> > From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/12/19 Tue PM 03:42:04 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: It's snowing in hell --OT > > If you're looking for "Golden Age" hard science fiction read Analog > http://www.analogsf.com/0701/issue_01.shtml > A subscription is a good idea but it can be found in well stocked book > stores.
I used to have two tea chests full of pulp magazines, inluding pre-war Astounding/Analog - with John W Campbell's first editorial edition. Until I went to College and came home after the first term to find that they had been trashed to "make space". Sigh. I could probably have bought a reasonable house with the proceeds now. > > Adam Maas wrote: > > There's a lot of good MilSF these days, but there's some excellent > > non-miliary SF these days. > > > > I'd look at Ken Macleod for starters as well as Eric Flint's 1632 > > series, both touch at milSF but are more about people and societies. But > > golde-age style SF pretty much died in the 60's. Most non-milSF these > > days is pretty out there utopian stuff, although there are gems in there. > > > > Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is another good non-military SF series. > > > > -Adam > > > > > > > > graywolf wrote: > > > >> 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! > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > > > -- > Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. > --Albert Einstein > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
