>I put in my vote for C. J. Cherryh. Uneven writer - I found her Cyteen
>series almost as boring as Doris Lessing's sf efforts - but Forty
>Thousand in Gehenna and Wave Without A Shore are marvelous.
Interesting choice, Frederick. I agree, & her recent series of Foreigner
books is good too.
>
>Haven't read all this list but hope someone has mentioned Stanislaw Lem
>- Solaris (source of the Tarkovski film), His Master's Voice etc. - and
>Arkadi & Boris Strugatski, whose Roadside Picnic was the source of
>Tarkovski's "Stalker."
Yes to all of the above, not least the two films, which are masterpieces...
Doug
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to another shore. The human shore's
too much
You can speak. You're on safe
ground, you mandala, you. I'm
getting out of here
Charles Olson
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