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Too small, no skull shaped extinct volcano, no jungle. How am I supposed to use that for my evil plans, the ICBM launcher would take most of the living room!
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I started reading the books recently as I am too impatient to wait for the rest of the series, it is fascinating to read the level of detail that is missed in the TV series although the series does follow the book(s I have just started the 2nd book) very closely.
Corey is very readable, one of the better SF books I have read recently.
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RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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They are indeed - but the TV series tells the same story but with bits of later books (particularly characters like Chrisjen Avasarala) being put in earlier to make it work more seamlessly. I guess the scriptwriters had the advantage of knowing where it was all going before they started writing which Corey didn't.
That they were both producers for the TV series help keep the "vision" ontrack, I think.
Yes, the TV missed out a lot - the third book in particular was very "rushed through" by the TV series, possibly because they knew they were under threat of cancelation.
Damn good SF books and TV though.
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I am pretty sure the 'Corey' entity was/is two of the proof readers/editorial assistants to George RR Martin for 'Game of Thrones' if you read them as I did side by side the writing style is very similar.
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"James S. A. Corey" is Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the latter of which is the personal assistant to George R. R. Martin (when not dealing with Expanse stuff). Fortunately, the gestalt did not absorb the "kill everybody" philosophy of the master 
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Well, that was one of the things I like about Game of Thrones too often you get characters that have bad things happen too multiple times (Jack Ryan for instance, the world would be safer if he was kept in a cell  ), his ethic of character A does something affects plot, dies or murdered or has an accident conveniently keeps from that happening.
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glennPattonWork wrote: Jack Ryan
What does he have to do with Game of Thrones? I heard that he does not like to crawl around in cramped rooms where some things don't react too well to bullets.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well the Jack Ryan character has managed to stop a nuclear confrontation, got chased and nearly got by the IRA, nearly got killed in a Helicopter crash, I could go on, one of those things happened to me I would worry that I was getting too close to the edge... Where if he was a Martin character, he would do one thing and get dead!
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Still no sign of a release date for the final book. Speculation seems to range from this December to early 2021.
Might have to investigate @Pete-OHanlon's new book instead. 
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- Homer
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I'd guess towards the later end of that range - they don't write at Pratchett speeds!
(Unfortunately)
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That sounds like a mighty fine plan to me.
This space for rent
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Is a mammogram a message delivered by a mammoth?
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These days they use a trunk line.
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is that like a really large endoscope? (ouch!)
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Wouldn't that be an endowscope?
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Tsk, tsk!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Nice to see you're keeping abreast of your usual standards.
Software Zen: delete this;
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or maybe a Tufted Titmouse[^]?
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Isn't it 10-27 grams?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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No it's as message about a mammal!
If it needs massaging, I might volunteer.
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Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I'm blocked on the predick-k function of my parser generator code.
So I'm trying to work on other areas of it, but now the thing is really fancy and at this point i'm just gold-plating it pretty much.
I hate maths sometimes.
I really need some magic to finish that function for me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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First, save a kitten.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: First, save a kitten.
for the elves to .... eat ??? (bait ???)
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