@KEV67 Ubik was certainly fun to read. I find out of Bradbury's work 451 is certainly overly hyped up due to its nature of being banned and published in Playboy for its beginnings I think out of all his work I really enjoyed Illustrated Man is a collection of short stories. I will look into Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle I am sure I have one of their books laying on one of my shelves. As for Frank Herbert I only read one of his stories just recently was the Santaroga Barrier I had no idea about The White Plague until you mentioned, goodness that sounds like a depressing read, Herbert from what I gathered in just the one book seems to have a weird attitude toward women for sure I cannot quite find the words to describe it right now.