WORLD WAR X

[Avante]

I like to stand out, never much for fitting in a group

I can't help but think of a J.G.Ballard book, he writes about global disaster. Just not zombies.


Anyway....

Who are the serious sci fi buffs out there? Ya know, Heinlien, Herbert, Piers Anthony, Simak, Le Guin, Aldiss, , Asimov, Clarke the great Olaf Stapledon, his ODD JOHN a must read.

So what are the 10 greatest sci fi books ever written? While Mary S y's Frankenstein is considered by some to be the first sci fi novel, it's actually sucks. Dracula (non sci fi) by Bram Stoker a far better read.

While I like sci fi and have thousands of books I do prefer authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P.Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert E. Howard to the sci fi legends.


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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans.


The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford, with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott in The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911). As the devoted narrator remarks, John does not feel obliged to observe the restricted morality of sapiens. Stapledon's recurrent vision of cosmic angst – that the universe may be indifferent to intelligence, no matter how spiritually refined – also gives the story added depth. Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occurs in the works of Stanisław Lem, Frank Herbert, Wilmar Shiras, Robert Heinlein and Vernor Vinge, among others.

The book is mentioned by Julian May in Intervention, part of the Galactic Milieu Series. It is also responsible for coining the term " superior" ^[1][2]

[AussieFanKurt]

I liked 2001 and 2010 by Clarke, 2061 was okay

[Clipper Nation]

OP is a got

[leemajors]

There are several book threads, quit littering.

[Avante]

I liked 2001 and 2010 by Clarke, 2061 was okay

Read 2001.

[Avante]

OP is a got

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Who are all those guys you mentioned?

[Avante]

There are several book threads, quit littering.

This is littering....

Bill Dance Blooper Reel

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[leemajors]

This is littering....

Bill Dance Blooper Reel

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If there was another Bill Dance thread, I would have posted it there.

[Avante]

If there was another Bill Dance thread, I would have posted it there.

What about all those other...0....reply threads of yours?


Poking fun at fat people?

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203204

[leemajors]

I am to be pitied people don't reply to some threads of mine simply to spite me? If no one replies, you simply move on.

[Avante]

I am to be pitied people don't reply to some threads of mine simply to spite me? If no one replies, you simply move on.

Don't post a ton of 0-5 reply threads run down fat people then think you're in some position to be critical of others, ok?

[johnsmith]

Don't post a ton of 0-5 reply threads run down fat people then think you're in some position to be critical of others, ok?

Don't post a ton of threads that go multiple pages just because people are making fun of you.


Everyone is laughing at you avante, not with you.

[leemajors]

Don't post a ton of 0-5 reply threads run down fat people then think you're in some position to be critical of others, ok?

I posted one. I think just about everyone here has the right to be critical of you at this point. Anyways, if you had posted this in a previously existing book thread, instead of pandering for attention, you just might reach some people who may have been interested in the book you were talking about.

[Avante]

Don't post a ton of threads that go multiple pages just because people are making fun of you.


Everyone is laughing at you avante, not with you.

The bottom line here is have fun as we all can see I do, while here you are acting like ya have something stuck two feet up your ass, always crying/complaining/wahwahwah...constantly. That's all you ever do here. Why?

[Avante]

I posted one. I think just about everyone here has the right to be critical of you at this point. Anyways, if you had posted this in a previously existing book thread, instead of pandering for attention, you just might reach some people who may have been interested in the book you were talking about.

No way am I taking advice from anyone with your posting history. Way to many failed threads.

[johnsmith]

The bottom line here is have fun as we all can see I do, while here you are acting like ya have something stuck two feet up your ass, always crying/complaining/wahwahwah...constantly. That's all you ever do here. Why?

How many times do you think you've typed, "wahwahwah" on this site?

[Avante]

Changing this thread to.....

10 favorite things

Not in any order

Coffee over a campfire
Sex in the morning
Niners winning Superbowls
Being surrounded by more books than I could ever read
Being surrounded by more music than I could ever listen to
Money coming in every month that you didn't have to work for
Youtube
Dancing
Talking with people who know their , like to learn
Clean ride

[ChumpDumper]

Thread still sucks.