Guess what, people...The future [or better yet, the PRESENT] is being predicted by Bruce Sterling (in his novel, Distractions) and Neal Stephenson (in his novel Zodiac)...People will indeed keep fighting big Corps, but how effective will they be? And the danger is really the CONNECTIONS TO GOVERNMENT and the MOUTHPIECES, not the corps... - The Government convinced Californian Suburbanites that Malethion was so safe you could bathe in it...And indeed, they sprayed down whole BLOCKS of families...(who promptly died of cancer)...WHY? so that Malethion could be sold in HUGE quantities...- And the MOUTHPIECES! President Clinton's Chocolate Lab was named "Useful Media Distraction" [amongst White House Staffers] for the first couple of weeks...ANYTIME there's some nonsense absorbing ALL the medias' attentions' (Elian, most recently), you should do research, and see what IMPORTANT story they are keeping covered up...With Clinton's Labrador, most people thought they were trying to cover up Lewinsky-Gate...WRONG! [in a John MacGloughlin voice] They were covering up the fact that the only person remaining alive with ties to WhiteWater (other than the Clintons) was in jail (Mr. MacDougal died 4 or 5 months later)Vince Foster, Ron Brown, etc, etc...Think for yourselves, People! With the Internet, *YOU* can research things like this...You don't have to accept the pap you're being fed... How many people die per year from experimental drugs, foods, procedures, equipment, etc....YOU DON'T KNOW!, because they don't tell you on the news...The African Continent was virtually wiped out by AIDS, due to being innoculated against Smallpox...(2 in 1 sort of hypodermic) - the same thing was done in NY,NY and SF,CA to homosexuals (AIDS in Hepatitis-B vaccines)...How much do you think DOW made off *THOSE* deals? (vaccines AND virus = $$$$$$).... Anyway, I'm aware I bent off subject slightly, but...Oh well... AxeMan808, OUT!
AAAAAaaaaagggghhhhhh!!!! This is why I try not to put stuff in writing! Of course no-one's mentioned Pern!! That was Anne McCaffrey (sp?)!!!! I always get the two confused, writings are so similiar....Oh well...Everyone's off the hook except me....But still check out the Pern stuff...It's good! AxeMan808
D`OH!!!! I can't believe I had a brain-fart like that!!! Of course no-one's mentioned Pern!! That was Anne McCaffrey (sp?)!!!! I always get the two confused, writings are so similiar....Oh well...Everyone's off the hook except me....But still check out the Pern stuff...It's good! AxeMan808
For similar "We create the framework, you create the stories" type books, try Janet & Chris Morris' Thieves'World and Heroes in Hell series... As I recall, MZB and Zelazny both started their "Shared Universe" works *after* Thieves' World proved to be a hit.... Also, try Tiptree, for Female writers back in the day...She used a male pseudonym... AxeMan808
And again.... No Dragonriders of Pern?!??!!??!! What gives? Have I hallucinated all those stories? If so, I need to write them all down, and sell them; historically, they made a pretty penny ! AxeMan808
Ummmmmmmmmmm.... Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't MZB write..... THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN????!!!!??? Sheesh!! One would think, with the 10-15 novels in that series, one of you newcomers to the SF/F genre would have heard of it? Anyway, it's sad to me that so many of the authors I grew up reading (I read my first Sci-Fi - Starship Troopers - in '73 - I was five...Actually, I had started reading ERBurroughs John Carter of Mars series the year before, but that's not *quite* SciFi...) have started departing this world... MZB will be missed, but there are other writers taking up the reins of Fantasy with *ACTUAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT* [take to mean that MZB worked with plot and character, too!]...Try Glen Cook (Black Company series), David Drake (The General series), Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos the Jhereg series and connected books), and of course Janet & Chris Morris' Thieves' World and Heroes in Hell series (15 books and 10-12 books in each series)...Those are some of my faves... Fly away, MZB...And avoid the Worms! AxeMan808
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Guess what, people...The future [or better yet, the PRESENT] is being predicted by Bruce Sterling (in his novel, Distractions) and Neal Stephenson (in his novel Zodiac)...People will indeed keep fighting big Corps, but how effective will they be? And the danger is really the CONNECTIONS TO GOVERNMENT and the MOUTHPIECES, not the corps... - The Government convinced Californian Suburbanites that Malethion was so safe you could bathe in it...And indeed, they sprayed down whole BLOCKS of families...(who promptly died of cancer)...WHY? so that Malethion could be sold in HUGE quantities...- And the MOUTHPIECES! President Clinton's Chocolate Lab was named "Useful Media Distraction" [amongst White House Staffers] for the first couple of weeks...ANYTIME there's some nonsense absorbing ALL the medias' attentions' (Elian, most recently), you should do research, and see what IMPORTANT story they are keeping covered up...With Clinton's Labrador, most people thought they were trying to cover up Lewinsky-Gate...WRONG! [in a John MacGloughlin voice] They were covering up the fact that the only person remaining alive with ties to WhiteWater (other than the Clintons) was in jail (Mr. MacDougal died 4 or 5 months later)Vince Foster, Ron Brown, etc, etc...Think for yourselves, People! With the Internet, *YOU* can research things like this...You don't have to accept the pap you're being fed... How many people die per year from experimental drugs, foods, procedures, equipment, etc....YOU DON'T KNOW!, because they don't tell you on the news...The African Continent was virtually wiped out by AIDS, due to being innoculated against Smallpox...(2 in 1 sort of hypodermic) - the same thing was done in NY,NY and SF,CA to homosexuals (AIDS in Hepatitis-B vaccines)...How much do you think DOW made off *THOSE* deals? (vaccines AND virus = $$$$$$).... Anyway, I'm aware I bent off subject slightly, but...Oh well... AxeMan808, OUT!
AAAAAaaaaagggghhhhhh!!!! This is why I try not to put stuff in writing! Of course no-one's mentioned Pern!! That was Anne McCaffrey (sp?)!!!! I always get the two confused, writings are so similiar....Oh well...Everyone's off the hook except me....But still check out the Pern stuff...It's good! AxeMan808
D`OH!!!! I can't believe I had a brain-fart like that!!! Of course no-one's mentioned Pern!! That was Anne McCaffrey (sp?)!!!! I always get the two confused, writings are so similiar....Oh well...Everyone's off the hook except me....But still check out the Pern stuff...It's good! AxeMan808
For similar "We create the framework, you create the stories" type books, try Janet & Chris Morris' Thieves'World and Heroes in Hell series... As I recall, MZB and Zelazny both started their "Shared Universe" works *after* Thieves' World proved to be a hit.... Also, try Tiptree, for Female writers back in the day...She used a male pseudonym... AxeMan808
And again.... No Dragonriders of Pern?!??!!??!! What gives? Have I hallucinated all those stories? If so, I need to write them all down, and sell them; historically, they made a pretty penny ! AxeMan808
Ummmmmmmmmmm.... Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't MZB write..... THE DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN????!!!!??? Sheesh!! One would think, with the 10-15 novels in that series, one of you newcomers to the SF/F genre would have heard of it? Anyway, it's sad to me that so many of the authors I grew up reading (I read my first Sci-Fi - Starship Troopers - in '73 - I was five...Actually, I had started reading ERBurroughs John Carter of Mars series the year before, but that's not *quite* SciFi...) have started departing this world... MZB will be missed, but there are other writers taking up the reins of Fantasy with *ACTUAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT* [take to mean that MZB worked with plot and character, too!]...Try Glen Cook (Black Company series), David Drake (The General series), Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos the Jhereg series and connected books), and of course Janet & Chris Morris' Thieves' World and Heroes in Hell series (15 books and 10-12 books in each series)...Those are some of my faves... Fly away, MZB...And avoid the Worms! AxeMan808