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The Star King by Jack Vance!
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The Star King by Jack Vance!
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That's not the name of the series ... :twisted:
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The Demon Princes 8)
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Bingo! You win!

The five books are available now I think in two collected volumes from Tor, and are utterly, utterly fantastic. One of my great regrets is that I can't read them for the first time again.

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Over to you, Fatleaf!
Bugger ...

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Name the film in which it never stops raining.
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Name the film in which it never stops raining.
Angela's Ashes? :D
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Name the film in which it never stops raining.
Didn't the author die during the planet's transit across the sun? :wink:

Edit: Actually, it can't be what I was thinking of - that's the point of the story. :oops:
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Disembodied wrote:
Angela's Ashes? :D
Nope!
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Didn't the author die during the planet's transit across the sun? :wink:
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It rains a lot in Bladerunner ...
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It rains a lot in Bladerunner ...
It never stops raining in Bladerunner :D

In 2006 Ford reflected on the production of the film saying: "What I remember more than anything else when I see Blade Runner is not the 50 nights of shooting in the rain..."

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OK: where does this piece of art come from?

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Jorune, or Skyrealms of Jorune, is a science-fantasy role-playing game set among the Skyrealms - floating "islands" of earth levitated by mysterious crystals in the crust of an alien planet. :D
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Engines of the Gods?

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Fatleaf wrote:
Jorune, or Skyrealms of Jorune, is a science-fantasy role-playing game set among the Skyrealms - floating "islands" of earth levitated by mysterious crystals in the crust of an alien planet. :D
Got it in one! The image is "Death scene of Sho Copra-Tra, Sholari of Tashka". It's described online as

"... a complex and important scene to the setting. The aged human is probably the muadra Gends, the first of the muadra trained in isho skills by Sho Copra-Tra himself. A sholari is a priest, and Copra-Tra is another title meaning 'master of Tra.' The glowing orb between their hands is a naull orb; it is the simplest of isho manifestations, and reveals your personal essence. It is used as a peaceful greeting among muadra. Sho Copra-Tra's naull is almost pure white, the visible portion of tra energy. The huge figure in the back is a corastin. These are simple beings of great strength, who frequently hire themselves out as guards. From their poses, it is likely that the human female and the corastin are servants of Gends."
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