From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:45:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7871fcf50812031145l3f1de12dk26d4579c9442bf62@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb4c8d190812031102l796cb377q41aed32f08bc9a41@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
<lorenzobivens@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Dune is a must read for any scifi fan...
Dune is one of the few books I put down partly-read. Came a point
where I just didn't care what happened to the characters on the other
side of the page, and I never turned the page to look.
Try for some of the older books and authors—Hal Clement, Lester del
Rey, Fredric Brown, C. M. Kornbluth, C. L. Moore. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_Fiction>.
> I am a retro-scifi fan... I love to read the stories, but sometimes a
> 50's movie can tell a story quite nicely... Crappy FX require a better
> plot to keep you watching...
In the visual media, Joss Whedon's Firefly is some of the best science
fiction I've seen.
> - Solaris (both Soviet and American remake)
Also read the story. Or other books by Stanisław Lem.
—Joel
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2008-12-03 11:54 ` Uriel
2008-12-03 18:25 ` Eris Discordia
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2008-12-03 19:02 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-12-03 19:45 ` Joel C. Salomon [this message]
2008-12-03 20:09 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens
2008-12-03 20:29 ` Sebastian Arvidsson Liem
2008-12-03 20:40 ` Eris Discordia
2008-12-03 21:55 ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-12-03 20:22 ` Tod Beardsley
2008-12-03 22:56 ` Joel C. Salomon
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2008-12-04 0:02 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-12-03 23:17 Eris Discordia
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2008-12-04 18:10 ` Brian L. Stuart
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