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2 posted on 06/07/2009 11:32:25 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Just finished reading “The Forever War” by Joe Haldeman. Thought was excellent.


37 posted on 06/08/2009 10:28:22 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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My reading list.These are just a few of the titles that I have enjoyed. Titles by Larry Niven
Ringworld
The Mote in God's Eye
A World Out of Time
The Ringworld Engineers
The Integral Trees
Footfall
The Gripping Hand
The Ringworld Throne


Titles by Frederick Pohl
Gateway
(lots of things by Pohl

Titles by Derek Robinson (war novels, not sci-fi)
Goshawk Squadron (1971)
is set in 1918 with the squadron flying the S.E.5a.

War Story (1987)
is set in 1916 with Hornet Squadron flying the F.E.2b.

Hornet's Sting (1999)
is set in 1917 with Hornet Squadron flying the
Sopwith Pup and the Bristol F.2B Fighter.
Novels set in RAF squadrons during the Second World War:
Piece of Cake (1983)
is set during the Phony War and Battle of Britain with Hornet Squadron flying the Hurricane. There is a TV mini-series (1988) with the same name based on this book.

A Good Clean Fight (1993)
covers the Desert Air Force during 1942 with Hornet Squadron flying the Curtiss Tomahawk.

Damned Good Show (2002)
covers RAF Bomber Command's early bomber operations
and has fictional No. 409 Squadron RAF flying the Handley
Page Hampden.

Titles by Arthur C. Clarke
Prelude to Space (1951)
The Sands of Mars (1951)
Islands in the Sky (1952)
Against the Fall of Night (1953)
Childhood's End (1953)
Expedition to Earth (1953)
Earthlight (1955)
Reach for Tomorrow (1956)
The City and the Stars (1956)
Tales from the White Hart (1957)
The Deep Range (1957)
The Other Side of the Sky (1958)
Across the Sea of Stars (1959)
A Fall of Moondust (1961)
From the Ocean, From the Stars (1962)
Dolphin Island (1963)
Glide Path (1963)
Prelude to Mars (1965)
The Nine Billion Names of God (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
Of Time and Stars (1972)
The Wind from the Sun (1972)
Imperial Earth (1975)
Fountains of Paradise (1979)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
Cradle (co-authored with Gentry Lee) (1988)
Rama II (co-authored with Gentry Lee) (1989)
The Garden of Rama (co-authored with Gentry Lee) (1991)
Rama Revealed (co-authored with Gentry Lee) (1993)


Titles by Robert A. Heinlein
The Cat Who Walks Through Wallsv Citizen of the Galaxy
The Door Into Summer
Double Star
Farmer in the Sky
Farnham's Freehold
Friday
Glory Road
The Green Hills of Earth
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
I Will Fear No Evil
Job: A Comedy of Justice
The Man Who Sold the Moon
The Menace From Earth
Methuselah's Children
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Number of the Beast
Orphans of the Sky
Podkayne of Mars
The Puppet Masters
Red Planet
Revolt in 2100
Rocket Ship Galileo
The Rolling Stenes
To Sail Beyond The Sunset
Space Cadet
The Star Beast
Starman Jones
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Time Enough For Lovev Time for the Stars
Tunnel in the Sky
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein

This is a small part of my very large list. I am working up reviews on my facebook page.
40 posted on 06/08/2009 4:58:46 PM PDT by The Louiswu (I live vicariously, through myself.)
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