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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 06:52 PM
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hey, why didn't someone tell me Dan Simmons had written a couple
of new SF novels? are they as cool as the Hyperion stuff?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 06:54 PM
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1. i like his horror stuff
Carrion Comfort, etc. :bounce:
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 06:59 PM
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2. never got into horror novels, they don't scare me.
Edited on Sun Aug-28-05 07:01 PM by KG
hey, sweetness :hi:

i've read some of his other stuff, but i prefer SF and fantasy when comes to fiction. his Hyperion/Endymion stuff blew me away, he understood the future of the internet in 1985.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 07:04 PM
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4. i've read a little of that
my fave author is Neil Gaiman, at least for the last 5-7 years or so. :)

:loveya:
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 07:12 PM
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5. i've been on a non-fiction kick lately cause it's hard to find
good SF/fantasy. 90 per cent of it is dreck. but i found the new DS stuff and i see Donaldson has a new 'Land' novel out. my reading is starting to back up on me...
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 07:01 PM
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3. You never asked.
:P
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 07:23 PM
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6. i have to ask?
sheesh! :crazy:
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