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The contents of the Spindizzy page were merged into Cities in Flight on 1 October 2022. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
I think the connection between his flying, space bound cities is definitely a source of inspiration for the city-ships of the ancients, the picture of them on the book cover looks strikingly like the TV series depiction and this should be notable enough for mention. --Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Waalk (talk o contribs) 01:34, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
this article totally ignores the historigraphic nature of the the planning of the books * which is explicit in the appendix * the novels trace historic trends that are closely analogous with actual events * 184.74.94.228 (talk) 21:58, 24 August 2013 (UTC) grump
I just read the book and the plot summary presented here seems to be a bit jumbled up. But then again, it points out differences in different versions of the novel, so the plot may actually be correct for a different version from the one that I read (SF Masterworks).
Again, it's well possible that the plot is correct for other, or the original version of the novel (or its constituting short stories). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.149.232.211 (talk) 14:07, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Bindlestiff is used here to refer to a city that robs or otherwise attacks another city - like a hobo robbing another hobo's bindle, and is considered here to be anathema. New York (technically) becomes a bindlestiff when they deliberately collide with (IIRC) "Lincoln-Nevada" (the Vegan Orbital Fort) to prevent it attacking Earth. In what articles I've seen on hobos, it seems to just mean a hobo that uses a bindle, with no negative connotation, but in Time Enough for Love, Heinlein has the protagonist pretending to be a hobo (and seemingly having spent time as one, from his familiarity with it), and discretely disposing of his original clothes once changed into local ones, as he doesn't want to be taken for a bindle stiff. Anyone got any info on this? Philculmer (talk) 08:39, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
Should include the 2D explosives (where the blast force spreads only in a plane), used in the Acolyte city graveyard... AnonMoos (talk) 09:58, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
The article says "in other words, the colliding universes will end in a transition in between the Big Bang and Big Crunch." This is poorly written. (a) The transition must be the other way around. (b) The notions of Big Bang and Big Crunch don't seem to be accurate descriptions of a collision of universes. Zaslav (talk) 18:16, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
I've serious concerns whether Spindizzy is notable enough for a stand-alone article; my BEFORE shows a few mentions in passing but nothing very substantial. Instead of trial by fire at AfD I'd suggest merge and redirect this here. Thoughts? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:46, 2 September 2021 (UTC)