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brecklundin · 05-23-2009, 08:05 AM

I enjoy both the Ray Guns & Rocket Ships style as well as the more humanist stye of SF.

I really recommened an old series by A. Bertram Chandler centered around a character named John Grimes. Wonderful fun escapist SF.

Of course the all time great Stranger in a Strange Land should be on every SF reading list. Mote in God's Eye and other Pournelle & Niven collaborations are fun as well.

Some less well known that are just wonderful is a series of short stories about Sam Gunn by Ben Bova are just priceless. You can fidn them in a couple Omnibuss editions.

I LOVE all but one of the Callahan series by Spider Robinson. There is one in the Callahan series I found contains very, at best, questionable content and that is Callahan's Legacy. About that one novel, I say, read the reviews and know it is NOT anything a child should read. I won't go into the reasons further, just know I am very open minded about all save two topics one is rape and the other involves children...still every other book in the series is fun and silly.

I also really enjoyed The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks as well as the sequel. I am not sure where it fits in the SF arena though...it's not fantasy, it's certainly not ray guns and rocketships...

And if you like Assimov I forget the name of the short story as well as collection of novels, but he wrote a series of "Locked Room" mysteries...not really SF but just entertaining. I found it, the series was called "Tales of the Black Widowers" http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/...k-widowers.htm

Locked room here: (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/...-mysteries.htm)

Those are just a few I can recall off the top of my head at 5am...

05-23-2009, 08:05 AM	#24
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	I enjoy both the Ray Guns & Rocket Ships style as well as the more humanist stye of SF. I really recommened an old series by A. Bertram Chandler centered around a character named John Grimes. Wonderful fun escapist SF. Of course the all time great Stranger in a Strange Land should be on every SF reading list. Mote in God's Eye and other Pournelle & Niven collaborations are fun as well. Some less well known that are just wonderful is a series of short stories about Sam Gunn by Ben Bova are just priceless. You can fidn them in a couple Omnibuss editions. I LOVE all but one of the Callahan series by Spider Robinson. There is one in the Callahan series I found contains very, at best, questionable content and that is Callahan's Legacy. About that one novel, I say, read the reviews and know it is NOT anything a child should read. I won't go into the reasons further, just know I am very open minded about all save two topics one is rape and the other involves children...still every other book in the series is fun and silly. I also really enjoyed The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks as well as the sequel. I am not sure where it fits in the SF arena though...it's not fantasy, it's certainly not ray guns and rocketships... And if you like Assimov I forget the name of the short story as well as collection of novels, but he wrote a series of "Locked Room" mysteries...not really SF but just entertaining. I found it, the series was called "Tales of the Black Widowers" http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/...k-widowers.htm Locked room here: (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/...-mysteries.htm) Those are just a few I can recall off the top of my head at 5am...