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Old 07-28-2003, 01:58 AM
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[quoteost_uid0="ijdgaf"][color=#000000ost_uid0]The Space Odyssey series is four books -- 2001, 2010, 2061, and 3001.

And if you were being slick and disregarding the last of the four, then I'm sorry  that one's my favorite.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]I have to admit I didn't know there was a fourth. Sorry about that.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well that's okay, 3001 is a somewhat recent addition.

And that doesn't take away from the trilogy factor; I think of it mostly as 3 being a more dramatic number. It just works well for a certain type of epic story which is often told in sci fi and fantasy. I'm actually thinking of writing one myself, eventually (though I'm also planning to get back to Kristina about a fiver; that'll come first, promise).

Have you read Clarke's 2001 series Zeke? They're all pretty great (except for the third, which is okay, but ah well). Check 'em out if you haven't.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Yeah, I read the first three recently. I found them all very interesting -- you're right that the third is the weakest, but I still found plenty to entertain me. Don't get any ideas about being the one to five them. (Not the first, at least.)[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Ah. Â Then you really should check out the fourth. Â One of the most environmentally sound discriptions of the future [iost_uid0]ever[/iost_uid0].

And fiving 'em? Â I dunno that I'd want to tackle a book anyway. Â Too much to excise

That said, if you start, I call 3001 < eg > .[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]The Magician's Nephew. Normally I don't do these silly quiz things.

As for fiving books, count me out of the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy (not that anyone offered to count me in). Fiving them would require reading them again *shudder*.

I wouldn't mind trying my hand at something Clarkian, assuming there's anything left once the stafff get finished with their picks (and I don't have a DS9 fiver in progress).[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well, this is all pure speculation anyway. I don't have any plans to add a book section in the foreseeable future. I might stick a book [iost_uid0]page[/iost_uid0] in Sci-Fivers, as we've done with movies, but it would be something very limited and probably not open for outside submissions.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Huh. I wound up as [iost_uid0]The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe[/iost_uid0].

Literature-ish stuff just happens by threes. I think it's a standard number or something. Three brothers; three different attempts to win the day; three different stereotypes walk into a bar. I guess it's just what we're used to.

To continue with the idle speculation for the moment, I admit that for some time I've been idly considering asking a General Trek mod over at TrekBBS to run a poll asking posters how many books they've read, just to see (among other things) whether there would even be much of a target audience for Trek book fivers. One reason why I haven't bothered yet is that I can guess what sort of response I'd probably get, based on the relatively low level of activity in the Literature forum there. And I'm not sure how to keep the generality without losing the relevance anyway. I don't need to ask the Literature forum, they've had similar threads fairly recently.[/colorost_uid0]
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[quoteost_uid0="NAHTMMM"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Literature-ish stuff just happens by threes. I think it's a standard number or something. Three brothers; three different attempts to win the day; three different stereotypes walk into a bar. I guess it's just what we're used to.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Three is a sacred number.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]So's 7, 47, 42, 3.1416... [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]Three is a sacred number[/quoteost_uid0]

If you're Irish.

[quoteost_uid0]So's 7, 47, 42, 3.1416[/quoteost_uid0]

2.71, 103 (well, to me at least), and some others.[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]If you're Irish.[/quoteost_uid0]
Three is sacred all over the world. Or maybe just Europe, which [iost_uid0]was[/iost_uid0] the world just a couple of centuries ago.
I hate it though. It's evil. [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][quoteost_uid0]Three is a sacred number[/quoteost_uid0]

If you're Irish.

[quoteost_uid0]So's 7, 47, 42, 3.1416[/quoteost_uid0]

2.71, 103 (well, to me at least), and some others.[/quoteost_uid0]
Don't forget 144 (which seemed to be the answer to a solid one-third of all calculus HW problems during my senior year in high school), 1.618033..., and 6.022*10^23. And 3.41 is rapidly approaching inclusion as well. I think. [/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]Europe, or the number three?[/quoteost_uid0]
Three. America is more evil than Europe.

*Flees to Asia.*[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Aww, no dissing the Irish, Europe or the number 3. I like all... 3. o_o ::runs away::[/colorost_uid0]
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]::breaks out Kama of Dicing::

Who's talking about [iost_uid0]the number?[/iost_uid0]



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[quoteost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]Three is a sacred number[/quoteost_uid0]

If you're Irish.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]I would pretend, but I sound corny when I put on the accent, so I'm not even going to try.


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[color=#000000ost_uid0]When I read [bost_uid0]2061,[/bost_uid0] I hadn't seen the 2 movies
nor read any of the other books. Maybe that's
why I liked it, esp. the part where they go to
[bost_uid0]Halley's comet[/bost_uid0] and the main character makes a
tiny "snowball" and launches it into space. One
day I may re-read it, but prolly not right now.

I used to date an Irish grrL (or a "lass" as they
say) & she was the third child out of four. [bost_uid0]Hey![/bost_uid0]
That's just like [bost_uid0]2061[/bost_uid0] being the 3rd book out of
four. Hmmm... how interesting.[/colorost_uid0]
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