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    Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!

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    Image of Wyldemusick Wyldemusick
    11/18/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    Aha! But in the semi-distant future of my Analog story "Empty Barrels" they not only drink coffee, but the central characters of the story grow their own in tunnels on an icy planet. Indeed, as the assistant editor at the time noted, they drank enough of the stuff during the story that they could have reached orbit without a spaceship.

    My fantasy characters drink tea. Because, like me, they're genteel and cultured. Pass me my morningstar, I see vermin!
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    I'm more of a teapunk kinda guy myself.

    "Bud noticed they we're all making rather a big deal about the tea." #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    With the gfi vs tea bit, it might be that they're making a split between the product and the process? After all, I've seen many a thing marketed as 'tea' that's just the dried leaves of some plant that you'll steep in hot water.

    Mind you, though, according to some late 19th century sources, you can take the woodier parts of plants, roast them, and call that 'coffee'. vis: [www.make-stuff.com] #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @YoungWilliam: People still drink chicory coffee. But none of those things have the caffeine. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh yes! I was just doing a little thought-experiment that they might be equating coffee and/or tea with their processes instead of what goes in them. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    Holy flipping crap! Where did the Too Much Coffee Man image come from?

    And I know that it isn't far future, but in one of the Callahan's Saloon novels they have the Perfect Coffee Making Machine. Perhaps equaled by Agatha Heterodyne's first effort (before it was made safer): [www.girlgeniusonline.com] #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    In the future, coffee will come in cans and be carbonated. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    The characters in my future stories drink Crimson Bovine... #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    I'm already imagining wars that might have been fought over coffee had it been introduced to Europe before the middle ages. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    Not SF but fantasy - The Seanchan in Robert Jordan's Never-f**ing-ending Wheel of Time series drink "kaff," IIRC. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @Slightly Bigger Than Wee Jock But Not So Big as Middle-Sized Jock Jock: It'll end, it just won't be written by him.

    I started reading the new one the other day. I stopped after 5 pages, the new guys style just kept throwing me off. My mind kept telling me this couldn't be a WoT book.
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    11/17/09

    @Slightly Bigger Than Wee Jock But Not So Big as Middle-Sized Jock Jock: Your user name is longer than your comment -- but is such a good reference I approve. (good comment too) #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    The Mote books had coffee. Even a (very) minor subplot around Jamaica Blue Mountain, in theory the exclusive property of Imperial family. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @icelight: i like how one of the Moties messed around and made the best coffee machines ever...then that xenophobic business-mogul couldnt help but sell them and be even more afraid of them for it

    in the same co-dominion universe but different series, war world, i remember two peoples cementing an alliance by exchanging coffee beans and hops #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @Bress Tess Iz: That Mogul, Horace Bury, also hosted Koffe Klatsches for the Co-Do personell to try and get on better terms with his erstwhile captors. Niven also use Irish Coffee in many of his stories. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @Grey_Area: yep.....like beowulf's children.....another collabo with pournelle #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    in the future all coffee will be freeze dried or pre-ground and a small, underground, guerrilla movement of growers that produce only shade grown beans sold whole and only whole will have to fight for survival and i will be their leader. Vive la résistance! Vive le véritable espresso!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    In The Forever War, the common theme among the different time periods was bitching about the quality of the coffee/soya/ersatz coffee. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    Well, in Anne McCaffene's defense, klah was a bark, not a berry; and they went into how one of the first things an Exploration & Evaluation team did was find an indeginous coffee-equivalent. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @AmishJohn: Exactly. They prioritized finding a coffee-like substance right upon landing. These are people who know that to build a new civilization, you need caffeine. #annemccaffrey
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    In Orca, I think, Brust actually explains the process that goes into making klava, which is actually more like espresso than regular coffee. It also includes some kind of analogue for bagels. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @braak: Don't keep us in suspense, what was the analogue called? Also, klava sounds like a Klingon word. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Sadly, I can't remember. Klava I remember, norska (the analogue, I think, for rabbits), I remember, but not that one.

    There's a lot of weird crap to remember if you read Stephen Brust. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @braak: In one of the books he goes into the difference between klava and coffee and in the last one Vlad had to put up with drinking coffee while he was out with the easterners. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @Spaceboy: That's right! I think that's actually the part in Orca that I was thinking of, and the difference between klava and coffee is basically the difference between espresso and coffee, or something like that. #annemccaffrey
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    Image of CharlesRockyPamplin CharlesRockyPamplin
    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    what was that shit they used to drink on "Deep Space Nine"? Raktachino, or some shit?

    yeah, whatever, Star Trek. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @CharlesRockyPamplin: Raktajino was a Klingon way of preparing coffee. It was equivalent to ordering espresso, which is you know, coffee.
    There were also plenty of references to coffee in Star Trek. Kirk didn't wig out about the tribbles until he ordered a cup of coffee and a sandwich and got tribble in his coffee cup. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @cletar:
    Computer, tea, Earl Grey, hot. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @cletar: Who can forget him being so aghast, holding up his cup and going full-Shat?

    If I'm captaining a starship where no man has gone before, and fuzzy things start taking over my alertness-producing beverages, that's when I wig out too. #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.:
    "This. Is my. Chicken...salad. And...coffee. Spock! I want them..OFF the ship! I! Don't! Care what! it takes, I want them....Off! the Ship!" #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @cletar: Why am I somewhat unnerved at the thought of Klingons wired on espresso? #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @AmishJohn:
    Today is a good day to stay awake! #annemccaffrey
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    11/17/09

    @cletar: I was thinking more Brendan Fraiser with a tiretrack forehead going 'Javajavajavajavajavajavajava'
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!
    There was a Too Much Coffee Man *stage show*?

    Dear god, why did no one tell me? #annemccaffrey
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