To: Little Bill
Aside from that I liked Space Operas, man against the Universe as opposed to those socialist Galaxy types, LOL. I pretty much stopped reading SF back in the Seventies, about the time it got all politically correct. I don't mind dystopias, but I won't be preached at.
Used to read SF aloud to the missus, back before the kids were big enough to join in. Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Alfred Bester, all those classics.
Nowadays she likes the Retief stories, which are political satire. My screen name comes from one of those.
7 posted on
04/27/2010 12:13:49 PM PDT by
thulldud
(Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
To: thulldud
I was introduced to SF when I was in Viet Nam. The Red Cross used to send us Care Packages of Books and periodicals. This was my introduction to SF, you humped what was lightest, I read "Lord of the Rings" in a hole in the Central Highlands, well several holes.
Harland Ellison is an enemy of mankind!!
8 posted on
04/27/2010 12:30:16 PM PDT by
Little Bill
(Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
To: thulldud
I pretty much stopped reading SF back in the Seventies, about the time it got all politically correct. I don't mind dystopias, but I won't be preached at. Non-PC SF has made a serious comeback, although mainly in the military SF sub-genre.
I recommend David Weber, John Ringo, SM Stirling and Eric Flint, among others.
Ringo's The Last Centurion is perhaps the most politically incorrect thing I've ever read, and remarkably prophetic about the Obama administration.
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