<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I liked<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b>/Hyperion/, but was disappointed by the sequel. I seem to recall that the mysteries were better than the explanations, which I seem to recall contained a lot of quantum double-talk.<br><br>I liked The Man in the High Castle, but Through a Scanner Darkly, VALIS, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer are more to my taste.<br><br>/The Sirens of Titan/ bored me when I was a teenager. I greatly preferred /Cat's Cradle/ and /Slaughterhouse 5/--now there's a book I don't want to reread.<br><br>/Ender's Game/--I remember liking the original story, but I don't think the rest of the book (or the series) quite measured up.<br><br>/The Once and Future King/ and /Stand on Zanzibar/ were favorites of my teen years (SoZ a couple years
later). I could easily have put either of those on my list. Pace Gerry Quinn, I don't remember anything the slightest bit cheerful about SoZ. And pace Lane Haygood, the method is a lot like what John Dos Passos did in U.S.A. in the '30s. (Or so I've read--I've only glanced at U.S.A., but it looks very similar.)<br><br>/The Worm Ouroboros/ strikes me as as doing a set of cliches as well as they can be done, with an unexpected turn to horror leaving a bad taste in my mouth.<br><br>My choices:<br><br>The Book of the New Sun<br>Cat's Cradle<br>The Caves of Steel<br>Childhood's End<br>The Chronicles of Amber (hoping that means only the first five)<br>The Demolished Man<br>The Left Hand of Darkness<br>Little, Big<br>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<br>Neuromancer<br><br>Lots of award winners there. I must have conventional tastes. And what is it about the first half of the alphabet?<br><br>Jerry Friedman<b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"><br><br>From:</span></b> Robin B. Smith <robinbsmith@gmail.com><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I'm a Wolfe devotee and a lurking URTH subscriber and I'd be interested in your opinions on a few titles that I selected for my Top 10, but which I did not see included on your lists above: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Once and Future King by TH White, Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, and The Worm Ouroboros by ER Edison</span></div>
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</span></font></div><div>For the record it's been a pleasure spectating your Wolfean discussions!</div><div><br></div><div>Robin<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>
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