Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
For me it would be dang hard to narrow it down to just one. It is far easier to list the ones that I can do without!
If you pinned me down, maybe "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". But so many of his titles were really important to me growing up--the YA books, Stranger, Moon, Time Enough for Love, The Past Through Tomorrow, etc., etc., etc.
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Glory Road
For me it would be dang hard to narrow it down to just one. It is far easier to list the ones that I can do without!
If you pinned me down, maybe "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". But so many of his titles were really important to me growing up--the YA books, Stranger, Moon, Time Enough for Love, The Past Through Tomorrow, etc., etc., etc.
Dear Fred
Yes the Moon story is very good as well. Dammit, all his stuff was very good.
J
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