At 12:17 PM 3/18/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
George wrote:
I've been putting off Delany because my one experience with him was
Dahlgren -- HATED IT! I'm afraid the two mentioned above will be more
of the same. Nevertheless, I will eveentually read them.
I've read _Dahlgren_ (and yes
William T Goodall wrote:
I've read all of those and none would be in my top five...which would
be (a tough call and in date order)
-1968 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny
-1970 The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K LeGuin
- 1985 Neuromancer William Gibson
- 1990 Hyperion Dan Simmons
- 2000 A
At 06:13 PM 3/18/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
I have all of these but something keeps jumping past them in my want to read
list. I've been putting off Delany because my one experience with him was
Dahlgren -- HATED IT!
After many years of hearing comments on it, I finally heard from _one_
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 10:55 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 06:13 PM 3/18/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
I have all of these but something keeps jumping past them in my want
to read
list. I've been putting off Delany because my one experience with
him was
Dahlgren -- HATED IT!
After
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 09:13 am, G. D. Akin wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
- 1966Babel-17
Samuel R.
Delany
- 1968Einstein Intersection
Samuel
R.
Delany
- 1971A Time of Changes Robert
Silverberg
- 1981The
George wrote:
I've been putting off Delany because my one experience with him was
Dahlgren -- HATED IT! I'm afraid the two mentioned above will be more of
the same. Nevertheless, I will eveentually read them.
I've read _Dahlgren_ (and yes Ronn!, I actually read it all the way through
:-), and
G. D. Akin wrote:
I really enjoyed Hyperion (as well as the three sequels) and A Deepness
in the Sky. I'd put the rest as average or below.
I absolutely loved Hyperion (I'd rate it 10/10), but the series went downhill a bit
from there, for me, (although, even the last book, my least favorite,
William T Goodall wrote:
My list of authors I have never read a whole novel by consists of
Hemingway[2] + everybody else I was supposed to read at school...unless
they were a sf/fantasy/horror writer.
I don't care for Hemmingway, either, based on the one book of his I did read -
The Sun Also
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At 06:13 PM 3/18/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
I have all
Julia Thompson asked
OK, I haven't read Gateway yet (wasn't there a book preceding it that I
really ought to read first?), but I've read the others and enjoyed them.
I've read both versions of Stranger, but a few years apart. (Summer of
1988 as opposed to spring of 1991)
Gateway was the
Julia Thompson wrote:
OK, I haven't read Gateway yet (wasn't there a book
preceding it that I really ought to read first?),
Nope, Gateway is the first book in the series. I think
there may be one or two short stories in _The Gateway Trip_
that were *set* before Gateway, but they were written
Steve Sloan II wrote:
Nope, Gateway is the first book in the series. I think
there may be one or two short stories in _The Gateway Trip_
that were *set* before Gateway, but they were written later.
On second thought, George is right. There was a story set in
the same universe that was written
On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 01:22 am, G. D. Akin wrote:
Julia asked
What are your favorites of all the Hugo novels?
Julia
Tough question! I'll pick my top five in no particular order.
- 1978 Gateway Frederick
Steve Sloan II wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
OK, I haven't read Gateway yet (wasn't there a book
preceding it that I really ought to read first?),
Nope, Gateway is the first book in the series. I think
there may be one or two short stories in _The Gateway Trip_
that were *set* before Gateway,
Julia wrote:
What are your favorites of all the Hugo novels?
George A. replied:
Tough question!
[top 5 snipped]
Worst (IMO) tie
- 1963The Man in the High CastlePhilip K. Dick
So it's not just me! I've never gotten more than about a third of the way
through it. I'm generally a PKD fan,
G. D. Akin wrote:
Julia asked
G. D. Akin wrote:
Sheesh, I hope not. I've never read his works, but I will soon read his
Claw of the Conciliator which won a Nebula a few years back. I'm
trying to read all the Hugo (actually, done that) and Nebula Award
winners. Just a goal.
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Julia Thompson wrote:
I thought The Big Time wasn't the best I'd ever read, but it was
entertaining, at least.
It's been a long time since I read The Big Time, but remember enjoying it.
Then, I love just about anything by Fritz Leiber. He's a genre stylist
who writes
Julia asked
G. D. Akin wrote:
Sheesh, I hope not. I've never read his works, but I will soon read his
Claw of the Conciliator which won a Nebula a few years back. I'm
trying to read all the Hugo (actually, done that) and Nebula Award
winners. Just a goal.
I had that as a goal (the
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