Nov 18, 2022
Robert Silverberg - Moonferns & Starsongs - Ballantine - 1971 (illustration by Gene Szafran)
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Robert Silverberg - Moonferns & Starsongs - Ballantine - 1971 (illustration by Gene Szafran)
GATEWAY - Frederik Pohl (1977)
GATEWAY – Frederik Pohl (1977)
Gateway is a famous book. It’s one of the very few books that won 4 major prizes: the Hugo, Locus, Nebula and Campbell award, and it’s on numerous essential SF lists.
While it’s a perfectly self-contained book, Pohl wrote 5 sequels: Beyond The Blue Event Horizon (1980), Heechee Rendezvous (1984), The Annals Of The Heechee (1987), The Gateway Trip (1990) and The Boy Who Would Live Forever(2004).…
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Joe Haldeman - Mindbridge - Avon - 1978
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON - Daniel Keyes (1966)
I keep a small list of canonical speculative fiction I have yet to read: Brave New World, Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book, The War of the Worlds, Ender’s Game, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Clockwork Orange, George Stewart Earth Abides and Pohl & Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants. They are canonical in the sense that they are often found near the top of all kinds of lists. The main reason why…
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TEHANU - Ursula Le Guin (1990)
TEHANU – Ursula Le Guin (1990)
Some 17 years after Le Guin completed the original Earthsea trilogy, she returns to the isle of Gont. This time she focuses on Tenar from The Tombs of Atuan, but also Sparrowhawk remains an important character, and Arren from The Farthest Shore plays a part as well.
It’s commonly known Le Guin wrote this book partly to rectify the gender imbalance in the initial trilogy, and in the fantasy genre…
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THE GODS THEMSELVES - Isaac Asimov (1972)
THE GODS THEMSELVES – Isaac Asimov (1972)
From 1958 tot 1972 Asimov did not write science fiction, so The Gods Themselves was a sort of comeback, and it went on to win the Hugo, Locus & Nebula. It’s heralded as “His single finest creation” by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. In 1982 Asimov himself expressed this to be his favorite science fiction novel. High praise all around.
A story in three very different parts, it is set in 2100,…
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