Hi Ralph. Thanks for the recommendation. I haven’t read it yet and can’t find a book description on Amazon. What’s it about?

I read the whole series and LOVED it!! For anyone who enjoys SciFi, I would highly recommend the series!

Yes, I believe it is… it just seems to have been a bit slow lately…. I’m new to the forums, so I’m up for getting it active again.

Interesting question, Guy. I’ve noticed that the lines are often blurred between what many consider SF and fantasy. Personally, I like more grounded SF–without crazy names for people, places, and things. (The crazy name stuff often seems more fantasy to me.) SF that’s grounded in life as we know it–the human experience as you say–readers can…[Read more]

It’s a fine line. In the 50s a lot of SF was like this…but now there is ‘space romance’ and ‘space politics’, where a story might be set on another planet, but it is so much like Earth that it might as well be set in Chicago.
It’s very subjective and in the eye of the editor. Good luck elsewhere…

At least you got a detailed response. Usually it’s a 3rd generation copy of a copy of a form letter written in Bavarian.