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Unread 04-04-2013, 12:16 PM
Brian Allgar Brian Allgar is offline
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It will indeed, Royston. I have two questions:

Is this the longest-ever D & A thread? And how many bouts rimés has Martin written?
(These are rhetorical questions - if anyone has nothing better to do than supply the answers they need to get out more! )

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Jayne, your question is a bit like "How long is a piece of string?" We won't know until we finally reach the end.

I haven't counted Martin's entries, but I'm sure that they could keep the Oldie going for years.

The sad thing is that among all these brilliant entries, only four of them can win. And - gulp - it's always possible that none of the winners will be from the Sphere.
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Unread 04-04-2013, 05:12 PM
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Jayne, your question is a bit like "How long is a piece of string?" We won't know until we finally reach the end.
But it might already be the longest D & A thread, Brian; I wouldn't know, and I'm too busy to bother finding out!

If the winners aren't Spherians those people had better sign up to join us!
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"How long is a piece of string seems less important than how frayed it is." I have forgotten where I read this.
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Unread 04-11-2013, 09:29 AM
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Has the large lady sung? Well, the competition has closed, but Graham's Pioneer (page 16) captured my imagination, hence this -


Remnant

A traveller moves across my barren plains,
Its tireless progress mars with stops each day.
What's worth the finding that it drills away
Then blasts and sniffs particulates? The stains
That pock its armoured shell describe the pains
Its quest inflicts; what promises of May
Provoke such steel? I, Sentinel, must play
At let's suppose. The Earth you left has rains,
Envoy, which here does not; all liquid leaves
A planet's hard-baked crust: no life form suns
Itself upon this soil, no gathered sheaves
Remark upon fecundity, no breath
Of Martian air is taken. Logic runs
To life - so why do you come visit death?

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Royston, I like "Remnant." (I also like Graham's Pioneer.) Have you seen my Martian Rovers on page 3, post 29?

I am currently reading Genesis (an epic poem) by Frederick Turner. Bill Carptenter, knowing I like SF, recommended it to me a while back. It's a riveting story, which also contains some interesting philosophising.

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Originally published in 1988, Genesis was the first major work of fiction that addressed the idea of terraforming Mars. It not only suggested the idea, but provided a feasible solution for doing so. During its initial publication, Genesis was on the list of recommended reading at NASA, and has since gone on to enjoy cult status. Its acknowledged list of admirers includes such literary luminaries as Brian Aldiss, Amy Clampitt, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas M. Disch, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, James Merrill. It is with great pride that Ilium Press brings this influential and prescient work back into print.
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Hi Martin,

Yes, I had read (and enjoyed) your Martian Rover, and was more than happy (it's right up my street) to do so again. I'll try to lay my hands on a copy of the fascinating-sounding 'Genesis' that you mention.

By the by, Iain M. Banks, an author whose work I greatly enjoy, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. He says he will not live another year and that he asked his long-time girlfriend if she would do him the honour of being his widow; one must admire such deliciously dry wit in the face of adversity - no?


Go well.

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