So I just found out that RAH's unpublished first manuscript (For Us, The Living) has been found and published.

The short story on it is that he wrote it in 1938, it was rejected by several publishers and presumed lost. One of his biographers found it in a garage is Seattle (I think). While they say it's not his best work, there are themes and elements which he used again in later works.

So I think I've found my vacation reading.

John, I know you've said you don't read fiction anymore, but have you heard of this or do you have any interest in it?

I read and thoroughly enjoyed (a couple of times) "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" when I was in my pre-teens, but his "grown-up" stuff has eluded me. I gave up on "Starship Troopers" after a couple of chapters, and lost interest in "Stranger in a Strange Land" about 100 pages before the end.

I appreciate and respect Heinlein's place in the Pantheon, but I guess his stuff has just never quite been my cup of tea.

(Don't know if this puts it in context or not, but in my heavy sci-fi reading days I consumed all I could find of Asimov, Silverberg, Zelazny. Herbert and, of course, Niven. Among others.)

JB, would you care to tell us which books you enjoyed the most by those authors you listed?

JB, would you care to tell us which books you enjoyed the most by those authors you listed?


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Pretty much the ones you would expect.

Thanks for the response, John.

I'm a little surprised that you don't enjoy his work more, but to each his own.

I'm a little surprised that you don't enjoy his work more. . .

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Frankly, so am I!

A book I love is Job: A Comedy of Justice. It is very funny. Of course, since I got back into comics & this board, I haven't read ANY books! Who do I see to get an extra 3 or 4 hours added to each day?

I never enjoyed Heinlein, either. I read Starship Troopers when I was 16 but never went beyond that. Every time I pass his section in the library I think I should try again but there tends to be someone else - Rex Stout, Terry Pratchett, Brian Jaques, Charlotte MacCleod, Joan Hess, Ellis Peters, Edward Marston, P.G. Wodehouse, George Macdonald Frasier... - who's work I enjoy more.




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I loved all of Zelazny's Amber novels.

Not sure I read a book by Heinlein, but I used to read a lot of Asimov and also the Arthur C. Clarke books. And all the Jack Vance, though that is more "mystical". Tried some others but for example the more tech/cyber SF writer Gibson was not really my cup of tea...

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