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PostPosted: Mon, 14th Oct 2024 09:20    Post subject: Great book covers
https://au.pinterest.com/retrodad/great-book-covers-classic-isaac-asimov/

When I was aged 10, I started to read Asimov.
At some point, the public library didn't have more books from him.
Then I started to read Heinlein.

Edit: That is Robert H. Heinlein
A great novelist, and also good covers!

https://www.google.com/search?&q=stranger+in+a+strange+land&udm=2
Let google do the work for you!
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PostPosted: Mon, 14th Oct 2024 14:32    Post subject:
Asimov would often fondle and kiss women at conventions and elsewhere without regard for their consent. Several of Asimov's own personal writings testify to this, including Asimov's 1971 The Sensuous Dirty Old Man, in which he wrote, "The question then is not whether or not a girl should be touched. The question is merely where, when, and how she should be touched."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

I'm waiting for the adaptation of his 'The Gods Themselves' by some real auteur director.


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PostPosted: Mon, 14th Oct 2024 15:52    Post subject:
So like Biden?

At age 10 I borrowed "Number of the Beast" from the public library. I didn't completely understand it, and decided to reread it later. At age 12, I borrowed it again. My adoption mother made me bring it back to the library, because there was a naked woman depicted on the cover. Sad
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PostPosted: Mon, 14th Oct 2024 16:28    Post subject:
Does Biden care about adult women though, really doubtful, he wants to sniff children.

I love 50's retro futurism book covers. Not sure i can mention any specific though, i suck at remembering names of titles and authors.
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PostPosted: Mon, 14th Oct 2024 16:45    Post subject:
I remember reading these brainless space operas when I was a kid
https://www.google.com/search?q=edmond+hamilton+star+kings
https://www.google.com/search?q=harry+harrison+stainless+steel+rat


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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Oct 2024 01:08    Post subject:
Haven't read them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=jon+voight+book+covers&udm=2
Not interesting.
I just noticed Angelina Jolie is his daughter.

Did you notice how much garbage google adds to your search string these days?

I ran out of SF books to read, very possible in a small town library, and swapped to fantasy:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tanith+lee+book+covers&udm=2

Edit: https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+zelazny+book+covers&udm=2

Added: https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+heinlein+book+covers&udm=2
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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Oct 2024 03:11    Post subject:
The SF/fantasy writer that I most love:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+vance+book+covers&udm=2

Try it! The eyes of the overworld - Jack Vance

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Dying_Earth
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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Oct 2024 04:25    Post subject:
Michael Moorcock brought the most badass sword name to fruition: Stormbringer.


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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Oct 2024 07:45    Post subject:
That is an okay fantasy name, not a badass name.

https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+zelazny+book+covers&udm=2

“His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1011388-lord-of-light

More badass names:
Quote:
The Book of Abramelin, possibly written in the 14th or 15th century, lists four princes of the demons: Lucifer, Leviathan, Satan and Belial. There are also eight sub-princes: Astaroth, Magoth, Asmodee, Beelzebub, Oriens, Paimon, Ariton (Egin) and Amaymon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_demons
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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Oct 2024 14:46    Post subject:
Ok, I should have written imo, as a sword...
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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Oct 2024 15:13    Post subject:
iconized wrote:

https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+zelazny+book+covers&udm=2

https://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118236
I'm still hopelessly hopeful The Chronicles of Amber will come to fruition untainted by modern "sensitivities".
Not you thou, judging by your reply in that topic.


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