Reality disfunction

Oh, and bio-habitats can swallow. :)

> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Roger Books wrote:

> Oh, and bio-habitats can swallow. :)

<blinks><reads message again>

Beg pardon?

> Brian wrote:

Indeed yes, they can. Roger is right. In FT, is't like putting Translight
drives on a space station. And 'hawks can swallow into habitats.

Read Reality Disfunction and the two sequels, (US readers - I believe it
was made into 5 or 6 short books). Really enjoyable books. Ground action,
space action, and epic love story as well.

> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Andrew Martin wrote:

> Brian wrote:

they can, but it's naughty!

> Read Reality Disfunction and the two sequels, (US readers - I believe

well, 5 or 6 medium-length books :). the series is known as the 'night's
dawn' trilogy, btw.

> Really enjoyable books. Ground action, space

i'll be the sole dissenting voice here and say that i thought they were
rubbish. well, 'the reality dysfunction' was - i didn't read the others,
but a friend told me how it ends, and i thought it sounded dire. the plot
was good (kinda), the space combat was fun if not terribly hard-sf, but
the depth of the characters and quality of language were appalling. mind you,
i dislike half the books people reccommend on this list, which means most
people will probably love the night's dawn trilogy! this may be down to the
fact that when it comes to reading, i'm actually not a big
combat-sf fan (although 'bolo' is pretty good, and you can't knock 'the
forever war').

tom

> On 24-Jun-00 at 04:20, Brian Burger (yh728@victoria.tc.ca) wrote:

When a bio-ship does a traveller style jump it is referred to
as "swallowing". Since the DNA used to construct the intelligent
bio-ships is, in a large part, human I would guess  it has
something to do with which muscles they feel they are using.

On 24-Jun-00 at 11:07, Tom Anderson

> i'll be the sole dissenting voice here and say that i thought they
mind
> you, i dislike half the books people reccommend on this list, which

I'm not sure you'll be the sole dissenting fan, I haven't finished the last
one yet. It is different, you start out as fairly hard science fiction, cross
into some David Brin style soft science fiction, and end up with Science
Fantasy. I'm not really sure that it doesn't turn into pure fantasy before the
end of the series.

Only Tranquility

On Thursday, June 22, 2000 6:57 PM, Roger Books
> [SMTP:books@mail.state.fl.us] wrote: