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-Tolkienian Lore/LORD OF THE RINGS chat pt 3425: this time it's focused on where Tolkien got the names for the hobbit families? Was it old norse folktales? Was it Wales? Was it from <gasp> American phonebooks? Was it from the sole American friend that made it through World War 1 alive? This version of Tolkienian lore chat is notable for one SFLer disclosing personal information about themselves/family that identity thieves/credit card scammers of any era droll over.
-Sometime in Vol 12b, Evelyn C. Leeper drops the copyright notice from her "reviews" of everything fantasy & science fiction.
-Resurgence of 1967 THE PRISONER tv series chat. Nobody is sure what really happened, or what was "real" in series canon, with a few SFLer's just responding "Information!!" to every THE PRISONER tv-series query.
-1987 SFLer's try to figure out the ending of THE QUIET EARTH movie.
-Animal sentience uplifting in fiction, mostly focusing on Progenitor races intent/goals thanks to David Brin's Uplift universe chat kicking off this discussion thread. H Beam Piper's LITTLE FUZZY stories get mentioned here too, mostly as uplift-impossible? examples.
-SFLer email Signature files containing "cute" and "amusing" topical quotes suddenly become a thing.
-The Americanized version of DYNAMAN does a inverted version of what the Americanized version of the PHOENIX WRIGHT games do.
-STAR TREK chat pt 134658746: SFLer's are confusing by US Navy nomenclature such as rank structure, "the con", "given the con", and "Mister" being used to address both genders in Star Trek movies/episodes.
-A Cthulhu Mythos fan gives their take on how they think the Cthulhu Mythos names are pronounced. (2020 note: Notable mostly for the hard glottal stops/coughs listed, which makes sense given human tongues and human vocal cords aren't meant to be able to pronounce most of the names.)
-Discussions of what was the earliest Science Fiction written. This being the 1980's the word of editor-hacks like Brian Aldiss and Ben Bova are taken as gospel-guidelines.
1987 technology level: A SFLer humble brags about their Cthulhu Mythos bibliography being stored as LaTeX file.
First mention of Lois McMaster Bujold's VORKOSIGAN SAGA in the SFL Archives.
-SFLer's start guessing what ALIEN 3 will be about. (2020 note: No one, not even the multiple writers of Alien 3 movie scripts expected what the 1992 Alien 3 would turn out to be.)
-SFLer's keep declaring David Eddings BELGARIAD series some of the best fantasy fiction ever written, while the EARTHSEA series gets very mixed reactions (SFLer's either hate it, enjoy it, or have never read it).
-Filksong discussion on many subjects, such as drinking filksongs, regional filksong lyrics causing confusion at SF convention filksong contests, more filksong SF&F fan lyrics get posted, etc.
-A 1987 SF Film quote quiz by Mark Leeper, which was hard in 1987 and near impossible for anyone in 2020 not googling/internet searching that stuff.)
-The mathematical poem from Stanislaw Lem's CYBERIAD comes up, with SFLers amazing how well the English translation of it works. (2020 note: Stanislaw Lem wrote exclusively in Polish language.)
-More fantasy and SciFi cover artist discussion. Rowena, Roger Begendorf, & Darrel Sweet get discussed.
-More CODEX SERAPHIANUS discussion. SFLer's are slowly coming around to the "it's made-up gibberish" vs being some super-enciphered text.
-AFTER THE ZAP (Michael Armstrong), the movie ROLLERBALL, Martin Caidin CYBORG series, the STEN CHRONICLES series (Chris Bunch & Allan Cole), TALKING MAN (Terry Bisson), HIGHBROW (Neal Barret Jr), CODE BLUE EMERGENCY (James White), THE SEX MAGICIANS (Sheffield House 1973 porno novel), DOWN TOWN (Viido Polikarpus & Tappan King), ARCHITECT OF SLEEP (Stephen R Boyett), the works of SF author Christopher Anvil, BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN (Sharyn McCrumb), THE VELVET MONKEYWRENCH (John Muir), and Joel Rosenberg's fantasy stories.
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