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From: cc697@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Oppen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Anarchy in S.F.
Date: 3 Jan 1993 08:35:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cc697@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Oppen)
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In a previous article, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) says:

>I haven't really been following this thread, so these might've been
>mentioned already:
>
>  _Peace War_ and _Marooned in Real Time_ by Vernor Vinge
>
>Neither one is about anarchy directly, but I think the idea of
>anarchy plays an important role in both stories...

The story that comes between them, "The Ungoverned", (found in _True Names
and Other Dangers_) deals with it more directly.

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From: lon@edsi.plexus.COM (Lon Ponschock)
Subject: Motorcycle Science Fiction
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:48:11 GMT
Summary: An addition to the question
Keywords: Motorcycle,Science Fiction


==>  How about _The Carcinoma Angels_ from the original 'Dangerous 
Visions' collection.

	I believe the author is Norman Spinrad.

lon
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From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Subject: Re: Auto-buy lists
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:43:04 GMT

Well, I guess my "auto-buy list" (authors of which I buy basically everything
on sight) is shorter than most, since it contains only two names (at least
as long as we keep to SF):

Jack Vance
Roger Zelazny

In both cases, the author's supreme imagination and quality of writing
makes even their occasional bad books worth reading (though I confess there
are a few books by both authors that have disappointed me). 

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From: whit@carson.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
Subject: Re: Auto-buy lists
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:31:16 GMT

In article <urf.724794299@sw2001> urf@icl.se (Urban F) writes:
>kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:

>>I'm a Niven
>>fanatic, but was disappointed by the Smoke Ring books and thought 
>>_Fallen Angels_ was a waste of trees.

>It was even worse than that. _Descent of Anansi_ should have taught
>me that Niven collaborations with someone else than Pournelle often
>turn out to be bad.

	I'll agree that Smoke Ring was pointless.  But, _Descent of
Anansi_ is one of the best hard-science works of the last decade.
It doesn't NEED to be beyond current knowledge to be interesting;
the way orbital dynamics was exposited was quite wonderful
(OK, I'm a physicist and I thought it was wonderful... so,
sue me for liking the gimmick!).

	It was _Descent of Anansi_ that got me to buy the rest of
the Barnes works I've been able to locate... and I'm still buying
them.  _The Kundalini Equation_ was pretty good, too.

	John Whitmore

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From: rice@ttd.teradyne.com
Subject: Re: Name this book.......*pleeezze!*
Organization: Teradyne Inc., Telecommunications Division
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:29:13 GMT

In article <1h418gINNj9m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, saruman@cats.ucsc.edu (Nicholas Patrick Popoff) writes:
> 
> 	Hello all....
> 	Recently, a friend of mine was telling me about this book he had
> read, and the basic story sounded realy interesting.
> 	So, I said "Whats the book called?" and he said "I dont remember."
> and I said "well, who wrote it?" and he said "i dont remember..."  
> 
> 	So now Im hoping that someone out there has read it.  Heres the basic
> story, as I remember it:
> 	Futuristic military type deal, flashback to "starship troopers" with
> people doing combat drops out of spaceships.  But the deal is that the
> drops are basically suicide, and a troop only has to do one or two before
> they get released.  Well, the main character gets lost in the paperwork or
> something, and they keep on droping him and dropping him and he keeps on
> coming back.  As i understand it, the book is funny, and probably written
> in the first person.  
> 	Other than this, I have no idea.  It could be brand new, it could
> be out of print.
> 
> Pleeeze tellmetellmetellme!
> -nick


Sounds like the original "Bill the Galactic Hero" by Harry Harrison.

   John Rice        K9IJ  
   rice@ttd.teradyne.com
From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Looking for Another Day, Another Dungeon, by Robert Costniuk
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:28:39 GMT
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In <BzMpt5.I71@ecf.toronto.edu> rodrigc@ecf.toronto.edu writes:

> I read a book a few months ago called "Another Day, Another Dungeon".
> I think the author's name is something like 'Robert Costniuk', but
> I'm not sure.
> I would like to know if any of you Internetters have encountered any
> sequels to the book, or if you know anything about the author.
> I found this book to be funnier than Robert Aspirin's M.Y.T.H. series,
> but not quite as good as Terry Pratchett's DiscWorld series (#1 !!!!).

  I think that's Costikyan -- there's definetly a 'y' in there somewhere.
I first read the book in December 1990, and have been looking for a sequel 
ever since.  No luck, but its definetly set up for a two-parter.  Funniest
thing I'd ever read since the the first three "Myth" books by Aspirin.


semper fi,

Jammer Jim Miller 
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From: wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Patrick Chester)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Political Correctness + Sci-fi
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:39:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Dec31.165202.19780@fnbc.com> frank@fnbc.com (Frank Mitchell) writes:
]In article <1992Dec31.153935.15939@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV  
](Peter J. Scott) writes:
]> 
]> but it was about a high-school class in the near-future attempting to study
]> a Shakespeare play after every line that could possibly offend anyone had 
]> been removed.  There were about 1.5 scenes left.
]
]I remember the author, at least: Connie Willis.  It's one of her "screwball  
]comedy" pieces, like "At The Rialto" or "In the Late Cretaceous".  As I recall,
]after the teacher removed the "offensive" parts of Hamlet (the only play not  
]forbidden outright), there were five lines left.

Which were? :)
 


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From: support@fy.chalmers.se (F-sektionens Entusiaster)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Autobuy lists
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:16:32 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden


    Tanith Lee                Diane Duane
    Lloyd Alexander           Catherine Clowes
    Wendy & Richard Pini      Ursula K LeGuin
    Robin McKinley            Tanya Huff
    Mary Gentle               Guy Gavriel Kay
    Terry Pratchett           Neil Gaiman
    Judith Tarr               Lois McMaster Bujold
    Joanna Russ               Matt Ruff



                                 -Kristina





    
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From: djordan@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (David Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: DS9 - B5 Buffalo-Toronto
Date: 27 Dec 92 15:10:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: spartan.1992Dec27.151016.6719
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
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The Fox channel (29) out of Buffalo had the first ad I've seen
for DS9.  Airing Jan 5 or 7 (I missed the details).

Does anyone know of a Buffalo, Erie, or Toronto channel that will
be carrying Babylon 5?

Thanks   

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From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
Subject: Re: TV GUIDE ARTICLE: TIME TRAX
Reply-To: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:38:25 GMT

In article <Dec.29.16.51.02.1992.25919@andromeda.rutgers.edu> detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio) writes:

>The worst criminals in the year 2193 have escaped to 1993.  Darien
>Lambert (Dale Midkiff), a dedicated law-enforcement officer, travels
>back thru time to nab the crooks.
>...
>Lambert's sidekick SELMA is a computer who "looks like Mary Poppins,
>talks like HAL, thinks like Spock, and is as fussy as C-3PO", says

Hmmmm.

I wonder if Harlan Ellison is sharpening his lawyers for a new lawsuit.

About twenty years ago, Ellison was pitching a TV series concept,
Man Without a Time, about a time-traveler who gets involved in
`fixing' history.  He had a companion, an immobile smartass computer
named, if I recall, TEX (Temporal EXtrapolator).

Oh well, if he didn't sue the Quantum Leap folks, I guess TimeTrax is
safe.  Maybe there is a statute of limitations on these things...



	Mike Urban

	urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov

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From: morrissey@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Quarc
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:02:28 GMT

> 
> I think Ficus was meant to be a parody of Spock (which, in turn, is who Data
> is loosely based on).
> -- 


Data is really based on Questor from the pilot movie Gene did about 15 -20
years ago called The Questor Tapes.  They even have an exchange between
Questor and a women where he says he is 'fully functional' etc.
Having watched this when it came on late-night about 2 years ago, all I 
kept saying was "that's where Gene got Data from."

Janet Morrissey
"Mostly Harmless"
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From: gibson@crisium.geop.ubc.ca (Brad Gibson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: MY TOP TEN (Was: Re: QL in Entertainment Weekly)
Date: 23 Dec 1992 21:48:52 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Astronomy / Univ. of British Columbia
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In article <1halt4INNckv@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> gibson@crisium.geop.ubc.ca (Brad Gibson) writes:
>In article <1h7t3mINNlab@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:
>>
>>In a previous article, jrjj@moscom.com (Jad Jordan) says:
>>
>>>In article <1h74t5INN556@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:
>>>>Entertainment Weekly just came out with it's best and worst of 1992 and QL
>>>>made the list.  This is not something to be proud of.  It made the top 5
>>>>WORST list.  I quote.
>>>>
>>>>The others in this worst list for TV were:
>>>>	1. Angel Street
>>>>	2. The Heights
>>>>	3. Picket Fences
>>>>	4. Quantum Leap
>>>>	5. L.A. Law
>>>>
>
>>Top Five BEST (again ... Entertainment Weekly's [BKG])
>>
>>1. Roseanne
>>2. Larry Sanders Show
>>3. Seinfeld
>>4. The Simpsons
>>5. Late Night with David Letterman
>

  For those few who asked ...
   My Top Ten (Current Shows)
    1. The Larry Sanders Show     (no contest here ... in a class by itself)
    2. Seinfeld                          |
    3. The Simpsons                      | (2 thru 4 are interchangeable)
    4. Late Night with David Letterman   |
    5. Roseanne                  (5-9 are pretty interchangeable as well)
    6. Mad About You
    7. Picket Fences
    8. Kids in the Hall
    9. Northern Exposure
   10. Antiques Roadshow (guilty pleasure! ... shown on CBC Newsworld channel)

   That's about all I can stomach in the current TV lineup, barring the odd
   oversight on my part.

Cheers,
   Brad

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From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
Subject: Re: QL: new episodes?
Date: 01 Jan 93 19:22:54 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1hurdsINN2qp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:
>
>In a previous article, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) says:
>
>>Anyone know when we can expect new episodes on Quantum Leap?
>
>This coming Tuesday night.  The episode is called...
>
>for those who don't want to know _anything_ about the episode.
>

>
>Tale of Two Sweeties.
>
>Sam's a bigamist.  That's all I know.

     Oh boy.  Is it too much to hope that this episode will
contain a positive portrayal of a polyamorous marriage, or
should I just expect the "man is cheating on both women"
stock story?

				-Phil
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From: Edward_Lee_Whiteside@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Capt. Power anyone?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 23:43:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

As far as I know none of the Captain Power episodes have aired other than
in their original syndication run. They did edit together some of the 
two part episodes into a tv movie.  The tie-in to the Mattell toys will
probably keep them from running again, however, with J. Michael Straczynski's
involvement in the show (script editor, writer of about six of the episodes)
interest may pick up due to Babylon 5 (a reference is made to B5 in one of
the CP episodes).{
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From: langbein@pilot.njin.net (John Langbein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL in Entertainment Weekly
Date: 2 Jan 93 20:42:30 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv
Organization: Information Builders, Inc.

In article <1h7t3mINNlab@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:

> In a previous article, jrjj@moscom.com (Jad Jordan) says:

> >In article <1h74t5INN556@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) writes:

> >>The others in this worst list for TV were:
> >>	1. Angel Street
> >>	2. The Heights
> >>	3. Picket Fences
> >>	4. Quantum Leap
> >>	5. L.A. Law

The guy has almost no taste. #3 & 4 on the list are 2 of the better
dramas, even though QL ain't what it use to be.

> >Just out of curiosity, what were the best 5? I would like to see what they rate

> Top Ten

> 1. Roseanne

A show past it's prime. I always felt it was over-rated, even when it
was great. It's mediocre from the couple I saw this season.

> 5. Late Night with David Letterman
> 6. I'll Fly Away

He has some taste, though as much as I LOVE Letterman, I think he is
over-rated on this list.

> 8. Dream On

Novel show when it started. Really in a rut anymore. Just plain trash.

> 10. Cheers

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! THIS SHOW IS THE WORST THING
TO BE ON TV THIS YEAR!!!!!! IT'S ALMOST AS BAD AS HELLO LARRY WAS!!!!!
THIS SHOW IS DEAD!!!!! IT'S BEST SHOW THIS SEASON DOESN'T HOLD A
CANDLE TO THE WORST EPISODE OF ANY OF THE SHOWS IN THIS GUYS WORST
LIST!!!! THIS GUY SHOULD GET A LIFE!!!!!! <FLAME OFF>

Seriously, anyone who thinks Cheers is one of the best 10 programs on
TV this year (Ignoring past seasons, which are MUCH better, some even
BRILLIANT) should be patted on the head and totally ignored. He's
going on reputation here, nostalgia if I may say. I wish it was
cancelled a year ago, so I could look back happily on the show.

Let's face it, the guy likes 'Light entertainment', with the one
exception of I'll Fly Away. Batman isn't comedy, but it is geared more
for whole family entertainment. Anything strange (Quantum Leap, Picket
Fences) in the least is rejected by this buffoon.

Quantum leap will die due to the ratings in it's current slot, (2 top
30 shows vs. QL in the 70's) and nothing more. 

				John
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From: acf@cs.unh.edu (Andrew C. Feren)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Tomorrow People
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:30:44
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of New Hampshire
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In-reply-to: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL's message of 18 Dec 92 13:08:00 GMT

"KitchenRN" == KitchenRN  <KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL> writes:

KitchenRN> Cable TV Notice!

KitchenRN> Beginning January 25, the Nickeloden cable network will be
KitchenRN> showing "The Tomorrow People."  No indication as to how
KitchenRN> many episodes will be shown.

Wow! great!

I haven't seen "The Tomorrow People" in a looong time.  I loved the
show as a kid...it'll be interesting to see what I think of it now.


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From: wixer!cactus.org!wixer!pro-smof.cts.com!rfletcher@cactus.org (Robert Fletcher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Space Ranger(an Origin game spin off)
Date: 2 Jan 1993 06:58:54 -0600
Organization: The SMOF-BBS: Science Fiction Online Since 1985 [512-467-7317]
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

  "Space Rogue" uh, well it has been a few years. It was "Space
'something or another'," and that tube in space is just like the one in the
game. I have only seen the ad once and it was only for a second.
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Subject: Re: Quarc
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:09:29 PST
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

jennise@opus.dgi.COM (Milady Printcap the goddess of peripherals) writes:

> 
> Does anyone out there remember a show called Quarc? (or Quark I'm not
> sure about the spelling or the name) If I'm not dreaming it starred
> Richard Benjiman and was about interstellar garbage collectors. It
> also had in it the original Doublemint Twins---okay maybe not the
> original ones but they were twins and they were always arguing about
> which one was a clone and which was the original. 
> 
> I'm dredging up (possibly) faulty memories and was just wondering if
> there ever really was such a thing.
> 
> jennise@dgi.com

No it didn't come from the realm of your imagination, it was an actual and
real show.  I don't think it even lasted a season, and it ran sometime around
'71 or '72.  I remember watching it, and thinking it was funny.  But that is
about all I remember.


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From: langbein@pilot.njin.net (John Langbein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: B5: Some Babylon 5 discussion on the net?
Date: 2 Jan 93 20:04:39 GMT
Organization: Information Builders, Inc.

In article <Dec.20.19.08.18.1992.7337@andromeda.rutgers.edu> detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio) writes:

> B5 will be running in primetime on Channel 9, but I have no idea at what
> time DS9 will be shown locally,  ST:TNG is shown on Saturday nights at
> 7:00 PM.

From what I understand, it will be taking over ST:TNG's timeslot AFTER
the 2 hour premiere this thursday at 8pm. I could be wrong.

Gearing up 'The System'....

John
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From: Edward_Lee_Whiteside@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: rec.arts.sf.tv
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 11:44:33 PST
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re; The Tomorrow people.  I had not heard anywhere whether the shows were
a half hour or 60 minutes (with commercials).  Will correct that in the 
next repost...
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Subject: Higlander Fans-READ THIS!!
From: bakerjd@hirama.hiram.edu
Date: 3 Jan 93 15:57:11 -0500
Organization: Hiram College
Nntp-Posting-User: bakerjd

	I was wondering....are there any Higlander fans out there that
would like to start either a newsgroup or a mailing list (similar to
Babylon 5)?
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From: alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy)
Subject: Babylon 5:  WHAT EXACTLY IS IT?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:40:45 GMT

I've been seeing all this discussion about the new series, Babylon5, but I
realized after seeing a commercial for it on Fox yesterday, that I have NO
IDEA WHAT IT'S ABOUT.  Can someone out there in netland maybe post a short
summary for those of us who have been buried in books all semester?  Thanx.


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