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Old 21-July-2008, 02:39 PM
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The quote sounds familiar. Sam speaking in Lord of Light, Zelazny?
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The quote sounds familiar. Sam speaking in Lord of Light, Zelazny?
Indeed.

Over to you, mike.

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Old 22-July-2008, 06:39 AM
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Thanks. OK, in few hours.
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Old 23-July-2008, 06:21 AM
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Network's been cattywampus tonight. Hopefully this will load. Two stories, get one and it's your turn:

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It is all that's left. Hiroshima is supposed to have had a handfull of untouched trees at ground zero. Denver the capitol steps. Neither of them says, "Remember men and women of St. Paul's Watch who by the grace of God saved the cathedral."
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Lisa told me how it can get in tnrough the wiring. There's something called a carrier wave that can move over wires carrying household current. That's why the electricity had to go.
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Old 23-July-2008, 11:14 AM
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WAG for the first quote: Slaughterhouse Five?
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Old 23-July-2008, 12:30 PM
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For the first quote: Connie Willis, "To Say Nothing of the Dog"?
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Old 23-July-2008, 02:26 PM
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First is not Vonnegut, but is Willis, but is not TSNOTG.

Both stories won Hugo Awards.
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Old 24-July-2008, 02:17 AM
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If the second quote is from the story I think it's from, I hated, hated, hated that story. I voted against it on the Hugo ballot (I think I did, but even if I didn't vote that year I still voted against it in my heart) but the wretched thing still won.

No, I won't dignify it by naming it.

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Old 24-July-2008, 02:49 AM
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I'll go ahead and dignify the first quote: Fire Watch by Connie Willis. I have it in Asimov's February 15, 1982 issue.

Okay, guys, I'm really curious about that second quote now. It sounds familiar, but I can't place it.

ETA: Oh, yeah. The second quote is from Press Enter by John Varley. I guess I'll have to read it again. I don't remember much about it.
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Old 25-July-2008, 01:06 AM
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ABR. hits the powerball, the verbal chaueaubriand, the..

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Old 25-July-2008, 01:48 AM
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The second quote is from Press Enter by John Varley.
Ahhh! You said it!

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Ahhh! You said it!

Fred
Sorry about that. Guess I should have given you some warning. Perhaps, Nowhere Man, please don't listen.

And thanks, mike alexander. I'll have a new quote up in a few hours...after I've enjoyed some of the spoils of victory...
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Old 26-July-2008, 03:12 PM
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New quote. Sorry for the delay.

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That's a weird thought, you know, that every time I served someone a burger a zillion of me were serving burgers to a zillion others--not all of them the same, either.
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Old 29-July-2008, 02:47 AM
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Did I mention that this story is also a Hugo award winner? No? Well, it is.
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Old 29-July-2008, 04:33 PM
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A many-worlds story...

Only thing that comes to mind is "All the Myriad Ways", but that isn't it.
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Old 29-July-2008, 05:59 PM
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A many-worlds story...

Only thing that comes to mind is "All the Myriad Ways", but that isn't it.
Many worlds, yes. "All the Myriad Ways", no.

Here is another quote, although there was a more meaty hint served up in the first quote.

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So that was what got me started traveling. What brings you to Benares?
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Old 30-July-2008, 01:47 AM
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"Why I Left Howard's Harry's All-Night Hamburgers." Well do I remember that punch line.

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Old 30-July-2008, 01:57 AM
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"Why I Left Howard's Harry's All-Night Hamburgers." Well do I remember that punch line.

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That's the one. All yours, Nowhere Man.
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Old 30-July-2008, 10:02 PM
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"Gone fission," commented a distant neighbor, above the static, "and sooner than I expected. Feel that warm afterglow!"

"An excellent deeble," agreed another. "It always pays to be a cautious collector."
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Old 31-July-2008, 03:19 AM
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Something by Lewis Padgett?
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"Gone fission," commented a distant neighbor, above the static, "and sooner than I expected. Feel that warm afterglow!"

"An excellent deeble," agreed another. "It always pays to be a cautious collector."
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That's a Roger Zelazny story. I actually have comic-book version of it. I don't remember the title, but it was an effort by him to write a story entirely in dialogue (not entirely successful as the excerpt indicates). The excerpt is the conclusion to the story.
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