[lit-ideas] Re: sci-fi
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:12:26 +0900
Three British names come to mind, Stephen Baxter, Neil Asher, and Ken
MacLeod. American Vernor Vinge also deserves a look. Baxter, Asher, and
Vinge have taken history and galaxy-spanning space opera into whole new,
darker and harder hard SF dimensions. The imagination is extraordinary.
Still, if there is one book to which I return repeatedly it is Ken
MacCleod's *The Star Faction, *in which, I kid you not, one of the main
protagonists is an intelligent gun.
John
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Richard Catlett Wilkerson <
rcwilk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Julie, ****
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> I’ve noticed for myself, that Deleuze and Baudrillard seemed to have
> taken up the place that Sci Fi used to occupy in my life. But I have
> enjoyed some of the CyberPunk. You have probably read at least Gibson,
> but what about Charles Stross? ****
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> If you enjoy those art pieces where you have to stare at them for some
> minutes before the picture emerges, how about Thomas Pynchon’s *Gravity’s
> Rainbow*, were psychics in wwii help Londoners avoid the German missiles?
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> Richard C Wilkerson****
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> >>I need some new, good, sci fi, and by sci fi, I do not mean "fantasy".
> I've read everything of what I think of as the standards -- Heinlen,
> Clark, Asimov, Pohl, Orson Scott Card, the standard apocalyptic stuff
> (which I really, really love if it's well done)...any suggestions?****
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> Julie Krueger
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