JabberWokky's Journal: Forgotten References

This reference is to one of my all time favorite SF novels. And I had almost forgotten about it. I need to dig around and see if the author has released anything new.

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[JabberWokky]

Nope - sorry, the SCA wasn't the reference - I'll give a hint - it was the name of my old BBS, the Crystal Wind.

(Incidently, Fallen Angels, The Number of the Beast by Heinlein, 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke and a graphic novel whose title and author escapes me are the only SCA references I can think of).

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Evan

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[Com2Kid]

and a graphic novel whose title and author escapes me are the only SCA references I can think of)

BONUS QUIZ!!!!

Can you name the series of fiction books in which the first book was a Science Fiction novel but in which (almost) all further books in the series where Fantasy novels? :-D

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[JabberWokky]

McCaffery's Pern springs to mind (although the greater universe including the Planet Pirates series and The ___ that ____ed (Ship that Sang, City that Fought) was mostly SF).

I have a nasty desire to say Dune.

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Evan

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[Com2Kid]

McCaffery's Pern springs to mind (although the greater universe including the Planet Pirates series and The ___ that ____ed (Ship that Sang, City that Fought) was mostly SF).

close, but do look at the subject heading. :-d

From escaping a planets gravity to a long string of like named novels. . . .

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[JabberWokky]

The Wizardry series?

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Evan

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[JabberWokky]

To be specific, since I just found out there are at least three Wizardry series of books, I'm referring to the ones by Rick Cook, as opposed to the kids one (by Diane Duane) or the other ones.

http://www.jimloy.com/books/wiz.htm [jimloy.com]

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evan

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[Com2Kid]

Christopher Stasheff, The Warlock Series;

Escape from a planet---> Escape Velocity

A long string of the books are named The Warlock xxxxx

(The Warlock Enraged, The Warlock Wandering, The Warlock Is Missing, etc)

The first novel is about a group of people from the SCA who get together and get on a spaceship to start a planet set in the middle ages, cryogenic sleep capsules, memory implantation, the whole nine yards. All Science Fiction.

The rest of them have this entire magic / telepathy thing going on that leaks over from a parallel dimension, and are (with the exception of the occasional robot) definitely Fantasy novels.

Not that I would add them to my must read list or anything, they are not /that/ good, but there they are. :-D

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[JabberWokky]

Very cool. I haven't read them, and I'm not even 100% sure I've heard about them before (the concept sounds vaguely familiar, but at a level where it could be just the generic concept). I'll keep an eye out for it in the used book stores I hit (I'll read anything - I chew through books like a weasel on speed).

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Evan

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[Com2Kid]

Haven't heard of them? Strange, I kept on running across them in used book stores / thrift stores all over the place and just picked them up out of habit (it's scifi/fant, I don't have it, so buy it!)

Currently I am saving up my money to buy old 40/50s Sci-Fi mags, local store carries them but the price. . . . my word!