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Recent content by Ncw8

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    The Perils of Paleonomism

    Another ISIS example appears in the early Big Finish UNIT series. As well as various aliens, they also have to deal with an ultra-nationalist British organization called ICIS. Different spelling, but that’s not so obvious in an audio drama.
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    Review: Genesis of the Cybermen

    Big Finish has done a good job with it, but to me it lacks some of the dramatic tension of Genesis of the Daleks, or indeed Spare Parts. The setting of a feudal/medieval culture with high technology has also been used before, e.g the Androids of Tara. So yes, an enjoyable enough story but not...
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    Review - Doctor Who: Operation Werewolf

    The Second Doctor wasn’t as cosmically overpowered as later regenerations would be - particularly in NuWho, though the Seventh was starting move that way. High intelligence hidden by obfuscating stupidity was his main mode of working. For an example of him facing a mundane enemy, a good example...
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    Review - Doctor Who: Operation Werewolf

    It’s made a bit of a comeback in NuWho, with (from the top of my head) The Lazarus Experiment, The Rebel Flesh, and Age of Steel being based on Earth-bound mad science rather than aliens. Less than once per season, but still a significant number.
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    Review - Doctor Who: Operation Werewolf

    Doctor Who did deal with WWII (or at least the Nazis) using allegory. That is what inspired the Daleks.
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    This forum will continue to operate

    “And stay in there until you find a solution to this simulation of the Three Day Week”
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    When it was first broadcast, it was said to be accurate except that ministers weren’t actually as naive as Hacker. Nowadays it comes across as accurate except that civil servants aren’t as in control as Sir Humphrey.
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    Paleofuture: Part 7. Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    I haven’t read all of the Condominium novels, but enough to convince me that Mote is by far the best. It can also be read as pretty much standalone - it was the first one I read, and I didn’t feel like I was missing any essential back-story. On the whole, I prefer Pournelle’s Capitalism, Hell...
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    Announcement: Out To Grass.

    Thanks for all your effort in editing the blog, and I hope you enjoy your retirement.
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    Paleofuture: Part 7. Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    Orson Scott Card’s writing can also be a bit disturbing. Maybe not so much in the original short story version of Ender’s Game, but there are some passages in the novel that are a little graphic. If you’re taking requests for this series, have you considered The Mote In God’s Eye ? One of the...
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    Paleofuture Part 5. Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation

    I don’t mean it was Polari, but it was derived in a similar way to some Polari vocabulary of translating English words to more Latinate roots (e.g. Good -> Bona). So First Speaker -> Prime Palaver and then shift the spelling slightly. Edit: And his pure crime stories came a bit later than the...
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    Paleofuture Part 5. Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation

    How about the secret identity of the First Speaker in the final part of Second Foundation? I must admit that I didn’t make the connection when I first read it. In hindsight
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    Monthly Vignette: Dragon's Egg

    I did once ask my Auntie Diluvian
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    Paleofuture. Part 4: Ringworld

    It’s noteworthy that Ringworld almost wasn’t written, as Niven was thinking that he’d soon have run out of things to write in that setting. Norman Spinrad suggested that he should write a final novel that basically retconned the whole background of the series. “Then why don’t you write a novel...
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    Creative Typos

    I’d like to nominate A Mighty Empire Shall Gall from the poll for one of the monthly vignette competitions. Sorry @Kato, but I still think it would be a great title for a story.
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