Originally Posted by kb2vxa
Pity that Steven Donaldson's Gap series is not included there....To my mind it was one of the best sci-fi works I have read in years....I am an avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy and have read most of those listed...I actually have a hardback library of many of the mentioned author's...I used to collect most of the better writers works..These days I always look through the bookshops and note anything new and get it from the library...
Bob..VK3ZL..
Anyone here read Jack L. Chalker?
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Heh. I used to use "Nathan Brazil" as an alias on the net in a few places. ;)
About half of his stuff... his earliest chronologically. He really got into the premise of a book "series".
So, backatcha... David Brin's Uplift series? Anyone?
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
That's the one about Wonderbras, right?
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Now that's a name I haven't come across for quite awhile. I was sorry to hear he passed on a few years back. (Congestive heart failure)
I really enjoyed Midnight at the Well of Souls, but the sequels... no.
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
"The 2020 election wasn't stolen, and speaking the truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants" - Liz Cheney
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
All I wanted was a Fluxwife but I ended up with a Morgaine who thinks she's Matson... :roll:
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
'm telling 'DSG what you said, you naughty boy. (Or does she already know this?)
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
"The 2020 election wasn't stolen, and speaking the truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants" - Liz Cheney
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
She would if she'd read those paperbacks I have on hand but I get the feeling that Chalker would be classed a sexist arsehole less than one chapter in...and wouldn't merit further consideration.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
I didn't see "The Martian Way" by Issac Asimov, nor did I see "2001: A Space Odessey" by Arthur C. Clarke, both excellent. While I'm a trekker, I didn't see any of the many pulp Star Trek books which would easily qualify under Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
Noting: NOTHING from Harlan Ellison? NOTHING from Frederick Pohl?
Something fishy here and it ain't Bachmann's knickers either.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
I was personally pleased to see my favorite author, Stephen King, represented twice. His "Dark Tower" series was an interesting, but frustrating read, as he spent quite a while completing the story due to the accident he suffered when he was hit by a van. Many fans were disappointed by the ending, but I thought it was vintage King, and expected no less.
"The Stand" was an excellent read, but the mini-series, produced for TV, was hideous.
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