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Originally Posted by AndrewH
I don't know about anyone else, but my goal when reading fiction is entertainment.
I've never read one word of Heinlein (for no particular reason, I simply haven't gotten around to reading him), but consider myself well exposed to sci-fi. Asimov, Brin, Card, Clarke, Herbert, McCaffrey, Simmons, others I can't think of off the top of my head. Feel free to point and laugh.  |
Nope, because you aren't claiming the sort of expertise I'm talking about. "Well exposed" is a good descriptor for your experience, but I doubt you would call yourself an expert on the field as a whole.
(I've met all of the folks you mention, and I'm deeply sorry at the passing of Asimov, Clarke, and Herbert. Especially so in Isaac and Frank's cases: Asimov succumbed to AIDS contracted through tainted blood given during otherwise successful bypass surgery (we were just beginning to learn about HIV/AIDS, and donated blood was not scanned for it), and Herbert was felled by a pulmonary embolism after surgery for pancreatic cancer, which is one of the nastier forms of the disease. Sir Arthur, at least, lived a full and productive span, and was something of a national treasure in his adopted homeland of Sri Lanka.)
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Dennis