Subj : Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
To   : Foriest Jan Smith
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri May 09 2025 06:49:27

-=> Foriest Jan Smith wrote to Boraxman <=-

 FJS>   Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
 FJS>   By: Boraxman to Foriest Jan Smith on Thu May 08 2025 20:26:00

 > Have you read much Arthur C Clarke?  He probably is my favourite Sci
 > Fi Author.  I'm sure you've also read Dune?

 FJS> No, but I believe I've either read a few of his short stories or heard
 FJS> them on X Minus One. I've very much so been meaning to read Dune (after
 FJS> I eventually start on the Metro series!).

Old Heinlein is good, he's definitely got some odd personal perspectives
that he extrapolates into the future. Starship Troopers was a wonderful
military science fiction story.

Frederick Pohl wrote a series around a future where mankind finds an
alien space station with lots of docked shuttles. People take the
shuttles out and either die horrible deaths or become wealthy if they
bring back scientific finds. Did I mention that they don't know how to
operate the shuttles and are making instructions up as they go along?

The second and third books delve into who made the shuttles and why they
went into hiding.

There's a series of books called the Science Fiction Hall of Fame

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame,_Volume_One,_1929%E2%80%931964

has a great selection of short stories from SF authors from 1929 to
1964. There's a followup with novellas as well.


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