We have a winner! Michael Swanwick seems to me to be under-rated, at least over here ... his novella Griffin's Egg is well worth getting hold of, if you can find it. Vacuum Flowers is a terrific read, too. The Iron Dragon's Daughter and The Dragons of Babel are really quite fierce pieces of genre-crossing science-fantasy ...Zieman wrote:Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick?
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Yay!
OK, here's another:
Book & Author ?
Clue: Humanity is divided into four separate factions. These factions all believe to be the only one.
OK, here's another:
Book & Author ?
Clue: Humanity is divided into four separate factions. These factions all believe to be the only one.
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Clue 2:
One of the factions is used as sort of "imperial shock troops" by a powerful alien race, with which another human faction is allied with.
One of the factions is used as sort of "imperial shock troops" by a powerful alien race, with which another human faction is allied with.
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I would have said "The left hand of darkness" by Ursula LeGuin, but that's from the 70's 
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This one is quite recent.
Clue 3.5: Another faction is working hard as a 'client' for an other alien race.
Clue 3.5: Another faction is working hard as a 'client' for an other alien race.
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Hmm... is it Seeds of Earth, by Michael Cobley?
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Why, yes it is.El Viejo wrote:Hmm... is it Seeds of Earth, by Michael Cobley?
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An easy one: an exclamation of astonishment... or an exhortation to purchase a gas giant?
Title and author of this short story, please.
Title and author of this short story, please.
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Is it, Buy Jupiter! Isaac Asimov?
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Ha.. yes, indeed it is.Fatleaf wrote:Is it, Buy Jupiter! Isaac Asimov?
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Bugger, I'm nextEl Viejo wrote:Ha.. yes, indeed it is.
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Name the drink: “It is—it is—it is green.”
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Would that be my other favourite tipple, Aldebaran whiskey?
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Aldebaran Whiskey iirc, from the TNG episode Relics?
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