Oolite Bulletins

Sorry for the delay! I'm on holiday in sunny* Devon this week and internet access is patchy. Please give me any instance from a non-Asimov book or movie that alludes to his Laws of Robotics. Thanks!

*ha, as if.

And Larry Niven once again - humanity in Known Space (by the time of Beowulf Schaeffer in "Flatlander" and later Louis Wu in "Ringworld") had teleport booths, and the Puppeteers went one better with "stepping discs".

Hiya. I never did work out how to do discount vouchers on Amazon, but I've made Sidewinder Precision Pro free to download for five days starting now. I know you can always read the thread version in this very forum, but if you'd like a free copy for your Kindle (or reading app), now's the time.

2001: A Space Odyssey - it all kicks off when TMA-1 is discovered on the Moon.

I think you've missed Malacandra's Sidewinder, Norby - he was being too modest. :lol: The Sidewinder is a core Elite / Oolite ship and I'd never claim that for my own. But the original novel Sidewinder Precision Pro introduced a couple of new ships, the Claymore and the Purdy. (There are one or two...

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Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:17 pm

Then name (at least) one fighter-class ship in five different SF universes. The ship type must be named somehow, not just "heavy fighter" or so. Please also provide a link for each ship which demonstrate it.

*modest cough*

Traveller certainly qualifies in terms of Jump mechanics, but isn't it largely the inspiration for Elite?

That'll do nicely. Another species could have been the Kurii, from the Gor series - stated in Beasts of Gor to comprise dominants, non-dominants, egg-carriers and blood-nursers. The dominants fertilise the egg-carriers, who then implant the blood-nursers, not unlike the Puppeteer breeding cycle - an...

Yes, they do. And another?

Yeesh. Nobody likes this. OK, here's an alternative: give me two sapient alien races which have more than two sexes (and whose breeding cycle also involves more than two). Any science fiction you like, not restricted to Trek.

Lordy. That's the trouble with coming up with smart answers - you have to come up with smart questions to follow up. Okay, some Trek trivia then: at least three actors who have appeared anywhere in the franchise as characters of different humanoid races. (One quite well-known one played three differ...

The Grogs. In their adult or sessile stage they are blind, deaf and immobile - all they can do is open their mouth and mind-control something into walking in.

(Larry Niven, short story "The Handicapped", occasionally mentioned elsewhere.)

In the low forties Absolute, I'd say you were pretty much right.

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Sun May 20, 2018 9:40 am

Malacandra wrote: ↑

Sun May 20, 2018 7:35 am

The management are welcome to advise me when this is becoming tiresome.

Tempt the manglement at your peril!

As long as I get a warning bullet through the kneecap first, we're all good.

i like good reads. just finished between the devil and black space (i think?) it was a pretty good book of short stories. sure it focused on INRA, but i liked how the various threads tied together. definitely will be looking into this (crack open the oxz) If you like good reads, allow me to shamele...