OT - favorite science fiction-another touchy feelie

Here are the e-g authors.
G.C. Edmondson - The Man Who Corrupted Earth
George Effinger - What Entropy Means To Me
Gordon Eklund - All Times Possible
Suzette Hayden Elgin - everything
Phillip Jose Farmer - Time's Last Gift
Mick Farren - Protectorate
Howard Fast - A Touch of Infinity
Jonathan Fast - Mortal Gods
John Faucette - Who Claims This Galaxy
Arnold Federbush - The Man Who Lived In Inner Space
Cynthia Felice - Godsfire
Kenneth Flint - Champions of the Sidhe
D.C. Fontana - The Questor Tapes
William Forstchen - Into the Sea of Stars
Robert Forward - Dragon's Egg
Alan Dean Foster - The Man Who Used The Universe
M.A. Foster - The Gameplayers of Zan
Gardner Fox - The Hunter Out Of Time
Leo Frankowski - all of them
Egon Freidell - The Return of the Time Machine
Gregory Frost - Tain
Esther Friesner - Mustapha and His Wise Dog
Daniel Galouye - Lords of the Psychon
Raymond Gallun - The Planet Strappers
Dav Garnett - The Starseekers
Randall Garrett - Too Many Magicians
Richard Garvin - The Fortec Conspiracy
Jean Gawron - Algorithm
David Gerrold - everything
Mark Geston - Lords of the Starship
Alexis Gilliland - eveything
John Glasby - Project Jove
Donald Glut - Spawn
Tom Godwin - Beyond Another Sun
Stephen Goldin - The Eternity Brigade
Rex Gordon - First Through Time
Stuart Gordon - Fire In The Abyss
Phyllis Gotlieb - A Judgement of Dragons
Ron Goulart - A Talent For The Invisible
Robert Graham - War of Nerves
Charles Grant - Legion
Richard Grant - Saraband of Lost Time
Geary Gravel - The Pathfinders
Joseph Green - Conscience Interplanetary
Roland Green - Peace Company
Sharon Green - To Battle the Gods
Irving Greenfield - The Stars Will Judge
William Greenleaf - Time Jumper
Russell Griffin - The Time Servers
David Grinnell - Across Time
James Gunn - Breaking Point
Lindsay Gutteridge - Cold War In A Country Garden

Here are the h-i authors.
Steven Hahn - Mindwipe!
Isidore Haiblum - The Identity Plunderers
Jack Haldeman II - Vector Analysis
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Edmond Hamilton - Starwolf
Karl Hansen - War Games
Charles Harness - Firebird
Harry Harrison - all of them
Kenneth Hassler - Intergalac Agent
Simon Hawke - all of them
Ward Hawkins - Red Flame Burning
H.F. Heard - Doppelgangers
Robert Heinlein - all of them
Zenna Henderson - The People No Different Flesh
Frank Herbert - The Santaroga Barrier, Hellstrom's Hive
Phillip High - The Time Mercenaries
P.C. Hodgell - God Stalk
James Hogan - all of them
Joan Hunter Holly - The Time Twisters
H.M. Hoover - Return To Earth
Robert Hoskins - To Control The Stars
Robert E. Howard - Wolfshead
Fred Hoyle - October The First Is Too Late
Hoyle & Hoyle - The Incandescent Ones
Trevor Hoyle - Through the Eye Of Time
L. Ron Hubbard - Slaves Of Sleep
Edward Hughes - The Long Mynd
Zach Hughes - all of them
Dean Ing - all of them

[capnq]

I don't remember when I started reading SF regularly. I remember borrowing Jules Verne's _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ from the elementary school library and not being able to finish it; that would have been somewhere around '69-71. The earliest SF book I can remember finishing is Madeleine L'Engle's _A Wrinkle in Time_. In the mid-70's my favorite was Isaac Asimov's _Foundation_ trilogy, which I read all three books of in as many days. In my freshman year of college in '77, I got a Work-Study job as an operator for the Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department, where I discovered several years' worth of back issues of _Analog_ shelved under one of the machine room desks. The most recent SF I recall reading was probably Timothy Zahn's _Conqueror's_ trilogy.

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Cap'n Q

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"

[Deathstalker]

(Geeze, not a Deathstalker book among them )....

My fav's: Simon R. Green (All, Deathstalker series esp, and Shadows Fall),
Chris Clairmont (First Flight series),
Stephen R. Donaldson (Covenant series),
Battletech/StarWars,
Michael Stackpole (any)
Matt. W. Stover (Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, any)
Charles Sheffield (Aftermath, Starfire)
David Feintuch (Seafort series)
Orson Scott Card (ENDER!!!!)
J. McKinney (Robotech),
H. Turtledove (Worlds War series),
J.R. Dunn (Days of Cain,<time travel to try to kill Hitler, hero has to decide to stop it or not, good stuff> )
Ben Bova (Exiles)
A.D. Foster (Aliens)
McCaffrey's Pern of course,
S.M. Stirling (Islands in the Sea of Time, etc)
T. Dicks (Dr.Who)
LOTS of Fantasy, (Michelle West, Mellanie Rawn, Tolkien<imagine if he had done SF!!>, too many to list> ).

'Nuff said for now......

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"And what the hell would you know about sanity?" demanded Beatrice. "There are depressed lemmings on the edge of cliffs who've got a better grasp on reality than you have. And more common sense."--Simon R. Green 'Deathstalker Rebellion'.

"We are all...the sum of our scars"....(paraphrased) Matt. R. Stover-'Blade of Tyshalle'.

[LazarusLong42]

If you want to go to Speculon after 15 September, you'll find my story "A Mind of Her Own" out for all to read. (Woo! A paid publication!)

I can't help plugging.

[Mad_Lear]

Quote: "Woo! A paid publication!"


Hey, congrats man.

[This message has been edited by Mad_Lear (edited 09 August 2001).]

[Puke]

wow, very hard to pick just one. in fact, i cant really say that i can name a single 'best' book. John Steakley's _Armor_ comes to mind when thinking of great SF though. not as well renowned as some, but i thought it was a fine yarn.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

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Originally posted by Puke:
John Steakley's _Armor_ comes to mind when thinking of great SF though

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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).]

Ok, here are books taken directly from an 86 printout of FCP-HOTDISK ISSUE 1 page 35-36. As I type more I will post them, 2 pages at a time to 44.
Brian Aldiss - Helliconia Spring, Starship
Roger MacBride Allen - The Torch of Honor
Chester Anderson & Michael Kurland - Ten Years To Doomsday
Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson - Earthman's Burden
Poul Anderson - Ensign Flandry, Fire Time, The High Crusade, The Man Who Counts, New America, Operation Chaos, Shield
Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity, Foundation
Michael Banks & Dean R. Lambe - The Odysseus Solution
Pierre Barbet - Baphomet's Meteor
Neal Barrett - Aldair In Albion
T.J. Bass - The Godwhale
Barrington J. Bayley - Collision Course, The Garments of Caean
Greg Bear - Hegira
Gregory Benford - Timescape
Stephen Ames Berry - The Biofab War
Alfred Bester - The Computer Connection, The Demolished Man
Lloyd Biggle - The Light That Never Was, The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets, Watchers of the Dark, The World Menders
Ben Bova - Millenium, Test of Fire
John Boyd - Sex and the High Command
J.F. Bone - Confederation Matador
Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Darkover Landfall, Endless Universe, Hunters of the Red Moon, Survey Ship
Reginald Bretnor - Schimmelhorn's Gold
David Brin - The Postman, The Practice Effect, Startide Rising, Sundiver
John Brunner - The Crucible of Time, Into the Slave Nebula, The Stone that Never Came Down
Algis Budrys - The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn
Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honor
F.M. Busby - All These Earths
Edward A. Byers - The Long Forgetting
Grant Callin - SaturnAlia
John Wood Campbell Jr - Astounding/Analog editor - May 1938 - June 11, 1971
Orson Scott Card - Hot Sleep : The Worthing Chronicle
Jayge Carr - Leviathon's Deep
A. Bertram Chandler - The Road To The Rim/The Hard Way Up
C.J. Cherryh - Cuckoo's Egg, Downbelow Station, The Faded Sun : Kesrith, Gate of Ivrel, Hunter of Worlds, Pride of Chanur, Serpent's Reach
Robert Chilson - The Star Crowned Kings
Jo Clayton - Diadem From the Stars, Drinker of Souls
Hal Clement - Close To Critical, Cycle of Fire, Iceworld, Mission of Gravity, Needle, Ocean On Top
Alan Cole & Chris Bunch - Sten
Michael G. Coney - The Hero of Downways
Edmund Cooper - A Far Sunset, Transit
Richard Cowper - Profundis
Theodore R. Cogswell - The Wall Around the World
Daniel DaCruz - The Ayes of Texas
Brian Daley - Requiem For a Ruler of Worlds

[Puke]

quote:

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Originally posted by LCC:
Worked my way through college by developing the software for automatic gamma ray/ isotope analyis.

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hey, I think my uncle had a company that did that.. umm.. forgot their name. I once worked at a company in Austin that did something similar with x-ray florescense (spelling?).

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)