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Comment by Kama Siegel on March 5, 2009 at 11:45am

I find Pennywise the Clown one of the scariest villains ever. Is that just me?

Comment by Marin on March 5, 2009 at 11:41am

So, so true, Deborah....

This is ANOTHER reason not to roam dark alleys! You might meet a Scarran... ;)

Comment by Deborah Schander on January 15, 2009 at 12:14pm

The Wraith and the Scarrans definitely top my list of scariest villains too -- though I also have to give a nod to the Reavers. I would NOT want to meet one of them in a dark alley. Or anywhere else.

Comment by Marin on January 13, 2009 at 4:17pm

Okay, Liz Farrell and I were just discussing who are the scariest Sci-Fi villians, and we both understood that the Wraith and the Scarrans are pretty much awesome. This leads me to believe that I need to join this group...ASAP.

Comment by Kama Siegel on September 29, 2008 at 3:33pm

I also must give my voice to Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell is fantastic. My fave authors are Connie Willis, Sheri Tepper, and Robert Heinlein (PRE Stranger -- everything after that was soft-core porn). I also got into the Robert Silverberg Valentine chronicles when I was in college. Man, there are a lot of good SF authors/series(es?).

Comment by Deb Morse on September 18, 2008 at 4:58pm

Oooh this group should be fun. Am into vampire lore and related.

Comment by Vicki Szymczak on September 17, 2008 at 6:20pm

i really like KSRobinson - i was facinated by the mars trilogy. i was a little tired of the long descriptive narratives by the third installment (green or blue? green i think) but was completely captivated by the first and second books. i don't find his work clunky. i also read rice and salt (really imiginative) and icehenge - which i liked. i want to read the california shores trilogy. btw - he wrote an excellent essay called Imagining Abrupt Climate Change.

Comment by Pam Brannon on September 17, 2008 at 3:45pm

I second, third, and fourth Cloud Atlas. I don't really regard it as sci-fi; there are only a couple of sections ("An Orison of Somni-451" and "Sloosh'a's Crossin' an' Everythin' After") that I would regard as sci-fi'ish, but it's an absolutely brilliant, amazing book. In other words, I frakkin' love it. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell is also amazing. Heck, anything he writes is good.

Comment by Dennis Kim-Prieto on September 17, 2008 at 12:08pm

regarding books: anyone here read kim stanley robinson? i kind of like him, even though he's admittedly a rather clunky prose stylist . . .

Comment by Francis Norton on September 17, 2008 at 11:09am

How's this picture for an icon?

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