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LCC

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Apr 24, 2007, 5:27:49 PM4/24/07
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1986 list selected from 49 authors, 256 titles - Letter L :
R. A. Lafferty - Nine Hundred Grandmothers
David J. Lake - The Right Hand of Dextra, The Wildings of Westron, The
Gods of Xuma
Christopher Lampton - Cross of Empire
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Arthur H. Landis - A World Called Camelot, Camelot In Orbit, The
Magick of Camelot
Simon Lang - The Elluvon Gift
David Langford - The Space Eater
Sterling E. Lanier - Menace Under Marswood
Keith Laumer - Worlds of the Imperium, A Trace of Memory, Plague of
Demons,
The Other Side of Time, Retief's War, The Monitors, The Undefeated,
Galactic Odyssey, The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead,
Greylorn, Retief and the Warlords, The Long Twilight, The House in
November,
The Other Sky, Time Trap, Dinosaur Beach, Time Trap, Dinosaur Beach,
The Star Treasure, Retief of the CDT, Timetracks, The Infinite Cage,
The Glory Game, Retief : Emissary to the Stars, The Best of Kieth
Laumer,
Bolo, The Ultimax Man, Retief at Large, Retief Unbound, Star Colony,
The Breaking Earth (Catastrophe Planet), Beyond the Imperium,
Star Colony, Knight of Delusions, Once There Was a Giant,
End As a Hero, Rogue Bolo
With Rosel George Brown - Earthblood
With Gordon R. Dickson - Planet Run
Ursula K. Leguin - Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, A Wizard of
Earthsea,
The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, The Wind's Twelve Quarters,
Five Complete Novels
Fritz Leiber - Gather Darkness!, The Wanderer, A Specter Is Haunting
Texas
Stephen Leigh - Slow Fall To Dawn
Murray Leinster - The Greks Bring Gifts
Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Dushau
A. M. Lightner - The Space Olympics, The Day of the Drones
Edward Llewellyn - The Douglas Convolution, The Bright Companion,
Prelude to Chaos, Salvage and Destroy, Fugitive In Transit, Word-
Bringer
Syd Logsdon - Jandrax
Barry B. Longyear - Manifest Destiny, Circus World, City of Baraboo,
Elephant Song, The Tomorrow Testament, It Came From Schenectady
Sam J.Lundwall - Bernhard the Conquerer

Lonnie Courtney Clay

ClayLC

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Apr 25, 2007, 3:57:26 AM4/25/07
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What happened to Google ? Is this site brand new ? Feel free to add
authors/titles post 1986 to the thread if you read and *liked* the
book...


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Michael Stemper

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Apr 25, 2007, 1:26:58 PM4/25/07
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In article <ClayLC...@no-mx.coolscifi.com>, ClayLC writes:

>What happened to Google ?

Don't know. Did something happen to it? I went there an hour ago to
find out about Gleise 581 C, and it was working then.

> Is this site brand new ?

What site? Presumably not Google.

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LCC

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May 15, 2007, 12:34:46 AM5/15/07
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1986 list selected from 87 authors with 284 titles - letter M :

C. C. MacApp - Recall not Earth
John D. MacDonald - Time and tomorrow, Ballroom of the skies
Katherine Maclean - Missing man, The trouble with you Earth people
Ian MacMillan - Blakely's ark
Charles Eric Maine - Alph
Donald Malcolm - The unknown shore, The iron rain
Laurence Manning - The man who awoke
Douglas R. Mason - Matrix, Horizon alpha, The resurrection of Roger
Diment
Ardath Mayhar - Golden dream: a fuzzy odyssey, Khi to freedom, Lords
of the triple moons
Anne McCaffrey - The dragonriders of Pern, The ship who sang, Decision
at Doona, Dinosaur planet, The Ireta adventure
Michael McCollum - A greater infinity, Life probe, Procyon's promise,
Antares dawn
Mark J. McGarry - Sun dogs, Blank slate
J. T. McIntosh - Six gates from limbo, Flight from rebirth, Ruler of
the world
Vonda N. McIntyre - The exile waiting
Dean McLoughlin -The helix and the sword
R. M. Meluch - Sovreign, Wind dancers, Wind child
Robert Merle - Malevil
Sam Merwin, Jr. - The house of many worlds, The time shifters
Richard Meyers - Doomstar
Walter M. Miller, Jr. - A canticle for Leibowitz
Kirk Mitchell - Procurator
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - The fires of paratime, The ecologic envoy
Thomas F. Monteleone - Seeds of change, The time connection, The
secret sea, Guardian
John Morressy - Starbrat, Stardrift, Under a calculating star, A law
for the stars, The extraterritorial, Frostworld and dreamfire, The
mansions of space
William Morris - The well at the world's end
John Myers Myers - Silverlock

Enjoy !

Lonnie Courtney Clay

Joe Bednorz

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May 15, 2007, 10:08:47 AM5/15/07
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On 14 May 2007 21:34:46 -0700, LCC wrote in
<1179203686....@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>:

>1986 list selected from 87 authors with 284 titles - letter M :
>
>C. C. MacApp - Recall not Earth

So I didn't just imagine that. (And I just saw a reference to "Planet
of the Double Sun" first book in the Professor Jamieson series on
someone's blog.)

>John D. MacDonald - Time and tomorrow, Ballroom of the skies
>Katherine Maclean - Missing man, The trouble with you Earth people
>Ian MacMillan - Blakely's ark
>Charles Eric Maine - Alph
>Donald Malcolm - The unknown shore, The iron rain
>Laurence Manning - The man who awoke
>Douglas R. Mason - Matrix, Horizon alpha, The resurrection of Roger
>Diment
>Ardath Mayhar - Golden dream: a fuzzy odyssey, Khi to freedom, Lords
>of the triple moons
>Anne McCaffrey - The dragonriders of Pern, The ship who sang,

"The Ship Who Sang" is available free online here:
<http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/mccaffrey/mccaffrey1.html>

© 1961, 1989 by Anne McCaffrey; first appeared in The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction; from The Ship Who Sang; reprinted by
permission of the author and the author's agent, the Virginia Kidd
Agency, Inc.

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Ted Nolan <tednolan>

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May 15, 2007, 12:44:39 PM5/15/07
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In article <keej43loohsr6ps06...@4ax.com>,

Joe Bednorz <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>On 14 May 2007 21:34:46 -0700, LCC wrote in
><1179203686....@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>:
>
>>1986 list selected from 87 authors with 284 titles - letter M :
>>
>>C. C. MacApp - Recall not Earth
>
> So I didn't just imagine that. (And I just saw a reference to "Planet
>of the Double Sun" first book in the Professor Jamieson series on
>someone's blog.)
>

I know this was from way before 1986. I used it in my high school project
about "Poetry in Science Fiction":

Recall Not Earth,
Nor weep we gelded waifs
something something
orphans of the Pleides


Ted

LCC

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May 25, 2007, 1:25:48 PM5/25/07
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C. C. MacApp - Recall not Earth
I know this was from way before 1986. I used it in my high school
project about "Poetry in Science Fiction":

That book is copyright and print 1970 with publisher's id #
440-07281-060
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1986 list selected from 24 authors with 168 titles - letter N,O :

R. Faraday Nelson - Blake's progress, Then beggars could ride, The
ecolog

Sam Nicholson - Captain empirical, The light bearer

Larry Niven - World of ptaavs, A gift from Earth, Neutron star,
Ringworld, All the myriad ways, Protector, The flight of the horse, A
hole in space, Tales of known space : the universe of Larry Niven, The
long arm of Gil Hamilton, A world out of time, The magic goes away,
Convergent series, The ringworld engineers, The patchwork girl, The
magic may return, The integral trees
Larry Niven and Steven Barnes - Dream park
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - The mote in God's eye, Lucifer's
hammer, Oath of fealty, Footfall

William F. Nolan - Logan's world
William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson - Logan's run

Andre Norton (I stopped reading her about 1972) - Huon of the horn,
Star man's son, Star rangers, The stars are ours!, Star guard,
Sargasso of space, The crossroads of time, Plague ship, Sea siege,
Star born, The time traders, Star gate, The beast master, Galactic
derelict, Star Hunter / Voodoo planet, Storm over Warlock, Catseye,
Lord of thunder, Eye of the monster, The defiant agents, Witch world,
Judgement on Janus, Key out of time, Web of the witch world, Night of
masks, The x factor, Three against the witch world, Quest crosstime,
Victory on Janus, Moon of three rings, Warlock of the witch world,
Operation time search, Dark piper, Fur magic, The zero stone,
Sorceress of the witch world, Uncharted stars, Postmarked the stars,
Dread companion, High sorcery, Ice crown, Exiles of the stars, Android
at arms, Spell of the witch world, Garan the eternal, No night without
stars

Robert C. O'Brien - Z for Zachariah

Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. - Mayflies, Bandersnatch, The journeys of McGill
Feighan : Caverns / Reefs / Lava / Cliffs, War of omission, Oracle

Andrew J. Offutt - The galactic rejects, Demon in the mirror

LCC

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Jun 4, 2007, 9:56:55 PM6/4/07
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1986 list selected from 35 authors with 186 titles - letter P :

David R. Palmer - Emergence, Threshold

Edgar Pangborn - West of the sun, Davy

Alexei Panshin - Rite of passage, Starwell, The thurb revolution,
Masque world

Steve Perry - The man who never missed, Matadora, The Machiavelli
interface

John T. Phillifent - Genius unlimited, King of argent

Wendi and Richard Pini - Elfquest

H. Beam Piper - Uller uprising, Four day planet / Lone star planet,
Space viking, The cosmic computer, The fuzzy papers, Lord Kalvan of
otherwhen, Empire, Federation, The worlds of H. Beam Piper, Paratime,
Fuzzies and other people
posthumous with Michael Kurland - First cycle

Doris Piserchia - Star rider, Earthchild, Spaceling, The spinner, The
fluger, Earth in twilight, The deadly sky

Frederick Pohl - Alternating currents, slave ship, The case against
tomorrow, Tomorrow times seven, Drunkard's walk, The age of the
pussyfoot, Day million, In the problem pit, Man plus, Gateway, The way
the future was (non-fiction), The cool war, Jem, Beyond the blue event
horizon, Starburst, Planets three, Heechee rendezvous, Black star
rising
with C. M. Kornbluth - The space merchants, Venus Inc., Search the
sky, Gladiator at law, Wolfbane, The wonder effect, The best of C. M.
Kornbluth, Critical mass, Before the universe, The coming of the
quantum cats
with Lester Del Rey - Preferred risk
with Jack Williamson - The starchild trilogy, Rogue star, The saga of
Cuckoo

Jerry Pournelle (see with Larry Niven) - A spaceship for the king
(King David's spaceship), High justice, The mercenary, Exiles to
glory, Birth of fire, West of honor, A step farther out, Janissaries,
Janissaries : clan and crown

Timothy Powers - The skies discrowned, Epitaph in rust

E. Hoffman Price - The devil wives of Li Fong, Operation misfit, The
jade enchantress, Operation longlife, Operation exile

LCC

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Jun 14, 2007, 4:19:04 PM6/14/07
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1986 list selected from 42 authors with 168 titles - letters Q,R :

John Rackham - Beanstalk

Kevin Randle & Robert Cornett - Seeds of war

Mike Resnick - Santiago

Mack Reynolds - The Earth war, Earth unaware, After some tomorrow, The
cosmic eye, The five way secret agent / Mercenary from tomorrow,
Computer world, Depression or bust / Dawnman planet, Ability quotient,
Amazon planet, Satellite city, Tomorrow might be different, The best
of Mack Reynolds, Day after tomorrow, Galactic medal of honor,
Rolltown, Section G : united planets, Perchance to dream, Police
patrol : 2000 A.D., Space visitor, The best ye breed, The fracas
factor, Trample an empire down, Brain world, Space search
M.R. posthumous with Dean Ing - Home sweet home 2010 A.D., Chaos in
Lagrangia, Eternity, The other time, Trojan orbit, Deathwish world,
Joe Mauser - mercenary from tomorrow

Walt & Leigh Richmond - The probability corner

Stephen Robinett - Stargate, The man responsible

Kim Stanley Robinson - The wild shore

Spider Robinson - Telempath

Joel Rosenberg - Ties of blood and silver, Emile and the dutchman

Tony Rothman - The world is round

John Maddox Roberts - Space Angel, Cestus Dei, The cingulum, Cloak of
illusion

Keith Roberts - Anita

Christopher Rowley - The war for eternity, Starhammer

Eric Frank Russell - Sentinels from space, Three to conquer, Wasp, The
great explosion, Next of kin, The best of Eric Frank Russell

Thomas J. Ryan - The adolescence of P-1

LCC

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Jun 20, 2007, 10:57:19 PM6/20/07
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1986 list selected from 96 authors with 404 titles - letter S :

Fred Saberhagen - Berserker, Brother assassin, Berserker's planet, The
Dracula tape, Specimens, The veils of Azlaroc, The Holmes-Dracula
file, An old friend of the family, The mask of the sun, The ultimate
enemy, Thorn, Octagon, Earth descended, The water of thought,
Dominion, The complete book of swords, The golden people

Carl Sagan - The dragons of Eden

Jake Saunders & Howard Waldrop - The Texas-Israeli war : 1999

Dennis Schmidt - Way-farer

Stanley Schmidt - Newton and the quasi-apple, The sins of the fathers,
Lifeboat Earth

James H. Schmitz - Agent of Vega, Legacy, The universe against her,
The witches of Karres, The demon breed, The eternal frontiers, The
lion game, The Telzy toy and other stories

J. Neil Schulman - Alongside night

Melissa Scott - The game beyond, Five twelfths of Heaven, A choice of
destinies

Bob Shaw - Who goes there?, The Ceres solution

Michael Shea - A quest for Simbilis, Nifft the lean, *In Yana, the
touch of undying*

Charles Sheffield - Sight of Proteus, The web between the worlds,
Erasmus magister, My brother's keeper, The McAndrew chronicles,
Between the strokes of night, The nimrod hunt

Carl Sherrell - The space prodigal

Lewis Shiner - Frontera

Mike Shupp - With fate conspire, Morning of creation

A.E. Silas - The panorama egg

Robert Silverberg - Stepsons of Terra, Collision course, The seed of
Earth, The silent invaders, Time of the great freeze, Those who watch

Clifford D. Simak - Way station, The werewolf principle, The goblin
reservation, Enchanted pilgrimage, A heritage of stars

Kathleen Sky - Birthright, Ice prison

John Slonczewski - Still forms on foxfield

Cordwainer Smith - The planet buyer, Norstilia, The best of Cordwainer
Smith

Edward E. 'Doc' Smith - Triplanetary, First lensman, Galactic patrol,
Gray lensman, Second stage lensman, Children of the lens, Masters of
the vortex
Doc Smith with Stephen Goldin - Imperial stars, Strangler's moon, The
clockwork traitor, Getaway world, Appointment at bloodstar, The purity
plot, Planet of treachery, Eclipsing binaries

George H. Smith - The island snatchers

George O. Smith - The fourth 'R'

L. Neil Smith - The probability broach, The Venus belt, Their
majesties bucketeers, The Nagasaki vector, Tom Paine maru, The
Gallatin divergence

Melinda M. Snodgrass - Circuit

Cecil Snyder III - The hawks of Arcturus

Zilpha Keatley Snyder - Below the root, And all between, Until the
celebration

Jerry Sohl - *I, Aleppo*

Steven G. Spruill - Keepers of the gate

Brian Stapleford - The Halcyon drift, Rhapsody in black, Promised
land, The paradise game, The Fenris device, Swan song, The Florians,
Optiman, The castaways of Tanager, Journey to the center, The gates of
Eden

Christopher Stasheff - A wizard in bedlam, To the magic born, The
warlock enlarged

John Steakley - Armor

John Steinbeck - The acts of king Arthur and his noble knights

Andrew M. Stephenson - Nightwatch, The wall of years

George R. Stewart - Earth abides

John E. Stith - Scapescope

Brad Strickland - To stand beneath the sun

Theodore Sturgeon - More than human

Jefferson P. Swycaffer - Not in our stars, Become the hunted

LCC

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I apologize for the long hiatus between posts on this thread, but I
have been rather busy with other matters...

1986 list selected from 45 authors with 249 titles - letters T,U,V :

Keith Taylor - Bard

Douglas Terman - Free Flight

Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Steps of the Sun

Patrick Tilley - Cloud Warrior

Arthur Tofte - Crash Landing on Iduna, Walls Within Walls

J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two
Towers, The Return of the King, The Silmarillion

Robert E. Toomey = A World of Trouble

Louis Trimble - The City Machine, The Wandering Variables, The
Bodelian Way

E.C. Tubb - "Dumarest of Terra" series

Wilson Tucker - The Long Loud Silence, The Lincoln Hunters, The Year
of the Quiet Sun, Resurrection Days

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Jack Vance - The Dying Earth, The Five Gold Bands, To Live Forever,
Big Planet, The Languages of Pao, The Dragonmasters, Future Tense,
Star King, The Killing Machine, Dust of the Far Suns, Space Opera, The
Last Castle, The Eyes of the Overworld, The Many Worlds of Magnus
Ridolf, Nopalgarth, The Blue World, The Palace of Love, City of the
Chasch, Emphyrio, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, The Pnume, The
Faceless Man, (= The Anome), The Brave Free Men, The Asutra, The
Worlds of Jack Vance, Trullion : Alastor 2262, The Gray Prince,
Marune : Alastor 933, Showboat World, The Best of Jack Vance, Maske :
Thaery, Wyst : Alastor 1716, The Face, Galactic Effectuator, The Book
of Dreams, Lost Moons, Gold and Iron, The Narrow Land, Lyonesse,
Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvelous, The Green Pearl

A.E. Van Vogt - The House That Stood Still, The Weapon Shops of Isher,
Mission to the Stars, The Weapon Makers, The War Against the Rull, The
Wizard of Linn, Rogue Ship, The Silkie, The Book of Van Vogt, Lost :
Fifty Suns, The Darkness of Diamondia, The Man With a Thousand Faces,
Earth Factor X, Supermind, Pendulum

John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline, Titan, Wizard, Millenium

Joan D. Vinge - Fireship, The Outcasts of Heaven Belt, Eyes of Amber,
The Snowqueen, World's End, Psion

Vernor Vinge - Grimm's World, The Witling, The Peace War

Enjoy !

Laughing Crazy Coot/
Lonnie Courtney Clay


LCC

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1986 list selected from 71 authors with 255 titles - letters
W,X,Y,Z :


Howard Waldrop - Them Bones

Ian Wallace - Croyd, Dr. Orpheus, A Voyage To Dari, Z-Sting, Heller's
Leap

Walter Wangerin, Jr. - The Book of the Dun Cow *** For sophisticated
adults ***

George Warren - Dominant Species

Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Cyborg and the Sorcerers, The Chromosomal
Code, Shining Steel

Ellis Weiner - Howard the Duck

James White - Deadly Litter, The Escape Orbit, The Watch Below, All
Judgement Fled, Major Operation, Tomorrow Is Too Far, Lifeboat, The
Dream Millenium, Ambulance Ship

T.H. White - The Sword In the Stone, Mistress Masham's Repose

Ted White - Phoenix Prime, The Sorceress of Qar, The Spawn of the
Death Machine, Star Wolf!

Wynn Whiteford - Breathing Space Only, Sapphire Road

Cherry Wilder - The Luck of Brin's Five, The Nearest Fire, Second
Nature

John Willett - Aubade For Gamelon

Gordon Williams - The Micronauts, The Microcolony, Revolt of the
Micronauts

Paul O. Williams - The Breaking of Northwall

Walter Jon Williams - Ambassador of Progress, Knight Moves

Jack Williamson - Manseed, Lifeburst

F. Paul Wilson - An Enemy of the State

Aaron Wolfe - Invasion

M.K. Wren - Sword of the Lamb

Thomas Wren - The Doomsday Effect

Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer - When Worlds Collide, After Worlds
Collide

John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids, Out of the Deeps, Re-Birth,
Trouble With Lichen

W. R. Yates - Diasporah

Nicholas Yermankov - Journey From Flesh, Last Communion, Epiphany,
Fall Into Darkness, Clique, Jehad

Robert F. Young - The Last Yggdrasill, Eridahn

Timothy Zahn - The Blackcollar, A Coming of Age, Cobra,Spinneret,
Cobra Strike

Roger Zelazny - This Immortal, The Dream Master, Four For Tomorrow,
Isle of the Dead, To Die In Italbar, Today We Choose Faces / Bridge of
Ashes, Doorways In the Sand, My Name Is Legion, The Last Defender of
Camelot, Eye of Cat

George Zebrowski - The Star Web

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