del.icio.us/tags
/SciFi
Sponsored: 64% off Code Black Drone with HD Camera (Mar 27, 2016 20:48)
Our #1 Best-Selling Drone--Meet the Dark Night of the Sky!
app.hiive.co.uk (Mar 25, 2015 01:52)
Tie figther (Mar 26, 2015 02:46)
www.amazon.com (Mar 24, 2015 19:45)
Amazon.com Most Popular Authors: The most popular authors in Science Fiction (Mar 21, 2015 20:25)
tmblr.co (Mar 24, 2015 22:19)
onasixpence.bigcartel.com (Mar 24, 2015 22:04)
You never realized he was the baddest man in the galaxy. - Imgur (Mar 25, 2015 17:00)
A little back story on General Grevious - Album on Imgur (Apr 1, 2015 09:19)
clicks.skem1.com (Mar 27, 2015 17:52)
Archives
|
Tuesday
Ellison short stories and older space stories
I read Harlan Ellison's "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktock Man (1965) and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) last week from the 1992 "Super Hugos" in which voters chose them as two of the best SF short stories of all-time. I really liked the idea behind the anti-authoritarian/anti-meaningless life 'Harlequin', but I did not think it was that interesting or outstanding. There must be a half-dozen Bradbury stories alone that I like better. 'I have no mouth' was a much better story, and ironically a singularity/artificial intelligence story that is right out of the new stories of Stross & Vinge, but I still can't think of it as one of the best I've ever read. I'll check out his other most-revered story Jeffty is Five shortly.
On the other hand, I read Bester's short novel, The Stars My Destination (1956), and Cordwainer Smith's novelette Scanners Live in Vain (1950) and both were tremendous. Both took pre-Mercury concepts of space and the nature of the future and explored them with outstandinging stories.
I've started reading Heinlein's Starship Troopers and will pick up The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as I work my way through some SF I've gotta read if I expect to have some idea what I'm talking about.
|
What I'm Reading:
 
 
Listening To:
 
Recent Favorite:
E-mail the editor:
mikeray at
gmail dot com
|
