I think because we know it happened to real women(including Gilman herself) I don't like Asimov either, but I'm not really an SF person.
There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
erikaj - Dec 21, 2011 9:04:29 am PST #17121 of 28289
Always Anti-fascist!
Atropa - Dec 21, 2011 9:16:34 am PST #17122 of 28289
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(Hell, I might as well say, "All Bradbury short stories."
YES. Especially "Homecoming". t obvious bias is obvious
Connie Neil - Dec 21, 2011 9:22:08 am PST #17123 of 28289
brillig
Simak's Goblin Reservation is good. Damn, why are half of my books in the garage behind the decrepit Mustang II!
Ginger - Dec 21, 2011 9:22:14 am PST #17124 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
More...
- Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower
- Vernor Vinge, True Names (The Deepness books are really good, but True Names is the most influential)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (I love all of Connie Willis, but many people don't.)
- Jack Vance, The Dying Earth
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, The Game Players of Titan, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
- Frank Herbert, Dune, Dune Messiah
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (and most of the rest, but Neuromancer really marked a sea change in the genre)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (and the rest, but True Names, Neuromancer and Snow Crash were the cyberpunk books that shaped cyberspace)
Ginger - Dec 21, 2011 9:25:04 am PST #17125 of 28289
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I love Clifford Simak, who seems to have fallen along the wayside. Except for some clunky early and late books, I love them all, particularly Goblin Reservation and Way Station.
Connie Neil - Dec 21, 2011 9:27:18 am PST #17126 of 28289
brillig
I love recommendation posts, it gives me lists of things to track down--and old stuff is often available online!
Fred Pete - Dec 21, 2011 9:30:41 am PST #17127 of 28289
Ann, that's a ferret.
I read The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress in -- high school, I think. I remember being fascinated by the mechanics of how to create a society on the moon. The story itself was good but not spectacular. Very much a "literature of ideas" story, and the idea alone was just enough to sustain one novel. A different writer (I vote for Resnick) could probably have turned the idea into a series, but not Heinlein.
Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2011 9:49:33 am PST #17128 of 28289
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
So far every item on the list brings back happy memories. I do think Heinlein's ideal society has been given its fair shake in Somalia.
hippocampus - Dec 21, 2011 10:00:22 am PST #17129 of 28289
not your mom's socks.
I'm loving the lists and nodding a lot. Feeling too stupid to add much. I'll weigh in for Short stories: McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang," Mieville's Novella "the Tain." and the stories in Looking for Jake, Stephenson, Gibson, Cadigan (Synners in particular), second Vinge's True Names, Greg Egan's Disaspora series... more after I sleep some.
Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2011 10:40:50 am PST #17130 of 28289
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Don't know if qualifies as classic but Doris Egan's Gate of Ivory series. She is now a TV/ writer producer.