Raq, I knew what you were talking about even before I hovered over your link

We're frequenting the same corners of the internets again!

"Glimpses" is available online. A book I really loved when it first came out:

Here is the boing boing link which includes a decent description:

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Here is the direct pdf link: [link]

Not sure that Cory is right when he says it has a rock n' roll attitude. The book, in spite of melodramatic seems, has a fair amount of quite meloncholy and understatement which I don't associate with a rock n' roll attitude (not that there are not classic rock n' roll songs which use those things, but not I think the core rock n' roll attitude.) But still this is a book to marvel at, and I think is truly in love with the music. I wonder if Hec ever read it, and if so what he thinks of it.

Buffistas, I have discovered your newest desire: Postertext.

Hang your favorite book on the wall with the book's text, arranged to depict a memorable scene from the book!

Buffistas, I have discovered your newest desire: Postertext.

Ooooh. I bet they only are making public domain books, tho'. Otherwise I'd request a poster for Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Discworld fans, I finally finished reading the Watch books.

IO9 posits a sci fi reading list for novices.

I'm much better at TV than I am at books, but I have read at least one book from each of their categories.

I've read a lot of those, but not all (not even all of one category). It's interesting to me that none of the books that I read in my Sci Fi Lit class in college are on it. Of course, that was over 20 years ago and was not meant as an intro to SF.

I don't think of myself as a sci fi reader at all, and I've read at least one book per category except for space travel. Weird. Dystopians, one of my favorite subgenres, are not what I think of when I think of sci fi!

Dystopians, one of my favorite subgenres, are not what I think of when I think of sci fi!

Well, all the dystopias they list but one I think are sci fi, because they involve advanced science in some way. Are alternate histories sci fi? I think that's up for debate. I'm pretty inclusive myself.

I do consider myself a sci fi reader. Space travel is my weakest category. I've read more than one book they list, but I don't remember them in any detail. I'm attached to at least one book in each of their others, pretty much.

I explicitly include dystopias (and utopias) and alternate histories in sci fi, but I accept that not everyone would.

Space Travel is definitely my weakes category. I've only read Downbelow Station, and I only read that fairly recently. I find Doc Smith unreadable. I could have sworn I'd read The Sparrow but that plot summary is not familiar to me at all. I've only read a little Banks, and it didn't make me want to read more of his stuff, and it wasn't the book on the list. I don't think. I don't remember that well.

My other weakness is, surprisingly, Aliens. i love a good alien story, but I've only read one of those the short story. I've known for ages that I need to read Octavia Butler and the other novel sounds good, too. Which is why I like these lists, they give me things to look for (or remind me that I meant to look for something).