Giovanni requests fiction recommendations!

[applez]

gioogle, I dissuaded you from the Harry Turtledove avenue, so I owe you some contemporary alternatives:

All you on my Friend List, please add to the list

In the area of alt history/counterfactual history...1. "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson

Comments

Thank you!!!

[gioogle]

Hello all!

Many thanks for these wonderful suggestions!

I will start working on this list, and it will keep me busy for quite a while, a soon as I have finished Van Vogt's "Slan" (very, very nice sci-fi - written in 1940).

I am very ashamed to admit I am not familiar with almost all the authors/books listed ( I have read mostly "Golden Age" science fiction, with some very cautious, well planned, and generally satisfying occasional forays into other eras), but this is a gap in my sci-fi knowledge I am going to fill soon - I only hope to manage to find these books in English as some Italian translators can butcher even the greatest masterpieces... but that's why e-bay and amazon exist... :-)))

Re: German

[applez]

No thanks. At the end of the day, after the sheer hell of learning German, I have the reward of an understanding and loving woman. I doubt Latin or Greek can offer me that. ;-)

Jetzt habe ich mehr grammatik hausaufgaben, und es verstehe mich nicht!

Re: German

[gioogle]

Excellent, excellent point!
:-)

Makes me wonder why I had to study Latin... :-))))
(women who speak Latin are long extinct...)

Re: German

[applez]

Well, not that Alessandra would want to hear it, but apparently the Finns are still Latin-mad.;-)

Re: German

[gioogle]

Well Alessandra has studied Latin as well... :-)
(lots of people in Italy still do)

But does someone in Finland actually speak Latin ijn everyday life???

Finnish Latin

[applez]

Decide for yourself

:-)

My Latin is totally inadequate.

Re: Finnish Latin

[gioogle]

Incredible!

It is Latin - have to tell it to Francesco!!!!

And to think I knew nothing of it!!!!
:-)