Is anybody out there over 30??

[bonsaiguy]

A virtual plethora of aging hippies and hippiettes...welcome all. 47 here.

[azteka]

35 here

[BigHomie]

cool thread :thumbsup:
I'm not quite 30 yet... but I look like I'm atleast 40, does that count for anything?

[slayergirl]

does anyone remember some snack food from the seventies called astronaut or space snacks...thin brown chewy sold in cereal aisle next to tang?

[bonsaiguy]

does anyone remember some snack food from the seventies called astronaut or space snacks...thin brown chewy sold in cereal aisle next to tang?

Spacefood Sticks....loved them when I was a kid. Made by Pillsbury.
Thanks to JFK we were all about the space program back then. Pity that every administration since Kennedy has stripped funding from NASA.
Probably the reason I'm such a sci-fi geek to this day.
(never did like Tang much though)

[BigHomie]

Probably the reason I'm such a sci-fi geek to this day.

What sci-fi are you into?

[bonsaiguy]

Wow...tough question....
Douglas Adams
Isaac Assimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert A. Heinlein
Pierre Boule
Piers Anthony...(his older stuff anyway)
Ursula K. LeGuin...(also her older stuff)
Orson Scott Card

StarTrek fan although getting burnt out on that franchise...same for Star Wars

Not much of a fantasy fan...there is so much crap sci fi and fantasy on the bookshelves today, most of it written at a 6th grade reading level, I almost hate to even go in to Barnes and Noble...takes forever to weed through all of the mass produced stuff. I did like Anne McCaffrey's first 2 or 3 Dragonriders books.

I prefer sci fi that makes you think as opposed to having flashy technobabble and big breasted aliens on the cover. Also, I absolutely love the old radio theatre sci fi shows like X minus One and some of the newer ones like Imagination Theatre out of seattle.

When I was about 12 or 13 I joined the Science Fiction Book Club and still have several boxes of hard cover books from those days.

[slayergirl]

Wow...tough question....
Douglas Adams
Isaac Assimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert A. Heinlein
Pierre Boule
Piers Anthony...(his older stuff anyway)
Ursula K. LeGuin...(also her older stuff)
Orson Scott Card

StarTrek fan although getting burnt out on that franchise...same for Star Wars

Not much of a fantasy fan...there is so much crap sci fi and fantasy on the bookshelves today, most of it written at a 6th grade reading level, I almost hate to even go in to Barnes and Noble...takes forever to weed through all of the mass produced stuff. I did like Anne McCaffrey's first 2 or 3 Dragonriders books.

I prefer sci fi that makes you think as opposed to having flashy technobabble and big breasted aliens on the cover. Also, I absolutely love the old radio theatre sci fi shows like X minus One and some of the newer ones like Imagination Theatre out of seattle.

When I was about 12 or 13 I joined the Science Fiction Book Club and still have several boxes of hard cover books from those days.

ever read the deeds of pakisarrion by elizabeth moon?

[bonsaiguy]

ever read the deeds of pakisarrion by elizabeth moon?

Can't say as I have. Is it fantasy or sci fi? Never mind I just googled it...looks like fantasy.

[BigHomie]

Wow...tough question....
Douglas Adams
Isaac Assimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert A. Heinlein
Pierre Boule
Piers Anthony...(his older stuff anyway)
Ursula K. LeGuin...(also her older stuff)
Orson Scott Card

StarTrek fan although getting burnt out on that franchise...same for Star Wars

Not much of a fantasy fan...there is so much crap sci fi and fantasy on the bookshelves today, most of it written at a 6th grade reading level, I almost hate to even go in to Barnes and Noble...takes forever to weed through all of the mass produced stuff. I did like Anne McCaffrey's first 2 or 3 Dragonriders books.

I prefer sci fi that makes you think as opposed to having flashy technobabble and big breasted aliens on the cover. Also, I absolutely love the old radio theatre sci fi shows like X minus One and some of the newer ones like Imagination Theatre out of seattle.

When I was about 12 or 13 I joined the Science Fiction Book Club and still have several boxes of hard cover books from those days.

I can't say I'm "big" into sci-fi.

A few years ago I took my nephew to b&n to get this Star Wars book he wanted. I was looking at them and ended up picking up Zahn's "Thrawn Trilogy"

I'm a little embarrassed to admit it but I got hooked right away. I'm not the guy that would camp out in line for a week to be the first to see the movies - but some of the books are pretty good. I've read about 85 to 90% of the SW's books, which is about all I'm gonna read... I'm not really interested in the books that came before "A new hope".

Knowing that I like that stuff is there a book/author you'd point me in the direction of?