Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:02 am
Sounds almost like a left-field reference to Pratchett's Strata (or perhaps Dark Side of the Sun).
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 12:04 pm
Multiple answers in one? That’s cheating!
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 12:26 pm
Of course, I'm supposed to be the bad guys around here 
As I see I've even got the rank now to prove it 
OK then - Strata
As I see I've even got the rank now to prove it OK then - Strata
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 1:35 pm
Oh, all right then. You win.
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 5:07 pm
Congratulations... maybe it should be 'Thargoid Military Attache'.Thargoid wrote:As I see I've even got the rank now to prove it
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 6:52 pm
OK, opening paragraph - name the book and author (it's a nice easy one as I'm in a rush):
The ship didn't even have a name. It had no human crew because the factory craft which constructed it had been evacuated long ago. It had no life-support or accomodation units for the same reason. It had no class number or fleet designation because it was a mongrel made from bits and pieces of different types of warcraft; and it didn't have a name because the factory craft had no time left for such niceties.
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 7:52 pm
Ian Banks "Consider Phlebas"
sure an easy one...
sure an easy one...
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:11 pm
Iain M Banks to be pedantically correct, but near enough...
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 4:35 pm
Thanks.Thargoid wrote:Iain M Banks to be pedantically correct, but near enough...
A guy is arrested for breaking into military base. There is thousands of witnesses of him being in another place and he is innocent. But he did it nonetheless.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 11:09 am
After reading this book, Schrödinger's cat commits suicide.
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 7:21 am
Basically, it's about what happens when you intersect things that should be parallel.
Author is american, best known for hes 7 series of books. This book is not part of any.
Author is american, best known for hes 7 series of books. This book is not part of any.
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 4:46 pm
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 9:02 pm
Patience, good man!goran wrote:Too hard? No guesses?
Need a bit more digging of memory (*cough* internet *cough*) though...
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:44 pm
Name of the book anagram : coquetting famous hatchment
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:56 pm
Aha... ‘The Coming of the Quantum Cats’ by Frederik Pohl.