The Nightstar Zoo

I personally enjoy the works of Robert A. Heinlen, H. Beam Piper, Alexandre Dumas and Kieth Laumer.

Just looking for someone new to look for at the used book store.

Hemingway.

George Orwell and Douglas Adams

Not sure...Mark Twain, maybe.

Robert Heinlein and Douglas Adams.

_________________
Fandemonium 2010 -- No Boundaries.
http://www.fandemonium.org
Friday - Sunday, August 6th - 8th, 2010
Nampa Civic Center - Nampa, Idaho (Only 20 minutes from the airport!)
(Idaho: It ain't just potatoes anymore.)

Uhh... you like Heinlein, so... Asimov. Hubbard (no, you don't have to be a scientologist).

I don't know if you'd dig it, but I'm a big fan of the Beat authors too, like Kerouac and Ginsberg.

I'm gonna be real obvious here and say Tolkien.
I kinda liked Dostoyevski as well. (or however you people spell it)

"The Idiot" is the only book I've read by him, but judging from it the guy wasn't half bad... I was pleasantly surprised when the book turned out to be an entertaining, interesting and sometimes even funny read instead of the über-cultural boring old tome I had expected.

_________________
Living in a state free from the burdens of privacy and democracy since 2008-06-18.

Actually, I'm quite partial to a ew Shakespeare plays.

Mary Shelley.

Yeah, I got hooked on him like that too.
I had to read "Crime and Punishment" for school, and I thought "Oh no, it's so long... this sucks."
Then I started reading it on a train when I was visiting relatives, and in the 3-hour ride I read almost the whole book.
After that when I came home I read them all, one by one.

I've read a number of Thomas Hardy's books. Far From the Madding Crowd is the only one I have any recollection of, though.

Asimov, Heinlein, and Adams have all been mentioned . . . .

Philip K. Dick, Mark Twain, and Jules Verne, to name an eclectic few.

I have read some of the suggested authors already, but a few I over looked during the years...so I have some searching to do on the others.

Thanks again for the suggestions.

Bob Shaw. His "Wooden Spaceships" trilogy is excellent. Unfortunately it's a trilogy because he died suddenly before finishing the fourth book.

Yes, the physics in the books are impossible, but you eventually find out why. Then you'll wish Shaw hadn't died so you could explore more.

_________________
Fandemonium!
August 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2014

"I am a machine. I am a weapon of war. I am a destroyer of life in the service of life, the sword and shield of my human creators." Bolo Invincibilus, Mark XXIII, Model B (Experimental) 0075-NKE "Nike".

Jewls Vern

I haven't read a whole lot of his stuff but I really did the short stories of Anton Chekhov. He really knows how to bring out sexual tension in a story.

Roald Dahl. His adult short stories (think "Tales of the Unexpected) are brilliant.

I love S. Morgenstern.

And I bet no one has ever heard of him.

Jack L. Chalker, especially his three Wellworld series. The first series is five books, though the first three were meant to be a single book. At that time, publishers wouldn't print such large SF&F books and insisted it be split.

The second trilogy picks up where the first left off, while the final two books are set much later and involve none of the characters from the first eight books.

"The Rings of the Master" is another excellent series, unlike so many book series it pretty well wraps up the tale in four fairly thick volumes.

_________________
Fandemonium!
August 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2014

"I am a machine. I am a weapon of war. I am a destroyer of life in the service of life, the sword and shield of my human creators." Bolo Invincibilus, Mark XXIII, Model B (Experimental) 0075-NKE "Nike".

RA Lafferty. If you haven't read his stuff, your life has a whole in it you haven't noticed

Anne McCaffrey. Too bad her publisher wouldn't get off its arse and publish the last Pern book she and her son wrote. Now she's gone and *now* the book is going to print.

I'm hoping Todd will at least finish the book she was working on (and off and on) for years, set after the end of the Ninth Pass.

_________________
Fandemonium!
August 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2014

"I am a machine. I am a weapon of war. I am a destroyer of life in the service of life, the sword and shield of my human creators." Bolo Invincibilus, Mark XXIII, Model B (Experimental) 0075-NKE "Nike".