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To check, I could lay hands on my copy of Farnham's Freehold in less than 20 seconds. But then I'd have to read the damn thing (bad) and spend a couple of decades trying to forget it as thoroughly as I managed to forget it after the first reading (worse). Let's just take Galanx's word for it...

Rodger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand features an alien mind parasite, a being which can be inactive and crystaline, or active inside a host of any species. In the active state it communiicates readily with the host, and brings knowledge and abilities the host does not normally have. It is...

No contest: my favourite spaceship was a submarine: Thunderbird 4.

Not sure that we are all using the same definition of "politically incorrect", or indeed whether anyone here knows what it really means. (I certainly don't!) But one should never let one's ignorance stand in the way of fun. So ... Many of the same ones aready mentioned, especially Kipling. (I...

<Unhelpful reply> We are not talking about gender here, we are talking about sex. Gender has to do with social divisions. (For example, in most western societies, we have two genders, only one of which wears lipstick. There is no particular biological reason for this and it has no biological...

Cheers RX-79G. I can't imagine that I'd enjoy Blade Runner, haven't heard of the other one. These days, I seldom watch films: I've seen way too many bad ones over the years and life is too short to waste watching the stuff that comes out of Hollywood. Why watch a film when you can read a good...

The Number of the Beast does something a bit like this. For the most part, the four main characters tell a chapter each in first-person (not in strict rotation, sometimes they go something like A, B, A, C, B, B, D, A). Three-quarters of the way through the book, "E" (a different charcter) takes...

Zelazny surely should be mentioned here. (Edit: sorry, I didn't realise there was another page in the thread already. I'm still finding my way around this place.)

It's an odd sort of "review" that mentions the notional subject mainly in passing, but no matter: his remarks on Heinlein are right to the point. In particular, I like his emphasis on Heinlein's gift for effortless simplicity. Heinlein always reminds me - now don't laugh - of Joseph Haydn...

If there has ever been a good one, I can't think of it. Outside of F&SF there have been a few - and I do mean a few. A handful. The film of CS Forester's The African Queen comes to mind as an example, though even there they mucked up the ending. Within F&SF, nothing. The only way I can see to...

How about a (relatively) low-tech version of your idea. Instead of magnetic bonds, use ordinary solid materials. Think of a number of pillars. You'd need some pretty impressive low-friction bearings, of course, but you'd be loading the pillars in compression rather than tension, which should be...