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James Hogan
I was examining some of the oldest Baen monthly bundles when I saw a book calling James Hogan one of the greatest Sci-Fi authors. Unfortunately I have never encountered any of his writing. This is one of the reasons that I am buying the bundles, to get a cross section of all of the Sci-fi authors and become familiar with all of the greatest authors both living and recently past away. What book or books is James Hogan best known for? I will have to go out and get a copy of his greatest work.
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Gentle Giants of Ganamede(sp) series is what I think he is best known for. I like The Two Faces of Tomorrow and the Code of the Lifemaker pair as well.
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I remember being rather fond of "The Genesis Machine". I thought the first book in his Giant Series, Inherit the Stars was really good. The later books in the series were good, but became increasingly less about science and a bit more like space opera.
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James Hogan bought into a few too many nutty ideas in recent years for my tastes. Some of his stories became more about pushing the nutty ideas than about being good stories.
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Yes, I've been rereading the Giant's series myself and am about halfway through "Mission to Minerva". He does seem to want to push his agenda a bit hard at times, but overall I've enjoyed the series though I think he would have been best to stop at the third book. I've never read any of his other works and have been wondering if I should and which ones to try.
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I loved James Hogan's books back in the day. Downloaded The Two Faces of Tomorrow from Baen for free. It's on my TBR list - it will be interesting to see if it aged well.
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His Gentle Giants series was the 1st thing by him that I've read. Haven't really read much of his works besides that yet.
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I understand that checking the free library is probably the best way to be familiar with his work with the minimum amount of dollar investment, however I want to start with his best first and I think that I will look into Inherit the Stars in a little while. I have a John Dalmas that I am working my way through and then some David Weber to go first but I will get around to downloading and reading some of the Inherit the Stars.
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