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Comment #3023

2022-04-03T13:23:04Z

Thanks, Linda! Lots to investigate. Much appreciated!

Comment #3022

2022-04-03T00:28:03Z

Eric, my apologies for being so slow to respond. Your question sent me down a rabbit hole of a "highest recommended books" overall. But for new science fiction, I'll have to recommend Brandon Sanderson's books, which you've seen mentioned here before. It's not hard-science fiction (which I used to call "not really science fiction at all") but nonetheless pretty amazing stuff. My "gateway book" was The Rithmatist followed by Legion. Now I'm on to Mistborn and Stormlight.

Comment #3021

2022-01-15T00:06:45Z

I had to read it twice to get what you meant, Stephan. I'm about to correct it, so I'll record here that the title originally said, "Books Read in 2121."

Maybe I'll take it as good news, because most days I feel I need another hundred years to tackle my to-do list.

Comment #3020

2022-01-14T22:54:31Z

Particularly impressive given the predictive power of the title. :-)

Comment #3019

2022-01-10T20:27:54Z

Very impressive, or wicked impressive as we used to say. When will you do a "best of" list? I'm interested in new sci fi (just read "Station Eleven", very different from TV series) and loved it. Be interested to know your top 2 or 3 recs.

Comment #3018

2022-01-10T13:27:29Z

Yes, indeed, it is. Amazon has "Randall Garrett: Ultimate Collection" for Kindle for 99 cents, and I couldn't pass it up.

I would say that "ultimate" in the title is a grave misnomer, as it doesn't include the Lord Darcy books themselves, though at least part of one appears in short story form. The length of the stories varies, as does the quality. I would say that nothing approaches the Lord Darcy books, but almost all that I've read so far have been interesting as science fiction, though the fact that so many involve magic, ESP, telekinesis, or the like puts it more in the line of fantasy (which people have long mixed with science fiction). Like the Lord Darcy books, it's very scientific in its fantasy, if that makes sense.

Comment #3017

2022-01-10T03:07:34Z

Is this the same Randall Garrett who wrote the Lord Darcy stories?