[ale] WAY OT: Remembering a book

[Jim Kinney]

Cool! More stuff to read!

I've been cheating and reading whatever shows up on the Hugo or Neula
nomination lists. 'Windup Girl' was fantastic and rather disturbing (hooray
for patented food - not!)


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> +! for the Red Mars series
>
> Pete Hardie
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> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:11 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
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>> On 05/01/2013 11:04 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > +1 that Heinlein didn't see Starship troopers. I almost walked out of
>> the theater.
>> >
>>
>> I re-read it in 2008. It was just as great a read as I remembered at age
>> 12.
>> Friday, SISL, TMIAHM and some of his other books are still great too, BTW.
>> Throwing rocks - I love it.
>>
>> For a more current hard-sci-fi author, KSR's Red Mars series is pretty
>> great.
>> HIGHLY recommended.
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