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[DoctorStrangelove]

That was the theory: I bought "Foundation" by I. Asimov this afternoon: it was a bit more expensive than 5/-, costing £9.99 which is 40 times the old price.

A bargain so I can read "The Merchant Princes", the story omitted from "The 1000 year Plan".

Done: very probably off to Oxfam with it.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Having ground to a halt on the above:

"The 1000 year Plan" by Isaac Asimov / "No world of their own" by Poul Anderson in an ACE Double of 1955.

Turns out "The 1000 year plan" is, in fact, "Foundation", or rather 80% of Foundation, the last section being missing.

My copy of "Foundation" was "borrowed" by someone 30 years ago and I'm too mean to pay £10 for a replacement (the original was probably 3/6d or even 5/- ).

That was the theory: I bought "Foundation" by I. Asimov this afternoon: it was a bit more expensive than 5/-, costing £9.99 which is 40 times the old price.

A bargain so I can read "The Merchant Princes", the story omitted from "The 1000 year Plan".

Meanwhile the reading of "Foundation & Empire" has ground to a halt with the advent of The Mule. .


I resisted the opportunity to purchase some Poul Anderson epics, and easily resisted the temptation to purchase "Lucifer's Hammer" or "The Mote around Murchison's Eye" despite both being in charity emporia in that Swansea.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Having ground to a halt on the above:

"The 1000 year Plan" by Isaac Asimov / "No world of their own" by Poul Anderson in an ACE Double of 1955.

Turns out "The 1000 year plan" is, in fact, "Foundation", or rather 80% of Foundation, the last section being missing.

My copy of "Foundation" was "borrowed" by someone 30 years ago and I'm too mean to pay £10 for a replacement (the original was probably 3/6d or even 5/- ).

Done: well 80% of it, the Merchants story isn't included.

Next: "Foundation & Empire" by Isaac Asimov: this one was 5/-.

[Snooky]

I just read Slow Horses

very good

gonna try some John Le Carre now

Milan.

Hopefully you've also been watching the series on Apple TV? I'm currently working my way through season 4

[NotAllThere]

Cheers, I'll check out qntm and DK.
read all the rest*
don't get the fuss over cixin liu. I found it turgidly bogged down in social angst.

*up to Oct '24

I liked the first book. But yes, the second and third are a bit harder going. qntm can be read online. qtm.org

[sadkingbilly]

Cheers, I'll check out qntm and DK.
read all the rest*
don't get the fuss over cixin liu. I found it turgidly bogged down in social angst.

*up to Oct '24

[NigelJK]

Been a while since I last posted.
I've made my way though all (bar1) Neal Asher book. Some hard Sci-Fi in there and some stonkingly good stories.
Up to date with Stephen Baxter, I got Creation node for my birthday, so it's next on the list.

I read my way through the Expanse series and watched the Prime series. As usual books are far better imagery than the 'realisation', but both good in their own way.

I'm trying to find out if the Foundation series on Apple TV is any good. Anyone here seen it?

I read the Bob Mortimer 'Clementine Complex' and 'Hotel Avocado', which as a piece of light entertainment is far better than Osmans 'Murder Club' (also read)

[NotAllThere]

**I'd be eternally grateful for any suggestions as to authors I've not found yet, but i've been a scifi reader for a very long time

Adrian Tchaikovsky
Peter Hamilton
Cixin Liu
Andy Weir
qntm- especially "There is no antimemetic division".
Derek Künksen - The Quantum Magician

I've just re-read all fifteen books of Man-Kzin wars. Great fun!

[milanbenes]

I just read Slow Horses

very good

gonna try some John Le Carre now

Milan.

[sadkingbilly]

martin chuzzlewit, followed by the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy by m john harrison. really weird scifi. sort of mieville-ish with a touch of bacigalupi perhaps.
anyway, most entertaining.
stuck again, now, having read (or reread) all the decent* scifi i can find**.
oh, well back to rereading Dickens.


*new concepts, not sausage machine reruns of the old masters, or the derivative crap that's labelled 'fantasy' and 'horror'.(game of thrones etc)

**I'd be eternally grateful for any suggestions as to authors I've not found yet, but i've been a scifi reader for a very long time

[DoctorStrangelove]

Having ground to a halt on the above:

"The 1000 year Plan" by Isaac Asimov / "No world of their own" by Poul Anderson in an ACE Double of 1955.

Turns out "The 1000 year plan" is, in fact, "Foundation", or rather 80% of Foundation, the last section being missing.

My copy of "Foundation" was "borrowed" by someone 30 years ago and I'm too mean to pay £10 for a replacement (the original was probably 3/6d or even 5/- ).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Our Game" by J. Le Carre.

Done: funny old place the Caucasus . Written in 1994 before the advent of Putin.

Next: "A delicate truth" by J. Le Carre.

I must be getting old: I'm finding this one quite confusing. Have to leaf back through it remind myself WTF is going on, who's doing the needful going, and who the feck anyone is. And then, suddenly, it's 3 years later. .

[NotAllThere]

What I liked about The Honourable Schoolboy, is the way Connie gleans intelligence from the gaps.

Just added Oliver Sacks "Awakenings" to the mix.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: first half is rather dry, the second half more inneresting: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Wild Blue" by Stephen E. Ambrose, he who I recall seeing as a talking head on "The World at War (1974): Reckoning: 1945 & after" or some such when he was a much younger man. Shame about the plagiarism.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen E. Ambrose. This one's about the Lewis & Clarke expedition "from sea to shining sea" some 20 years before Douglas did it in the opposite direction whilst collecting samples of vegetation.

So far it's full of stuff about The Evil British, as one might expect.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: Next: "Agent Running in the Field" J. Le Carre.

Done: that was a bit odd but there you go.

Next: "Our Game" by J. Le Carre.