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Old 03-20-2008, 12:20 AM   #1
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Default Have you ever read anything of Athur C Clarke
I'm only able to read in Sumerian Cuneiform script.
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Old 03-20-2008, 12:32 AM   #2
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It wasn't gripping enough eh Zkribbler?
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Old 03-20-2008, 12:41 AM   #3
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
It wasn't gripping enough eh Zkribbler? Dunno. There's some writers with whom I just can't connect. Patrick O'Brien is another. I've tried three of his books, and nuttin'

At least with the Playboy stories, I could look at the pictures.
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Old 03-20-2008, 12:47 AM   #4
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Originally posted by GePap
Lets see:

Childhood's End (1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
Imperial Earth (1975)
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford)
The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

And yet still so many I have not read yet. I'm fairly sure I've read the list above plus a few others. Read the new stuff if you haven't, the Time's Odyssey series he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter (who is also a great writer in and of himself) ... pretty interesting stuff
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Old 03-20-2008, 03:23 AM   #5
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I think the first SF book I ever read might have been one of his novels. I think it was called "The City and the Stars"
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Old 03-20-2008, 05:25 AM   #6
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Richter Ten.
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Old 03-20-2008, 07:43 AM   #7
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This poll is invalid
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Old 03-20-2008, 08:21 PM   #8
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Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
I have a The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke book Winston mentions and I've read it cover to cover, its an amazing value vs buying them in the many smaller collections (especially cause the smaller ones are so non-chronological and their story picks repeat the most popular stores many times you would kill many trees unnecessarily).

I've read most of the Novel as well, but a few have escaped me such as Richter Ten.

A few that I dis-recommend, Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford) and Cradle also co-authored with that Beford hack.

"Beyond the Fall of Night" seems to be a re-make of "The City and the Stars" (which is the one I've read, I find it ends weaker then it starts but is overall excellent) itself an expansion of a shorter novella "Against the Fall of Night" (thus explaining the title of the 3rd book).

BFN pairs this 3rd rehashing with a second half that continues the downward trend with a ridiculous set of new characters with the original hero making tired cameos *bleeech* Anyone else find this one to be sub-par? What's your problem with Benford? He's a very strong writer in his own right. I loved BFN myself. A big difference though is that Benford is a writer in the much harder science SF genre as opposed to Clarke who was more in the moderately hard science SF genre. Benford always had a scientist as the main character in his books (excluding his stuff outside the hard SF genre anyway) and focused often on the actual practice of the science, with some thriller elements and such mixed in. I suspect you're just noticing the somewhat combination of genres and disliking that. (It's also common to dislike stories rewritten by a second author as the style will sometimes not fit with your expectations - Benford almost certainly did all of the writing that was new on BFN).
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Old 03-20-2008, 09:22 PM   #9
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
This poll is invalid Exactly. It was only until he died, that I had heard of him. I am not into SF that much. IT does not mean that I am illiterate, if I have not read one of works.
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Old 03-21-2008, 09:46 AM   #10
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Originally posted by snoopy369


I'm fairly sure I've read the list above plus a few others. Read the new stuff if you haven't, the Time's Odyssey series he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter (who is also a great writer in and of himself) ... pretty interesting stuff
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