Kind of liked them myself. Niven has more imagination than most SF writers. The Integral Trees series was great too.
Strangely the only SF that seems to be being written these days is the military stuff. Everything else they are calling SF are really fairy tales, pseudo magic instead of pseudo science. Sigh, I do miss the old stuff. Sometimes the old authors surprise you. I was rereading SeeTee Ship the other day, written in 1949 or 50 the character was using what was called a NewsFax, but the description sounded like an Internet connected laptop. Space Ship One is the only thing happening in real life that is anything like the SF I read as a kid that I can think of. Cotty wrote: > On 18/12/06, SJ, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> i still have a cheap paperback of "ringworld" bought in the 80s lying >> around in a carton somewhere. quite liked it though i haven't read any >> of the sequels. have i missed anything? :) > > Jumping Jupiter! Only two sequels. Ringworld Engineers and Ringworld > Throne. All three absolute stunners! > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
