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TAC
15-06-2002, 19:18
Nuffin to do with cars!

Found out my fave author had a website, so emailed him to say how much I enjoyed his stuff & could he arrange to have one of his books re-printed. Am really chuffed :) cos within half an hour of me mailing him, he'd been back in touch to tell me a publishers in the UK that did hard back copy of the book i wanted.

What a cool guy!! :D:D
Leon
15-06-2002, 22:16
Cool :D
Who is he?
TAC
15-06-2002, 22:20
Alan Dean Foster - scifi sorta stuff.

http://www.alandeanfoster.com/frameset.htm , if anyone's interested!
SteveCarter200
16-06-2002, 02:13
Hey, cool.:) I used to read some of his stuff years ago, the Spellsinger series was a favourite.

Trying to think of other sci-fi authors I read, Piers Anthony seems familiar, does that ring a bell to anyone?
TAC
16-06-2002, 02:17
Aaah, Steve, I was a big fan of Piers Anthony for quite a while - Bio of a Space Tyrant & the Xanth series and all that. Have moved onto harder sci-fi these days - Niven & Greg Benford etc - but must remember to dig out the Space Tyrant books one day!
SteveCarter200
16-06-2002, 02:24
Yep, just done a search, Piers Anthony was it, excellent stuff. Its all coming back.:) The 'Incarnations Of Immortality' series was superb, as was the 'Adept' series and 'Battle Circle'. Macroscope was damn good too.

Ahh, its all coming back.:)
SteveCarter200
16-06-2002, 02:26
Ooooh, yes!! Space tyrant was great. I must see if I've still got some of these tucked away somewhere.

Niven? As in Larry Niven? I remember a book called Ringworld. Rather good.:)
TAC
16-06-2002, 02:39
Luuurve Larry Niven! Also keen on Jack McDevitt, Fred Pohl etc...ooh, dont get me started! I read so much - I could go on about it for hours & bore you to death...could kill off the SXOC members one by one and be left as the only SX owner in Great Britain!

(Sorry! Have been drinking - surprise, surprise - am feeling a little surreal tonite :):rolleyes: :rolleyes: )
Supraman1
17-06-2002, 10:24
Not a huge fan of Sci-Fi, but I do happen to have a signed first edition of the first book of Peter F Hamiltons "Nights Dawn" trilogy (read em . . . read em NOW!). Any of you super-geeks know if it will be worth anything in a thousand years? Or maybe evev sooner . . . like before my Visa bill is due . . .:eek:
Leon
17-06-2002, 10:26
IMHO, Iain M Banks is one of the finest Sci-Fi authors to walk this earth.
Arthur C Clarke is good, although not as linguistically skillful.
TAC
17-06-2002, 22:30
Originally posted by Supraman
Not a huge fan of Sci-Fi, but I do happen to have a signed first edition of the first book of Peter F Hamiltons "Nights Dawn" trilogy (read em . . . read em NOW!).


:eek: :eek: BBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGG books!! Have read the trilogy - very very good - but it took me about 2 months to finish it!

Dunno what the signed versions'll be worth tho' - ask again in a couple of years!
Supraman1
18-06-2002, 09:38
I think it was eight days between me buying the first one off Amazon (the signed one), and finishing the last one . . . I was out of work at the time, and I REALLY liked them :)

"No, I can't come down the pub tonight and leer at women, I'm reading about intergalactic space battles against dead people".
TAC
18-06-2002, 23:00
Originally posted by Supraman
"No, I can't come down the pub tonight and leer at women, I'm reading about intergalactic space battles against dead people".

:D :D :D :D pml

But they were excellent books :)
Ivanski
18-06-2002, 23:48
TAC, Woooaaaa surreal, I read the first post and thought that’s probably ADF! :)

Top author, the commonwealth series is awesome, some of the one off’s ‘Man who used the universe’ and ‘The I inside’ are superb. Well travelled bloke too.

Hmm can I guess the out of print book…. ‘Love of Mother Not’ perhaps?

If so it was still in print in the US a short while ago, that’s where I got my copy. ;)

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TAC
19-06-2002, 00:30
Originally posted by Ivanski
TAC, Woooaaaa surreal, I read the first post and thought that’s probably ADF! :)

Top author, the commonwealth series is awesome, some of the one off’s ‘Man who used the universe’ and ‘The I inside’ are superb. Well travelled bloke too.

Hmm can I guess the out of print book…. ‘Love of Mother Not’ perhaps?

If so it was still in print in the US a short while ago, that’s where I got my copy. ;)

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Yeah! Spooky! & you guessed the book right! :eek: I tried Amazon in the UK & they couldn't help :(. Thought I'd checked the yank website & seen that it was also out of print there - maybe I mis-remember! Will have another look. Thanks for the tip, matey :)

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