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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."
I'm looking forward to reading that, Amy.
Does anyone here know if Jack Vance's short story "I'll Build Your Dream Castle," is reprinted anywhere? or if it's findable? I've tracked down some collections that republished it, but nothing nearby or in the local library.
"I'll Build Your Dream Castle,"
I bet Ginger has it!
The SF Main Public library used to have a short story index where you could track down what magazine it was originally published and which books it had been anthologized in.
Oh that sounds perfect, if distant.
Amy, I loved The Fault In Our Stars. Both Hazel and Augustus work for me because real teens, especially the bookish ones do sound like that. Not always perfectly witty, but yes, they do have that vocab. And Van Houten. That poor man.
thanks David!
So has anyone here read Jo Walton's Among Others? It got a lot of press when it first came out last year, and was nominated for a number of awards, although I don't know if it won any.
I would expect that, of Buffistas, it would resonate pretty strongly with Ginger and Hecubus--it certainly did for me, although my days of reading absolutely everything in SF/F are long past. But since Walton is almost exactly my age, the books Mori is reading are, many of them, the books I was reading at that age--Heinlein, Clarke, LeGuin, Henderson, Engdahl, McCaffrey, Clement, Cherryh...
Sox, it's in an ebook collection called "The World-Thinker and Other Stories." [link] However, it seems to only be available to UK, Ireland and Australian customers.
Consuela, I haven't read it yet, but those are the authors I was reading when I was reading absolutely everything in SF.
It's an interesting read, Ginger, and I suspect it resonates very strongly for those of us who grew up without the internet--among other things (heh), it's very much about the search for community.
I could say a few critical things about Mori's inability to function with the "mundane" world (although she never calls it that), but she's clearly broken in several ways, and really the impressive thing is that she's able to deal at all, given her circumstances.