Thanks for the answer. So.. did you snap the earlier picture of him and the young lady recently while in Yalta? Do you speak french?

No.

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On 26/10/2020 10:22 a.m., Brother Rabbit : August Abolins wrote:

Thanks for the answer. So.. did you snap the earlier picture of him and the young lady recently while in Yalta? Do you speak french?

No.

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Hi Stas, I'm surprised to see the gate is operating so soon. What
magic did you manage to do?


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Hello, August Abolins.
On 10/26/20 3:58 PM you wrote:

Hi Stas, I'm surprised to see the gate is operating so soon. What
magic did you manage to do?

A magician never reveals his tricks.

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August Abolins wrote to Brother Rabbit <=-

Hi Stas, I'm surprised to see the gate is operating so soon. What
magic did you manage to do?

Remember, the enemy's gate is down...



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Hi Kurt!

26 Oct 20 19:34, you wrote to me:

Hi Stas, I'm surprised to see the gate is operating so soon.
What magic did you manage to do?

Remember, the enemy's gate is down...

I don't understand the reference, but Stas' system was on auto-pilot while he was away from home base for several weeks. But the gate started up sooner than he said it would be possible. Maybe he received some remote-human assistance.


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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Remember, the enemy's gate is down...

I don't understand the reference

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.


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Hello, Kurt Weiske.
On 10/28/20 6:43 AM you wrote:

August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Remember, the enemy's gate is down...

I don't understand the reference

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.

I thought so, but wasn't for certain.

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On 28/10/2020 9:43 a.m., Kurt Weiske : August Abolins wrote:

I don't understand the reference

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.

A message of hope and opportunity?

How far is it into the book when that phrase is used? I never
finished the book. I liked the premise though, and hoped to get a
chance to continue where I left off - which was quite early.


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Hello, August Abolins.
On 10/29/20 5:23 PM you wrote:

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.

A message of hope and opportunity? How far is it into the book
when that phrase is used? I never finished the book. I liked the
premise though, and hoped to get a chance to continue where I left
off - which was quite early.

Oddly, I've never read it. I did read another book in the series, which title fails me, but is supposed to be like 1000 years later.

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Hi Charles!

29 Oct 20 10:35, you wrote to me:

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.

Oddly, I've never read it. I did read another book in the series,
which title fails me, but is supposed to be like 1000 years later.

Do you remember if you like it and whether it read like a complete story even though you read it out of chronological step with the others? You could probably treat the 1st books in the series as flash-backs.

I heard that the film (2013) is supposed to be pretty good. I did not realize that Harrison Ford was in it. I'll have to cue it up.



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Hello, August Abolins.
On 10/29/20 11:30 PM you wrote:

Do you remember if you like it and whether it read like a complete
story even though you read it out of chronological step with the
others? You could probably treat the 1st books in the series as flash-backs. I heard that the film (2013) is supposed to be pretty
good. I did not realize that Harrison Ford was in it. I'll have
to cue it up.

I've seen the film, and I did enjoy it. I do understand that it, being a movie adaptation of the book.

If I hadn't seen that, not really having any familiarity with that universe or characters at all would likely been confusing, but the story was still enjoyable.



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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

How far is it into the book when that phrase is used? I never
finished the book. I liked the premise though, and hoped to get a
chance to continue where I left off - which was quite early.

Fairly early on, while they're in Battle School. I think it was
against a team where they surrounded one of their teammates so he
wouldn't be immobilized, then "dropped" to the enemy's gate.

I never read the sequels, I should consider it.


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Hi Kurt!

30 Oct 20 07:15, you wrote to me:

How far is it into the book when that phrase is used? I never
finished the book.

Fairly early on, while they're in Battle School. I think it was
against a team where they surrounded one of their teammates so he
wouldn't be immobilized, then "dropped" to the enemy's gate.

Your initial post and the phrase from the story driggered my curiosity of the film. The film seemed a bit rushed or incomplete in certain parts. Now I'm curious to fill in the gaps with the books.

I never read the sequels, I should consider it.

I did not realize that Card wrote 6 prequels (2 trilogies) to Ender's Game several years later. It's like he's creating something similar to the "trilogies" in the Star Wars saga.


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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

I did not realize that Card wrote 6 prequels (2 trilogies) to Ender's
Game several years later. It's like he's creating something similar to
the "trilogies" in the Star Wars saga.

I'm back to re-reading the Foundation series. It's been years,
apparently one of the media streaming channels is doing a series
about it.



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Hello Kurt!

** On Saturday 31.10.20 - 07:33, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

I'm back to re-reading the Foundation series. It's been
years, apparently one of the media streaming channels is
doing a series about it.

The tv series looks interesting. It's probably something I would
watch, and THEN dig through the books to get the "full" story.


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I'm back to re-reading the Foundation series. It's been
years, apparently one of the media streaming channels is
doing a series about it.

The tv series looks interesting. It's probably something I would
watch, and THEN dig through the books to get the "full" story.

I read Foundation many many years ago. I still think about it frequently. It's only of those series that just "stuck with me." It covers such a vast amount of time and space, and is so detailed.... its a very rich set of books. I highly recommend. If I recall correctly they also lead very perfectly into
Asimov's Robot series.

I'm very exicited about the AppleTV+ series which should be coming out soon.

I have the books in paperback, I should dig them out.

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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

I'm back to re-reading the Foundation series. It's been
years, apparently one of the media streaming channels is
doing a series about it.

The tv series looks interesting. It's probably something I would
watch, and THEN dig through the books to get the "full" story.

No, no, no!

Always better to read the books first!



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Re: ender's game, books
By: Bob Roberts to August Abolins on Sat Dec 26 2020 01:15 pm

I read Foundation many many years ago. I still think about it frequently. It's only of those series that just "stuck with me." It covers such a vast amount of time and space, and is so detailed.... its a very rich set of books. I highly recommend. If I recall correctly they also lead very perfectly into Asimov's Robot series.

I think it's the other way around - the I, Robot series lead into Foundation. https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Asimov_Timeline
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