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From: blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu (Dan Blum)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Stephen Brust and Alexandre Dumas
Date: 10 Nov 92 05:28:04 GMT
Reply-To: blum@ils.nwu.edu
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
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OK - specifics this time.  On page 114 of the paperback, we have "The
Dragon Heir, being of the same line as Lord Pepperfield [e'Lanya]
wished to continue the duchy within his line, but another line, I
believe the e'Kieron branch, objected."  Given the time scale, the
reference must be to the current Heir and not an earlier one.

The Warlord's brother is Dekkaan e'Tenith - at least he is in the
scenes where he actually appears.  In Chapter 34, he is referred to as
Kurich, who was one of his friends.

The question of the Warlord's line is less certain - her line is
always given as e'Tenith, but she says (in Chapter 34) that she was
trying to win Pepperfields for her line.  However, the plot as
described was to keep Pepperfields for the e'Lanya line.  If this
isn't an error, it should at least have been explained better.

The only other "factual" error I recall is a reference to a prison
beneath the Issola wing of the Palace.  Again, if this is not a
mistake it should have been explained better, as the only Palace
prison mentioned elsewhere is that beneath the Iorich wing.

These last two are minor errors, but the first two are quite
irritating (at least to me), and would tend to indicate that the book
received little or no editing.  Is it possible that the paperback was
printed from a draft?  


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From: rafem@gvlf7-e.gvl.unisys.com (Ralph Marrone)
Subject: Re: Human Computers in SF--Help!
Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, Great Valley Labs, Paoli, Pa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:30:39 GMT

>In article <3741@creatures.cs.vt.edu> sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle) writes:
>
>Hello all:
>
>I need some help....  I'm looking for examples in fiction literature
>of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is,
>computers that talk and communicate like humans.  I'm not so much 
>interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be
>distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without
>being almost totally human-like....  So far I got these suggestions.
>If you can add to the list or comment on the works in it I would very
>much appreciate it....
>
>Thanks,
>Ahmed


Has anyone mentioned _Colossus_ by D.F. Jones? 


Regards,

Ralph Marrone
From: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Plot Identification?
Date: 12 Nov 1992 00:19:51 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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In article <BxKpHL.Cxp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, gmills@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (MILLS G - CHEMICAL ENG.) writes:
|> I'm hoping somebody can help me identify an old sf (novel? short story?)
|> plot that I heard a while back.
|> 
|> The story goes that the secret of interstellar travel is actually
|> incredibly simple and most cultures/planets discover it long before the
|> internal combustion engine.  (ie. knock together a wooden box, coat it
|> with tar and explore the galaxy!)
|> 
|> The action of the story occurs when the current rulers of the galaxy (a
|> bunch of fluffy t-bears armed with flintlock rifles) arive on Earth and
|> get a big surprise...
|> 
|> Sounds like a Hoka book but I don't think it is...any ideas..?
|> 
|> Thanks...
|> 
|> homemade sig
|> gmills@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

Darn! Can't remember! And I've read it, too...:^)

An inverse of that plot is provided by Poul Anderson's 
"The High Crusade", where the hi-tech alien invaders are
overwhelmed by Baron Somebody-Or-Other and his medieval
knights and bowmen, who then proceed to take the captured 
ship up and away to conquer the Galaxy, forgetting where
Mother Earth was located in the process...

- Don Coolidge
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From: maxson@cerl.uiuc.edu (K R Maxson)
Subject: Re: Who Was "The Fisher King"?
Organization: UIUC Computer-based Education Research Lab
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:47:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.182412.10036@vax.oxford.ac.uk> warda@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>Something that's been nagging at the back of my mind for while now:  
>Briefly, what is the "Fisher King" myth?  I read Powers' "Drawing Of 
>Of The Dark", and I have vague recollections of the Fisher King from 
>European mythology, but nothing concrete.  Can somebody fill the gap 
>in my knowledge, please?

From: The Arthurian Encyclopedia, Norris J. Lacy, ed., 1986.

	FISHER KING, the keeper of the Grail; sometimes called the Rich Fisher.
	Perhaps an avatar of Bran the Blessed, the Fisher King is the
	wounded occupant of the Grail Castle in Chretien de Troyes's
	_Perceval_ and other works.  He and his land could have been restored
	had Perceval asked about the Grail procession; Perceval's failure to
	do so necessitates the Grail quest.  Eventually, Chretien's hero
	learns that the Fisher King is his cousin (although in other texts
	he is Perceval's uncle or grandfather).  Chretien does not give him
	a name, but in Wolfram von Eschenbach he is called Anfortas.
	  In the work of Robert de Boron, the Fisher King is identified with
	Hebron or Bron, Joseph of Arimathea's brother-in-law, who catches
	the fish that is placed on the Grail table.  The Didot-_Perceval_
	continues and concludes the story of the Fisher King, as the work's
	hero returns to the Grail castle, asks the Grail question, and
	cures the king.
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From: joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
Subject: Title of the story/book
Keywords: What is the title/author of this story/book?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:38:23 GMT


I have read a story in a collection (or a book...I forget) which describes 
people living in high rise buildings. Some of the bad elements (akin to gangs)
live on the balconies. There this man who wants to cross certain section to go 
to the other side for some reason or other and has to reallly work hard to 
escape a gang who inhabit the section in between. In the whole story they never
talk about anybody living on ground and it talks about levels etc. Our hero
reaches the otherside and he goes to the very top of a tall building where
a lot of socially elite gather for a party etc.

I found it to be quite fascinating and would like to read it again.

Thanks in advance for any help

Anil
joshi@cs.uiuc.edu
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From: jfl@panix.com (Jeff Lipton)
Subject: Jack Vance - Where to Find Books
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:09:32 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC


	Apropos of the recent discussions on this forum of
Vance's ouvre, I'd like to know where I can obtain some of his
out of print novels. I regret lending my "Dying Earth" to a friend;
I've always found that immensely entertaining and evocative. If any
one has information on mail-order oop book places, let me know.

 - Jeff

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From: blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu (Dan Blum)
Subject: Re: Stephen Brust and Alexandre Dumas
Reply-To: blum@ils.nwu.edu
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:20:46 GMT

I can't cite pages at the moment.  The worst error (and potentially
the most confusing for someone who, unlike me, hadn't read the Vlad
Taltos books) was the problem of the two Dragon heirs.  Now, Adron is
supposed to be the Dragon heir, and for most of the book he is.
However, in one of the first few chapters, we are told of an
(e'Lanya?) heir who wants to get the title that opened up for his
line, as opposed to the e'Kieron line!  In addition, the Warlord
changes houses at least once, and her relative (brother?) who fights a
duel with one of the protagonists early on changes names with his
friend in the final part of the book (when the Warlord makes her
charges).  This is all from the paperback edition - possibly the
hardback edition didn't have these problems.
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From: eschneid@sparc48.tamu.edu (Erich R Schneider)
Subject: Re: John Norman movie(was Re:Sharon Green)
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:04:19 GMT

In article <2B029C55@ssd0.laafb.af.mil> KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:

>>I don't know about Norman (I've only seen the movie), but I think Green's

>WHAT Norman movie?  SURELY there was NEVER a Gor Movie?!?!?!

Two, actually. Supposedly, I think, adapting _Tarnsman of Gor_ and
_Outlaw of Gor_, the first two books. By all accounts they were
execrable.

(Caveat: I haven't seen either, nor do I plan to.)

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"The AI _loved_ it. That's when we knew for sure that _people_ were going
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From: chrismg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (christian gadeken)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: TIM POWERS IS GOD!
Date: 7 Nov 92 01:55:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: ut-emx.83178
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

To Tim Powers fans - especially fans of "On Stranger Tides" I heartily
recommend "Chase the Morning" by Michael Scott Rohan.  It has a lot of
the same "sense of wonder" to it, and shares the theme of an ordinary
(contemporary, in this case) man pulled into magical surrounds.

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From: msb@samson.bnr.ca (Morris Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Sharon Green
Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada.
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 17:21:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.222156.23298@ils.nwu.edu> blum@ils.nwu.edu writes:
>She is a real person, and she is a woman - I've met her.  I haven't
>read any of her books (or Norman's), so I can't comment.  Maybe she
>writes the Norman books as well. :)

I don't know about Norman (I've only seen the movie), but I think
Green's books have slightly more depth.  They're not so much about
(women's) place in society as about individuals (male and female)
learning to overcome obstacles.  Besides, I found them entertaining.

I was killing some time in a library this week and I looked her up in
_Contemporary_Authors_.  It's amazing how much 6 column-inches can say
about a person.  She sounds like a person worth knowing.

What I *would* like to know is why she has (apparently) stopped
writing.  I've read one of her series that went to a logical
conclusion, but her last two books (_Lady_Blade,_Lord_Fighter_ and
_Mists_of_the_Ages_) were written several years ago and ended on cliff
hangers.  I'ld really like to find out how the stories end.  Does
anyone know?

Morris
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From: john@sekrit.WPI.EDU (John Stoffel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Human Computers in SF--Help!
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:06:34 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In-reply-to: sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu's message of 8 Nov 92 16:22:39 GMT

>>>>> On 8 Nov 92 16:22:39 GMT, sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Eskinder Sahle) said:


Eskinder> Hello all:

Eskinder> I need some help....  I'm looking for examples in fiction
Eskinder> literature of super sophisticated communicative computers a
Eskinder> la HAL. That is, computers that talk and communicate like
Eskinder> humans.  I'm not so much interested in those instances where
Eskinder> it's a robot that cannot be distinguished from a human being
Eskinder> as in computers sounding human without being almost totally
Eskinder> human-like....  So far I got these suggestions.  If you can
Eskinder> add to the list or comment on the works in it I would very
Eskinder> much appreciate it....

Here are some off the top of my head.  There are LOTS more where these
came from.

Stanislaw Lem:  The Cyberiad
Robert Heinlein: The Past Through Tommorrow (minerva is computer's name)
Kieth Laumer:	Bolo series (sorta matches it)
Iain Banks: 	Consider Phlebas (and other culture books)
George Lucas:	Star Wars books
Issac Asimov:	I, Robot (classic!) and others.

			John

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From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: John Norman movie(was Re:Sharon Green)
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:02:00 GMT

>I don't know about Norman (I've only seen the movie), but I think Green's

WHAT Norman movie?  SURELY there was NEVER a Gor Movie?!?!?!
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From: rcj@engin.umich.edu (R o d Johnson)
Subject: Re: An Almost Entirely Pointless Recommendation
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 18:13:49 EST
Organization: Lost Tribes of Gazebo

In article <BxCB50.L4p@techbook.com> dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
>
>Poul Anderson has written a fair amount of stuff (both fantasy and sf)
>in the style of Shakespeare.

Really. . . ?  (We really need a "bemused interest" punctuation mark.)
Can you name a few?  I have to think you (and Curtis) mean something
different by "in the style of Shakespeare" than I'm imagining, but
either way I'm curious.

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From: stong@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Simon Tong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Thief List
Date: 7 Nov 1992 11:51:17 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
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"Once there was a thief, and the thief was God."
					
				----- The first line of The Exodus Bible
from _The Long Run_ by Daniel Keys Moran


_Emerald Eyes_ and _The Long Run_ by Daniel Keys Moran.

Trent Castanavera, the main character in both books, is a "hacker" and
a thief.  He was genengineered by the government.

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From: gdr11@phx.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees)
Subject: Re: Starbridge Chronicles
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:55:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.154321.16668@athena.mit.edu>, gonzalez@athena.mit.edu (John R Gonzalez) writes:
|> I was wondering if anyone on this newgroup has read Paul Park's books.  I
|> recently finished The Cult of Loving Kindness and wondered what you all thought
|> about it.

I have read Soldiers of Paradise and Sugar Rain (is 'The Cult of Loving Kindness'
volume three of the series?  It doesn't appear to be out in the UK yet) and
enjoyed them both;  Paul Park has a wonderfully baroque imagination and  a good
command of images.  They're obviously derivative of Brian Aldiss' Helliconia
trilogy, and although I think Aldiss did it better this doesn't stop me enjoying
Park's work.

So tell us what The Cult of Loving Kindness is about?  Will there be further 
volumes?

-- 
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From: blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu (Dan Blum)
Subject: Re: SF Book Stores?
Reply-To: blum@ils.nwu.edu
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:46:49 GMT

The downtown Forbidden Planet is at Broadway and 12th, right across
the street from the Strand (an enormous used book store).  The uptown
one is in the east 50s, but I don't remember where exactly (although
57th sounds right to me, too).

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From: sarachanbd@crd.ge.com (B. D. Sarachan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Human Computers in SF--Help!
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:55:26 GMT
Reply-To: sarachanbd@crd.ge.com (B. D. Sarachan)
Distribution: usa
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center


Has anyone mentioned:  _When Harlie was One_ by David Gerrald?

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From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Title of the story/book
Date: 13 Nov 1992 23:00:58 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <Bxo9C0.FFs@cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:
>I have read a story in a collection (or a book...I forget) which describes 
>people living in high rise buildings. Some of the bad elements (akin to gangs)
>live on the balconies. There this man who wants to cross certain section to go

>to the other side for some reason or other and has to reallly work hard to 
>escape a gang who inhabit the section in between. In the whole story they
never
>talk about anybody living on ground and it talks about levels etc. Our hero
>reaches the otherside and he goes to the very top of a tall building where
>a lot of socially elite gather for a party etc.


The story is "Peaches for Mad Molly". I think Bruce Sterling wrote it.

I think I have it in one of the annual "Nebula Award Stories" volumes. Or
possibly in one of those anthologies with a name something like "The Year's
Best SF 198x-9x".

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

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From: jasonr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jason F Ralph)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Science Fiction -- Which books are good/original?
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:31:38 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

In article <H.OCgXSwHrZC6@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca writes:
>Most of my reading has been Fantasy, but I would like to read more Science
>Fiction.  I like the books by David Brin, and The Gap series by Stephen R.
>Donaldson is good.  Which others are good?

My preference is less 'true' sci-fi...

Julian May: Saga of the Exiles series (Many-coloured land, etc.)
            Intervention (*excellent book*)
            Jack the bodiless

Phillip K. Dick: Anything, but particulary...
                 Flow my tears the policeman said
                 Valis
                 Do androids dream of electric sheep
                 Man in the high castle
                 Game players of titan

Orson Scott Card: Enders Game
                  Speaker for the dead
                  Wyrms (not sci-fi at all but a damn good book)

Heinlein: Have space suit will travel (excellent pulp sci-fi)

Douglas Adams: (need I say more?)

Micheal Morcock: Dancers at the end of time series

Just a few thoughts...from someone who hates Asimov (particularly his
science books) and Clarke.

Splot.
From: jonathan@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr J J Trevor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Guy Kay: ``a Song for Arbonne''
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:56:57 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <1992Nov5.001826.20460@panix.com> tovah@panix.com (Tovah Hollander) writes:
>In <1992Oct30.154226.24557@bnr.ca> grey@bnr.ca (Grey) writes:
>
>>This is pretty puzzling. This book is available now, and has
>>for at least one month. Guy Gavriel Kay frequently visits
>>Universities here, and made no mention that this was anything
>>but the final edition. ??????
>
>You are in Canada (well, assuming that the ".ca" in your address
>means what it usually means).
>
>A SONG FOR ARBONNE has been published in Canada.  It hasn't been
>published in either the U.S. or U.K. yet.  So anyone with a copy
>in the U.S. either has an advance copy or good friends in Canada
>(thanks again, Elizabeth!).  Puzzle solved?
>
>
>-- 
>Tovah Hollander
>tovah@panix.com -or- tovah@onion.salad.mssm.edu

Wrong. It has been published in the UK for about a month or so now in
hardback.



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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Stephen Brust and Alexandre Dumas
In-reply-to: blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu's message of 7 Nov 92 22:18:15 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 19:27:10 EST

In article <1992Nov7.221815.5248@ils.nwu.edu> blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu (Daniel Blum) writes:

>BTW, is it just me, or was _Phoenix Guards_ badly edited?  People
>switching names and lines, two different Dragon Heirs, etc.

I didn't notice; can you provide chapter and verse for a few examples?
What I and a number of netters did notice is an inordinate number of
typoes in the paperback edition, most of which were not present in the
hardcover; evidently the pb was set from the wrong version of the
file.

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Date: Mon,  9 Nov 1992 20:54:11 -0500 
From: Mark Alan Lang <Elistan+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Stephen Brust's best

Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.sf.written: 9-Nov-92 Stephen Brust's best
by Ian Sutherland@nasser.ee  ix.p 
> I'd be interested to hear how many people feel that the Vlad Taltos
> books represent Brust's best.  I'd say that "To Reign in Hell" is his
> best by quite a long shot.

	Couldn't disagree with you more.  I couldn't get through "To Reign in
Hell" at all.  I think the Vlad Taltoss series is tied with "The Sun,
the Moon, and the Stars" as Brust's best.

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