This has to be my favourite sci-fi book of all time. Arthur C. Clarke writes this space yarn with no fat. It is so crammed full of ideas and a great story. It's so realistic that it feels it is really happening. I've just read it for the 10th time. Anyone else read it?

Read it once, its still contributing valuable mass to my project of letting my study collapse inwardly under the weght of books stored there. Unfortunately my reaction was AND ?

Thats all, then I probably grabbed a 'Papa' Heinlein to recover

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I suppose it did leave a lot hanging in the air. It would make a great film I think. Yes, good old Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers are great books. Phillip K Dick is my ultimate indulgence though, have over 30 of his novels.

I always found Dick a bit qwerky. But discovered Heinlein with 'Time Enough For Love' when I was 11. Find his 'non cult' stuff better than the stuff everyone lurves. But harking back to those days of Yore you have to add Poul Andersonm Moorcock. Lots of NEL paperbacks, but please don't mention Harlan Ellisons 'All The Sounds of Fear, the images of which are still with me 30 years later.

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I haven't read that particular book but love Harlan Ellisons stuff. There's another writer, Jack Finney who wrote some cracking time travel books. He also wrote Invasion of the Body Snatchers I think.