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| Started by | "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| First post | 2015-08-23 09:42 -0400 |
| Last post | 2015-09-03 16:55 -0700 |
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Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 09:42 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198@pants.btinternet.com> - 2015-08-23 14:54 +0100
Re: Badass flowers djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-23 15:44 +0000
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 12:27 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Bill Dugan <wkdugan@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-23 10:39 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 15:01 -0400
Re: Badass flowers David Johnston <David@block.net> - 2015-08-23 12:55 -0600
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 12:18 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 12:48 -0400
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-23 12:57 -0500
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 15:02 -0400
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-23 22:30 -0500
Re: Badass flowers ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-08-24 03:43 +0000
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 06:59 -0400
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-24 18:41 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-08-25 11:18 +0800
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-25 19:42 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 15:00 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-23 15:42 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 19:19 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 19:29 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-23 23:27 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-23 17:39 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Magewolf <Magewolf@nc.rr.com> - 2015-08-24 15:07 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-24 13:00 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-08-25 11:20 +0800
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 18:01 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-23 23:24 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-24 22:37 -0700
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-24 18:44 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-24 18:19 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 00:31 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 23:11 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-26 16:59 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-08-24 18:27 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 00:33 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-25 06:17 -0700
Re: Badass flowers petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-25 06:53 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-08-26 11:53 +0800
Re: Badass flowers nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2015-08-26 18:44 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-08-26 12:43 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-08-27 10:34 +0800
Re: Badass flowers Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-08-25 07:42 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-24 22:46 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-25 19:43 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-24 02:26 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 15:19 -0700
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-24 18:51 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 06:43 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 09:53 -0700
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-25 19:46 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2015-08-23 13:37 -0700
Re: Badass flowers ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-08-23 21:00 +0000
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 18:28 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 18:23 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 18:34 -0500
Re: Badass flowers lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 08:24 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-24 16:04 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-24 12:51 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-24 02:05 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-24 02:09 -0600
Re: Badass flowers ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-08-23 17:11 +0000
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-23 13:01 -0500
Re: Badass flowers Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 15:44 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 16:03 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-23 10:24 -0700
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-23 12:55 -0500
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-23 14:33 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 15:04 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-25 16:25 -0400
Re: Badass flowers patmpowers@gmail.com - 2015-08-23 12:14 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-08-23 16:24 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-24 13:39 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-24 13:57 -0700
Re: Badass flowers William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 13:11 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 16:33 -0700
Re: Badass flowers David Johnston <David@block.net> - 2015-08-24 10:16 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-24 01:29 +0000
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-24 01:04 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Stephen Harker <sjharker@netspace.net.au> - 2015-08-24 17:56 +1000
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 17:56 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-25 15:28 +0000
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-25 19:57 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 18:19 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-25 21:17 -0700
Re: Badass flowers ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-08-26 04:24 +0000
Re: Badass flowers petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-26 06:12 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-26 06:44 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-26 08:58 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Mike M <mike@xenocyte.com> - 2015-08-26 15:38 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-26 09:27 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-01 06:20 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-26 12:54 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Mike M <mike@xenocyte.com> - 2015-08-26 17:11 +0000
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-26 18:19 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-26 16:46 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Mike M <mike@xenocyte.com> - 2015-08-26 22:59 +0000
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-26 19:01 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-27 14:20 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-08-27 17:28 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-08-27 16:53 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-27 17:17 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 23:07 -0700
Re: Badass flowers ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-08-28 06:20 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-08-28 04:07 -0400
Re: Badass flowers ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-08-28 15:32 +0000
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-28 10:35 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-28 03:46 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-28 06:47 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-08-28 17:23 -0700
Re: Badass flowers petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-28 06:19 -0700
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-28 22:33 -0500
Re: Badass flowers Torbjorn Lindgren <tl@none.invalid> - 2015-08-30 22:01 +0000
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-31 05:07 -0500
Re: Badass flowers "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> - 2015-09-03 01:50 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-02 19:21 -0700
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-09-03 19:45 -0500
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-04 02:56 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Mike M <mike@xenocyte.com> - 2015-08-26 22:52 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-08-27 02:53 -0400
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-27 08:06 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-27 20:10 -0600
Re: Badass flowers "Robert A. Woodward" <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2015-08-26 22:10 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-27 01:18 -0400
Re: Badass flowers William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 12:42 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 10:54 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-01 06:08 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-09-02 11:19 +0800
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-01 21:35 -0700
Re: Badass flowers William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 01:12 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-02 06:53 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-02 11:04 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-02 11:39 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-03 02:56 -0700
Re: Badass flowers David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-09-02 19:25 -0500
Re: Badass flowers Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-09-03 11:27 +0800
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-29 13:10 -0700
Re: Badass flowers William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 17:41 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-31 04:09 -0700
Re: Badass flowers William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 13:43 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-01 07:38 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-09-01 08:08 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-31 14:14 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2015-08-31 14:55 -0700
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-09-02 17:17 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> - 2015-09-03 01:56 +0000
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-09-03 15:25 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2015-08-31 14:46 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-30 16:58 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-30 17:09 -0700
Re: Badass flowers lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 18:01 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-30 19:26 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-30 20:12 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-31 04:10 -0700
Re: Badass flowers William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 13:53 -0400
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-09-02 17:20 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-09-02 17:35 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-31 22:38 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-09-01 05:11 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-09-01 14:07 -0400
Re: Badass flowers goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2015-09-02 05:18 +0000
Re: Badass flowers William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 02:44 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-30 21:18 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-30 19:25 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-31 03:25 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 11:11 +0200
Re: Badass flowers Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-26 09:01 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-08-26 15:01 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-30 03:37 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-26 14:59 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-26 03:25 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-23 23:31 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 07:09 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-24 02:02 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-24 02:59 -0600
Re: Badass flowers Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-24 03:14 -0600
Re: Badass flowers nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2015-08-24 12:11 +0000
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-24 18:50 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-24 22:06 -0400
Re: Badass flowers wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-24 22:27 -0400
Re: Badass flowers "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-24 22:54 -0400
Re: Badass flowers Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2015-08-24 22:42 -0700
Re: Badass flowers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-24 19:01 -0700
Re: Badass flowers nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2015-08-26 18:47 +0000
Re: Badass flowers JRStern <JRStern@foobar.invalid> - 2015-08-26 16:36 -0700
Re: Badass flowers "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> - 2015-09-03 01:34 +0000
Re: Badass flowers JRStern <JRStern@foobar.invalid> - 2015-09-03 16:55 -0700
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| From | Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 02:09 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <d401plFdejdU3@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #420951 |
Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote: >"Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198@pants.btinternet.com> wrote: > >>The fields of reflecting sunflowers in Ringworld that concentrated sunlight >>onto any flying object, and fried it to a crisp. > >Also on Silvereyes. http://larryniven.wikia.com/wiki/Silvereyes >(Niven has put this short story up on the web somewhere, but a quick >google didn't find it for me.) http://www.larryniven.net/stories/color_of_sunfire.shtml -- We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.
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| From | ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 17:11 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <d3ud5pFsc1U3@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #420864 |
In article <MPG.304397bec2bcfc88989ace@news.eternal-september.org>, J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there? >I know about the Triffids, and >Audrey, but are there any others? There's Herby from "The Piecemakers" by Laumer. Possibly something from Boyd's _The Polinators of Eden_, but I could never get more than a few pages into that. There were the seeds from Mars that brought down the Iterloo in a GA classic whose name I can't dredge up. Arguably Foster's _Midworld_. -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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| From | David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 13:01 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <5bOdnbuvA6Dil0fInZ2dnUU7-emdnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
| In reply to | #420879 |
On 2015-08-23, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote: > J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >>Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there? >>I know about the Triffids, and >>Audrey, but are there any others? > > There's Herby from "The Piecemakers" by Laumer. > > Possibly something from Boyd's _The Polinators of Eden_, but > I could never get more than a few pages into that. > > There were the seeds from Mars that brought down the Iterloo > in a GA classic whose name I can't dredge up. > > Arguably Foster's _Midworld_. The Trenconian tumbleweeds and other flora, in the Lensman series. There's various descriptions of nasty fauna in the Eastern quadrant of Creation in White Wolf's Exalted series, including the incredibly creepy Forest of Arms, one small (relatively) area where _everything_ living is deadly poisonous, and a glass-type forest with extreme slashing damage danger. Exalted's Malfeas, the exile-dimension/demon-king-turned-inside-out, also has no natural vegetation, but has things like the metallic forest that is the Yozi (elder demon, formerly a Primordial) Szoreny, with sundry hazards involved. Dave -- \/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> http://gatekeeper.vic.com/~dbd/ -net.legends/Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
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| From | Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 15:44 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <9bf17068-6dce-4db1-ad5b-01ef1251b3d7@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420879 |
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 12:11:25 PM UTC-5, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: > J. Clarke wrote: > > > > > >Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there? > >I know about the Triffids, and > >Audrey, but are there any others? > > There's Herby from "The Piecemakers" by Laumer. > > Possibly something from Boyd's _The Polinators of Eden_, but > I could never get more than a few pages into that. > > There were the seeds from Mars that brought down the Iterloo > in a GA classic whose name I can't dredge up. > > Arguably Foster's _Midworld_. > -- > ------ > columbiaclosings.com > What's not in Columbia anymore.. The Itorloo story is "Seeds of the Dusk" by Raymond Z. Gallun. For further fierce flowers see the orchid in "Green Thoughts" by John Collier, the Floran in "Metamorphosite" by Eric Frank Russell, the antholoby _Dangerous Vegetables_.
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| From | Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 16:03 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <513ae48f-4d3a-44a9-b537-18cf7c9503c7@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420917 |
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 5:44:12 PM UTC-5, Butch Malahide wrote: > On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 12:11:25 PM UTC-5, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: > > J. Clarke wrote: > > > > > > > > >Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there? > > >I know about the Triffids, and > > >Audrey, but are there any others? > > > > There's Herby from "The Piecemakers" by Laumer. > > > > Possibly something from Boyd's _The Polinators of Eden_, but > > I could never get more than a few pages into that. > > > > There were the seeds from Mars that brought down the Iterloo > > in a GA classic whose name I can't dredge up. > > > > Arguably Foster's _Midworld_. > > -- > > ------ > > columbiaclosings.com > > What's not in Columbia anymore.. > > The Itorloo story is "Seeds of the Dusk" by Raymond Z. Gallun. > > For further fierce flowers see the orchid in "Green Thoughts" by > John Collier, the Floran in "Metamorphosite" by Eric Frank Russell, > the antholoby _Dangerous Vegetables_. Oops, EFR's Floran is a flower but is not especially scary, it's the Terran that's scary. Never mind! Oh, "antholoby" was supposed to be "anthology".
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 10:24 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <09dfbf92-8c9f-4580-891d-707eac671f24@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420864 |
All the wildlife in Harry Harrison's _Deathworld_ is, as the title implies, deadly, including plants. But I don't recall any specifics. I think Star Trek episodes "The Apple" and "The Way to Eden" both include difficult plants, including a flower with projectile thorns in "The Apple", but I don't know how they make it into James Blish's short-story versions. "This Side of Paradise" also has a notable role for flowers. I think it's the first time that Spock gets a romantic storyline. (Maybe the people in the "Eden" episode should have just gone to the "Paradise" planet. They'd have got on much better, and it's not like they'd be a great loss to society.) The series starting with _The Deathworms of Kratos_ includes various nasty vegetation. I think there's something in there that's rather like a pitcher plant except that it pitches you into its "stomach" itself using prehensile vines. I think the planet-provers go around tossing grenades in to blow them up.
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| From | David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 12:55 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <5bOdnbmvA6CUlEfInZ2dnUU7-emdnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
| In reply to | #420864 |
On 2015-08-23, J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: > Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there? > I know about the Triffids, and > Audrey, but are there any others? Schmitz's Grandpa would probably qualify. The Discworld has some rather deadly-type plants and flowers... currently reading through the Discworld fanfic of one A.A. Pessimal, which focuses mainly on the Assassin's Guild, and one of the original characters introduced is a Mrs. Davinia Bellamy, who received an invitation to join the Guild [*] as a Mature Candidate. She was a florist and botanist, and discovered _after_ she'd gotten married and had three kids and a career that her floral knowledge could be used to ... help out ... the odd battered wife, or woman married to a child-abuser, or the like. In rather permanent and unexpected ways. Unexpected by the husband and Watch, anyway. Dave [*] No pressure, no coercion, answer freely and of our own will, it's just that if you answer "no" you're aware that Sir Samuel Vimes and his merry crew are waiting to take you in and introduce you to a rather unpleasant legal consequence... -- \/David DeLaney posting thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> http://gatekeeper.vic.com/~dbd/ -net.legends/Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
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| From | "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 14:33 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <emkp59lt7duf$.1nad0z6x3r2zr$.dlg@40tude.net> |
| In reply to | #420864 |
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:42:23 -0400, "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in<news:MPG.304397bec2bcfc88989ace@news.eternal-september.org> in rec.arts.sf.written: [...] > Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal > flowers are there? I know about the Triffids, and > Audrey, but are there any others? There’s some truly vicious vegetation in David Drake’s _Redliners_. The ‘weeds’ in Graydon Saunders’s Commonweal novels are even worse. I don’t recall the details, but at some point Zelazny’s Dilvish was almost killed by some flowers. There’s Tolkien’s Old Man Willow. Brian -- It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their holes to root for sandtatties. The waves whispered rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss, haggisss.
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| From | "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 15:04 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <MPG.3043e33f93ee6ff3989ad4@news.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #420887 |
In article <emkp59lt7duf$.1nad0z6x3r2zr$.dlg@40tude.net>, b.scott@csuohio.edu says... > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:42:23 -0400, "J. Clarke" > <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote > in<news:MPG.304397bec2bcfc88989ace@news.eternal-september.org> > in rec.arts.sf.written: > > [...] > > > Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal > > flowers are there? I know about the Triffids, and > > Audrey, but are there any others? > > There?s some truly vicious vegetation in David Drake?s > _Redliners_. The ?weeds? in Graydon Saunders?s Commonweal > novels are even worse. While I've read a bit of Drake I never read Redliners, and don't know Saunders at all. > > I don?t recall the details, but at some point Zelazny?s > Dilvish was almost killed by some flowers. There?s > Tolkien?s Old Man Willow. While they aren't exactly flowers, the Ents once they make up their minds to actually do something are certainly badass enough.
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| From | "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> |
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| Date | 2015-08-25 16:25 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <v27riart1edq.g4crood8z4fj$.dlg@40tude.net> |
| In reply to | #420887 |
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:33:29 -0400, "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote in<news:emkp59lt7duf$.1nad0z6x3r2zr$.dlg@40tude.net> in rec.arts.sf.written: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:42:23 -0400, "J. Clarke" > <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote > in<news:MPG.304397bec2bcfc88989ace@news.eternal-september.org> > in rec.arts.sf.written: > [...] >> Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal >> flowers are there? I know about the Triffids, and >> Audrey, but are there any others? > There’s some truly vicious vegetation in David Drake’s > _Redliners_. The ‘weeds’ in Graydon Saunders’s Commonweal > novels are even worse. > I don’t recall the details, but at some point Zelazny’s > Dilvish was almost killed by some flowers. There’s > Tolkien’s Old Man Willow. Then there are the exceedingly vicious carnivorous flora of Hell in Ann Bishop’s Black Jewels setting, seen, for instance, in ‘The Prince of Ebon Rih’. Brian -- It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their holes to root for sandtatties. The waves whispered rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss, haggisss.
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| From | patmpowers@gmail.com |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 12:14 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <755e67fa-bb59-424d-810d-f4cb51cb134f@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420864 |
A few years back there was a movie in which the trees emitted a poisonous gas. The Wall Street Journal wrote that this was a silly plot: why didn't they just us 2,4D to kill all the trees? I thought that that WSJ review was the stupidest thing I'd ever read. How long would the human race last once all the trees were gone? I never read that newspaper again.
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| From | Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 16:24 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <55da5617$0$1646$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> |
| In reply to | #420894 |
On 8/23/2015 12:14 PM, patmpowers@gmail.com wrote: > A few years back there was a movie in which the trees emitted a poisonous gas. The Wall Street Journal wrote that this was a silly plot: why didn't they just us 2,4D to kill all the trees? > > I thought that that WSJ review was the stupidest thing I'd ever read. How long would the human race last once all the trees were gone? I never read that newspaper again. > The Happening. The movie was stupider than you feel the WSJ review was. -- Veni, vidi, snarki.
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 13:39 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <c23d7ec9-53df-47ed-a36c-bbb8ab36879e@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420894 |
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:14:16 UTC+1, patmp...@gmail.com wrote: > A few years back there was a movie in which the trees emitted a poisonous gas. The Wall Street Journal wrote that this was a silly plot: why didn't they just us 2,4D to kill all the trees? > > I thought that that WSJ review was the stupidest thing I'd ever read. How long would the human race last once all the trees were gone? I never read that newspaper again. I suppose some trees were saved that way. I think dissatisfaction with the film was widespread, but, on that particular point, it isn't practical - and probably isn't fast enough - to poison the trees while they are actively trying to poison you. I seem to remember some sharp-tongued flowers maybe in _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. Somewhere in the Harry Dresden books, there's a lively encounter with an entire aggressive garden, but I don't remember which book, and I just ended up reading all of them at once... ...hang on, isn't there an episode, a different one I think, where something like Swamp Thing chases him round and round a hardware store with a gardening department...
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 13:57 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <3189aa04-5a29-45e4-a264-4a64f246ba80@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420993 |
And if we haven't had John Varley's _Titan_ and sequels - I don't in fact remember what the vegetation was like, but, given the setup, it was probably... purposeful.
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| From | William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-25 13:11 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <mri7ge$mid$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #420994 |
Robert Carnegie wrote: > And if we haven't had John Varley's _Titan_ and sequels - > I don't in fact remember what the vegetation was like, > but, given the setup, it was probably... purposeful. So far as I remember, even though Titan was a world completely engineered by an intelligence, vegetation was a static part of the setting. The only plant I remember is that the world-alien was manufacturing cocaine.
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| From | Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-23 16:33 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <57b27c6a-6c19-4e8d-ab53-f1c6ed7f296b@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420864 |
On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 6:37:30 AM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote: > Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there? > I know about the Triffids, and > Audrey, but are there any others? Lovecraft's Elder Things are supposed to be plant based. You might count them.
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| From | David Johnston <David@block.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 10:16 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <mrfftj$d7v$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #420925 |
On 8/23/2015 5:33 PM, Shawn Wilson wrote: > On Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 6:37:30 AM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote: > > >> Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there? >> I know about the Triffids, and >> Audrey, but are there any others? > > > Lovecraft's Elder Things are supposed to be plant based. You might count them. > They aren't plant based. They're a whole different kingdom.
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| From | Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 01:29 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <20150823c@crcomp.net> |
| In reply to | #420864 |
J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Incentivized by the threat of a $127,000 a year fine from the lawn
> police (no, I am not joking) and enabled by my new job although it meant
> spending money that I had intended for something that to anyone other
> than the lawn police would be more urgent, I obtained a large powerful
> new lawnmower and started doing battle with the yard.
>
> All was going well until I discovered, to my joy and dismay, that I have
> been invaded by Rugosa Roses, aka Killer Attack Roses.
>
> Joy because they have always fascinated me. Dismay because I have to
> deal with them.
>
> I had read about them but never encountered them personally. There was
> an innocuous looking clump of brambles in the middle of the yard. I
> drove my charger, all 900 pounds of it (including me) at the beast, 22
> horses screaming defiance, and stalled. I restarted, backed up, hit it
> again, stalled. So I tried going at it incrementally. It hooked onto
> the drive belt for the mower, pulled that off, grabbed me, and hauled me
> out of the saddle, missing blinding me by a half inch in the process.
> Once I detached myself I took inventory and realized that I looked like
> I had gone a couple of rounds with this cat
> <https://catmacros.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/this-cat/>.
>
> So, far as I'm concerned, the roses are flowers in flowerbeds and if the
> damned lawn police don't like it they're welcome to discuss the matter
> with the roses and bad cess to them.
>
> Now, that led me to wonder, what truly badass SFanal flowers are there?
> I know about the Triffids, and
> Audrey, but are there any others?
For clarities sake, there's "The Day of the Triffids" by Wyndham. And
there's a plant named Audrey Jr in the "Little Shop of Horrors" movie.
As to your question, it seems that nobody mentioned the flora of Pyrrus
[1] yet.
Note.
1. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28346
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,-. There was a young lady named Bright
\_/ Whose speed was far faster than light;
{|||)< Don Kuenz KB7RPU She set out one day
/ \ In a relative way
`-' And returned on the previous night.
What you do speaks so loud that I can not hear what you say. - Emerson.
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| From | "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 01:04 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <47pj1ddz1a3z$.1xof27m5v1erm$.dlg@40tude.net> |
| In reply to | #420931 |
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:29:14 +0000 (UTC), Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote in<news:20150823c@crcomp.net> in rec.arts.sf.written: [...] > As to your question, it seems that nobody mentioned the > flora of Pyrrus [1] yet. Mentioned by Robert Carnegie eight hours before you. [...] Brian -- It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their holes to root for sandtatties. The waves whispered rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss, haggisss.
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| From | Stephen Harker <sjharker@netspace.net.au> |
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| Date | 2015-08-24 17:56 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <87fv39ktks.fsf@howitt.home> |
| In reply to | #420942 |
"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> writes: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:29:14 +0000 (UTC), Don Kuenz > <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote in<news:20150823c@crcomp.net> in > rec.arts.sf.written: > > [...] > >> As to your question, it seems that nobody mentioned the >> flora of Pyrrus [1] yet. > > Mentioned by Robert Carnegie eight hours before you. One I haven't seen mentioned is most of the vegetation in _Hothouse_ by Brian Aldiss. Likely it has been mentioned and I missed it. -- Stephen Harker s.harker@adfa.edu.au PEMS http://sjharker.customer.netspace.net.au/ UNSW@ADFA
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