Is the Gap the best Sci-fi you've ever read?
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Vraith
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wow...I usually make those kinds of jokes myself first from my life in the gutter...thanks to all for making me feel all innocent again.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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jacob Raver, sinTempter
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Hey, Rigel...you know your link is dead?
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G**-d***it, I forgot to put money in my checking account again...
I always forget about it because they shut off the web server before they shut off the email server, and since I check my email every day but I don't read my own web site every day...
I always forget about it because they shut off the web server before they shut off the email server, and since I check my email every day but I don't read my own web site every day...
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jacob Raver, sinTempter
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Yeah...takes a minute for me to remember my own phone number...
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ninjaboy
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Best Sci Fi I've ever read?
I don't know.. I think the best would have to be Dune - from the new Prequels to the recently written ending.. Sure the newer ones don't grip you in the way Frank Herbert's did, but the scope of the endire series in mindblowing - even if you just read the 6 Herbert wrote it's just staggering..
Isaac Asimov's sci-fi (and there's so much of it) is fantastic - the personality and humour has always spoken to me and it always leaves me wanting more..
I gotta say Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama was also a fantastic read, including the sequels..
Alistair Reynolds (i think) wrote Pushing Tin which was also a fantastic story..
I don't know.. I think the best would have to be Dune - from the new Prequels to the recently written ending.. Sure the newer ones don't grip you in the way Frank Herbert's did, but the scope of the endire series in mindblowing - even if you just read the 6 Herbert wrote it's just staggering..
Isaac Asimov's sci-fi (and there's so much of it) is fantastic - the personality and humour has always spoken to me and it always leaves me wanting more..
I gotta say Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama was also a fantastic read, including the sequels..
Alistair Reynolds (i think) wrote Pushing Tin which was also a fantastic story..
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Wasn't that about salesmen in the 60s?ninjaboy wrote: Alistair Reynolds (i think) wrote Pushing Tin which was also a fantastic story..
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ninjaboy
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you serious man??Rigel wrote:Wasn't that about salesmen in the 60s?ninjaboy wrote: Alistair Reynolds (i think) wrote Pushing Tin which was also a fantastic story..
About a mining ship trying to survive under pretty messed up circumstances in the dark reaches of space.
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I thought it was a movie about air traffic controllers ... John Cusack ... Billy Bob Thornton ... no?ninjaboy wrote:you serious man??Rigel wrote:Wasn't that about salesmen in the 60s?ninjaboy wrote: Alistair Reynolds (i think) wrote Pushing Tin which was also a fantastic story..
About a mining ship trying to survive under pretty messed up circumstances in the dark reaches of space.
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Yes.wayfriend wrote: I thought it was a movie about air traffic controllers ... John Cusack ... Billy Bob Thornton ... no?
I was thinking of Tin Men.
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This should be renamed the "Mistaken Movies" thread
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I dont think we need to say is it the best, i would say did it make you stop and think, did it make you wonder what if, did it challenge your morals, which character were good and which were bad, did it open your eyes to something new and finally do you think you learned anything from the books. Myself, im upto Chaos and order and the character are magnificent the Amnion pityful but also so different. At the moment the series hits all the buttons with me.
I don't know if it is the best, but I know that it's my favorite. I know that no author has ever made me feel the way that this series has made me feel about characters. I finished the series over a year ago and recently decided to re-read it. I understand why Zarathustra kept after me for years to read it.
I finished the series over a year ago and recently decided to re-read it. I understand why Zarathustra kept after me for years to read it.Wicker Man!wayfriend wrote:I thought Tin Men was a move about a Scottish island where they sacrifice people to pagan gods ... Christopher Lee ... Edward Woodward ...Rigel wrote:I was thinking of Tin Men.
Hi all btw, I would probably say that the Gap series is my personal favourite sci fi series, but I don't generally read much sci fi (unless you count Discworld, which probably isn't!
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