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Sorry....I'll get the next one posted soon.
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An exhiled sorcerer finds revenge within reach, while his daughter finds love and the locals pursue freedom.
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Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?
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It is indeed The Tempest...You're up.
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OK:

Very long-living peope face the hostility of shorter-living ones.
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voralfred wrote:Very long-living peope face the hostility of shorter-living ones.
"Methuselah's Children" by Robert A. Heinlein
and the next stories involving Lazarus Long and the Howard Families.
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Ha! I was sure you would recognize your family history! :deviate:

One sherlock and the next blurb! :lol:
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voralfred wrote:Ha! I was sure you would recognize your family history! :deviate:
One sherlock and the next blurb! :lol:
What can I say but "Scream and leap!"
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote: "Scream and leap!"
Is this the next blurb? :mrgreen:
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voralfred wrote:
E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote: "Scream and leap!"
Is this the next blurb? :mrgreen:
Oh yes.
Ambiguous, isn't it? :deviate:
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I'm just thinking Basement Jaxx, Jump 'n Shout

But that doesn't really count as a book now, does it...
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KeE wrote:I'm just thinking Basement Jaxx, Jump 'n Shout ...
Since I haven't heard of this it can't be the targeted book/series.

The blurb expanded:
They reject a verbose challenge, they scream and leap.
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:The blurb expanded:
They reject a verbose challenge, they scream and leap.

What about a slightly more verbose blurb?
It seems that noone is screaming and jumping to this challenge yet....
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voralfred wrote:What about a slightly more verbose blurb?
It seems that noone is screaming and jumping to this challenge yet....
They reject a verbose challenge, they scream and leap. Though it appears that the ones earning a full name are those learning to think first.
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Expanded some more.
They reject a verbose challenge, they scream and leap. Though it appears that the ones earning a full name are those learning to think first. Think of these Heroes as you would of formidable and highly intelligent Bengal tigers.
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"Think of these Heroes as you would of formidable and highly intelligent Bengal tigers" this pretty much sums up my impression of Watchmen...
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KeE wrote:"Think of these Heroes as you would of formidable and highly intelligent Bengal tigers" this pretty much sums up my impression of Watchmen...
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Added some qualifiers.
They reject a verbose challenge, they scream and leap. Though it appears that the ones earning a full name are those learning to think first. Think of these Heroes as you would of formidable and highly intelligent, bipedal Bengal tigers, but who nonetheless, in their hunting reserves, hunt in quadripedal mode. Their homeplanet is 61 Ursae Majoris.
Is this a growing blurb or what?
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Sounds like Larry Niven's Kzinti, which I know primarily through the Ringworld books and a short story or two. I've never read any of the Man-Kzin War books.
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clong wrote:Sounds like Larry Niven's Kzinti, which I know primarily through the Ringworld books and a short story or two. I've never read any of the Man-Kzin War books.
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Despite the interference of an ass and a meddling secret society, things work out according to plan.
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A midsummer nights dream?
It is written.
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KeE wrote:A midsummer nights dream?
A good guess, but not what I was thinking of...
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Now I'm thinking Ass=Mule, and we're into Asimov country. The Mule was a character in one of the Foundation books, and "the second foundation" was a somewhat meddling secret society with, as I recall, some PSI abilities. Now it's been ages since I read the series, I'll have to pick a title at random: Perhaps it is "second foundation"?
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Yes, I was looking for the Foundation trilogy. You're up!
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