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Antares Dawn:
  http://3mpub.com/mccollum/sfaz-04e.htm
  "When the supergiant star Antares exploded in 2512, the human colony on Alta found their pathway to the stars gone, isolating them from the rest of human space for more than a century. Then one day, a powerful warship materialized in the system without warning. Alarmed by the sudden appearance of such behemoth, the commanders of the Altan Space Navy dispatched one of their most powerful ships to investigate. What ASNS Discovery finds when they finally catch the intruder is a battered hulk manned by a dead crew.
That is disturbing news for the Altans. For the dead battleship could easily have defeated the whole of the Altan navy. If it could find Alta, then so could whoever it was that beat it. Something would have to be done."


  Mine is from the 1986 print so it has the awesome Chris Foss cover, although the cover shown on 3m's site gives a more accurate representation of the ships ivolved.
Awesome Chris Foss cover: http://bp3.blogger.com/_XsVALQtGIZM/SGVAbCt8oMI/AAAAAAAAFkU/fQFUqT6UovQ/s1600-h/DSP-055.jpg

  The main thing I like about this book is the realism. The ships can't fly around willy-nilly like in Star Wars or Star Trek because of fuel and (natural) speed limits, any journey to any where inl space takes days if not weeks (the average mission length seems to be around six months), and the way they travel interstellar is pure genius.
  Oh, and space battles come in two flavours: Drive-By (you can't just spin around and give chase) and a gruelling kind of sci-fi meets 300 running battle that invariably lasts days at a time.

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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That last part is how I picture a space story like. But a lot of problems arise if ur doing it with other people but in my own story I have similar stuff

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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Funny, I finally decided to look for Ender's Game at the library and should be reading it this week.  From the description you put I like the whole "Let's send our biggest most powerful ship so they know not to mess with us. meets oh dear they are way more powerful than us, meets there is something even more powerful than them out there."

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Antares Passage:

After more than a century of isolation, the paths between stars are again open and the people of Alta in contact with their sister colony on Sandar. The opening of the foldlines has not been the unmixed blessing the Altans had supposed, however.
For the reestablishment of interstellar travel has brought with it news of the Ryall, an alien race whose goal is the extermination of humanity. If they are to avoid defeat at the hands of the aliens, Alta must seek out the military might of Earth. However, to reach Earth requires them to dive into the heart of a supernova ...


I have barely started it and I'm already gripped. Need to find part three before next week.

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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Ender's Game is an amazing book.

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Enders game does indeed rock, read it for a few hours yesterday.  Pity the first library I checked doesn't have the next in the series neither the Shadow series.

Fokker, did you buy it from that website cause your book isn't in the library either :X

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Ender's Game FTW. I own all of the books for that and the Shadow series. Great books, though the Ender Quartet is more philosophical than the Shadow Series

George Smith Patton
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

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MC is gay

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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Recently I have been writing a story not unlike that of 24


why? I don't know. Perhaps the twists? the intrigue? the denial? THE BETRAYAL!??!! or maybe just the insanity and chaos of terrorism and the people trying to stop it despite the fact they hold three cards and the terrorists hold the other 51 tongue

who knows? but it'll be a bang wink

trust me, this story will be full of plot twists and turns you'll be dizzy big_smile (I like to create intense twists that few people see coming)

Insane Lemming of Drama Queens and Other Hyperbolical People

1431 ftw

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Listos Show off!
Post it here.

I finished Enders Game and fortunately the other library has the shadow series and the rest of the series.  Moving on to Ender's Shadow today.

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Curt Cobain's Journal.

Messy head.

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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I read that in comic form

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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Favorite Sci-Fi books:  1. Dune (the original by Frank Herbert and not his son 'whatshisface' )  2. Ender's Game series.

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Thinking of which, I'm going to read the orignal Dune series again this summer.  It's been a while.

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Still reading Ender's Shadow about half way threw.  Bean's a character I think I more relate to Ender than Bean but he's interesting as well.

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I reread "hunt for Red October"

"During her last overhaul, the Dallas had received a very special toy to go along with her BCQ-5 sonar system. Called the BC-10, it was the most powerful computer yet installed aboard a submarine. Though only about the size of a business desk, it cost over five million dollars and ran at eighty million operations per second. It used newly developed sixty-four bit chips and made use of the latest processing architechture. Its bubble memory could easily accomodate the computing needs of a whole squadron of submarines. In five years every attack sub in the fleet would have one."

...BWAHAAHAAHAAAAAA big_smile

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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I have more computation then that

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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"[...]In five years every attack sub in the fleet would have one."

Nice to know jinxing can happen anywhere.
Seriously, should I not at least have a HAL4500 by now?

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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So... I've started reading Speaker For the Dead.  I don't think I'll like it as much as Ender's game, and definitely it will be a pale comparison to Shadow of Ender but I hope I can finish it.  I look forward to Shadow of the Heagemon after.

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I urged a friend to read Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light".  When I loaned him a copy he freaked because he thought I was making the whole thing up.  He says he can't get into it because it's too weird.

Guess he hasn't read the Amber novels tongue   "Son, your mom is a unicorn, never told you"
Zelazny never goes into how that happened, I'm glad Peter Hamilton didn't think of it yikes

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/The%20World%20Turned%20Upside%20Down/0743498747__24.htm

this is a great read, aliens invade cold era earth without doing their research.

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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Looks good, I'll have to keep my eyes open for that one.
Good premise too, I've always liked the "They're smart in ways we're not" approach over the "They're better at everything" approach.

Nice invasion...

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/poul-anderson/brain-wave.htm

A great "What if?" book.

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."