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Looking for a good sci-fi/fantasy book
F-ZeroOne replied to Morpheus's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Don't neglect your classics, either - Wells, Clarke, Asimov, Bester (no, not the Babylon 5 one...! ) , Heinlein, Walter M. Miller Jnr... -
Looking for a good sci-fi/fantasy book
F-ZeroOne replied to Morpheus's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Old Mans War by John Scalzi is pretty good, and theres at least three more books in the series. Peter F. Hamiliton, Dan Simmons, Charles Stross, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman and Alistair Reynolds are names to watch out for. If you haven't read any Terry Pratchett, correct this deficiency as soon as possible. Good Omens, written with Neil Gaiman is a good standalone starting point, or if you wish to get into his famous Discworld series, I would suggest beginning with Guards! Guards! followed by Men at Arms and Feet of Clay. Other Pratchett fans opinions may differ. (Small Gods will almost certainly be mentioned... ) Some very good SF is written in comics these days; Warren Ellis is a name that can seemingly do no wrong at the moment (try Planetary or Global Frequency), and get ready for the Watchmen movie with the original graphic novel by scary bearded eldritch comic god Alan Moore. -
Heh. That one reminds me of a story somewhere about some pilots on actual operations that did the same thing (put out fake radio calls to make it look like their formation was larger than it was), but I can't remember the details, not even which war though it might have been during the Battle of Britain...
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Ah, thanks! I've been after that answer for a while.
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I can't help but feel Microsoft are a bit late to the party. Yes, Worldwide its probably good for them, but if its another attempt to crack Japan they perhaps should have been thinking about this sort of thing some years ago...
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I know, I wasn't trying to imply its an all-British project, just looking at it from a humourous British point-of-view.
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"Chaps? Hello? Rolls-Royce here? We built the Pegasus, the engine that powered the only other successful S/VTOL fighter in the World? You know? The blokes you're not returning calls from? I say? Hello?"
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"Sharkey" Ward [1] would be most annoyed, but yes, most people in the U.K. of about my age would probably recognise the Vulcan. [1] Author of "Sea Harrier Over The Falklands" and not overly impressed with the "crabs" contribution. [2] [2] Fleet Air Arm term for the R.A.F.
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Thanks, David and Phyrox. Bowen, the Vulcan is one of those aircraft that always looks like it dropped out of the future...
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Cool - is that a vintage shot or has someone restored one?
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yes, it makes more sense now that Davids posted the other angle. My bad with SeaRAM and the Sea-Sparrow; I meant RAM and I missed the Sea-Sparrow launcher at first, I thought it was just a deck fitting after only glancing at it.
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"X-Ray Hotel 558... " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7494406.stm "... glad to see you back. And, oh, Gravitys just wet itself."
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This isn't Engrish as such, but I recently caught an internal flight in Japan with a friend. When using the toilet, I noticed it had a sign on it saying "Please do not flush foreign articles down the toilet". As one of exactly two foreigners on a plane full of Japanese, I hadn't previously realised the danger we were in...
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You know, there are times when I miss the days when all I had to worry about in anime playback terms was Dub vs Sub. I use VLC generally, though by the time I've posted this, it will probably have been replaced with something else.
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Regards old Doctor Who episodes - it might be worth noting that due to various clear-outs of the BBC archives during the 60s and 70s, some episodes are currently lost in Time. Some of these episodes are highly sought after, so if you happen to have a dusty broadcast version of the first Doctors regeneration scene from the fourth episode of The Tenth Planet hidden in the basement...
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Hobbylink Japan mentions that there is one, and the U.S. version press release says theres two but theres no hint whatsoever what they might be on the boxes.
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Hes trying to protect us from seeing the Shornet.
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Interesting that the rear quarter seems to have Phalanx on one side and SeaRAM on the other - are they expecting one side of the ship to only be attacked by low performance missiles or something? Speaking of carriers - the Royal Navys two carriers are definitely going ahead now, so would you lot please hurry up and finish making F-35s so we have something to fly from them please?
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I've never owned or flown one myself, but the one theme that constantly seems to crop up in any discussion of them is that you'd better find some spare arms to graft on.
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Penultimate episode of the current series last night, which I've only just seen due to prior commitments. Remember how I said I had trouble speaking after seeing the trailer? Well, after seeing the episode fladderburblegeeblewhippsplerg!
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Er, that wasn't intended to be sarcastic - it was just a tribute to The Simpsons and Richard Dean Andersons pre-StarGate career. Honest!
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It can be done, but you need some chewing gum and the Moons gravitational pull.
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The actual LEM - the "lander" - was probably a piece of cake compared to what the astronauts had to train with to learn how to fly it...! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLRV
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I haven't commented yet because I haven't been able to make any sound other than "Whu arble weeble FLUB!" for two days since seeing that trailer...
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Theres going to be a game. Its on Wii. And its being developed by the Ace Combat people! http://kotaku.com/5018178/ace-combat-team-...pired-wii-flier Radar looks familiar...