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Name shorteningI hate overly familiar name shortening when you have only just met someone. Specially at work.
Alt Q: Chocky or Day of the Triffids.
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Oooh good choices.John Wyndham is superb.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 14:46,
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Although Day of the triffids is pretty much responsible for every zombie storyespecially if it involves waking up in a hospital.
I'm sure you can forgive him.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 14:49,
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Romero, you've done it again!(
Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 14:52,
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Lacistand so on
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 15:03,
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It's probably the best John Wyndham bookall the others suffer from his inability to come up with a good ending.
Apart from the Midwich Cuckoos, which is pretty good.
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I re-read both this year and really enjoyed them.Science fiction but not too geeky.
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