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    Another auld Heinlein fan here. Currently re-reading the Honor Harrington series by David Webber.
    "A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." anon

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    Quote Originally Posted by thoth51 View Post
    We don't usually associated web comics with good Sci-Fi, but this gets my vote:

    Schlock Mercenary

    Oy don't start including web comics or this thread will crash the server

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    Not much of a sci-fi reader, but I do get into historical fiction, especially if written in a series. Sounds very interesting, but on another note WAY COOL TARTAN!!!!!!!

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    I've read a lot of the classics...Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, though I STILL have not started the Foundation Triology.

    I'm more of a Fantasy nut, and picky about what I've read. I've read E.R. Eddingtons stuff, or *tried to* anyway...That's the Worm Ourobouros, the Mezentian Gate, that series.. I've read the Ghormenghast books, a whole, whole lot of Tolkien, several of the shorter works by William Morris, like the Well at the Worlds End and some other stuff. I've read at least *something* by all of the "Inklings"...the literary authros group that C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien belonged to, and that is saying something, ifyou've ever tried to read Charles Williams. I guess I'm a bit of a historian of the "Fantasy" genre, but I don't like what I consider to be fantasy rip-off trash, like the Shannara books by Terry Brooks.

    I really like a lot of Ursula Le Guin, and she bridges the Fantasy/Sci Fi gap pretty well. Is "Rocannons World" Fantasy, or Sci Fi?

    Anyway, I could go on all day.

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    I was brought up watching Star Trek and Star Wars and reading Heinlein and Aasimov.

    So, yes, I am a sci-fi fan of the old-school variety.

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    Well I picked up the first book in the series yesterday. You all had good things to say about it, so why not. Plus I live where it's set.

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    Big SciFi fan. Star Trek, everything but Voyager....just could not get into that series, Star Wars, Dune, and the New Battlestar Galactica.
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    Katherine Kurtz's "The Adept" series (set in present day Scotland) has numerous kilted characters, including her hero, Adam Sinclair.

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