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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Next: "Chocolate Wars" by Deborah Cadbury or how Kraft bought Cadbury and shut factories left right & centre. Fecking septics.
    Done: off to Oxfam with it.

    Next: "Inconstant Moon" by L. Niven, this being the paperback version which omits half the stories in the hardback.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 13 October 2025, 08:53.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

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      Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
      Next: "Inconstant Moon" by L. Niven, this being the paperback version which omits half the stories in the hardback.
      Done: off to Oxfam with it.

      Next: "Tales of Known Space" by L. Niven.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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        Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
        Next: "Tales of Known Space" by L. Niven.
        Done: off to Oxfam with it.

        Next: "Convergent Series" by L. Niven. There's more Draco Tavern tales in this one. No billion year old s though (the billion year old had spent much of the time near light speed so wasn't as old as all that, merely 10 million or so). Though there is one who's trying to live forever, but he's a mere 10k old.
        Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 14:31.
        When the fun stops, STOP.

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          Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
          Next: "Limits" by L. Niven. More short stories, some fantasy, some SF. The Draco Tavern ones are good: in particular "The Green Marauder"* where a billion year old alien remembers the Terran civilisation before the green scum poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen killing the natives.
          Done: off to Oxfam with it.

          Next: "A Hole in Space" by L. Niven.
          When the fun stops, STOP.

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            Holiday reading was "Into the Hide", the autobiography of Gordon Buchanan.
            A very enjoyable read.
            …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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              Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
              Next: "Convergent Series" by L. Niven. .
              Done: off to Oxfam with it.

              Next: "N-Space" by L. Niven. More Known Space stories.
              When the fun stops, STOP.

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