Sci Fi Books: Discussions

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Hi, Bill Heft here.

I am a scifi published author. I write and publish scifi novels and short stories. However, I am one who strongly believes in vintage or classical scifi. I started reading scifi when I was in the 7th grade and was immediately taken under it's spell. Those paperback books that we purchased in school where written by the great masters of science fiction, and as a student, I couldn’t have started with a better group.

As I have progressed as a writer and became published, I never forgot those masterful writer of yesteryear, and sought to write my scifi patterned after the same style as those men, such as Wells, Anderson, Clark, Tolkin.

The disappointed trend I find these days are the shift of writers to depend more on explicit sex, foul language, gore, or any of the numerous tricks to replace the sheer genius of writing. I recently joined a scifi group on Yahoo and discussed the merits of present day scifi writing. I really got a lot of flack thrown back at me for standing on the soap box I have chosen.
Their reasoning was that in today’s society, scifi writers must write only what is current for today. Many of those scifi writers were women who said they had been raped at one point in their life and felt that it was only proper to include that experience in their writings. Problem was, most of those scifi writers had included into their storyline violent, descriptive rape scenes even though they hadn't experienced such an event.

Other writers had written saying they were tired of reading scifi stories depicting heroine characters, only to read about them being raped or other such nastiness. After all, it was stated, this is today and it is PC. One writer even claimed that we “OLD WRITERS” should not be heard from any longer.

In conclusion, I as a writer, believe that there still exists a viable reading audience that enjoys vintage scifi, and I will keep writing and reaching for those who flavor that great genre reading matter, without getting insulted. Here’s one great example of vintage scifi i.e., “The Weapon Makers of Isher.” that I especially remember.
Sooooo, if you would like to purchase one of my vintage scifi novels, (understand, I don't claim to write as a scifi master, I only strive to keep the style alive. ) look for “ALIENS AND LOST GOLD”, just paste the link below in your browser and you will be taken to my web page at FILAMENT BOOKS, where you may purchase a copy for only 5.99. Watch for more of my books to be listed here in the coming months.
http://www.filamentbooks.com/scripts/WebObjects.exe/eBookstore.woa/wa/find?assetID=1786
Thank you, Bill Heft
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Who remembers their first exposure to science fiction?

I have always been a voracious reader. When I was a little girl, my local library had a special exception for me. Children under 12 could only check out 5 books at a time. They let me have 15, so I wouldn't have to come in every couple of days (I was lucky, my grandmother worked there!). By the time I was 9 or 10 I had read most all of the books in the "little kids" section and began to look in the adolescent section. There, I found the book that set my main reading interests for life.

Who else could it be but Robert Heinlein?!! "Have Spacesuit Will Travel", to be precise! I was in love. From then on, every time I went to the library, his name was the first one I looked for.

When I was old enough to buy my own books, for many years I never bought anything other than SciFi (or Fantasy, once I came across Andre Norton). I waited with breath held for each new Heinlein book. I've read them all, many times, and cried like an idiot when he died. I wish I could have met him.

Now that I'm all grown up (hey, who says???) I'll read just about anything that looks interesting, except westerns and romance, but SciFi and Fantasy are still my favorites, and the first aisle I head to at the book store. I also have quite a few other favorite authors by now , but I'll never forget that dear Robert was my first love. There will never be another quite like him!

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