I rang a sale where the change came out to $6.66
A crazy barefoot fat guy came in desperate for Terry Goodkind because he had been up all night reading and was desperate for more.
Happily we had a few and he trundled off satisfied.
Redoing the Antiques section I came across an issue of OLD BOTTLE MAGAZINE with the following cover blurb:
Mouth Blown Glass ROLLING PINS: Within the Realm of Antique Bottle Collecting!
Color me convinced!
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I wish I'd had your help yesterday. On the first day of class, a kid came up afterwards and asked if I could recommend some books for him to read. Ack. And he's a sci-fi guy. Really, you're asking me? I sent him off with three titles: Stranger in a Strange Land (which I have read), Good News from Outer Space (which I thought I'd read but might not have), and Childhood's End (which I have not read). He's already ready Ender's Game, of course (which I have also read). But when he comes back for more, I have nothing! Any tips? He's a young, pleasant, awkward, nervous guy who wants more sci-fi pleasure reading.
good contemporary sf authors:
Alastair Reynolds (everything, start with Revelation Space)
Sean McMullen's Greatwinter Trilogy:
Eyes of the Calculor, Souls in the Great Machine, The Miocene Arro
Ken McLeod, haven't read a bad one yet.
some classics:
Vernor Vinge, all his novels.
William Gibson:
all short stories + Neuromancer
David Brin:
Startide Rising
George Alec Effinger:
When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, Exile Kiss
and one more who is love/hate,
China Mieville, a Mervyn Peake-esque fabulist with a SF candy coating:
Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council
those should keep him busy for a while, then you can come back for more.
And here I was thinking she wanted a list of books that would be interesting to younger readers of sci-fi..... :P
Gibson: yes
Neuromancer
Brin: yes
Neal Stephenson(in more or less the following order):
Snow Crash
Diamond Age
Zodiac
Cryptonomicon
Heinlein:
Anything written before 1960
Dan Simmons:
Hyperion
Fall of Hyperion
Issac Asimov:
Yes
Douglas Adams,Larry Niven, Niven & Pournelle, Arthur C. Clarke...
Fabulous! Now I can seem hip and cool. And my student will keep READING. Win/win! And maybe I'll even read one or two . . .
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