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To: HarleyLady27

The Stars, My Destination


4 posted on 08/01/2015 1:33:44 PM PDT by brivette (lol~)
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To: brivette

“The Stars, My Destination”

Gully Foyle lives!


143 posted on 08/01/2015 4:46:36 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: brivette
The Stars, My Destination

Yess! The best SF story I ever read, I think, although Pohl Anderson's Brain Wave is up there too. Both were novellas, not actual novels.

Most Arthur Clark, A Canticle for Leibowitz are up there too.

Some Heinlein is up there too. Some is not.

I happened to have liked A Torrent of Faces by Blish and Knight. I liked it so much, I ordered a used copy of it on Amazon. Not nearly as good as a 60-year-old as it was as a 13-year-old. Oh well.

Also the novel Nova by Samuel R. Delany was quite good. Contained this line, which I will always remember:

"While I will grasp at night and morning, I will win the noon."

171 posted on 08/01/2015 6:30:52 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: brivette

Awesome book!


212 posted on 08/01/2015 11:49:20 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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