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To: stands2reason
I just read Hyperion and am currently reading "The Fall of Hyperion". Good stuff!

If you click on my name I review my favorite science fiction novels and short stories.

If I had to pick one author who is always outstanding the name is:

Robert Charles Wilson
105 posted on 08/20/2006 2:14:14 AM PDT by cgbg (MSM aid and comfort to the enemy costs American lives.)
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To: cgbg
"I just read Hyperion and am currently reading "The Fall of Hyperion". Good stuff!"

Hyperion is wonderful, IMO. Rises to the category of literature. The next three are very good as well. Simmons is a great SF writer.

164 posted on 08/20/2006 6:36:37 AM PDT by Sam Cree (Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
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To: cgbg

Skimming your freeppage, I see Bear.

I had checked out a book of his (DArwin's Radio?) but had to return it because I got into Doug Preston's Codex and didn't have time to read it.


195 posted on 08/20/2006 2:12:41 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: cgbg
Just checked your profile and found this:

"Kelly--Think Like A Dinosaur--This stunning story tackles head on the issue of identity challenged by new technology. Will technological change radically alter ethics? Count on it."

I was channel surfing a few months ago and found the 90's verison of "The Outer Limits" just coming on. Being a big fan of anthology shows, I stopped there.

Lo and behold, it was "Think Like A Dinosaur"! I recognized it from the first scene of the first act as a short story I'd read several years ago, and it actually stuck with the original story pretty closely, to my pleasant surprise.

With so much great SF in short story form out there as potential source material, it pains me to see the Sci Fi Channel churning out cinematic dreck like "Snakehead Terror". (Not to mention how they botched and mangled Philip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld")

206 posted on 08/20/2006 3:15:10 PM PDT by FierceDraka (When every special interest gets their way, there will be no more Liberty.)
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