James White's books are great. The reason I (and probably a lot of people) loved Thunderbirds was that the action was based around saving lives and not ending them. Hospital Station is Thunderbirds for grownups.

@SciFiScavenger

11 күн бұрын

ER in space. I've never seen any pf his books out in the wild. I'll look out for em. Thanks for watching 👀!

@brianedwards7142

11 күн бұрын

@@SciFiScavenger I have a James White in Mount Toberead called Deadly Litter which addresses space junk.

The moment you mentioned James White I realized I had yet to read any of his work after his featuring in the fantastic literary criticism _Space for Peace: Fragments of the Irish Troubles in the Science Fiction of Bob Shaw and James White_ So, your video got me to hit the buy button on the omnibus of the first three books of space hospital series. Thanks for the reminder of his work, Jon!

@SciFiScavenger

8 күн бұрын

Great! My work here is done. Thanks for watching 👀!

Can't say it enough, Jon, but I do really like the wrap up each week. Another good one as usual, and I read that Haldeman (Mindbridge) last year for the first time since way back when and I still enjoyed it. Cheers!

@SciFiScavenger

12 күн бұрын

Hi Rick, that's great, thanks for watching 👀!

Because you've been a good boy Jon, Lisamon says you can have some Dwicka fruit, but not a whole one, it'll spoil tour dinner - for about six weeks I reckon.

@SciFiScavenger

11 күн бұрын

Ha thanks Ian! Delish. 😋

Silverberg, Haldeman and McCaffrey---3 classic authors! Well done! Never read Lord Valentine's, but it's a Silverberg, the guy's consistently excellent. Too bad about McCaffrey's apostrophes, though... James White's space hospital series is very good. Hope you like it! Otherwise, may you get a transdimensional enema by Dr Priliclla...😂

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12 күн бұрын

Yay! Fellow James White fan! Inevitably, said enema will take hours, due to Diagnostician Priliclla profusely apologizing for every step...😮. Of course, Conway will step in, and just do the job quickly and efficiently if it takes long enough...hopefully before Thornastor steps in, and looks Jon over and declares him a subject for Pathology.. Jon: I'm not dead! Thornastor: Yes you are. Jon: But I'm feeling better! Thornastor: (Wham!) See? To pathology we go. 🤪😳😂

@luiznogueira1579

12 күн бұрын

@@User_Un_Friendly 😂😂I guess Jon would do well not to show up in the vicinity of the Hospital unless he is in perfect health!😂 As usual, it's been too long since I read the James White stories, can't remember the details as well as you do. Fun fact: White worked as a night watchman, wrote several of his great stories in the middle of the night.

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12 күн бұрын

@@luiznogueira1579 Second fun fact. He wanted to study medicine with the aim of becoming a physician. Definitely no surprises there. 😛. Alas, financial considerations prevented him from going to med school. It might have been interesting if he had gone to med school, would his career be like Alan Nourse, the physician and author of Star Surgeon? (Not to be confused with White's Star Surgeon. Yep, they had ended up with the same title.) Oh, yeah, Star Surgeon is an excellent juvenile book, well worth reading. 😉🙂 And a fairly early example of a nonhuman protagonist. 👽

Thanks for the mention. I'd love to hear what you think of High Crusade. Cheers Jon.

@SciFiScavenger

9 күн бұрын

It sounds a bit crazy!

I too found McCaffrey's apostrophes annoying. When I found her books back in middle school, I couldn't figure out how to read them in my head, so I ended up ignoring them. 🙄 Anyway, as mentioned, I vastly prefer her lesser known or less popular books. 🙄 I also feel that way about quite a few authors...Lackey, for example, and Heinlein. 🤔🧐 I forgot to mention, besides the Raymond Feist books I got, I bought a copy of Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy on sale. It's a great techno thriller, about a massive ground war between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Well written, military thriller by Clancy at the top of the game. Enjoyable. I also found the first two books of Shipstar in a single ebook, by Nivens and Benford for a pittance. Couldn't resist, in case I ever get to it. 🙂😛🫡 Of course James White was a pacifist. I believe he lived in Belfast during the Troubles. Do check out the short stories Tableau and Occupation: Warrior. They're excellent, and pretty much showcases his pacifist writing. I think I'm going to make a recommendation targeting your tastes, Jon. The Watch Below. It's unusual, and frankly, I was too young to appreciate it when I found it in college. But it's incredibly interesting, with a premise that will literally blow you away. I shan't give away anything, but brace yourself for some shockers. 🐶

@luiznogueira1579

12 күн бұрын

Apostrophes are often used in SF/Fantasy novels to represent a 'glottal stop'(whatever). I guess they can be an annoying distraction that authors should probably avoid. I have a couple of McCaffrey's standalone novels, like The Ship Who Sang, but never got around to reading them for some reason. From the Pern series I don't think I read more than two or three.

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12 күн бұрын

@@luiznogueira1579 Ship Who Sang is a marvelous book. Especially poignant is when you find out it was written after the death of her father, and even much later in life, she still tears up rereading it. I enjoyed her Brain and Brawn stories, particularly Ship Who Sang and the City Who Fought. Those two I can recommend. City Who Fought is particularly good, if you're into the military science fiction sub genre. SM Stirling is an excellent collaborator author, though his solo writing can be grimdark (like the Draka series), and the March series with David Weber are simply excellent. Well worth getting if you like military science fiction. And the General series with David Drake are simply SUPERB!!!😉

@SciFiScavenger

12 күн бұрын

Yeah i know what they're there for, i just got annoyed by it. more likely a symptom than a root cause of my struggles. Oh well, Pern is dead to me now. 🤷‍♂️ thanks for watching 👀!

@luiznogueira1579

11 күн бұрын

@@SciFiScavenger Well, at least we agree that the first Pern book is pretty good. Long after I quit reading the series, my mother and sister would keep buying the Pern books, even though they weren't really into the genre like I was. Weird.

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10 күн бұрын

@@luiznogueira1579 Aside from the first three, the only Pern books I have in my library are Dragonsong and Dragonsinger. Definitely Young Adult, I've loved them and read them since I discovered them, back in high school. I don't know why. 🙄 But they're wonderful, though I'm not expecting anyone besides myself to like them. I can recommend her Pegasus books. I found them enjoyable, though the sequels (Rowan, Damia) I didn't like them at all. 🤔. Her obscure and early Restoree is good, and I rather like her Brain and Brawn books. 😉🙂