"Davis, Iain E." <feaelin at kemenel.org> writes: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gnosis [mailto:curtis.humes at verizon.net] > > Sent: 24 November 2002 16:50 > > > > >I often see Sci-fi/fantasy grouped together at book stores. If your > > brother is interested in the sci-fi side of things, > > >Douglas Hill wrote some books years ago (I think they may be out of > > print, but I have seen a few around). The series is > > >called the "Last Legionary." The titles for the four books are: > > >Galactic Warlord Deathwing Over Veynaa > > >Day of the Starwind > > >Planet of the Warlord > > > > I know that they are Space opera, but as a kid I really > > enjoyed the books by E.E. 'Doc' Smith, the "Lensman" & > > "Skylark" series particularly. Try your local library, you > > may find them there. > > Me too. They're very dated and male-centric, though. They're also > difficult to find. Our library definitely doesn't have them, and it > took some effort on my part to pick up the five skylark books I have. :) Now I'm interested; which previously-unknown skylark book do you have? :-) Okay, I've got multiple copies of most of them too. The *are* in many clear ways male-centric, and at least one friend simply can't read them for that reason. On the other hand, it was in one of the Skylark books that Dorothy insists on strapping on her guns and going with Seaton on a critical mission, and makes him accept it, and makes him acknowledge afterwards that that was where she belonged. Even though they had a young child (left with safe reliable people at the time). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info