Have any of you read the series by Kevin Anderson, Saga of Seven Suns?
Ive recently finished book 5. Well worth reading

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http://www.dragonmount.com/News/?p=326 news of the last wheel of time novel

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

[i]from an article: New model 'permits time travel' . . .

"Quantum mechanics distinguishes between something that might happen and something that did happen," Professor Dan Greenberger, of the City University of New York, US, told the BBC News website.

Greenberger and colleague Karl Svozil introduce their quantum mechanical model of time travel on the ArXiv e-print service.

. . . Dr Who - Classics

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I found that the book "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard was a pretty good read. The movie plot doesn't even come close to encompassing the book's content.

So very true, the book was excellent. But then most books are better than the movie.

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David Stites
Pullman, WA USA

I've been reading the Hyperion books and I must recommend them. If you want a roller coaster ride and interesting thoughtful plot the they are for you. Thanks to whoever it was that recommended them (can't seem to find the original post)

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Edit: ahh. it was Dave Lee. Thanks Dave.

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Rush, I think if you took a lot of the feminism out of Tepper, you'd be kinda missing the point. From a female perspective it's great to have an author writing about issues that effect me.

The challenge is to make it a seemless part of the story, and it seems that if I would be missing the point, and given David's further comments, then she hasn't met that challenge. Which is fine, it's her story.

Let's not forget Stephen Donaldson. 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever'

While I loved that set, and I've probably read it three or four times, did anyone else get the idea that Thomas was just a whiner? That so many of the problems involved could have been solved if he wasn't just a self-absorbed ass?

Thomas Covenant was very annoying, but, why couldn't we stop reading?
I'm sure I loved lina and she is still my choice of fantasy woman.

I started science and science fiction as soon as I could read {about 8}. Started with 'Welsh folk magic' {Perhaps because my grandfather was English/Welsh} Susan Cooper and Alan Garner. I had read those before 9, then totally annihilated Ursula le Guin's 'Wizard of Earthsea'. At the age of ten I was busy with Physics, Quantum mechanics and started with my telescope and microscope at 12. So, I guess I should just say that I totally worship everyone involved with science fiction and science {has everyone read everything?}

Rom 'Spaceknight' is the governor of comics [Sorry don't wanna argue, thats another thread].

Serious anthropology and archaeology authors.

Thor Heyerdahl. [The ra expidition is human anthropology quest personified].

Eric Von Daniken. [Perhap's Chariots of the Gods most influencial book].

Arthur C Clarke. [For his continuing contribution to supporting the fraternity from the floorboards].


AND THOSE MADMEN WHO LIKE ME GET LOST WITH THEIR TENT.

Just finished "His Dark Materials" (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman. Certainly not the best book(s) I've ever read but it was kind of entertaining.

Currently reading "The Dragonbone Chair" by Tad Williams, book 1 of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. So far it's been a typical fantasy tale. Small village boy who never really fits in...hooks up with the Castle "doctor" and starts learning the history of their world. The old king dies and is replaced by his eldest son who has questionable intentions, etc. etc. etc.

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Currently reading "The Dragonbone Chair" by Tad Williams, book 1 of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. So far it's been a typical fantasy tale. Small village boy who never really fits in...hooks up with the Castle "doctor" and starts learning the history of their world. The old king dies and is replaced by his eldest son who has questionable intentions, etc. etc. etc.

Yeah..i didn't really like those books. They are ok...but I wouldn't read them again.

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I found that the book "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard was a pretty good read. The movie plot doesn't even come close to encompassing the book's content.

So very true, the book was excellent. But then most books are better than the movie.

I read the book too...Then saw the movie...If you wanted comedy...John Travolta would have been funny in the movie...if it had been a comedy...I enjoyed the book...The movie was a big disappointment.

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. . . re-reading 'The Veiled Web' - by Dr. Catherine Asaro Theoretical Physicist . . .

Catherine Asaro is a Nebula Award winner for her novel THE QUANTUM ROSE, part of her popular Skolian Empire series . . .

She has a Ph.D. in chemical physics and a masters in physics, both from Harvard, and has done research at the University of Toronto, the Max Planck Institute, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

A former ballet and jazz dancer, she founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at Harvard and danced on both the west and east coasts. She also coaches the nationally award-winning math teams for the Howard Area Homeschoolers . . .

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