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Re: Older SciFi
by Mikey » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:30 pm
Maybe it was jsut me, but did you lol when you read "Waterspider?"
"You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?"
"I fought with a lot of people in the war."
"And your husband?"
"I fight with him sometimes, too."
"I fought with a lot of people in the war."
"And your husband?"
"I fight with him sometimes, too."
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Re: Older SciFi
by Sionnach Glic » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:31 pm
Yup.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
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Re: Older SciFi
by GrahamKennedy » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:51 pm
Deepcrush wrote:Has anyone here read John Steakley's "Armor"? He took a great deal from Starship Troopers but gave us a much more depressing and dark list of characters to feel from.
I read that. Very bleak book, very compelling - put me in mind of World War I with the "senseless slaughter of war" kind of feel. But I was badly let down by the structure... the sudden changeover to a much less interesting story, with the rest of the plot told in flashbacks. I really didn't like that.
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Re: Older SciFi
by Varthikes » Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:41 am
The oldest science fiction book I've read was H.G. Well's Time Machine.
Unless you consider Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court science fiction (it's got time travel...sort of).
Unless you consider Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court science fiction (it's got time travel...sort of).
"What has been done has been done and cannot be undone."--Ruth, All the Weyrs of Pern
"Dragons can't change who they are, and who would want them to? Dragons are powerful, amazing creatures."--Hiccup, Dragons: Riders of Berk
"Dragons can't change who they are, and who would want them to? Dragons are powerful, amazing creatures."--Hiccup, Dragons: Riders of Berk
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Re: Older SciFi
by Mikey » Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:43 pm
The oldest I've read were probably Verne's books. I am the only person I know of who's read through some of Burroughs' "Mars" serials.
"You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?"
"I fought with a lot of people in the war."
"And your husband?"
"I fight with him sometimes, too."
"I fought with a lot of people in the war."
"And your husband?"
"I fight with him sometimes, too."
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