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60. Thank you! Your choices ARE revealing, and

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #59)

Sat Apr 21, 2018, 01:08 PM

Apr 2018

my tastes are very similar. I much prefer scifi imaginings of what reality could be. Demons and magic rocks are a little too Dark Ages for me. Exceptions for exceptional writing, of course.

I think the last time I tried a recommended scifi author that book was way too dark and dystopian for me. No matter what conditions change, people will still be people and will still behave like humans always have. Lacking even a shallow understanding of human nature makes a lot of dystopian imaginings silly nonsense.

Your authors sound wonderful. Even Van Pelt's survivor in an extremely grim future understands the treasure of human knowledge, unlike so many others that had mankind destroying and discarding all books long before. I've just ordered one from each.

I'm not all gray yet, but close enough.

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