On 15 Jun 2004, at 1:41 am, Julia Thompson wrote:
Gary Denton wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:24:06 -0500, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gary Denton wrote:
Hugo nominees:
1972: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jos� Farmer The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
Considering the choices I would have voted it.
I would have voted for The Lathe of Heaven.
Or maybe not. I was only 3 years old at the time.... ;)
Julia
I really like many of her other books, The Lathe of Heaven doesn't do anything for me. Might be tempted by Dragonquest, that was when the series was still good and the series never got as bad as many.
Gary Denton - I am much younger than my age maru
I've read the Farmer, the Le Guin and the McCaffrey.
I first read _Dragonquest_ when I was about 13. (Probably within 3 months of my 13th birthday one way or the other.)
I first read _Lathe of Heaven_ when I was about 15. (After I'd read &
purchased every McCaffrey paperback I could find at Paperback Booksmith,
I started into Le Guin.)
I read _To Your Scattered Bodies Go_ when I was 23. And after I'd read a much more assorted bunch of SF than I had when I was 15.
Plus I married a guy who's read only 1 Le Guin novel, and that one is it, and he likes it so much that he doesn't want to read any more Le Guin for fear of disappointment. I keep telling him he really ought to read _The Dispossessed_. (You may disagree, but you don't know him as well as I do.)
I read them all, but rather a long time ago mostly. The Silverberg is probably the best written, and therefore the one that has aged best.
_Lathe of Heaven_ reads like an homage to P K Dick and is atypical of Le Guin's work. A minor but interesting piece by a major writer.
The 'Dragon' series is kind of sub-Darkover with space ponies :) The first one did quite a nice job of world-building though.
Zelazny seems to be ignored and under-rated lately, but _Jack of Shadows_ is one of his better works.
_To Your Scattered Bodies Go_ has the kind of big gosh-wow sensawonder premise that regularly won the Hugo for years. Think Ringworld, Gateway, Rendezvous with Rama... Not just the entire premise, but everything I can remember about the entire story, can be summed up on a dust-jacket blurb. "Everyone who ever lived is reincarnated on the banks of a world-encircling river." "Explorers encounter huge mysterious alien artifact." "Explorers discover abandoned alien transport system." "Explorers encounter huge mysterious alien artifact."
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