> -----Original Message----- > From: Bryon Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Decline in SF? > > > This article by Spider Robinson laments the decline in SF, > replaced by > backwards-looking Fantasy: > > http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20 > 030908/COSPIDER08/ > or: > http://makeashorterlink.com/?L565156D5 > > Would you guys agree? Is this an indicator that "young > people no longer > find the real future exciting"? Or is it more just an > indicator of book > publishers overzealously adhering to the latest trends, while > potentially > great SF authors languish unpublished?
I would agree. I find it very hard to find good sci-fi that strikes me in the same way as say Pournelle, Asimov, Heinlein, Poul or Niven (and more recently Brin :-)). I have a co-worker who has read more Sci-fi than anyone I have ever known, but the bulk of what he reads is popularized pulp, usually serialized. In fact, he is the only person I know who has read the COMPLETE Battlefield Earth series (yuk!). He laments on how long Jordan's books are, he knows its pulp, but he reads it anyway.
Frankly I have a confession - I have not read any new sci-fi, other than Brin for about a year. I am looking for good recommendations. Would anyone on the list have any ideas for a good book to read :-) (Please limit your suggestion to one per person. - thank you)
Nerd From Hell
"Over 1,000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens and noble humans. I found Battlefield Earth un-put-downable."
� Neil Gaiman
My brother has all the books also, in hard back. Him and his wife has read them. I did three or four, but wow it got bad. (It started bad too....)
The *ulture people recommended Chasm City
http://thebestreviews.com/review3937
and Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
I liked Gaiman's American Gods. Not Sci-Fi.
Philip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy. Not hard sci-fi but good story.
Kevin T. - VRWC Whoops I recommended more than one.
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