Recommendations

[Mauricio Drelichman]

No: HPFGUIDX 9332

If you are willing to stray from pure fantasy and try some sci-fi, 
Isaac Asimov is a must read. "The end of eternity", my favorite, 
deals with time travel, although Asimov's system turns out to be 
quite more powerful than a MOM time turner. The robot short 
stories, compiled in "I, robot" and "Robot dreams" are also 
excellent reading. If you like them, you may go on with the Robot 
trilogy (Caves of steel, The naked sun, The robots of dawn). 
However, never, and I mean NEVER, read the books by Asimov 
and Silvelberg.  They are adaptations from Asimov's best short 
stories, and they do them a very poor service.
Finally, I also enjoyed a lot Arthur C. Clarke's "The songs of 
distant earth".

Sorry for the sci-fi nostalgia...

Mauricio

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Mike Schubert" 
<mschub at y...> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone had any interesting 
recommendations. I'm 
> pretty well-read in children's lit, but I'm always on the lookout 
for 
> new stuff. Overall, I've never really been into the fantasy/sci-fi 
> thing, but I'm open to suggestions. If anyone has any favorite 
> series, please, let me know.
> -Mike