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Hello Foriest Jan Smith!
** On Thursday 08.05.25 - 02:14, Foriest Jan Smith wrote to All:
I've been getting into lots of older sci-fi stuff as of late (the old X Minus One serials, Jules Verne, some older sci-fi anthologies I own from the 70s and 80s (Machines That Think, edited by Isaac Asimov is what got me into sci-fi!), but I'm itching for more good stuff...
Dune [trilogy], by Herbert. The later stories are ok, but the
meat of the adventure is in the 1st three.
Brave New World, by Huxley.
Ringworld, by Niven.
Foriest Jan Smith wrote to Boraxman <=-
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Boraxman to Foriest Jan Smith
on Thu May 08 2025 20:26:00
Have you read much Arthur C Clarke? He probably is my favourite Sci
Fi Author. I'm sure you've also read Dune?
No, but I believe I've either read a few of his short stories or heard them on X Minus One. I've very much so been meaning to read Dune (after
I eventually start on the Metro series!).
... Back in my day, 56k was high speed!
Ringworld, by Niven.
*snip*
Did you read any or the Ringworld sequels? I read the next
one in the series, Ringworld Engineers. After that, not
sure if its worthwhile to continue on.
A great book, by Niven and Pournelle is "The Mote in God's
Eye". This was quite thought provoking and raised
questions about how our behaviour, our instincts doom us,
make us resigned to a paricular fate.
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Cougar428 to BORAXMAN on Fri May 09 2025 09:23 am
... Back in my day, 56k was high speed!
Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry,
couldn't help mysself.
Well - I guess I had it better, I had snow boots with holes in them so
I had to wear bread bags on both feet so my feet wouldn't get wet. You
got me beat!
Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry, couldn't help mysse
Old Heinlein is good, he's definitely got some odd personal perspectives
Frederick Pohl wrote a series around a future where mankind finds an
alien space station with lots of docked shuttles. People take the
shuttles out and either die horrible deaths or become wealthy if they
bring back scientific finds. Did I mention that they don't know how to operate the shuttles and are making instructions up as they go along?
There's a series of books called the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Bogomips to Cougar428 on Fri May 09 2025 10:56 am
Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry, couldn't help mysse
We didn't have these dang fangled "latex condoms". We just strapped a rabbit skin and tied it off with a bungee chord! Sure we couldn't feel
the other person or ourselves, but WE LIKED IT!
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Recommendations?
By: Ogg to Foriest Jan Smith on
Thu May 08 2025 08:44 pm
Dune [trilogy], by Herbert. The later stories are ok, but the
meat of the adventure is in the 1st three.
dune tattoo here on my bicep. anyways, those books get really really weird and convoluted.
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Cougar428 to BORAXMAN on
Fri May 09 2025 09:23 am
... Back in my day, 56k was high speed!
Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry,
couldn't help mysself.
Ogg wrote to Boraxman <=-
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Hello Boraxman!
** On Friday 09.05.25 - 23:23, Boraxman wrote to Ogg:
Ringworld, by Niven.
*snip*
Did you read any or the Ringworld sequels? I read the next
one in the series, Ringworld Engineers. After that, not
sure if its worthwhile to continue on.
I seem to remember starting #2 (Ringworld Engineers) ..but I
never finished it for some reason.
And.. I didn't even realized that #3 (Ringworld Throne) even
existed until now.
A great book, by Niven and Pournelle is "The Mote in God's
Eye". This was quite thought provoking and raised
questions about how our behaviour, our instincts doom us,
make us resigned to a paricular fate.
That's another I remember starting. But I don't recall
finishing it.
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Bogomips to Cougar428 on
Fri May 09 2025 10:56 am
Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry, couldn't help mysse
We didn't have these dang fangled "latex condoms". We just strapped a rabbit skin and tied it off with a bungee chord! Sure we couldn't feel
the other person or ourselves, but WE LIKED IT!
What do you have tattooed? Just the word "Dune" or Sting semi-naked glistening in steam? Or perhaps the God Emperor in his worm form?
Those times were rough. Having to connect the 56K modem through the
two soup cans. I don't know how you got 56K though, I could manage at
most 2400 baud with the soup cans and string...
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Bogomips to Cougar428 on Fri May 09 2025 10:56 am
Back in my day, we walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot and communicated with two soup cans and a string. Sorry, couldn't help mysse
We didn't have these dang fangled "latex condoms". We just strapped a rabbit skin and tied it off with a bungee chord! Sure we couldn't feel
the other person or ourselves, but WE LIKED IT!
two soup cans. I don't know how you got 56K though, I could manage at
most 2400 baud with the soup cans and string...
The last three books do go off on a tangent, but God Emperor is worth
the diversion. I liked it quite a bit more than Children of Dune.
Those times were rough. Having to connect the 56K modem through the
two soup cans. I don't know how you got 56K though, I could manage at
most 2400 baud with the soup cans and string...
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Boraxman to MRO on Sun
May 11 2025 10:27 pm
The last three books do go off on a tangent, but God Emperor is worth
the diversion. I liked it quite a bit more than Children of Dune.
I also liked GE. In fact I re-read it last year just for the fun of it.
I read most of the FH books in the 70's and 80's so it was refreshing
to read some of his original work.
I have read probably most of the BH books and liked a lot of them, but they aren't like the FH books...
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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Boraxman to MRO on Sun
May 11 2025 10:27 pm
The last three books do go off on a tangent, but God Emperor is worth
the diversion. I liked it quite a bit more than Children of Dune.
I also liked GE. In fact I re-read it last year just for the fun of it. I read most of the FH books in the 70's and 80's so it was refreshing to read some of his original work.
I have read probably most of the BH books and liked a lot of them, but they aren't like the FH books...
Do you recommend Brians books? I've heard not so good things about them, and personally I don't really like "franchises", that is, milking a "universe" for all its got. If it didn't come from Frank Herberts original intention, then I can't see it as "canon".
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