Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
For some reason, neither the DH nor myself had read any of the Philip Jose Farmer Riverworld books. I am in the middle of the first and he has moved onto the second. They are great fun so far!
Sadly, at some point, they just get random, but I can't remember exactly what that point was. Probably midway through The Dark Design.
Oh, I remember "They're Made Out Of Meat!". Cool story.
I know I ended up really disliking the Riverworld books, but I can't remember exactly why. I had to finish reading the series because, well now I don't remember if that was me being completist or if that's all I had to read, but I think I started out liking them and gradually grew to not at all.
I wonder if Bradbury got the idea for The Illustrated Man from Queequeg.
I'm having a huge blank spot, and maybe someone can help me. I'm trying to remember the name of a white African female author and am having a total brainfart. She's southern African, I'm pretty sure, prolific, highly critically regarded, and has written a little sci fi, but is primarily mainstream.
Yes, I could be vaguer if you pressed me, but it would be difficult.
This gap in my memory is just so frustrating!
Nadine Gordimer?
No, she didn't write any sci fi. The author I'm thinking of has, I think, at least two sci fi novels to her name. I'm not sure they were well-received by experts in the genre, but I remember liking what I'd read.
Jesus, my mother would shoot me. I know it's one of her favourite authors.
Doris Lessing?
Winifred Holtby?
Charlize Theron?