@RUTGERS.ARPA:SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA (04/13/85)
From: Rob Austein <SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA> This isn't an exhaustive list, just my favorites: Heechee Trilogy (Gateway, Blue Event Horizon, Heechee Rendevous) Already been described on SFL. The Cool War About a Unitarian Universalist minister who gets drafted into "The Team", a successor organization to the CIA. A good read even if you don't like politics in your SF, and a must if you do. A Plauge of Pythons (reprinted as Demons of the Skull) The world has fallen apart because people are being "possessed", ie their bodies are doing things the owners don't want them to. This is SF, not fantasy, but you spend most of the book trying to figure out what the bleep is going on. Man Plus A cyborg's eye view of the first attempt to colonize Mars, with a neat twist at the end. All of the above highly recomended, in particular The Cool War. Pretty much anything Pohl writes is at least readable, so you won't lose too badly if you just buy whatever you find. --Rob <sra@mit-xx.arpa> -------