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JEDWARD gone! Oh no!

Although I’m glad to the back of those two freaks - it means Cowell will not now carry out his (no doubt empty) threat to leave the county - if he was sincere I really was hoping they would have won….

But with sing off’s, dance off’s and skate off’s…....i really wish they would all just f*ck off….

Yours Mr Grumpy….

..nah Stevie.. at this point LQ wakes up and says if you want sci-fi, go to the grand-daddies of them all…

Arthur C. Clarke - worked on radar, predicted using geostationary orbit for comms satillites, numerous well reasoned futurist novels and novellas, “Childhoods End”, and his short story “The Sentinel” written in 1948 eventually became Kubrick’s “2001- A Space Odyssey”. (Who can forget the balletic space scene waltz to the tune of The Blue Danube - WARNING link 10 minutes long http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDAWszeZtNg )

Issac Asimov - the Foundation series and the Robot trilogy - became I, Robot with Will Smith - interesting but not a true reflection of Asimov’s work

Robert A. Heinlein - not an author LQ feels at ease with, but he was hugely influential and did pen “Stranger in a Strange Land” - which is worth a look

Philip K. Dick - ” Do androids dream of electric sheep?” - became one of LQ’s all time top ten movies - Bladerunner

As an aside, in other areas of their lives all of these guys allegedly had character aspects which would make them difficult to be tolerated by some people, but they did write a lot of good stuff. I guess that’s just part of the human condition.

.. but as you know, LQ likes his observations of the human condition peppered with humour.

So for his money, one of the best contemporary writers is….

Terry Pratchett

If you don’t know his work, look it up….

Great choice LQ… i’ve enjoyed the discworld novels over the years (Mort being my favourite).

Used to be an avid Sci-fi reader, Dune series, big fan of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series and Patrick Tilley (amtrak wars) but havent found the time to read much recently. Perhaps the happy combination of sci-fi and humour is found in Red Dwarf (particularly the first few series).

Rgds,

Pyramid
(never heard Jedward or any other X factor(y) rubbish)

Awesome LQ - Read loads of Clarke, Asimov and Dick in my youth - Childhood’s End - the Foundation series, The Man in the High Castle ect…..Blade Runner is still my fave Sci-Fi movie - and Kubrick is one of the true genious’s of modern cinema…...2001 still blows me away the way it did 30 years ago….and must add William Gibson and Ian M Banks to that list- Know what you mean about Heinlen and his dodgy right wing views…...its really interesting the way this thread has brought so many diffirent things into the mix…

Glad I started it…..

Ahhh The Amtrak Wars ...all 6 volumes are sat in my bookcase and I still have the T Shirt!!!

For something non Sci Fi try reading James Clavell, Shogun was made into the tv series with Richard Chamberlain many moons ago (in the days of Betamax) and Taipan starred Pierce Brosnan when it was made into a tv series.

Another author is Alan Dean Forster ... Call To Arms Series and many more.

and yes I used to frequent the Forbidden Planet bookshop when it was in New Oxford Street.

It’s hard to have a non LMP based thread though….because it infects our whole lives!!!

Take today for instance!! My company sent me on a one day Emergency First Aid course!!! Now, as i’m in a room with complete strangers from other companies, there were quite a few ladies present!! And i swear, four of them were VERY lovely indeed!! (in fact one girl positively oozed sex appeal, plus i had to put a VERY sweet blonde babe in the recovery position LOL)

And all i could think…..was i’d LOVE to party with these girls   It was rather hard to concentrate

That didn’t take long to bring it back to our fave pastime - just as well she didn’t put you in the LMP recovery position - which normally requires wet wipes and a fair amount of shuddering and juddering on our part….

and did Spurs really slaughter Wigan 9-1 yesterday - Dafoe must be in Cappelo’s starting line up for the World Cup now….the big four have been broken….gawd bless Harry…..

LOL!! The wet wipes were actually involved!! 

When wiping the cpr dolls mouth before practising the breaths!!

A cpr doll - is that like a PCD? - bet its not nearly as much fun…...

Nothing like her!! She was legless for a start

Quite literally

pyramidguy - 22 November 2009 10:58 PM

i’ve enjoyed the discworld novels over the years (Mort being my favourite).

Pyramid

Hey PG - Mort was the first of the novels I read. I’d kinda been put off the whole Discworld canon simply because it was lumped in the fantasy/sci-fi/hobbits/spotty adolescents category in the bookshops. And then a good friend of mine said “try this, it’s bloody funny - and perceptive”. And he was right. I’ve been hooked ever since.

And the Science of Discworld collaborations are really good as well. Try “Darwin’s Watch” - it’s not just about current thinking on evolution, but they try to make string theory accessible!

Note to Stevie - don’t try wearing the string

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