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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 107989" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Aha, real sci fi (nowt wrong wi’ Star Treck, it heap big fun, but pretty much “cowboys ‘n injuns in space”).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yeah, Way Station great. Sit comfortably in your house, and have the universe pass through it (metaphor for television?). Also other Simak, esp Ring around The Sun, and All Flesh Is Grass (where flowers talk on telephones, oops I’ve given the plot away!).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Phil Dick (of course), but esp Tim Archer, his last and best.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Some Heinlein, esp Number Of The Beast (fine romp!), “future history” short stories, and Magic Inc, but can’t stand his right wing politics.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Norstrilia (bloated sheep!), but don’t like other Cordwainer.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Venus Equilateral, from George Smith, who invented telecom satellites (not Arthur Clarke!).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Most Silverberg sci fi (not later fantasy stuff, when he’d “given up”). Vornan 19, earlier and much better than KPAX. But best of all, Up The Line, hilarious, must be best ever time travel novel.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Scheckley’s Immortality Inc, satire on 1950s corporate </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">USA</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">, and the most chilling thing I’ve ever read. (also Journey of Jones, comedy sf, much better and earlier than over-hyped Doug Adams!).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Limbo 90 (who else has read that?).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">1960s Brit Sci Fi. Especially John Lymington, not brilliant, but very atmospheric, sort of updated MR James. Chris Hodder William (98.4, Fistful Of Digits). Chris Priest, espec Dream of Wessex (and short story Boulter’s Canaries). John Wyndham’s “cosy catastrophes” (“world just ended, love? Never mind, put kettle on, let’s have a cuppa”).</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 107989, member: 192438"] [color=black][font=Arial]Aha, real sci fi (nowt wrong wi’ Star Treck, it heap big fun, but pretty much “cowboys ‘n injuns in space”).[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Yeah, Way Station great. Sit comfortably in your house, and have the universe pass through it (metaphor for television?). Also other Simak, esp Ring around The Sun, and All Flesh Is Grass (where flowers talk on telephones, oops I’ve given the plot away!).[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Phil Dick (of course), but esp Tim Archer, his last and best.[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Some Heinlein, esp Number Of The Beast (fine romp!), “future history” short stories, and Magic Inc, but can’t stand his right wing politics.[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Norstrilia (bloated sheep!), but don’t like other Cordwainer.[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Venus Equilateral, from George Smith, who invented telecom satellites (not Arthur Clarke!).[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Most Silverberg sci fi (not later fantasy stuff, when he’d “given up”). Vornan 19, earlier and much better than KPAX. But best of all, Up The Line, hilarious, must be best ever time travel novel.[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Scheckley’s Immortality Inc, satire on 1950s corporate [/font][/color][color=black][font=Arial]USA[/font][/color][color=black][font=Arial], and the most chilling thing I’ve ever read. (also Journey of Jones, comedy sf, much better and earlier than over-hyped Doug Adams!).[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Limbo 90 (who else has read that?).[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]1960s Brit Sci Fi. Especially John Lymington, not brilliant, but very atmospheric, sort of updated MR James. Chris Hodder William (98.4, Fistful Of Digits). Chris Priest, espec Dream of Wessex (and short story Boulter’s Canaries). John Wyndham’s “cosy catastrophes” (“world just ended, love? Never mind, put kettle on, let’s have a cuppa”).[/font][/color] [/QUOTE]
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