maybe it was the space race n all, but 50s & 60s authors really rocked - asimov; jg ballard - the short story, "voices of time", is heart breaking; lem; theodore sturgeon's " more than human"; vonnegut; especially the exceptional "cat's cradle", complete with its apocalyptic calypsos; doris lessing - the segue from the five realist martha quest novels set in africa to the five novels of the canopus in argos series, starting with "shikasta", is quite unlike anything else i've encountered (except maybe the crossovers/parallel story lines between "buffy" and "angel") - hell, philip glass even made an opera out of "the making of the representative for planet eight", but the scope of it is extraordinary - i'm suprised that no one's mentioned gregory benford's trippy "timescape", with its rather immaculately explicated quantum parallel worlds -
in the past week i've just finished reading ken macleod's "the star fraction" - truly amazing! i do recommend it to anyone who's ever contemplated the turing test - he manages to create a post-ww3 future with credible geopolitics (well, if you live in norlonto) - like all gd science fiction, this manages to be a comment on the now, as much as about any future maybe -
the best science fiction film i've ever seen is tarkovsky's "stalker", from the strugatsky bros "roadside picnic", followed by abel ferrara's 1993 remake of "body snatchers"
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maybe it was the space race n all, but 50s & 60s authors really rocked - asimov; jg ballard - the short story, "voices of time", is heart breaking; lem; theodore sturgeon's " more than human"; vonnegut; especially the exceptional "cat's cradle", complete with its apocalyptic calypsos; doris lessing - the segue from the five realist martha quest novels set in africa to the five novels of the canopus in argos series, starting with "shikasta", is quite unlike anything else i've encountered (except maybe the crossovers/parallel story lines between "buffy" and "angel") - hell, philip glass even made an opera out of "the making of the representative for planet eight", but the scope of it is extraordinary - i'm suprised that no one's mentioned gregory benford's trippy "timescape", with its rather immaculately explicated quantum parallel worlds - in the past week i've just finished reading ken macleod's "the star fraction" - truly amazing! i do recommend it to anyone who's ever contemplated the turing test - he manages to create a post-ww3 future with credible geopolitics (well, if you live in norlonto) - like all gd science fiction, this manages to be a comment on the now, as much as about any future maybe - the best science fiction film i've ever seen is tarkovsky's "stalker", from the strugatsky bros "roadside picnic", followed by abel ferrara's 1993 remake of "body snatchers"