Gee - some interesting titles being mentioned here. Don't forget Eric Frank Russell he wrote a good book called "Sentinels from Space" which was fun to read & thought provoking...Think it was James H. Schmidt (not sure of that at all) but the book was " the Witches of Karres " again a good read. Olaf Stapledon - I first heard of him in a book review in "Analog" magazine. Starmaker is a great book as were "Sirius" & the rather lengthy but good "Last & First Men". So much depends on taste Yeah. Alfred Bester - "The Stars my Destination" somebody do a script & turn this into a movie..... How about a Slashdot poll on who should play Gully Foyle. Bester did some clinkers too ie. "Prometheus Man". Frederick Pohl's "the Marching Morons" series were good short stories with some relevance to the rising GDP...for fantasy beside the many mentioned, there is Fletcher Pratt's "the Well of the Unicorn". Fred Saberhagen did a loose series about an altered Earth " Empire of the East" & a raft of "Sword" books that were also pretty good & kept you turning pages.
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Gee - some interesting titles being mentioned here. Don't forget Eric Frank Russell he wrote a good book called "Sentinels from Space" which was fun to read & thought provoking...Think it was James H. Schmidt (not sure of that at all) but the book was " the Witches of Karres " again a good read. Olaf Stapledon - I first heard of him in a book review in "Analog" magazine. Starmaker is a great book as were "Sirius" & the rather lengthy but good "Last & First Men". So much depends on taste
Yeah. Alfred Bester - "The Stars my Destination" somebody do a script & turn this into a movie..... How about a Slashdot poll on who should play Gully Foyle. Bester did some clinkers too ie. "Prometheus Man". Frederick Pohl's "the Marching Morons" series were good short stories with some relevance to the rising GDP...for fantasy beside the many mentioned, there is Fletcher Pratt's "the Well of the Unicorn". Fred Saberhagen did a loose series about an altered Earth " Empire of the East" & a raft of "Sword" books that were also pretty good & kept you turning pages.