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Smackety said:
http://www.arthursbookshelf.com/sci-fi/anderson/anderson.html
"This page has been shut down because of a copyright claim.
I regarded access to the author as a encouragement
to people to get to know Paul Anderson.
Some short stories can be found a Project Gutenberg.
see free site"

Not the whole site, just The Anderson section
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Well the site is in gross violation of copyright law......
Presumably only Anderson's estate has complained.
 
"This page has been shut down because of a copyright claim.
I regarded access to the author as a encouragement
to people to get to know Paul Anderson.
Some short stories can be found a Project Gutenberg.
see free site"
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Perhaps that's why the estate of Poul Anderson objected.
 
Morrigan said:
I agree, but...


Errrm what? Evidence? Especially about the rape, I know she had "training"...
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Yes, I do not remember any evidence of Jeyne Poole being raped either. And I was really puzzled about "Joffrey's attempt on Bran". Where did you get that?

For a long time I assumed the bumbling assassin was sent by Littlefinger, and he was set up to fail.
 
Mark6 said:
And I was really puzzled about "Joffrey's attempt on Bran". Where did you get that?

For a long time I assumed the bumbling assassin was sent by Littlefinger, and he was set up to fail.
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Nah, it really was established that Joffrey sent the assassin. He wanted to please his "father" (Robert) when he overheard the latter say the boy should be mercifully put out of his misery, so he sent the assassin armed with a luxury Valyrian steel dagger from Robert's own stash. The evidence comes later, when Joffrey receives a Valyrian steel sword on his wedding day and he boasts that he is "no stranger to Valyrian steel". Tyrion baits him about that and mentions a "dragonbone hilt to match the blade" (the footpad's dagger having such a hilt), and Joffrey gets startled. A bit later, Tyrion tries to ask Sansa if Joffrey had ever quarrelled with Bran at Wintefell, but he doesn't elaborate.

And it's pretty much confirmed in the subsequent Tyrion chapter in ASoS:

The sleepless night he’d spent with Shae was making itself felt too, but most of all he wanted to strangle his bloody royal nephew.
I am no stranger to Valyrian steel, the boy had boasted. The septons were always going on about how the Father Above judges us all. If the Father would be so good as to topple over and crush Joff like a dung beetle, I might even believe it.
He ought to have seen it long ago. Jaime would never send another man to do his killing, and Cersei was too cunning to use a knife that could be traced back to her, but Joff, arrogant vicious stupid little wretch that he was ...
He remembered a cold morning when he’d climbed down the steep exterior steps from Winterfell’s library to find Prince Joffrey jesting with the Hound about killing wolves. Send a dog to kill a wolf, he said. Even Joffrey was not so foolish as to command Sandor Clegane to slay a son of Eddard Stark, however; the Hound would have gone to Cersei. Instead the boy found his catspaw among the unsavory lot of freeriders, merchants, and camp followers who’d attached themselves to the king’s party as they made their way north. Some poxy lackwit willing to risk his life for a prince’s favor and a little coin. Tyrion wondered whose idea it had been to wait until Robert left Winterfell before opening Bran’s throat. Joff's, most like. No doubt he thought it was the height of cunning.
The prince’s own dagger had a jeweled pommel and inlaid goldwork on the blade, Tyrion seemed to recall. At least Joff had not been stupid enough to use that. Instead he went poking among his father’s weapons. Robert Baratheon was a man of careless generosity, and would have given his son any dagger he wanted ... but Tyrion guessed that the boy had just taken it. Robert had come to Winterfell with a long tail of knights and retainers, a huge wheelhouse, and a baggage train. No doubt some diligent servant had made certain that the king’s weapons went with him, in case he should desire any of them.

The blade Joff chose was nice and plain. No goldwork, no jewels in the hilt, no silver inlay on the blade. King Robert never wore it, had likely forgotten he owned it. Yet the Valyrian steel was deadly sharp ... sharp enough to slice through skin, flesh, and muscle in one quick stroke. I am no stranger to Valyrian steel. But he had been, hadn’t he? Else he would never have been so foolish as to pick Littlefinger’s knife.
The why of it still eluded him. Simple cruelty, perhaps? His nephew had that in abundance. It was all Tyrion could do not to retch up all the wine he’d drunk, piss in his breeches, or both. He squirmed uncomfortably. He ought to have held his tongue at breakfast. The boy knows I know now. My big mouth will be the death of me, I swear it.
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But wasn't the dagger Tyrion's, and therefore would have been in the Lannister stash rather than the royal one?
 
While they're comparatively lightweight next to some listed here, I enjoyed Wil McCarthy's Queendom of Sol books and found them unique and worthwhile. Neal Stephenson is always an interesting read as well.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Enders game is good, well maybe not the idea of bloggers taking over the world. It is that he can not write a series well.
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I liked Ender's Game...preferred the novel to the original short version, actually. Just couldn't get into the sequels.
 
Roadtoad said:
I realize this may have been posted before, and it's not precisely SF, but I've always enjoyed The Dresden Files. The great thing about it is Jim Butcher's rather trenchant observations, as well as his very clear notes covering human behavior...

"I am an American. I can eat anything as long as it's between two slices of bread, and covered in enough mustard."
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I love the Dresden books...how can you NOT love someone that seems to be a cross between Mickey Spillane & Harry Potter? :) Like many first-person books,. they have some GREAT quotes.

Like: "The building was on fire, but it wasn't my fault."

As my screen name implies, I also like Robert Salvatore. :)
 
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Roadtoad said:
"I am an American. I can eat anything as long as it's between two slices of bread, and covered in enough mustard."
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The quote rings extremely false to me. In my experience, Americans are pickier eaters than most people, and there are actually very few things Americans are willing to put between two slices of bread.
 
Silly Green Monkey said:
But wasn't the dagger Tyrion's, and therefore would have been in the Lannister stash rather than the royal one?
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Nope, Tyrion never owned the dagger. According to Littlefinger Tyrion won it when the knight of flowers beat Jamie in the joust, but Tyrion always bet on Jamie, never against him. Littlefinger lost the dagger to Robert, not Tyrion.
 
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