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Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Live Reveal - Thursday 12th of June at 1700BST

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    Tobi
    Haraki san Prodigy
    Joined: 12 Aug 2022

    Re-reading (actually audio-book now) the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
    These were written in the 90's and the plot is set to begin in the 2020's. Some hilarious projections of 1990's technology got me though. For example: they are still sending Fax on Mars in the future, and have video rental stores in Martian cities 🙂

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      mclaincausey
      見習いボス
      @GraemeE
      Joined: 12 Apr 2013

      @GraemeE well I’ve found what to ship you alongside Sympathy for the Drummer then 🙂

      Think it, be it.

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        Tago Mago
        Mod Squad
        @Tobi
        Joined: 16 Jan 2021

        @Tobi said in Books:

        still sending Fax on Mars

        I didn't know Germany had colonized Mars

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          Tobi
          Haraki san Prodigy
          @Tago Mago
          Joined: 12 Aug 2022

          @Tago-Mago don't even get me started.. at least fax was somewhat digital. Was effectively unable to vote in the recent German elections, since a letter from DE to DK took 13 days! So we are left with fully analog exchange of letters, but with a dysfunctional mail service. Actually today the Danish Post (Post Nord) announced that it will stop all letter delivery from next year.

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            J-IV
            啓蒙家
            Joined: 19 Oct 2011

            @mclaincausey nope, at least not yet. It’s on my list to read this year though. I debating on whether reading that first or Saxophone Colossus by Levy. I’ve had the latter in the bookshelf for a minute, it’s just an intimidating read but I know I’ll breeze (relatively speaking lol) though it once I start.

            I'm as ugly as you

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              Inorganic
              Haraki san Student
              @Tobi
              Joined: 7 Sept 2022

              @Tobi i still think about Red Mars. Robinson did a wonderful job of describing the landscape of Mars - the enormous proportions and size of the cliffs, canyons etc. I didn't go on to read the following 2 books, but listening to them does sound enticing.

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                Inorganic
                Haraki san Student
                Joined: 7 Sept 2022

                I finished The Secret Society this evening. What a read….i actually picked it up based on what peeps were saying in this thread about it. Thanks!

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                  NickD
                  Raw and Unwashed
                  Joined: 17 Nov 2024

                  A tag line that should go down well here. I’ve never bought his clothes, or seen much of his tv work but I thought this book was brilliant. An echo of my own thoughts over the last few years.

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                    Tobi
                    Haraki san Prodigy
                    @NickD
                    Joined: 12 Aug 2022

                    @NickD I fixed the title for the average IH customer:fewer.png

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                      jerkules
                      啓蒙家
                      @Inorganic
                      Joined: 26 Aug 2018

                      @Inorganic really enjoyed secret History. Wish they’d made a movie with a young Philip Seymour Hoffman as Bunny Corcoran.

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                        Inorganic
                        Haraki san Student
                        @jerkules
                        Joined: 7 Sept 2022

                        @jerkules that would have been a solid casting, he crushed a similar role ‘Talented Mr Ripley’. Your post got my mind running on which 90’s (book was published in ‘92) actors could play Henry - Richard E. Grant I think could do it justice. And a bonus thought if they made it today he could make an excellent Julian.

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                          Giles
                          IHUK Crew
                          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

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                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                            SKT
                            見習いボス
                            Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                            Been on my list for so long and finally getting around to reading it. Just a few chapters in but it’s already very tense

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                              SFMCfranky
                              Raw and Unwashed
                              @stever
                              Joined: 1 Oct 2024

                              @stever

                              In my opinion, this right here is the greatest American novel. So many scenes are burned into my memories.

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                                GraemeE
                                @J-IV
                                Joined: 18 Sept 2022

                                @J-IV said in Books:

                                @GraemeE

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                                Just finished the audiobook on my way back from the coast

                                Spoiler Alert:
                                Parker, Coltrane, Evans and Davis all end up dying early....

                                On a serious note I highly recomend this either in print or narrated on headphones
                                10 out of 10

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                                  J-IV
                                  啓蒙家
                                  @GraemeE
                                  Joined: 19 Oct 2011

                                  @GraemeE Gald you enjoyed it. Agreed with the above message - if you’re torn between which medium, the book has pictures. 😅

                                  I'm as ugly as you

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                                    Giles
                                    IHUK Crew
                                    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                    @pechelman
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                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    • pechelmanP
                                      pechelman
                                      啓蒙家
                                      Joined: 24 Jan 2022

                                      Let me know what you think @Giles

                                      Some of the stuff they did back then to just make things happen was crazy.

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                                        Giles
                                        IHUK Crew
                                        Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                        Will do

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          GraemeE
                                          Joined: 18 Sept 2022

                                          Got some mail today from @mclaincausey (via @SKT via @Jett129 )

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