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From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
Subject: Re: The Graphic Novels...
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 00:51:38 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <1992Jul21.190604.19993@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> marlowe@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Amanda T Marlowe) writes:
>
>Hi, I've been lurking on this group for a while (too busy playing PernMUSH
>to post, though :) :) ), and I thought I'd break the silence by asking
>what people think of the "graphic novels" of the first two parts of
>Dragonflight. I was looking for a copy of Dragon Lover's Guide in a store
>I thought might actually be able to find me a copy, and leafed through
>these. They looked interesting, but the guy at the store told me they
>weren't popular enough for them to have made the third (and final) volume.

He lied. They made all 3. Now I wish they'd finish Neuromancer
(they only did the first half. :( )

>Has anyone out there read them? What do people think of the illustrations?

I've read all three. My only problem with them is that by #3 the
dragons' wings are no longer colored (they're all tan) and
throughout, the dragons have ears. The characters are portrayed
as illustrated in People of Pern and the Dragonriders of Pern
Boardgame drawings (also by Robin Wood).

>(I've always prefered the second cover of Dragonflight-The one with Lessa
>in a white dress riding Ramoth- as my view of dragons, rather than the
>pterodactyl things that took over the later versions, personally.) 

Eaugh! I HATE those gaudaful frilly dragons with a passion. I
have this urge to grab a beltknife and trim those leprous growths
off the noble beasts. Mnedranth is a no frills dragon, I'm proud
to say. See the cover of DragonQuest as drawn by Michael Whelan
for what Mneddie looks like. I really pity the poor Brits - they
have different covers over there, and the dragons are these
frilly things, with holes in their wings. *shudder*

Just MHO of course. :)

>**** Amanda Marlowe		"Son, Son, I admire your sincerity. Always be
>     marlowe@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu   sincere whether you mean it or not." 

Joshua

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From: blanchar@crs.cl.msu.edu (Ken Blanchard)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.nathan.brazil
Subject: Re: Well?
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:16:29 GMT
Reply-To: blanchar@crs.cl.msu.edu.UUCP (Ken Blanchard)
Organization: Michigan State University

In article <1992Jul14.015407.27948@tamsun.tamu.edu> bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell) writes:
>P.S.  There may be other Nathan Brazils around... anyone?  anyone?
>
Nathan Brazil appears to be alive and well in the new series Quintara Marathon
as Gun Roh Chin IMHO.  
Newsgroups: alt.fan.nathan.brazil
From: osterbar@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Andrew Robert Osterburg)
Subject: Re: Well?
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 15:38:25 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.021629.7632@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> blanchar@crs.cl.msu.edu.UUCP (Ken Blanchard) writes:
>In article <1992Jul14.015407.27948@tamsun.tamu.edu> bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell) writes:
>>P.S.  There may be other Nathan Brazils around... anyone?  anyone?
>>
>Nathan Brazil appears to be alive and well in the new series Quintara Marathon
>as Gun Roh Chin IMHO.  

	In virtually all of Chalker's books there is a cigar-smoking,
hard-bitten-realist.     
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From: linda@visix.com (Linda Thomas)
Subject: Re: Well?
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:11:08 GMT

>>>>> On 22 Jul 92 02:16:29 GMT, blanchar@crs.cl.msu.edu (Ken Blanchard) said:

Ken> Nathan Brazil appears to be alive and well in the new series Quintara Marathon
Ken> as Gun Roh Chin IMHO.  

Also, Matson in the Soul Rider series.  Chalker seems to have an afinity
for this kind of character.  Nathan Brazil has the same kind of appeal
to readers that Lazarus Long does.  It must be something aobut living
forever...

		-Linda

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.dice-man
From: winterh@emunix.emich.edu (Twist)
Subject: Re: **  Am I the only DICE fan, I dont think so.  **
Organization: Detroit Institute Of Criminal Arts And Sciences
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:10:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.181201.8253@data-io.com> jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.123804.29021@rdg.dec.com> pfalk@stkai2.enet.dec.com (Peter Falk (FLK)) writes:
>#
>#I've also seen him in two other movies where he had a minor part.
>#In both movies he played the same kind of character.
>#One was with Lea Tompson, And Dice called himself the vinman.
>
>That would be the movie "CASUAL SEX?". (Yes, the question mark is
>part of the title.)
>

And the other movie is "NIGHT PATROL", which also stars the Unknown Comic.
A funny movie. Very stupid, but a great laugh.


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From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: Re: **  Am I the only DICE fan, I dont think so.  **
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:12:01 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.123804.29021@rdg.dec.com> pfalk@stkai2.enet.dec.com (Peter Falk (FLK)) writes:
#
#I've also seen him in two other movies where he had a minor part.
#In both movies he played the same kind of character.
#One was with Lea Tompson, And Dice called himself the vinman.

That would be the movie "CASUAL SEX?". (Yes, the question mark is
part of the title.)
From: pfalk@stkai2.enet.dec.com (Peter Falk (FLK))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dice-man
Subject: **  Am I the only DICE fan, I dont think so.  **
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:22:04 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.  Stockholm  SWEDEN

HEEELLLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Is there anybody out there??
This newsgroup has been dead a very long time.
Has anybody got some DICE material.
I've seen him in Ford Fairlane (Lame but funny), and a stage show called
"The DICEman cometh".
I've also seen him in two other movies where he had a minor part.
In both movies he played the same kind of character.
One was with Lea Tompson, And Dice called himself the vinman.
The other movie I dont know..


So.., Is there any FTP-site I can check out for DICE material, Or does anybody
have material they can mail me?



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                     Clint Eastwood.....I fucked him!!!!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dice-man
From: bufalini@beyond.gis.psu.edu (Bruce A Bufalini)
Subject: Re: **  Am I the only DICE fan, I dont think so.  **
Keywords: Only one Dice fan exists
Reply-To: bufalini@beyond.gis.psu.edu (Bruce A Bufalini)
Organization: Penn State Geographic Information Systems
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:27:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.123804.29021@rdg.dec.com>, pfalk@stkai2.enet.dec.com (Peter Falk (FLK)) writes:
>HEEELLLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>Is there anybody out there??

No.

>This newsgroup has been dead a very long time.

And it's just as well.

>Has anybody got some DICE material.

No.

>So.., Is there any FTP-site I can check out for DICE material, Or does anybody
>have material they can mail me?

Don't know.  No.
From: MrEd@GreenAcres
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dice-man
Subject: Re: **  Am I the only DICE fan, I dont think so.  **
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:39:09 GMT
Organization: McGill University

In article <1992Jul23.123804.29021@rdg.dec.com> pfalk@stkai2.enet.dec.com  
(Peter Falk (FLK)) writes:
> HEEELLLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> Is there anybody out there??
> This newsgroup has been dead a very long time.
> Has anybody got some DICE material.
> I've seen him in Ford Fairlane (Lame but funny), and a stage show called
> "The DICEman cometh".
> I've also seen him in two other movies where he had a minor part.
> In both movies he played the same kind of character.
> One was with Lea Tompson, And Dice called himself the vinman.
> 

was that the one with Victoria Jackson ? 
-
From: bahn@main.mndly.umn.edu (Christopher Bahn)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Re: Was ist das Q?
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:19:30 GMT
Organization: the Minnesota Daily (U of MN Student Newspaper)

In article <pinky.711391527@milton> pinky@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Burbank) writes:

>no no no, Q is from star trek the next generation.

I think he's ALL these things. 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: tb meets tp
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 22:15:06 GMT

I have but one question.  Why does your .sig have a picture
of an invisible man with a fish on his head.  (Or is it a 
fish on wheels?)

Fox

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From: dug@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dug Smith)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:39:26 GMT
Subject: Re: DW ideas
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NSG-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett

>>Anyone posting DW ideas: PLEASE put on the top TERRY, DON'T READ THIS.  I
>>hate people giving me DW ideas -- if they're good, I'm stealing, if they're
>>not, what the hell...

>So what? Call it inspiration and just make sure you make enough money
>with the idea to be able to ward off legal challenges. Oops! Looks like
>I've just given away the secret of my success.
>Anyway, I put my Copyright down there just for fun.
>*chuckling guilefully while innocently staring at ceiling*

>May the Cool be with You!

>(C)OOL mcmxcii

But surely if TP does this, you've already given him the idea (and copyrighted
it), so he wouldn't have a leg to stand on :-)
From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Johnny and the Dead
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:45:31 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>YA means Young Adult means vaguely adolescent.  YA books have fewer teddy
>bears and more inner city grit.

I had of course assumed that YA meant "Yet Another (as in "Yet Another
^$%#*&*@# Pratchett book"). Working with UNIX all these years must
have affected me more than I thought!

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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser)
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff 
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 02:29:20 GMT

tdc1004@dircon.co.uk (Barry Freeman) writes:

>mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser) writes:

>>
>>Wizards don't use computers.  Druids do remember (was it the Colour of Magic or
>>the Light Fantastic when Rincewind landed on a huge slab of sillicaceous
>>rock heading for a huge terminal?
>>
>>Fox
>>
> 
>I assumed that thatwas an '8-bit' <grin> machine.. I'd like 
>to see s0omething a bit more advanced...
>

Ahh, well last heard those clever druids were working on a liquid state
memory system while attempting to keep the original sillicaceous
architecture of the first machine.  I believe they are going to call
it the 'Clay III Supercomputer' <grins, ducks and runs>

Fox 
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From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: morris
Keywords: literature humor minor
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:30:32 GMT


In article <guest.1@scinet.up.ac.za>,
guest@scinet.up.ac.za (Guest van WISNAT) writes:
|>
|>Anyone know what the Morris dance in Reaper Man is ? It seems to be put 
|>into the book for some deep symbolical reason (although, looking for 
|>multilevel interpretations may be pushing it a bit).
|>
Whenever I ask any of my British friends what Morris dancing is all I get is
embarrassed laughs and evasive answers.  This confused American conjectures that
it's some sort of demented British folk dance that involves wearing bells,
waving handkerchiefs, and hitting people with sticks.  I'm told that Monty
Python's fish-slapping dance is a parody of Morris dancing.

Unfortunately, I lack the proper cultural context to understand T.P.'s
references to Morris dancing in Reaper Man.  I'm not sure if I should count
myself lucky or unlucky.

--PSW
From: asr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angus "Fluffy" Rae)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:46:24 GMT
Organization: CATHY_VoiceMail_Project


>rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>>Anyone remember 8" floppies?
>>I wrote my dissertation on them. No, not about them; just on them.)

I still have machine (working) which uses twin 8 inch drives. A nice big
heavy computer called the Olivetti P6066. I'm thinking of carefully
shortening it's plate... I already call it "The Beast". Built in thermal
printer, 40x1 LED display screen, little thumbwheel for setting the
accuracy it works to, little buttons for trace control and so forth
which light up when active, and little LED status lights as well.
Lovely. When I finally pick up my IBM PC (and I mean IBM... original
chunky 8088, 5 1/4 inch drive machine) it'll look great beside it. And
my Atari 800, and my Sinclair Spectrum, and my Oric Atmos...

I collect computers from the early 80s, in case you hadn't guessed.

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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (The Jack Elmo Society Black Book)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:50:40 GMT
Organization: Okefenokee Glee and Purloo Union
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <memo.536490@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
> Only You Can Save Mankind(tm) comes out in Septembner -- the 24th, I think.
> 
> Lords and Ladies (DW) comes out in hardover in early November, along with
> Witches Abroad in paperback.
> 
> Johnny and the Dead will, with luck, be out around April next year, along
> with the paperback of Small Gods.
> 
> Then Guards! Guards II (real title as yet unfinalised) will be out in
> hardcover in November '93 along with Lords and Ladies in paperback.

	Add one year for Americans and small children :-)

	Anybody have the address and name of Roc's publisher so we can badger
and hedgehog him into releasing TP books faster?
-- 
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I spit my last breath at thee, thou damned whale!"
--Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_

elmo (morrow@fnal.fnal.gov,morrow@physics.rice.edu)
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From: tdc1004@dircon.co.uk (Barry Freeman)
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff 
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:52:53 GMT


Disregard my message re NG... the news comes in backwards here 
and I didn't read your reply until after I posted mine..
 
I think maybe this news feed has it's cable plugged in the wrong 
way round...
 
And when are we going to see the Wizards experimenting with 
computers? eh? I mean, they have the High Energy Magic facility, 
sure they need some form of computer to run it all? Does the 
Librarian know about virus' (virii?) Do they have a debugger 
for complex spells?
 
BAzz
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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Johnny and the Dead
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:36:42 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Jul21.210039.2465@col.hp.com> lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:
>Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
>> 
>> "YA title"....
>> 
>
>Young Adult. Means it's just a normal book, but the protagonist is
>underage, so the libraries hide it from you.

Figgers. (Young Adult came to mind first, but of course that was too
simple... *sigh* Caught in my own convoluted mind.)
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: CMOT Dibbler
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:57:17 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <Bs5ABK.I50@newcastle.ac.uk> A.J.Gunn@newcastle.ac.uk (A. Gunn) writes:
>A discworld mystery....Calling all detectives,
>        CMOT was last seen in MP being summoned to take delivery of a
>thousand elephants. A suspiciously similar character (Dhblah) turns up
>ruining the dentition and digestion of the unwary outside Om's temple
>possibly not all that long after. If it is the same man, who  fled (to the 
>ever lasting benefit of A-Morporkian cuisine) rather than point out where
>the money could be found, in a certain deserted beach, he must have
>quite good linguistic skills.
>
>        Alternatively is this a bastard cousin or just an example of 
>morphic resonance? 
>        My guess... the elephants panicked, mushing him and half of AM,
>and he has been re-incarnated by a god who hated Om.
>

Throat Dibbler is alive and well beyond the end of "Moving Pictures", and was
recently seen (in "Reaper Man") on a bridge, chatting to the late Windle Poons.

I don't recognise the Dhblah character.  (Well, I recognise the character - I
just don't recognize the spelling of the name). Is this from one of the books
that has not yet been published in the US (it rather sounds as though it might
be from "Small Gods")?  If so, then I and many others left on this side of the
pond would appreciate it if those of you fortunate enough to live in the right
country would put spoiler warnings in the subject line of postings discussing
books we have not yet had much of a chance to read.
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From: rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku)
Subject: hejsan
Originator: rm104449@ee.tut.fi
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 16:27:23 GMT




Gee, this newsgroup is alive! You just go drinking for a couple of days and 
don't read any news and what happens? Yes, nearly one hundred unread news.

Of course I'm wrong again (I'm just no good with this news stuff) but what
did Terry mean in one of his news when he wrote about working with Neil G. 
and mentioned a film. The keyword is 'film'. Was there (is there) a film
coming up? Of course there's a film coming up (plenty of them), but what I 
mean is a film that has somethig to do with TP.

And BTW, who is Mike Jittlov (or something).


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From: davidv@sco.COM (Uncle David)
Subject: Re: New Questions for the FAQ
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:04:09 GMT


nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john a nickles) writes:
<...>
>Q: Is this the only newsgroup in which the object of affection himself
>appears?

>To the best of our knowledge. It is said that Neil Gamain reads the
>Sandman posts on rec.arts.comics and some of the rec.arts.books posters
>have published books with a popular following but this is the only spot where
>writer and fan are so clearly delianated.
<...>

i know for a fact that Mike Jittlov reads and posts in alt.fan.mike-jittlov
and i hear that rush limbaugh posts/reads alt.fan.rush-limbaugh by proxy
from his Compuserve account. dunno about any other fan groups. 
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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: Reaperman YES,Finland,really dumb offer.
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:51:58 GMT

In article <dcnnnghm.712485751@unix1.tcd.ie> dcnnnghm@unix1.tcd.ie (Donal Cunningham) writes:
>1). The YES is one of the reasons why I'm getting two friends to club together and get it in hardback instead of two (different!) paperbacks for my birthday.
>
>2). People in Finland and other far flung places wot ain't got no UK DW covers,
>as I said before, if you have trouble with the addresses that Terry posted,
>which I doubt, give me a bell. I will check the postage and mail you back.
>Mind you, this is all subject to availability, but that isn't really a big probelm in Ireland.
>

  Thanks for the offer.  Luckily, it seems that in Finland we DO get the
  UK DW books at first, but after a while they (the biggest bookstore in F)
  switch to the US versions. This because they get the UK versions quicker,
  and to get the cheaper US versions takes some time. 

>		Donal.

	- Mika

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From: ans0@aber.ac.uk (Austin Newton Shackles)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:36:09 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

someone mentioned flamefests etc., so here you are, i'll start a spelling 
flamefest:

the english spelling for disc is disc, unfortunately americans and (possibly) 
small children just don't like the idea of the c being hard, so they have to 
mess around with a perfectly good (if arcane) language, and replace it with a 
k. funilly enough, the english spelling of licence has a soft c, but the have 
to change that too, making it license...wierd.

:-) X10^19 for those who can't take a bit of light sarcasm.


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