My Thanks To You All

[Guest greatness]

ChgoBoy as a moderator~~~

 

I second that.. I think ChgoBoy would be a good moderator~~

[seeker630]

Ok - I have to stand up for Robery Heinlein. He was my favorite SF author for decades.

 

Perhaps Heinlein, Asimov & Clarke are the trinity. But then, we have to slip Bradbury in somewhere!

[+ deej]

Perhaps Heinlein, Asimov & Clarke are the trinity. But then, we have to slip Bradbury in somewhere!

 

Add Pournelle & Niven and this is the group that got me through the college years (which went on WAY too long).

[+ ArVaGuy]

Ok - I have to stand up for Robery Heinlein. He was my favorite SF author for decades.

 

Perhaps Heinlein, Asimov & Clarke are the trinity. But then, we have to slip Bradbury in somewhere!

 

Frank Herbert. The Dune series is a masterpiece.

[NYTomcat]

Jesus boys. ... you just mention Asimov and look what happened. Ok my point was That art should not be defined. Maplethorpe Or grandma Moses. But I can see That TV and pop music perhaps need a place of their own do That They Dont overwhelm. The beauty That is Broadway and classical opera and symphony. Perhaps a pop culture forum is needed as well. Im not usually an apartheid player but in this instance I think it might be Better seperate but equal.

 

Im sure Asimov would approve. As would Raymond feist for Those fantasy readers out There. God keep this up and we will need a literary forum LOL.

[Romann]

Right!

 

FWIW, I agree.

 

Yet another thing I had absolutely nothing to do with but will probably get blamed for.

 

You didn't get the memo that everything wrong is all your fault? You naughty boy! Sounds like it's time for a spanking from Daddy.

 

Where's my belt? I seemed to have misplaced it.

[gp0560]

Two SF questions

 

Ok - I have to stand up for Robery Heinlein. He was my favorite SF author for decades.

 

Perhaps Heinlein, Asimov & Clarke are the trinity. But then, we have to slip Bradbury in somewhere!

 

As long as this thread is so off the rails anyway, let me ask if you can identify the name of a Heinlein book, written mainly for young folks back around 1950-55, in which the young hero qualifies for some award/admission/promotion thingy (maybe space cadet training) by analyzing an extremely convoluted piece of logic?

 

For the second question, I can't even remember the author's name, but it's not one of the four in your list. The novel involves a battle with beings who float above Earth and subsist on the energy produced by strong human emotions. Makes me think of how fat they would get on all the gay energy produced by our forum contributors!

[NYTomcat]

As long as this thread is so off the rails anyway, let me ask if you can identify the name of a Heinlein book, written mainly for young folks back around 1950-55, in which the young hero qualifies for some award/admission/promotion thingy (maybe space cadet training) by analyzing an extremely convoluted piece of logic?

 

For the second question, I can't even remember the author's name, but it's not one of the four in your list. The novel involves a battle with beings who float above Earth and subsist on the energy produced by strong human emotions. Makes me think of how fat they would get on all the gay energy produced by our forum contributors!

 

Hell I alone could feed a family of 4.

[seeker630]

The wonder years!

 

Dune [/url]series is a masterpiece.

I discovered both Tolkien & Frank Herbert in college - and probably my favorite novel of all, 'Lord of Light' by Roger Zelazny (which reads as fantasy, tho it's technically science fiction)

 

I really appreciate those authors with a well-conceived & detailed universe for their stories - Herbert, Niven, Tolkien, etc.

[+ purplekow]

Any Douglas Adams fans?

[seeker630]

Space Cadet?

 

As long as this thread is so off the rails anyway, let me ask if you can identify the name of a Heinlein book, written mainly for young folks back around 1950-55, in which the young hero qualifies for some award/admission/promotion thingy (maybe space cadet training) by analyzing an extremely convoluted piece of logic?

 

For the second question, I can't even remember the author's name, but it's not one of the four in your list. The novel involves a battle with beings who float above Earth and subsist on the energy produced by strong human emotions. Makes me think of how fat they would get on all the gay energy produced by our forum contributors!

 

[No, not talking about myself!] I don't remember much about the Heinlein 'juveniles' (after all, that was over 40 years ago), but looking at the summaries, it *could have been 'Space Cadet' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet

[gp0560]

[No, not talking about myself!] I don't remember much about the Heinlein 'juveniles' (after all, that was over 40 years ago), but looking at the summaries, it *could have been 'Space Cadet' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet

 

That sounds like it, and I have already ordered it from the library. Some juvenile I am!

 

BTW, great thanks for not saying, "Why don't you just look it up, dum-dum!"

[+ deej]

any douglas adams fans?

 

don't panic!

[AdamSmith]

Perhaps Heinlein, Asimov & Clarke are the trinity. But then, we have to slip Bradbury in somewhere!

 

Hear, hear!

 

And not to forget the incomparable Gordon R. Dickson.

 

Nor the irreplaceable Stanislaw Lem. I find myself reading & re-reading his 'Golem' novella obsessively, among others.

[KMEM]

But, are you compelled to do so?

 

Best regards,

KMEM