Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


The Great Write Way  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


Steph L. - Jun 02, 2004 2:58:08 pm PDT #4986 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

The hairless cat was neat.

I admit, when I walked in, the cat was *right there,* and I recoiled. Because who expects that? But then I petted it and talked to it, and it hung out with me for a few minutes before disappearing through its cat door to the underworld.


deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2004 3:07:18 pm PDT #4987 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

It's a sphinx cat, damnit! A queen. Her name is Ripley. Nic and I are both in love - we think she's stunning.


Connie Neil - Jun 02, 2004 3:10:14 pm PDT #4988 of 10001
brillig

All book stores need cats.

Amber is tricky to get into if you're not grabbed immediately. I really want the big "Great Book of Amber" volume that's out there.

The first series has a few gender role presumptions that make me twitch, but the second series is just wonderful. The ending of the last volume felt a little rushed, and I've always wondered if he was writing against a mental clock.

Oh, gosh, there is at least one book that someone finished and published, it's about a demon and a pocket universe, and it's so very obvious which parts Zelazny wrote and which were filled in from notes.

I wonder why Zelazny doesn't seem to get the play and notoriety as Asimov and Clarke?


deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2004 3:14:45 pm PDT #4989 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

I wonder why Zelazny doesn't seem to get the play and notoriety as Asimov and Clarke?

Possibly because of the "world-class scientist" status of the other two? I mean, Uncle I was an essayist, a scientist, a researcher and a general science writer, as I recall, as well as writing fiction. And truth to tell, among the dozen or so science fiction books that I do love, Clarke has one (I consider Childhood's End one of the great novels of the last century, period, genre irrelevant, right up there with A Canticle for Liebowitz), and Isaac has none. But both of them were seen as "educators", which back in the when-old-days conferred legitimacy.

Which sucks. Because fiction, yo.


Katerina Bee - Jun 02, 2004 3:16:45 pm PDT #4990 of 10001
Herding cats for fun

Hairless cats feel like a warm peach, or a chamois hot water bottle. When you make them happy, they respond with a full body blush. So adorable. "You pinked the kitty!" Meeting one in person was much nicer than I had expected, because they look wrinkly and shriveled and odd.


Steph L. - Jun 02, 2004 3:22:14 pm PDT #4991 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

It's a sphinx cat, damnit!

I know they're called that, but I tend to refer to them as hairless cats, because most *other* people don't know they're called sphinx cats. Force of habit.

A queen. Her name is Ripley. Nic and I are both in love - we think she's stunning.

Oh, they're lovely. If I got a kitty, it would be a sphinx. And Katerina Bee is right -- they're like a sueded hot water bottle. With muscles.


deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2004 3:30:12 pm PDT #4992 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Heh. The only oddity is that they don't jump with the same classic elegance of their hairier cousins; the lack of whiskers and eyebrows make it tricky.


Connie Neil - Jun 02, 2004 3:32:36 pm PDT #4993 of 10001
brillig

No whiskers? Huh.


deborah grabien - Jun 02, 2004 4:00:55 pm PDT #4994 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

No whiskers, no brows. But every muscle, sleek and visible. Gorgeous cats.


Astarte - Jun 02, 2004 4:14:37 pm PDT #4995 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

I fear I am not large with Amber love myself.

I read one one high recommendation from a friend ( 9 Princes in Amber , I think) and just didn't spark to it.

I think I might be more of a short story fan, though. Any particular collections to recommend?