SARS 'Could Kill One in Seven"

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[blam]

"I just learned that the hard way in another thread."

LOL. I learned it about two years ago. The closest I ever came to getting kicked off FR was when I called her an idiot. I just ignore all her posts now.

[riri]

Some here feel that by trying to disrupt any thread on SARS they are pushing the disease itself away

It has to go deeper than what is appears to be on the surface, for sure. I guess I just don't get it. I don't understand the Lacie Peterson fascination, ditto with the Dixie Chicks and Jeanine Garlafalo (sp) and, for the life of me, I'll never understand why a Madonna thread will have 850 replies in less than forty five minutes but I don't race to every thread berating the posters, calling names and ridiculing. I just scroll past them.

[TheLion]

You have missed some great works if you missed Simak. He and A.E. Van Vogt are my two favorites.

Simak did "Time and Again","Time is the Simplest Thing","They Walked Like Men", "Way Station" (Maybe his best work and won a Hugo),"Why Call them Back From Heaven?",A Choice of Gods","City", Cosmic Engineers".

Just a partial list. If you read nothing else of Simak, I would read "Time is the Simplest Thing" and "Way Station". You won't reget it!

[TaxRelief]

Actually, African villages are quite spread out in many parts and even the cities don't have the same sort of "common areas". They don't even close the windows on the buses.

[nopardons]

First learn what an ad hominem is; them attempt to use it correctly. :-)

[nopardons]

Simak also wrote a book, with the same title as Finney's " TIME AND AGAIN " ? Is it also about time travel ?

Thanks for the book list...I'll see if I can find some of these.

[TheLion]

"Simak also wrote a book, with the same title as Finney's " TIME AND AGAIN " ? Is it also about time travel ? "

Yes it is and very good. I find Simak's along with Heinlein's early works to be more enjoyable.

Did you ever read "Earth Abides" by Stewart? That book, really got me into SF. I think it was written in the 40's. It was about a plague that wiped out most of the world...good reading.

[nopardons]

Yes, I read " EARTH ABIDES " a very long time ago.

Heinlein got me hooked, when I was 9 and I've been reading this stuff for a VERY long time.

Have you read any Pierre Boule, who wrote the novella that " PLANET OF THE APES " was made from ? His other stories are also quite good. And, Ira Levin's " THIS PERFECT DAY " is a must read; if you haven't.