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As usual, nothing's ever all good or all bad. Currently I'm full of profound sadness, much anxiety, moderrate happiness, great anticipation, etc. The more things change, the more they stay the same, and all that

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[tully_monster]

Glad to hear from you. Hope the great anticipation and moderate happiness are sufficient to offset the profound sadness...I've gone through such periods now and again.

You must have encountered Neil Gaiman somewhere along the line, surely? If not, he's delightful. (Not science fiction, but top-drawer fantasy/magical realism.) China Mieville and Kelly Link, also. None of these is what you would consider genre fantasy, though.

With regard to science fiction, in our household we tend toward the Clarke side of things (more technical and scientific accuracy, which can be off-putting, I admit). Paul was greatly moved by Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy; in a way it's more frontier fiction than science fiction. As in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series, the technology is realistic and plausible but does not intrude on the central human drama and the philosophical questions raised.

I'm not generally a science fiction reader, but I love Stanislaw Lem (The Cyberiad, Solaris) and find Connie Willis amusing (To Say Nothing of the Dog--time travel and Edwardianism).

Heinlein, ugh. So self-indulgent and, yes, sexist. Sadly, I find both these things to be true of most genre science fiction.