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Originally posted by Puke:
John Steakley's _Armor_ comes to mind when thinking of great SF though
Yeah, fighting the bugs while everybody else died or ended their terms. The most vivid thing I remember is him stuffing the guy with a bad suit down a nest entrance to blow the nest up....
I am not satisfied with what I posted yesterday. I am going to locate a copy of the old FCP HOTDisk #1 for the list of 300 worth reading more than once and will post it. I also noticed that I failed to post my own bio stats. Okay, born in 56, learned to read at age 3, had my own library card and read about a dozen books a week by age 5. Got turned on to science fiction at 6 by somebody telling me I should not be reading children's books anymore. I was shown the line of SF books by Heinlein and Norton and told when I was done with those the whole stack was sf, just not as good. I finished all the library had by age 7, and started going to other libraries. I never could get enough of sf but was also interested in how radios and tvs worked. Got turned on to computers by a NSF student study program in high school. Dropped out of high school just before my senior year started to join the USAF. First job after basic was DDA to SAC HQ comand post ADOFWD displays group. The AF did not work out and I got an honorable discharge with 18 months GI Bill. I started same semester as my high school class with a year of college course credit from USAFI. Worked my way through college by developing the software for automatic gamma ray/ isotope analysis. I notice the post is getting long and probably boring so I will stop.....
Edit : Typos
[This message has been edited by LCC (edited 10 August 2001).]