Interesting, I have every Analog published since the name change, I wonder what a complete collection is worth.
mike wilson wrote: >> 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 > > > -- 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
