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Dear Steve I like your blog. I have been looking for a trike like yours. Do the greenspeed have a torque steer event at certain pedal speeds. Thanks Tony Edited 09-03-2011 10:53
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Stephen Gunnell 27-11-2006
19:32 Perth WA
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Time's 50 significant SF Novels?
It appears not. This Page appears to be the real origin of the list. It certainly predates 2006. Looking back on the long trail of blogs it is hard to see where the attribution changed. But there you go, Time Magazine is not resonsible.
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Stephen Gunnell 17-11-2006
19:01 Perth WA
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Time's 50 significant SF NovelsFound via John Samuel's livejournal. The most significant SF/F novels from 1953-2006 according to Time. Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star next to the ones you love. - The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
- Dune, Frank Herbert *
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin *
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
- The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
- The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr *
- The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
- Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
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- Cities in Flight, James Blish *
- The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
- Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
- The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
- Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
- Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
- Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card *
- The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
- The Forever War, Joe Haldeman *
- Gateway, Frederik Pohl
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams *
- I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Little, Big, John Crowley
- Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny *
- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
- Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
- More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
- The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith *
- On the Beach, Nevil Shute
- Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
- Ringworld, Larry Niven *
- Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
- The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson *
- Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
- The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
- Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
- Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock *
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks- Timescape, Gregory Benford
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
Hmmm ... some of those I read so long ago that I can't remember If I liked them. Feh! Old age lurking by the door I guess. Edited 17-11-2006 19:03
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Stephen Gunnell 11-11-2006
08:30 Perth WA
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Moving on
Yesterday I submitted my resignation at Unisys West. I'm off to work at DDI Health in 4 weeks time. My new position will be Config and Release Manager. This is the work I was doing back at ADI. DDI is a .NET house builing medical related systems (Radiology imaging, Practice management, etc).
The office is located in Colin St. West Perth about a kilometer down the road from Maureen 8-).
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Stephen Gunnell 18-03-2006
09:45 Perth WA
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The Northbridge Hotel
Ohhh it has changed. It has now gone all upmarket. The dining room on the corner is the 201 restaurant in the evenings. The hotel back looks like a pile of architecture with multiple split levels of accomidation. Most of the people coming down to breakfast seemed to be young couples. Obviously out for a spree.
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Poss
10-03-2006
17:39 Perth WA
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Ah, the Northbridge Hotel - scene of many a good Wednesday night drinkie and nosh. It was a gay bar in those days and they did a lot of fundraising for AIDS charities, doing food runs to people who couldn't cook for themselves any more, that sort of thing.
They also hosted the monthly leather boys soiree in the dungeon - the sight of bin liners on the walls and floors gave even my most hard-core mates pause.
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Stephen Gunnell 08-03-2006
07:28 Perth WA
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Swancon XXXI - Saturday
The morning started with a trip into Northbridge to find a chemist and have breakfast. This I managed after walking all the way down to James Street. I came back via Lake Street admiring the architecture and sussing out the Northbridge Hotel.
Then a chat with Rob and Leece and off to Kaneda's Coffee panel. Kaneda is obviously passionate about his job but the 'perfect' coffee still tasted bitter to me. I wimped out of that one early and sat in a comfy chair for a while before going to "Why don't they make Australian SF films?". After that was "Trailer park: forthcoming movies". Then I had lunch with Andrew Harvey and did some catching up for 28 years of news and gossip.
After lunch ... I'm not sure if I got to Ippongi Bang's GOH speech. No wait ... I think I did. Then was the choice beteen three items that I wanted to see running simultaneously. I opted for Ian Tregonning's talk about puppeteering for the movie Labyrinth. Then I had a short visit to the games room and before heading off to the costuming panel. And finally "Fantastic Britannica" before dinner. Dinner was ... something? I chatted with various SCA people as they arrived to set up for a dance demo. Then there was the attempt to see Mirrormask. The time was shifted an hour earlier on the schedule and then another half an hour earlier un-announced. Then due to complaints they re-ran it. So I saw the second half and then the first half. Recommended. By this time the masquerade proper was over and I had missed the dance demo. So I hung around for Ippongi's concert and "Larry & Misty's Bedtime Stories". About 01:00 I staggered back to my room.
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Stephen Gunnell 07-03-2006
06:42 Perth WA
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Swancon XXX1 - Friday
I packed the tailbox of the trike with my gear for the weekend and went off to work Friday morning. At the end of the day I pedalled onwards into Northbridge. My planned route down Robinson street was scotched when I found that the portion east of William street had been converted to west-bound one-way. The opposite direction to what I wanted. After touring some backstreets an negotiating a breatalyzer trap I eventually made it to the Shiralee Hostel. The single room was clean, fairly new, and somewhat spartan. I unpacked and headed off to the convention hotel. After registration and a quick check of the programme I headed up to Rob & Leece's room. Rob, Leece, and Poss were present and waiting to do their Saturday night viewing. We ordered food from room service and watched an episode of Kolchak while we waited for it to arrive. Then we watched an episode of Rah-Xephon while we waited for dessert. Then it was off to the anime panel but the panelist's voices were so quiet and the sweaty fan smell so strong that I retreated. I then sat around chatting with people until the filk panel at 23:00. I sat an listened for an hour and we were all inducted into the WOOOO game by Larry and Mercedes. At Midnight I made like a pumpkin and went back to my room to sleep.
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