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Here are some ideas I'm playing with:
Foundation series: Worth the effort?
Mixed feelings; when I was a teen, the original Trilogy was my favorite novel. (I had a single volume paperback of all three books.) Rereading it as a post-college adult, it hadn't aged well. I thought the 4th and especially the 5th went downhill, but liked the 6th, which was a prequel. Haven't read any of the prequels by other authors yet.
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Dune: Read the first one, is it worth reading the rest?
I thought the first four were awesome, and the fifth and sixth much weaker; but a lot of other people hate the 4th and like 5&6. Haven't read his son's prequels yet.
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That new Tad Williams one: Liked his previous books. Is the latest (forget name) more sci-fi?
William's very latest is epic fantasy, published Online in bi-monthly installments at:
http://www.shadowmarch.com/main.asp
First five "Episodes" are free, the rest available by subscription only. Episode 9 is due on September 1. I like it enough that I got a Paypal account in order to Subscribe; I haven't read any of his other works.
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Something by Aasimov that I haven't read yet: Love his stuff, recommendations please.
(Anyone ever read his non-scifi book about a "pocket demon" called Arizaphael? That was
brilliant. What was it called? Would like to own it.)
I think you mean the collection _Azazel Fantasy Stories_. I've read a few of the stories in magazines, but not the whole book.
I really enjoyed Timothy Zahn's _Conqueror's_ trilogy, which is fairly hard SF with larger-than-life characters.
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Cap'n Q
My first mod!
Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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