Pardon me saying this, but bloody hell....
I've lost my keenly crafted reply, and have to start all over again, but time or energy may flag tonight, as the huge silver Moon looms oer the lowering dark .......... [ It really is spectacular, I presume we willl all see it in our scattered time zones, don't miss it. ]
But, in short, I posted as I did to get pretty much what I did, a discussion.
I didn't ask for recommendations, but got them, and thank you.
DiapDealer seemed to take offence at my not giving a list of specifics, and being vague - which was rather the point. And I wasn't saying Tolkien/Rowling etc..were good, but that I always enjoyed them, and their quality, and continue to find them so. And I certainly wasn't in the throes of nostalgia, things in general were never better, just different.
Perhaps Diap hasn't fully plumbed the depths of the bargain basement areas of "new" publishing - but there is a laughably huge amount of it.
ATDrake saw what Iwas up to, I think, but I wasn't bemoaning any descent from glory, rahther a comment on what I found in most sources I went to, which were mainly free and low-priced. ( and no, "free" wasn't the point, but I understand the mistake).I wasn't laying down anything about "good" SF.
I enjoyed Belfaborac's contribution, although I am concerned he may miss my reasoning - if that's what it is - for using smilies. Simply, I use them because I can, they amuse me, and I enjoy employing them here and there
and, echoing the timbre of Belfaborac's ending, I don't care anyway......
I was tickled by ATDrake's ref to the 80's - don't know if he thought that's when I was referring to - but my grey cells were discovering other worlds in the 50's ! And yes, sorry, Heinlein, and The Foundation were my "torch under the bedclothes" illicit pleasures !
So, deep and many thanks for all the excellent sounding reading tips I now have to commit a sizeable chunk of my immediate future to - so little time, so many worlds.........
