Kevin's Watch

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The undersigned, being pissed off and needing a tight girdle of discipline to restrain our SF imaginative silhouettes, are temporarily united in the following actions:

Interesting. Would David Brin's Earth qualify? Been too long since I read it to be sure. But I'm reasonably sure it has not aliens etc.

--A

steampunk?

Yeah, wasn't there a book by Banks with that theme?

--A

Avatar wrote: Interesting. Would David Brin's Earth qualify? Been too long since I read it to be sure. But I'm reasonably sure it has not aliens etc.

Just read it... and it does indeed have aliens in it.

The Difference Engine would prolly qualify...it was all about the "Steam", Steam driven computers that is...

Edge wrote:

Avatar wrote: Interesting. Would David Brin's Earth qualify? Been too long since I read it to be sure. But I'm reasonably sure it has not aliens etc.

Just read it... and it does indeed have aliens in it.

Oh well. Thanks. Like I said, it's been a good few years. Only really remember the huge "conservation" domes well.

Danlo--Thanks for the title.

--A

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

www.enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/Lea ... 0index.htm

www.monkeybrainbooks.com/

the third site is byJess Nevins, a friend of mine. get his books!
the last is a place to get them books.

Avatar wrote:Yeah, wasn't there a book by Banks with that theme?

--A

He's done a couple with that sort of theme. Against a Dark Background features civilization who make it into space only to discover that their system is so remote that they have no possibility of leaving it. They haven't found any aliens by the time the book is set either, although they have colonized some of the other planets within the Golter system.

Feersum Endjinn takes place on Earth too and without giving too much away, there's no indication that humans are a spacefaring race at that point in their history. Again no aliens, but some very well thought out technoligical creations.

the third site is by Jess Nevins, a friend of mine. get his books!
the last is a place to get them

Big fan of MonkeyBrain books who printed the excellent Michael Moorcock's Wizardry & Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy, and a book I reviewed earlier this year, a wonderful collection by Matthew Rossi Things That Never Were: Fantasies, Lunacies, and Entertaining Lies, who is also publishing an anthology I'm looking forward to in November, Adventure.

glad to find another fan, Ainulindale.

Infernokrusher grinds mundane manifesto to flour and then bakes bread with it? LOL crack myself up :lol

What a fabulous list! It's the same of manifesto of my sci-fi setting.

Air] by Geoff Ryman, a book that won this years Triptree award www.triptree.org and is on this year's Nebula ballot (IMO it has a good chance of winning), conforms to the Mundane Manifesto. I think Geoff Ryman is a subscriber and supporter of the Manifesto.

when I write fantasy i stick to mundane for the most part. i like to keep the magic off panel, like Lovecraft's beasts.

sgtnull wrote:when I write fantasy i stick to mundane for the most part. i like to keep the magic off panel, like Lovecraft's beasts.

Well spoken.

thanks, if i ever finish the current projects(s) i'd like to start up on the KeyMen series.

Is Robert Sawyer Mundane SF? AFAIK, some of his stories have time travel, and isn't time travel one of the fundamental no-nos of Mundania. Their list of don'ts is not only concerning space travel and aliens.

somebody ace this moron please.
and why this thread?

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