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I'm a 57 year-old librarian, married with two grown children. The first science fiction author I read was Isaac Asimov (the story collection "Nine Tomorrows.") I still have a soft spot for Mr. Asimov although I now recognize that the IDEA was everything to him. Characterization was practically non-existent. Nevertheless,I love the whole Robot series including the more recent meldings of the Robots and the Foundation series. Moved on to Harlan Ellison, Ursula LeGuin, James Tiptree, Ray Bradbury, John Brunner and many more. I don't keep up on new writers the way I'd like to, but I recently discovered China Mieville novels and I love them all.
Welcome, welcome, one and all
Hi there,I'm 25 years old and have been reading fantasy books since I was 11 years old read "The Deeds of Paksenarrion", which completely hooked me on the genre. I'm a bookseller, so I get to surround myself with books all day everyday. I read a few other genres as well, but fantasy books will always be one of my favorites.
Hello. I am Dolly. Love Sci-Fi and Fantasy :-) Looking forward to participating in this group
Nick wrote: "I was born May 24, 1979 in Logan, WV. Until the age of 15 I lived in Mingo County, WV near Delbarton when I moved to Swansboro, NC with my mother due to my parents divorce. I graduated in 1997 from..."Just out of curiosity, is the "founder" really MIA? :>) I notice this board has been around a looong time. I didn't know Goodreads had been around since '07. Just curious if the old timers were still around.
As for me, well, there's not too much interesting. I like to read--I read just about everything: Mysteries, thrillers, cozy mysteries, urban fantasy (one of my favorite genres) high fantasy and some sci/fi--although I venture into sci/fi less often than the other categories.
Favorite authors:
Mercedes Lackey early stuff
Holly Lisle early to mid stuff, not so much her longer saga series
John Levitt
Ilona Andrews
Patrica Briggs (mostly her older stuff although I read and enjoyed the first three in her Mercy Thompson series)
Ellen Guon --Great elves series. Just fabulous.
Stephen Donaldson and Tolkien. :>) Of course. From back when I was a teen.
Welcome new folks!
And Maria, I've never seen Nick post while I've been here. In fact, I've only ever seen Brad and Cindy being active.
And Maria, I've never seen Nick post while I've been here. In fact, I've only ever seen Brad and Cindy being active.
Hello, i am Mackenzie Ayers, i was born on may 10, 1993. i'm sure to most of you, i am young. i am 17 right now and am currently a junior at mission viejo highschool. I suppose if i had a profession it would be school right now! I've always been intrested in reading since i was young. I'm told it runs in the family. i do not remember when i started reading but when i did start, i was reading a lot, at school, at home, everywhere. My favorite type of book to read is Fantasy and romance. For my book report at school, i have started the last enchantment but i do not plan on finishing that until everyone else starts reading their book in class.
Hi! My name is Peter. I'm 20 years old and I live in Vermont. I read mostly Fantasy, only reading Sci-Fi if it's Military Sci-Fi or Space Opera. Most of my friends read boring and unoriginal YA novels (Not YA novels as a whole. Just the ones they show me), so I joined this group.I like long books. I enjoyed Crossroads of Twilight (the Wheel of Time book where nothing especially important to the overall plot occurred) simply because it was a Wheel of Time book and it was long.
Character-wise, I like Action-Girls the most. Unfortunately, good examples are few and far between, and the list of my favorites is short.
Kiriel di'Ashaf - Sun Sword
Sorry/Apsalar - Malazan
Arya Stark - A Song of Ice and Fire
I know, it's almost pathetic. I don't like it either.
Fell in the Starwars world when I was but five years old and my Dad dragged me to see "The Return of the Jedi" in a famous French theater. Yeah, fell into it... Kinda like baby Obelix in the cauldron with magic potion. You never recover from something like that... Hence my presence here. Nice to meet you all...
(Klingon salute)
(Klingon salute)
Hi,My name is Lee Gimenez and I'm a science fiction writer. My books are available on Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Fictionwise.
For more information about my published books, please visit my website at:
http://leegimenez.com/home
Thanks,
Lee
Ala wrote: "Welcome new folks!And Maria, I've never seen Nick post while I've been here. In fact, I've only ever seen Brad and Cindy being active."
So...he is only but a myth...which fits in well with the group. We need a ghost or three, a myth and at least one seer!
:>)
We could use a new seer. We lost our last one in an accident.
No one saw it coming.
badum tsh.
No one saw it coming.
badum tsh.
Ala wrote: "We could use a new seer. We lost our last one in an accident. No one saw it coming.
badum tsh."
That is sooooo bad. Of course, we all know that seers are the WORST when it comes to changing what they "see" as their destiny. They'll tell other people and those people will happily make a left turn (or a u-turn) but they don't seem to be able to take their own vision. Of course...maybe it's just that seers are drawn into their own vision like a spider and its prey...
I joined the group a couple of months ago, but never got around to write something here. Must rectify. I used to be a Russian lawyer, now I am a Canadian stay at home mom, living in NYC.
I love reading sf and f, but don't have as much time now to actually read it. The last books I loved - Boneshaker and Midnight Never Come.
I try to read depressing books only when I really have to. Or if they are really good and need to know what's up.
Welcome.
Lawyer in Russia? Do they have laws in Russia? :P
Lawyer in Russia? Do they have laws in Russia? :P
Hi Avrelia, welcome....please be tolerant of the, uhhh...humor. :) LOL
Ala wrote: "hey, HEYI got nothin"
Notin' to gain, nothin' to lose!
:) LOL... I've been there.
My name is Karen, and I am a sci-fi/fantasy-a-holic. I read pretty much anything, so admittedly it was only a matter of time before it happened. I wasn't always a fan of the genre. I mostly read historical fiction, poetry, and all the old dead white guys, with a few tawdry bodice rippers thrown in. My first daliance with the genre, (well perhaps not the first, but the one that converted me to an actual fan of the genre rather than a casual reader) was during my summer of Canadian authors. Every summer I try to pick a theme and then all summer long read on that theme. I hadn't read many Canadian authors, so I decided that I needed to change that post-haste. A friend of mine suggested I pick up some Guy Gavriel Kay. At first i was a little weirded out. You have to understand, I was living in my mother's basement, I played online video games, I liked anime, and thought that comics are way-cool, (with the exception of the mother's basement thing these are all things that still hold true to this day.) It seemed that the love of fantasy/sci-fi was the last step into becoming a full-fledged geek-cliche. There was concern, at first, that perhaps if this last of the cliches became fulfilled that the remainder of my days would be spent planning my next cos-play outfit, smoking pot and plotting ways to get my mom to make me supper, instead of worrying about things like graduating and university. Fortunatley, for my my parent's pride, that didn't happen. Instead I found that I could manage my addiction by reading authors who hadnt completed their series. while I waited for the next book to come out i would do other things, like laundry. My love of sci-fi/fantasy has done me no harm, and as a result I fully embrace my cliche geek status, which has been made much easier since I no longer live in my mom's basement.
Welcome to the group, and to the herd of geekdom.
Also, i have to do laundry. Thanks for the reminder.
Also, i have to do laundry. Thanks for the reminder.
Ala wrote: "Welcome.Lawyer in Russia? Do they have laws in Russia? :P"
well, yes. lots of them. And they change all the time.
basically you better have a good lawyer who knows how to avoid them. ;)
Welcome Karen,The basement sounds fun and wonderfully atmospheric whilst reading. Did it add to the experience??
Man, that basement sounds like it might be the only reason you made it through university!! Smart parents...I need to do laundry too. Rats.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Hi Avrelia, welcome....please be tolerant of the, uhhh...humor. :) LOL"Thank you. Russian laws are hilarious. Somewhat :)
I spent way too much time trying to come up with a lame "In Soviet Russia..." joke about lawyers and came up with nothing.
So sad...
So sad...
In Soviet Russia, lawyers must first cut a deal with prosecutors to keep themselves out of jail before attempting to defend their clients...????
Best I had was, "In Soviet Russia, you get thrown at the book". But it just doesn't work...
Ala wrote: "Best I had was, "In Soviet Russia, you get thrown at the book". But it just doesn't work..."Oh, I think that works. It conveys chaos, a bit of "backwards" approach...not bad, not bad at all.
:>)
Hi folks :)I'm Anne, and I enjoy reading fantasy, sci-fi and romance. I review some of the books I read on my blog, and love finding new authors I haven't come across before.
Welcome, welcome. Please keep all limbs inside the vehicle at all times.
Except for dogs. In that case, hang your head out and let your tongue flap in the wind!
Hi, I'm a married mom of 2 young boys and work full time. I used to be a huge fan of the scifi/fantasy in my twenties and went for few years where that was all I read. So I've read the Farseer trilogy (loved it!) and a lot of Guy Gavriel Kay (he's great) and Hyperion (liked). While I don't exclusively read these genres anymore, I do still read it every once in a while and I look forward to participating.
Hi, my name is Nigel. Currently writing my first sci-fi/ geo-political thriller
Nigel wrote: "Hi, my name is Nigel. Currently writing my first sci-fi/ geo-political thriller"Oh do please make some of the pols expendable. And guilty. Won't be believable otherwise. :>)
Politicians. Sorry, sometimes I don't even understand my own shorthand!
Ah. I regret to have to inform you that just yesterday I concluded a scene in which the US President survived an apparent attack by a reconaissance drone.
Still many pages to go!
Still many pages to go!
Hmph, well then, your writing needs work!!! :>) Never mind that scene, it would be far better to have a pol or two taken down by their own stupidity. An attack just makes them babble more. Maybe something tawdry like when they run off to meet their clandestine lover, they fall overboard and the lover just can't find the interest to tell the captain of the boat to turn around and get the pol. Or in supreme arrogance, they eat a puffer fish. There are, I'm sure, even more deserving ends...
Damnable puffer fish, always making with the puffing and fishing and whatnot!
Also, welcome new peoples :)
Also, welcome new peoples :)
I sense an inner anger here! Dont worry though at least one politician has already been set on the road to perdition
Most of them are on the road already...it's just a matter of how quickly they get there...and how...:>)
True indeed. Well so far in Recon Earth it is humans who have made monkeys of the politicians but horrors may soon be visited upon them from beyond the stars, you never know?
Ala wrote: "Best I had was, "In Soviet Russia, you get thrown at the book". But it just doesn't work..."YOur defense will prosecute you, but the prosecution will defend? o_O
Hey everyone!I'm a 26 year old sci-fi fan, currently reading Look to Windward by Iain M Banks :)
Also, I'm new here!
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My favorite scifi/fantasy books I have read thus far are the Hyperion books by Dan Simmons (love all his stuff), The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, and practically every book ever written by Robert Holdstock, a tragically underrated fantasist, IMO.
I am sadly ignorant of much of the sci fi/ fantasy out there, though. I am going to change that!