Tag: books

My #top100 #scifi Num:51 The Fountains of Paradise

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An elevator to space – a crazy idea at the time, made so plausible and obvious that today we assume it’s only a matter of time. Clark carving the possible with imagination. Direct and straightforward prose. Probably the last of his best. 
Arthur C Clarke

My #top100 #scifi Num:53 Battlefield Earth

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2cyTLRe

OK, the guy was a bit of a mountebank and the book might be verging on the childish and superficial — not really selling this am I — but it’s another good old fashioned Sci-Fi action adventure.
Clearly from a simpler time when it was OK for authors to sail around with their private navies — who just happened to personed exclusively by female seapersons.
L. Ron Hubbard