Brian’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2009)

Brian’s comments from the sci fi books group.

What!!! The worldwide reknown professor of biochemistry. His Foundation series and Robot series are considered sci-fi classics. Asimov is undisputedly the most prolific writer of all time with over 500 books in print, the majority in the sci-fi genre. Will Smith starred in the movie I Robot, based on the book by the same name, a couple of years ago.

I like Asimov too. I've read a couple of his Foundation books as well as I Robot, and Robot Dreams. Nightfall is a pretty good read.

Hello everyone and thanks for the invite Olin. Now the rest of you can blame him if I get long winded. OSC is one of my favorite writers. I have read all the Ender books, Memory of Earth books, Alvin Maker books, and several others. My wife met him at a National Council for Teachers of English meeting in Atlanta and got me a signed edition of Shadow Puppets. She got to the book signing late and everyone was gone, except for a couple of people just milling around at the ends of the aisles. She commented to a friend she was with, that OSC was my favorite writer and how disappointed I was going to be when she told me about missing him when a gentleman standing with his back to them at the end of the aisle spoke up and said something like " well, you never know when he'll show back up". He turned around and introduced himself, pulled a book off a stack, signed it and told her he didn't want her husband to be disappointed. She and her friend were able to talk with him for a little bit before he left. She told me that he was a very interesting and nice person. Anyway, having read all of these books, and don't get me wrong, I love Enders Game, I believe that his writing and storytelling got better as the books continued. Enders Shadow is definitely a must read. And Stefhu is correct, Most of the shadow series is more International Political Intrigue(sp) than science fiction, but they involve a lot of the characters in the Enders Game books. If you have the time, read The Worthing Chronicles and the Memory of Earth books.