Science Fiction Legends » Authors http://zimplyscifi.com Sci Fi not SyFy - what are they thinking! Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:03:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What Genre? What Books? http://zimplyscifi.com/?p=37 http://zimplyscifi.com/?p=37#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:02:10 +0000 admin http://zimplyscifi.com/?p=37 I am currently meandering through the original Star Trek series and thoroughly enjoying every minute of it. The most obvious thing that has struck me is the variety of themes that the series introduced or ventured into. At first glance it seems that almost every aspect of the science fiction genre has been covered to some extent – time travel, mind control, split personalities, computer masters and on and on. It has made me want to start and create some genre categories and start to place books and movies within them. I have no doubt that others have done this over the years but it will be interesting to review my own reading and see where I end up. If you have found a genre in scifi please send me a comment.
I will catalogue my meanderings in my wiki but discussion can happen here.

Now where does one start ;-)

]]> http://zimplyscifi.com/?feed=rss2&p=37 0 Robert Jordan has gone! Unfinished business! http://zimplyscifi.com/?p=8 http://zimplyscifi.com/?p=8#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:40:54 +0000 admin http://zimplyscifi.com/?p=8 Robert Jordan is dead and I will never finish the “Wheel of Time”. Oh Robert could you not have finished it for us all! What a loss. Robert passed away on September 16th aged 59.

He had fought hard against the heart condition cardiac amyloidosis.

He name was really James Oliver Rigney, Jr. and he also wrote under the name Reagan O’Neal. O’Neal wrote the “Fallon” series of stories.

Another legend!

“Oh author of the inner mind we salute you and envy the tales heaven will be privileged to hear!” – Vale Robert Jordan.

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