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!
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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."
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:
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).