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| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
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| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1300 |
| Total number of notes: | 18728 |
644.0. "Ether Ore" by SNDCSL::SMITH (TANSTAAI) Sat Jul 02 1988 11:38
I just finished off Ether Ore by H.C. Turk [Ben Bova's Discoveries] and
can't decide whether to trade it in to Annie's Book Swap or maybe burn
it to keep it out of circulation. Melody Preece, living in a different
(can't really say 'alternate') universe goes to Marz, drifts off to
another universe with a different Marz, gets chewed up, burned as a
witch (with a way out which doesn't work but gets rescued anyway),
steals a trok (which flies for a while), and falls in with a group of
witches to overthrow the bad guys. All interlaced with the ultimate
deus-ex-machina of concept/idea power which can change anything around.
Still not sure why I finished it, but unless you are into
no-holds-barred fantasy, get a real book instead....
Oh well....
Willie
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| 644.1 | addenda | SNDCSL::SMITH | TANSTAAI | Sat Jul 02 1988 11:41 | 6 |
| I really suspect that the 'different' spelling was incorporated
not so much to give the reader the idea of a different universe
as it was to relieve the burden on the proofreader, many words were
just enough different to be annoying....
Willie
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| 644.2 | Maybe they just can't spell ... | MPGS::BAILEY | May the 4 winds blow u safely home | Tue Jul 05 1988 10:34 | 5 |
| Sounds a little like Piers Anthony. Just finished reading one of his
books with an "alternate universe" theme. Had animals like "froogs"
"bearver" and "mooear" in it. I agree. Annoying as hell ...
... Bob
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