OT: John Carter, Warlord of Mars

Number of the Beast is my favorite of those he wrote after he had the ( brain tumor? ) removed.

Too many pre- Stranger in a Strange Land, ( which took him the final step into the adult market ) to choose. Moon and Glory Rd are way up there on my list.

As I've said before, could never decide if ERB was really good trash, or really trashy classics. But then, as someone said, everyone needs to read a little trash now and then.

King Solomon's Mines, by H Rider Haggard (?) is more of the same, in my book. H G Wells too.

I've written off either Clarke or Assimov for an anti-weaponry book a while back.
 
Originally posted by munk
You know, from my visiting many different sites, some political, some gun, and HI, I would say Heinlein gets more quotes than most everyone. Pretty good for what is considered by the Classical world a second rate, pop writer.

My all time favorite has always been The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

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My all time favorites is the Lazarus Long stories. Time Enough for Love is one book I've worn out two copies of over the years.
Asimov and the Foundation is also one of my favorites. I started reading SciFi when it was in the old pulps. One story I never got to finish was The Ship of Ishtar and now I've gotten so old I can't remember who the author was.:(
This all started when I was 12 years old, lived in Everett Washington in a house trailer behind the service station the old man ran. There was a used book store right next door, behind our trailer.
Good books, Good stories and Good Days on the Sound. I will never forget the smells and sounds, nor the old WW II bunkers built along the shore there.:D
 
Rusty, that's funny, Number of the Beast was my least favorite of the bunch. I kept waiting for something to happen other than figuring out who was going to command Gay Deciever. Maybe I was just getting a bit burned out on Heinlein by the time I read it. Forgot to mention I also read the unabridged version of Stranger in a Strange Land recently. Great book, probably one of his best, though it's been so long since I read the original version that I couldn't really tell much difference between the two versions.
--Josh
 
Abraham Merritt seems to be the name you're looking for Yvsa, though I haven't read that one personally
 
Merritt is another good one. I've read "Face In the Abyss", "Dwellers In the Mirage", "Moon Pool". Don't remember the one you mention, Yvsa, though I might have it. I think I have every book that I've bought since I was 16. That's A LONG time, and a lot of books.

Otis A. Kline is another, much lesser known, auther who wrote A LOT like Burroughs.
 
Anyone remember the name of the book and author of the story of a guy who journies close to a Sun's core to get some energy substance? It was a rewrite of a Shakespear play...

.. ...

When I was 9 or so I read the Door into Summer? It blew us away- my brother and I.

Heinlein is strange. He gets wierd and I get bored with too much.

Probably the best time to read him is early teens.

Aardvark; I've sold three collections of science fiction I can no longer remember the names of!!! I mean several hundred books each time.




munk
 
I'm guessing we as a family have about 4,000 by now. That doesn't count the cookbooks.

Munk, can you remember any more about that book? It isn't ringing any bells yet.
 
It was by a well known older school author- a contemporary of P K Dick. The man was horribly disfigured from a previous attempt, a disaster blamed on him. His house was connected and aristrocratic, but out of favor. His rival had the girl.

It was a masterpeice and the only decent thing the author ever wrote. I know- because I kept searching in vain through his other works for any signs of something worth reading. I haven't read sci fi for over 20 years, though if I went back to the library my memory would kick in.

The trip was successful. Our hero with his 'rag tag' uncouth crew returns to Earth richer beyond any dreams and kicks butt on the decadent rival. The dialogue of the crew was outstanding. The futuristic slang and abbreviated language a remarkably good estimate by the author. The hero and his crew had little to lose. It was a suicide/holy grail mission. I'd say the book was written in the 60's.

I have a few Sci fi books left from my purges. Maybe I can find something. I sold most of my records, keepsakes, and books for wine a long time ago- when I used to sing for my supper at the mission.


munk
 
Munk, sorry. That story line still isn't stirring the little grey cells.
 
I'll find it. It was always a sleeper. Missed the radar of must- have reading.


Too bad you and I can't sit down and talk, at least for me; I'd remember a lot.

I liked CJ Cherryh, though she devoted a lot of time to not much. Wolfe was like that too- the Claw of the Conciliator, but great reading. Wolfe could take an entire page for the event of a single sword strike.

Anyone who has not read the Faded Sun trilolgy by CJ Cherryh has missed one of the greatest unsung classics of all Sci Fi fantasy. I say this after reading every best seller,every Nebula and award winner spanning over 40 years.

Ardvark, I stopped reading SciFi because at the rate of a book a day, I'd exhausted the genre. I'm sure in my absence much progress has been made.


munk
 
Originally posted by munk
I'm sure in my absence much progress has been made.
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Yup.;)

If interested, the following get the Josh Feltman seal of approval:

David Brin--Uplift series. Six books. Excellent. I lost myself in these last winter.

Julian May-- The Pliocene Exile. Four books (I think), Again, phenomenal.

Dan Simmons-- Hyperion. Great stuff

Munk, I have all of these. I'll send 'em to you if you'd like; e-mail me if you want 'em.

--Josh
 
I've read Brin- must be about the last along with Niven and Purnelle. Haven't read the series.



I'll check out the Brin in the library. Yours is a sterling offer but collected works are best borrowed from only a few houses down the street...I've three young ones and can't entirely guarentee what happens here, other than constant chaos.



munk
 
Plus of course there's book that once loaned never come back. Don't know how many copies of Starship Troopers I"ve "loaend" out to people between a friend and I and never got back.
 
A friend I forgive. My worst book theft: I went to a library sale where old, discarded, shop worn books are sold by the institution. I bought a hardcover copy of Shane. If you've never read the simple beautiful language of this writer in his greatest story you've missed something. Anyway, a stuck up girl at work wanted to borrow it. She never gave it back. I confronted her and she laughed and said I stole the book from the library so it was OK for her to steal it from me. I explained the library discard sale concept to her but she thought I was lying. It was stunning to me she or anyone could think that. I thought I could sit her down and try one more time to explain it but she was too self involved to listen. The book wasn't worth anything but she apparently was worth less.

Her's was a bizarre story anyway. She had a face like a horse but jazzercised and had the body of a goddess. She became overinvolved with patients at the hospital we worked.

I have a cheap paperback copy of Shane today but it's not the same.


munk
 
Brin is a must have. Loved the Uplift series, but my favorite is still 'Sundiver' (it can arguably be called a prequel).

Shane is indeed a classic. Read it over and over in high school.

There has been a lot of CHANGE in the genre. Not sure I'd necessarily agree with PROGRESS, although some is very good. Still haven't found anything with the magic of Zelazny's 'Lord Of Light', or 'This Immortal'. But then, I'm not the same person, either.

Unless it's to family, I don't loan out a book that I can't live without. They have a tendency to grow legs, as you have mentioned.

Munk, I'd enjoy a conversation with you, too. I think I'd be doing as much remembering as you.
 
Try John Ringo (his real name). Not the joint projects, just the ones by him alone. All written in the last couple of years. Have your complete Kipling at hand for first couple.
 
Johnny Ringo!!

On my Morricone Western CD there's a great song about Ringo, "the rough man, who killed when he smiled."


I saw a lot of repetitious work when I was pulling away from the field. You can't out Zelazny Zelazany (sic)

But the media outlets encourage a stable product. People new or very young don't know the difference. Like movies, we end up with numbers one two three and ten without any new ground. Brin broke some new ground. So did Niven. And Wolfe.


munk
 
I thought it must be a pen name, but no. Read the first book he did. You may add an author who won't die on us. His joint works with Weber are just space opera.
 
..been thinking about Morricone, It's, "the rough man, who'd rather kill than run." And, "who smiled before he fired."



I will look up Ringo. One thing about people; despite hacking over the same trail, as most of do most of the time, every once in awhile someone tell our story in the new, unfolding context.



munk

ps, my three year olds favorite song for some time from the Morricone CD,

"Keep your hand on your gun
Don't you trust, anyone
there's just one kind of man that you can trust
and that's a dead man,
or a gringo like me."

I had dodge ramcharger 4x4 with a 440. I loved that truck and that CD together, roaming the desert. Should of seen the Ranger's face when we pulled through the booth in the Saquora (sic) Cactis monument in Tuscon.
 
TV series: "Ringo, Johnny Ringo, his fear was never shown.
He was the fastest gun in all the west, the quickest
ever known."
 
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