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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: Science Fiction is the literature of the future
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Friday, 4 December 2009. Science Fiction is the literature of the future. And by that I don't mean that science fiction is stories set. At this moment in time, in purely commercial terms, taking the genre as a whole, fantasy is outselling science fiction. Mark Charan Newton gives some reasons why on his blog here. But that means what, exactly? That sf is at risk? And 1960s - the Apollo programme! So sf is no longer a monolithic genre or culture...
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: July 2009
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Thursday, 30 July 2009. Reading Challenge #7 - Jack of Eagles, James Blish. This month's book was somewhat delayed as I've been focusing on reading and writing about books related to Apollo 11 for my celebration of the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing. You can find those reviews on my Space Books blog here. But on with the reading challenge. My edition of James Blish's Jack of Eagles. When I read it at the end of last year. That too ha...
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: Having my mind melded
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Wednesday, 9 December 2009. Having my mind melded. Sf Signal asked a bunch of people for their picks of the top five genre books, films and television of 2009. I was one of those people, and you can see my response here. My best of the year post should appear in a couple of weeks - I don't think I'll do it early because I still have a few books lined up for which I have high hopes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader.
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: The 2010 Reading Challenge
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Sunday, 6 December 2009. The 2010 Reading Challenge. After the comments left on my post here. And some consultation with the members of the Science Fiction Fans group on LibraryThing, I have come up with a list of twelve fantasy novels for next year's reading challenge. Those books are:. Raymond E Feist (1982). Colours in the Steel. The Sum of All Men. The Darkness That Comes Before. R Scott Bakker (2003). Labels: 2010 reading challenge. 9 Dece...
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: June 2009
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Monday, 22 June 2009. Back in the 1950s, Galaxy Science Fiction. Began a series of reprint paperback novels which they gave away with issues of the magazine. After 35 issues, the novel series was sold to Beacon Books, who were known for publishing mildly pornographic romance paperbacks. As a result, the Galaxy novels issued by Beacon were "edited" to add sexual content. I first came across these books when I learnt of. In 1953, and later as a n...
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: November 2009
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Monday, 30 November 2009. Robert Holdstock 1948 - 2009. I was very saddened to hear of the death of Robert Holdstock yesterday, 29 November 2009. His novel Where Time Winds Blow. Is a favourite of mine - and has been mentioned several times on this blog. It was one of the books I read as part of my 2007 Reading Challenge of rereading all my favourite sf novels (see here. Links to this post. Tuesday, 17 November 2009. As a "classic", although it...
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: Reading Challenge #11 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Sunday, 6 December 2009. Reading Challenge #11 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer. Philip José Farmer's Riverworld. Series is recognised as a classic of the genre - it says so on the blurb of my 1981 paperback copy of To Your Scattered Bodies Go. The first book in the series. The last time I read it was, I think, back in the mid-1980s. Like Ringworld. And Rendezvous With Rama. The novel opens with him waking up in a vast space, w...
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: October 2009
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Sunday, 25 October 2009. That sound you hear is my ears ringing. It's been a musical week for me. On Tuesday 20 October, I saw Tinariwen. In concert. They're a Tuareg band from Mali. I've liked their music since seeing a documentary on the Festival in the Desert seven or eight years ago. They proved much better live than I expected. I bought their new album, Imidiwan: Companions. Links to this post. Saturday, 24 October 2009. Well, yes it is.
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right...: 2009 Reading Challenge #1 - Ringworld, Larry Niven
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It Doesn't Have To Be Right. It just has to sound plausible. Monday, 19 January 2009. 2009 Reading Challenge #1 - Ringworld, Larry Niven. Having said that, I may well have not reread it simply because my To Be Read pile is big enough already. And continues to grow. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1971. It's also No 60 in the SF Masterworks. Is now 39 years old. The ship would carry practically no cargo, though it was over a mile in diameter.". Yet when they finally see the ship:. Pg 46)&...
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