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Date Posted: 07:44:05 03/06/03 Thu
Author: Khronos
Author Host/IP: ip-66-80-65-31.dsl.sea.megapath.net / 66.80.65.31
Subject: Yeah...
In reply to: DammitBoy! 's message, "Re: Edgar Rice Buroughs" on 07:00:01 03/06/03 Thu

I liked Jules Vern and Doyle too (for some reason they remind me of HG Wells). I pretty much stuck with fluff like Burroughs (fluff, but good fluff) in the sci-fi genre. That and the older classics. It was in high school though when I discovered Asimov's "Robot" and "Foundation" books. By that time (early eighties) Asimov had started writing new installments for those classic series (which originally came out in the fifites!). "Robots of Dawn" blem me away, and after that I read everything by Asimov I could get my hands on. I also enjoyed Ray Bradbury and Arthur C Clark (after I read "2001:A Space Odyssey" the movie made a hell of a lot more sense), but to a lesser extent.

Do you remember a book from the seventies about Doyle's Holmes "The Seven Percent Solution"? I think it was pretty popular at the time, and I was my favorite Holmes story. I don't remember who wrote it, but it was very intruiging in a quasi-sci-fi sort of war (Holmes averted WWI in the late 18th century).

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