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    The Rocks of Honey - Patricia Wrightson.
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    The Harp Of The Grey Rose by Charles De Lint.
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    HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
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    Alan Dean Foster's 'Pip and Flinx' novels.
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    Thanks, Rigby. I smiled from start to finish, and what a delightful turn of phrase you have.
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    I watched 2010 last night (prompted by this post) and I'd forgotten how good it was. Thanks, Myr.
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    Wow! Thanks DD. Those videos are spectacular Yay for the Hubble telescope.
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    WOW! Thank you, James.
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    I don't use a 3d printer myself but because I have a suspicion that with a few more advancements they will revolutionize engineering and industry, I used the idea of a future 3d printer giving an AI independence from human support as a tenet in my Mparntwe story.
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    I'm re-reading the Modesty Blaise series. Superbly written adventures!
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    I loved this story when I read it many, many years ago. I wonder how close the film is to the novel?
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    Yep! As previously mentioned somewhere I'm well into my first attempt at a fantasy story about elves and humans. It currently stands at the 130K mark word wise . I want to start posting but I know there will be too many major changes and rewrites to justify that yet. Keiran, an elven prince, has been banished from the Realms to a College in Melbourne, Australia, for being maledar (gay) and all sorts of adventures and troubles befall himself and his friends.
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    This is the method I use - in combination with the day's date eg filenameFeb25a -then I change the 'a' to a 'b' for the next Save As, and so on. This way I know at a glance when a file was made and which is the most up to date.
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    Sage advice!
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    HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
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    A real eye-opener, Myr. That the sound associated with such a significant portion of the scifi film world has come from one person is quite astonishing.
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    Grrr! I played M O R time and again back in the day, so I'm almost too scared to check this out in case the same thing happens.
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    Chapter 5

    Palantir commented on Palantir's story chapter in Chapter 5

    Thanks Stephen, It's always a delight to hear when one of my stories has 'got through' .
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    Lol - they're pure fantasy. - but great fun.
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    OMG! Goosebump stuff to watch. Thanks @Myr
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    I also knew Tyler and edited some of TRH for him. For your interest, another of his projects was a story site called 'Closettales'. I have no idea if it still functions. edit - Oops. Closettales is the link Myr provided
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    Lol - almost perfect. I'm envious (but only slightly) of my sister in Perth WA where the moon is just now rising so they have the Super moon effect as well as the total eclipse. Yep! The sky is clear as clear and the moon is now an eerie dark red and I've been watching through my binoculars. Amazingly, the total eclipse lasts a whole hour and in a few minutes reaches what they call maximum eclipse - so I'm heading out again.
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    Oh No! I've just learnt that one of the all time great fantasy authors has died. Ursula K Le Guin bewitched my mind with the beautiful imagery and ideas of her Earthsea series. Time and again I have re-read these wonderful stories and now the next re-read will have an extra poignancy. The sadness of loss when a great creator leaves us is tempered by the magical idea that part of them will stay forever with us through their work.
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    lol - you've got some wonderful reading ahead of you Myr. M L's Urban Fantasy stuff you mentioned is brilliant (I reckon) and that links to similar stuff by Tanya Huff ('Blood' Series) and the wonderful worlds of Charles de Lint.
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    Five or six weeks ago I read Mercedes Lackey's Collegium Chronicles - somehow I missed this particular Valdemar series - and a reference somewhere in one of the books caused me to pull my copy of Magic's Pawn from my bookshelf to check something. Result! A re-read of all three. You might like to have a try at Diane Duane's 'The Door Into Fire'. Like Mercedes Lackey, she had no hesitation in publishing mainstream fantasy novels featuring gay characters as the main protagonists. And also like M L, they are characters who grab your heartstrings (IMHO)
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