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Any love for Harlan Ellison?
Guy was polarizing in reality but he has some great short stories.
I've only read A Boy and His Dog, so basically i've read nothing of his. Didn't like it or the film. But not read enough to form a proper pinion of his work. I do like hearing him on Hour 25 or whatever that old radio show he presented was.
I don't think I've actually read that one--granted I don't care for everything he wrote but there are some gems in there--
Tracking Level
"Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
All three are quality stories to get a good overview of his best stuff. He's definitely not HARD sci-fi though, even if some of his stories fit that mold. I think he described himself as a fantasist.
I haven't read any of his novels though--I've been on a short story kick for the last decade or so and haven't really tackled many novels except Infinite Jest and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep.
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A couple more Ellison's of real quality, to my aging memory.
One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
(really like the 80's Twilight Zone adaptation as well, more upbeat than the story, which has a sad inevitability)
Hitler Painted Roses
And for this festive time of year, a silly one that presages the new movie Fatman (though it's really a James Bond parody): Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R.
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Robert Silverberg from around 1970.
The Years Best Science Fiction Short Stories, edited by Gardner Dozois, up until @ volume 22.
The last 8 volumes or so Dozois' tastes seemed to get a bit baroque and I found so many of the stories hard to follow.
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The Star Trek Mirror Universe omnibuses + the stand alone novel Rise Like Lions, and the dovetail novels Disavowed and Control.
This is how you treat The Mirror Universe.
The Khan Singh duology are as much about Gary Seven and especially Roberta Lincoln as they are about Khan.
If you liked Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln, you'll like these.
There is a Borg omnibus. As much as I enjoyed it, I didn't find it as satisfying as the above two series.
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You must read Dune which is very timely since the movie is going to be released soon. Also recommend some Star Wars books if you are into them, Ahsoka is great, Darth Plagueis, and the High Republic series. Not a fan of the older Legends stuff, they are the old books from before the new movies came out and Disney says they are not canon so I won't bother because they sound outdated.
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I recently got into Pohl but only have two of his and Farmer I've heard did a great book called something like To Your Scattered Bodies Go, which i think i'd like to try.
To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the first of the Riverworld series, & is great. Everyone that's ever lived is bought back to like on the banks of a river, I won't tell you anymore. It was supposed to be the first of a trilogy, the second book, The Fabulous Riverboat is also very good, & I waited for the third one, & eventually it was published, The Dark Design, a really thick book, with a note from the author saying that the book was so long, he'd split it into two, & then the forth book was published, The Magic Labyrinth, which I never bought, as I couldn't get through the third, it was all over the place (maybe it was me), anyway, I've only read the first two.
Farmer got the title, The Dark Design from some Arabic writing translated by the explorer Sir Richard Burton, I think it's about how your life is already written down & there's really nothing much you can do about it, & it's always stayed with me:
“And still the Weaver plies his loom,
whose warp and woof is wretched Man
Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design,
so dark we doubt it owns a plan”
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