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Quentin Meillassoux
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The Practical Illustrated Encyclopedia of 1001 Garden Questions Answered: Expert Solutions to Everyday Gardening Dilemmas, with an Easy-to-follow Directory and Over 850 Photographs and Illustrations
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This title includes succinct advice on site, aspect, soil, compost, lawns, fences, pruning,...
Qticket - Remote Queuing
Business and Productivity
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Waiting in lines is time consuming, but with Qticket you can save time by remotely taking a ticket. ...
*＊✿❀ Maki ❀✿＊* (7 KP) rated Questing Beast in Books
May 3, 2018
Questing Beast had an interesting enough premise, but it certainly would have benefited from being longer. There were several ideas and plots introduced in the thirty-some pages of this short story, but that wasn't exactly enough room for all of the ideas (or characters) to fully develop. Or, at least, develop beyond absolute basic information.
The overall plot of the story is that these scientists have to file their findings on a planet for...a scientific survey? Something along those lines. A virus somehow gets into their system, though, and completely destroys the data they've been gathering for the past two years.
The only possible back up is called Nannybot, and is also partially infected. The virus has Nannybot believe that it is Sir Pellinor, and it has to find the Questing Beast. If the scientists can make Nannybot think that it has caught the Questing Beast, then the virus can be overwritten, and the two years of data can be retrieved, saving the careers of everyone involved.
The Authurian elements of the story don't go much beyond the Questing Beast itself. The rest is the drama of the report being due, and the age-old implications of introducing foreign wildlife into ecosystems. Very Star Trek.
The overall plot of the story is that these scientists have to file their findings on a planet for...a scientific survey? Something along those lines. A virus somehow gets into their system, though, and completely destroys the data they've been gathering for the past two years.
The only possible back up is called Nannybot, and is also partially infected. The virus has Nannybot believe that it is Sir Pellinor, and it has to find the Questing Beast. If the scientists can make Nannybot think that it has caught the Questing Beast, then the virus can be overwritten, and the two years of data can be retrieved, saving the careers of everyone involved.
The Authurian elements of the story don't go much beyond the Questing Beast itself. The rest is the drama of the report being due, and the age-old implications of introducing foreign wildlife into ecosystems. Very Star Trek.
The Quentin Blake Treasury
Book
"The Quentin Blake Treasury" contains: "All Join In"; "Quentin Blake's Nursery Rhyme Book";...
Owlsley (0 KP) rated World of Warcraft in Video Games
Sep 16, 2017
massive game, multiple classes, millions of players, generally friendly people online, dungeons, raids, questing, pvp, arena, battlegrounds, pet battles you name anything a MMORPG should have