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    Book Review: The Starchild Trilogy

    I picked up this book today, and wasn't sure what to make of it from the descriptions on the back. I guess it didn't flat out make me want to puke, so I decided to go ahead and read it.

    Well, the first couple of chapters really have me intrigued and I think that I am going to like it. However, I am still not completely positive.

    So, Polytubbies, tell me what you think of this book(s). Is it worth my time to read?
    Founder of The Glory of War, CHAMPIONS OF APOLYTON!!!
    '92 & '96 Perot, '00 & '04 Bush, '08 & '12 Obama, '16 Clinton, '20 Biden, '24 Harris
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    Starchild hasn't been around in awhile.
    Monkey!!!

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    • #3


      No he hasn't... but about the book...

      ?????????
      Founder of The Glory of War, CHAMPIONS OF APOLYTON!!!
      '92 & '96 Perot, '00 & '04 Bush, '08 & '12 Obama, '16 Clinton, '20 Biden, '24 Harris

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      • #4
        The Starchild Trilogy by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson consists of three books...
        The Reefs of Space (1964)
        Starchild (1965)
        Rogue Star (1969)

        Both are "solid" authors. I read them a long time ago, and really can't remember much except that they are "OK" books. Interesting and not a bad read. However, nothing spectacular.
        Keep on Civin'
        RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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        • #5
          Well, let's just say you'll notice that these books were written four decades ago. I read them about ten years ago myself and remember the first as pretty interesting and the last as pretty weird.

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          • #6
            Yes... the last is VERY weird
            Keep on Civin'
            RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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            • #7
              Not been around? I've been around! I remember times before most posters joined! To me, Boshko is a newbie! Che is newcomer! I remember the past incarnations of this forum! I posted on the split OffTopics. Bah...newbies saying I've not been around...

              Oh, the books are lies, damn lies, and an interesting twist on the truth. Don't believe them, believe only me.
              Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
              -Richard Dawkins

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Starchild
                Not been around? I've been around! I remember times before most posters joined! To me, Boshko is a newbie! Che is newcomer! I remember the past incarnations of this forum! I posted on the split OffTopics. Bah...newbies saying I've not been around...
                Gee... I remember when you were a newbie
                Keep on Civin'
                RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                • #9
                  Yeah, Starchild hasn't been around.

                  “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)

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                  • #10
                    around the block maybe.... that slut

                    and, how long do I have to be here to not be called a newb!

                    sheesh

                    Monkey!!!

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                    • #11
                      You are always a newb to those that came before you... sorry, that's the way it is.

                      Even if you go into the HoF. Hell, Ming has called me newb once... but he stopped when I told Chuck Norris to pay him a visit .
                      “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)

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                        Even if you go into the HoF. Hell, Ming has called me newb once... but he stopped when I told Chuck Norris to pay him a visit .
                        At least I got an autograph out of it

                        Keep on Civin'
                        RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                        • #13
                          bad ming

                          JM
                          Jon Miller-
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                          GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                          • #14
                            you'd think he'd know he can't steal pics from angelfire


                            newb!

                            Monkey!!!

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                              Ming
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