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  • Re: “The 50 Most Significant Science Fiction Books” by The SF Book Club

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to lynnmcguire5@gmail.com on Mon Nov 27 08:57:07 2023
    On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:26:30 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    I read 31 of the 50. That is a very fantasy heavy list.

    Only two Heinleins, neither is one of my favorites: TSB, TMIAHM, COTG.

    No Doc Smith. No David Weber (Mutineer’s Moon), No John Ringo, No Lois >McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honor, 1986). And yes, no Andre Norton ???
    No Pournelle ?

    26/50 - and I agree with you on "very fantasy heavy"

    Not sure with you on Ringo but agree on the other "omitees"

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Mon Nov 27 13:01:10 2023
    On 11/27/2023 10:57 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:26:30 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    I read 31 of the 50. That is a very fantasy heavy list.

    Only two Heinleins, neither is one of my favorites: TSB, TMIAHM, COTG.

    No Doc Smith. No David Weber (Mutineer’s Moon), No John Ringo, No Lois
    McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honor, 1986). And yes, no Andre Norton ???
    No Pournelle ?

    26/50 - and I agree with you on "very fantasy heavy"

    Not sure with you on Ringo but agree on the other "omitees"

    I love Ringo's "Live Free or Die" book series. Very snarky and very
    technology heavy. I would like to see if Ringo did the math on his Sol mirrors. I would also like to see him finish the series but I think he
    wrote himself into a corner and cannot get out.

    Lynn

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