« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2]

Author Topic: Neanderthals ... They're Just Like Us?  (Read 2691 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Online Buster's Uncle

  • Geo's kind, I unwind, HE'S the
  • Planetary Overmind
  • *
  • Posts: 50553
  • €426
  • View Inventory
  • Send /Gift
  • Because there are times when people just need a cute puppy  Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur  A WONDERFUL concept, Unity - & a 1-way trip that cost 400 trillion & 40 yrs.  
  • AC2 is my instrument, my heart, as I play my song.
  • Planet tales writer Smilie Artist Custom Faction Modder Downloads Contributor AC2 Wiki contributor
    • View Profile
    • My Custom Factions
    • Awards
Re: Neanderthals ... They're Just Like Us?
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2012, 02:59:49 pm »
Huh.  I thought The Gold Bug was something of the first detective story...

That's a good idea about a Masque of the Red Death haunt.  Be tricky to stage the suspended burning, though, and also to do it safely.
Logged

Offline Unorthodox

  • The luckiest man alive and
  • The Thing in the Shadows
  • *
  • Posts: 9755
  • €2665
  • View Inventory
  • Send /Gift
  • You can never leave the Things in the Shadows behind...  You can never leave the Things in the Shadows behind...  You can never leave the Things in the Shadows behind...  You can never leave the Things in the Shadows behind...  
  • Halloween wierdo
  • AC2 Hall Of Fame
    • View Profile
    • An Unorthodox Halloween
    • Awards
Re: Neanderthals ... They're Just Like Us?
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2012, 05:47:52 pm »
Gold Bug? It's not much a detective story, but a treasure hunt, and you spend much of it wondering if the narrator is insane.  I guess "National Treasure" of it's time.  It's famous for the use of a cryptograph (IIRC there was a contest to anyone that could decipher it as well), however, and making cryptography popular. 
Logged

Online Buster's Uncle

  • Geo's kind, I unwind, HE'S the
  • Planetary Overmind
  • *
  • Posts: 50553
  • €426
  • View Inventory
  • Send /Gift
  • Because there are times when people just need a cute puppy  Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur  A WONDERFUL concept, Unity - & a 1-way trip that cost 400 trillion & 40 yrs.  
  • AC2 is my instrument, my heart, as I play my song.
  • Planet tales writer Smilie Artist Custom Faction Modder Downloads Contributor AC2 Wiki contributor
    • View Profile
    • My Custom Factions
    • Awards
Re: Neanderthals ... They're Just Like Us?
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2012, 06:29:18 pm »
I don't think I ever read that one, and may have been misled.

I don't think I've cracked open any non-poetry Poe in over 30 years.  The poetry has aged better because you expect a florid style with poetry.
Logged
Pages: 1 [2]
« previous next »
 

* User

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Select language:

* Community poll

What version of the game are you using now?
SMAC v.4 SMAX v.2 (or previous versions)
-=-
24 (7%)
XP Compatibility patch
-=-
9 (2%)
Gog version for Windows
-=-
105 (33%)
Scient (unofficial) patch
-=-
40 (12%)
Kyrub's latest patch
-=-
14 (4%)
Yitzi's latest patch
-=-
89 (28%)
AC for Mac
-=-
3 (0%)
AC for Linux
-=-
5 (1%)
Gog version for Mac
-=-
10 (3%)
No patch
-=-
16 (5%)
Total Members Voted: 315
AC2 Wiki Logo
-click pic for wik-

* Random quote

Time dilates as the speed of light approaches. To the extent that light consists of particles, it is in its own way, timeless. Through simple perturbations of the temporal manifold, we can refract or repel photons most efficiently.
~Academician Prokhor Zakharov 'Now We Are Alone'

* Select your theme

*
Templates: 5: index (default), PortaMx/Mainindex (default), PortaMx/Frames (default), Display (default), GenericControls (default).
Sub templates: 8: init, html_above, body_above, portamx_above, main, portamx_below, body_below, html_below.
Language files: 4: index+Modifications.english (default), TopicRating/.english (default), PortaMx/PortaMx.english (default), OharaYTEmbed.english (default).
Style sheets: 0: .
Files included: 47 - 1280KB. (show)
Queries used: 41.

[Show Queries]