Redicovering Arthur C. Clarke

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Have Spacesuit will travel by Robert A Heinlein is one of my favorites by him.

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So who's one of your favorite SciFi authors?

Robert A Heinlin, and Larry Niven are at the top of my list.

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Isaac Asimov is on top of my list right up there with Herman George (H.G.) Wells.

Oh...I like Edgar Rice Burroughs, too.

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How about, "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel."

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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I read Niven's ringworld series. Some very creative ideas there. The most recent installment had the most frenetic pacing of any novel I've ever encountered. Kinda different.

Matt

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Asimov is usually a good read. IMO his short fiction is usually much better than the novels, especially the whole robots series. One notable exception: The Gods Themselves. Excellent book.

Gotta admit I don't think I've read any Burroughs.

Two votes for Have Spacesuit Will Travel. I'll have to pick it up sometime soon.

Matt

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One favorite? can't do it. Here are some though:

Asimov
Clarke
Bova
Pohl
Simmons (one of the few authors who has done well cross genre)
McDevitt

I just finished the second book of The Time Odyssey by Clarke and Baxter. Quite good. The two books so far are quite different in style and scope. Unfortunately, the third book is not due for a while.

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So who's one of your favorite SciFi authors?

Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlin.

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In 1865, Jules Verne wrote a science fiction story entitled, "From the Earth to the Moon." The story outlined the author's vision of a cannon in Florida so powerful that it could shoot a "Projectile-Vehicle" carrying three adventurers to the moon. More than 100 years later NASA produced the Saturn V rocket and from a spaceport in Florida, this rocket turned Verne's fiction into fact.

As spotlights play on the rocket and launch pad at dusk, the last moon shot, Apollo 17, is pictured here awaiting its December 1972 night launch.

Saturn V rocket

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Link no worky.

Matt

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Link no worky.

Try again.. was my inability to type. I have since fixed it.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

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Very cool.

Matt

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I've got a new book to look for.

Rainbows End - by: Vernor Vinge

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Science fiction writers love to ask "What if?" What if a super-intelligent alien race had planted a pair of devices to boost our development at key moments? What if new technologies such as television and electronics become pervasive? George Orwell's answer to the latter, in 1948's 1984, was to show the apparently perfect, controlled society they could enable.
But one thing usually missing is the "how?" At the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference, held in Washington, DC, last month, Vernor Vinge, a retired computer scientist and the author of Rainbows End, provided a compelling explanation of how developing technology and powerful interests could create a society far more invasive and controlled than anything Orwell dreamed of.

The scenario he describes is the background he researched for Rainbows End. Set in 2025, the characters are surrounded by logical extensions of today's developing technology. Wearable computing is commonplace. Tagging and ubiquitous networked sensors mean you can look at the landscape with your choice of overlay and detail. People send each other silent messages and Google for information within conversations with participants who may be physically present or might be remote projections. One character's projection is hijacked and becomes the front for three people. The owner of another remote intelligence is unknown. Several continents' top intelligence operatives try to solve a smart biological attack that infects a test population with the willingness to obey orders.

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"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."