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16 Aug 15 08:37

Torunn

Gothenburg

Joined: 11 Mar 16
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29 May 17 20:44

Peter Robinson "Abattoir Blues".

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

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30 May 17 02:53

John Scalzi : Android's Dream

Very cool SciFi

Torunn

Gothenburg

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02 Jun 17 16:21

Deon Meyer 'Ikaros'

Earlier read by the same author 'Thirteen Hours', very good.

Shallow Blue

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04 Jun 17 17:47

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Tolkien, "On Fairy-stories"

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

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05 Jun 17 17:53

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Originally posted by Ponderable
John Scalzi : Android's Dream

Very cool SciFi

I read just about all of Scalzi, starting with 'old man's war'. Haven't read Android's Dream, title obviously a take on Phillip K Dick's
'Do androids dream of electric sheep"

Right now, Ultima by Stephan Baxter.

Ponderable

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Linkenheim

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05 Jun 17 21:34

Originally posted by sonhouse
I read just about all of Scalzi, starting with 'old man's war'. Haven't read Android's Dream, title obviously a take on Phillip K Dick's
'Do androids dream of electric sheep"

Right now, Ultima by Stephan Baxter.

Well spotted about the Dick novel 😉

sonhouse

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06 Jun 17 19:54

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Originally posted by Ponderable
Well spotted about the Dick novel 😉

Did Dick get any money from the movies of his scripts? I seem to recall he died before he got anything. Like Blade Runner, was he alive for that flick? Found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_by_Philip_K._Dick

13 movies but Blade Runner is the only one MAYBE he was alive to see, he died the same year it came out, 1982.

Torunn

Gothenburg

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14 Jun 17 18:47

An Invisible (En osynlig) - Pontus Ljunghill

Ponderable

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Linkenheim

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16 Jun 17 13:13

I have finished Geraldine Brooks: A secret chord

Very good novel on King David as seen by Nathan the Prophet.

Great Big Stees

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23 Jun 17 14:08

Midnight Sun - Jo Nesbo

Torunn

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23 Jun 17 14:10

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Midnight Sun - Jo Nesbo

You will have a good time, I'm sure.

Great Big Stees

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23 Jun 17 14:22

Originally posted by Torunn
You will have a good time, I'm sure.

I really enjoyed The Snowman.

Torunn

Gothenburg

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23 Jun 17 14:28

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
I really enjoyed The Snowman.

Happiness is finding a writer who doesn't let you down. 🙂

sonhouse

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slatington, pa, usa

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23 Jun 17 16:09

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Sci fi: EVE, The Emperian age. by Tony Gonzalez. Set twenty thousand years in the future, flights across the galaxy common, human population on thousands of planets trillions of humans. Revolution on one backwards world shakes the whole human galaxy.

mlb62

Joined: 20 May 17
Moves: 19306

24 Jun 17 15:28

The Face of Trespass, Ruth Rendell