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Kilgore Trout Biography (Greatest Science Fiction Writer Of All Time)
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Posted on 03/07/2002 10:28:59 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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posted on
03/07/2002 10:55:13 AM PST
by
Jen
To: PJ-Comix
I haven't read Kilgore Trout's books, but he gave a great college commencement speech a couple of years ago.
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posted on
03/07/2002 10:57:25 AM PST
by
drjimmy
To: JenB
Anybody here who has read Kilgore Trout can tell you that his books have MUCH MORE depth than any of Heinlein's books. My best advice is to suggest you read "Venus On The Half-Shell" and find out for yourself. I rank Trout even above Tolstoy.
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03/07/2002 10:58:38 AM PST
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PJ-Comix
To: RightWhale
Casteneda was on a "higher" floor?
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posted on
03/07/2002 11:00:00 AM PST
by
stanz
To: steve in DC
Trout wrote Venus on the Half-Shell in one sitting while subsisting on a diet of chocolate and tobacco and skipping classes at Berkeley.
To: PJ-Comix
Trout is one of the most underrated sci-fi authors of all time, and one of my favorites.
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03/07/2002 11:02:21 AM PST
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toenail
To: stanz
In a garret under the eaves. No plumbing.
To: seamole
SPG: The "Black Sheep" of FreeRepublic? P.J. O'Rourke's kind of Republican. Sniff! Does this mean I'm a Black Sheep of the Free Republic. BTW, I object to the OTHER PJ's name used with mine. It is sacreligious to use our names on the same thread.
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posted on
03/07/2002 11:03:38 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: JenB
the greatest science fiction writer of all time, Robert A. Heinlein. Agreed.
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posted on
03/07/2002 11:05:03 AM PST
by
Samwise
To: Samwise
Apparently you haven't read "Venus On The Half-Shell." BTW, I read a little known auto-biographical book by Heinlein called "Tramp Steamer." Interesting but he's not in the same league as Kilgore Trout.
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03/07/2002 11:06:48 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Kilgore trout, his work is truly the "Breakfast of Champions"
To: mystery-ak
Kilgore Trout, aka Philip Jose Farmer.
To: mystery-ak
Kilgore Trout aka Kurt Vonnegut.
I remember reading Slaughterhouse Five on flight from New York in the early 1970's. In that book, Vonnegut said he would not let his children play with the children of anyone working for the defense industry. I have not read anything by him since.
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03/07/2002 11:09:16 AM PST
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saminfl
To: PJ-Comix
I was under the impression that Kilgore Trout was Kurt Vonnegut's dog.
If you look carefully at the picture on the back of "Venus on the Half Shell", you might imagine that it's a dog, not a person.
Regards,
To: Samwise
Master Samwise, you have excellent taste!
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03/07/2002 11:11:16 AM PST
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JenB
To: PJ-Comix
Venus on the Half Shell was written by Philip Jose Farmer, under the name Kilgore Trout. Trout is, of course, a fictional character created by Kurt Vonnegut.
To: saminfl
I remember reading Slaughterhouse Five on flight from New York in the early 1970's. The movie made from that book wasn't bad. BTW, the first Vonnegut book I read was "Sirens Of Titan" which I checked out of the school library when I was in the fourth grade. Some of the words I didn't understand and when I asked my mother about them, she became upset and had the book pulled from the library. I've hated censorship ever since. (And I still learned what those nasty little words meant)
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03/07/2002 11:17:54 AM PST
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PJ-Comix
To: JenB; samwise
Heinlein is the all-time master. The two best contemporary scifi authors are (imho) WIlliam Gibson and Neil Stephenson. I haven't seen a new Larry Niven book in a long time, so he doesn't count.
To: PJ-Comix
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Venus on the Half Shell bump. "Anyone without a prehensile tail is clearly deformed."
Stay well - Stay safe- Stay armed - Yorktown
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03/07/2002 11:21:21 AM PST
by
harpseal
To: Britton J Wingfield
Hmm... sounds like you like hard scifi/cyberpunk. Personally I don't care for either of the authors you mentioned. I think Orson Scott Card has some brilliant stuff (Ender's Game) and Connie Willis is fairly unknown but absolutely great. Her works sometimes resemble Heinlein's and she is clearly a fan, one of her books is dedicated to him! She wrote Doomsday Book, a time travel story, and To Say Nothing of the Dog, a time travelling romance Victorian mystery with a side trip to the Blitz. Absolutely a hilarious novel, and well written to boot. Her latest book was Passage, another brilliant work. Other than that... well, Heinlein's dead and most new stuff is trash.
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03/07/2002 11:23:54 AM PST
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JenB
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