Funny man. I had spent at least 10 minutes on a post to you and lost it. That's frustrating.
I think the first sci-fi I ever read was Stranger In A Strange Land, Heinlein. It was a strange book alright, Heinlein likes to weave homosexuality into his plots. The "stranger" ended up being some sort of bi-sexual christ like figure who started his own religion and of course was killed in the end. Asimov's Robot series was great and I was mildly depressed when I finished them all, no more to read. Hogan's Ganymede series was great, I have them all in paperback signed by the author. The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle, outstanding sci-fi. They wrote a lot of great sci-fi.
PS I was just a little kid when I read my first book, The Bedford Incident by Mark Rascovich, I still have it. It was my dad's. A cold war story.
A great series about ancient japanese samurai is MUSASHI by Eiji Yoshikawa (5 books), the best. Everyone has read Shogun, Tai-Pan. Everyone should read every book Leon Uris ever wrote, especially Mila 18 about the Warsaw ghetto. Ken Follet, all his books especially Pillars of the Earth. Ivanhoe, Tale of Two Cities, In a Dark Wood Wandering (by Hella S. Haasse), Jack London, John La'Carre, Len Deighton, Terry C. Johnson, Alan W. Eckert, well, and so on. These are some of my favorite author's and books. I could do nothing but read given the chance, and I have at times in my life done just that. |
