What If We're Wrong? Billed as a look at today as if from the distant future. In a nutshell, in 2217, very little of what we now know as true now will still be thought of in the same way. The author supposes the only music from the Twentieth Century will be that of Sousa, and I think he is right.
I'm reading books form 25 years ago when I was a kid. The Joe Dever Lone Wolf gamebooks. I have read 1-10 so far and are about to start The Prisoners of Time.
I liked em in 1992, still kind of fun if very simplistic to the adult me.
They're great fun: much better than the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Did you leave the Sommerswerd behind before you entered the Cauldron of Fear in Book 9?
Greenwood series The History of Venezuela by H. Michael Tarver and Julia C. Frederick. The book doesn't quite explain clearly how Venezuela goes from being a functional democracy in the 1960s to being a highly-troubled state in the very late 1980s. We hear about various development initiatives started during the 1970s oil shocks. Then two chapters later the population of Venezuela is shown as still impoverished. Rather disappointing storytelling.
They're great fun: much better than the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Did you leave the Sommerswerd behind before you entered the Cauldron of Fear in Book 9?
No my copy is from the 80's though. I have read about leaving the SS behind but is this form the rereleased versions from Mongoose? Zakhan Kimah and a Drakkarim in book 10 have 40 CS and in the early books there are several times you lose your backpack so bye bye Alethir and concentrated alethir I had been hording. My current LW rolled a 7 for CS.
Book 11 has a very nasty encounter for Lone Wolf if he has the Sommerswerd with him, which is why some people like to leave it behind before starting Book 10.
I don't know if the new versions changed that particular scenario, but I'd doubt it.
Book 11 has a very nasty encounter for Lone Wolf if he has the Sommerswerd with him, which is why some people like to leave it behind before starting Book 10.
I don't know if the new versions changed that particular scenario, but I'd doubt it.
It's been a long time since I read the book, but that's the fight. As I recall, if you had the Sword of the Sun on you, there was a mandatory option to take.
It's been a long time since I read the book, but that's the fight. As I recall, if you had the Sword of the Sun on you, there was a mandatory option to take.
Depends there is an option to get another sword and chose what one to use and it wounds the chaos master which reduces his CS from around 47 to something like 42 and it reduces his endurance as well.
I got to the very end of Ringworld (audio book version) when the software I used decided to erase the file. I'm kind of bummed about that and I think I'll just look up the synopsis because I don't want to pay for it again.
I was skimming this thread a bit too quickly and in the wrong direction, and didn't immediately click that these two posts were about different things,
Speaking of Fear no Evil, I just finished Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil. About a man who inhabits a woman's body after a brain transplant. One of Heinlein's weirder offerings, but it is an interesting read. If only to see what he got wrong about how women think.
Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human has completely changed my worldview. The author veers off into partisanship towards the end of the book, but the rest makes too much sense. There are arguments here which I think most modern people (especially feminists) will never hear in their lives.
Nope. I've spent 4 months, plus the time needed for outlining, adapting several Fighting Fantasy gamebooks to prose form, for my NaNoWriMo projects. There's no way in hell I'd do that for the Lone Wolf gamebooks.
As for what I've been reading: Just finished Ben Bova's latest Grand Tour novel, Apes and Angels. Now I'm re-reading a favorite Poul Anderson time travel novel, The Shield of Time.
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