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    Fanfictions

    Preston and Child (the authors) have a series of books about Holmesian type character (Pendergast) with serious physical and mental skills. Anyway, they wrote a book (can't recall the name but I think it had something like "white" or snow in the title. Anyway, it had a section in the story...
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    Fanfictions

    I have yet to find a fanfic site that won't allow slash. Doesn't mean they don't exist but I haven't found one. A friend and I had discussed doing something like this but we also had to acknowledge that we'd irk a whole lot of folks who would start all the name calling because we wouldn't...
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    Alright so who plays?

    I enjoy those games and still play them (on rare occasions) although it's been a while for most of these (never played Minecraft). Most recent have been Uncharted (all 3 in a row) for the PS3 and hope to get to the Tomb Raider and Turok games on the PS3 one of these days. The PS3 belonged to...
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    how long do u spend a day playing games?

    Depends on how you define 'gaming' because I figure there are two types of gaming...board gaming and video gaming. I do both but probably more board gaming than video/PC games (unless you want to count the hidden object/puzzle solving PC games which I sometimes will play for a couple of hours...
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    Definitely need some prayers

    I am in need of prayers on both the job and health aspects of my life. I lost my long-term job in 2012 and haven't had much aside from occasional temp assignments since. I am now 61 (just turned 61) and it's been 11 months since my last job. Is it because of age? Or just that there are no...
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    Sci-Fi

    I've been a Sci-fi fan for 50 years and then some. Aside from movies and TV, I was heavily into fantasy adventure and sword and sorcery stories. Started with ERB and his Carter of Mars/Carson of Venus etc etc. Read everything I could get of his including most of the Tarzan books. Then I got...
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    Fanfictions

    Those TGM stories are from the days of Fanzines. Cutter's Goose is online. I did one of the stories in there although that was one of my first fanfics so the quality isn't as good. I also did a novella length story but that never saw print because most fanzine publishers didn't take those. I...
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    Fanfictions

    English Muffin - I know this is hugely late as a reply but I wanted to say thanks for the explanation as to why you liked Slash fic. I appreciated that you took the time to give me a thoughtful reply. We like what we like, I get that. I guess I'm just so uninterested in that kind of fic and...
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    Fanfictions

    I don't think lazy has anything to do with it. We are just borrowing the characters, the time period and/or location, and some basic facts. But a heck of a lot of research has to go into the stories I write. If I'm writing Star Trek I not only have to know the characters and ship well, but I...
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    With which TV shows did you grow up with?

    I routinely watched: McHale's Navy Lost In Space Batman The Monkees Time Tunnel Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Land of the Giants Young Rebels MASH Tales of the Gold Monkey Flash Gordon Tremors the Series X-Files Star Trek (all of them) Babylon 5 Battlestar Galactica (the...
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    What TV On DVD Is In Your Collection?

    I have a good number of series. Also putting in the husband's because we watch them together. Bear in mind that we have had periods of time when we had no satellite or cable (like now) and we'd buy these for our evening entertainment. Also we are an older couple so have been 'collecting'...
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    Last TV series on DVD that you watched?

    We are alternating between seasons of Supernatural (which I got on Black Friday specials over the last 3 years but have never seen) and Have Gun - Will Travel and Doctor Who. Since we got rid of the satellite (couldn't afford to keep it) we binge watch seasons of stuff we've collected over the...
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    Fanfictions

    Out of curiosity what did you like about Slash. I've been trying to figure out why people like it (unless they were gay, in which case I could see the appeal...but the majority of slash writers/readers are not gay). I'm not being sarcastic, I really am trying to understand what the appeal is...
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    Fanfictions

    While I agree that people can write whatever they want there is an unexpected problem with certain types of fic...namely slash fic. Not that it is written. I get that folks out there like it. But sometimes the writers get so carried away with slash pairings and writing it, that the average...
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    What are some great post-apocalyptic novels?

    A Canticle for Leibowitz, Oryx and Crake, A Year of the Flood, Logan's Run (wasn't that a story first?), Some stuff by Andre Norton was in this genre wasn't it? Actually there were several authors of the 60s and 70s who did those stories about radiation or natural disasters that altered the...