Sci-Fi readers, need your help...

tesco samoa · #1 December 20th, 2003, 06:17 AM

http://www.baen.com/library/

you can find some of that here as well....

gregebowman · #2 December 22nd, 2003, 05:03 PM

I read Millenium about 20 years ago. It was ok, but not my favorite time-travel story. IIRC, the movie was pretty much faithful to the book.

Has anyone seen Timelines yet? Again, Michael Crichton puts out a quality book, but I'm just wondering how much the movie differs from the book. I like the description of how they do the time travel. They basically "fax" people thru time.

gregebowman · #3 December 23rd, 2003, 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by spoon:
Google says:

"Remember the Alamo!" Here's the amazon listing:
amazon

Well, I went to a used bookstore near where I work. They had a lot of books by this Kevin Randle guy, but none of the Remember books. I guess I'll have to look elsewhere. Maybe even try hitting a couple of the flea markets when I get the chance.

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #4 December 23rd, 2003, 11:12 PM

I love books like that. Add to christmas list!
Anyway I remember an old Outer Limits episode where a squad of modern infantry men get sent back to Little Big Horn to fight for Custer and get killed anyway. The fellow soldiers can't find them but notice their names suddently appear on a historical grave marker in modern time. I'm seriously gonna get Remember the Alamo.
Also remember the Saturday Night Live skit "What if Napoleon had a B-52?" followed by "What if Spartacus had a Piper Cub?"

Happy Festivus "Festivus for the rest of us"

gregebowman · #5 December 24th, 2003, 06:31 PM

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Originally posted by EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro:
I love books like that. Add to christmas list!
Anyway I remember an old Outer Limits episode where a squad of modern infantry men get sent back to Little Big Horn to fight for Custer and get killed anyway. The fellow soldiers can't find them but notice their names suddently appear on a historical grave marker in modern time. I'm seriously gonna get Remember the Alamo.
Also remember the Saturday Night Live skit "What if Napoleon had a B-52?" followed by "What if Spartacus had a Piper Cub?"

Happy Festivus "Festivus for the rest of us"

Don't watch SNL that much anymore, so I missed those skits. But I thought that Little Big Horn episode was from The Twilight Zone. Could be wrong; it's been an awful long time since I've seen it. But of all the sub-genres of sci-fi, time travel has to be my favorite. So I do get a kick out of reading alternate history books.

Speaking of such, I've been interested in reading Harry Turtledove, but I want to read his books in order. Which book should I start out on for his alternate history of the Civil War and afterwards?