On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Travis Butler wrote:

From:        Jeremy Blackman, ranma@eskimo.com

On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Travis Butler wrote:

adventure, if you can live with the pulp prose. David Brin and C.J. 
Cherryh write wonderful "mind-expanding" books, if you like doing a lot 
of thinking... Tolkein and Conan Doyle, of course... Lois McMaster 
Bujold... anyone want to read a page or two more? <g>

Cool...another Brin fan.  

Indeed. Wouldn't the Tymbrimi make interesting characters in the 
appropriate fanfic? (Though they'd be very tricky to handle, you'd have 
to get them just right to work... I rather doubt I could do it.) 

Incidentally, from what I can remember of Startide Rising (my fav. Brin 
book), the Tymbrimi sound a lot like Nabiki. Hmm....time to read the book 
again.

 Soun:"When he's a boy, she just wants him.  When he's a woman, she wants 
       him dead."
Ranma:"...salad sandwich, and soup bread.  Wait. Soup bread doesn't exist."  
Akane:"Pile up enough dust and you've got a mountain, right?"
"KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF SHAMPOO!!! *SLAM*" -Mousse, in full kick-ass mode
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