Re: Top Ten List was Re: KV Language

Laserlight wrote:
>  "Sorrow Killer" and such names reminded me of my Top Ten All
>Time Best SF Books: Donald Kingsbury's Courtship Rite.  If you
>haven't read it, it's undoubtedly because you haven't found a
>copy yet (or else you're a drooling, ignorant oaf who is really
>hankering to get back to Games Workslop).
>
>BBi:*drool* I guess that's appropriate, since I've never read
it nor HEARD
>of it, but now I suppose I'kll have to (though I'm tempted not
to just to be
>a troublemaker)....

Oh, that's okay, you're a troublemaker anyway <g>

>Mote in God's Eye
>
>BBi: I'm told it's excellent, it's on my "I've always wanted to
read it,
>just never go around to it" list.

You're really a Games Workslop fanboy who got onto this list by
accident and just haven't figured out how to unsub, right? <very
big grin>
Seriously, Mote isn't a classic--it's a CLASSIC.

>The Warrior's Apprentice (Lois Bujold)
>The Island Worlds (Eric Kotani & John Maddox Roberts)
>
>BBi: Well, thanks so much for giving me more books to add to my
"I'll have
>to check that out" list (I need to assemble a list of lists.
Sheesh).

You will probably have a hard time finding Island Worlds, sorry.
>
>A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge) -- this is the one most
like
>Courtship Rite, by the way
>

(pause to insert Siefert's comment: "is he good?"   I wish to
point out that this is a Top Ten list).

(Afterthought: although I did consider inserting Cenotaph Road,
simply because it is one of the most encouraging books for new
authors I've ever run across.  "If someone actually published
this slop, then all I need to do is make the time to get
something written).

>let's throw in a Heinlein juvenile for old times' sake, say
>Space Cadet.
>
>BBi: Naw. If you're going to do a RAH Juvenile, go with Red
Planet.

Or Tunnel in the Sky, or Rocket Ship Galileo, or Star Beast, or
...