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Nice! The first one (here http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/36693-classic-science-fiction-covers-3.html#post1537312 ) looks like the formidable Boris Valejo. :D

Re: Surface Detail Heh. Just to add to the minority here I need to say: I don't think Matter is the best book ever, but I like it better than Surface Detail. Matter is original (in places), deeply disturbing (to me) and picks up speed at the end ("rushed" indeed - but I found that fitting and...

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What a great thread with utterly awesome pics! This one by Micheal Whelan breathes the old pulp style, I think. I love it very much. (Here's a bigger version of the picture http://lcrazzy1.narod.ru/image/fantasy/michael_whelan/michael_whelan__chanurs_homecoming.jpgThis This one is...

Ok, three years later I feel it's about time to answer... X) I guess I never did, coz all I can say is: very insightful, very helpful (also for my grasp of Eliot's poem) and Thank you! 8) I really got nothing new to add. I still think Horza fears the Culture like drowning - losing control and...

I didn't know that. Great link, thanks!

I kinda envy you. So much to discover. Look forward to Seven Samurai (make sure you're watching the long, uncut version). For Shakespeare there is also the very stylish (beautiful!) Throne of Blood (based on Mcbeth).

Yea, Yojimbo: a flawless film. Friend of mine and me watched it so often that we don't need the subs anymore. :D

R2D2, C3PO: The peasants who start Kakushi-toride no san-akunin and bicker the whole film through. Though Makabe Rokurota (Mifune) is the most robotic personality in the whole film. :) The DVD I got tells the story from the Japanese and the American pov, but the director of the Japanese part is...

The Mri are moulded after bedu (right word?) culture, aren't they? Hm, might be much more healthy than the western way of life. As I said: if a way doesn't include injustice to parts of the culture there is no reason to give it up for 'modern civilisation'. So in the end I think I agree with...

I must admit that it's quite some time ago since I read The Faded Sun trilogy -- Kel is the warrior caste of the Mri, yes? I agree with you that's it's good to stay true to one's culture -- presumed it is a good culture and doesn't mean eg. multilation of young girls... What I mean: to believe...

I didn't know any of his footage made it into the final version! Which scenes are by him? My favourite Kurosawas: Yojimbo (my all time favourite film) Yoidore Tenshi (aka Drunken Angel; the first he did with Mifune.) Kumonosu jô (aka Throne of Blood -- so beautiful!) Shichinin no Samurai...

Yea, sorry, A/U means Alliance/Union. Tripoint, Cyteen, Downbelow... even the Chanur series is part of that universe. In which the most alien is--- the human. :D

For those who like humans to be ... on top of things: there are many Cherryh books without any aliens. (A/U) But like Teresa said about the mri - I found them, well cool, but I didn't admire them that much, because they seem to exist solely for warfare, and their strict code is a reason for...

Most decent people I know love the Atevi stuff. My not being-into-it is more due to lack of space on my shelves and lack of money which I rather spend on all those early Cherryh books I haven't read yet. It's just, I thought there was a new Atevi book out ... or perhaps due... I'm not up to...

I see; seems that I didn't understand the meaning of 'stand alone' So, eg. The Pride of Chanur is a stand alone, and Venture, Kif and Homecoming aren't, because they tell one great story. Great new thread; but oh, sophisticated. Excuse this ole German gal for today, my English doesn't flow by...

I'm not sure if this is entirely true... Hope I didn't start a stupid rumour. I just think I read it on her page, that she advises fans who want to ask if/when she's writing another one of their favourite series to go straight to the publisher with that question. I think. :D

Hehe, I definitely could (and would) use one! She has finished writing it in 2007 (she says in her blog), and now I think DAW is messing with the script. I know nothing about the procedures (rituals?) of publishing, but they take place, and when they're trough with it: voilà! What I am trying...

I think - without much experience, of course -his stuff is perfectly easy to read. That's part of his style, it has a naive charm... I really can't express it very well and am hoping for others to help me out there. 'Clear and easy to understand' is fitting for the Vance that I know. edit -...

Merry met indeed! <restrains self from hitting mekt hakt Pyan on the shoulder> When i registered here, some days ago, I was actually thinking of starting some Cherryh threads, just to get her her own board, but naw. That would be ... not real. But perhaps...perhaps... She has written a bunch...