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involuntary shudder; Yes, Dougal Dixon again
Topic Started: Jul 10 2008, 01:49 PM (6,060 Views)
Sliver Slave	Jul 10 2008, 01:49 PM Post #1
I'm going back to basics. Posts: 1,857 Group: Away Staff Member #30 Joined: Jul 6, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey!	Did anyone else get an involuntary shudder when they read man after man or nemo ramjet's all tomorrows? I know I sure did. There was just something about those two books that unsettles me. Or do I just have a weak constitution?
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colddigger	Sep 11 2010, 12:15 PM Post #136
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	I imagine that in the next couple hundred years the New World will likely develop some new races... Midwesterners... Deep Southerners... that's just for the U.S... I will call them Malk People.
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lamna	Sep 11 2010, 12:26 PM Post #137
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	I doubt it, unless we bugger things up and regress. Races won't disappear over night, but slowly they are going to blur.
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Sliver Slave	Sep 11 2010, 02:48 PM Post #138
I'm going back to basics. Posts: 1,857 Group: Away Staff Member #30 Joined: Jul 6, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey!	Not only would it take a lot longer than that, as Lamna said, things would have to change a lot for that to happen. Plus, I'm not sure the environments are different enough for very much change, even cosmetic ones. Okay, show of hands. How many here have read Last and First Men?
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Pando	Sep 11 2010, 06:00 PM Post #139
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Not me. And from Wikipedia doesn't seem the most scientific one either.



Sliver Slave	Sep 11 2010, 06:36 PM Post #140
I'm going back to basics. Posts: 1,857 Group: Away Staff Member #30 Joined: Jul 6, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey!	It probably has the best martians in the history of fiction. I think science can be put temporarily aside. It's one of the greatest things I've ever read. This is quickly becoming "Sliver Slave shills stuff he likes." On that note, anyone here a fan of Snaiad?
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Clarke	Sep 11 2010, 06:42 PM Post #141
Adult Posts: 668 Group: Members Member #292 Joined: Mar 28, 2010 Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: USA'n	Not really. To me its like, "oh look here's alien-ish turtles, but wait, what look's like their head is actually a penis!". The art is fantastic, though.
	Brahma


irbaboon	Sep 12 2010, 01:12 AM Post #142
Adolescent Posts: 345 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: Sep 5, 2008	Silver Sclarke Sep 11 2010, 06:42 PM Not really. To me its like, "oh look here's alien-ish turtles, but wait, what look's like their head is actually a penis!". Our world is full of penis heads too!



lamna	Sep 12 2010, 01:48 AM Post #143
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	I hope that out of all the garbled transmissions from earth, that is the only thing they clearly receive and can translate. And Snaid is pretty cool. I like the drug snakes.
	Living Fossils Fósseis Vibos: Reserva Natural 34 MYH, 4 tonne dinosaur. T.Neo Are nipples or genitals necessary, lamna? [flash=500,450] Video Magic! [/flash]


T.Neo	Sep 12 2010, 09:05 AM Post #144
Translunar injection: TLI Posts: 6,154 Group: Members Member #179 Joined: Jun 7, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	I think Snaiad is the best spec evo project of an alien planet to date, and it's certainly my favourite.
	A hard mathematical figure provides a sort of enlightenment to one's understanding of an idea that is never matched by mere guesswork.


Practically Uninformed	Sep 12 2010, 10:09 AM Post #145
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	Yep, Snaiad is definitely on par with spec-evo classics. I'm still waiting for a book version, though.
	You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper!


Pando	Sep 12 2010, 10:59 AM Post #146
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	I partially agree with T.Neo, and I partially agree with Sliver Sclarke on it.



Ook	Sep 12 2010, 11:30 AM Post #147
not a Transhuman Posts: 2,933 Group: Members Member #282 Joined: Mar 10, 2010 Gender: Male	well,then i agree with irbaboon



Holben	Sep 12 2010, 01:45 PM Post #148
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	I LOVE SNAIAD BABY Sliver's stuff isn't too cool, if you ask me. All i want are teeth, scales, serpentineness and burning eyes and you can clean it up.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


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