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Maybe it was jsut me, but did you lol when you read "Waterspider?"

Yup.

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.

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).

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.