Oolite Bulletins

I read this thread with interest because it reminded me of a similar complaint I made a while ago. I just fired up an old campaign of mine for old time's sake, I reviewed the objectives I had (just starting another pass across the galaxy with five passengers and a parcel to drop off), I made the fir...

Oh, the Cobby's got the turn performance, but I don't. I can keep from being hit in a furball, but I can't acquire a target and burn it quickly enough -- or at any rate, not reliably enough to be sure of putting a whole gaggle of bad guys to sleep in a reasonable time, and after what seems like half...

Hadaul. Played on Dar Sai, The Face by Jack Vance. Kind of a king-of-the-ring brawl on a field made of concentric circles, with temporary alliances with other players, duplicity, and as much dirty unarmed combat as you like even if actually killing opponents is frowned upon.

The trouble I found with trying to earn enough credits to buy a Boa CC -- a ship I flew and enjoyed in a previous version of this game, and it must have been about six years ago because it inspired the "Captain Hammond" stories -- is that running passengers and parcels attracts pirates and...

Then it's "Death". First appearance in Mort. *cough* The Colour Of Magic *cough* Have you actually checked that in the book? Information is not consistent in various sites. :? I was reading Pratchett before it was cool. :lol: Heard about Discworld (via a White Dwarf article) just after Th...

Getafix wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:24 pm

Then it's "Death". First appearance in Mort.

*cough*The Colour Of Magic*cough*

Nominated William Herschel, not least since he was the first person since antiquity to discover a new planet and hence open the possibility of still others to be discovered.

That's the one. "Reviewer's comments" include not only excoriating it as "rhodomontade and piffle", as quoted, but threats to horsewhip the Baron on the steps of his club. You're next! (To pose a question, that is. Not for a horsewhipping.)

There's really only one SF author who could use a word like "rhodomontade" and get away with it … alas I'm currently away from my books and I don't want to have to resort to Google to check the details! The actual book series is five books long, and the imaginary book series has a one-wor...

Okay. Which fictional book series* is dismissed by one fierce critic as "rhodomontade and piffle"? Name and title of both the book series and the other book series in which it appears.

(*as in, the book series itself does not exist but is referenced repeatedly as part of the backdrop)

I was all set to pose a question, but it's been asked in this thread a small matter of six years ago (thank you Google). Will need a little longer...

Camelot 3000? It's a comic mini-series from the 1980s and it's about Arthurian legend reappearing in the year 3000, with science-fiction elements including genetic engineering, aliens from another planet, and nuclear weapons.

Yes indeed. Batter up!

Hiya. Sorry for the wait, again. It's a book (by one of my favourite authors) and it revolves around an unusual medical complaint, hypokalemia . At least, it's uncommon here and now; in the story it is all too common and the plot describes the measures taken against it and the social order that resu...

(There's one in The Russian Creed , an outstanding work by an author who is unjustly neglec^C The Harlan Ellison short story We Mourn For Anyone is set in a near future in which duelling is commonplace. The protagonist witnesses a duel over a traffic dispute, and is later set up for a fatal duel wit...