From: Rusty.Neal@Bull.com Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:07 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions? Well, this isn't a reading suggestion, but a movie suggestion- Go see Cyberworld at IMAX. There is an excellent underwater sequence with some excellent alternate evolution sea creatures. The best was a large baleen whale analog that had long bristles sticking out the mouth instead of having baleen inside. It would extend them in a wide cone when feeding, but could pull them all together into a point in front for efficient forward motion. Excellent sequence! Rusty *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:07 AM To: Blue Planet List (E-mail) Subject: [FWD] Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions? -----Original Message----- To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions? Discover Magazine has lots of good real science stuff, Sky and Telescope is excellent for astronomy. In the fiction catagory, Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars, Ice Henge by Kim Stanley Robinson as well as his Antartica Novel. Anything by Tom Clancy (and Larry Bond) has the high tech feel I've always associated with BP as well asa lot of good cutting edge hard science stuff. For action-adventure at sea, any of the "Dirk Pitt" series by Clive Cussler, (though Pitt is somewhat James Bondish at times) and one of my favorites, Ghost on the Grand Bank by Arthur C. Clarke, a future "Raise the Titantic" novel. Lets not forget the American Western aspect of Blue Planet (wilderness frontier, wild mining towns, lone lawmen etc.) for which I highly reccomend Louis L'Amour. Many of his short stories make excellent adventure ideas, he tends to combine natural features and anomalies with action and sometimes mystery in the old west. The anime Blue Submarine No 6 (mentioned by several others) is excellent, if only for the imagery of the vessels. (Get the Japanese version with subtitles, it makes far more sense than the americanized version.) I also think that the 1st season of SeaQuest had a lot of good stuff for mood and imagery as well as some of the technical applications. For those seeking cheaper versions of Blue Submarine No. 6, check out Ebay, I got the whole first four episodes (in Japanese with English subs) for $28 including shipping and handling. NetZero Platinum No Banner Ads and Unlimited Access Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://www.netzero.net *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:09 AM To: Blue Planet List (E-mail) Subject: [FWD] Re: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions? -----Original Message----- From: Gareth Hanrahan To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions? Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:23:31 +0100 On Thursday 24 May 2001 08:46, you wrote: > Anything by Bruce Sterling or William Gibson......Nothing that they > co-authored..... *choke splutter calling of tactical air strikes*. The Difference Engine is excellent, but that's another matter. Er...I'd recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but pretty much everyone on the planet has read these already... > DomT Gar *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: chalz@earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:31 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions? **** Go see Cyberworld at IMAX. There is an excellent underwater sequence with some excellent alternate evolution sea creatures. The best was a large baleen whale analog that had long bristles sticking out the mouth instead of having baleen inside. It would extend them in a wide cone when feeding, but could pull them all together into a point in front for efficient forward motion. Excellent sequence! Rusty ** Awwww... Wish I could, but there aren't any IMAXes around here unless you wana drive for a few hours :/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: chalz@earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:36 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: [FWD] Re: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions? **** > Anything by Bruce Sterling or William Gibson......Nothing that they > co-authored..... *choke splutter calling of tactical air strikes*. The Difference Engine is excellent, but that's another matter. ** Hehehe. I started reading 'The Difference Engine' a few years ago, but just couldn't get into it. I was still too heavily into my cyberpunk kick. Not saying that I'm not now, but my interests have diversified more now ;) Started reading it again about a week ago, and it's quite interesting. Unless you're really into the historical aspects of it, in my opinion, the beginning hundred pages or so are kind of slow. But now I'm starting to get more into the intrigue and conspiracy and all that. It's quite well written, in my opinion. If you're very familiar with the writing styles of Gibson and Sterling, you can usually pick out who wrote what sections, at least in the beginning. Towards the middle, it's harder to tell ;) It's good for steampunk. But hell, what /weren't/ they good for? Sterling's basically the father of 'genepunk'. Funny thing: I'd thought that word up a couple weeks ago, thinking "Hey, the next big scifi thing." Hit all the search engines and couldn't find any occurrence of it. ... Except for one hit on Google, a technical review of one of Sterling's books. Oh well ;) **** Er...I'd recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but pretty much everyone on the planet has read these already... ** I really must read these some time. -C -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: John Daly [jdaly_iv@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:15 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Stormsurge Adventure Update Looks like a good one, Andy - I'd say it's inspired or even Loosely based on The Abyss. John --- Andy Wills wrote: > I added a new adventure based on the Abyss to Storm > Surge. I also fixed the > webring code(I hope), but Yahoo! seems to be doing a > system upgrade, so I'll > just hope the problem is on their side and not mine. > > Anyway, go check it out. I'd appreciate comments. > > -Andy > > *************************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list send mail to > majordomo@lists.ient.com > with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body > of the message. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.