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« Reply #135 on: March 11, 2009, 10:46:20 pm » |
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57) It was the week following Easter in Reading and no one could remember the last sunny day. The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde Yay! I was starting to think I was the only person here who'd read the Nursery Crimes books! |
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« Reply #136 on: March 11, 2009, 11:33:53 pm » |
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57) It was the week following Easter in Reading and no one could remember the last sunny day. The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde Yay! I was starting to think I was the only person here who'd read the Nursery Crimes books! I've read the first one and all but the latest of the Thursday Next books. |
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« Reply #137 on: March 15, 2009, 01:22:45 am » |
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I'll throw mine open to Googling. I want to change my signature to a quote from one of mine.
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« Reply #138 on: March 16, 2009, 04:46:23 pm » |
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56) By the time anyone noticed that the carrier was overdue, no one cared.
Hint: it's from a book co-written by one of the other Elizabeths (that is, not Bear)
Second hint: This Elizabeth co-authored this with one of the Grand Dames (some would say THE Grand Dame) of Science Fiction. |
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« Reply #139 on: March 16, 2009, 05:37:39 pm » |
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Andre Norton, and I can nearly see the cover...Elizabeth Moon? Drat.
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« Reply #140 on: March 16, 2009, 06:18:42 pm » |
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56) By the time anyone noticed that the carrier was overdue, no one cared.
Hint: it's from a book co-written by one of the other Elizabeths (that is, not Bear)
Second hint: This Elizabeth co-authored this with one of the Grand Dames (some would say THE Grand Dame) of Science Fiction. Elizabeth Moon and Anne McCaffrey, Sassinak. I did have to get my copy out to check, though. Does that count as cheating?  |
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« Reply #141 on: March 16, 2009, 06:26:54 pm » |
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11) It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness.
I figure this one needs a hint. The book is mostly set in 17th century England. The author, among other things, has also written a massive medieval fantasy about an alternate-history Belgium. (And I think she was writing Weird long before it was New, personally. However. Personal judgement.) |
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"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
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« Reply #142 on: March 16, 2009, 06:41:50 pm » |
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11) It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness.
I figure this one needs a hint. The book is mostly set in 17th century England. The author, among other things, has also written a massive medieval fantasy about an alternate-history Belgium. (And I think she was writing Weird long before it was New, personally. However. Personal judgement.) Oh! Duh. Sundial in a Grave, by Mary Gentle. Agreed on the "writing weird" judgment, too.  I think I have all of her books, even ones not published in the US. Rats and Gargoyles is one book I re-read every couple/few years. New first line (I don't *think* this one has been used...) Theodore is in the ground. |
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« Reply #143 on: March 16, 2009, 06:49:40 pm » |
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Oh! Duh. Sundial in a Grave, by Mary Gentle. Agreed on the "writing weird" judgment, too. I think I have all of her books, even ones not published in the US. Rats and Gargoyles is one book I re-read every couple/few years. was the first of hers I read, and it just about broke my mind wide open. And then Gollancz put the Valentine books/stories out in a collection called White Crow? My brain, it has never been quite the same, since.  |
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"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
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« Reply #144 on: March 16, 2009, 08:21:37 pm » |
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(re: 34) The five women fell silent as they climbed single file on the narrow woodland track, higher and higher through the long summer twilight, with the soft duff of the forest floor quiet beneath their sandals--or in one case, boot-heels.)
I'll throw mine open to Googling. I want to change my signature to a quote from one of mine.
Okay, I googled this a while ago because it was driving me nuts thinking I had read it. Turns out I have not. The Scourge of God by S. M. Stirling Ada's other outstanding one: 37) (The epigraph which is less obscure than the first sentence.) Four No-Doz and Eight Meg of RAM.
Offered by Ada
Hint: Book 37 is nonfiction, and a travelogue of sorts, although the author stayed in Florida the whole time she was traveling.
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« Reply #145 on: March 17, 2009, 10:38:34 am » |
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56) By the time anyone noticed that the carrier was overdue, no one cared.
Hint: it's from a book co-written by one of the other Elizabeths (that is, not Bear)
Second hint: This Elizabeth co-authored this with one of the Grand Dames (some would say THE Grand Dame) of Science Fiction. Elizabeth Moon and Anne McCaffrey, Sassinak. I did have to get my copy out to check, though. Does that count as cheating? Ayup. Dat's der bunny (to quote the good Sergeant Detritus). |
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« Reply #146 on: March 26, 2009, 01:36:22 am » |
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Ada's other outstanding one: 37) (The epigraph which is less obscure than the first sentence.) Four No-Doz and Eight Meg of RAM.
Offered by Ada
Hint: Book 37 is nonfiction, and a travelogue of sorts, although the author stayed in Florida the whole time she was traveling.
Does not succumb at once to the google. It's Surfing on the Internet, by J. C. Herz. I was charmed by her descriptions of the Internet in the early 90s, especially as I'd been to a lot of the same "places". |
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« Reply #147 on: April 11, 2009, 12:48:33 pm » |
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"Several centuries (or so) ago, in a country whose name doesn't matter, there was a tall, skinny, straggly-bearded old wizard named Prospero, and not the one you are thinking of, either."
As the Bear opened hers up for Googling, I find: = The Face in the Frost, by John Bellairs. "When you get down to the bottom of the bottle, as Momma used to say, this is the story of how I became a mother." |
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« Reply #148 on: April 11, 2009, 06:47:54 pm » |
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"Several centuries (or so) ago, in a country whose name doesn't matter, there was a tall, skinny, straggly-bearded old wizard named Prospero, and not the one you are thinking of, either."
As the Bear opened hers up for Googling, I find: = The Face in the Frost, by John Bellairs. "When you get down to the bottom of the bottle, as Momma used to say, this is the story of how I became a mother." Excellent! Now everybody go read it. |
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« Reply #149 on: April 13, 2009, 11:07:01 pm » |
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Wish I'd noticed this game sooner! "The flotillas of the dead sailed around the world on underwater rivers." Going Postal by Terry Pratchett? (I know it's a Pratchett, so I'm guessing the specific by your hint) "On the corner of 16th Street and Hieratica a factory sings and sighs." Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente I need to get myself a copy of this! Heard her read a random excerpt last fall. |
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