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mirth

#4440
May 27, 2018, 01:16:42 PM
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

https://www.amazon.com/Masterpieces-Best-Science-Fiction-Century/dp/0441011330
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bbmike

#4441
May 27, 2018, 04:39:48 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 27, 2018, 01:16:42 PM
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

https://www.amazon.com/Masterpieces-Best-Science-Fiction-Century/dp/0441011330

Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Pohl...  :smitten:
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

#4442
May 27, 2018, 04:41:08 PM
My favs  O0
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bbmike

#4443
May 27, 2018, 06:05:18 PM
Simak, Tucker...  :smitten:
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

#4444
May 27, 2018, 06:20:56 PM
Porn's getting weird.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Staggerwing

#4445
May 27, 2018, 08:15:38 PM Last Edit: May 27, 2018, 08:17:20 PM by Staggerwing
Don't forget Roger Zelazny & Poul Anderson. 'This Immortal' (aka 'Call me Conrad') and 'Boat of a Million Years' are must-reads. I wonder if they are both in that collection, though each is a bit long for a regular size anthology.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

bbmike

#4446
May 27, 2018, 08:17:41 PM
 O0
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

Sir Slash

#4447
May 29, 2018, 09:39:41 AM
Just starting, " General Lee's Immortals: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade 1861-1865" by Michael C. Hardy. Slow start so far but lots of good maps and pics promises good things to come.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

MetalDog

#4448
May 29, 2018, 09:00:41 PM
I, too, read The Sleepwalkers.  Awesome book.  Took an area and an era I knew little about and informed me to overflow.  Really, really good read.
And the One Song to Rule Them All is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


"If its a Balrog, I don't think you get an option to not consent......." - bob

JasonPratt

#4449
May 31, 2018, 02:50:05 PM Last Edit: May 31, 2018, 02:54:40 PM by JasonPratt
Quote from: airboy on May 26, 2018, 02:02:11 PM
I have horrible impulse control on purchasing inexpensive history books.

I have horrible impulse control on purchasing EXPENSIVE history books. I don't dare look at inexpensive history books, because that would be worse. I have some hope at least of turning down a $160 monograph on Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian debate in late antiquity. (...and then I find a used copy for $21.50.  :smitten:  :hide: Now it's currently sitting on my car seat next to a $160 monograph on freaking Bardaisan of Syria, the Persian grand vizier to the first Christian king, in Armenia, in the decades leading up to Emperor Decius.)


Quote from: airboy on May 26, 2018, 02:02:11 PMI'm slowly reading The Sleepwalkers about the origins of World War 1 and it is amazing.

Agreed. I read a Kindle version of that last year (not cheap, though, iirc). I couldn't tell you now what I recall from it, except the general theme of personal relationships between the principal leaders and how that both delayed and contributed to WW1, but I remember being impressed with it.
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Gusington

#4450
May 31, 2018, 02:52:55 PM
IIRC The Sleepwalkers made me tear up a little bit...it does a great job of bringing out the true tragedy of 1914.
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We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

airboy

#4451
May 31, 2018, 03:11:00 PM
My wife and I took a river cruise through the Balkans.  We went from Bulgaria in the East to Vienna in the West.  Throughout the Balkan countries there is amazing hostility to Muslims in general and the Turks specifically.  The number of war monuments to the various wars in the Balkans which overthrew the rule of the Ottomans is amazing.  Similar to what you see in the South for Confederate dead.

The foreign policy and desire for a "greater Serbia" and what happens when the Serbs get the upper hand in my lifetime in the 1990s and in the 1910s is remarkably similar.  Seeing the mass graves and the destruction of Sebrenicia is shocking.  The Serbs are also building a national cathedrial to their form of Catholicism which is another manafestation of the greater serbian ideology. 

The Sleepwalkers is the first book I've read on the Balkans wars of the late 1800s to the 1910s.  The methods used by the Serbs then were pretty similar to those used in the 1990s.

Gusington

#4452
May 31, 2018, 05:21:03 PM
^I hope to go on a similar cruise one day.
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We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

Gusington

#4453
June 04, 2018, 08:52:02 AM
Just began Cataphracts by Erich Anderson.
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We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

mirth

#4454
June 04, 2018, 08:53:00 AM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus
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