14-11-2003 06:24									#31
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From this list I've positively identified only 10.

	14-11-2003 06:48									#32
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Two: "Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds".

I'm not a fan of sci-fi.

	14-11-2003 08:02									#33
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I can only positively identify 31, but that doesn't mean much. For example, I know I didn't read all of the Foundation cycle, but I can't remember which ones I did read so I only counted the first. Except for The Illustated Man I don't remember the titles of most short story collections I've read, and there are plenty of other books that I may have read but I can't remember for sure if I only saw a movie. I wouldn't be surprised if I've read 70 or 80.

quote: Originally posted by -JRabbit Notably missing from that list -- Robert L. Forward, Spider Robertson, Harry Harrison, M.A. Foster, and many more...

Oh? Harrison's Deathworld is on the list.

quote: Originally posted by JohnT And no, we don't dress up. Hell, I don't even really attend, coming along as a baby sitter.

What we do for our women…

quote: Originally posted by Jon Miller and a space odyssey is on that list

No…

	14-11-2003 08:07									#34
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I vould swear that it was

JM

	14-11-2003 08:08									#35
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Delany was all over the place on the list, and Iw as not much impresse d with him

JM

	14-11-2003 08:13									#36
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Yeah, if I read Nova I don't remember it by name.

	14-11-2003 10:56									#37
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62 from that list. Middling geek.

	14-11-2003 11:56									#38
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61

	14-11-2003 11:57									#39
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But this has to be measured against the fact that I read constantly. Given a "classics of general literature" I'd probably score well over 50%...

	14-11-2003 12:13									#40
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I read constantly too

but don't hit 61 (even if I went through all the short story compilations)

I think I am hampered by the fact that I didn't like all of Heinlan so have purposefully put of some of his classics

didn't like Delany, have no plan to read more of his

liked only a bit of Clark (a couple of the ones on that list in fact)

and so on

Jon Miller

	14-11-2003 12:16									#41
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I don't like heinlein either. But I read it to get idea of how others were influenced by him.

	14-11-2003 18:33									#42
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quote: Originally posted by Straybow quote: Originally posted by -JRabbit Notably missing from that list -- Robert L. Forward, Spider Robertson, Harry Harrison, M.A. Foster, and many more... Oh? Harrison's Deathworld is on the list. [q]

I stand corrected.

Jon M. -- Sounds like you read Dhalgren. It was pretty ambitious, overhyped, and his reach clearly exceeded his grasp. (But that's one of the things I like about Delany.) You should try Babel-17 -- one his earliest.

Delany got pretty non-linear in his later work. Definitely more challenging than his early stuff.