slow day on the board, so........

[Barcey]

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I believe that E.C. Bentley?

<Aargghhh>
Correct. Eric Clerihew Bentley. The book is dedicated to G, K. Chesterton, in part as a repayment for _The Man Who Was Thursday_.

I fixed the original post.
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Dennis

[desertgrandma]

(great big grin)..............

[MickeyC]

Issac Azimov including his mystery stories and all of Tom Clancy's

[pshrynk]

Well, I've got Shakespeare already. The poetical works of Longfellow, check. The Kindle choked on the Dumas collection, so I gotta re-try that. I guess it would be Heinlein and Asimov from there.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

I couldn't possibly pick just one author!

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

I couldn't possibly pick just one author!

Sure you could......you get every book he/she wrote, for free. Legally. True, its a hard choice....after seeing some of the other posts I think "dang why didn't I choose THAT?? But I'm still happy with Christie.
Now, how can you turn down a free gift?

[slayda]

Unfortunately I already have most of the books of authors that I really like. The most likely author whose works I only have "many" of that I really like is Andre Norton(aka Alice Mary Norton, Andrew North, Allen Weston, Alan E. Nourse)

Edit, Alan E. Nourse was not a nom de plume but was sometimes mistaken as one. Sorry

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by slayda

Unfortunately I already have most of the books of authors that I really like. The most likely author whose works I only have "many" of that I really like is Andre Norton(aka Alice Mary Norton, Andrew North, Allen Weston, Alan E. Nourse)

Talk about a prolific author. Its really interesting to go to fantasticfiction.com and look up authors I hadn't heard of but that other people like.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Trent's Last Case is brilliant. i read it just recently and loved it. and i'm also a big fan of christie and plenty of other mysteries.

[kilohertz53]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Its really interesting to go to fantasticfiction.com and look up authors I hadn't heard of but that other people like.

Thanks for the link to fantasticfiction.com! It's a goldmine of information about books and their authors. I could spend hours there. Here's a link for detailed book reviews that I use quite often: http://www.allreaders.com

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by slayda

Unfortunately I already have most of the books of authors that I really like. The most likely author whose works I only have "many" of that I really like is Andre Norton(aka Alice Mary Norton, Andrew North, Allen Weston, Alan E. Nourse)

Edit, Alan E. Nourse was not a nom de plume but was sometimes mistaken as one. Sorry

Yep. Alan E. Nourse, MD, was the real name of a doctor who wrote SF. (And also, IIRC, ran a travel agency with his brother at one point.) He might be best known for the fact the the producers of the film "Bladerunner", based on Philip K. Dick's _Do android's Dream of Electric Sheep?_ licensed the title from Alan, who had written an unconnected SF novel involving medicine with that title.

An assortment of short pieces and his Juvenile/YA effort, _Star Surgeon_ are available as ebooks. _Star Surgeon_ concerns the efforts of Dal Timgar to become a Star Surgeon. It won't be easy.

Earth has developed faster than light travel and ventured out into the galaxy. It discovers a galactic federation. Membership in the federation has two requirements: that your species has independantly developed FTL travel, and that you have something of value to contribute. Earth has FTL, but lags behind the rest of the galaxy in all but one area: medicine. Humanity has developed medical science and practice beyond that of any other species. So Earth becomes Hospital Earth, in the business of providing medicine to the stars.

Dal is a humanoid alien from Government Garv, capital of the federation, who against custom and precedent has decided he wishes to become a surgeon. He has the assistance of an odd little protoplasmic symbiote who can help him sense the emotions of others, but must contend with suspiscion and distrust from humans who fear a break in their monopoly on medicine and loss of position in the galaxy, and patients who can't believe anyone not a human could possibly be a qualified doctor.

Available in Mobi format at MobileRead here, at Project Gutenberg in HTML and plain text here, and in a variety of formats at Munseys here and Manybooks here

Andre Norton should also not be confused with Mary Norton, author of a delightful children's book series about the Borrowers. (Which I don't think are available as ebooks, alas.)
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Dennis

[Sputnk6]

I see Asimov on here, but nobody mentioned Robert A. Heinlein? Not sure about any of his later books (anything past about 1975) but his earlier work was incredible.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by Sputnk6

I see Asimov on here, but nobody mentioned Robert A. Heinlein? Not sure about any of his later books (anything past about 1975) but his earlier work was incredible.

Heinlein is awesome. But I could only pick one, and while I can afford to get All of Heinleins I want, Christie is another matter altogether. Someday......

[DixieGal]

The Isaac Asimov collection, Gold, is a bunch of his essays with a couple of first runs of short stories that later became books. I had it, lost it, then found it again when we cleaned out the old car before the new car purchase. I didn't care for it very much, but anyone who is interested in his thought processes regarding writing will appreciate it.

Now back to your regularly scheduled topic....