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Old 03-12-2010, 02:09 PM   #8 (permalink)
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SciFi is my favorite genre. Put me on the list.

I'm particularly infatuated with time-travel fic and alternate history
Welcome aboard, and thanks for the recommendations.

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So the idea of the thread is to read the Foundation series and then discuss it, followed by other speculative classics? Or is this just compiling a list of favorites/classics? I'm just trying to get a handle on what the goal is here.
Yes, Willravel, we will discuss each book as we read them. After Asimov, we'll move on to some other classic work, hopefully sampling from the various subgenres as we go. We'll be more explicit with our navigation as we go along.

It'd be nice to have you along. Are you in?

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Clearly I have to be here.
Nice to have you aboard, and thanks for the recommendations. Standby for Foundation!
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