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Re: [B7L] Knights of God (was: Childhood's End)
by Sally Manton 03 Sep '01

03 Sep '01

Kathryn wrote: <Well, I just finished listening to my tapes of the BBC radio play of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", starring Steven Pacey.> Haven't seen that one in the local shop ... but I have finally seen Knights of God (thank you, Joyce, for helping me get a copy). And thoroughly enjoyed it :-) The youngsters were silly, but Gareth and Patrick Troughton and Julian Fellowes especially were wonderful. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Childhood's End
by Kathryn Andersen 02 Sep '01

02 Sep '01

Well, I just finished listening to my tapes of the BBC radio play of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", starring Steven Pacey. And "starring" was right, his is the voice which holds the narrative together. I don't know how true it was to the book, having never read it. But it was a vivid (if one can use that term for a radio play) production. Yes, Steven Pacey did a good job, along with everyone else. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree. -- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <kat(a)katspace.com> / \ | <http://www.katspace.com> \_.--.*/ | v | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe

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RE: [B7L] Re: After Life
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 02 Sep '01

02 Sep '01

Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson(a)mcr1.poptel.org.uk> wrote: >Jacqui wrote: "Jean De Florette (which is on UK TV tonight) was part >of a novel - it and Manon de Sources are pretty faithful to the >original story (The Water of the Hills - forget the author)" > >Never read the book, but both were brilliant films. > >-- >cheers >Steve Rogerson >http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson > >Redemption 03, 21-23 February 2003, Ashford, Kent >Celebrating 25 years of Blake's 7 and 10 years of Babylon 5 >http://www.smof.com/redemption Manon de Sources is on (UK tv) again on Tuesday night (if anybody's interested) Jacqui __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Calling zine producers
by Steve Rogerson 01 Sep '01

01 Sep '01

If anyone is brining out a zine in the near future and would be interested in an ad swap with Redemption, please get in touch. How it works is you would carry an ad for Redemption in your zine and we put an ad for the zine in one of our progress reports. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Redemption 03, 21-23 February 2003, Ashford, Kent Celebrating 25 years of Blake's 7 and 10 years of Babylon 5 http://www.smof.com/redemption

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Kaldor City available
by Judith Proctor 31 Aug '01

31 Aug '01

A lot of people have been asking me when Kaldor City will be available. You can order the first Kaldor City CD, Occams Razor, now on http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 for 10 pounds including postage to the UK (slightly more to other countries). The Kaldor City CDs all use the same setting, but they are not a series. It won't be essential to listen to all of them to follow a continuing story. Each CD will be complete in itself. Paul Darrow plays the cunning Kaston Iago and for those who can make it to 10th planet in Barking (London) tomorrow (Saturday) you can get a copy signed by him in person. Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '03 21-23 Feb 2003 http://www.smof.com/redemption/

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Christmas & other gifts
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 31 Aug '01

31 Aug '01

Christmas and other gifts There might well be different categories of shops, as happened in certain of the then Communist countries - those for 'the masses' and those for the 'ruling classes.' In the former an endless collection of equivalents of 'Lenin hailing a bus', 'cheap and cheerful' goods, and failed kitsch, in the latter things we would class as semi- or actual luxuries (which may still be kitsch - herculanium-plated statues of 'Lenin catching a bus.') In these shops discretion would apply ('Remember Fred, the general's wife does not know that her lover is having an affair with the general's second mistress') Considering the number of people who don't recognise Blake et al, the group might well have some leeway. (alternatively imagine the various shops going in for 'name drop, name drop' marketing 'Whoever gets the most 'wanted by the Federation' people on their scorecard gets 10% off their bill...') 'Christmas Cracker boxes' come in various price ranges, from '10 second self-destruct paper hats' and 'bits of plastic' to 'expensive watches and silver pencils.' Assuming the sets of crackers still exist in the B7 period, what type would each character get? __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Soolin's survival
by Ellynne G. 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

If Soolin survived the initial massacre at GP, she might be able to just walk away from it all. I don't remember if she'd ever been officially connected with Avon and the others as a rebel (granted, several of the places they went should have had security cameras, but the Federation was always incredibly cheap about those when the plot required it). If she hadn't been connected with them and if Servalan wasn't the one in charge of the trap (or if Servalan really did only have eyes for Avon on those times they met), then what do you have? I mean, she's a native of Gauda Prime whose family was killed by the kind of creeps they are now hiring bounty hunters to clear out. With her history as a hired gun, it would be perfectly reasonable for her to come home and get a little revenge for profit. She was, after all, at some kind of bounty hunter base. Even if they have video of her coming in with Avon and the others, she might be able to say she had hooked up with them to lure them into a bounty hunter base only things got crazy - the base seemed to already be under the control of that terrorist, Roj Blake. Then the shooting started. No, no, she didn't shoot because she wasn't sure what side anyone was on. It wasn't because she was afraid that Blake guy was about to steal her bounty so she just waited till Avon had gotten rid of him. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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RE: Re: [B7L] After Life
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

Kathryn Andersen <kat(a)welkin.apana.org.au> wrote: >On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:47:57AM +1000, Tony Nolan wrote: >> I just read the blakes7 site and the update on the movie or new series. >> >> Why dont they just do afterlife, it was after all written for the ending !!!! > >Er, because Afterlife was atrocious? >Or, to be more realistic, any novel is actually too long to do as a >standard-length movie. > >-- > _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <kat(a)katspace.com> >/ \ | <http://www.katspace.com> >\_.--.*/ | > v | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" >------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere >Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe > Jean De Florette (which is on UK TV tonight) was part of a novel - it and Manon de Sources are pretty faithful to the original story (The Water of the Hills - forget the author) Jacqui __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Re: [B7L] Re: democracy
by Sally Manton 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

Marian wrote: <Blake seems focused on bringing the Federation down. He doesn't seem to be giving much thought to the future form of the govenment in case he succeeds.> <grin> of course, he *could* have what he (and the other dissidence leaders) hoped to put in place all worked out and stored in Orac's Tarriel cells somewhere. We just didn't see the whole thing - Zen-cam (otherwise known as "the director wants to speed up the action not shove in a whole lot of exposition unnecessary to this week's ep") cut it out. After all, we didn't see Avon planning that little revenge plan to Earth until we're almost on top of it (Children) either, nor the putting together and diplomatic wrangling that led to the Warlord plan. Had Blake stayed on past Star One, we probably *would* have heard more, as it (maybe) came closer ... but he didn't, so we don't. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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FW: [B7L] Re: democracy
by Andrew Williams 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

>Replace it with, say, a bunch of >petty little dictators who refuse to cooperate with each other and >pretty soon the population starts starving to death and wishing for the >good old days when Servalan was in charge. Sounds like Avons' scheme in Warlord.

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