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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Wait...it'll be Friday in just a little while...
MOMMY: Corin, what did you learn in the Hobbit Hole today?
CORIN: We talked about chocolate vomit and strip joints and brothels and crabs and leaky bowels and everybody was farting...
MOMMY: We start homeschooling tomorrow...
'nite folks
I didn't bring up any of those things ;~D
Yes, indeed! Though I mean to see if I can find a copy of "Friday" at the library. I've heard it's good for being late Heinlein. I'm just such a sucker for space opera, and I grew up on those early Heinlein novels, that the later ones seem wrong to me...
I'll try to save it for the moot ;-D
I just take my chances with real sugar and real fat.
It helps to reduce the odds that I will fart or leak my bowels in front of my co-workers.
This is why my mother must never learn the web address of the Hobbit Hole...
What's that? blackmail bait ;~D
I've had such a great time tonight. Love you guys!
I'd better grab a shower and get some sleep. Tomorrow is Friday at last.
Good night!
Just out of curiosity, have you looked up and read any other "golden age" SF, such as the Lensman books by "Doc" Smith, or anything by A.E. van Vogt?
Good night! We may go soon too... Last night's South Park was so good, I think I want to watch it again.
Or do both simultaneously.
Good night! ;)
No, I never run across anyone but the big names, somehow. I have some random assorted novels, a few republished collections of stories, and that's very much it.
I found an early SF anthology recently - I forget what the theme that tied it together was - with stories by all sorts of great names. It was really fascinating to see what the future was like back in 1948. In some ways, I like their 2000 a lot more than ours. In others... well, nobody really saw the internet until the late 70s/early 80s...
Not true! ;) Murray Leinster featured both PCs and the Internet (not by those names, of course) in his short story "A Logic Named Joe", first published in Astounding Science Fiction in March, 1946.
Hmm, let's see what's on our shelves... the "Sector General" books my James White; collections of short stories by Zenna Henderson, Murray Leinster, and C.M. Kornbluth (all published by the SF Book Club, by the way); Slan and The Empire of Isher by A.E. van Vogt; the 6 Lensman books by E.E. "Doc" Smith (in two editions, btw); oh, and lots of other stuff by the Big Names that you're already familiar with.
That's the hardcovers...
Oh, a neat story collection you might look for (it's out of print I think, but might be found in a library) is Galactic Empires, volumes 1 and 2. It not only presents a lot of good Golden Age stories, it analyzes the different kinds of "Galactic Empire" stories that have been published over the years.
Clare and I may be down your way this Nov. Ave Maria Univ. has an Open House for prospective students to come and stay for a couple of days. I could come over and see you! The Univ. is just Northeast of Naples, so that's what, 2 or 3 hours from you?
Well, two of the companies for which SSQ had options no longer exist. They were bought out by and folded into the new one, and the old stock options were no longer valid, I guess.
It would be cruel and unusual punishment for a mule to have to carry me! I'll just ride down the river in one of those cool boats! I don't mind getting wet, and I can swim! ;o)
*sigh*
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