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no i have only read the Honor Harrington series so far... i need to acquire more books!!!

and Yes we have a winner. had to trade the fishy smelling thing in... all i got for it was a lousy Mk1 cobra with a paint job so bad it looks like it is shedding...lol

spud42 wrote:

MkI cobra with a paint job so bad it looks like it is shedding

Excellent - snakeskin boots!


Bull's eye? Back to restricted alien company.

my simple brain cant work it out... which words are the anagram? or is it a cryptic clue?

<grins> My apologies, spud - it's cryptic, not an anagram, and it's a novel by a well known author.
Solve the first part - Bull's eye? - and the rest should follow. <chortles>

Another cryptic clue: green desert sand.

Bull's eye? Think astronomy.

ok a bit of research ... bull... tarus...constellation....alpha tauri 1... Aldebaran.

so far so good?

<nods> Aldebaran is indeed the bull's eye (his left eye, I think)!

See you on Aldebaran
Safe on the green desert sand


Now then, Back often means reversed in crypto-speak...

ok, i'm going to have to baby step this thing... please feel free to jump in with the answer and put me out of my misery!!!

ok you green desert sands is a quote from/ never mind i just realised that the verse you wrote was a link..Duh!!!! anyway thats a different video than the one i found by googling the words..lol

so we have alderbaran and rolling stones...2000 light years from home... alderbaran is only 65 light years away BTW..

and alderbaran is the eye on the left as WE see it but it is the BULLS right eye...

nope got nothing... its 11:30 ish at night i need a cuppa Tea.....

<sips tea> Reverse Aldebaran and google it.

ahhh i was thinking the back refereed to restricted...

Narabedla ltd by Frederik Pohl ??

Aye, 'tis a good tale!

<launches snakeskin boots into sub-orbital trajectory> Should hit Brisbane in about ninety minutes - over to you, sir!

while i am waiting for the Tea to kick in and the sub orbital flight to land, i have to admit i have not read a lot of Pohl.
there are so many books and so little time to read. started reading sci fi in early high school. now when you are in a small town of 2500 people 50 Kms south of brisbane in the 1970's the only place i could get books was the library. Asimov,Herbert, Moorcock Wells etc, were about all they had. over the years i have picked up many more... EE doc Smith, McCaffery, Jordan,Feist,Eddings Hamilton,Webber ,Silverberg, Burroughs a few among many others i cant recall. Tolkien of course. Douglas Adams without doubt! i lament that most of what is called "SciFi" nowadays is fantasy. all swords and sorcery. dont get me wrong i enjoy well written fantasy but there is so much derivative dribble to wade through.

I read my first sci-fi novel when I was ten/eleven, but I was already hooked into sci-fi. My dad knew a newsagent who got back numbers of old forties/fifties pulp mags such as Astounding Stories. While my pals were reading Eagle/Dan Dare, I was reading Heinlein.

exactly! heinlein is another major one i missed out.. now just like DA i have my answer now i need the question to ask...lol
ok... semi cryptic but here goes. novel and the author.

this one lags behind the herd