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929.1 | | HITPS::FALOR | Ken Falor | Wed Nov 07 1990 20:25 | 6 |
| > vanished. However the planet itself had some sentient awareness. This lifeform
> helped the hero to leave this time but unfortunately they found themselves
> hurled into pre-historic time.
Did they call them Rock People or something like that?
If so, I vaguely remember it but can't say what it was.
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929.2 | | CHEFS::YEOMANSD | Watford who? | Thu Nov 08 1990 06:22 | 3 |
| Points 1, 2 and 3 sound very much like The End of Eternity by Asimov.
Dave.
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929.3 | | ACETEK::TIMPSON | Eat any good books lately? | Thu Nov 08 1990 12:35 | 6 |
| RE .2 >> Points 1, 2 and 3 sound very much like The End of Eternity by Asimov.
Not even close. In the Asmovian Universe the only setiant life form are humans.
In TEOE the hero is assigned to 20th century Earth
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929.4 | Need help finding reference / copy of SF story... | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Parody error, please retry | Fri Nov 20 1992 01:40 | 35 |
| Folks -- I haven't seriously read SF for about 15 years and my
collection is sadly smaller than it used to be. Nevertheless, I'm
looking to find a wonderful story written years ago by some amazing
visionary who foresaw an interesting future vis-a-vis what we are now
calling PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants).
It envisioned a technology where folks began carrying personal alarm
clocks with easy interfaces and speakers giving signals when
appointments came up. Then they went to silent vibration-emitting
transducers, and then to save weight(?) they went to electrodes...
Then the PDA's got smarter, and the people made the mistake to allow
the PDA's to issue more and more insistent "reminders" when things
weren't done... slippery slope... before they knew it, the PDA's
began talking to one another, began punishing folks who wanted to take
off the electrodes, figured out how to monitor their wearers' thoughts,
and -- not to put too fine a point on it -- took over the world. It
was touch-and-go, but someone finally managed to get their PDA off and
won out over the slavemasters... Yay, humanity... But it was a
helluva ride, and very relevant to the near-term innovations that will
arrive soon, hopefully to delight us, not to subvert and bestride us...
Who wrote this? Where can I get a copy, or can I borrow yours PLEASE
and re-read it?
I don't have much time for yet another NotesFile so I won't get much
chance to get back here... (blush) I would be extremely grateful for
any "finders" contacting me via EMail. I'll get back to you ASAP and
we can work out the transfer details.
I really hope someone out there knows or better yet has this gem...
Dan Kalikow
Consultant, Engineering Interface Program
Corporate Research & Architecture, MLO
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929.5 | What about the rest of us lerts!! | SAC::STEPHENS_J | Monotony on the Boundary? Mr Christian | Fri Nov 20 1992 10:10 | 7 |
| Although the originator wants a reply by Email I would be interested in
the answer as it looks like a good read. So, if someone can identify
the book, please can they post its title, author and, preferably, ISBN
here.
Thanks
Jim
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929.6 | By Leiber? | VAXUUM::TWOLLY::WAJENBERG | Superficially normal. | Fri Nov 20 1992 12:38 | 30 |
| I can't remember the title, but Fritz Leiber wrote a short story or
novellette with that theme. I believe the devices were called
"ticklers" and the hero was a Bohemian eccentric living on th edge of
civilization who never did wear a tickler.
Potential spoiler:
Eventually, the ticklers and the humans struck a deal. The ticklers
were given personal anti-grav units to ride rather than humans (they
already had arms and eyes), and a spaceship to go explore the universe
in.
Earl Wajenberg
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929.7 | | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Parody error, please retry | Fri Nov 20 1992 13:08 | 10 |
| (-: breaking my "pledge" not to check back in here... :-)
Sounds hopeful. In fact the "tickler" sobriquet actually evoked a
"tickle" of an archived recollection...
As did the spoiler... Any direct hits on the title from elsewhom, and
possibly even the loan of the tome?
/Dan
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929.8 | More hints? 2 Fritz Leiber 'Best Of' books didn't have it... | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Parody Error, Please Retry | Sat Nov 28 1992 03:05 | 8 |
| Last week, I ordered some anthologies from my library -- but I just
skimmed "The Best of Fritz Leiber" (Nelson Doubleday, 1974) and "The
Worlds of Fritz Leiber" (Gregg Press, 1976) and they didn't have a
story matching the description, or mentioning "ticklers."
... Does that "tickle" someone else to recall a more exact reference?
:-)
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929.9 | Further to .4 -- Address for Fritz Leiber or his son or agent? | RDVAX::KALIKOW | CyberSurfer | Wed Dec 02 1992 10:33 | 11 |
| I noticed that his son wrote the preface to one of the books I managed
to get from my local library, and it was signed from Houston TX.
Thinking that this perhaps means that Lieber pere might be in failing
health, and anyway because I had a city to try, I called Houson info.
However they had no phone listings for a Justin Leiber.
Any pointers to the Great Man himself? Or perhaps to his agent or
current publisher of record?
Tnx for any info... Dan
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929.10 | | DSSDEV::RUST | | Wed Dec 02 1992 11:12 | 4 |
| Re .9: Afraid you're a bit late for Himself; Leiber passed away in
September. (See note 1105 for details.)
-b
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929.11 | re .4-.9: any pointers to Fritz Lieber's agent or publisher...? | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Parody error, please retry | Tue Jan 05 1993 00:50 | 1 |
| ... still hoping to find that darn story ...
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929.12 | looking for book | JGODCL::APETERS | Let's make it happen! | Mon Aug 05 1996 07:13 | 17 |
929.13 | | ODIXIE::MOREAU | Ken Moreau;Technical Support;Florida | Mon Aug 05 1996 14:28 | 21 |
| RE: .12
> I'm looking for a book I have read a few years ago. The main character
> is a girl who has the ability to "read" other people's faces so that
> she knows when they are lying or not. I vaguely remember a scene
> towards the end of the book on the surface of a planet (or the moon?).
It's definitely not Heinlein. I've read every book and short story by him
that I can find, and I can't think of any story with that sequence.
This might be wrong, but could it be "First Lensman" by E.E. Smith? In that
book, Virgilia Samms is an accomplished "muscle reader", who can read the
involuntary flickers of motion of muscle groups on her subject in order to
tell not only whether they are lying, but also extract even more detailed
information. She demonstrates this to several other characters by cleaning
them out in a series of poker games, and then uses it more effectively to
uncover and stop an assassination.
She is not the main character, but she is certainly an important one.
-- Ken Moreau
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929.14 | | JGODCL::APETERS | Let's make it happen! | Tue Aug 06 1996 07:40 | 23 |
929.15 | Perhaps "Nemesis" by Asimov | 30229::GRAY | Bruce Gray, Test Equipment Design | Thu Aug 08 1996 20:41 | 28 |
| I think the book you're describing is "Nemesis" by Asimov.
A colony ship leaves from earth to go to a near red dwarf companion of
the Sun that has been hidden from view from the earth. Once there, the
colonists discover a gas giant planet that has a habitable moon. They
also discover that Nemesis is approaching the solar system and may pass
close enough to perturb the orbits of the planets and thereby cause
Earth to become uninhabitable. The colonists are trying to keep their
discovery secret as they left the solar system to get away from the
overcrowding and don't want hordes of earth people following them, so
they decide not to warn Earth of the coming danger (which won't affect
them for another 1000 (or was it 10000?) years anyway).
The girl (can't remember her name) was born on the colony ship and has
the uncanny power to "read" other people's body language such that she
always knows if they are telling the truth. She is drawn to the
surface of the moon and believes the colonists should move there, but
their leader wants to stay in space and build more colony ships. She
finally gets to the moon and discovers it contains a global lifeform
that appears to her in the shape of a human and talks to her. It
convinces her that it would be a bad idea to colonize this moon as that
would destroy the lifeform. In the end, I believe they work out a
cooperative scheme whereby the course of Nemesis will be changed
slighty so as to avoid disturbing the solar system.
That's all I can remember - is that what you were thinking of?
Bruce
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929.16 | Right on! | JGODCL::APETERS | Let's make it happen! | Tue Aug 13 1996 09:12 | 7
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