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Originally posted by Nina
I love Heinlein.... we did The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for one of my book of the month club cam shows. My members love sci-fi and turned me on to him.
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I would love to hear more about the "book of the month club cam shows."
I am a founding member of a local reading club. We recently read "stranger in a strange land" for the club.
I worked in a public library for all four years of high school, so I love talking about and recommending books. I used to read all the new sci-fi books before they were put out for the patrons.
I think that I have read about 90% of the Asimov & Heinlein stuff. I don't know of any of their books I haven't read, but I can't say that I have read them all.
(I read quickly and read most books in one sitting. I recently read "the fountainhead" in one sitting, so appearantly I can still do it.)
My current favorite Sci-fi author is Orson Scott Card. I also like Octavia Butler. Of course, I had to re-read Lord of the Rings because of the movie. I got the books for my 9th birthday and read the hobbit immediately and LOTR about a year later. (this was probably my 10th read. I'll re-read it again this fall.)
I should also mention that I have an interest in the computer game Core War. In core war, you write programs which are loaded into a simulated computer with a competetor. The two programs then try to destroy each other to win. My interest is actually not in writing the programs, but in using genetic algorithms to evolve core war warriors which can beat the warriors written by human players. This has been attempted by many people, but not accomplished as of yet.
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