Revisiting a love of classic SF enjoyed many decades ago - and so now in the process of discovering many fine page-turners (short & novel length) for the very first time.
Oh, and aiming to read 500 of these gems before I retire. 🙂
Current tally: 210
Future Revisitations
In celebration of Joe Haldeman, who is 83 today.
His multi-award winning novel ‘The Forever War’ continues to rank highly in many polls & deservedly so. A novel of mind bending ideas and heartfelt ideals - one that never lags, never wastes a word, and one that I‘m never likely to tire of rereading 🙂
Celebrating Kate Wilhelm, born on this day 1928.
I particularly enjoyed her Hugo Award winning novel ‘Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang’, in which the interpersonal & societal implications of cloning, set against a backdrop of a ravaged post-apocalyptic landscape, are brilliantly conveyed.
OTD 1964. A wonderful television adaptation of Isaac Asimov‘s ‘The Caves of Steel’ is broadcast on the then fledgling channel BBC2.
Superb production team: adapted by Terry Nation, directed by Peter Sasdy, & starring the incomparable Peter Cushing in the lead role of Detective Elijah Baley.
Now on to this classic from 1963.
A clever exploration of a future in which the notions of ‘supply & demand’ take on a new twist due to the insidious onset of subliminal advertising.
Rereading this after several years, I now feel I‘ve a much better appreciation of Ballard’s shrewdly satirical eye. 🙂
Well this was excellent - ‘Hinterlands‘ by William Gibson.
A truly astonishing short story, featuring the tragic attempts to keep alive space pilots who have returned from a mysterious point in space known as The Highway.
One of those stories that reminds me why I love reading this genre so much 🙂
In remembrance of the wonderful Peter Cushing, born OTD 1913.
So many fine performances to his name, including the lead role of Detective Elijah Baley in a sadly lost 1964 TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s 1954 novel ‘The Caves of Steel’.
Now there’s a production I’d dearly love to see recovered…
Now embarking on the first of Gene Wolfe’s much celebrated ‘The Book of the New Sun’ series.
One of those works that‘s been recommended to me a number of times over recent years
And beyond knowing that the central character goes by the name of Severian, I know very little of what’s to come… 🙂
Another change of pace this week with Arthur C. Clarke’s 1950 novelette ‘Guardian Angel’, a tale involving the societal fallout from a visitation by benign, but as yet unseen, alien ‘overlords’ (later expanded into his better known 1953 novel ‘Childhood’s End’).
A brisk & immensely enjoyable tale.
#booksky Christopher Priest's (The) Inverted World, excellent book, couldn't put it down this afternoon til I finished it.
This copy is the US Popular Library paperback edition
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