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.
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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net