http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith

Great if you like weird science fiction.

Also:
Edmond Hamilton
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Henry Kuttner
Leigh Brackett

Last would suggest, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame compliations give you a nice selection of works from 1929 to 1969 (if you can find volume 3)
Volumes 1, 2a and 2b have been reprinted fairly recently.

Star Wars Old Republic from Bioware

http://www.swtor.com/

Nonsense. The D6 documentation has been there much longer. Drupal 7 was only officially released on January 7th, so I suspect that the documentation wasn't updated before that.

I always found the forms API pretty well documented.
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html

Custom Content Types (CCK) and Webforms handle most of those use cases without creating a module.

And even if you are talking about custom forms build through the API (well documented through api.drupal.org) there is a module (in dev) called Form Builder that provides a graphical UI that helps you build them.

Drupal 7 adds the ability to specify a compressed module file to load, either from a url or by browsing locally, and install it from the Admin interface. Also your can do one click updates on modules.

D7 has made a significant effort to providing a more friendly Administration UI experience, while maintaining (and adding) alot of awesomeness under the hood.