To: JenB
I know I've said it before...but I didn't like Rocketship Galileo...didn't think it was well written.
I DID like "Time for the Stars", though I still found it more technical than I like. Which is why I don't really care for his adult books...too many technical details...pages and pages and pages of 'em.
I dumb, I guess. But I find that stuff tedious.
But then, I don't have the nostalgia for these that you do. I didn't read much science fiction, really. L'Engle, for SURE, and some much more fantastic science fiction books like "The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet", but very little "serious" science fiction.
74 posted on
03/15/2004 5:36:32 PM PST by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: RosieCotton
How's L'Engle? We had one of her books in the house as a kid but I never got around to reading it.
76 posted on
03/15/2004 5:39:50 PM PST by
Fedora
To: RosieCotton
Rosie, let me recommend Anne McCaffrey to you, if you haven't read her before. She has several series, but I think you would like the
Pegasus short story collections/novels, and the follow-on
Federated IT&T series (
IT&T standing for
Interstellar
Telepath and
Telekinetic).
Of course, she also has her Pern stuff, and the Ship Who Sang series, some of the most imaginative stuff I've read. And there's the Crystal Singer series, and the Acorna series, and the Doona series ...
You know, you don't really understand how prolific an author Anne McCaffrey is until you start listing her series!
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