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Old 12th January 2006, 05:22 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Re: Sci-Fi Recommendations - for the unenlightened
Day of the Tryphids, as Jimmy recommends - I love this book.
Also Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein, Dune which I'm sure has been mentioned, and the Helliconia trilogy by Brian Aldiss.
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Old 12th January 2006, 07:53 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Sorry to pull you up on spelling it is "Day of the Triffids". I'll run before I get beaten.
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Old 12th January 2006, 08:12 PM   #48 (permalink)
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I know it's been posted before, but it needs a post devoted entirely to it:
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
I've never read anything as good before in science fiction. It's about Charlie Gordon, janitor, IQ 68, and a mouse, Algernon. Science has come up with a way to artificially increase intelligence. Until Algernon, the intelligence didn't last long. Charlie enthusiastically agrees to be the first human subject. Simply an amazing psychological novel - written in the narrative style of a diary, by Charlie - starting off with his barely literate prose, and increasing gradually improving through the book.

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I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart.
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Old 12th January 2006, 08:18 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Hey, Rane Longfox, belated I know, but I like your recommendations list!
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Old 12th January 2006, 09:06 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Sorry to pull you up on spelling it is "Day of the Triffids". I'll run before I get beaten.
Thanks for that :P

We studied Flowers for Algernon in English three or four years ago, it's really interesting. I agree with Brys.
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Old 13th January 2006, 05:12 AM   #51 (permalink)
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I enjoyed

Frank Herbert's Dune books
David Brin's Uplift books
Jack L. Chalker's Well of Souls books
Joan D. Vinge's books:
The Snow Queen
World's End
The Summer Queen
Tangled Up In Blue
Also her Psion series:
Psion
Catspaw
Dreamfall
Andre Norton's Starman's Son
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Old 13th January 2006, 05:25 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Thanks for that :P

We studied Flowers for Algernon in English three or four years ago, it's really interesting. I agree with Brys.
Lucky! When I was still doing English the best novel we studied was the Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy) and a lot of Shakespeare and a few other unmemorable plays and novels.
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Old 14th January 2006, 12:51 AM   #53 (permalink)
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Lucky! When I was still doing English the best novel we studied was the Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy) and a lot of Shakespeare and a few other unmemorable plays and novels.
Yeh join the club as far as the unmemorable stuff goes altogiuh we did do a copuler of nityruging plays by Lord Dunasny although I didn't know who he was at the time...

Still I've done my best to readdress the balance since then...
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Old 14th January 2006, 02:44 AM   #54 (permalink)
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Earlier, Brys promotes and quotes from:
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Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
"I dint know mice were so smart"...
Then various posts, and:

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...Yeh join the club as far as the unmemorable stuff goes altogiuh we did do a copuler of nityruging plays by Lord Dunasny although I didn't know who he was at the time...

Still I've done my best to readdress the balance since then...
I had to do a take or four to work out if Id missed something, but I gave up through laughter

I make my own connexions, I guess
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Old 14th January 2006, 03:21 AM   #55 (permalink)
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Hey, Rane Longfox, belated I know, but I like your recommendations list!
I thought you might Neal I don't read much classic sci-fi, but modern British sci-fi is my staple diet. Yourself, Peter Hamilton, Iain Banks and Al Reynolds are my pantheon of sci-fi gods
Good ego trip, this forum, eh?
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Old 14th January 2006, 03:39 AM   #56 (permalink)
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I had to do a take or four to work out if Id missed something, but I gave up through laughter
What happens when you're in a hurry somewhere GRRR........
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Old 14th January 2006, 03:43 AM   #57 (permalink)
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I make my own connexions, I guess
Inventing new words HUH?.....

*GOLLUM makes a note: My influence is rubbing off MUWHAHA!!!... *
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Old 16th January 2006, 05:42 PM   #58 (permalink)
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lol
Check it out first please: nothing wrong with making or writing connexions!!!
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Old 17th January 2006, 12:00 AM   #59 (permalink)
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Check it out first please: nothing wrong with making or writing connexions!!!
Just teasing....

Cool word as Dickens, Aristotle and Jane Austen appear to have made use of it..
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Old 17th January 2006, 12:47 AM   #60 (permalink)
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Heh, are they recommendations for us unenlightened?
(I could make a bet that Socrates taught Aristotle... that they were NOT speaking or writing in English :P)
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