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garote

Arthur C Clarke Round 5: When Clarkes Attack!

Jan 31, 2012 04:28

Transcience, 1949

I suppose this would have been profound 60 years ago, but my eyes and ears have suffered a maelstrom of similar progressions expressed in music, television, novels, comics, and film.

The Lion of Comarre, 1949

Oh sure, perhaps it is naive with respect to lions and jungles and physiology, but I totally enjoyed it. It felt like ( Read more... )

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rudetuesday February 2 2012, 19:46:57 UTC

It's been a while since I read any Clarke. I know I have Rendezvous with Rama and its sequel somewhere in my piles of books. Clarke was absolutely wonderful when all of these concepts were new to me. It's hard for me to read SF these days because I've been drowning in it for so long. It's hard to get surprised. Re-reading him should be interesting, though.

garote February 8 2012, 01:34:41 UTC

Oooh oooh! I meant to ask you - what did you think of Rendezvous with Rama? Does it hold up to our modern times?
What's the best SF you've read recently, like, in the last year?

rudetuesday February 14 2012, 08:03:30 UTC

(Stupid LJ notification lag... Sorry I've been so long in replying.)

I still like it a lot. It's not quite as old-fashioned as some of the other SF I've re-read, but it's slightly dated. David Fincher might be adapting it for a film, which could prove interesting.

Best SF I've read lately? I've been trying to find People of Color in the genre and really love Nalo Hopkinson--she needs to write more stuff and quickly, dang it--and Nnedi Okorafor. I guess they're more like magical realism/fantasy, actually. Same with Octavia Butler, who's unfortunately no longer alive.

Joe Haldeman's still got the goods. Forever War and Forever Peace are darned good, and he's still writing. John Scalzi's cool. Agent to the Stars was funny and had me thinking about it for a while after. I also like Dan Simmons, but find his writing dense enough to give me pause. Sometimes I want to be swept away, but his wordsmithery makes that just about impossible. He's fuckin' smart ( ... )