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Literature / Re: Ender's Game
« on: May 12, 2013, 12:57:54 am »
Was that the next published book of the series?

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Literature / Ender's Game
« on: May 11, 2013, 01:14:43 pm »
What a great book. Don't know what anyone here thinks of Orson Scott Card, but from only ready Ender's Game I'd say he's quite the writer. I couldn't stop reading until I had finished the book cover to cover, and I'd recommend it as a classic in the sci-fi genre.

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Atrocity Tales / Re: The False Sun
« on: May 11, 2013, 01:08:38 pm »
Unless he isn't Erratic. He could be our first glimpse of the Intact. Maybe all of the sane Nonmen, those who really can remember, have been preserved with some kind of manipulation of the Tekne, and all of them are fully under the Inchoroi "control". But by control, I mean willing servants converted to their side via the IF and then psycho-modified to hold the millennium of extra memories.

After all, it was Kellhus that taught us that the most fanatic of his followers often came from the doubters, not the believers. In the end, everyone is a believer, a follower, they just need to be shown.

Really, what are the odds that there is a happy group of old Nonmen sitting around a table, smoking pipes and joking about the old days? Nah, this is Bakker. The Intact will be the very worst, and they will be the enemy.

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General Earwa / Re: Over-Thoughts on the Black Seed
« on: May 11, 2013, 03:03:44 am »
I'd say no, skin-spies aught to have properly colored semen or else they would be rather easy to spot.

Don't think there has been a community consensus on what exactly intero-raped Esmi way back. Probably not a skin spy, some think it was a synthase under some kind of glamor spell concealing its identity.

Most weapon races have black seed? We've got sranc, skin-spies, bashrag,and wracu. Of those, we only know for sure the color of sranc jizz. Not sure if we've seen the others.


Also, you can never read too deeply, we favor the overly complex solutions :). Though there are dangers in the depths.

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: His PROOF...
« on: May 10, 2013, 08:03:06 pm »
Sorry didn't get that  :-\

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I'd settle for any one of them. Who knows how far back any of those bloodlines go. Ancestral memories.

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Atrocity Tales / Re: The False Sun
« on: May 09, 2013, 05:08:53 pm »
So then he leads the Mengeca there because he know they will see the same damnation he saw himself. They can be trusted to fall in line with his thinking, but other Ishroi/human/non-schoolmen may risk coming to some other conclusion, which may lead to some unified group of anti-magi thing... something like that.

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: His PROOF...
« on: May 09, 2013, 05:03:47 pm »
I'd say the Holy War in PoN where not all that Holy. Maybe his proof for another war that Kellhus claims is Holy later on though.

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Ah the poison that makes strong.
The parallels of spice and melange are all there, we need a prescient adult-child quirri addict.

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Literature / Neuromancer
« on: May 09, 2013, 03:22:22 pm »
Just read Neuromancer on a whim, didn't realize it was one of sci-fi's most acclaimed novels. Though it was pretty good, laughed at some of the 80's version of the future, but still a good read.

Was muddling around on the interwebz and found this quote, which was added into a re-release in 2000 as an afterword by Jack Womack:
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suggest[ed] that Gibson's vision of cyberspace may have inspired the way in which the Internet developed, (particularly the World Wide Web) after the publication of Neuromancer in 1984. He asks "[w]hat if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?" (269).

Don't know if that is true or not, but what a powerful statement... and probably every sci-fi writer's dream, to directly influence the path of future technology. (Of course then I thought... what if cataloging the Dreams, and their differences, fundamentally changed the world around our old Wizard's obsession)


Anyway, good book, a quick read, I'd recommend.

Edit. (so as to not double post):

Anyone here a fan or a critic of Gibson and his writings? I know hes got several other books and I'm wondering if they are worth the read.

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Alia, that poor, crazy child.

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General Misc. / Re: Manga/Anime
« on: May 09, 2013, 02:40:12 pm »
Ok so you are saying, at this point, that the main difference is just in the name?

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: His PROOF...
« on: May 09, 2013, 02:26:06 am »
Can't say I understand where that post was going, but I suppose I could agree with you here then. Some kind of metaphysical proof, but proof then for whom?

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General Misc. / Re: Manga/Anime
« on: May 09, 2013, 01:50:14 am »
Didn't know trigun and cowboy bebop were considered anime.

Out of curiosity, what makes something an anime and not a cartoon?

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: His PROOF...
« on: May 09, 2013, 01:17:47 am »
Ok I'll give you that one. But even still, she makes things easier maybe, but he certainly doesn't need her, not as proof anyway. If Moe Sr. could persuade Cnaiur, a super macho barbarian, to be gay, I'm sure Kell could convince a bunch of sissies to do the same.

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