Terry Coombs wrote:
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> Â*Â* But , but , Asimov's Foundation series ! I was always a hard SciFi
> fan , but then Pern , Xanth , and Heinlein's future histories were also
> part of my range of interests .

well sure those were good reads, but i liked many
others besides.

i don't watch tv and haven't for many years. if
it weren't for books i'd have been in sad shape
(before the age of the internet came along)...

Xanth was fun for a while, i liked a lot of Piers
Anthony's books and collected most of them and then
i thought i was going to move so i got rid of a lot
of my book collection and then a few weeks later it
turned out i didn't move so i had to try to get a
decent book collection built up again. a few of
those books i never have found again.

for hard science fiction i like Robert Forward's
books, but in recent times there've not been too
many author's i've followed much. Alistair Reynolds
is one i do like a lot.

in the elder days i like Saberhagen's Berzerker
series and, Gordon Dickson's books and ...

i like to put some fantasy books in from time to
time just to keep some variety too.

i keep a nice collection of all sort of things
here at home just in case of the end-times and
also things i like to re-read and too many old
college text-books that have no meaning to me now
other than i spent way too much for them and hate to
think of turning them into worm food, but for most
of them they are so out of date (computer science
texts) they really aren't worth anything or even
worth reading through again. i do have a paper
shredder for working through my old college notes
and stuff i should get rid of to free up some more
space, but that project is some time in the future
as right now i'm sorting beans and getting ready
for spring planting/projects.


songbird