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Hi, Scott! I'm a big fan of GoT too. Only can watch after it's released on DVD, though. But I bought the first 4 seasons on Amazon Video so I may catch up a little.I like gritty sci-fi as long as there's some of the adventure and wonder there too. I agree about the Star Wars series.
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Scott wrote: "Hey Everyone. My name is Scott. I'm an author and reader. I'm currently working on a Sci-Fi adventure with lots of espionage, space travel and intrigue. My favorite Books are Necromancer, Do Androi..."Welcome Scott! Were you a BSG fan as well when it was out? Now that was some mean space opera / drama / espionage :-)
Hey Anna, Yeah totally into BSG. I began to lose interest in the series when they got close to the end. I know they were under a time constraint to end the series before the network established deadline, but I love what they did with it, especially considering I used to watch the original as a kid.
John wrote: "The stories that formed Cities in Flight were actually written in the 1950s. There have been several collections since."Thanks John. I had looked at my paperbacks and went by those publication dates.
No problem. The only reason I knew it was because I have read Alva Rogers' A Requiem for Astounding where they stories are mentioned. Not sure but the book might be still available from the New England Science Fiction Association.
Name: LawrenceFavorite Books: Dune, Mission Earth, Slaughter House Five, Silky, Slan, Tortilla Flats, Cannery Row, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, I, Robot, Foundation Series, War of the Worlds, Dragon Flight, Stranger in a Strange land, Fahrenheit 451, Brave new World, Shogun, Sound of Thunder, Fear, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest etc.
Favorite Genres: SF&F, paranormal, new political views
Favorite TV shows: None really
Favorite Movies: Jeremiah Johnson, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Ghost Protocol, The Sixth Sense
Favorite Food: Edible preferred or Lobster Thermidor will do.
Day Job: Telecom
Hobbies: Guitar
Other: Have opinions, POV and tend to express them in more than four letters.
Lawrence wrote: "Other: Have opinions, POV and tend to express them in more than four letters...."Hah! Welcome Lawrence. I think, with that laundry list of books, you will fit in just fine with the other people in the community.
My name is Susanna.Like to read: My husband introduced me to sci-fi when we started dating in college (have now been married for decades.) He loved Dune, Ring World and invited me to read them too. While I enjoy all sci-fi, I've become a sci-fi romance fan. I love Laurann Dohner, Cynthia Sax and Cara Bristol.
Favorite TV shows and movies: The Walking Dead, Containment, Outlander, Lost Girl, Star Trek (TV and movies), Star Wars. I also love sappy romances and dystopian stories.
Food: Love all food (wish I could say I was kidding). Favs are Thai, Chinese and Italian.
Work: For years I worked as a corporate communications writer for a technology company outside of Washington, DC. Now I'm focusing on my fiction.
Hobbies: Love to read, write and cook! I published my first sexy space opera Captive Heat last year and a sequel, Timeless Heat, is coming out soon.
Other: I love to travel. When my kids were little I decided they needed to see the world and we'd start with the U.S. For ten years in a row, we took a summer vacation to visit a national park of the west.
Science fiction, especially the stories set in outer space, are like travelling, but in the mind. If you like to travel you are in the right group. We may never leave earth but our minds travel to the outermost fringes of the universe, and sometimes beyond.
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Susanna wrote: "My name is Susanna...."Welcome Susanna! Another TWD fan! Yay! You'll find lots of like-minded book friends here if you love sci-fi / space opera.
Some of us scifi romance readers and authors also have a specific GR group (hope that's ok to mention here) https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/... We're not super active on GR but we also try to link back and forth between our very action SFR Group on Facebook. Cynthia Sax and Cara Bristol are active members in the FB group... Best wishes!
Anna wrote: "Welcome Space Opera Fans!Name: Tom Holzel
Favorite Books: 50's & 60's sci-fi, especially aliens, robots, and the military struggles of the Galactic Federation.
Favorite Movies: Red Planet, Les Miserable (25th Anniversary Brit edition), 2001, Cat Ballou, Midnight in Paris, Death at a Funeral (Brit version), The 3rd Man, ...
Favorite Food: Animal flesh: I'm on the Atkins diet.
Day Job: Retired international technology marketing and sales executive.
Hobbies: Writing, ("Staff Sergeant Belinda Watt," and "Ballard's War.") photography, hiking.
Other: Posting images to my FaceBook page Tom Holzel.
Tom wrote: "Favorite Books: 50's & 60's sci-fi, especially aliens, robots, and the military struggles of the Galactic Federation. Favorite Movies: Red Planet..."Welcome Tom! I think you'll find you're in excellent company here!
Name: T.K. Boomer (G.J.C. McKitrick)Favorite Books: The Expanse Series by S.A. Corey, The Culture Novels by Iain M. Banks, pretty much everything that Neil Gaimon writes, The Maddaddam Trilogy by Margaret Attwood.
Favorite Genres: Science Fiction, Crime Drama, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Biography
Favorite TV shows: The Expanse, Star Trek in all its various forms, NHL Hockey, Stranger Things, Jessica Jones, The Tunnel, Frontline, The Passionate Eye, Nova, X-Files.
Favorite Movies: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, X-Men (all of them), Remains of the Day, The Deer Hunter, Good Morning Vietnam.
Favorite Food: Spicy Indian and Thai, Turkish, French
Day Job: Retired, Formerly of Canada Post
Hobbies: Writing, Music composition (I have a small recording studio in my home), Podcasting (I’m just getting into that.)
G.J.C. wrote: "Name: T.K. Boomer (G.J.C. McKitrick) Favorite Books: The Expanse Series by S.A. Corey, The Culture Novels by Iain M. Banks, pretty much everything that Neil Gaimon writes, The Maddaddam Trilogy by..."Welcome TK! Be sure to check out our Expanse discussion thread :-) You'll find all the tv-book addicts.
G.J.C. wrote: "Name: T.K. Boomer (G.J.C. McKitrick)Favorite Books: The Expanse Series by S.A. Corey, The Culture Novels by Iain M. Banks, pretty much everything that Neil Gaimon writes, The Maddaddam Trilogy by..."
Hello from Lotusland. I took a look at your profile and had to laugh. It is a small world. My sister and her family live in Sherwood Park.
And I until 4 years ago lived on the West Coast.
Hi everyone. I am a semi-retired science teacher. After spending 35 years in middle school I decided to try a few new adventures in life. Currently I a a part-time educator-performer at the Denver Museum of Nature and science. This means I get to dress up like an astronaut and go to Mars and talk with visitors, or dissect hearts and lungs, travel through the solar system as a tour guide, play with optical illusions, read stories to kids, even become a pirate bacteriologist. Tons of fun for a life-long geek. In my spare time I am a science fiction author and proud grandpa to a beautiful young lady, with 2 more on the way..My favorite books are usually scifi, epic fantasy, or historical fiction. But I will read almost anything if I hear good recommendations. You can see my all time favorites on my goodreads page.
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Jim wrote: " This means I get to dress up like an astronaut and go to Mars and talk with visitors, or dissect hearts and lungs, travel through the solar system as a tour guide, play with optical illusions, read stories to kids, even become a pirate bacteriologist. ..."Welcome Jim! That sounds like a lot of fun :-)
Hi, I'm Gillian, and here's my potted bio...Favorite Books: Ken McLeod, Engines of Light series, Colin Barnes Techxorcist series, Iain M Banks Culture Series, Charles Stross Laundry Files, Neil Gaiman Neverwhere and American Gods to name a few!
Favorite Genres: SF and Crime
Favorite TV shows: Enjoying Stranger Things just now
Favorite Movies: Like most marvel and partial to anything a bit cheesy
Favorite Food: Steak and Pizza
Day Job: Technology Enabled Care for people with dementia
Hobbies: Walking the dog, playing with gadgets
Other: Looking forward to discovering new authors and universes
Welcome Gillian,If like movies that are a bit cheesy can I recommend Doc Savage with Ron Ely? I confess I've had good success recommending this one to people.
I was going to catch up on The Laundry Files later this year, but things have fouled that up.
Really interested in the work that you do. If you'd care to elaborate (here or off line elsewhere) I'm very interested. My girlfriend's mother has been diagnosed with dementia and despite our respective experience and educations it has been a challenging experience.
p.s. our 8 year dog can tell the time and what day of a week it is. I get 60 pounds of pit bull landing on my chest on Saturday and Sunday mornings because he knows that is when he gets to go jogging with me.
Jim wrote: "Hi everyone. I am a semi-retired science teacher. After spending 35 years in middle school I decided to try a few new adventures in life. Currently I a a part-time educator-performer at the Denver ..."On the historical fiction front have your tried Owen Parry's Abel Jones' books? The audio books are excellent, and I finishied the series in hard copy (went with what was on hand as the ex-wife moved her stuff out). Like many others here I would recommend Banks and Asimov from the old guard, and Scalzi and Stross for science fiction.
Welcome to a fellow dog-walker, Gillian.I have a 17-year old Australian Shepherd mix named Misty. How about you?
Gillian wrote: "Day Job: Technology Enabled Care for people with dementia..."Welcome Gillian! Hmmm... That's an interesting sounding day job :-) I'll bet there's a bit of 'fringe science' in there :-)
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Alan wrote: "Welcome Gillian,If like movies that are a bit cheesy can I recommend Doc Savage with Ron Ely? I confess I've had good success recommending this one to people.
I was going to catch up on The Laun..."
Thanks Alan, I'll have a look for Doc Savage. It's not one I've seen.
Our little monster is an 8 month old Schnoodle who has taken over our lives since she arrived in Spring, but we wouldn't have it any other way!
on the TEC front, happy to chat - I've put my email in my profile, so just drop me a message.
Gillian wrote: "Alan wrote: "Welcome Gillian,If like movies that are a bit cheesy can I recommend Doc Savage with Ron Ely? I confess I've had good success recommending this one to people.
I was going to catch u..."
They do tend to do that (takeover our lives). The one problem we sometimes hit with the boy is when he sprints out to the yard to chase critters at 0200 hours and bark the neighborhood down.
And, he's a bed hog.
Hello all! I've just found Goodreads and suspect it will be as addictive as Wikipedia and Facebook once were for me!My taste in books is diverse but then you can't put a good book down...
Books Foundation Trilogy; The End of Eternity; Rendezvous with Rama; Fahrenheit 451. And that's just sf!
Author Asimov
TV Riveted to the re-runs of The X-Files at present. Plus Emmerdale, fwiw...
Movies 2001: a Space Odyssey; Star Wars IV, V, VI (VII is promising, mind); Mad Max (the original only).
Food Eating far more healthily these days after a heart attack.
Work On sick at moment but looking for voluntary work.
Hobbies Reading [!]; music - piano, keyboard, classical, rock, blues, you name it...; walking; nature...
Other I write poetry and compose.
Look forward to some lively discussions.
fwiw? I can't come up with anything for that so I guess I am going to have to ask what that one means.
John wrote: "fwiw? I can't come up with anything for that so I guess I am going to have to ask what that one means."For What It's Worth! I.e. not much. Sorry. I hate TLAs (or is that FLAs?) usually, as they are more often than not obfuscating. I think there's an episode of Yes Minister where the acronyms become so ridiculous they end up stalling everyone so much that nothing gets done - as usual. They can be useful shorthand, though, fwiw.
Ah, I see (I think). I admit these acronyms can be confusing, and English is my first language. Had to ask my wife what LOL meant the first time I came across it. Not sure being 61 is much of an excuse or not. Old enough to have fond memories of Captain Condor (I think that was the character's name), Robot Archie and The Spider though.
Hello, I am Professor Bird Brain. I am a big fan of Science Fiction and Space Opera. Favorite Books to date: 1 Red Rising Trilogy (Peirce Brown) 2. The Origin Mystery (AG Riddle) 3. Across The Universe (Beth Rivers).
Favorite TV Series to date. 1. Stargate (ALL SERIES) 2. Battle Star Galactica 3. Dark Matter
I have what seems to be a unique taste for mythology woven into space operas especially Norse or Sumerian. Also I have a weird thing for needing to listen to music when i read, like Two Steps from Hell or music mixed by Spacemind. Like I said a bit unique.
Nice to meet you all and thank you for adding me to youre collective.
Iain wrote: "ooks Foundation Trilogy; The End of Eternity; Rendezvous with Rama; Fahrenheit 451. And that's just sf!..."Welcome Iain! With that reading pedigree, you're definitely in the right place!
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Prof. wrote: "I have what seems to be a unique taste for mythology woven into space operas especially Norse or Sumerian. Also I have a weird thing for needing to listen to music when i read, like Two Steps from Hell or music mixed by Spacemind. Like I said a bit unique...."
Welcome Prof! A fellow Two Steps From Hell fan? :-) [*fist bump*] I own every ... single ... one of their albums. Have you also tried Audiomachine and Epic Score? Blast that out your speakers and before you know it, your entire day becomes more epic :-)
OOH! Two Steps From Hell! Was introduced to them by our son, and I love the music. Welcome Iain and Prof!
Anna wrote: "Welcome Iain! With that reading pedigree, you're definitely in the right place"thanks Anna. Just wonder if you should have just one welcome thread? Wasn't sure where to post at first.
Iain wrote: "Just wonder if you should have just one welcome thread? Wasn't sure where to post at first. "We had it set up that way at first (way back when), but we were getting a ton of spammers, some deliberate, a lot of it people who didn't understand this isn't a book promotion site, so now I keep them separate. Sorry for the confusion.
Hi my name is Nick O'DohertyFavorite Books: Foundation series, Hyperion, Elizabeth Moon's Vatta series, Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series, John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin books
Favorite Genres: Space opera, Cyber Punk, Fantasy, Naval History
Favorite TV shows: Don't watch much SF on TV prefer comedy
Favorite Movies: Alien series, Hunger Games,
Favorite Food: Anything fresh that I don't have to cook. Italian, Spanish, Thai and old fashioned British puddings
Day Job: Retired - chief gardener, cook (hence comment above) and bottle washer
Hobbies: Walking; Foraging and making jam, chutney, wine etc; Gardening; Entertaining (its ok cooking for a party but boring cooking day to day)
Other: I like Maths and for a while after heart problems forced me to retire from better paid work I enjoyed working as a Maths Teaching assistant
Hi Nick, reading your favourites list makes me think I need to get back into hard SF more, there's some I don't know there. Enjoy your time on here!
Unless they are from long ago (or Harry Turtledove) it seems most of the authors that get mentioned are ones I have never heard of.
Hi Nick! I adore Hyperion series as well. I also am a big gardener. I live in Southern California where we have gardening year around but complicated in that it's a desert.
Nick wrote: "Hi my name is Nick O'DohertyFavorite Books: Foundation series, Hyperion, Elizabeth Moon's Vatta series, Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series, John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey..."
Welcome Nick! With that reading pedigree you'll fit right in here :-) Foraging and Chutney Jam? Mmmmm.... My kids get embarrassed when I pick wild stuff and launch into a long lecture about foraging. Mo-om! Stop eating the rose hips!
Hi Nick! I'm also fond of John Scalzi's Old Man's War series.
Hi everyone. I'm Dave O'Connor, author of the Warner's World sci-fi series:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Fave authors: Bain, Brin, Hemry, Weber, Asimov, Scalzi, Niven, Kloos
Fave Sub-genres: military, space opera
Best Recently read book: "The Ambassador 1" by Patty Jansen - really liked it.
Day Job: President of Panther Games. I've got design credits for three board games and a string of computer wargames. Most known for Command Ops. Main expertise is artificial intelligence. I also consult into the military simulations space. But I'd really like to write full time :).
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By day I'm a mild mannered military instructor and aviator and when I jump into my power armor I become a mean writing maching....(I wish).
My hobbies include....you guessed it... Writing, Reading, Video Games, Cooking and playing RPG's whenever possible.
It's a pleasure to meet all of you and I hope to get to know you better.