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Old 02-09-2012, 04:01 PM   #158
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
No I can't say that I have read them. I read a few Anne McCaffery books, they were ok, but they never really inspired me to seek out everything she wrote like Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke did.

Now, I will say, that Dune holds up remarkably well. Inventing a Universe where computer technology is constrained by history makes it feel less dated.

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To backtrack a little...some of it is hard SF but it's not Asimov. I'm talking purely about the shelf-life of the tech.

Some of it was pretty hard SF (PartnerShip) but I don't have the science background to say how true she stayed to the details.
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