I read Animal Farm, but not 1984... its an assigned reading at some point, so I'll just wait. That way I won't be bored in class

I've heard that Animal Farm is very good. I will read that after Frankenstein.

Necropscope three: the source. By brian Lumley. The third in a series of sci-fi horror novels, easily the most enjoyment I have ever had reading a book.

do you read any of those fantasy and science fiction magazines like Asimov's or Apex?

I haven't read those magazines but I have read the foundation series by asimov. Excellent science fiction

i started reading the foundation series back in ...ugh... '65 at the age of nine (no, don't do the math). i think that the first book was actually a short story collection of the same theme that he had started. the first book came out in 1951, i think.

i've found that the best science fiction books come from well educated minds, and i think it's amazing when guys like asimov come out of their intellectual shells and put a dream on paper.

this, i think, was what i was aiming at when i started the 'back to school' thread.

has anyone read the short story "marooned off vesta"? i believe that it was the first published work of asimov. it is on the top of my artist appreciation list.

it is unique in that it is not only a classic (typical) asimov book of survival - but it is so deep in real science that unless the author had a understanding of physics and deep space, the author could not have written it.

he wrote it at the age of 18, in 1938. 1938! oddly, i didn't know it existed until a few years after i read foundation.

hmm... can you tell i'm a asimov fan?

read marooned off vesta...

Well in that case...

When I wrote The End of Evolution, I used real facts about bacteria, and the idea came from how computers keep getting smaller. So I figured why can't life do that and bacteria are the smallest so... That's all from a bio class I took.

And some of my other stories are based off real facts and not just wild guesses: the lost manuscript, future entertainment, and vacuum torture. another poem I just published, A time for death, is also. All of these have historical routes- future entertainment is based on what the Nazis must have been doing while the Jews were rolling rocks around. If you're still reading I feel bad for you, I can't stand me talking either.