Even Sci-Fi/Fantasy authors know the truth!
by subacati
This is a quote from the fantasy novel, "Xone Of Contention", a 'Xanth' novel by the author, Piers Anthony! :p
(or is that 'Peer Xanth O'knee'? :sherlock:)
Now which operating system does he use I wonder? :whistle:. …
Originally posted by Piers Anthony:
"Damn you, Macrohard," he swore softly "Just once, couldn't you give a person a break? I'm not trying to steal Doors from you, just to put a special function on the keypad 'Enter' key so Grundy Golem can work independent of the mouse. There are folk who don t like being chained to the mouse, you know this isn't Dizzy World. Would it hurt you so bad to let someone have it his own way for a change!" But of course he knew the answer, yes it would truly pain the company to let a user ever have it his own way Macrohard never wanted anyone to forget for half an instant exactly who was the master, and who was the least important person in the universe. It couldn't stop third party programmers like Edsel from trying to alleviate things but it could, and did, make sure that they were unable to make any significant improvements So the bone became a whole zone of contention.
subacati 
Typos! My smilie box won't collapse so I was having to type blind. hahah
:p 😆 Where are you finding all this good stuff. I sdon't lthink Piers ever wrote any such thing. I have readsome Xanth novels, you know.
Originally posted by L2D2:
Actually, I've been catching up on the first Xanth trilogy3 recently. (I've almost finished. I'm starting Swell Foop, the 25th out of the 27 books in the trilogy3, just as soon as I've posted this! :happy:)And this is the second paragraph in the 23rd book, Xone Of Contention! :p.
Do you read Zelazny?
First I've heard of him! :sherlock:.Did he ever publish outside of the USA? :left:.*Downloading…*
:: alien: :headbang:
You haven't heard of Roger Zelazni? He has written some good novels. Trying to think of name of one that I think they made a movie. I'll have to google.
Not a movie maybe, but the series called Chronicles of Amber is one of the best fantasy series I have read. My son has my book. He likes the Amber stories also. If you can get hold of the ebooks, read them. Still there is one that I'm trying to find but haven't yet.
Not a movie maybe, but the series called Chronicles of Amber is one of the best fantasy series I have read. My son has my book. He likes the Amber stories also. If you can get hold of the ebooks, read them. Still there is one that I'm trying to find but haven't yet.Damnation Alley is the one I've been trying to remember. Movie of it. http://www.biblio.com/roger-zelazny~113971~author
I'm not familiar with Piers Anthony's work, though have heard his name before. That passage you quoted reminds me of Phil Dick a bit. Originally posted by L2D2:
I second that. Great stuff. Did you know, Linda, that Zelazny was also a master of a couple of different disciplines of martial art? I also like his short story about fishing. And of course "Lord of Light". I first came across the word "avatar" when I read it. It was also a great fun read. :up:
Piers Anthony's sense of humour is very similar to that of Douglas Adams! :p.I've not come across 'Chronicles Of Amber'. :left:.Either it was not distributed here, or it's too recent *shrugs*.
I had a bit of discussion with DH about Adams and scifi in general. I'm personally not Adams kind of scifi chick. I prefer something little drier and darker, like Jack Vance or Gene Wolfe. But I mustn't be prejudiced. If I was to read Anthony's book for the first time, what would you recommend?"Amber"'s not recent. At least the first five books, which I read and loved, came out in 1970s. ( http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Amber-Princes-Unicorn-Masterworks/dp/1857987268 )
Piers Anthony writes 'across the board' as far as style is concerned. The Xanth series is humourous fantasy-adventure. The Mode series is a more serious set of four books that deals with rape and teenage suicide. Tarot is sci-fi that is slightly more in the style of Asimov, it's a 'trilogy' (Piers Anthony intended is as a single novel) that has esoteric religion as it's base theme. I haven't read much of his other works yet but I'm getting there. :p.I think you'd enjoy Tarot, it's more serious in style and deals with a colony on a planet with an unusual problem. Bio of a Space Tyrant is also more traditional sci-fi.Xanth, however, is a whimsical parody of life set in a magic land that co-exists with Florida. The puns are often too much, but he you can stomach those, then the rest of the stories tend to deal with serious problems. Each novel usually has a love story wrapped up in adventure. There is a movie planned for 2011 based on the first novel, but it's really close to impossible to render these books in visual form, so I excited, but remain somewhat reserved about it. :left:.If they producers are true to the books, they will have an eighteen age restriction for all the bare flesh. :lol:.However, actuall x-rated content is not there so the books are strangely child friendly. :up:.
Thans, Aadil. I'll check out if the library has some of his books next time. 🙂
actually i read only Arabian authors 😦