Utente: opmbms

Glad you liked "Way Station"!

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 5:14 pm (EST) il Dec 28, 2012

Hi!
Thanks for your support.Please leave your email,and tell me you need which book.We'll send the free book to you in email.

Elaine

scritto da elaine55-young alle 9:28 pm (EST) il Jun 11, 2012

Dear Opmbms,
Please let me begin by offering my apologies for any inconvenience this email may cause you.
I am writing to you from a publishing company based in China endeavoring to bring the best of contemporary Chinese literature to the English-speaking world, in particular science-fiction and fantasy. I am an editor for this company.
We found your website through internet, and we respect your kindness to provide free book reviews.
Currently we are engaged in the endeavor of bringing Liu Cixin's short stories to a world-wide audience. Mr. Liu is generally acknowledged to be China's best contemporary writer of science-fiction. He writes in the somewhat detached genre of hard science-fiction, but his bold scientific imagination, his powerful portrayals of humanity's struggles to save itself and his deep love for Earth's civilization has won over many who rarely venture into the genre.
We hope to have the honor of gifting you a set of his books. We would of course be overjoyed should you take the time to read this books and write reviews on Amazon for us. Should you kindly accept our gift, we would provide these through the Amazon gifting function or by any other method you may prefer.
You can preview the excerpts of some of his book below:
[The Wandering Earth]
[Devourer]
[The Micro-Age]
[Sun of China]
[Mountain]
[Of Ants and Dinosaurs]

Thank you for your time spent and we would be honored by your reply!
Yours sincerely,
Elaine

scritto da elaine55-young alle 1:21 am (EST) il Jun 11, 2012

Only 3 1/2 stars for Arena by Fredric Brown? I'm surprised! I loved that pulpish SF story, voted as #15 best SF story of all time by the SF Writers of America in 1964 or something like that.....It was the basis for the "Star Trek" episode called "Arena," featuring Kirk vs. the lizard-alien Gorn. I liked that the story was set in the Pleiades, and that the human character was set down on a world with blue sand. The alien, as I recall, was not a lizard man like in the Star Trek episode, but was a rolling ball with tentacles. Anyway, I thought it was a great Golden Age pulp SF story.

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 8:33 pm (EST) il Jun 8, 2012

Hi Opmbms,

I believe you’ve read my novel THE LAST DAY (Warner Books). Would you be interested in joining the Facebook page for my new novel, THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL (to be published by MacMillan, July 2011)? It will feature upcoming events that I think you’ll find interesting.

Starting June 18th, the page will post major updates including the premier of the KNOWLEDGE video trailer. It's unlike any I've ever seen, and I trust you'll feel the same.

Please follow this link and click "Like"--

http://on.fb.me/kRb95M

Hope to see you there!

With much appreciation,

Glenn Kleier

scritto da GlennKleier alle 1:59 pm (EST) il Jun 12, 2011

Four and a half stars for Sabatini, cool! Glad you liked it!

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 8:39 pm (EST) il Jun 9, 2011

I think you will love "Captain Blood," if you approach it for what it's worth -- a pirate adventure! I thought it was terrific, read it before I ever heard of or saw the movie.

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 6:01 pm (EST) il Jun 4, 2011

And Ringworld!

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 4:42 pm (EST) il Jun 4, 2011

Glad you liked Tau Zero!

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 9:02 pm (EST) il May 26, 2011

Another SF classic you should try is "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. I thought you had read it, but I don't see it in your library. I'd read "Tau Zero" first (not the greatest character delineation, but the story itself is mind-boggling), then "Ringworld."

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 8:57 am (EST) il May 20, 2011

Glad you liked Scaramouche -- you should try Captain Blood, it's even better. I'm really surprised you disliked The Woman in White, I really liked it and Martha's reading it now and she likes it, too. Been meaning to ask you, have you ever read "Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson? James Blish praised it as the "ultimate hard science fiction novel." It's one of my all-time favorites.

scritto da Betelgeuse alle 10:11 pm (EST) il May 16, 2011