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I got it in paperback for my last birthday (last March)...
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"Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt Whitman -
Alternate histories? Well, at least I won't need to read anything that month.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Yeah, you're right. That's what I get for trusting the in-store computers - of course they're going to lead me to the more expensive volume!Originally posted by Clear Skies
I got it in paperback for my last birthday (last March)...
But seriously, the comp. said to be released July, 2003.
Amazon begs to differ.Comment
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Evil computers! Kill it!
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Not if I nominate Kingley Amis' The Alteration and then close the nomination thread.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Alternate histories? Well, at least I won't need to read anything that month.
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I don't read alternate histories. I find them . . . too contrived. Much like the last book we just read.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Where are your comments?!?!?!?!
For convenience sake, here's the link: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=87994
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Alternate histories?
*tentative*Does that include Terry Pratchett's Strata?*/tentative*"Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt WhitmanComment
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An alternate history is defined as a novel based in our world where an event in the past is different from "The Real World." For example, the above-mentioned Amis novel is a modern-day story set in a world where Martin Luther made his peace with the Pope (and became Pope himself) and the Reformation never occurred.
So, judging by the description and member reviews at Amazon, no, it doesn't qualify.Comment
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Does "alternate history" even classify as science fiction? Lord, I can see a whole bunch of Harry Turttledove being nom'ed.
Well heck, I guess I could nominate Star Wars. After all, it takes place in the past.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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For example, the above-mentioned Amis novel is a modern-day story set in a world where Martin Luther made his peace with the Pope (and became Pope himself) and the Reformation never occurred.
Ooooh.. sounds very interesting. I'd vote for that book.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Maybe I'll nominate The Bible. It's certainly alternative history.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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That's not true, that's not true! I remember you talking about this one AH novel where all those gulags were just capitalist inventions, and... oh. Never mind.I don't read alternate histories."Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the worldComment
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Does "alternate history" even classify as science fiction? Lord, I can see a whole bunch of Harry Turttledove being nom'ed. Well heck, I guess I could nominate Star Wars. After all, it takes place in the past.
to you.
Yeah, I know... I'm expecting a slew of Turtledove noms, my Amis nom, and maybe one or two others. Well, time will tell.
BTW, everybody, don't nominate Pavane by Keith Roberts - that is possibly the most boring, languid book I've ever read. Thanks!Comment
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You might want to make a rule about not nominating two books by a same author.
And the Turtledove book nominated better not be anything other than Guns of the South.
"Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the worldComment
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