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Post by wildfire2099 on May 24, 2014 7:24:34 GMT -5
I like most of what I've read of Mike Resnick.. he's got a sci-fi series I liked, and a private eye series with fantastic creatures that's pretty fun (neither of which I recall the name of)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 24, 2014 10:44:22 GMT -5
I like most of what I've read of Mike Resnick.. he's got a sci-fi series I liked, and a private eye series with fantastic creatures that's pretty fun (neither of which I recall the name of) There's a 2nd called more Whatdunits,possibly a 3rd. There's a story by his daughter in the book-hey,whats wrong with a little nepotiism My favorite anthologist would be Martin H Greenberg or rather I own more from him than anyone else.He worked with Assimov quite often as well |
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Post by gothos on May 24, 2014 11:57:29 GMT -5
I'm reading GONE WITH THE WIND for the first time in my book-group. Anyone else delved into this infamous tome afore?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 24, 2014 12:41:48 GMT -5
It's not hard to have a lot of anthologies by Martin Greenberg as he's edited roughly 900 million of them.
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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 25, 2014 7:49:18 GMT -5
It's not hard to have a lot of anthologies by Martin Greenberg as he's edited roughly 900 million of them. I only have 450 million of them or so.  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 25, 2014 8:19:04 GMT -5
Someone should do an anthology of The Best Of Martin Greenberg Anthologies
It is kind of strange to note,as best as I know,he never wrote a story himself
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 27, 2014 19:35:01 GMT -5
Finished up Flashman and the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser.
This one is usually considered among, if not the very best of the Flashman novels. And it kind of is...I just think I maybe wasn't quite in the mood for it. And Flashy still seems to be suffering from a bit too much heroism in this one.
Flashy finds himself in the middle of the Sepoy Rebellion and is desperately trying to save himself. A good entry...but not quite the best for my money. The major plus is that Frasier knows his history and this is an area I wasn't terribly familiar with.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 27, 2014 19:48:26 GMT -5
Never heard of that series before... sounds cool though. Is it kinda like an anti-Sharpe?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 27, 2014 20:16:02 GMT -5
Well Flashman predates Sharpe by a dozen years. But kind of.
He was the bully in Tom Brown's School Days. But Fraser took the character and wrote about his exploits as an army officer and adventurer. The thing is...he's an utter coward and a cad. He'll never fight if he can run. He is constantly bedding any woman he can. But he always comes out...mostly on top, generally by sheer luck.
They're fun reads, but Fraser was really good about getting his history mostly right.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 27, 2014 21:31:23 GMT -5
Finished up Flashman and the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser. This one is usually considered among, if not the very best of the Flashman novels. And it kind of is...I just think I maybe wasn't quite in the mood for it. And Flashy still seems to be suffering from a bit too much heroism in this one. Flashy finds himself in the middle of the Sepoy Rebellion and is desperately trying to save himself. A good entry...but not quite the best for my money. The major plus is that Frasier knows his history and this is an area I wasn't terribly familiar with. with Malcolm McDowall is on my list of films to watch which,I believe,is an adaptation from 1975.Have you seen it and if so,opinion? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 27, 2014 23:15:40 GMT -5
I watched it two or three months back. It's enjoyable. Keep in mind that Royal Flash is a riff on The Prisoner of Zenda. Of course the conceit in the book is that Anthony Hope cribbed his book from Flashman's actual adventures.
It's not the best film in the world, but it's an enjoyable piece of fluff.
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Post by berkley on May 28, 2014 0:08:05 GMT -5
Big fan of the Flashman series, though I haven't read anything since the early 90s. Loads of fun.
Currently reading The Last Chronicle of Barset. Hadn't read any Anthony Trollope at all until just a couple years ago but I'm a fan now. I've read all the previous books in the Barset series and the first of the Pallisers. Hard to describe what makes his novels so involving - on one level they're just really well written soap operas - but I'm hooked.
Some favourite anthologists:
Peter Haining (too many to mention)
Sam Moskowitz (e.g. Horrors in Hiding)
Leo Marguilies (for his cheap Weird Tales collections, if nothing else)
Groff Conklin (e.g. Great Science Fiction by Scientists)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 28, 2014 23:22:14 GMT -5
Those Idiots From Earth-Richard Wilson (1957)10 short stories from 1952 to 1956 originally published in Galaxy,If,Amazing Stories,Magazine of F & SF and Science Fiction Quarterly.Wilson was fairly prolific for the SF magazines in the 50s. And as the title of the collection suggests,he liked to point out the foibles of humans in his stories. They ranged both satirical and serious.The stories here are simply written and topics include The Hoaxters-A boy cried wolf takeoff with 2 lonely miners on an asteroid broadcasting an emergency just so they can get some company to party with Lonely Road-A twilght zone type of tale as a man driving long distance begins to realize the road has been completely empty for awhile and nobody is in town as well Press Conference-The president announces he just had a meeting with the first Martian It's Cold Outside-A couple are slowly realizing that the future city-state society they live in is oppresive and what lies beyond might be better Love-A blind earth woman falls in love with a martian and deals with the racial stigma attached Entertaining stories,nothing deep or literary.Easy reading. 
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Post by berkley on May 30, 2014 1:11:22 GMT -5
I love the sort of semi-abstract cover painting you see on some of the American sf books from the 50s and early 60s. This one that Ish posted above is an excellent example. I can't quite make out the signature of the artist in the upper left-hand corner but I'd be tempted to buy a paperback for that cover. I haven't heard of the writer, but I like the title as well.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 30, 2014 1:16:14 GMT -5
I love the sort of semi-abstract cover painting you see on some of the American sf books from the 50s and early 60s. This one that Ish posted above is an excellent example. I can't quite make out the signature of the artist in the upper left-hand corner but I'd be tempted to buy a paperback for that cover. I haven't heard of the writer, but I like the title as well. The artist is named Powers |
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