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Re: Books

By: Zimbler0 in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 08 Oct 19 1:07 AM | 25 view(s)
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"Roger Zelazny"...
There is a name that wants to ring a bell.
I'm looking at my shelves and not seeing anything there. Probably
in some short stories . . .

Closest I find is Samuel R. Delany. "Babel-17".
(First published in 1969.)

Something more recent that I re-read not that long ago, is "The Better
Part of Valor" by Tanya Huff. Copyright 2002. Space going fiction
where a female Staff Sergeant called a two star general a bastard to
his face. Then she is called upon to lead a mission on an
unidentified alien ship by said bastard of an admiral. I liked that
one.

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Re: Books
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Mon, 07 Oct 19 12:39 AM 		Msg. 41643 of 62138

Zimbler0:

Re: "I enjoyed it."My favorite to date is 'Lord of Light' by Roger Zelazny. It's about a crew that pilots a ship full of hibernating passengers to a distant world, then keeps all the technology (including immortality) for themselves when they revive the passengers. Centuries or millennia later, the crew have assumed the roles of the Hindu pantheon - whom the rest of the world are required to worship - when one decides that their tyranny must end. His followers called him a god. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god. His name is Siddhartha.

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