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30th September 08, 07:41 AM
#21
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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30th September 08, 01:27 PM
#22
Originally Posted by thoth51
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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30th September 08, 02:08 PM
#23
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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30th September 08, 02:34 PM
#24
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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30th September 08, 11:14 PM
#25
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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1st October 08, 05:26 AM
#26
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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2nd October 08, 02:04 PM
#27
Big SciFi fan. Star Trek, everything but Voyager....just could not get into that series, Star Wars, Dune, and the New Battlestar Galactica.
"I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings."
From High Flight, a poem by
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
412 Squadron, RCAF
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2nd October 08, 10:07 PM
#28
Katherine Kurtz's "The Adept" series (set in present day Scotland) has numerous kilted characters, including her hero, Adam Sinclair.
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