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I plowed through John Varley's "Red Thunder" on a relatively short couple of flights. His stuff has always been lying around my mom's house and I always meant to pick one up, but I expected him to be hardcore sci-fi, which is kind of a snore. The biggest problem with sci-fi is that it often sacrifices the story for science - it just becomes a frame to hang the calculations and theories, and if I can't keep up with the hardcore stuff, it just becomes a chore to skip through the stuff I can't follow. I like David Brin because he can bring all that down to more of a layman's level and still tell a fun story. So can John Varley. I will definitely have to get more of his books.
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Xena would probably think Superman is a fruit. she'd distract him with something like "Hey, look at that run in your tights!" then stuff him back into his telephone booth. - Lucy Lawless
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