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    SFP latest release: Green and Pleasant Land (Building Jerusalem)

    Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary narrowly avoided an assassination attempt; the crisis that developed was resolved and a general war across Europe avoided. For the time being. It’s now 1921. Four young men, Thomas, Frank, Windy, and Peter join the British Army. They...
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    OfCom session for small sites trying to follow the Online Safety Act

    Taken from the Daily Cess-pit-graph, so with a pinch of salt - but sounding very plausible: https://archive.is/4MypB What's the odds that it ends up diluting the elements that apply to Xitter, Facebook, and the other giants, but leaves the onerous requirements on small sites?
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    Me
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    I had come to the conclusion that I should never reopen it. After all, I'd be carrying the can for that one.
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    Walkies With Watson

    Now out in paperback from SFP. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQCHCK8X The premise is quite straightforward: Everyone has heard about Sherlock Holmes and his detective adventures. Everyone knows the saying that a dog is man’s best friend. Everyone knows that Holmes was a man. Everyone knows...
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    Helliconia

    And the finale of the series: Helliconia Winter Which should have been called "Helliconia Autumn," because it's closer to midsummer than was Helliconia Spring. However, Aldiss didn't want to write four books, and said so in interviews. I get the feeling he wanted to finish with Helliconia...
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    Helliconia

    Helliconia Summer Here is where Aldiss hits his stride - he's fleshed out the world a bit more (the "tenners" as a length of time one-tenth that of a small year, so equivalent in length to about seven-and-a-half Earth weeks) and the story told is a more coherent and singular one, with...
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    Helliconia

    Having got the specifics of the world out of the way (and Helliconia takes "worldbuilding" more literally than most), I can take a look at my feelings about the books and stories themselves. Spoilers abound. But I warned you about that before. Helliconia Spring Prologue Naturally, the...
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    Helliconia

    Last post for a while (I think the main thrust of this is to get things from out of my mind - otherwise I tend to focus too much on them. It's largely why I reread the series - to try to get a grasp on these and then I forget to take any notes and lose it all). We can also get the distance to...
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    Helliconia

    Okay, so specifics on the orbital dynamics. And to be honest, someone who knows what they're doing, like @Makemakean should probably check my calculations here. We're given the following parameters (repeated, so we can be confident on them): apastron distance (furthest) from Freyr is 710...
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    Helliconia

    I'm currently working through the orbital dynamics of the system - which is made a touch harder by the fact that it's approaching quarter of a century since I was calculating orbital parameters in anger. I'm now pretty certain that there's a few hiccups in what was presented, but to give Aldiss...
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    Helliconia

    I first read the series back in the Eighties, shortly after it was completed. As is my wont, I started with the second book (due to availability in the library). Unusually for a trilogy, this was less of an issue than normal, as the story from each book is self-contained (more or less). It...
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    Helliconia

    WARNING - MILD SPOILERS THROUGHOUT; SERIOUS SPOILERS LIKELY LATER ON. I've just reread the Helliconia trilogy and come away with the same feeling I had before: I love the worldbuilding (although I now have the sneaking suspicion that certain elements just don't work), the stories and plots...
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    Paleofuture. Part 6: Emprise

    Book 3 is here on Amazon UK, for both paperback (12.99) and Kindle (4.75): It looks like it had a new printing in 2020. (Book 1 is here: and Book 2 is here albeit the paperback is twenty quid. ) EDIT: It appears that the interface has helpfully wrecked everything. Let's try again: Book 3...
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    Paleofuture. Part 6: Emprise

    I read this book in, I think, the early Nineties and it stuck with me. I didn't find it in a bookstore, but on the shelves of my local library. Which continued its habit of never stocking the entire trilogy or series and always missing out one book. I lost count of the number of trilogies...
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