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Started by macbeth25, July 28, 2009, 05:42:07 PM

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BridgeTroll

#15
July 30, 2009, 02:37:46 PM Last Edit: July 30, 2009, 02:54:20 PM by BridgeTroll
Read Lucifers Hammer many years ago... while the story is fictional... it is based on something that has happened to this planet... and will again.
In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."

macbeth25

#16
July 30, 2009, 02:44:44 PM
I can't remember the main character's name but the research he talks about in the book is pretty correct, I think.  I prefer the kind of science fiction where the only "fiction" is that the science hasn't happened yet.
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Gwefr

#17
August 05, 2009, 02:20:29 PM
I love Catcher in the Rye, 1984, the Poisonwood Bible, A Wrinkle in Time (and the rest of that series), anything by Anne Rice, and quite a few others but my brain wanst to be lazy right now (haha)

Doctor_K

#18
August 05, 2009, 02:54:12 PM
The Timeline-191 series, by Harry Turtledove.  Alternate history.  1 stand-alone novel, two trilogies and one tetralogy.

The premise is that the CSA won the Civil War in 2 years, and all the changed world history that followed. 

Very engaging and in terms of readability, right up there near J.K. Rowling's Potter series.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."  -- Albert Einstein

macbeth25

#19
August 05, 2009, 09:27:13 PM
Audible.com has a really good audio book called Rally Cry where a Yankee battalion boards a ship to go to a new location and goes through a warp or something and ends up on another planet.  If anyone wants, I'll give more details.  Suffice it to say that it's a good story with adventure and a bit of romance as well.  The sci fi is simply the premise but it doesn't get too weird. 
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
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