What a world of diversity it is today. Computer games, hand held games, X-boxes, Play Stations etc.
I don't think i would have read as many books as i did if I had those opportunities when i was young.
Oh well. The world is always for the young.
Some of the posts i have read have mentioned some of the books i have read and re-read so i wanted
to at least post some of my favorites also.
I am terrible at critiquing. I am pretty simple about what i like and don't. I never was introspective about the pros and cons of an Author's career and how they chose to lay down their words.
Actually with one exception.. I always like Heinlein"s books. But in his later novels he kind of became syrupy
with love talk and niceities that ruined it for me.
Jack L. Chalker, writing as Nathan Brazil was a pretty good series. ( The Saga of The Well World) 5 books.

Alan Dean Foster was always satisfying too. (Sentenced to Prisim, Catchalot, Mindworld,
Chronicles of Riddick, Krull)

Samuel R. Delaney and his Fall of the Towers series. His first novel. Jewels of Aptor and later Dahlgren
I liked his writing without any criticisim of his lifestyle.
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Greg Bear..(The Forge Of God)

*And Issac *Assimov and any of his Robot Stories.

John De Chance........with Paradox Alley..
Thanks..Bgas

I dunno about the comments on Heinlein. True 'The Cat Who Walked Through Walls' was a bit hmmmm. But I prefer to look upon it as an old man trying to make peace with his alter ego before time ran out.

Jack Chalker ? Hmmmm... hit and miss, loved his Dancing Gods ("Joe The Barbarian and a Fairy called Marge" oh yeah and Irving the Magic Sword ) Good stuff, but then I picked up Dancers In The Afterglow, which was a tinge pervy even for me.....

Funny you should mention Forge of The Gods, I read that for the first time last week. That was when Bear was going through his 'how many ways can I destroy the world' phase. A tad depressing, I prefer Niven & Pournells more up beat endings to their cataclyms....

ADF ? Drop The Dammned and take us back to the Icerigger...

Ogre

I loved Forge of the Gods, the sequel was shite though IMHO