SCI-FI BOOKS

[PollyMath]

Little Jack Horner sat in a corner
Extracting cube roots to infinity
A [something] for boys
Which eliminates noise
And provides a more tranquil vicinity.

Ya know, I ain't gonna be able to do this much longer. I don't have my copies of the book. And since I pre-ordered a bunch of stuff, it will take a while before Amazon decides to give in and send the already published stuff separately (even though I didn't pay for separate shipments).



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[MightyLady77]

Polly,

a [something]=An assignment

ok, here's another one

Resistor, transistor, condensers in pairs,
Battery, platter, record me some airs;
Squeaker and squawker and woofer times pi,
And Baby shall have his own private Hi-Fi.

If we keep this up, we will eventually post every poem in the book!

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MightyLady of the Flame Red Hair
Every time I push the envelope, I get a paper cut.

[This message has been edited by MightyLady77 (edited October 23, 2001).]

[sindatur]

Farscape Book 2 Dark Side of The Sun.

Synopsis: Chrichton has a dental problem, that leads to problems on Moya, which in turn leads our beloved crew (Same as the first book) to trade with some rather unscrupulous types. Lots of betrayals to our heroes, some where you wouldn't expect them.

This one, in my opinion was not as good as the first one. The dialogue for the characters was well written, you could hear the character saying those things, but the work Frak was used an awful lot, where Frell was used only a couple times. Frak is from Battle Star Galactica, I don't recall hearing it in FArscape ever. The other problem I had with it was the action scenes, this may have been me being distracted and not paying attention, but the action went too fast and it was hard to follow what happened until you figure it out from what's written after the action has passed. Definitely worth the read, but not a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. Book 3, I believe is due out in DEcember.

BTW, is it OK to discuss spoilers in this topic? I've kinda strayed away from giving specifics or discussing specific things because it's it's such a wide open topic, and the description of the topic doesn't say spoilers are allowed.

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Sindatur - The Grey owl Wizzard

[Stilgar]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PollyMath:
I just finished the second prequel to the Dune series calles Dune: House Harkonnen....

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Recently i found a copy of "the notebook of frank herbert's dune" it's amazing, no more looking through previous books for one little quote, and it has some additional phrases of the dune universe aswell.

I'm finishing chapterhouse now, how is the first prequel, and have you heard anything of the second movie, which i believe is supposed to "consist" of messiah and children?

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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
~~AlbertEinstein

[This message has been edited by Stilgar (edited October 24, 2001).]

[Wizz]

<Font face="georgia">Sindatur,
As far as I know, there are two options:
1) Start a new topic with the caption indicating that spoilers exist or
2) Indicate first off in the post that spoilers exist (&lt;font size=&quot;+7&quot;&gt; in front of the warning works really well!). But, really, just use your best judgement. Besides, you've been around here long enough that if you're down to an educated guess you'll get it right.
My 2? worth.


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Do not tempt the patience of Wizzards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.

[Sycamore Evenstar]

WOW!! Wish I had bumped into this board sooner!

I'm a listener, though--I rarely read serious scifi books. Usually TV series (ST, B5, FarScape) and sometimes Arthur C. Clarke. And my reading is confined to after I crawl into bed, so often I get a page or two (or a sentence or two!)read before I wake up and find my face stuck to the print!

The Mother Goose sounds fantastic--I'm ordering tonight! #2 Farscape, too. I confess, though, I am having a very hard time getting into the first one--sounds like it's worth sticking with it, though!

I'm getting behind on my ST purchases--seems both K-Mart and Target have cut back on books in general and scifi in particular. I like getting as much as I can at those places since they discount by 25%.

Any info as to when the third Technomage book is due out?

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[Wizz]

<font face="georgia">As far as I know, the third technomage book is due out in November. I'll just sit here, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for the postman to arrive...



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Do not tempt the patience of Wizzards, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.

[MightyLady77]

I just bought the first two technomage novels for Aaron this week. Made him a happy camper--for at least five minutes. Kids!

I was going to order the third book from amazon.com since Polly sent me a 10% discount on it from there. But, I did the math, and, after adding the shipping into the total, it's still cheaper for me to run out to the local bookstore and pay state sales tax on it. I appreciate what amazon.com can offer to others, but I seldom find their prices low enough to justify taking business away from merchants in my own town.

On another topic, I just received a new book from Science Fiction Book Club. I don't remember ordering it, but a new book is never bad, is it?

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MightyLady of the Flame Red Hair
Every time I push the envelope, I get a paper cut.

[Sycamore Evenstar]

Thanks for the info about the next Technomage book!

I'll be ordering from the Universoty Bookstore, as usual. No shipping charges or sales tax (and I get an extra 10% rebate at the end of the year--that's really nice!)

(www.ubookstore.com, 800-335-READ (-7323))

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[PollyMath]

Just to let people know, it seems that Amazon.com has started their yearly "shop early, free shipping" promotion. I think it requires a really big order, but if you are ordering gifts for others as well as yourself, it might be worth it.

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