Deborah Harrell wrote:
>>"Lance A. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
>
>>>Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star
>>>Cat_ IIRC, about a race of telepathic
>>>interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've
>>>mentioned that here previously.
>>
>>Oh my.
> "Lance A. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star
> > Cat_ IIRC, about a race of telepathic
> > interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've
> > mentioned that here previously.
>
> Oh my. I own a copy of that book. :
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2007 2:03 PM, Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Deborah Harrell wrote:
>>
>>>Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_
>>>IIRC, about a race of telepathic
>>>interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've
>>>mentioned that here previo
On Nov 7, 2007 2:03 PM, Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_
> > IIRC, about a race of telepathic
> > interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've
> > mentioned that here previously.
>
> Oh my. I own a cop
Deborah Harrell wrote:
> Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_
> IIRC, about a race of telepathic
> interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've
> mentioned that here previously.
Oh my. I own a copy of that book. :-)
--[Lance]
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> Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> > 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote:
> >Not to underplay Himself's importance or
> brilliance,
> >but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get
> >intelligent servants/companions is not His
> invention:
> >the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is
> >about gen
On 10/8/07, Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 09:06 AM Monday 10/8/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
> >On 10/5/07, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > If you get a chance to pick up the series by John Scalzi: Old Man's War ,
> > > The Last War and The Ghost Brigades, do so,
At 09:06 AM Monday 10/8/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
>On 10/5/07, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If you get a chance to pick up the series by John Scalzi: Old Man's War ,
> > The Last War and The Ghost Brigades, do so, they were an excellent read.
>
>Scalzi's latest book, _The Android'
On 10/5/07, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you get a chance to pick up the series by John Scalzi: Old Man's War ,
> The Last War and The Ghost Brigades, do so, they were an excellent read.
Scalzi's latest book, _The Android's Dream_, reads like Douglas Adams
and Peter David at a Monty
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi mentions "uplifted" races as part of
his story plot. At the end of the book he acknowledges and credits
the
idea as originating with Dr. Brin.
Gary
in a sense it is a tribute to the originator of the plot idea.
heinlein said something to the effect that most
> Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
> Watching a Deep Space 9 episode, something caught my attention.
--->snip<---
> Is this an Uplift rip-off?
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi mentions "uplifted" races as part of his
story plot. At the end of the book he acknowledges and credits the i
> Ronn! Blankenship wrote
>
> Do you think cats would see being made more like humans as an
> improvement?
>
> At Least They Could Use The Can Opener Maru
I'm pretty sure the only thing cats would possibly want is opposable
thumbs. Then they would surely rule the world. (And be able to use th
At 03:34 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote:
>Not to underplay Himself's importance or brilliance,
>but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get
>intelligent servants/companions is not His invention:
>the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is about
>gengineered cats
Do you t
> Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > and what about _Planet of the Apes_?
> This is not Uplift, this is time-travel paradox. The
> apes become intelligent because they inherit from
> Caesar,
> and Caeser is intelligent because his parents com
> from
> th
Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> Not to underplay Himself's importance or brilliance,
> but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get
> intelligent servants/companions is not His invention:
> the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is about
> gengineered cats and was written sometime in the lat
> Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
> Watching a Deep Space 9 episode, something caught my
> attention.
>
> Quoting from:
>
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vorta#History_and_Politics
>
> The Vorta believe, perhaps apocryphally, that they
> previously
> existed as small, timid, ape-lik
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