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12 October 2006

Paging sciurus. Or anyone else that knows oodles about the science fiction canon.

post by: seanyboy at: 02:37 | 13 comments

Start with Aldiss's Billion/Trillion Year Spree.

posted by arse_hat 12 October | 02:51

Howdy! I'll comment over there.

posted by sciurus 12 October | 06:39

BOOM!

posted by sciurus 12 October | 07:11

I would have never thought that "Lord of Light" (which I didn't finish) was SF. SpecFic, maybe, but not sci-fi because it dealt with past-ish type events rather than future ones.

Maybe Barbra Hambry?

posted by TrishaLynn 12 October | 07:51

And thanks for the implied compliment, seanyboy.

posted by sciurus 12 October | 07:54

Dune works for everything. Frank Herbert all the way.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 12 October | 08:41

Yay!

posted by seanyboy 12 October | 10:03

Also - Don't thank me, thank taz. She's the one that put me on to you.

posted by seanyboy 12 October | 10:05

Kilgore Trout wrote a lot of stories that were more Sci than Fi.

posted by Daniel Charms 12 October | 10:06

taz knows everything!

*checks google analytics for visitors from Greece*

posted by sciurus 12 October | 10:18

Uh Oh. Looks as though I phrased my question badly enough to elicit a mini-pileon.

*sighs*

posted by seanyboy 12 October | 10:37

Yeah, I saw that starting. I figured you didn't quite mean it that way.

posted by sciurus 12 October | 12:20

seanyboy: I asked a question on AskMe earlier this year that you might find to be related to what you're thinking about.

posted by Prospero 12 October | 12:53

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