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    From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to MRO on Sun May 11 22:27:00 2025
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    Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-Fi
    Recommendations?
    By: Ogg to Foriest Jan Smith on
    Thu May 08 2025 08:44 pm


    Dune [trilogy], by Herbert. The later stories are ok, but the
    meat of the adventure is in the 1st three.


    dune tattoo here on my bicep. anyways, those books get really really weird and convoluted.

    What do you have tattooed? Just the word "Dune" or Sting semi-naked
    glistening in steam? Or perhaps the God Emperor in his worm form?


    The last three books do go off on a tangent, but God Emperor is worth
    the diversion. I liked it quite a bit more than Children of Dune.

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Bogomips on Sun May 11 22:33:00 2025
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    Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
    By: Cougar428 to BORAXMAN on
    Fri May 09 2025 09:23 am

    ... Back in my day, 56k was high speed!

    Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry,
    couldn't help mysself.

    Those times were rough. Having to connect the 56K modem through the
    two soup cans. I don't know how you got 56K though, I could manage at
    most 2400 baud with the soup cans and string...

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Ogg on Sun May 11 22:34:00 2025
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    Hello Boraxman!

    ** On Friday 09.05.25 - 23:23, Boraxman wrote to Ogg:

    Ringworld, by Niven.

    *snip*

    Did you read any or the Ringworld sequels? I read the next
    one in the series, Ringworld Engineers. After that, not
    sure if its worthwhile to continue on.

    I seem to remember starting #2 (Ringworld Engineers) ..but I
    never finished it for some reason.

    And.. I didn't even realized that #3 (Ringworld Throne) even
    existed until now.


    A great book, by Niven and Pournelle is "The Mote in God's
    Eye". This was quite thought provoking and raised
    questions about how our behaviour, our instincts doom us,
    make us resigned to a paricular fate.

    That's another I remember starting. But I don't recall
    finishing it.

    It starts off slow and uneventful, but really picks up about a third
    of the way through, as if the authors change...

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to phigan on Sun May 11 22:37:00 2025
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    Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
    By: Bogomips to Cougar428 on
    Fri May 09 2025 10:56 am

    Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry, couldn't help mysse

    We didn't have these dang fangled "latex condoms". We just strapped a rabbit skin and tied it off with a bungee chord! Sure we couldn't feel
    the other person or ourselves, but WE LIKED IT!

    I just use a garbage bag. Comes with the tie already on it, and it's
    just the right length.

    Now I know what you're thinking, that gross right? But rest assured,
    I DO empty the garbage from the bag first....

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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to Boraxman on Tue May 13 05:07:30 2025
    Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
    By: Boraxman to MRO on Sun May 11 2025 10:27 pm

    The last three books do go off on a tangent, but God Emperor is worth
    the diversion. I liked it quite a bit more than Children of Dune.

    I also liked GE. In fact I re-read it last year just for the fun of it. I read most of the FH books in the 70's and 80's so it was refreshing to read some of his original work.

    I have read probably most of the BH books and liked a lot of them, but they aren't like the FH books...

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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to Boraxman on Tue May 13 05:08:50 2025
    Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
    By: Boraxman to Bogomips on Sun May 11 2025 10:33 pm

    Those times were rough. Having to connect the 56K modem through the
    two soup cans. I don't know how you got 56K though, I could manage at
    most 2400 baud with the soup cans and string...

    Replace the string with steel fishing leader... works great!

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