Silly me, I thought H.G. Wells wrote 'The Time Machine'.mrbadger wrote:...Orwells 'The Time Machine'....
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Oops....Nanook wrote:Silly me, I thought H.G. Wells wrote 'The Time Machine'.mrbadger wrote:...Orwells 'The Time Machine'....
It was Autocorrect wot dunnit, honest.....
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ... Niccolò Machiavelli
Can we blame autocorrect for all the awful books written since the dawn of computers? Or is it monkeys + autocorrect? 

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Flat as the flattest of flat things made of purest flat.....
I'm still trying to get my head round how the Universe is flat. That I can't quite grasp.
I kind of get it, but a flat thing having a three dimensional topology just ends up confusing me again.
I'm no physicist.
I'm still trying to get my head round how the Universe is flat. That I can't quite grasp.
I kind of get it, but a flat thing having a three dimensional topology just ends up confusing me again.
I'm no physicist.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ... Niccolò Machiavelli
Don't think in terms of "shape" and it may be easier.mrbadger wrote:...I'm still trying to get my head round how the Universe is flat. That I can't quite grasp...
Related: Friedmann Equation.
You give me that to read after a day writing parallel programming assignments?
I think it'll have to sit on my desktop and wait till I have room to take it in.
Looks interesting though. Starts easily enough anyway. Then it fast heads into 'you've used me too much today' territory for my poor brain.
Beware scientific papers that use the word 'Simply'.....
But anyway. I had something to show. I found this by chance in a second hand book shop a few years back.

Anyone see why I was so excited to find it? Cost me £1.50, no idea as to its actual value, not that it matters, since resale is not an option.
The book itself is pretty mediocre. Nothing I would have set out to buy deliberately.
I think it'll have to sit on my desktop and wait till I have room to take it in.
Looks interesting though. Starts easily enough anyway. Then it fast heads into 'you've used me too much today' territory for my poor brain.
Beware scientific papers that use the word 'Simply'.....
But anyway. I had something to show. I found this by chance in a second hand book shop a few years back.

Anyone see why I was so excited to find it? Cost me £1.50, no idea as to its actual value, not that it matters, since resale is not an option.
The book itself is pretty mediocre. Nothing I would have set out to buy deliberately.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ... Niccolò Machiavelli
I don't like most of it, including the word Kible in every other paragraph. But I did like the concept of 2 separate police forces, not knowing about each other, no one knowing if they are replicants or not, working around each other but never crossing paths. Something about all that part really appealed to me... And then it went nowhere. "Well, I'm not a replicant, so you must be." "Oh my God, you're right! What should I do with my squirrel?"mrbadger wrote: I don't actually like 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'. I tried to, but like much of Dicks work, it's a hard read.
It's like he just ran out of ideas.
I'm now wondering if it was Alan Dean Foster or John Sladek... Need to dig further... Or am I mixing up different short stories form different authors... I was stuck in France with nothing to do but sit in the sun and read a huge stack of books that were left behind.mrbadger wrote:
I'm sure I've read some Alan Dean Foster, but for the moment I don't recall any specifics. Only it wouldn't have been short stories.
"I've got a bad feeling about this!" Harrison Ford, 5 times a year, trying to land his plane.
Second clue in the book cover mystery (I own both these books, but this image I nicked off the interwebs, so if you wanted to cheat you could google image match it). This one really did cost me a lot of money, because it wasn't a lucky find.


If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ... Niccolò Machiavelli