A Question of Canon-Building

[cassiphone]

Originally published at tansyrr.com. You can comment here or there.

In our most recent episode of Galactic Suburbia, Alisa pointed us towards this Mind Meld post that asked a variety of people which 10 SF books should be part of every fan’s library. Alisa noted that while the women asked this question generally mentioned books from a variety of

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[random_alex]

You already know, over several podcasts, that I am a fan of Butler's Xenogenesis series. I was trying to decide *why* I like it, the other, and you know what? I have no real idea. It made me uncomfortable and it weirded me out and I was disturbed, and I really enjoyed the conversations and interactions and big big ideas all at the same time. So, that's pretty clever. And I had great difficulty every putting a book down...

Damn you, now you've added more books to my To Read list, too. Gak.

[girliejones]

I was also going to suggest Butler - your reviews on GS have totally made me bump her further up the "must get to read this" list

[random_alex]

heh, I'm glad I haven't been entirely rambly then!

[random_alex]

Oh also, canons drive me nuts.

That is all.

:)

[catsparx]

My favourite sf story of all time would have to be Octavia Butler's Blood Child