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.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
-t - Aug 01, 2010 4:54:45 am PDT #11800 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laga - Aug 04, 2010 12:22:04 pm PDT #11801 of 28343
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I wonder if Bradbury got the idea for The Illustrated Man from Queequeg.
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2010 1:11:15 pm PDT #11802 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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!
javachik - Aug 04, 2010 1:12:33 pm PDT #11803 of 28343
Our wings are not tired.
Nadine Gordimer?
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2010 1:15:41 pm PDT #11804 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
DavidS - Aug 04, 2010 1:32:47 pm PDT #11805 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Doris Lessing?
Strix - Aug 04, 2010 1:36:52 pm PDT #11806 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Winifred Holtby?
Polter-Cow - Aug 04, 2010 1:38:32 pm PDT #11807 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Charlize Theron?
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2010 1:42:26 pm PDT #11808 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesus H Christ.
Thank you, Hec, for getting the right name from my vague and incorrect memory. It was her Shikasta series that my mother tried to wean me off sci fi with. My mother? Not always the most sensible woman.
Until now, though, I hadn't realised she wasn't born in Africa. She was born in Iran.
And thanks, the rest of you, for playing along with my senior moment.
eta: except P-C. No thanks for you!
javachik - Aug 04, 2010 1:53:14 pm PDT #11809 of 28343
Our wings are not tired.
Lessing would have been my next guess.