Clarke's SF books

[Denis Regenbrecht]

Hi,

Bernhard Pospiech wrote:

> >I totally agree with you. (Although "Fountains of Paradise" wasn't bad)
> >The last books he (co-)wrote were really dire. The problem IMHO is, that
> >nowadays he only writes the online of the plot and lets other people (that
                                 ^^^^^^
Ouch!! I meant "outline" of course.

>I can't agree with that. As a very very big fan of ASIMOV, HEINLEIN and
>CLARKE (I have all their books) I must say that the 4 RAMA books are best
>SCIENCE FICTION I've ever read. Only the 15 FOUNDATION books are compareable

Opinions differ. That's a good thing, or else we'd all listen to Britney
Spears or the Backstreet Boys.

The first Rama book was great IMHO and it really deserved its Hugo and
Nebula Awards. But the last three don't have the same sense of wonder the
first one had.
Asimov is great and the Foundation-series rightfully belongs into the Hall
of Fame of SF-literature, but I can't stand Heinlein. His
pseudo-philosophical ("Starship Troopers" is the best example) babble and
his right-wing-propaganda spoils most of his books for me.
The best SF-books ever written IMHO are the "Dune" Chronicles by Frank
Herbert and a lot of Roger Zelaznys work, especially "Lord of Light".

(C)IAO

                 D+R