Giovanni requests fiction recommendations!
gioogle, I dissuaded you from the Harry Turtledove avenue, so I owe you some contemporary alternatives:
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In the area of alt history/counterfactual history...1. "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson ( Read more... )
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In the area of alt history/counterfactual history...1. "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson ( Read more... )
Many thanks for these wonderful suggestions!
I will start working on this list, and it will keep me busy for quite a while, a soon as I have finished Van Vogt's "Slan" (very, very nice sci-fi - written in 1940).
I am very ashamed to admit I am not familiar with almost all the authors/books listed ( I have read mostly "Golden Age" science fiction, with some very cautious, well planned, and generally satisfying occasional forays into other eras), but this is a gap in my sci-fi knowledge I am going to fill soon - I only hope to manage to find these books in English as some Italian translators can butcher even the greatest masterpieces... but that's why e-bay and amazon exist... :-)))
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;-)
It always depends on the people who are part of the community...
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... there are also blogs/sites read by thousands of people that spread disinformation (I won't post the links here though)
... it is a bit like television (or newspapers), you have to know were to look, what to read and see and what to believe...
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In Italy we have at least one master of media manipulation (and you might not know he works effectively also on the internet).
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Of course doing the tutorial level is a good start, but some interesting key-strokes I learned elsewhere:
G: shows gridlines, including helping one determine contours and elevation
T: hides the trees (really useful if you need to target an opponent, or watch the guerillas attack)
B: hides the buildings ... unfortunately no SimCity-styled building classification map that I've found (so that one can hide everything to see military bases, for example).
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I'm enjoying my last days of freedom before turning into El Presidente!
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Btw, I managed to land a copy of Tropico Gold (includes expansion, extra scenarios, and a whole bunch of stuff) for about 6 euros + shipping - I love e-bay!!!
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Plus, I think the whole idea of being El Presidente is 1000+ times better than playing a pirate king, at least for those who like to dabble in history and politics.
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Incidentally, did you ever play Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold? I think it was in that game that duels were decided through text taunting. ;-)
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But if you could really decide duels via text taunting it would be much more Depp-like than Tropico 2 (management does not look like Depp's character's strong suit)
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It's all about style over substance Giovanni.
Incidentally, I now have a copy of Tropico2, but am holding off from playing it ... I have German to learn first!
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Substance over style is my motto :-))).
And good look from resisting the allure of PC games... I have found there is only one surefire method to resist - do not buy them (or get hold of them!)
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But then friends com around extolling the virtues of this and that game...
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try Latin and/or ancient Greek...
In some ways, even worse!
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