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Loving the Byron picture! Heh!

Indeed..and Chaucer.

Treece wrote: "Loving the Byron picture! Heh!"

This is Byron? The interwebz says it's Keats. Liars!!!!

Sud666 wrote: "Indeed..and Chaucer."

...and don't forget virtual sex and sexbots...

Is this good though? I have been wanting to read/listen to it.

I'm around 75 - 80% in and I would say it's worth a read. Not all the tales are gold - The Scholar's tale is the best - but they're all entertaining.

Also, with a lot of scifi that I've read, it starts slow until you get up to speed with the jargon and scifi trappings. Still...

Jeff wrote: "Treece wrote: "Loving the Byron picture! Heh!"

This is Byron? The interwebz says it's Keats. Liars!!!!"

It's def. Byron. He was much-depicted, being considered a hottie in his time.

Thanks, for the clarification Miriam! They all look like a bunch of fops that probably would have had to endure daily wedgies in gym class and had their lunch money stolen.

Blake probably scared most bullies off by babbling about demons and the end times and his cat.

Jeff, this was published 1989, and the genre has mutated a lot since, think Yoon Ha Lee and Sisters of the Vast Black, for example. The Hyperion sequence is still an influential classic, and has helped shaped modern SF.
Did someone on this thread say Byron is 'hot'?

Mir wrote: "Blake probably scared most bullies off by babbling about demons and the end times and his cat."

I think I dated his female counterpart...

Gerhard wrote: "Jeff, this was published 1989, and the genre has mutated a lot since, think Yoon Ha Lee and Sisters of the Vast Black, for example. The Hyperion sequence is still an influential classic, and has he..."

I'm enjoying it. SciFi isn't normally a go to so it's all new to me. :)

Byron? Hot? It wasn't me.

Jeff wrote: "Mir wrote: "Blake probably scared most bullies off by babbling about demons and the end times and his cat."

I think I dated his female counterpart..."

Did she read you a poem about her cat?

A poem about the end times that her demonically possessed cat dictated to her.

I once had someone recite me some poems about Anne Widdicombe's cats; but that was a university professor (he livened up his lectures with Five Minute Hate Sessions on public figures; it was a simpler time).

Poems about cats!? I have a hard enough time with those creepy talking cat videos.

Jeff wrote: "A poem about the end times that her demonically possessed cat dictated to her."

Did it rhyme?

Wastrel wrote: "I once had someone recite me some poems about Anne Widdicombe's cats; but that was a university professor (he livened up his lectures with Five Minute Hate Sessions on public figures; it was a simp..."

Ann Widdicombe's cat poetry is embarrassing. You know, empathic cringe-inducing? Except she did name her cat Pugwash and for that she deserves to be shamed.

The rest of her writing just looks dull.

Wait ... there's cat poetry!? Aw!

Dark Satanic Mills, cats. Blake was diverse.

Mir wrote: "Jeff wrote: "A poem about the end times that her demonically possessed cat dictated to her."

Did it rhyme?"

As if that would make a difference. It's still poetry. ;)

There once were some poems about cats,
But Jeff did not want any of that,
So he ran for a comic,
Because poems are demonic,
Excepting Doctor Seuss
And jokey haikus,
And doggerel ending in splat.

LOL!

Well done, Miriam!!

Thanks, Mir, for showing those pictures. Yes, Jeff's picture is Byron. Don't feel bad, Jeff! According to all accounts, he was totally unromantic, well, downright nasty, to women.

I can't even tell the difference between the Kardashians, let alone old tyme British poets...

Byron, was indeed, a real piece of work.