Cat ears!

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:20 pm

tellner wrote:
squidflakes wrote:Yes, but they got such wonderful condamine, and eventually Lady Da was able to contact the Instrumentality and all was put right.

Alas, poor Go-Captian Alvarez.. I wonder if they ever found socks to fit him
Ah, a cephalopod who knows the Classics!

Knows the classics? I put it to you sir that the stories of which we speak are the finest pieces of sci-fi ever written.

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:05 pm

squidflakes wrote:Knows the classics? I put it to you sir that the stories of which we speak are the finest pieces of sci-fi ever written.

And some of them are the best poetry and psychological tone-poems of the twentieth century. I would give years of my life and options on parts of my soul to be allowed to read the following: "The Robot, the Rat and the Copt", "The Lords of the Afternoon", the other seven pieces of Avram Davidson's "Vergil" tri-tryptich and whatever Hope Mirlees was unwilling or unable to publish. Perhaps if I do the Universe some great favor I will be allowed to read them in Lucien's Library to the sounds of Ray Charles and Carlos Santana jamming with Jimi Hendrix.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:38 pm

Mmm.... but I've read "The Lords of the Afternoon"

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:46 pm

I think you'll find that you read "The Lady of the Afternoon" or "The Queen of the Afternoon" depending on the publisher. "The Lords of the Afternoon" was never written, and Cordwainer Smith's notes have been lost. It is suspected that it included the return of religion and a common destiny for humans and underpeople.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:10 pm

Hummm.. could be just an editing mistake. Its the last story in the book that was released not too long ago, The Rediscovery of Man, i think it contains all of his works in roughly chronological order. It was released at the same time as the Concordance (or close enough to anyway).

I'll have to check again.

Kittyboymuffin · Post by **Kittyboymuffin** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:37 am

I love how quickly topics can shift on this forum, like how a discussion about Ghastly's latest comic series can become a molest-the-catboy fest, and a quest for prosthetic cat-ears can turn into a discussion about a sci-fi author.

JohnnyTwoEyes · Post by **JohnnyTwoEyes** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:27 pm

http://www.craftsetc.com/Store/ShowProd ... x?p=157743 There's a bell you can use, it's a little under two inches across. I'll keep my eye out for a bigger one (looking at new paints so I'm already on the appropriate sites).

Edit:
http://www.marketworks.com/storefrontpr ... 158&dfid=1
I think I like that one better, it's got neat little stars and it is about 3.2 inches across. Bigger is better!

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:48 pm

On the scifi topic, is anyone familiar with a book where some guy had programmed a robot and booted it up with no knowledge beforehand to watch it grow? And then he ended up installing his consciousness into it later just before death?

It was very itneresting, I forget exactly what it was called...

And then there was a great book about a computer that managed to convince some scientists to build a superb upgrade for it, neglecting the fact that the new construct would take a very long time for the machine to think, just so it could remain in commission.