Lessing

[peteyoung]

So (yes it's another post beginning with so, so standards are steadily slipping) I get home and all over my friends list is news of a well-regarded (and, for once, unashamed) former writer of science fiction winning the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

I'm sure there must be other SF fans I know who, like me, have read Doris Lessing's entire

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[apintrix]

I am another sf fan who has read this entire series, and also found "Sentimental Agents" funny, quirky, and clever.

Also, "The Making of the Representative of Planet Eight" is one of the saddest SF novels written.

Maureen McHugh continues, I think, in the vein of this post-colonial SF, and laudably so. Early SF often has an appalling colonialism lurking right under the surface of the narrative.

Good on Lessing!

[peteyoung]

I found The Making of the Representative of Planet Eight very hard going because it seemed doomed from the beginning with no reprieve. Sad indeed.

I've also seen The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five described as one of the most romatic SF novels ever written (and I actually have a signed first edition). I wonder if I'm alone in thinking that the horse Yori was probably another incarnation of Johor, as Yori was instrumental in the reconciliation between Zones Three and Four by bringing Ben Ata and Al*Ith together.

[apintrix]

That was actually my least favorite of them all; I'm ashamed to admit that I don't remember much about it...

[zeit]

Canopus in Argus was a guilty pleasure of mine. Perhaps I should come out of the closet.

[perlmonger]

Oh yes! That's another little wodge of books needing to find its place on my reread heap. There's also a great and ever growing need for a hospital for rhetorical diseases in our world.