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by Rxke Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:49 am
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by Lestradae Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:56 pm
goran wrote: well done. What gave me up?
Well, I read it ten years or so ago (and think it is quite recommendable) and it is the only SF book I ever read or heard about that is about people looking what happened to an earlier expedition, finding out that there is an alien intelligence there, and having to retreat badly beaten. So I guessed correctly.
Two points already!
OK, next question: It is a book too, it's theme is the colonisation of interstellar space in a very unusual way - one could even say, inverted to the usually imagined way
And it was written in the 1950s. The author was a male US-american.
Let's see if that is enough to be found out.
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by Diziet Sma Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:47 am
Tunnel in the Sky, Robert Heinlein.
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
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by Lestradae Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:22 am
It's not "Tunnel in the Sky" ...
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by goran Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:12 am
Asimov's Pebble in the Sky? Or maybe Hamilton's City at World's End but, technically, Middletowners are not colonists.
Although, when I hear "inverted colonization" i remember one asteroid with no end on one side...
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by Selezen Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:29 am
Possibly Greg Bear's Eon? That was the one with the Thistledown, yeah?
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by goran Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:49 am
Selezen wrote: Possibly Greg Bear's Eon? That was the one with the Thistledown, yeah?
Yep but Eon is from '85.
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by Selezen Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:34 am
Yes. Good point...
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by snork Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:33 pm
For some reason this makes me think of this book, where indians (as in american natives) canoo through space.
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by Lestradae Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:23 pm
All very creative ideas, but all not yet what I had in mind.
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by Cody Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:28 pm
Is it 'And All the Stars a Stage'?
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
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by Lestradae Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:30 pm
El Viejo should get a half-point imo for having correctly guessed the author ... but not the book.
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by Cody Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:32 pm
Then it must be 'Cities in Flight'.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
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by Lestradae Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:37 pm
Still ... not ... there ...
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by Cody Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:42 pm
Rats! I'd have to Google it now, and I won't do that!
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And it was written in the 1950s. The author was a male US-american.
