Good subject. Like ‘Ricky Tock’ , I do prefer book over visual media, but gotta say, that until Whedon totally ruined them for me that I enjoyed the heck out of both ‘Firefly’ and the movie … not going to forgive him for that. I liked Weber’s ‘…Harrington’ series until they started getting strained and redundant somewhere around the point she ends up at a prison planet…
Richard Meredith’s “We all died at Breakaway Station” is great if you can find it, well worth the hunt. ‘Vacuum Flowers’ by Michael Swanwick also managed to zip beneath everybody’s radar, and is his best book I think. Also David Gerrold’s first book in the war against the chtorr series, “A Day for Damnation” really stands out in memory. Heinlein was mentioned and his “Tunnel in the Sky” (1955) I always thought would make a good movie, especially for teens, with the right screen-writer (big hint here to David Peoples who did the screenplays for Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, Soldier, and The Unforgiven … nobody else could have done those). Finally, Walter Jon Williams ‘Days of Atonement’; the book is a good but the character depiction is where it really stands out; he can tell you everything about a character in a sentence while the rest of the writing crop takes a page.
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