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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Haven't read that.
I like sci-fi where the sci-fi is more of the setting than the plot, as I think I've said before. I'm all for gadgets and space travel and all that...but for the most part I don't care about how they work, so long as I understand that they do. ;-)
I guess it's why I've always been more interested in the time travel type sci-fi than in the space battle sort. Time travel automatically assumes you have to suspend disbelief, so they don't tend to work in equations so much.
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I am:Robert A. HeinleinBeginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers. |
And I know I have lactose intolerances. I've hated milk since I was a child. I like most cheeses, though, and ice cream and eggnog.
I can't handle eggs, either, except scrambled or as an omelette.
I like noodles, though.
Soooo cool!
Not so much a gag reflex as just a resistance to those textures.
For a long time that was the softest SF I could stand to read.
Door into Summer is one of my favorite.s Well, they're all favorites. The hero of that book is probably the quintessential Heinlein engineer. What a lot of the heroes of his juveniles will become when they grow up.
I also think he was trying to tell the reader that we were entering a new era of technology, and his stories were grounded in comprehensible mechanics, and not suspension-of-belief. Much of what he wrote was near-term SF. Or at least, that's how it turned out.
Nope.
The series thing is another thing that tends to irk me about sci-fi. Mysteries don't *have* to be read in order...seems like most sci-fi does.
But maybe I'll check 'em out anyhow.
It's National Get Organized Month
I hate it when the holidays sneak up on you. I'll never get everything done by Wednesday...
Now you tell us...
Is it National Procrastination Month, too? I'm good at that.
Gasp! No ice cream?
I think the first Heinlein book I read was "Have Spacesuit-- Will Travel".
I was pretty small, and I honestly don't recall much of the story, so I have no idea whether to recommend it or not. But it was always the signature Heinlein piece for me. When I think of Heinlein, that's the title I think of first.
[sip]
Ah... Sittin' in da airport bar... yet again.
I don't think they've settled on a month for that yet...
Heh...
Have you read any of Vernor Vinge's books? We read "A Fire Upon the Deep", and "A Deepness in the Sky". They were kinda funky, but interesting characters and stories. I'm with you; just get on with the story. SirKit enjoys the tech stuff, I like the characters and situations. Strange, though, but I loved Tom Clancy's novels, and he put a lot of tech stuff in them. The stories helped move the tech stuff along, though. Though I must say, in "Sum of All Fears", my eyes began to glaze over when he was talking about the construction of the nuclear device.
I am not sure you'd like them Rosie... some of the Pern books are quite excellent while others are lousy. They tend to degenerate and become more and more about the sex.
That said you might enjoy the "Dragonsong", "Dragonsinger" and "Dragondrums" trilogy. It's aimed at a more teenage audience, the main characters are musicians, and they're rather gentle little stories. They do sort of expect that you know the world but it's not required.
Hm...I'll put those on my list for next trip to the library...
Know what else you might like? Charles Sheffield's "Godspeed". It's Treasure Island. In space.
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