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RichardAbbott
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- Science fiction, fantasy, some historical fiction
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(Quote) although closer inspection finds the message "This title is not currently available for purchase" :(
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UK Kindle at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mission-Gravity-Hal-Clement-ebook/dp/B017CJOWTG
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May the enjoyment of books, games, music, and related stuff continue next year!
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Sounds interesting
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Don't know the page as I'm on Kindle but it's chapter 18
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@Apocryphal Then maybe in time to finish the quintet? The Other Wind is a magnificent conclusion
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One of my favourites of her sf books, though IMHO The Dispossessed just beats it :)
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I _still_ haven't read any Blish except Cities in Flight
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I almost bought this collection, but then chickened out and just downloaded a sample so I could delay the decision until another day :)
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Maybe the longer series would be a slow read candidate if enough folk like it?
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> Please use the nominations thread for nominations. I heard that author changed his name to Butterbeard, married someone named Alexa, then become an innkeeper and publican in the West Farthing. > ... and spends his spare time discussing …
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I can't find Where the Sweet Birds Sang in UK Kindle but if we go for that I'll get a 2nd hand over. I've read little Ballard and found him rather depressing :( Not so keen on Clarke so my preference would be Dark Orbit 3 points, The Sparrow 2 point…
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Sounds really interesting
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It's ages since I read this and I remember being very taken by it. Worth mentioning that Melvill - for all the detail that populates his pages - was quite accustomed to simply inventing facts if his narrative required it. So the graphic descriptions…
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Looks like it, though both he and I look a bit different now! But I found some biography on him which makes me pretty sure it's the same guy
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What a splendid cover! Oddly, I knew a Dave Morris years ago back in school, in connection with Petal Throne games.
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> @clash_bowley said: > One of the side effects of the 'set Arthur in history' thing is making everything smaller and more petty. Why was this little nothing so damned famous? I agree - why would he be remembered more than any other failed…
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I finished it, but had longish gaps of not reading it and then thinking with some alarm that I had better get back to it (especially when I had forgotten it was for two months not one :) ). In the end I wanted to see how the various threads were dra…
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If I were in that situation I'd enjoy seeing the interaction between the diverse groups of people, together with some prior sense of prejudices for/against particular alliances.
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Eagle of the Ninth (both book and film versions) but not many others. Reading the book was a long time ago and I remember nothing much except the overall plot. I'd probably pitch this as teenage rather than adult or children's if I had to classify i…
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I wish wish wish she had included a map! I only discovered the placename glossary at the end after finishing the book, and often read descriptions of long journeys with a yeah whatever feel, as I couldn't place many of the movements - despite living…
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I've been meaning to read the Jack Whyte series since @Apocryphal first told me of them. Of Mists of Avalon, I vividly remember with great pleasure a passage where Morgaine is rediscovering her sense of connection with nature after years of being sh…
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Arguably his indifferent reaction to Bedwyr and Guenhumara at the time of caught-in-the-act, and his willingness to accept Bedwyr back when approaching the final battle, indicates that he really wasn't all that bothered about G in the first place. …
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Hari Seldon in Foundation is in a wheelchair. Yrth in the Riddle Master of Hed series is blind (we meet him in vol 3 and we only read together vol 1) In a bizarre quirk of coincidence, one of the main characters in my current WIP is in a wheelchair …
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I also liked them, partly for their characterisation and partly for the link back to an older Britain. I don't think they really brought in a truly magical element - their presumed ability seems firmly rooted by Rosemary Sutcliffe in the superstitio…
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Also a theme that Tolkien drew on, especially for the elves: "We have fought the long defeat"...
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It's a couple of weeks since I finished the book and I am struggling to remember some of the minor characters already! Ambrosius stands out, in some ways a more noble figure than Artos. I felt the reconciliation between Artos and Bedwyr was a bit co…
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I'm with @Apocryphal here - it was the human interactions which interested me more, especially the dark people (presumably picts?)
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Don't you mean Bedivere is there, in the form of Bedwyr? She explicitly discards Lancelot as a later addition... What I don't know is if Bedivere was linked to Guinevere in the early versions or if she has conflated the two.
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I just realised I never introduced myself... like Michael S Miller I haven't attempted to find a cool name, and by and large go by the same name everywhere. Geographically I have just moved from London to Grasmere, Cumbria, and am currently trying t…