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H. Rider Haggard (22 June 1856 - 14 May 1925) is a little earlier than John Scalzi and doesn't write nearly as well.
As a teeenager I read quite a bit of his stuff (including "King Solomon's M ines" which is probably his most famous novel) as much out of historical in terest as anything else - it gives a depressing picture of what Victorian E ngland would swallow.
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Hi Bill, I'm pretty much omnivorous when it comes to books... I've read all of Edgar Rice Burroughs many times... (male harlequin romances IMO. Is there something better to do while waiting in line at the store?) it's not something I'm proud about, just another addiction. Which fortunately people keep feeding.
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I read some Edgar Rice Burroughs at the same time.
Didn't think much of him either.
Read Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod - you may find Ken MacLeod a little too le ft-wing for your taste, since he definitely knows the difference between a socialist and a communist. Ken MacLeod now lives in Edinburgh and is a frie nd of my wife's third graduate student (who was a card-carrying communist a t one point in his miss-spent youth).
I don't class my own interest in science fiction as an "addiction". Science fiction is a cultural phenomenon, and no less worthy of interest than "ser ious" literature, though rarely as well written.
When we sold our big house in Nijmegen in 2011, I sold off almost all of my science fiction collection to the local used-book dealer, but did hang ont o the Neal Stephenson, Charles Stross and Ken Macleod. That's not addict be haviour.
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That's my point.. I don't mind reading trash.
left-wing for your taste, since he definitely knows the difference between a socialist and a communist. Ken MacLeod now lives in Edinburgh and is a fr iend of my wife's third graduate student (who was a card-carrying communist at one point in his miss-spent youth).
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Oh I'm addicted to reading in general not just Sci fi. I biked around Euro pe for a few months in my youth. I had "the Brothers Karamazov", but when I finished that for the second time I found myself reading toothpaste label s and any other scraps of English that I could find.
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I know the feeling. I've got the complete works of H.Beam Piper on my Kindl e, and I've now read quite a few of them, including some where he comes out of the closet as a total gun-nut. Not great literature, but better than to othpaste labels.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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