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Offline Vertigo1

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Reply #40 on: November 23, 2001, 01:02:00 pm
Any of the New Jedi Order novels.    Particularly "Dark Tide I: Onslaught", "Vector Prime", and "Star by Star".

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Gargoyles, Season 1.  Buy it, or DIE! :)

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Offline Alikchi

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Reply #41 on: November 23, 2001, 01:30:00 pm
Ace - The Third book is "The Amber Spyglass". The ending is..really good *restraint*
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Reply #42 on: November 24, 2001, 06:42:00 am
 
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Originally posted by MD-2389:
Any of the New Jedi Order novels.    Particularly "Dark Tide I: Onslaught", "Vector Prime", and "Star by Star".


Got them, plus all the rest of the SW continuation books (well, almost all... ). Actually I think that that series (with the Yuzang Vong (sp?) is one of the weaker of the books - the ones by Timothy Zahn or Kathy Tyers (sp?) are excellet.

One another note, I'm here in Florida (Raa, where r u?!?   ) and I've picked up the first Ender book - almost finished it in an afternoon sitting.   I'm hoping to pick up the rest of the series in a used bookstore.

Can anyone (Shirke...?   ) give me a rundown on the order I should read the Culture series? I can't find most of them, and I don't want to start reading in the middle.



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Offline Vertigo1

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Reply #43 on: November 24, 2001, 03:55:00 pm
Yeah, Zahn rules!  Loved his work in the Thrawn Trilogy.  

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Gargoyles, Season 1.  Buy it, or DIE! :)

"Professor! This ship is capable of traveling 90 percent the speed of light! Why are we only doing 35 miles an hour!" - Leela
"Because we're in a hurry!" - Professor

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Offline Setekh

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Reply #44 on: November 24, 2001, 09:12:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
Can anyone (Shirke...?   ) give me a rundown on the order I should read the Culture series? I can't find most of them, and I don't want to start reading in the middle.

ShiRKe! That's a good one, I'll have to remember it - along with SNADwich...  

Anyway, I'm looking in the front of Look To Windward, and I'm pretty sure this is the order they were written in:

  • Consider Phlebas
  • The Player Of Games
  • Use Of Weapons
  • The State Of The Art
  • Against A Dark Background
  • Feersum Endjinn
  • Excession
  • Inversions
  • Look To Windward


Hope that helps.  
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Reply #45 on: November 26, 2001, 09:56:00 am
 
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Originally posted by Setekh:
ShiRKe! That's a good one, I'll have to remember it - along with SNADwich...  

  So kill me why don't you?!   It's just this laptop keyboard - I'm not used to it...  

 
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Originally posted by Setekh:
Anyway, I'm looking in the front of Look To Windward, and I'm pretty sure this is the order they were written in:

  • Consider Phlebas
  • The Player Of Games
  • Use Of Weapons
  • The State Of The Art
  • Against A Dark Background
  • Feersum Endjinn
  • Excession
  • Inversions
  • Look To Windward


Hope that helps.  

Thanks bunches - that does help.  



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America, stand assured that Israel truly understands what you are going through.

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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #46 on: November 26, 2001, 10:21:00 am
 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
One another note, I'm here in Florida ...

Where? Florida's a big state (lengthwise... no puns intended! ). It took us 3 and a half hours (driving through nothing but endless swamps) just to visit my mom on the west coast for Thanksgiving.

Btw, another old, old time fave Sci-Fi of mine is "Jumper" by Steven C. Gould. It's not super sci-fi (just about a kid who can teleport), but for those of us who always wanted to escape our normal teen years, this was a good book.  

Joe.

Joe.

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Reply #47 on: November 26, 2001, 09:53:00 pm
 
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Where? Florida's a big state (lengthwise... no puns intended!   ).

Ft. Lauderdale.  


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America, stand assured that Israel truly understands what you are going through.

"He who laughs last thinks slowest."
"Just becase you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
"To err is human; to really screw up you need a computer."
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Setekh

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Reply #48 on: December 01, 2001, 02:07:00 am
 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
  So kill me why don't you?!   It's just this laptop keyboard - I'm not used to it...  

Oh, laptop! Got specs? Got pics?  

 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
Thanks bunches - that does help.  

No worries, dude.   Oh, btw, Joe...

 
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Originally posted by joek:
Joe.

Joe.

We know your name. But just in case you don't know mine...

Steak.

Steak.

Steak.

Steak.

All clear?  
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Reply #49 on: December 01, 2001, 03:04:00 am
Don't tell me, your going to get mad at people spelling your name properly now, right?  

On another note, I had a laptop once... it was perfectly capable of playing... Descent.

Still, great fun  

Oh and dad had one that was more than happy to play Descent II and Wing Commander Prophecy, kept me occupied for ages when I was in hospital  
 

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Reply #50 on: December 01, 2001, 03:22:00 am
 
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Don't tell me, your going to get mad at people spelling your name properly now, right?  

Hey, I don't know a single person yet who has been able to spell Steak wrong.    
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Reply #51 on: December 01, 2001, 03:26:00 am
But Steaks not your name  
 

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Reply #52 on: December 01, 2001, 03:28:00 am
That's correct, 'Steaks' is not my name.  

(English... baaaaaad English...  )
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Reply #53 on: December 01, 2001, 03:34:00 am
[Dr. Evil ]

Riiiight...

[/Dr Evil ]
 

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Reply #54 on: December 01, 2001, 03:37:00 am
"Steak's not my name."

 

Go to grammar class, foo!  
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Reply #55 on: December 02, 2001, 07:55:00 am
 
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Oh, laptop! Got specs? Got pics?  

  PII-233/96/3.2  

It'a a heavy hunk of circutry; 'round 8lbs... But it runs Master of Orion II and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (essentially a complete MOD to AOE2) just fine.  


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America, stand assured that Israel truly understands what you are going through.

"He who laughs last thinks slowest."
"Just becase you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
"To err is human; to really screw up you need a computer."
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #56 on: December 02, 2001, 08:05:00 am
 
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"Steak's not my name."

 

Go to grammar class, foo!  
You really have got to get out more and stop going through every post I make for mistakes, it's kinda scaring me  

Go Steak! there's sun outside! Go NOW!  

 

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Reply #57 on: December 02, 2001, 01:24:00 pm
1) I guess I should have checked back into this thread earlier...

2)
 
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Ft. Lauderdale.  
... hey, that's just south of me.

3)
 
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Originally posted by Setekh:
We know your name.

... doh! I guess I typed my name, thought to add more text and typed my name again not knowing I had already... I should just add it to my sig.

Joe.

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Reply #58 on: December 03, 2001, 02:13:00 am
 
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Originally posted by joek:
... doh! I guess I typed my name, thought to add more text and typed my name again not knowing I had already... I should just add it to my sig.

Joe.

Heh, nah, that Perl script in your sig is really cool. Impressed me quite a bit.  
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