaries Kevin wishes authors would provide....

Might be a bunch of tear sheets out of magazines, plus some books. Ill contact the library and see about getting this stuff sent to me for posting.

Excellent find, Jose!

Feersum Endjinn, by Banks
The Caves of Steel, by Asimov
The SF of Mark Clifton (I can already tell that this collection is going to get five stars with a bullet and Clifton is going to be one of my favorite authors)
In Search of Wonder, by Damon Knight

I heard the Vonnegut was pretty good. I actually saw one of his books recently in one of my classmate's pile of textbooks and asked them about it, they had no idea he was an SF writer, I guess that book was a philosophy/anti religion book that was required reading for one of her classes... kinda re...

Vonnegut. Start with Vonnegut, then go to LeGuin, then Banks and finish up with Card, unless something good comes along.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/031215514X.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Told strongly in the Wellisan tradition, and highly reminiscent of Wells' own The Time Machine, George Gaylord Simpson's The Dechronization of Sam Magruder is probably something that Wells himself would be envious of. Simpson was a ver...

late last night the cookies cache updated. The URL was screwed up, so everyone's data was lost, and users could not sign on. It was fixed once I noticed The Phantom said something about it over at HToD. Things may be a bit buggy if things like this happen again. Just post here if it happens and we w...

Hi all,

Not sure what is up with Jacurutu at the moment. We are looking into it.

Robspierre wrote:You will like the original Omph, lots of fun.

Rob

Hey there stranger. Ill get it when I can find it.

Sounds like a nice paycheck for someone. Not interested.

Saw an advertisement for a sequel to Donnie Darko the other day. Anyone hear anything about this?

The Blob. Rover. :doh: I don't like this trend of remaking cold war paranoia stories, and recasting terrorists as the heavies. It just isn't analagous enough to make any sense. Cf. the remake of 'The Manchurian Candidate'. D'oh! Rover. The Prisoner was much more that an "us v. them" thoug...

I just wanted to say this new board is working out great. I love all the added features, especially since I've been used to them on other boards. It makes the experience here much better. Thanks for upgrading the forums. Your hard work is appreciated. You're very welcome, from Ragabash too, I'm sure.

Yes, yes, I'm sure and all that, let's get back to the discussion of your choices in test account names.... :naughty: That was my pseudonym from back when I wrote letters to Penthouse. "You'll never believe what happened to me the other day. I can hardly believe it myself!...And then I learned...

SandChigger wrote:I'm assuming "Testy Testicle" is a spammer....

Whoops!

Wanted to see what the new Catchca system looked like. Its pretty damn cool. Ragabash tells me that I can put in pictures from the Dune movie if I want to.

Worm's should be fine. Start with Feersum ; just name the date. ;) (By the way, the Hack has posted a blawg called "Reading Shelf", about what he's "reading" now. Shows again how skewed his opinions of other writers' works are. :roll: ) Sounds good to me. [Had to send Worm a PM ...

Bots and spiders go out and search the web for strings entered at search sites. The old board did not track them, but the new board does, and in fact even assigns them all to a certain user group. There are over 50 that have already shown up here.

Eyes High wrote:why the time difference in mins?

local machines are just set differently. People forget to set the time, or the machine loses or gains time and becomes inaccurate.

FYI, the board was offline for a few seconds this evening (about half an hour ago) to deploy a patched release of the board engine. The patch only affects new account creation, and constitutes solely of a new CAPTCHA system that employs the judicious use of OMG CUTE KITTENS!!!!111one Apologies if y...

With the activity level over there, you might want to announce it (several times?) beforehand and close the board to (non-admin) logins before beginning the update process. ;) Good idea on the announcements. We did in fact shut this place down on Saturday. I noticed that we had to boot Schu off (as...

With the activity level over there, you might want to announce it (several times?) beforehand and close the board to (non-admin) logins before beginning the update process. ;) Good idea on the announcements. We did in fact shut this place down on Saturday. I noticed that we had to boot Schu off (as...

Kewl. :D Edit: When is Jacurutu upgrading? ;) Yeah, can you update Jacurutu, too? :clap: Of course. Just wanted to hear from you first, Freak. In all likelihood we can get it done in the next few weeks. We just have to find some time to sit down and do it. It takes quite a bit of work to finish (ab...

Most of the stuff you are going to want, on just about all of the themes, is either on the top of the board, or in the User Control Panel (abbreviated "UCP" on some themes). Just mess around with that stuff and you will get it down pretty quickly. You are right though, it is taking me some...

Yep, I'm still watching it. It is getting better, thank jebus. Sierra is much more interesting than Echo, I really wish the show was about her instead. Helo just annoys me, and I still hate Topher. If Dushku would knock off those hyper-exaggurated tics and movements she would not be regarded so poo...

I was even thinking of making my HAL avatar the logo for the board, and switching avatars.

I never saw The Prestige, but I loved Insomnia. Used to own a copy of it as a matter of fact, before the destructo-duo got to it.

Im watching. Its OK. good thing Dushku is hot.

Just started reading Barry N. Maltzberg's Breakfast in the Ruins. Very, very good so far.

I don't know about Nix. I think he's just a young'n. He certainly seems to like some pretty stupid movies. But he doesn't miss much on his blog.

Himachil wrote:Looks good.

You're right... that is a shit-load of smilies. I'm sure they'll come in handy.

The pissing monkey looks fantastic on both of the two black themes.

Anyone watch the end of this? I saw the finale, but I still have three or four unwatched episodes in my DVR queue. It got really weak at the end, but that is probably because the writing staff fled after the mid-season break (see bitching above, generally) and for sure after they announced a month a...

Here is some more about this. Still going to watch it.

Not sure what this is, but then again it doesn't look like anyone knows anything. Couldn't find anything on The Hollywood Reporter or Ain't It Cool. But I don't really need to know. Nolan could sell me a ticket to a film of Magic Johnson reading the paper on the crapper.

SandRider wrote:can we have less than a zillion posts per page on this one ?

Lowered to 25. I'll see how I like it. 12 is too few. I kind of like 45 per page, but this is the second complaint I have gotten, so....

GamePlayer wrote:I don't see the vomit smiley. So were going to need to add that.

Its in there GamePlayer. I saw it last night when I loaded them. Its the one that pukes out of its eyes.

Also, we have fixed the e-mail notification issues from the last board. I would appreciate it if you guys would not request the system notify you of new posts by e-mail. I know that some of you like surfing the board that way, but it really bogs down the e-mail server we use, and crashed it the last...

FYI, there are several themes loaded here, including a minimalist skin for dial-up users. Just go to the "User Control Panel" and click on "Board Preferences," and locate the "Board Styles" dropdown. All of them are there.

Not at all sure.

I'll look into it. Looks like we are being bombed by spammers again.

SandChigger wrote:(I'm sure we can find you something better than S&W. )

For the last ten or so years I have had to use the Blue Book for legal writing. I'm afraid I dont remember anything else. What is wrong with Strunk & White, and what would you suggest?

As you can clearly tell, the board has been upgraded. I've added no mods yet, save for a good spam catcher, but there are a bunch of themes and a shit-load of new smileys now. If anyone wants any specific mods, post about them here and Ill see. I have a few I will be putting up shortly. There seem t...

Seraphan wrote:Can any of you recomend a few good fantasy books? Yes, those with swords, magic, yada yada yada, because since The Lord of the Rings i havent read any that had good characterization and none of the typical clichés.

No such thing.

SandChigger wrote:I am increasingly bored by the continuing war on the passive.

That is one of my greatest problems. Its like I was born to write in the passive.

Think I'm going to put Strunk & White's in the pile and re-read it sometime.

Someday. Someday. I'm still getting over the shock of having to carry a mobile phone.

Dune Nerd wrote:
Omphalos wrote:Ive got the miniseries sitting in my queue.
It was available on the free instant watch when I watched it. You may not have to wait on it to come in the mail....

Id rather watch it on the TV.

SandRider wrote:I loved the South Park of the boys being traumatized by Lucas & Spielberg
raping Indy. The scenario seemed eerily familar .....

Our friend got raped.

Classic!

Mandy wrote:Is it really such a big deal that she put her arm around the Queen?

Seems to be.

Nascar did one here. They said in an official press release that because of the auto industry bailout Chevys and Dodges could not be used in races any more. From what I hear, the rednecks came out in droves and were about ready to march on Washington before Nascar admitted the hoax.

No problem, Nekhrun. Still working the kinks of actually applying a critical method, so I hope they will eventually improve in quality, but glad you like it.

Here is a link to Melancholy Elephants, by Spider Robinson:

http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0553293389.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Isaac Asimov did just about everything else in his long and varied career, so I suppose it was just a matter of time before I stumbled across a legal issue in his SF works. I had read his Hugo Award winning novel Foundation’s Edge year...

Aaaaah. Thanks.

Ive got the miniseries sitting in my queue.

Raiders was good. I was young and loved it. All the others sucked as far as I was concerned.

I could not stand THX1138. Dystopic vision? Who cares if its fucking boring?

Did anyone check the major papers to see if there was a corporate April Fool's this year? Probalby not because of the economy, but I remember fondly they year Taco Bell took out a full page spread to announce that they had purchased the Liberty Bell and were renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0140185852.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Told in a diary format, We was the story of a mathematician in a heavily regulated and closely-watched society as he dealt with his sexual obsession and feelings of love for a terrorist from a group called Mephistopheles. D-503 was an ...

One of the forums I visit has somehow made it so that every 4 post you click on gives you a message from the Canadians. We warned that the day would come. The day where we would no longer be the Canucks to the north. The day where we would no longer be the other other state. and now when the time i...

Freakzilla wrote:He shouldn't be allowed to read books of a higher quality than those he writes.

Trust me. Being a critic ain't hard.

(By the way, the Hack has posted a blawg called "Reading Shelf", about what he's "reading" now. Shows again how skewed his opinions of other writers' works are. :roll: ) "I have been a fan of Orson Scott Card since his first stories appeared in Omni magazine." Translat...

Found here.

But really, who cares about the guy who plays Chekhov?

Its very cute. Comical SF that really is funny is pretty hard to come by. Adams was really good at it. There were not many before him who were that funny, (Tenn, Sheckley, a few others) and most of those guys relied on situational humor. Adams poked fun really well at SF's themes, which was pretty o...

Worm's should be fine. Start with Feersum ; just name the date. ;) (By the way, the Hack has posted a blawg called "Reading Shelf", about what he's "reading" now. Shows again how skewed his opinions of other writers' works are. :roll: ) Sounds good to me. [Had to send Worm a PM ...

If you start one any time soon, let me know. We can read at the same time and do a book club thing here if youre interested. Oh. I thought we were going to do Feersum Ingenue . :P I've gotten back into the Miéville for the moment; probably be slugging away at it through the weekend? How much ahead ...

If you start one any time soon, let me know. We can read at the same time and do a book club thing here if youre interested.

Freakzilla wrote:It totaly caught me off-balance, he's not doing well in school so the last thing I expected was books!

Might be he's not doing too well in school b/c they are not challenging him enough.

Must be another of those kewl things about having kids. ;) Correction on something I posted above (must have been leaking braingas): Effinger is SF. D'uh. I take it no one is familiar with him, though? Sorry Chig, didn't see the question. Ive read a bunch of Effinger. He has the Buyadeen trilogy (a...

Good kid! I think Ender's Game will be fine for a 12 y.o. Especially if you are gonna read it after him, you can talk to him about it.

Ive got the Rome DVD's sitting on my shelf. I'm up to the part where Pompey lost his head.

Baraka Bryan wrote:wow.. this week kicked it up about 10 notches.
i loved it.

My fucking DVR farted on me and failed to record Dollhouse and SCC. Damn piece of shit.

Oxford Univ Press? Looks like something made in Romania (no offense to our Rumanian brethren). .

Ditto. I really like feminist SF stuff though. Good thing there is a ton of it out there.

Ive got Man from Earth in my queue too. Have not seen it yet.

I though Outlander was that Sean Connery SF film from the 70's about a mining company on one of the moons of Saturn that was trying to boost production by giving the miners illegal drugs that sped them up. That was a great movie. Get Children of Men, Soylent Green, 2001, The Abyss, and the latest Da...

Sounds interesting. How do avoid spoilers? A separate thread for each chapter? Don't really worry about it too much. Most people read at about the same speed, and if you get to reading a post that is ahead of you, stop or a spoiler will happen. Here is how the last one went. Its obvious that we all...

I have a list. It can be done. Its about 3K stories [...] (cue BSG theme music) He was born to ordinary parents. He was taught to read at an early age. He was headed for great things, perhaps a career as a lawyer. Then he rebelled and became a science fiction geek. And he has a plan! :lol: Oh! Oh! ...

At Worms we usually dont take such a metered approach. Everyone just kind of reads and posts as they go. Conversations develop as people catch up and jump in. Last time, with Blish's A Case of Conscience went pretty well.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1597801054.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg I don't think that John Joseph Adams is new to SF, but he has been a pretty active editor of anthologies (and the MoF&SF) lately. I see that he has a zombie anthology out too. I think I need to get that one, because if its anything...

I have not heard good things about the Algabraist, except from Ragabash, who is a Banks devotee. I have Feersum Endjinn sitting in my pile.

Anyone up for doing a Feersum Endjinn reading group, either here or at Worm's?

I think Clarke had a point though, whenever I think about putting together a list of great SF to read in my lifetime I get a little (lot) intimidated. And as far as them all still being published, that's debatable, many great authors (and bands and artists) are simply over the heads of the general ...

Just started The Handmaid's Tale last night. Oryx and Crake is next.

I think Clarke had a point though, whenever I think about putting together a list of great SF to read in my lifetime I get a little (lot) intimidated. And as far as them all still being published, that's debatable, many great authors (and bands and artists) are simply over the heads of the general ...

The non-sci-fi The Wasp Factory was very well written and astonishingly, it's one of his first works. That one is sitting in my pile, but its been there for years. I keep bumping it for SF. GP, have you ever read Chad Oliver? He does anthropology better than anyone, including LeGuin, IMHO. Zenna He...

I'm a sucker for fictional anthropology, so I love well constructed worlds. Especially sci-fi worlds that introduce me to thoughts or concepts I'd never considered before. Allegorical reference to modern times is interesting, but created concepts I've never seen before is even better. That's why I'...

I just read something that Arthur C. Clarke said years ago, that gets at the heart of what I was trying to say with this topic. He said that "mine will be the last generation that was able to read all the noteworthy works of science fiction." Sorry to make ACC wrong, but his will NOT be. ...

I didn't jump on board when this one started, but decided a few days ago to check it out. However, I've missed the first episode since I can't find it online, so I don't know how much necessary info I'm missing. I did watch episodes 2 and 3. I'm not terribly impressed, although it was mildly intere...

Looks like its right up my alley. Im beginning to think that they are going to burn Joe Six-Pack on apocalypse themed shows though.

http://www.scificool.com/heroes-jesse-a ... s-day-one/

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/188296828X.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Clifford Simak's masterpiece novel City is an episodic future history of mankind, told in the form of scholarly analysis of myth by our successor race to the planet Earth, intelligent dogs. Although it is in substantial part magical ta...

just finished The Dechronization of Sam Magruder, by George Gaylord Simpson. Ill start a new Mike Resnick novella (

) tonight, then the brand-spanking new Ted Chiang novella called Exahlation. Cannot wait for that one.

My kids will be doing this soon. I can't wait. Still the only, even remotely convincing argument I've heard for having children: Getting to play with kewl toys again! :D (I'm kidding, of course. Sort of. ;) ) I used to think that it took a certain type to have kids, and I pretty much though that th...

My kids will be doing this soon. I can't wait.

What happens if you Google "Syfy?"

What with all the attention on BSG this weekend, I forgot to comment about this week's episode of Dollhouse. I think it took a turn towards something pretty cool. Looks like the Dollhouse is much, much bigger than it appears, and this may be some the start of some powergrabbing play.

Still, what change over there could make things worse?

Hi, again! And welcome back Rakis. How's diaper duty treating you?

The raptors launching from inside the bay, two episodes after they explain how doing that will rip the ship apart. I think they did show some damage as a result of this, but still... Yea, it tore the gift shop to shreads. I don't think they cared at that point. BTW, weren't they down to 4 nukes...w...

There was only one wide-angle view of Earth, IIRC. Right before the mid-season break, in the last seconds of the last episodes, right when they discovered what was going on they panned through the path to Earth, and showed North America at the end. From then on all the continents they showed were cl...

I had some big problems with it, not the least of which was an identical non-nuked copy of Earth. WTF?!?! But overall I liked it. I DVR'ed it so I can watch it again.

Oh, and that whole thing with the dead raptor pilot (Racetrace?) was totally fucking stupid.

SandChigger wrote:I used to have a life off-line....

HA! Still do!

Uh-huh. Right.

I keep wondering when IT is gonna come down on me for good. I hope never....but you can't really tell until it happens.

I found and read your Legends review after posting this one, Omph. Your disappointment in the series definitely came through. :) I try to review every book I read, but my reviews aren't nearly as analytical - or, frankly, as good - as yours, Omph. Going back and reading this review was interesting ...

I worte a review of this series too. HATED it!

SandChigger wrote:Ah, the SFWA again...

This is grandmaster award, and before the cursed "Sawyer Years."

Actually, I don't know when the SFWA award started sucking, but I associate the suck with him.

Dude, that cover pretty much sold me. A redhead in a bikini with a gun in her hand, wading through a swamp? And the first sentence in your review mentioned "zombies"? Where do I sign up? :D HBJ They put her into a bikini for the cover. In the scene from the book she is bathing in an old z...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1934041696.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Zombies, altruism, sex and spaceships. That pretty much sums up what I do here, in my off hours. And I finally found a book that does it all at once too. The Unselfish Gene is Robert Burns' first published book, and although it seems t...

Just finished City by Simak and picked up Pohl's volume one of the SFWA Grand Master series with Heinlein, Simak, Lieber, Williamson and one other I cant remember right now.

I have really never remembered my dreams. I had a recurring nightmare when I was a kid; ten or eleven times. It was a very strange one that involved miniturazitaion, spying, 747's and murder. And as weird as this sounds, I have had two dreams at different points in my life where I wrote poetry and i...

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