By Adam Fitzgerald Encountering Samuel R. Delany’s work, for me at least, can be described in two phases (more like paroxysms): the first is being so overcome by the true presence of a genius or polymath writer, the endless fertility and ease through which he has made each genre indelibly his own (science fiction, literary […]
Read More Don’t Romanticize Science Fiction: An Interview with Samuel DelanyOk, it’s not just books. It is, however, just science fiction so far as I can tell. I knew if I opened it up to fantasy as well, it would become unmanageable, so I may follow up with a second list if there is interest. As it is, I’ve got over 60 names on the […]
Read More Strong Women in Science Fiction: Book ListGold: The Final Science Fiction Collection by Isaac Asimov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Genre Non-Fiction and the Collections! Reading Challenges. This collection represents the last batch of stuff that Isaac Asimov gave to us. Half of it is stories, and the other half is a collection of essays about science […]
Read More Book Review: Gold by Issac AsimovUbik by Philip K. Dick My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. So far, my acquaintance with PKD has been strictly through this determination of mine to read through the entirety of the SF Masterworks imprint, which has spawned […]
Read More Book Review: Ubik by Philip K. DickFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads, and also for the 12 Awards in 12 Months Challenge. This novel won both the Hugo (1967) and Nebula (1966) Awards for Best Novel. Did you read […]
Read More Book Review: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read a combined edition of these two books for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. The Time Machine Read for the Need to Reread Challenge. I have, […]
Read More Book Review: The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsgiANTS by Edward Bryant My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the 12 Awards in 12 Months Challenge and the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge Winner of the Nebula Award 1979. I read this in a collection of Nebula winning stories edited by Frank Herbert. I see why it won the […]
Read More Book Review: giANTS by Edward BryantA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge, the Grand Mistresses of Genre Fiction Challenge, and the High Fantasy Challenge. My reading pace has slowed as writing deadlines have piled up on me. Writing is a bit of a feeding […]
Read More Book Review: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinI don’t entirely agree with their subgenre examples and definitions. If anyone thinks that The Death of Grass or Earth Abides are “Cozy Catastrophes,” then they clearly have not read the books or don’t grasp them at all. Still, it’s a good list of some of the classics of SFF. By Haley Larson Science fiction […]
Read More So You Want to Read . . . Sci-Fi/Fantasy
