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¿Dónde está la cerveza?
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>Fatleaf quietly shuffles out of sight<Coyote wrote:Que?
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Clue 2: Her crew consists of a wide range of people, including three ghosts.cim wrote:The captain of a starship notes the difficulties in developing treaties between humanity and other sentient species to protect homes and families when their languages often don't have concepts for homes and families.
Title and author, please.
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Babel-17 by Samuel R Delany?
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
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Correct!El Viejo wrote:Babel-17 by Samuel R Delany?
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A narcotics agent joins forces with the natives of a planet to try and prevent the interstellar trafficking of a dangerous drug.
Title and author, please.
Title and author, please.
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Clue the first: the narcotics agent finds the planet very cold, and the dangerous drug being trafficked is tobacco.
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Big D slots the ball deftly into the net! The Iceworld in question is of course Earth!
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>sniggers<El Viejo wrote:Big D...
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OK: where would you find a legendary hero splitting an atom with a mythical sword?
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We're not talking Sturgeon here, are we?Disembodied wrote:OK: where would you find a legendary hero splitting an atom with a mythical sword?
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No - we're talking comic book. A stand-alone series, but still a comic book.DredgerMan wrote:We're not talking Sturgeon here, are we?
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Good, I *hated* Excalibur and the atom.
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It could be a comic-book which owes a significant debt to Sturgeon, though!DredgerMan wrote:Good, I *hated* Excalibur and the atom.
