A few months ago I read Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke. It was incredibly interesting, albeit not totally science fiction, but mostly fiction about ``what if the world behaved this way?''It's about what happens when aliens do decide to show up on Earth.It was also very different from Arthur's 2001: A Space Odyssey.Read any scifi lately?
I'm a big fan of Dick.
>>2yeah i've always known you are a fan of dicks alright LOL
>>1I picked up Dune yesterday, just finished Book One. Breddy gud.
>>4Really? A few years ago when I began Dune I thought it was unbearably bad, and couldn't finish it. I'll try again sometime, though.
>>5It's holding my interest. What types of books do you typically read? It's probably heavily up to taste.
>>6Science fiction, fantasy, mythology, textbooks, articles on math and science, etc.I should probably go into Dune treating it as fantasy rather than scifi, and then it'll be OK.
>>7It's an Epic. And it's a good one.Unbearably bad is a complete overreaction, considering the fact that many consider it a classic. You either think it's great, or you think it's bad. "Unbearably bad" is too much.It is good, you just need to actually try it.
And I just finished Dune. I liked it. I can see why it's a classic.Now I'll look into the sequels and some other sci-fi.
>>9>other sci-fiJack McDevitt has a lotta great books, mostly in two series, about different forms of sci-fi archaeology in space.
