'Safe'
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."
At Comic-Con last year, Ray Bradbury named Greg Bear as an up-and-coming sci-fi writer to watch,
I think Bear has established himself as more than up-and-coming, though I'm sure that's Bradbury's perspective since he mentored Bear.
But Bear's been publishing regularly since the early eighties.
Yeah, he said he'd won more awards than he had, and that we probably knew him. But I'd never heard of him.
I think Bradbury meant it as a joke...
In an odd bit of synchronicity, a friend of mine will be chatting live with Greg Bear over on Gather later this month.
I've read Bear's Blood Music. Creepy and weird. But very good.
I've read Bear's Blood Music. Creepy and weird. But very good.
Yeah, Blood Music is excellent. But it's not a book I'd reread.
Whereas, like Jessica, I'd gladly reread Queen of Angels because I really enjoyed being in that world.
Got any used bookstores nearby, MM?
Man we've got Arthurian legends going in the Harry Potter thread and cyber punks going in here. It's just too much for me! I'll be in my bunk.
Got any used bookstores nearby, MM?
Yeah. I'll have to put that one on my list.
Man we've got Arthurian legends going in the Harry Potter thread and cyber punks going in here.
I should combine the two and be a revolutionary.
Well there was this.
I'm the only person I know of with ovaries who doesn't love The Diamond Age.
There are bits of The Diamond Age that I adore (go on, guess which ones), but for the most part I prefer Gibson to Stephenson. I re-read Idoru the other week, and damn if it wasn't eerily spot-on about what certain aspects of media fandom have become.