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@alia that’s very interesting. I may read those books some time… ;P

@alia Well, they were written in the nineties, right?  So it’s set forty years in the future, from when he predicted the stuff.  It’s a lot closer now, and that’s why I’m impressed with how well he depicted what the future would be like.  And we might actually have our first female president around 2040. 😉

@alia Okay, so the Mars Diaries are basically the exact same as the Robot Wars, but with different names.  You know that, right? 😉  There are ten Mars Diaries, and the Robot Wars combines two in each book.  They were published as ten books first, then I guess people forgot about them and they decided to republish them and combine them so there wo…[Read more]

@rochellaine, oops, didn’t see the first part of your post.

I have noticed that. I love it when the futuristic books are realistic with what might happen. Especially when they are only set a few years into the future.

@rochellaine, Robot Wars. I haven’t had the chance to read Mars Diaries yet, but I wan to.

I keep trying to get a friend of mine to read them, but she has a huge list of books to read already and she keeps going back to her favorites so I don’t think she is going to get around to them anytime soon

My mom got us the first one to see if we would…[Read more]

@alia Something I find interesting about them is that the author was basically spot on with what technology we’d have by 2040.  They’re making cars that can drive themselves with GPS; tracker chips are in wide use already; you can control robots with your brain.  It’s all getting real.  Have you noticed that?

I was at a homeschool conference in…[Read more]

@rochellaine, I’ve read them, and love them. I kinda claimed the family copy of book one for myself since I own the rest of the series. 🙂

I actually based this book idea on a mixture of those books and Ender’s Game. (just saying, I don’t really like the ender’s game book or movie but the movie provided some cool visual ideas).

@alia Oh, I absolutely love the Mars Diaries/Robot Wars by Sigmund Brouwer!  Have you ever read them?  They have basically the exact same premise.  If you haven’t read them, you definitely should!!

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I just put up another blog post today! Don’t worry, I won’t tag you every time I post, I just wanted to let y’all know. For some reason the email sent out that was supposed to notify of new posts only sent out one and not…[Read more]

@rochellaine, Its a sci-fi/dystopian story. The world has been at war for several decades. One of the groups goes around secretly testing kids and then kidnapping the smart ones at 9 to fight as their soldiers. At first the kids think it is a computer simulation until they realize that the bots they are controlling are actually killing. But if…[Read more]

@catwing, I’m pretty excited about this one, but because it deals with a lot of psychology and medical things I have to do a ton of research

@alia Hey!  What’s the idea?

@catwing That’s good. 🙂

@rochellaine Hello! I’m doing pretty well. My book is coming along, I may even write some today. (If I finish getting these wrinkles out of this outline.) 😛

@alia Oh, how fun! New book ideas can be intriguing, or distracting… ;P

@catwing, @rochellaine, I’m here outlining and researching a new book idea

@catwing I’m here!  How are you doing?

@rochellaine @seekjustice @jenwriter17 @dekreel @alia @sam-kowal
I am rewriting on my book. Anyone else here?

@seekjustice The long list of books to read… *shakes head* I know exactly what you mean.

Yes, so if something happens, you should have plenty of time to warn us.  Can I trust you to do so? 😛

(There are definitely people that uneducated.  I’ve seen lots of similarly ridiculous quotes. 😛 )

I’m going to say goodnight now.  Talk to you later!

@seekjustice Ah, I see. 🙂  Irrational fears always seem to be the worst.

It’s been a while since I read most of Henty’s books (we have the full collection, or possibly minus one or two) and I don’t remember that one well.  I think it wasn’t one of my favorites.  I have three favorites, and one of those three was the one on the French Re…[Read more]

@seekjustice “tyrannical rule of the Shetland ponies?” Haha!  Sounds intriguing.  In what manner, exactly, are ponies tyrannical?

Which book do you have?  Oh, well, the one I was referring to is Dale Robertson.  He’s not far above a lot of other favorite actors I have, but he’s the one I’ve “picked” to be at the top of the list right now. 😛 …[Read more]

@seekjustice I was just reading where Chessy disapproves of Justice’s methods of trickery and bribery, but for some reason doesn’t disapprove of his plan to kill people… 😛 Yeah, I know that’s not really what’s going on, but it just reminded me of this: