[lit-ideas] Re: sci-fi
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 01:03:53 -0500
Thanks to both ... I am in the middle of Ken Macleod's Cosmonaut Keep, but
not far enough in to know how well I like him. There's a four-part series
he did also, which seems to use sci fi as a vehicle for social, political,
economic essay. I'll take a look at Baxter, Asher, and Vinge. Also Star
Factions.
Julie Krueger
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:12 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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. Charles Stross is a new name to me.
> I'm familiar with the Gravity Rainbow title, but hadn't picked it up.
>
> John
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> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Richard Catlett Wilkerson <
> rcwilk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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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>> ******
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