RE: Recommend some sci-fi authors
February 13, 2018 at 12:06 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 12:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Ian Banks. PKD. James Corey.
Battlefield Earth is actually a pretty good book. If you like long stories and can stand a basic level of prose, that is. He was a complete loon by the time he wrote it, and it's scientology through and through. It's almost as if BE is the book he was trying to write when he came up with the religion. It's a bet I'd put money on if we could resurrect his lucid self and have him read it, and then opine.
(February 12, 2018 at 1:20 pm)Lutrinae Wrote:(February 12, 2018 at 12:46 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: L Ron Hubbard
I kind of avoid him, you know, because of the whole Scientology thing.....
Battlefield Earth is actually a pretty good book. If you like long stories and can stand a basic level of prose, that is. He was a complete loon by the time he wrote it, and it's scientology through and through. It's almost as if BE is the book he was trying to write when he came up with the religion. It's a bet I'd put money on if we could resurrect his lucid self and have him read it, and then opine.
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