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Re: Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction?

From J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction?
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Date 2018-04-30 20:46 -0400

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On Tue, 01 May 2018 00:03:00 GMT, mvp@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt)
wrote:

>In article <pc7u2o$ot3$3@dont-email.me>,
>Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>David Weber.
>
>I've enjoyed the Honor Harrington books, but the last one I
>read, there's an unknown enemy so horrifying that I want to wait
>until I know that I can read at least up to where I get to see
>that enemy unmasked, utterly defeated, and Cast Into the Lake Of
>Fire (or some equivalent) before I can bear to read any more.
>
>Maybe that's happened already; I haven't kept up.
>
>(This is whatever group is using that McGuffin to take over
>someone's body and make them do things against their will.  The
>last one I read, Honor had to shoot one of her trusted guardsmen
>in the head; through Nimitz, she could tell he was frantically
>trying to prevent his body from shooting Honor, but was
>completely disconnected from any control. Yeah, it's been a 
>few years.)
>
FWIW, that got dealt with, at least for people who were "important"
enough to rate protection.  The protection turned out to be available
in limited quantity although eventually that should change.>I did
think the earlier ones were better. 

>He's gotten a bit too
>cute with the tree cats.  I think it was better when they were
>maybe intelligent, but too alien to communicate with, except for
>those few humans they had adopted.

I'm waiting for Nimitz to learn how to handle a starship.  After all
he's been picking the brain of the most capable military commander in
the universe for decades.

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Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction? The  Zygon <stafford.martin@gmail.com> - 2018-04-30 02:29 -0700
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