Also, I see that all of poor H. Beam Piper is available.
Awww, I'm pretty sure I'm the only other person here who knows that name, though DXM might.
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'Conviction (1)'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Aug 15, 2011 5:27:56 pm PDT #16057 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ginger - Aug 15, 2011 5:29:49 pm PDT #16058 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Little Fuzzy! And my favorite, Four-Day Planet.
Consuela - Aug 15, 2011 5:31:38 pm PDT #16059 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Piffle, David! I read tons of Piper when I was younger.
And he's getting some new attention, because Little Fuzzy got rebooted by John Scalzi this year. Paid for fanfiction!
-t - Aug 15, 2011 5:37:02 pm PDT #16060 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read a bunch of Piper ages ago. And I remember some of it, which is the more surprising part for me.
dcp - Aug 15, 2011 5:43:00 pm PDT #16061 of 28293
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I'm a fan. I think I've read the full catalog, but it was quite a while ago.
Just finished John Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation, not sure what I think of it. We'll see how it holds up to re-reading.
Fuzzy Bones, by William Tuning, I liked a lot.
DavidS - Aug 15, 2011 5:45:23 pm PDT #16062 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I sit corrected. I should never have doubted the depth of our science fiction nerdlydom, O Buffistae.
Liese S. - Aug 15, 2011 6:11:06 pm PDT #16063 of 28293
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I second ita !'s opinion on the nook reading experience. It is primo. But I like the nook app on my pc and phone because sometimes the Nook is over there.
Amy - Aug 15, 2011 6:14:17 pm PDT #16064 of 28293
Because books.
I'm leaning toward the Nook when I buy because it supports all platforms, right? It's more versatile than the Kindle?
Dana - Aug 15, 2011 6:29:49 pm PDT #16065 of 28293
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Calibre is a freeware app that converts formats, so I download stuff in .epub or whatever and just convert it to .mobi.
meara - Aug 15, 2011 6:37:35 pm PDT #16066 of 28293
Yeah, I am with Dana and convert stuff to read on the kindle. I did read on the kindle app on my phone for a while, before I bought it, but now I pretty much only read on the kindle.
The Nook is probably better right now because you can borrow from libraries. I haven't actually tried one, but we got my mom one for Christmas.