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#206482 - 07/19/12 08:43 PM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	bexter! Lovely to see you again! How 'bout just calling them Cubloods, Cu being the symbol for copper? Or is that too close to J. K. Rowling's mudbloods?
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#206487 - 07/20/12 07:52 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	Faldage! Blasphenmy! haha Golden Age SF is wonderful...mmm I think that is probably a bit close to Rowling, which has been specified now as trying to keep as far away from as possible...clever though, I hadn't thought of that...ooops And it's lovely to be back _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#206489 - 07/20/12 08:23 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	Yes, Golden Age SF is wonderful, but it was written for a less sophisticated audience. Toss some China Miéville, or even someone as conservative as Samuel Delaney, at '40s sci-fi readers and they will come out with brain hemorrhages.
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#206490 - 07/20/12 11:02 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: Faldage]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	Golden Age SF is wonderful Ah yes, 'tis about time to reread Weinbaum's Martian Odyssey stories again ... _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#206493 - 07/20/12 03:33 PM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	I'm coming up on my seventh decennial reading of Pebble In The Sky.
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#206494 - 07/21/12 06:30 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	Case in point: I am reading Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. In the first chapter we are introduced to the society of independent asteroid miners in the Kuiper Belt. They have relatively closed groups of families who are spending, essentially, their whole lives in what amounts to a band level, maybe 80 or 90 people, all related to some degree or another. Marriage to anyone second cousin or closer is strictly forbidden. To marry someone in this forbidden group is referred to as dogging, the word being derived from endogamy. This etymology is explicitly pointed out in the text of the story. Later on in the chapter we get the word zogging with no accompanying explanation. We are expected to work it out for ourselves.
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#206498 - 07/22/12 10:28 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: Faldage]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1029 Loc: Lancaster, UK	The word that sprang to mind, when rreading through the first couple of posts of this thread, was cuprosanguine. Someone with "the wrong" blood type could be called acuprosanguine Assuming that the main purpose of the blood, in the WiP, is to carry oxygen to the body cells, then the cuprosangoids would have green blood, which would also affect their complexion, I guess. I believe they would have a greenish skin tone, rather than the pinkish tones of the ferrosangoids, making them immediately obvious - which might spoil the plot a little? BTW, I have a feeling that copper oxides are toxic: not that that matters, as the natural selction inherent in successful mutation would have dealt with that problem. [apologies to my creationist readers] _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#206517 - 07/27/12 08:24 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	Thanks, Rhuby, those are great _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#206532 - 07/29/12 06:39 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1029 Loc: Lancaster, UK	My pleasure! _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#206536 - 07/29/12 09:34 AM Re: Exsangue [Re: bexter]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	I agree... brilliant Ruby. The green blood carriers might synthesize Chlorophyll.
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