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What short story ends with the narrator hiding out in a Los Angeles high-rise on a stormy grey morning and wondering if his children will colonise Africa, Europe or Asia?

Cody wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:53 am

Time to recycle those boots, methinks.


As it's Monday morning, an easy one: which spacecraft was originally named Immigrant One, and in which film did it appear?

Planet of the Apes, and later known as "Liberty 1" although not in the original movie release.

Robot animals?

Well, let's not be dogmatic here...

<shiny eyes>Snakey boots with a bit of fishy smell received. A bit of whisky poured in for their, and later my treatment, you know, Stalin-like :) An easy one from the new comer: Waff and Horza, what do they have in common? They're both featured in books I've never read! :lol: I'm guessing this doe...

Disembodied wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2017 5:19 pm

Malacandra wrote:

What is hanging over the garden wall?

Is it "a great Darsh face" (in an … unusual location, to say the least)? From Jack Vance's The Face, from the Demon Princes series.

The exact phrase I was after sir - the boots are yours!

[boots on]

Towards the end of the story...

A snob answers the telephone to be told to "Go out into your back garden". What is hanging over the garden wall?

DredgerMan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2017 6:48 pm

You're actually quite close with the zero comment. In fact you're halfway there!

Count Zero, William Gibson. I'll win dirty if I can't get there any other way!

<grins> They're all too easy if you've read them. Of the five, I've only read four - and 1984 was a long time ago. 2. Helliconia Spring The opening of Nineteen Eighty-Four is unforgettable, but I'd forgotten Helliconia (it's twenty years plus change since I read it, and I read it only the once... w...

*wanders in*

*looks frustrated*

Nope. Clearly I'm not well up on my British time-travel stories.

Hi again,

Sales promo on the Kindle edition of "Claymore Mine" if you're in the UK.

link here

You know it makes sense.

Keep 'em coming!

Heh. :D I was surprised to see this topic revive after five months or so, but while it's here: I'm dipping another toe in the water with a local craft fair, at which another local author has suggested I try bringing along some paper copies and seeing if I get any nibbles. (Contrary to what one of th...

Paradox wrote:

As for an audience... Everyone seems to have wandered off. }:[ Lots of new games out there right now I suppose. Star Citizen is looking really good, but that's a topic for another thread.

Still looking in from time to time, I promise!

I hoped to run a coupon discount for the community, but all I've actually found out how to do is a sales promotion. From Thursday morning UK time, UK customers can get a 50% discount for one week. Still getting used to marketing things via Amazon.

*raises thumb*