Smoothrivers
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Agree.Centuri catalogs (so much cooler than the Estes catalogs)
I can remember seeing the ads in Boy's Life magazine for both Estes and Centuri, and for MPC as well, they had a full page ad for the Lunar Patrol and the Moon GO and that really got me going, so for Christmas in 1969 I got a Centuri Payloader and the Cox square box launcher and I was so excited I couldn't stand myself.My goodness, I'm really dating my self now, aren't I? I've had so much fun with rockets over the years I could never really give it up, even though I haven't been active in some thirty odd years or so.If I can find another place to fly around here I'll be right back in the thick of it.I was about 8 or 9, there was an ad for Estes' "Real flying model rockets!" in the back of an Archie comic book that I got to kill the boredom while camping. I was already a rocket nerd, my mom used to keep me home from school when they had a Gemini launch because she figured it was more educational than one day at school. With the CA laws at the time, we couldn't actully launch them... my first rocket ended up being a Vashon Valkyrie that I got a few years later, because there was no regulation on those. Once I got into Jr High they started a rocket club, the science teacher that mentored it knew a buddy with several acres of dead vineyards out in Ontario, right by the old Speedway. Technically we couldn't launch there, but nobody cared.
Same here, except I read mostly Isaac Azimov and Jules Vernes.I was 12 it was 1967. I had watched a Mercury Redstone launch in the 1st or 2nd grade in 61-62. I had watched Gemini on TV in B&W and in color. I had watched the Saturn-1 launches and then watched the Saturn V Apollo send Men to the Moon in 1969. I guess it was the dawn of the space age that inspired me to pursue model rocketry. The fact that I was a big sci-fi fan of Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke probably contributed. I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on it's 1st run in theaters in 1968.
FAB!Thunderbirds. Simple as that.
Same here, read a lot of Asimov and Frank Herbert, and more recently Dan Simmons.His Hyperion is a magnificent story, one of the very finest ever written.Couldn't put it down if I tried, finished it in one sitting.Amazing.Same here, except I read mostly Isaac Azimov and Jules Vernes.
Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, Simmons, Le Guin, Bradbury, Orwell, Orson Wells, Philip K. Dick, Verne, Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Huxley, Joe Haldeman, Michael Crichton, Anne McCaffrey, Samuel R. Delaney, Frederick Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Tolkien (fantasy, but still...), Vernor Vinge, Jerry Pournelle, Philip Jose Farmer, Poul Anderson, Terry Pratchett, Andre Norton, Vonnegut, Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Von Vogt, Harlan Ellison, Ben Bova, Lois McMaster Bujold, Lester del Ray, Gordon R. Dickson, Piers Anthony, John Varley, Anthony Burgess, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jack Chalker, Madeleine L'Engle, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Deen Koontz, James S. A. Corey, R. A. Salvatore.Same here, read a lot of Asimov and Frank Herbert, and more recently Dan Simmons. His Hyperion is a magnificent story, one of the very finest ever written. Couldn't put it down if I tried, finished it in one sitting. Amazing.
Have you read Dan Simmons ILIUM and OLYMPOS?Two monstrous stories, amazingly well written stuff.It's no surprise he won the Hugo Award for HYPERION.I came across it purely by chance because I hadn't heard of him before but once I started reading it I really couldn't put it down.Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, Simmons, Le Guin, Bradbury, Orwell, Orson Wells, Philip K. Dick, Verne, Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Huxley, Joe Haldeman, Michael Crichton, Anne McCaffrey, Samuel R. Delaney, Frederick Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Tolkien (fantasy, but still...), Vernor Vinge, Jerry Pournelle, Philip Jose Farmer, Poul Anderson, Terry Pratchett, Andre Norton, Vonnegut, Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Von Vogt, Harlan Ellison, Ben Bova, Lois McMaster Bujold, Lester del Ray, Gordon R. Dickson, Piers Anthony, John Varley, Anthony Burgess, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jack Chalker, Madeleine L'Engle, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Deen Koontz, James S. A. Corey, R. A. Salvatore.
Read them all, mostly between the ages of 15 and 40 (I was so young then). Who have I missed that I should read before I expire?
Heinlein, Burroughs, Fredric BrownAsimov, Clarke, Herbert, Simmons, Le Guin, Bradbury, Orwell, Orson Wells, Philip K. Dick, Verne, Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Huxley, Joe Haldeman, Michael Crichton, Anne McCaffrey, Samuel R. Delaney, Frederick Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Tolkien (fantasy, but still...), Vernor Vinge, Jerry Pournelle, Philip Jose Farmer, Poul Anderson, Terry Pratchett, Andre Norton, Vonnegut, Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Von Vogt, Harlan Ellison, Ben Bova, Lois McMaster Bujold, Lester del Ray, Gordon R. Dickson, Piers Anthony, John Varley, Anthony Burgess, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jack Chalker, Madeleine L'Engle, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Deen Koontz, James S. A. Corey, R. A. Salvatore.
Read them all, mostly between the ages of 15 and 40 (I was so young then). Who have I missed that I should read before I expire?
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