(Nightfall)

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(Nightfall)

Robert — 10/29/2006 2:35:11 PM (archived)

Apparently I'm not the only person who incorrectly attributes "Nightfall" to A.C. Clarke. I googled because something was nagging at me about my posts, and found people making the same mistake and other people pointing it out. Ah well, the subject lines still riff, by subject, anyway....

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Six-word SF synopses - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:16:24 AM
- Enemy Mine: Louis Gosset Jr. delivers (n/t) - SDG - 11/2/2006 3:42:38 PM
  - Dennis Quaid performs role of midwife (n/t) - SDG - 11/2/2006 3:43:42 PM
- Pssthpok the pak finds lost Breeders (n/t) - Adam - 11/2/2006 10:03:00 AM
  - Rishatra, Vampires, Ghouls, series dies ignobly (n/t) - FrankC - 11/2/2006 10:14:29 PM
- Diebold Computer hacked. Kirk Passes Exam. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 11/1/2006 9:11:17 PM
- Too much time on your hands.... (n/t) - azstrummer - 10/31/2006 11:24:27 PM
  - Using feet distributes time more judiciously. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 10:55:30 PM
- Against conspiracy theorists, reason is futile. (n/t) - ER - 10/31/2006 1:40:53 PM
- 2026 to 1933 killed Hitler returned...? (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 10/31/2006 11:57:01 AM
- Prevent war, girl, find Durand Durand (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/31/2006 10:26:16 AM
- Evolved sea anemones steal gas giant (n/t) - Adam - 10/31/2006 8:14:09 AM
- Six pieces, Pete, Time, Fibuli, Androids. (n/t) - Mr Fibuli - 10/31/2006 4:19:32 AM
- Earthmen came, Martians died. Did They? (n/t) - Adam - 10/31/2006 1:05:34 AM
- Lanik a rad, becomes a god - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:26:54 PM
- "The Ramans do everything in threes" (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:23:40 PM
  - Eggs and pork with the noodles? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 10:56:53 PM
  - Kinky. (n/t) - TB - 10/30/2006 11:55:19 PM
    - Sex in Space. Radiation. Crab Nebula. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 11/1/2006 2:16:57 AM
- All is lost! deux ex machina - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:48:54 PM
- Child saves humanity, xenocide, humanity lost? - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:39:06 PM
  - "Piggies are people too", says Human (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:43:16 PM
    - "except for females, they are Varelse" (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:45:02 PM
  - Descolada even worse: send little Dr (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:41:42 PM
- The White Mountains, Don't get capped! (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:35:24 PM
- Lying Bastard, Ring World, migod agoraphobia (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:34:37 PM
- palm print color, run Logan run! (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:33:26 PM
  - Dome dwellers solve Social Security crisis (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/31/2006 10:47:17 AM
- Humans, Ousters fight. Shrike! the Beware (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 8:33:00 PM
  - Ouch, squashed by Mega G smarts (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 9:07:47 PM
    - I need to read the sequels..... :-) (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:34:59 PM
  - Farcasters exploit your brain; choose again. (n/t) - podrock - 10/30/2006 8:41:02 PM
- Big Brother, A hate love relationship (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:32:10 PM
- Computer befriends man on moon, rebellion - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:28:07 PM
- Empire, human epic, decay, regression, rebirth - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:22:16 PM
- Space: the longest thread? yes, no (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 8:15:40 PM
- By the way......best. thread. ever. :-) - Tony - 10/30/2006 5:20:26 PM
- 1.21 jigawatts? 1.21 jigawatts? Great Scott! (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:51:55 PM
  - What the hell is a jigawatt? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:52:30 PM
    - Something to do with Charlie's Angels? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 10:58:13 PM
- Mice first, porpoises second, humans third (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:20:41 PM
- Khaaaaaaaaan! - REB - 10/30/2006 3:13:04 PM
  - Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer, Next? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:42:03 PM
- Got potato mountain? See the universe! (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:39:17 PM
- Half-Life: Time To Choose, Mr. Freeman. (n/t) - SDF - 10/30/2006 1:27:57 PM
- Saturn Rukh Giant Flying Extraterrestrial Maw (n/t) - SDF - 10/30/2006 1:24:38 PM
- Trilogy Sublime. Sequels Suck. Prequels Sucker! - nick hoffman - 10/30/2006 12:40:13 PM
  - Jar Jar Binks meets Sarlacc, please? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 10:49:27 PM
  - 9 movies? show me the sequels! (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 7:27:37 PM
    - Sequels - nick hoffman - 10/31/2006 9:09:35 AM
  - Luke? Father! Sister? Mother? Father! Emperor!! - nick hoffman - 10/30/2006 12:43:10 PM
- A gift of flight on Jupiter. (n/t) (n/t) - Mr Fibuli - 10/30/2006 10:48:01 AM
- Pupeteers, bi ped cat, unlucky, shadow sqaures. (n/t) - Mr Fibuli - 10/30/2006 10:37:21 AM
  - You scream and you leap... great. (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 1:17:04 AM
- Axis wins, things get really weird - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:46:05 AM
  - Jesus on Mars? Not bloody likely... (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 1:19:11 AM
  - Dick writes. Arnie Stars. Major Hit! - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:37:08 PM
    - Lost like tears in the rain (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 9:15:15 PM
- Rape, walk, walk, walk, laugh, win! - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:53:23 AM
  - Leper dies badly, a Foul defeat (n/t) - Adam - 10/31/2006 8:16:19 AM
  - Clockwork Orange came to mind (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 3:45:22 PM
    - Only 5 words??? Outcast! Leper! Unclean! - Tony - 10/30/2006 3:59:05 PM
      - I give up, oh mighty one. (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 5:40:44 PM
        
        Unbelievable, they don't have white gold! (n/t) - podrock - 10/30/2006 6:27:39 PM
  - Oh, I see: a generic synopsis - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:35:50 AM
    - No, see post above to REB. - Tony - 10/30/2006 4:00:51 PM
      - podrock's post provided clue: Covenant series (n/t) - Fox - 10/30/2006 6:50:36 PM
    - Impenetrable jungle, noble savages, white hero - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:50:48 AM
- Martian grasshoppers build spaceship, modify hominids (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 11:09:38 PM
- I'm home: dirty apes not aliens (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 10:50:43 PM
- Man, robots, mock 'This Island Earth' (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 8:52:57 PM
- On Mars with monkey, liberates Friday (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 8:16:01 PM
- Manifold: Malenfant Suffers For His Ambition. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 4:10:26 PM
  - Baxter's new genre: The parallel serial (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:12:02 PM
- Pandora's Star: Prime Lifeform Destroys All. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 4:07:00 PM
  - Arrggh, Fords and MickeyD in 2300 (n/t) - FrankC - 10/30/2006 9:02:21 PM
    - Worse! Taco Bell in Demolition Man! (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:10:16 PM
- Redemption Ark: Inhibitors Destroy Spacefaring Races. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 4:01:24 PM
- Killdozer: possessed juggernaut squashes people flat (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:57:27 PM
- Coalescent. Exultant. Transcendent. Malthusian. Dystopian. Baxterian. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:51:01 PM
  - Coalescent. Exultant. Transcendent. Malthusian. Darwinian. Baxterian. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:52:52 PM
- Eon: Asteroid bigger inside than outside. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:45:53 PM
- All the Suns set. Civilisation burns! (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/29/2006 2:16:34 PM
  - Book was great, Movie was strange. (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 10:50:20 PM
  - (Nightfall) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:35:11 PM
  - Monolith: Arise, monkey! Your destiny awaits! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:25:08 PM
  - Against the fall of night, Alvin (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:22:36 PM
    - Between the city and the stars (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:28:07 PM
      - Cities take flight; politics as usual (n/t) - Fox - 11/3/2006 1:59:32 AM
        
        Round and round we go! Spindizzy! (n/t) - Robert - 11/3/2006 2:19:20 AM
        
        Ohhhhhhhhhhh! It wash pure Blish, too! (n/t) - Robert - 11/3/2006 2:21:07 AM
- Bringing civilizations alive, using special inks. (n/t) - SDF - 10/29/2006 2:08:06 PM
- Another I place at Star's End... (n/t) - Adam - 10/29/2006 1:54:55 PM
  - Who's this Mule guy? Oh crap! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:11:19 PM
  - Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:09:49 PM
    - Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:31:03 PM
      - The Caves of Steel; I, Robot (+...) - Robert - 10/30/2006 9:54:07 PM
- Space bug turns blood to powder (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/29/2006 4:15:03 AM
- Starbuck's a girl, Cylons are sexy (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:52:31 PM
- Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:50:56 PM
- re: Six-word SF synopses - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:44:02 PM
- I Robot: Three laws broken, nevermind. (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:43:15 PM
  - R. Daneel Olivaw, wherefore art thou? (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:27:04 PM
    - AKA Chetter Hummin and Eto Demerzel (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:34:20 PM
      - "Alas, Giskard, I knew him well" (n/t) - Robert - 10/30/2006 9:55:51 PM
  - Robots don't need no stinking rules! (n/t) - podrock - 10/29/2006 5:06:35 AM
- QT'ing Greek Gods mess with time (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 11:20:13 PM
- Clay simulacra walk Earth, do chores. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:12:17 PM
  - Kiln People? - Mr Fibuli - 10/30/2006 10:40:31 AM
- The game needs a name: scifaiku? (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 5:59:32 PM
  - Genius. (n/t) - Bowser - 10/29/2006 3:57:01 AM
    - Six word meme, won't let go - Robert - 10/29/2006 2:20:53 PM
      - This time, lets make them rhyme? (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 8:41:29 PM
      - Brevity, a blessing in subject lines - Fox - 10/29/2006 4:06:41 PM
        
        The beat goes on and on (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:09:28 PM
        
        Stop me before I scifaiku again! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:10:09 PM
        
        Help! I'm stuck in this meme! (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:10:54 PM
        
        No you're not! (Yes he is!) (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 3:40:57 PM
  - Kewl (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 9:02:16 PM
- Discworld: Turtles all the way down. (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:43:02 PM
  - Witches Abroad: Crone, Mother, Wet Hen (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:43:59 PM
    - The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret (n/t) - Ankh-Morpork Times - 10/28/2006 3:45:23 PM
      - Yet Another Death on Vacation Yarn - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:46:23 AM
        
        Vampires suck. Granny is human garlic. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 10:50:34 PM
- monoliths turn Jupiter into second sun (n/t) - Daniel - 10/28/2006 2:52:53 PM
  - Helen Mirren with cute Russian accent (n/t) - D. - 10/28/2006 2:53:52 PM
- Toddler World Saviour Dies Unexpectedly... maybe (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:27:36 AM
- Arnie Kott again... again... again... dead (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:26:08 AM
  - Man returns from Proxima a God? (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:30:00 AM
- Tiger masked sociopath roams space time (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:23:50 AM
  - "Where are the stars?" "What stars?" (n/t) - Adam - 10/28/2006 10:31:03 AM
- Oh HAL. Oh hell. OH HELL! (n/t) - Bowser - 10/28/2006 5:41:22 AM
- Bootstraps, hell... lend 'em a hand! - Fox - 10/28/2006 5:31:15 AM
  - Sentient dolphins mock patrons, how human... (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:02:15 PM
- Uh-Oh, Did you hear that? (n/t) - Pugs - 10/28/2006 5:27:17 AM
- Three clones look for laser source. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:41:58 AM
  - (Ophiuchi Hotline?) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:54:35 AM
    - yup - podrock - 10/28/2006 5:10:23 AM
- Oceans dead; Soylent Green is people! (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:35:25 AM
- That V2 rocket turns me on. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:12:05 AM
  - Uh, Houston. We have a problem. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:02:52 PM
- Journey interrupted - Alien life! Run away... (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/28/2006 4:03:26 AM
- The future isn't what I expected - nick hoffman - 10/28/2006 4:01:38 AM
  - Shoot the Moon -- gun big enough? (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:17:24 AM
- "Let there be Light!" "Oh Bugger!" - nick hoffman - 10/28/2006 4:00:07 AM
- "It's just a game," said Ender. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 3:58:24 AM
  - "Oh no it isn't " say Buggers. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:40:37 AM
  - Ender saves humanity, Bean is backup (n/t) - SDG - 10/28/2006 11:48:46 PM
    - Peter isn't bad, he's just meglomanic (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:55:10 PM
      - Keep an eye on Achilles, though. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/1/2006 11:05:49 PM
  - "And, I speak for the dead" (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:07:00 AM
- Hobbit saves world, Elves leave anyway (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:43:02 AM
  - One Ring to rule them all (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/29/2006 12:18:57 PM
    - and in the darkness bind them. (n/t) - Robert - 10/29/2006 4:19:09 PM
  - shoulda tossed it into the fire (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:21:15 AM
    - There, and back; "Well, I'm home." (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 5:25:52 AM
  - Feanor's pride: three ages of wandering. (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:08:09 AM
    - Sauron's a wolfie wimp. Morgoth rooolz! - Tony - 10/30/2006 4:16:06 PM
  - Or...Elves has left the building. (n/t) - ER - 10/28/2006 4:01:01 AM
- Kill those bugs, on the bounce! (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:24:04 AM
  - Prophet genesis: be raised by Martians (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:28:48 AM
  - very old man tells many stories (n/t) - podrock - 10/28/2006 4:25:35 AM
    - Moon declares independence, computer leads revolt (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 4:29:47 AM
      - TANSTAAFL my ass! Ctrl alt delete (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 4:12:59 PM
- Exotic spice, Byzantine politics, big worms (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:18:29 AM
  - Book bound Muad'Dib couldn't sing power. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 7:08:15 PM
  - Worm sign! Where's the ornithopter? Aiiiieeee! (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 4:02:06 PM
    - Thump thump thump thump thump gulp (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 4:09:31 PM
  - Baron Harkonnen, see fat boy float (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:56:56 PM
    - Alia's Gom Jabbar bursts his baloon. (n/t) - et - 10/28/2006 9:23:05 PM
  - DeLaurentis: Sting in a leather jockstrap! (n/t) - Robert - 10/28/2006 3:55:24 PM
    - Sting a ling a ding dong - REB - 10/30/2006 7:40:06 PM
      - Sting! Stinglehopper! Makin' copies. The McStingster! (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 7:43:14 PM
- Martians invade; Earth saved by bacteria (n/t) - Fox - 10/28/2006 3:17:15 AM

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