Re: Books

2010-10-06 Thread Kanandarqu
Re: everyone's book recs.. Excelllent!!! The menu is certainly bigger than my tummy (hopefully not my reader), but you guys will get me over the hurdles just looking forward to it. Last Summer on vacation I uploaded some Hugos and Nebulas I could find (released as"classics").

Books

2010-10-06 Thread Jon Louis Mann
>Dee wrote >Counting down, just a few weeks til I get a bit more breathing room and  hope >to get a new list of good books to read.  Start me a list  please.  Here again, Dee, are the books I read recently. If you are on Facebook, friend me, and go to my Info page for an expanded list

Re: Books

2010-10-06 Thread Charlie Bell
On 07/10/2010, at 4:34 AM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > These are books I read recently and enjoyed: > > "Flood" & "Ark" Stephen Baxter Trash, but fun disaster trash. :-) > > "The City an the City" China Miev

Books

2010-10-06 Thread Jon Louis Mann
These are books I read recently and enjoyed: "The Year of the Flood"  Margaret Atwood "Flood" & "Ark" Stephen Baxter "House of Suns" & "Terminal World"  Alistair Reynolds "Climate of Change" Piers Anthony "The Secret Elean

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-31 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 1 Feb 2010 at 1:16, William T Goodall wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2010, at 22:06, Chris Frandsen wrote: > > > And it seems Apple's blockade can be run... > > http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/google-voice-web-app-circumvents-apples-blockade/ > > > > Learner > > > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:08 A

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-31 Thread William T Goodall
p is going to need a substantial re-write to perform >>>> acceptably, and even above that and above the apps irrelevant because >>>> of hardware, there is still room in what he said to reject apps on >>>> ideological grounds. >>>> >>

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-31 Thread Chris Frandsen
t;>>> >>>>> Unwaranted assumption. Apple don't allow apps which directly compete >>>>> with core functionality on the iPhone, after all... >>>>> >>>>> Also, the iPad is just 132dpi and it'll need

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Crystall
pps which directly compete > >>> with core functionality on the iPhone, after all... > >>> > >>> Also, the iPad is just 132dpi and it'll need a new iPad-specific > >>> release to deal with resoloution issues. > >>> > >>&g

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Frandsen
ad-specific >>> release to deal with resoloution issues. >>> >>> AndrewC >>> >>>> learner >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote: >>>> >

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Crystall
core functionality on the iPhone, after all... > > > > Also, the iPad is just 132dpi and it'll need a new iPad-specific > > release to deal with resoloution issues. > > > > AndrewC > > > >> learner > >> > >> > >>

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Frandsen
dpi and it'll need a new iPad-specific > release to deal with resoloution issues. > > AndrewC > >> learner >> >> >> On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote: >> >>> The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also, &g

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Crystall
132dpi and it'll need a new iPad-specific release to deal with resoloution issues. AndrewC > learner > > > On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote: > > > The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also, > > Uplift War is available.

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Frandsen
But how about the iPad???:-) Kindle app does run on the iPad so in just 60+ days. learner On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote: > The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also, > Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Risi

Re: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-27 Thread John Williams
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also, Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising and Sundiver are coming to Kindle in late February. ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-13 Thread John Williams
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:42 AM, David Brin wrote: > I have a query in.  Alas, it is a department that I have no influence over, > but I will keep trying... Thanks for checking. I hope someone replies to you! I have heard from some other authors that it is difficult to get a useful response from

Re: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-11 Thread David Brin
I have a query in. Alas, it is a department that I have no influence over, but I will keep trying... thanks db From: John Williams To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 1:18:32 AM Subject: Re: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle

Re: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-11 Thread John Williams
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Brin wrote: > The Startide Rising release says "January 11 2009".   I suspectt that's a > misprint and should be January 11, 2010?"  That'd explain the glitch and > should resolve in a week. Nope, still no Kindle edition of Startide Rising available. ___

Re: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-07 Thread David Brin
n Williams To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 10:23:00 PM Subject: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle? I was checking again for the Uplift books on Amazon Kindle, and things have improved since the last time I looked, but the status is odd. Uplift War is availabl

BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle?

2010-01-06 Thread John Williams
I was checking again for the Uplift books on Amazon Kindle, and things have improved since the last time I looked, but the status is odd. Uplift War is available on Kindle, and Heaven's Reach is available for pre-order (Jan 13 release). Oddly, Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore are

Another observation about e-books . . .

2009-12-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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RE: BR¡N: Startide books on Kindle?

2009-06-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:38 PM Friday 6/12/2009, Koke wrote: There are many SF Kindle books available in the $14 - $15 range; these are usually new books. Look at Greg Bear's The City at the End of Time ($14.85) or Allen Steeles "Coyote Horizon" ($14.27). Or you could have gotten it from the l

RE: BRIN: Startide books on Kindle?

2009-06-12 Thread Koke
John Williams wrote: Any idea why none of Startide Rising or the many sequels are available in Amazon Kindle format? I've been curious for some time why so few SF books are available for Kindle. Only about 1 in 5 of SF books that I would like to purchase are available for Kindle. The

Re: BRIN: Startide books on Kindle?

2009-06-11 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/11/2009 11:25:26 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, db...@sbcglobal.net writes: John, I have the contracts in-hand, as we speak! With cordial regards, David Brin _http://www.davidbrin.com_ (http://www.davidbrin.com) My Kindle reads from both sides. It makes a pretty sigh

Re: BRIN: Startide books on Kindle?

2009-06-11 Thread David Brin
Great! Thanks for the quick response. Any idea how long it will be before Kindle editions are available? I have no idea. Hopefully just a matter of months. Meanwhile folks, remember to drop by http://www.davidbrin.com and/or my blog http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ I've been on several episod

Re: BRIN: Startide books on Kindle?

2009-06-11 Thread John Williams
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:24 AM, David Brin wrote: > John, I have the contracts in-hand, as we speak! Great! Thanks for the quick response. Any idea how long it will be before Kindle editions are available? In hand, huh? Kind of ironic that creating a Kindle edition requires PAPERwork! :-)

Re: BRIN: Startide books on Kindle?

2009-06-11 Thread David Brin
John, I have the contracts in-hand, as we speak! With cordial regards, David Brin http://www.davidbrin.com From: John Williams To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:08:03 AM Subject: BRIN: Startide books on Kindle

BRIN: Startide books on Kindle?

2009-06-11 Thread John Williams
Any idea why none of Startide Rising or the many sequels are available in Amazon Kindle format? I've been curious for some time why so few SF books are available for Kindle. Only about 1 in 5 of SF books that I would like to purchase are available for Kindle. The only explanation I can co

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-28 Thread David Hobby
theoretical > computer science, do you mean something like Knuth or Sedgewick? > Or further back, like von Neumann? John-- I guess I'd say "like Karp". The books are set in a universe(?) where P equals NP. Once one has a polynomial- time algorithm for doing NP-complete prob

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-26 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Euan Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of enjoyable SF, the best I've read recently is The Ghost > Brigades by John Scalzi. > > I liked Old Mans War (to which it is a sequel) but The Ghost Brigades is > a startlingly good follow up into a differnet leag

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Baker
Doug said: >> About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly >> enough, anyway. > > Well that sounds like a hell of a lot to me. I've read a bit of > American > history, especially the Civil War, but I don't have the kind of > command of > the facts that you do on what you've

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread Doug Pensinger
Rich wrote: Doug said: > > > But you must have read thousands of pages of history! > > About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly > enough, anyway. Well that sounds like a hell of a lot to me. I've read a bit of American history, especially the Civil War, but I don't have t

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread Max Battcher
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > John Williams wrote: >>> Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed >>> for having sex with humans but there aren't any humans left >>> to have sex with... >> Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely >> have to check it out now. >

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread Alberto Monteiro
John Williams wrote: > >> Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed >> for having sex with humans but there aren't any humans left >> to have sex with... > > Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely > have to check it out now. > Since I didn't read it

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread John Williams
Martin Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I liked it: > > http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/09/anathem_by_neal.shtml Interesting review. I must admit this comparison would have never occurred to me: "In fact, with its longeurs and constant debate, it occasionally resembles an unholy hybri

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread David Hobby
John Williams wrote: > Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex >> with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with... > > Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely > have to check it

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread Martin Lewis
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> post-cyberpunk world before writing Cryptonomicom, a sort of Slashdot >> version of the 20th Century. Anathem is what Cryptonomicom would be if >> it covered the whole of Western civilisaton from Plato onwards. > > For s

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Baker
Doug said: > But you must have read thousands of pages of history! About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly enough, anyway. But the problem is the opportunity cost of reading the Baroque Cycle. In that number of pages I could get through, for example, the whole survi

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Doug Pensinger
Richard > > Rich, who has some enthusiasm for reading the Baroque Cycle, but that > enthusiasm is outweighed by being intimidated by the sheer number of > pages. But you must have read thousands of pages of history! The Baroque Cycle seems to be very well researched, and its recreations of 18t

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread John Williams
Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex > with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with... Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely have to check it out now.

RE: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Max Battcher
> > Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have > > android sex. > > Isn't that, ummm, speciest? DNA'ist? Why can't she > have sex with a human? :-) Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with... > > It

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread John Williams
David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have > android sex. Isn't that, ummm, speciest? DNA'ist? Why can't she have sex with a human? :-) > Would that be Hamilton's _The Dreaming Void_? No, "The Temporal Void", the sequel to Dreaming. amazon.co.uk should be

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Jim Sharkey
David wrote: >How about Saturn's Children? I just bought a buttload of books from SFBC, and that was among them. If people are interested in talking about it, I could move it up in the queue. I'm in the middle of re-reading _Watchmen_, which has held up very well over the p

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Euan Ritchie
h I thought was great (and which is available for free >> online). > I like all of his books, and recommend them highly. None > are perfect, but all have some brilliant parts. I'd say > that the best overall in terms of plot, imagery, humor and > writing is Glasshouse. By the wa

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread David Hobby
bts about the book at first. >> Yes, I recommend it. Stross >> may not have the most polished writing, but the >> rest of his books are amazing. > > Okay, I've added it to my list. I'm not sure if I will > get it before The Temporal Void which should be > comin

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread David Hobby
> War", which I thought was great (and which is available for free > online). Rich-- I like all of his books, and recommend them highly. None are perfect, but all have some brilliant parts. I'd say that the best overall in terms of plot, imagery, humor and writing is Gl

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread John Williams
David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Probably from the cover? : ) Partly, and the blurb I read focused on the android sex element. > Yes, I recommend it. Stross > may not have the most polished writing, but the > rest of his books are amazing. Okay, I've added it to m

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread John Williams
Martin Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > post-cyberpunk world before writing Cryptonomicom, a sort of Slashdot > version of the 20th Century. Anathem is what Cryptonomicom would be if > it covered the whole of Western civilisaton from Plato onwards. For someone who has read Anathem but not Cryptonomico

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Martin Lewis wrote: > Basically if you like Cryptonomicom plus Snow Crash you will like Anathem. OK, good to know -- I have something to really look forward to next week, then! :) Thank you very much, Martin. Julia __

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Lewis
between Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle books as far as >> balance between action and exposition. > > I haven't read the Baroque Cycle. If anyone has read Snow Crash, > Cryptonomicon and Anathem, I'd be interested in some sort of comparison > between the three. (Give me

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Richard Baker
David said: > My favorites of his are the ones that start with > The Atrocity Archives. Not everyone would come > up with Lovecraftian computer science. I must read more Stross. At the moment all I've read was "A Colder War", which I thought was great (and which is available for free online)

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, John Williams wrote: > Anathem (I mistyped an -a before) is about 900 pages, but > after the first 80 pages or so the action picks up and it > did not drag at all for me. I'd say it is somewhere in > between Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle books as far as

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread David Hobby
John Williams wrote: > David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with >> that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title. >> I've read Cryptonomicon, which was O.K., if a bit long >> for the conte

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread John Williams
David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with > that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title. > I've read Cryptonomicon, which was O.K., if a bit long > for the content. I skipped Crypto, I imagine I would have had the

Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread David Hobby
anything needlessly. > >> Anyway, I bet this is something you want to talk >> about: John-- That's funny, you seem to like to talk about that kind of thing in other threads. > Not really. What I would like to talk about is new SF books. > Have you read Anathema? Sorry

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-13 Thread Doug Pensinger
Charlie wrote: > > CP is great. My favourite is PoG, but I think Excession's probably the > best. Use of Weapons is regarded as the best by many, but I don't > think it stands up to a re-read as well as E, CP or PoG. Inversions I > liked a lot better on my recent pre-Matter re-read of the whole lo

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-13 Thread Charlie Bell
On 13/09/2008, at 3:37 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: > > Of the culture books, Matter was probably my least favorite. Many > consider > A Player of Games the best, but I prefer Consider Phlebus. If you > like > action, CP's the ticket. CP is great. My favourite is PoG,

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-13 Thread Charlie Bell
On 13/09/2008, at 7:11 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > I did! I did!! > > > Unfortunately when I asked several months ago on this list and the > Culture list* I seemed to be rather unique in being able to make > that claim. Took a while to arrive was the problem. I liked it. Not his best, but

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-13 Thread Richard Baker
Ronn said: > *BTW, I haven't heard anything from them in awhile . . . unlike a few > years ago when that was a quite active list . . . 147 emails so far this month and around three thousand so far this year on the Culture List seems to be at least roughly comparable to Brin-L's 330 this month

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
>I tried to pick up Anathem the other day but the bookstore I frequent was >out already which is just fine as I'm in the middle of several others >including Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, Baxter's Manifold: Time >and McCollough's Adams bio. > >All the

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-12 Thread Doug Pensinger
trouble. I think the only recent Banks book I liked was > "The Algebraist", lots of action, a nice mystery, and a great ending. > Of the culture books, Matter was probably my least favorite. Many consider A Player of Games the best, but I prefer Consider Phlebus. If you like actio

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-12 Thread John Williams
urns out to be better than the Baroque books, which I did not like. So far, it is slow going, but some have said things get better after the first 200 pages. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-12 Thread Doug Pensinger
the middle of several others including Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, Baxter's Manifold: Time and McCollough's Adams bio. All the Pretty Horses which is the first book of a trilogy is a bit of a departure from the other two McCarthy books I've read (Blood Meridian and The Ro

BOOKS

2008-09-12 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > I have list of some of my favorite novels I can e-mail > you if interested... > Thanks for the offer. I am usually only interested in > discussing recent > SF novels while I am reading them or while they are still > fresh in my > mind after I recently read them. >> Any recent SF novels on your

Re: BOOKS

2008-09-12 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have list of some of my favorite novels I can e-mail you if interested... Thanks for the offer. I am usually only interested in discussing recent SF novels while I am reading them or while they are still fresh in my mind after I recently read them. Any rec

BOOKS

2008-09-12 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> Although you wouldn't know it from my posts, > I actually wanted to discuss science fiction when > I joined this list (I got a bit sidetracked, obviously). > No one wanted to discuss Greg Bear's latest book. > I just started Neal Stephenson's new book, Anathem. > I'm having a little trouble gett

MonkeyBrain Books having a sale

2007-09-08 Thread Julia Thompson
http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/sale.html They have some Moorcock and Rucker, among others. And if you order one of the books relating to Robert E. Howard's writings, you're supporting people I personally know and care about. :)

[Books] What's The Matter With Kansas

2007-08-13 Thread Deborah Harrell
Just finished this for a book club - rather dry going, but informative. Depressing, actually, but Frank's analysis of why folks are voting for politicians and policy which hurt them economically seemed valid to me. Of course, I think others wrote/reported similar things before, but the account of

RE: Books

2005-10-24 Thread PAT MATHEWS
Living in a fantasy world - you say that like it's a bad thing. From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Subject: RE: Books Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:48:40 -0500 > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: Books

2005-10-23 Thread Horn, John
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson > > (Does anyone have anything to say about _Freakanomics_, which > my mom thought my husband would like for his birthday?) My wife enjoyed it. She said I shold read it. Dunno much else about it though. - jmh __

Books

2005-10-22 Thread Julia Thompson
On the recommendation of someone on this list (Bob Z., but he might not have been the only one to suggest it), I put _A History of the Jews_ on my amazon.com wishlist. My brother-in-law thought it would make a good birthday present for me, so now I have it. Of course, the book about toddlers

Fwd: Banning Gay Books

2005-10-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
ed on another list from Lori Lake, a prolific and popular author of Lesbian-themed detective novels. Begin forwarded message: Banning Gay Books By Mubarak Dahir, AlterNet. Posted September 28, 2005. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/26133/ Books with gay themes are increasingly banned in sc

brin-l-books stats

2005-07-18 Thread William T Goodall
The ongoing project for brin-l listees to rate books based on the unproved notion that we might have similar tastes :) There are now 22 active users (who have rated books). There are another ten users with accounts who have not rated any books. There are 819 books in the database of which

Re: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-08 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Jul 2005, at 4:08 am, Bryon Daly wrote: I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books (Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here read them and what they thought of them. I haven't read them, but Time, Space and Origin have all

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-06 Thread PAT MATHEWS
From: Kevin Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Street wrote: > > Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the > > best writers have names that start with "B"?) > > Pat Mathews wrote: > For the same reason so many great 19th Century composers did? 19th Century composer

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-06 Thread Kevin Street
Kevin Street wrote: > > Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the > > best writers have names that start with "B"?) > > Pat Mathews wrote: > For the same reason so many great 19th Century composers did? 19th Century composers had names starting with "B" as well? The my

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-05 Thread PAT MATHEWS
From: Kevin Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion To: "'Killer Bs Discussion'" Subject: RE: Baxter's Manifold: books Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:35:47 -0600 Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the best writer

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-05 Thread Kevin Street
Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the best writers have names that start with "B"?) Bryon Daly wrote: > I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books > (Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here

Re: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-04 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Jul 2005, at 6:33 am, Max Battcher wrote: How many people know what NASA is doing right now? Spending a lot of money badly? How many people know what the latest Brad Pitt relationship is? Angelina Jolie! -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.

Re: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-04 Thread Kanandarqu
>Bryon wrote- >I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books >(Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here >read them and what they thought of them. > >For me, overall I was rather disappointed - enough so that I probably >won

Re: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-04 Thread Max Battcher
Bryon Daly wrote: I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books (Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here read them and what they thought of them. For me, overall I was rather disappointed - enough so that I probably won't bother with M

Re: Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-03 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 7/3/2005 8:09:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alien artifact on a near-earth asteroid? "Yawn." Part of the plot to The Reluctant Tytlal Expert, which I hope our good Dr. Brin finally gets to reading as he wends his way to Seattle in July.

Baxter's Manifold: books

2005-07-03 Thread Bryon Daly
I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books (Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here read them and what they thought of them. For me, overall I was rather disappointed - enough so that I probably won't bother with Manifold: Origin. For

brin-l-books update

2005-05-31 Thread William T Goodall
The ongoing project for brin-l listees to rate books based on the unproved notion that we might have similar tastes :) This year's Hugo nominated novels have been added to the database. There are 811 books in the database and 1948 book ratings so far. The site has been updated so as t

Re: brin-l-books stats

2005-03-05 Thread William T Goodall
And our favourite Brin books are: Startide Rising 1 The Uplift War 2 Foundation's Triumph3 Earth 4 Otherness 5 Kiln People 6 Heart of the Comet 7 Glory Season8 Brightness Reef 9 The River of Time 9 The Postman 10 -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROT

brin-l-books stats

2005-03-05 Thread William T Goodall
The ongoing project for brin-l listees to rate books based on the unproved notion that we might have similar tastes :) There are 803 books in the database and 1915 book ratings so far. The site has been updated so as to not require cookies to work. This should make things a bit easier for some

Re: Christians vs. Children's Books

2004-09-09 Thread Bryon Daly
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:03:54 -0700 (PDT), Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22182 > > The entire article is worthy of reading... Hey - the article's by Seanbaby! He's got a pretty funny (and very non-PC) website. My fa

Re: Christians vs. Children's Books

2004-09-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 9, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Damon Agretto wrote: I've played Dungeons & Dragons for slightly over 20 years. I have never had the urge to drink unicorn blood, thankfully. That's because you don't drink it, silly: Unicorn Blood Pudding • 1 qt. Unicorn's blood • 3/4 lb. bread crumbs, m

Re: Christians vs. Children's Books

2004-09-09 Thread Dave Land
On Sep 9, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Damon Agretto wrote: http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22182 How stupid do people think kids are? (Rhetorical question: I know for a fact that the answer is 7). Like many generations of parents before me, I have read various folk and fai

Re: Christians vs. Children's Books

2004-09-09 Thread Damon Agretto
> http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22182 The entire article is worthy of reading... I've played Dungeons & Dragons for slightly over 20 years. I have never had the urge to drink unicorn blood, thankfully. Though there was that one time where I was a captive of an e

Christians vs. Children's Books

2004-09-09 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22182 "Fifteen minutes of the video is just grainy footage of a moronic debate they taped off MSNBC. In it, a bookstore buyer and a Southern man argue over whether children should be allowed to read Harry Potter bo

Books to burn...?

2004-08-16 Thread Deborah Harrell
>From the MIT Technology review of 8/10/04 (I just get the blurbs, not the full articles): Justice To Libraries: Please Destroy Some Books For Us The Department of Justice has asked the Government Printing Office to instruct federal depository libraries around the country to destroy f

brin-l-books downtime

2004-06-22 Thread William T Goodall
Brin-l-books was offline for a couple of hours today since I was upgrading PHP from version 4.1.2 to 4.3.4. I did it on the production server because I am a bare-knuckle scary kind of individual :) Needless to say everything broke but after a little firefighting and a few bottles of Carlsberg

Re: Hyperiod Re: brin-l-books stats

2004-06-03 Thread Richard Baker
the beginning of _Endymion_. The central characters in the two Endymion books are completely new. As for the Catholic Church being an Evil Empire, that's somewhat more true but also a little misleading. One of the core characters, Father-Captain Federico de Soya is an extremely well drawn c

Hyperiod Re: brin-l-books stats

2004-06-02 Thread JDG
At 02:17 AM 6/2/2004 -0700 Richard Baker wrote: >George said: > >> Concur, great series. Simmons can write. > >The first two are excellent, even if parts of _The Fall of Hyperion_ are >a mess and the ending isn't as clean as it should be. I was much less >impres

Re: brin-l-books stats

2004-06-02 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby wrote: > > Ah, what IS science fiction? I admit that the lines blur, so it > may be best to just appeal to authority. My own definition is that > Science Fiction books show slices of axiomatically derived alternate > realities. The author should start with a smal

Re: brin-l-books stats

2004-06-02 Thread William T Goodall
GregEgan=10 Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov =10 The Man in the High Castle, Philip KDick=10 Way Station,Clifford D Simak =10 The highest rated book by David Brin was _Startide Rising_ which was at #11 in the sf chart. The top ten Brin sf books on

Re: brin-l-books stats

2004-06-02 Thread William T Goodall
On 2 Jun 2004, at 3:14 pm, Richard Baker wrote: Gary said: Everytime I fill it out it repeats the screen. It seems to do that with IE6 here, but Mozilla is fine. Cookies. You must accept them. Where browsers have several different levels from 'reject all' to 'accept all' move it at least a notch m

Re: brin-l-books stats

2004-06-02 Thread Richard Baker
Gary said: > Everytime I fill it out it repeats the screen. It seems to do that with IE6 here, but Mozilla is fine. Rich ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: brin-l-books stats

2004-06-02 Thread Gary Denton
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:39:29 +0100, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm, am I registered for this as well? > > > > Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go > to http://books.scattersoft.com , click the 'registration' link and > follow the instructions

C. S. Lewis space-travel books [was: brin-l-books stats]

2004-06-02 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote: > > Mentioning? Out of the Silent Planet was set on Mars, Peralandra on > Venus. Most of the science was ridiculous by todayâs standards but the > creation of alien species to tell a story, however allegorical, is really > the reason these books are cl

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