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[BlackSnake]

"Starfire" by Paul Preuss

Started it yesterday and just finished it. I didn't think that I would like it all. It's a SciFi. I loved it. If it was a movie it would be a tear jerker. Got me choked up for a second. Great character development, but long winded. The details are for the Trekie types.

Oh, the book is about a sciencist "cowboy" who is use to getting his own way, and ends up getting more than he bargained for, a meaningful life.

Don't try to run out and buy it. It's been on my shelf for a long time gathering dust. I don't even know where I got it. Copyrighted 1988.

Just had to share....good night.

 

[Weird Harold]

"Starfire" by Paul Preuss


Don't try to run out and buy it. It's been on my shelf for a long time gathering dust. I don't even know where I got it. Copyrighted 1988.

Thanks for the reminder. I was wondering what to read next. I just pulled it off the shelf and put it in the queue.

Whatever happeand to Paul Preuss? He wrote the Venus Prime series with Arthur C.Clarke, Starfire, and one or two others that weren't worth keeping and then disappeared as far as I can tell.

 

[Belegon]

thanks 'snake, always looking for something new for my reading list...

 

[BlackSnake]

I'm starting on Arthur C.Clarke's "Odessey 2061" after my wife goes to bed tonight.

I didn't think I would actually like it, because they give you a good build up and then only hint at actual sex. I'm screaming in my head "fuck her godammit!" (edited to add: "Starfire")

 

[CuriTab]

I'm more into the non-fiction side of the library lately:

I've been reading Hiram Key: Pharoahs, Freemasons, and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus by Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight. Just another book in my continuing curiosity about the Freemasons and other "secret societies". It's a rather interesting read.

Also: The Half-Empty Heart: A Supportive Guide to Breaking Free from Chronic Discontent by Alan Downs, Ph.D.

The Sexual Life of Catherine M: It bored me. She's being proclaimed as the new "Sade". I think not. But, then again, I'm a bit biased: I am a fan of his writing.

 

[BlackSnake]

You may not believe this, but I actually read the "Left Behind" series. Even if you are not a christain, the story is captivating. I got hooked. Did very little writing while reading that one.

 

[gauchecritic]

"The Light Of Other Days" Arthur Clarke & Stephen Baxter (2000)

The discovery and invention of Big Brother's all seeing eye. Big Brother turns out to be your neighbour. Wormhole technology trancending time and space.

As often with Clarke this is concerned with what it means to mankind and his future. Chilling in concept but (as often) upbeat in the end even as he presents the futility of it all.

As a welcome aside the protagonist discovers that Those Feet did indeed, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green. (as far as I can make out this part was written after research which indicates it may have happened, which gives me a warm glow for some reason)

Gauche

 

[BlackSnake]

The thing that I would interesting in "Starfire" was the great length the author went through to show ambition and technical savy of the space program.

At times I thought it got a bit to technical describing the significant of a bolt.

 

[SummerMorning]

Hmm... Three Men in a Boat (Not to Speak of the Dog) - whud was the author's name again? J... Jo... Errr...

 

[AngeloMichael]

I'm trudging my way through the first book of Steven Erikson's "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series, "Gardens of the Moon". It is slow going right now because I have to get used to a new and amazingly complex world with many distinct and complicated cultures, so I have to really focus and keep referring to the glossary to understand what is going on. However, I am very optimistic about this series, I love high fantasy with richly detailed worlds and intriguing plotlines and this has a lot of potential. I hear it only gets better as the series progresses.

 

[Vincent E]

John Adams by David McCullough, preceded by Benjamin Franklin by Walter Issacson. Last fiction was Mystic River by David Lahane.