Pretty good book, horrible movie.
So-so book, never made into a movie that I know of.
You can see I had a thing for catastrophism.
Posted on 12/13/2013 8:49:04 PM PST by Kip Russell
“The Chrysalids” John Wyndham
Pretty good book, horrible movie.
So-so book, never made into a movie that I know of.
You can see I had a thing for catastrophism.
And you learn about history, as well.
Read it, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
“Bid Time Return”
The whole recluse series by L. E. Modesitt. Outstanding fantasy, a series that rivals Tolkien in its other worldliness (?), yet far less dark. Fun to read and reread.
Wow, what are the odds we’d pick the same author (Wyndham)
Ever read the "Casca" series by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, author of The Ballad of the Green Berets?
I’m a fan of Wyndham, I even have “Chocky” and “Trouble With Lichen”.
Ray Bradbury’s “Graveyard for Lunatics”
Terry Brooks- sword of Shanara series.
There was a comic adaptation:
The first few issues are very good, but it goes downhill after the original creative team leaves.
Because he’s a great author! “Out of the Deeps/The Kraken Wakes” for instance.
But I also liked the "Wizard" series, weird though it was, about a living wheel-type space station near Saturn. I can't even find a cover image of the books.
A Canticle For Liebowicz
read all of louis Lamour books and got ticked off when he up and died. His writting of the old west are the best. In fact it started out in I think scotland, the ancestors of those that came to america. (just from my memory). He wrote many short stories for magazines also. Many he later turned into full novels...
Sword of Shannara - only the first one though. The rest were pale copies, imo.
Have to quibble with that one, it's not exactly obscure...the Shanara series was a bestseller.
Here’s my picks:
The Survivors aka Prison Planet, by Tom Godwin: Neat little sci-fi novel from the 1950s about human survivors stranded on an incredibly hostile world by an enemy alien race known as the Gern. The clever twist on the standard “desert isle” story is that the story plays out over centuries, and dozens of generations. Not a real deep novel, but a good, fun read.
Press Enter, by John Varley: A 1985 novella something along the lines of Skynet in the Terminator (only without the Terminator). Some of the computer concepts in the story are a little dated, but it is still a top flight, and chilling bit of cyberparanoia.
The Kedigern Chronicles, by John Morressy: Light-hearted, clever, and often hilarious take on the fantasy genre.
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