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Took a break from the Pohl anthology to read Failure Is Not An Option, by former NASA Mission Control flight director Gene Kranz. Interesting look at not only the man, but NASA from the early Mercury flights up through the Apollo missions. Not the greatest prose in the world, but still a nice...

I agree -- I never said that writing fan letters would provide a solution. But I still think it's good, as readers, to let your feelings be heard. Though I should have added that POLITE fan letters are a lot better than crazy, ranting ones... But I think your comment, above, Teresa, sort of...

I knew I had something else to contribute to the discussion... This is an excerpt from an interview I did with the author Mike Resnick, for my upcoming book of interviews with sf authors. Even though my publisher will probably kill me for posting it (heh heh), I think it answers at least...

Crispenycate: Yep, noticed them, don't particularly love them. I know them as "trade paperbacks," and they tend to cost about $14 here in the States. They often have pretty nice covers, but in my mind, that hardly makes up for their other problems. SOMETIMES you'll get lucky, and the trade...

*sigh* Tried posting this yesterday, my computer crashed, I didn't have the heart to re-write it... So now I'll try again today. Can't keep a wordy forum member down for long! ;) The first part of this post is actually an adaptation of a letter I wrote to SciFi Weekly (scifiweekly.com) a week...

In the face of financial realities, I tend to buy paperbacks. The content's the same, and as has been mentioned, they fit nicely into a backpack for those morning and evening commutes on the train. (Plus, growing up, it was always easier to hid a paperback behind my desk when reading in...

Colour Out of Space was my first, followed by Shadow Over Innsmouth. Someone suggested that, as a science fiction fan, I might enjoy those two in particular. He was right, and while I've liked or loved most everything I've read by ol' H.P., those two remain my favorites.

J.D. -- check abebooks.com for cheap "reading copies" of the Star Science Fiction collections. Someone's bound to have them for good prices -- especially later editions. Nothing to contribute to the above reading lists -- everyone's said the ones I'd have offered up for inclusion.

Something I've been thinking about lately... Which science fiction authors have gotten the multi-volume, all-encompassing, everything-including-the-kitchen-sink retrospective treatment? I'm talking about a set that includes all short stories, any non-fiction (reviews, editorials, essays...

How does it hold up when 42 is written out in other languages? If similar results come about (without too much tweaking), well... that'd be pretty interesting. However, as far as I know, we're still without an actual question. The game of Cosmic Jeopardy continues... ;)

To your excellent list I'd also add Fahrenheit 451... Finished reading the last collection of stories, now I'm moving through Platinum Pohl: The Collected Short Stories, by (duh) Frederik Pohl. So far, it's excellent -- but I like Pohl's writing (most of the time). The brief comments...

Thanks, J.D. Not sure which version of the book I've read, then, since it was a while ago and it's entirely possible that I picked up the unedited version... I'll have to give it another look. Knew about Stranger... though, definitely read the unedited version. And to stay on track with the...

Wait... Having just read the what? I LOVED Puppet Masters, but had no idea there was an unedited version... Unless that's the version I read. Is it recent?

Unfortunately, I'm pretty bad about keeping up with which author has just published his or her first book... I never know who's new on the scene, so to speak. Do you specifically look for brand new authors (or those who've at least just got a first novel on the stands)? Or is stumbling upon...

You're certainly welcome to your opinion, but I've got to respectfully disagree. Since posting this scan, I've had a number of professional artists and academics say that they think it's a sketch by someone who knew what he was doing. They point to the nature of the line work, the layering of...

The kind of alien that wouldn't see me as a snack...

I just inherited what might be an extremely rare collection of Walt Whitman books from 1902 -- handmade paper, hand-set type, hand-colored prints... really pretty amazing. (There's some confusion as the binding and covers don't conform to any other version of the sets to which these books belong...

Just finished James Blish's And All The Stars A Stage (pretty good -- not his best, but not bad), and a new anthology of original short stories called Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, edited by Lou Anders. EXCELLENT. Great hard sf from Stephen Baxter, Larry Niven, Mike...

And the Binder brothers actually called one of their short stories "I, Robot." I still need to read "Adam Link, Robot."

Well, my collection is made up of vintage books, none of which have ISBN numbers -- so that aspect of LibraryThing wouldn't do me any good, anyway. However, if I decide to catalog my reading books, I think I will make an ISBN field that I can then export for online use -- good idea! Thanks for...