Comment Re:Voyage From Yesteryear (Score 1) 700
When I first read "Voyage from Yesteryear," I did enjoy it, but I'm convinced that it is just a high-tech version of Eric Frank Russell's story "And Then There Were None." The relationship is closer than that between the movie "Avatar" and Poul Anderson's "Call Me Joe," and that is a pretty darn close similarity in itself.
H.G. Wells' "Shape of Things to Come" Ursula Le Guin's "The Dispossessed" are two others in the Utopian genre that had a big effect on me.
Including other genres, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and the Heinlein juveniles shaped me.
-Gareth