"Alan" <alan at 5sc.net> writes: > *turns around and looks* > > I'll add a few. These are books to just reach for, whether I have > 5 minutes or 5 hours and have places of honor in my collection: > > ....and in no particular order.... > Emergence I've reread that a number of times with great pleasure. Too bad he gave up; on the other hand his second book wasn't any great shakes. > Sector General series I've got one of those so old that I put a brown paper cover on the paperback. I did that to roughly the first 5 paperbacks I owned, to protect them. After that I got behind and shortly gave up. Which means I got it somewhere in the mid 1960s, I think. I liked James White's books very much. (And you listed a number of other books I like a lot, not even counting the ones I also listed already :-)) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info