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Smivs wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:39 pm
spud42 wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:09 pm
we have magnanimously decided that Commander_X shall be deemed to be the winner of the snakey boots( that smell a bit fishy).
On the grounds that its time someone other than Cody, myself ,Disembodied or Smivs wins a round....
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I think Dredgerman should get an honourable mention as well. He's almost as sad as the rest of us :D
yes i did realise i maligned our honourable colleague by not mentioning him. my sincerest apologies....
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Commander_X wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:58 pm
<shiny eyes>Snakey boots with a bit of fishy smell received. A bit of whisky poured in for their, and later my treatment, you know, Stalin-like :)

An easy one from the new comer: Waff and Horza, what do they have in common?
to see if i am on the correct track.... Waff from Dune series Herbert? and Horza from Ian M Banks Consider Phelbas ( culture series) ?
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<nods> Yes, you're on the right track - I think.


Possible answer: the art of impersonation?
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Cody wrote: Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:06 pm
<nods> Yes, you're on the right track - I think.


Possible answer: the art of impersonation?
That's the correct answer! Both civilizations were backing shape shifting with the main purpose of impersonation.

Here sir, the snakey boots with less of the fishy smell, are yours!
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Does a direction to a metalworker lead to an interplanetary outlaw?
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stainless steel rat ?
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No, this pre-dates Jim diGriz.
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ahhh, thought that was too easy... off to google/duck duck go...lol
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<chuckles> I use Ixquick.
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Northwest Smith?
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Northwest Smith - possibly the inspiration for the Han Solo character. The snakeskin boots are yours, sir!

Trivia: the author of the Northwest Smith stories, C. L. Moore, was a friend of another early female sci-fi writer - Leigh Brackett - who wrote/worked on the first screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. Though it was (apparently) not used by Lucas, she did receive a credit (apparently).
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"The Disc was in darkness now, but the little orbiting sun was giving a brief day to the face of the waterfall. While Kin watched it climbed above her and disappeared as the ship overtook it."

Which SF novel is this from (and I stress SF, not fantasy!)
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Strata, Terry Pratchett . interesting might need to find this..
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spud42 wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:06 pm
Strata, Terry Pratchett . interesting might need to find this..
Correct! It's his take on Ringworld, only a disc world rather than a ring, the last novel he wrote before The Colour of Magic. Great fun, now sadly a bit obscure, and has bits of a lot of ideas that later turned up in the Discworld series, and some VERY weird explanations for them.

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goes to book case............................................................


oops.. sorry about that got carried away reading....

ok a quicky that the veterans here should have no problem with.

a collaboration. 6 suns. 1 night. name the authors and the novel.
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