Forum: The Library Café
Sep 22 2017, 04:02 PM
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Forum: Café Archives
Feb 2 2017, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 10,105
Re: The Future of Fan-fic
No no no no no. Please no. I wouldn't *ever* want anything I'd written as a fanwork to be sold for profit (or even at cost), with the unlikely exception of being solicited by Anne's estate prior to...
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Forum: Café Archives
Feb 2 2017, 11:41 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 10,105
Re: The Future of Fan-fic
I object, P'ter.
We have control over our own fanworks here. As soon as you start curating a collection, that control is lost. What you do in the privacy of your own hard-drive is up to you - and...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 3 2016, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 20,761
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Forum: The Library Café
Dec 17 2015, 06:01 AM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Nov 16 2015, 05:12 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 20,761
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Oct 13 2015, 03:25 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 86,083
Re: New Pern Book's !
I'm curious, but I don't know that I'm optimistic. But who knows? It could be an awesome addition to the series!
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 13 2015, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 26,347
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 13 2015, 04:59 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,584
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 3 2015, 04:47 AM
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Replies: 98
Views: 49,533
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 3 2015, 04:45 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 12,330
Re: The Size of Pern
Timor is roughly the size of Luna, but not at the same distance. We don't know the angular size of 'Rukbat' in the sky (ask me in a couple of months when I'm less busy and I'll let you know just how...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Jun 2 2015, 04:56 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 12,330
Re: The Size of Pern
Acceleration due to gravity is: g = G M / r^2
Putting the numbers in - g=0.9*9.81, G=6.67e-11, r=5.2e6 - gives a mass of 3.6e24 kg or 60% of the Earth's mass. In terms of density, Pern has a...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 17 2015, 05:21 AM
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Replies: 60
Views: 27,949
Re: Federation?
Ginny, do I want to follow those links? Or have you been hacked by a bot?
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 12 2015, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 10,043
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 12 2015, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 10,043
Re: Female green riders
Yup. Did you not realise before then?
Not for the weyrbred. Dragons rise, riders shag, then carry on about their buisness of saving the planet. As they say, when in Rome...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 11 2015, 11:59 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 10,043
Re: Female green riders
Damn, I could've sworn there was a third. Danegga? Don't have books to hand, but I'm pretty sure she exists and appears in Skies at some point.
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 10 2015, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 60
Views: 27,949
Re: Federation?
"...and Lessa had honestly regretted the necessity of his death. But he would have made her revenge impossible. He would have found her out before she had learned to camouflage herself and her little...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
May 7 2015, 04:28 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 27,949
Re: Federation?
I think the difference comes in the lives of the characters we see. Pern's like most other pseudo-medieval crapsack worlds - if you're one of the 1%, provided the shortage of antibiotics doesn't kill...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Apr 29 2015, 04:07 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,987
Re: Furbeasts, Deep Ones, Whersports, & Avians
I'm guessing the deep ones are some relative of the six-limbed fossils that the survey teams flagged up as the ancestor of wherries and flits. I toyed with the idea in Regicide - a weird, rare deep...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Apr 26 2015, 03:57 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,799
Re: Dragonquest Fan Art by MMHudson
Wow, just looked at her more recent posts - the full sequence of Prideth v Wirenth, and Jaxom's impression (which seems to be a work in progress). Some lovely fanart there - I hadn't appreciated...
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Forum: Café Archives
Mar 31 2015, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,573
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 20 2015, 02:15 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
Re: What is happening
http://m.thestar.co.uk/news/video-sheffield-folk-admire-solar-eclipse-1-7167081
This is what my family have been up to today...
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 14 2015, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 5,962
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 14 2015, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 11,303
Re: He was HOW old?
We know he was catching queens - consistently and frequently - because Sorka grounded Brianth from queen flights. We know that the vast majority of those queenriders were way older than Torene. The...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 13 2015, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 60
Views: 27,949
Re: Federation?
Are you aware that Anne herself crossed over the Ship, Doona and Crystal Singer books?
All her own worlds, of course, but if you just look at the first books in each series, they're no more...
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 13 2015, 11:28 AM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
Re: What is happening
My father's MND has already got to the point where his diaphragm no longer functions properly, and his lung function/CO2 levels were so poor that the doctors were amazed he could still walk around. ...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 26 2015, 04:52 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 12,510
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 26 2015, 03:13 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 12,510
Re: Kath's poetry thread
I've been messing about with poetry quite a lot this weekend - it's good for ironing out emotions, plus I'm critiquing an educational theory paper through the medium of verse (don't ask!!!)
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 26 2015, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 12,510
Re: Kath's poetry thread
I don't think I posted this one before?
Fever Birds
These are the Fever Birds come to roost:
drawn down through glass, amorphous and artless,
forced cries of colour on cellulose sclerae.
And...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 18 2015, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 17 2015, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
Re: What is happening
So, my Dad has motor neurone disease (also known as ALS). The neurologist mentioned it as a worst case possibility a bit before Christmas, and several tests since, it's just been confirmed. Which...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 9 2015, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
Re: What is happening
Not yet - but they're not allowed to do that either! (At least not on assessable work)
Unfortunately, they handed in hardcopies to me for this coursework, so I have all the fun of triple-checking...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 9 2015, 08:51 AM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
Re: What is happening
*sigh*
I caught some of my students plagiarising off each other. Gonna throw the book at them as soon as they're all back in town.
:mad:
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 7 2015, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 5,962
Views: 1,313,660
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 6 2015, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 5,962
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 6 2015, 04:08 AM
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 5 2015, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,817
A Day at the Races
She'd never had any especial love for runners, but it was clear from the look on her brother's face that time had not dimmed his. Leaving the distant racers to B'lerion to track, Oklina watched...
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Jan 2 2015, 02:21 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 12,800
Re: TS&FL coming back - Where is AO3?
This (http://chesneycat.livejournal.com/226436.html) is my latest master-list of DRoP fics on AO3, as of June this year, for ALL the stories that are complete, 1000 words+ and in English. I have a...
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Forum: Beyond Anne McCaffrey
Nov 24 2014, 08:45 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 7,063
Re: I apologize ...
You really, Really, REALLY need to go and read one of D M Domini's works in progress.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/273190/chapters/432391
It *is* incomplete and updated irregularly, but I...
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Forum: Beyond Anne McCaffrey
Nov 4 2014, 04:35 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 27,696
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Forum: Beyond Anne McCaffrey
Nov 3 2014, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 27,696
Re: Draconia: Forging Trust
The cover art looks gorgeous! Really sells the book, makes it look like a rollicking good read.
(Except for the moons. The astronomer in me is crying anguished tears at the lopsided illumination...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Oct 5 2014, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,746
Re: Dragon wings & Flight
Yup, TK would have different limits, but then you need to extrapolate from a different starting point.
Also, dragons are Impressed to humans who have the sense to know (intuitively if not...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Oct 4 2014, 05:47 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,746
Re: Dragon wings & Flight
Assuming dragons and flits are scaled proportionately, it's important to bear these facts in mind:
Wing span scales linearly
Wing area will scale as the square of the proportional increase in...
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Forum: Café Archives
Sep 24 2014, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,002
Re: Math question
You don't.
If you multiply two negatives you get a positive.
What's the book called? Can you give us a direct quote from it?
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Forum: Exhibit Hall
Sep 22 2014, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 114
Views: 51,356
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 25 2014, 04:17 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 8,674
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 24 2014, 03:29 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 8,674
Re: Did F'lar discover Timing first?
Back to DF: F'lar arrives late morning at the Pass, but it takes awhile for Fax to ride down to the Hold itself, and I don't think they sit down to dinner until sunset - F'lar uses sunset as an...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 24 2014, 01:53 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,390
Re: Metal Weyr Jackets
Three things: Falling thread can damage thin wire, so a layer of foil won't cut it. Extruding metal into mass-produced sheets is technologically challenging and really needs an industrial culture....
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 23 2014, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 8,674
Re: Did F'lar discover Timing first?
Fort and Ruatha share a time zone.
Tillek is 2.5 hours behind.
Crom is one hour ahead.
Telgar and Ista share a time zone and are two hours ahead
Igen Weyr and Lemos are three hours ahead, Igen...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Aug 22 2014, 02:08 AM
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Replies: 19
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