(04-10-2016 03:49 AM)KRB Wrote:  I'm a fan of Stranger In A Strange Land. By Heinlein.

Any title by Heinlein (I think I have his complete collection in paperback, collected from used bookstores over the years). Heinlein also wrote under pseudonyms such as Anson McDonald.

I like most Sci Fi and Fantasy. I also like Andre Norton and have a ton of her paperbacks.

When I was a kid, my brother and I had subscriptions to Superman and Batman comics. We had an orange crate full of those comics. Mom gave them away, or I could have funded my retirement with those. Our were issues from the mid-1950's through the early '60's.

I am not into any of the later comics, much past 1960 I had outgrown them.

(04-17-2016 05:49 PM)covingtontiger Wrote:  

(04-10-2016 03:49 AM)KRB Wrote:  I'm a fan of Stranger In A Strange Land. By Heinlein.

Any title by Heinlein (I think I have his complete collection in paperback, collected from used bookstores over the years). Heinlein also wrote under pseudonyms such as Anson McDonald.

I like most Sci Fi and Fantasy. I also like Andre Norton and have a ton of her paperbacks.

When I was a kid, my brother and I had subscriptions to Superman and Batman comics. We had an orange crate full of those comics. Mom gave them away, or I could have funded my retirement with those. Our were issues from the mid-1950's through the early '60's.

I am not into any of the later comics, much past 1960 I had outgrown them.

Heinlein was the man.

(04-14-2016 10:13 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:14 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Both, but sci fi will really turn me off quickly if it's anything but the best story I've ever heard.

Okay, fair enough. Any particular sub-genre?

I like apocalyptic/post stuff.

I tend to dislike things that are too futuristic in sci-fi (especially if it has to do primarily with humans) and I tend to dislike fantasy that is too Tolkien-esque.

I read comic books from time to time and, since I'm a French reader, I like the stuff from Belgium and France. The Obscure Cities is good sci-fi. Saga, Nowhere Men, and East of West are really good.

(04-22-2016 05:49 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 10:13 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:14 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Both, but sci fi will really turn me off quickly if it's anything but the best story I've ever heard.

Okay, fair enough. Any particular sub-genre?

I like apocalyptic/post stuff.

I tend to dislike things that are too futuristic in sci-fi (especially if it has to do primarily with humans) and I tend to dislike fantasy that is too Tolkien-esque.

I read comic books from time to time and, since I'm a French reader, I like the stuff from Belgium and France. The Obscure Cities is good sci-fi. Saga, Nowhere Men, and East of West are really good.

Very good, thanks. Our view of SF seems similar...of course, my new series is apocalyptic, so it follows I would approve. But yeah, I'm more drawn to the near future stuff.

And fantasy I more or less quit reading because it was all proto-Tolkien. Give me Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock or Robert E. Howard. Love Tolkien, but why try to outdo a genius?