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	June 15, 2007.  And one musn't neglect the father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne, is his 1865 tale of a group of Americans firing men out of a cannon to the moon...
	After the first few months of sailing with Jim, the few science fiction books we had, plus Jim's relaying of every Philip K. Dick tale he could remember, sent me back the San Diego with a voracious appetite for that particular broad genre.  When I lived in Master Pete's attic on Centre street the second-hand shop around the corner had a magnificent sci fi collection where I stocked up on a huge collection that flew to Mexico with me and then sailed to Panama, and then flew home.  Here is one of them, from 1901.  It starts out like an ordinary action-drama but really unfolds into something spectacularly imaginative
	This is my favorite book from one of my favorite authors.  I devoured almost every book Kurt Vonnegut wrote over the course of just a few months in London, where I knew nobody and one could find a second-hand bookstore on every corner.
	May 19, 2007.  Aware of my addiction, I needed a little break from the sea and science fiction
	April 2007.  Having finished Bligh's dry and biased (yet incredible) account, I had to learn more.  This historian digs way deep into the events, people, families, etc. behind the mutiny.  Yum.
	March 2007.  I'm addicted to sea stories, and first-hand accounts from history.  This is both; it's William Bligh's account of sailing to Tahiti in search of breadfruit, being mutineed by his men who couldn't bear to leave Tahiti, and his incredible 4000-mile open-boat journey to safety
	February 2007.  Stanislaw Lem in an incredible science fiction writer.  All of his books I've read are translated from Polish.  This one deals with unfathomably godlike technology of the future and the pitfalls of man's first encounter with intelligent life being a total failure to communicate.

Hey, how about a little bit of science fiction?  Heather gave me a book of short stories from 1937ish - 1942ish.  Wonderful look into the speculative mind of authors writing during world war and pending space exploration!  I have written up summaries of them as I read them.