Come on, some of those names are a challenge to work out, and if you skip to the Z's you can get a few actual chuckles out of your own attempts. And then there are the yellow pages...Old school, I know, but I am kinda old.
Dok, I don't mean yesterday! I was perusing phone books many years ago. (I am taking the fifth on how many years) The true is I now have the internet to look at if I have a reading jones. We still get various phone books delivered to our mailbox, though.
Agreed on Lathe of Heaven, love it. I came to see it as a brilliant allegory, a warning to artists to be careful what worlds they invent, lest they become real.
Also Zenna Henderson (The People stories) for a Psi-power fantasy/SciFi - more fantasy, I guess. Although the rule of sci fi is, roughly, you get one gimmick (like FTL travel) and the rest should be testable science, when the one gimmick was PSI powers it would typically get shunted into the Fantasy genre.
All I know of her outside of her books is that she was protective of her book-world to the point of shrewish attacks on those who used it to stage their own stories. I think I'll leave it at that. The idea of staying prepared for an intermittent threat seems wise - you know, like cicadas, locusts, gypsy moths and asteroids.
I will bookmark this page for reading tips, so many new ones in the comments!Fuck, I'm emotional now. See you all later.
If LeGuin is the Queen, I stand by my statement.
The who what now?
Come on, some of those names are a challenge to work out, and if you skip to the Z's you can get a few actual chuckles out of your own attempts. And then there are the yellow pages...Old school, I know, but I am kinda old.
Ahhh Brunswick. I was stationed there. Retired from there actually.
Oh, I know what a "phone book" is. I use one to prop up my "record player."
Try to get your hands on the 1980 adaptation of TLoH -- it's awesome.
Dok, I don't mean yesterday! I was perusing phone books many years ago. (I am taking the fifth on how many years) The true is I now have the internet to look at if I have a reading jones. We still get various phone books delivered to our mailbox, though.
Agreed on Lathe of Heaven, love it. I came to see it as a brilliant allegory, a warning to artists to be careful what worlds they invent, lest they become real.
Saw it on a fuzzy black and white tv, still thought it was great
The Dispossessed is so good. So much to think about...
Also, didn't she write a novel about two kids crossing post-apocalypse Africa?
Just spent a satisfying evening myself as well.
C. J. Cherryh, if you like densely textured characterizations, not only of the characters but of the worlds they inhabit.
She had a little something to say on matter like that:
https://twitter.com/Letters...
Also Zenna Henderson (The People stories) for a Psi-power fantasy/SciFi - more fantasy, I guess. Although the rule of sci fi is, roughly, you get one gimmick (like FTL travel) and the rest should be testable science, when the one gimmick was PSI powers it would typically get shunted into the Fantasy genre.
All I know of her outside of her books is that she was protective of her book-world to the point of shrewish attacks on those who used it to stage their own stories. I think I'll leave it at that. The idea of staying prepared for an intermittent threat seems wise - you know, like cicadas, locusts, gypsy moths and asteroids.