Yettie One Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Omigosh, I forgot I'd posted that one. Hehehe sorry Andy yup spot on mate, it sure is Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines. Another childhood hero of mine.
Sympathia Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 With no sign of Yettie to confirm or deny I'll press on. He looked me in the eyes with a smirk and a second later he said, "No, it isn't. I'll ask again....What's your name?" That sounds vaguely familiar but unless we swap over to fantasy books I'll probably never get one right
Andy78 Posted July 11, 2012 Posted July 11, 2012 OK clue time. This is from the horror genre and the author is American. Big, big clue: the author is not, I repeat not, Stephen King.
Andy78 Posted July 13, 2012 Posted July 13, 2012 Wow, there is no way this should have everyone stumped like this. Next clue: It comes from a book that is part of a series (with the remainder of the series still to be published)
Andy78 Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 **is slowly losing the will to live** OK two more clues. First clue: Most of the main characters are children in body, if not in mind. Second clue: I'll give you the next line and see if that helps. The original line was: He looked me in the eyes with a smirk and a second later he said, "No, it isn't. I'll ask again....What's your name?" The next line: How did he do that? Was I that easy to read? It was almost like he could tell exactly what was on my mind just by the look of me.
Andy78 Posted July 15, 2012 Posted July 15, 2012 Okies, so this was far more of a challenge than I thought it would be The line was from book 1 of Gone From Daylight by Comicality. I'll let the next person post the next line.
Zombie Posted July 15, 2012 Posted July 15, 2012 Okies, so this was far more of a challenge than I thought it would be The line was from book 1 of Gone From Daylight by Comicality. I'll let the next person post the next line. Sorry, Andy. I'm guessing this is a good story and we don't know it OK, try this "I don't understand why you're doing this to me... I have the greatest enthusiasm for the mission..." No clues 'cos you're all too damned clever
Andy78 Posted July 15, 2012 Posted July 15, 2012 I know this one, but I'll let someone else have a guess first. Sorry, Andy. I'm guessing this is a good story and we don't know it I just thought Comsie was more popular than he evidently is
Palantir Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) GRRR!! - Well, it's the fun of it I suppose when you reckon you know - but you can't dredge it from the depths of memory. Edited July 16, 2012 by Iarwain
Palantir Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Double GRR! That's because I knew I knew it and cheated (googled) to make sure.
Zombie Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) Well if you knew it, and you knew you knew it, then I guess you knew it So, your turn. Edited July 16, 2012 by Zombie
Palantir Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 HAL was speaking in 2001. Thanks Zombie. '"It just happens," the Third Co-ordinator of the Vegan Confederacy explained patiently,...'
Andy78 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I don't recall reading anything with a 'Vegan Confederacy' recently, though the name sounds familiar
Palantir Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 It was first published about 30 years before you were born Andy. I consider the author to be one of the unsung greats of scifi..
Andy78 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 hhhmmmm . . . 50s and 60s sci-fi lit. Well I've read a few over the years; most of them really bad Babel-17 by Samuel Delany **wild stab in dark***
Zombie Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Brian Aldiss? *more wild stabbings, blood spurts + screechy violins .... *
Palantir Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 Nope, sorry, not Delany or Aldiss. Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and David Freer recently wrote a sequel to another of his books, which IMO failed miserably.
Palantir Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 Hmm! I was a bit worried that this book might be off the radar - but I also knew there were some scifi buffs following this topic. It's 'Agent Of Vega' by James H Schmitz. This book should be much more universally recognised - 'In a hole in the ground there lived a ...'
Palantir Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 You sure made short work of that one - go for it Andy!
Andy78 Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 Here we go. Hold tight folks. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."
Andy78 Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 Zombie has read a musty, dusty, fusty tome by a dead guy You're turn
Zombie Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 Zombie has read a musty, dusty, fusty tome by a dead guy Heheh yeah Here we go then: "I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling mass of black and brass for a moment — a figure so transparent that the bench behind with its sheets of drawings was absolutely distinct; but this phantasm vanished as I rubbed my eyes. " You want a clue? Oh OK then - it's by a dead guy
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