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Hah, no.
The one I am trying to remember was supposed to be serious. Post apocalyptic survival and all that.
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markrlondon wrote:
The one I am trying to remember was supposed to be serious. Post apocalyptic survival and all that.
A "rip in the sky". Uh-huh. So you mean it took itself seriously, rather than it being "supposed to be serious".
Good sci-fi starts with a plausible premise.
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Feel free to give the book a full review when I eventually find it.
A "rip in the sky" is my non-technical description of what I remember from reading this perhaps 35 years ago. Who knows, maybe the author had a much, much better scifi-fan-satisfying explanation that I've simply forgotten.
That said, I seem to recall that the book was told from the perspective of its teenage protagonists and they may not have had access to any better explanation than what I remember. If so, that seems like an entirely plausible storyline to me.
Stuff happens -- it doesn't always get explained to those who experience it.
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markrlondon wrote: Who knows, maybe the author had a much, much better scifi-fan-satisfying explanation that I've simply forgotten.
One would hope so. I don't know about others, but I like having a bit of science in my science-fiction. Otherwise it's called fantasy. I can enjoy both, but genres are generally not interchangeable. Otherwise you end up with the last Indiana Jones movie, which as I understand it, people hated because they had come to expect supernatural elements from those movies, but got sci-fi instead in this particular installment. It's really hard to take genre and successfully turn it into the other.
markrlondon wrote: That said, I seem to recall that the book was told from the perspective of its teenage protagonists and they may not have had access to any better explanation than what I remember. If so, that seems like an entirely plausible storyline to me.
I'll grant you that, but that sounds like a cop-out and lazy writing to me.
Maybe people enjoy that sort of thing, but like I wrote - a sci-fi writer's gotta make some effort in giving a situation a plausible element, otherwise it's non-sense to me and I won't enjoy it.
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A wild guess, but could it be something by Paul Berna[^]???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Thanks, good guess, although I'm not sure if it's correct. From the Wikipedia article I can't see any book titles that would match what I read.
From what I can see, 'Threshold of the Stars' ('La Porte des étoiles') and 'Continent in the Sky' '(Le Continent du ciel') seem to have a future setting whereas what I read was set in the present era.
I'll investigate this author's books a little further.
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The Bible ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Nah, it definitely didn't have any mammoths.
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the spambots are unleashed upon CP
Message Signature
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Shhhh! They are still sleeping - don't wake them up ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Look one thread below.
[edit]Message below cleansed: nothing to see here, move along, move along ... - OriginalGriff[/edit]
modified 18-May-19 4:51am.
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That's just one idiot, not a flood.
He's a script kiddie - he's been posting crap like that all week, seeing what he can get through. Some did, which probably means a moderation error rather than a load of Chinese spammers.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In an effort to factor an LL(1) grammar I was about to write a function to get the longest repeated "substring" over collections of collections.
I hate this part of my code.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'm surprised at how often that works
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: I'm surprised at how often that works Really? You're surprised that it works 0% of the time?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I've written
int Get6Times7() { ... } a lot.
What can i say?
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xkcd: Random Number[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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void FoosBar()
{
try
{
return 42;
}
catch
{
return 43;
}
}
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You don't enjoy the monotony punctuated by periods of intense stress hunting down off-by-1 errors?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Fencepost errors keep life interesting though!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Stop! 😲😰😨`
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I just critiqued a submission by a trio of undergrads at some israeli university.
I didn't mean to. I thought they were telling me how to factor an LL(1) grammar.
Turns out they were trying to learn how to factor an LL(1) grammar, and they were wrong.
Well there's several hours that I'll never get back.
I wonder why they don't have to stamp "UNDERGRAD SUBMISSION" on their papers.
*headdesk*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well....
Alternatively you can always stare in wonder at this beautiful picture I composed... And let your mind explore the infinite possibilities of the multiverse for a couple of hours...
modified 17-May-19 22:09pm.
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big star wars fan then?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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