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Thomas M. Wagner
Feb 2, 07 - 2:45 AM |
Thinking ahead to review #500
When I was approaching my 400th review, I started a thread asking folks to vote on their choice for what that book should be (it turned out to be A Canticle for Leibowitz). I got a ton of great suggestions, some of which I still need to pursue. I'll be honest: I have already decided what review #500 will be. But for this thread you can either... A) pretend I haven't, and make some more good suggestions as to what it ought to be. B) or, more simply, just try to guess what it is. As always, thanks for being such great readers and hanging with me for (almost) 500 reviews. 
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Ben Sheffield
Mar 20th, 2007 - 12:36 AM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin? Fall of Kings by David Gemmell? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling? |
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Sniffnoy
Mar 20th, 2007 - 12:02 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
Footfall? |
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John O-R
Jul 2nd, 2007 - 8:41 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
'The Man Who Slept'? Can't remember the author, unfortunately, but a great story about the long term future of humanity... |
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James
Jul 2nd, 2007 - 8:48 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
My suggestion is that if it is to be a fantasy novel the epic Magician by Raymond E. Feist would be a marvellous milestone to be remembered by. If the 500th novel is to be a science fiction novel then my recommendation is Neverness by David Zindell. 
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John O-R
Jul 6th, 2007 - 5:01 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
Duh! the title I couldn't recall was 'The man who awoke' by Lawrence Manning, published in 1933. I'd suggest you give a read, even if you've already chosen the 500th. |
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Thomas M. Wagner
Jul 6th, 2007 - 6:38 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
Cool suggestion. Thanks. |
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Mencius
Jul 19th, 2007 - 9:42 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
I would also go with Raymond E feist's Magician. Although with the release of the final Harry Potter tomorrow I think that would also be a good choice for a review. |
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GlenH
Jul 20th, 2007 - 2:54 AM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
You could always do something a little more obscure; maybe a Damian Broderick, a Terry Dowling or KJ Bisop's "The Etched City", (yes I am Australian). Alternatively you could fill in some gaps; maybe Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar" or Wolfe's "The Fifth Head of Cerberus". Now that I've stopped pretending I might as well start guessing. It could be one of Sturgeon's seeing as you haven't done one of his yet, it might be "Greybeard" seeing as lots of people seem to be calling attention to it as a more palatable alternative to "Children of Men" or it could be "LoTR". One thing's for sure; it won't be "Ink". |
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Thomas M. Wagner
Aug 18th, 2007 - 8:07 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
Okay, the 500th review is being posted in the afternoon, Monday the 20th. Two hints: It's a famous genre classic. I'm panning it. Whoever guesses right wins my copy of it. |
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Sniffnoy
Aug 19th, 2007 - 12:21 AM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
A famous genre classic that you're *panning*, huh? Interesting... Well, you already did Ringworld, and anyway that wasn't exactly a panning. It was thinking maybe something by Asimov, but that looks pretty unlikely. Following further the think-in-terms-of-the-author, I can't think of any "classics" by Clarke that were really bad, and I've hardly read any Heinlein so I wouldn't know what to say about those. It could be more recent than any of that, but somehow I suspect it's not going to be too recent... Hm... just how old might it be? A real genre classic, after all... what about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? That book was just plain boring. But no, something that old doesn't seem right either. Well I really don't have any good ways of making a guess, so I'm going to go with the one book I actually managed to come up with and say 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. |
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Richard Hayden
Aug 19th, 2007 - 5:54 AM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
Sniffnoy, you're right that 20,000 Leagues is often very tedious but it holds as a genre classic for me simply because it paved the way for others. I reckon your Heinlein hunch is a better one. Surely Stranger in a Strange Land is one of those novels with an undeserved reputation. It's overwritten, dated and dull. Richard |
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Sniffnoy
Aug 19th, 2007 - 2:31 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
You're right, I forgot - that would probably boost the review. Still probably not enough for it to be a really good review, but probably out of panning range. Well, I don't know, I'm going to stick with it as my guess as I have no better ideas, and I'm not going to guess a book I haven't read (as I'm not going to guess a book without justfication). Stranger in a Strange Land probably is more likely, just based on when it was written. |
Joel Calhoun
Aug 20th, 2007 - 7:50 AM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
I already have it, but I'm going to guess it's Ralph124C 41+ by Hugo Gernsback. It's still considered a classic, even though from what I've read so far, I doubt it would ever get published today. |
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Thomas M. Wagner
Aug 20th, 2007 - 12:50 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
You know, you kids are too clever by half. Then again, maybe my clues were kind of obvious... |
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Lex Wood
Aug 20th, 2007 - 3:17 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
"Whoever guesses right wins my copy of it. " Did you think it was so bad you don't even want a copy of it in your house? |
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Thomas M. Wagner
Aug 20th, 2007 - 4:51 PM |
Re: Thinking ahead to review #500
 Well, I usually take paperback editions of books and trade them in to the used bookstore after I've read them anyway (I keep hardcovers), so it's not a whole lot different from offering the book to a fan. The copy I have is a 1969 Berkley mass market printing, still in pretty decent condition with no serious cover damage, so a collector might grok it. |
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