Cotty wrote: > On 18/12/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> yessuh! Larry Niven, David Brin, Ike Asimov, Iain M Banks, Greg Bear, >> Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K LeGuin, AE Van Vogt, Kim Stanley Robinson, >> ACClarke, Ted Sturgeon, Bruce Sterling, Samual R Delaney, William >> Gibson, Harry Harrison, Commander Bob ... gads, there are just too >> many to name them all. Met Larry Niven and David Brin during a >> writers convention at Caltech about 1986 ... both of them are Caltech >> dropouts. ;-) >> >> Currently re-reading KSR's Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy. >> Really well done work. Iain M Banks "The Algebraist" was masterful, >> as are almost all his books. Ursula's "The Wave In The Mind" was >> almost a religious experience. >> >> Can't stop reading. > > Godders - I had no idea. We have much to discuss. >
Interesting, although my taste goes other ways (Jerry Pournelle, Lois McMaster Bujold, David Weber, John Ringo, Neil Stephenson, Walter John Williams, Ken Macleod, Robert A Heinlein and other such). KSR's Mars trilogy is brilliant in concept, but I found it to be extremely dry reading. Still the best example of Terraforming in SF. Personally, I've been reading a lot of fantasy lately. George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire and Steven Erikson's Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen are the best fantasy I've seen in a long time. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
