From: Michael Czaplinski [MCzaplinski@NPR.ORG] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 9:39 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - seafire Fan fiction. Well presented, granted, but the picture of Kate Winslet on a later page kinda gave it away. -----Original Message----- From: Heivilin, Jim [mailto:banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 10:32 AM To: 'blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com' Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - seafire Is this a new show or what? Jim -----Original Message----- From: Alan M. Nuss [mailto:amnuss@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 11:31 PM To: Blue Planet digest Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - seafire Found this site while surfing tonight. Stories and picutres set several years after SeaQuest DSV. Welcome to seaFire ASV - Advanced Submergence Vehicle Alan *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 9:29 AM To: 'blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com' Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - More books > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Hockley [mailto:jh39@ukc.ac.uk] > Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - More books > > The first is "Freefall" by Tom Read. It's an > autobiography from a former SAS soldier, though that isn't > Do you have an ISBN for this one? I tried searching Amazon.com and couldn't find it on the title or author. > The second book is "The Day of the Dolphin" by > Robert Merle. I'm undecided how to describe this book. At > Is this the book the 1973 movie with George C. Scott is based on? Jim Jim Heivilin, Project Manager Systems & Applications Group, IAT Services University of Missouri at Columbia mailto:banzai@missouri.edu, 884-3898 *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 9:32 AM To: 'blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com' Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - seafire Is this a new show or what? Jim -----Original Message----- From: Alan M. Nuss [mailto:amnuss@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 11:31 PM To: Blue Planet digest Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - seafire Found this site while surfing tonight. Stories and picutres set several years after SeaQuest DSV. Welcome to seaFire ASV - Advanced Submergence Vehicle Alan From: Jason Hockley [jh39@ukc.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 11:36 AM To: banzai@missouri.edu Subject: Re: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - More books On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 09:29:15 -0600 "Heivilin, Jim" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason Hockley [mailto:jh39@ukc.ac.uk] > > Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - More books > > > > > The first is "Freefall" by Tom Read. It's an > > autobiography from a former SAS soldier, though that isn't > > > Do you have an ISBN for this one? I tried searching Amazon.com and couldn't > find it on the title or author. I don't have it to hand, but I can go find the book and get it. It may not have been published outside the UK yet. I think it's a fairly recent book. Jason From: Jason Hockley [jh39@ukc.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 11:37 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - More books On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:11:26 EST Ankfix@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/5/99 1:22:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, jh39@ukc.ac.uk > writes: > > > The second book is "The Day of the Dolphin" by > > Robert Merle. I'm undecided how to describe this book. At > > first look it would seem to be a science fiction story > > about man's attempts at communication with another species. > > It was written in 1968 though and starts to veer away from > > that into a sort of cold war thriller thingy. I'm also not > > sure how accurate all of it is. Without wanting to give too > > much away the 'communication' seems to occur a little too > > easily for my liking. Still, all this could just be > > explained by the fact that it was written 30 years ago. > > While it may not be great literature it still might > > entertain anyone needing something to read for a few days. > > > > Jason > > This was also made into a movie, with George C. Scott playing the role of the > researcher. It wasn't bad, but it had it's moments of unintentional > silliness. Talking dolphins are hard to do without making them sound silly. > > - Fixer True, although to be fair the book comments on how silly the dolphins sound while talking too. The bit that I found hard to swallow was the humans talking 'dolphinese' by whistling. Jason *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.