I second Jim's comments. Thanks for making a difference in the world, Hal, with all you did and all the young people you influenced through your writing and...
Hi Folks, I was wondering what the cheapest way to ship a large number of books would be. I have been collecting series books for the last few years and now...
We have found Hudson Canyon, which runs to the Atlantic. _____ From: Rick_Brant@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Rick_Brant@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Clift ...
Rereading Danger Below (thanks to reprints) and reference to Tansey's Trench got my son and I interested in if it actually exists. We haven't found much yet,...
Groupies, if I may call you such: This discussion has in my view gotten fairly ridiculous. A story is a story, and history serves as the backdrop. Is the...
If I recall, the only anti-hunting sentiment was when Indiana asked Roosevelt what happens when you shoot the last one, what then? The sympathies lay with the...
... Agreed. I think it's like Anita Blake - read until you dont like one then STOP, because everything you dont like just gets worse. ... Yes that was the...
Steve Smoot
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Nov 19, 2009 2:44 am
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i ordered first tom swift jr, first flashman, and next week , the lost city---[brant no.2]----thanks for the suggestions--ralph g...
Political biases are a little like accents - if you have the same accent or bias, you're less likely to notice it. But there are a lot of different ways to...
David Jarvis
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Nov 18, 2009 1:20 pm
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 I have watched this discussion with amusement. For me, the young Indiana Jones distaste for war is an attribute which is normal for an everyday rational...
... There is the anti-hunting sentiment in the Teddy Roosevelt episode, sympathy with the Russian and Irish revolutions, at least for the revolutionaries, and...
That is the first time I ever heard of Indiana Jones being political. I have watched every episode of "Young Indiana Jones" and can think of nothing left-wing...
Just catching up on posts of the last week...My own thoughts on some of the books mentioned and a series I haven't seen suggested. Honor Harrington series is...
Another historical fiction series is the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. It's about an Englishman named Flashman who was a character in "Tom...
Yet another diversion, the Young Indiana Jones TV series. There isn't much science in it (but more than in the Old Indiana Jones movies), but there is lots of...
kennesh, thanks for sharing that--ralph g In a message dated 11/16/2009 10:33:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, kennedy@... writes: On pilot's licenses:...
On pilot's licenses: In 1955 at age 16 you could get a Student license which would allow you to fly solo. (I did -- in an Aeronca Champ which was like Rick's...
Now that you mention it, I remember checking out the Mike Mars books from my school library back in the 5th grade. Thanks for bringing up such great memories...
  I remember the Mike Mars series by Donald Wollheim. This series reminds me of another similar series written by Rutherford Montgomery. The hero is Kent...
Not space opera, but more in the realistic spirit of Rick Brant is Donald Wollheim's Mike Mars series about a secret alternate US space program running just...
more future Hornbloweresque: Lost Fleet series (Jack Campbell) RCN Series (David Drake) a couple of series (Elisabeth Moon) Vorkorsagen is great, but less...
Steve Smoot
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Nov 15, 2009 7:55 am
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 Thanks, Robert:     It is ironic that before I retired from  the Richmond Library last year, a patron kept loaning me the Ramage series. I did read the...
... Hey, thanks for the recommendations. I have seen the david Weber series but never touched base with them. Mike Shepard, I had not heard of. Withthe weber...
 Hey, thanks for the recommendations. I have seen the david Weber series but never touched base with them. Mike Shepard, I had not heard of. Withthe weber...
I have read both the Tarzan series and the Pellucidar books and highly prefer the latter. The first three or four volumes are particularly good. --Steve T...
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