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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:51 am

Nope!
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Bella Fortuna wrote:Nope!
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:59 am

Am I going to open my door one day and find that staring back at me? :o
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PS - You haz hair - OMG! :panic:
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Bella Fortuna wrote:PS - You haz hair - OMG! :panic:
I'm in the lazy zone. It's starting to bug me so it's not long for this world.
Bella Fortuna wrote:Am I going to open my door one day and find that staring back at me? :o
And there will be a nice gentleman in a black suit standing just out of sight, narrating the next events. :pop:
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:03 am

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Bella Fortuna wrote:PS - You haz hair - OMG! :panic:
I'm in the lazy zone. It's starting to bug me so it's not long for this world.
Bella Fortuna wrote:Am I going to open my door one day and find that staring back at me? :o
And there will be a nice gentleman in a black suit standing just out of sight, narrating the next events. :pop:
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:08 am

:shock:

:funny:

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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Red Celt » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:25 am

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Have you read every single Anne McCaffrey too many times, young lady? :toetap: If not, get on it.
Oh, Zilla... come kiss me, damn it! Reading Killashandra re-ignited my interest in books. It was an impulse buy in a newsagent... which was a shame, because if I'd stopped to ponder, I might have seen that it was book 2 after The Crystal Singer.

If you read all the Pern books with the Kate Bush discography (the earlier years, prior to The Sensual World) on repeat loop... you're reliving a few months of my teenage years.

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Every other book, I've only read once.
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:27 am

I read the Pern novels as they came out. Kate hadn't emerged from that bush yet.
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:28 am

Much as I adore Kate Bush :drool:... I'm not sold on McCaffrey, from what I've looked at on Amazon. Maybe I'm judging too harshly...
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:34 am

Bella, I will include a disk or two with a few books on it. ~750, all scifi, all sorted by the authors. When you get them we'll discuss when ones you might like. Junior will like some of the, I think, if he's into scifi.
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:36 am

Make that about 650.
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Red Celt » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:56 am

Given the above conversation, this might be controversial, but I stopped reading Heinlein books. Each time, he seemed to be working his own personal fetishes/lusts into his stories which would have caught the attention of any psychologist.

(reading a Heinlein book) ...oh, look, he's going to sleep with his own mother again... (puts Heinlein book down and picks up some Asimov)

This thread was started a while back, but if you're still interested in Sci-Fi recommendations, I can offer a few. I mainly stuck to fantasy, back-in-the-day, but strayed into Sci-Fi from time to time - so I'm not an aficionado.

My favourite author is Iain Banks. He also writes Sci-Fi as Iain M Banks. His Culture books in particular are utterly awesome. They are separate stories, so don't need to be read in any sequence... however, Consider Phlebas needs to be read before all of the others in order to appreciate the "twist". Try that one book out. If you like it, read the rest. It is how Sci-Fi should be written.

As for the classics, Asimov's robot series are incredibly good. Sometimes, you don't realise that it is a "robot" book until one is surprisingly revealed as one of the characters. I adored Asimov's Foundation series. I think it was a trilogy, but one or more was added later... but read the first book to see if you like it.

Already mentioned, but Ursula k LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy/quadrilogy(?) was incredibly good. Although that was fantasy, not Sci-Fi. Her only Sci-Fi book that I've read was The Dispossessed which (again) has already been mentioned. A fascinating book that any so-called "anarchist" would do well to read, before applying that label to themselves.

A particular favourite is the Brian Aldiss Heliconia trilogy. Not only is it an impressive Sci-Fi series, it also portrays how a religion is formed based on a character who was very humanly ordinary and not even remotely "religious". There's a lesson there for some theists.

I hope that's given you a few extra ideas for your reading list. Like Zilla, I leech eBooks and have a considerable "library" on my PC. Not all of which are Kindle compatible, mind (if that's what you're reading them on).
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:56 am

:o Christ, Zilla!

Thank you! :td:
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Re: SF for the Non-SF Fan

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:57 am

Bella Fortuna wrote::o Christ, Zilla!

Thank you! :td:
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