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PoindexterOglethorpe

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28. I'm older, 73.

Thu Jan 13, 2022, 11:14 AM

Jan 2022

I started reading science fiction as soon as I could read, thanks to my brother's science fiction book club membership and a dedicated science fiction room at the Utica Public Library. Which means my taste in s-f was well set before the New Wave.

I also don't get urban fantasy, fantasy of any kind, or the zombie and werewolf craze, although I did recently read World War Z and loved it, mainly because the focus was not on zombies, but on how their existence totally altered life for everyone else.

I honestly have a very narrow range of what I read and like in science fiction, mainly time travel and alternate history. At least half of what I read is non fiction, and the fiction covers a very broad range.

Also liked A Canticle for Leibowitz. Too bad Miller didn't write more. Some other authors I like and recommend are Jack McDevitt, Robert Charles Wilson, and Robert Sawyer.

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Really hard classic science fiction quiz...(try not to google) [View all] First Speaker Jan 2022 OP

Behrooz Schaefer -- the Proteus novels, by the late, great Charles Sheffield. eppur_se_muova Jan 2022 #1

You're right about "Childhood's End"... First Speaker Jan 2022 #2

OK, I guess it's really Beowulf Schaef{f}er in that case. eppur_se_muova Jan 2022 #9

I agree that Cordwainer Smith's science fiction may outlast most other SF. highplainsdem Jan 2022 #13

No, I hadn't read that. It's fascinating...thanks for sharing. First Speaker Jan 2022 #33

Goose egg Chipper Chat Jan 2022 #3

Is the quiz hard, or the science fiction? Coventina Jan 2022 #4

The sci fi is mostly not... malthaussen Jan 2022 #24

4 - 5 Tetrachloride Jan 2022 #5

Number 10. Martin Padway. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2022 #6

Who's GoH at COSine? highplainsdem Jan 2022 #8

C.J. Cherryh. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2022 #14

I read Cherryh's early work, long ago. I'm sorry she can't be there in person, highplainsdem Jan 2022 #16

Right! And your story sounds very similar to mine... First Speaker Jan 2022 #10

I'm sending you a PM. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2022 #15

Sietch Tabr - Frank Herbert's Dune highplainsdem Jan 2022 #7

Right on all counts! First Speaker Jan 2022 #11

I had those books, and hundreds more, long, long ago, highplainsdem Jan 2022 #12

For what my opinion is worth, and my timeline is different from yours, PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2022 #17

Not sure how different our timelines are. I was in my teens when the New Wave started in SF, and highplainsdem Jan 2022 #19

I'm older, 73. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2022 #28

I read everything I could get my hands on as a kid, whether from my parents' own library highplainsdem Jan 2022 #32

I got turned on to sci-fi in 1968... malthaussen Jan 2022 #25

I likewise don't care for superheroes. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2022 #29

Magnifico is The Mule. Jeebo Jan 2022 #18

I'm embarrassed I didn't get that one. I wrote a term paper on that trilogy. But that was 50 years highplainsdem Jan 2022 #20

Yes to all... First Speaker Jan 2022 #34

#5 is The Prophet. Heinlein, If this goes on, maybe? ms liberty Jan 2022 #21

Correct! First Speaker Jan 2022 #35

13. Adam Selene lapfog_1 Jan 2022 #22

You got it! First Speaker Jan 2022 #36

Scudder is from "If this Goes On" and "Revolt in 2100" malthaussen Jan 2022 #23

Yep... First Speaker Jan 2022 #37

19. The Jewel of Judgment is from Roger Zelazny's Amber series. FSogol Jan 2022 #26

Really good series. Read it a couple of times when it first came out, including the highplainsdem Jan 2022 #30

Lord of Lght is great, but his real masterpiece (IMO) is Eye of Cat. FSogol Jan 2022 #31

Zelazny is fun, and I love Amber... malthaussen Jan 2022 #39

No Magnus Ridolph , Nathan Brazil, Louis Gridley Wu, or Virgil Samms? FSogol Jan 2022 #27

Maybe next time... First Speaker Jan 2022 #38