I tried to read the first Helliconia book about a decade ago, but couldn't get more than ten pages into it. I haven't read a novel in about four months, and am going through my boxes of books to start my wintertime scifi/fantasy reading. On the list are the Wheel of Time books, which I own but have never read, the latest Raymond Friest books on Midkemia (which are very good), and Terry Brooks' books about the Word and the times that led up to the post-apocalyptic world that would become the world of Shannara. Is Helliconia worth putting on the list?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 2:54:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Has anyone read the novel called "We" ? Mr Worf, a very, very, VERY long time ago. It was, in fact, the third SF novel I ever read, after Aldiss' "Helliconia Winter" and Moorcock's "The Sailor on the Seas of Fate". Didn't find it very interesting at the time, but that might've been because I made the mistake of reading it immediately after Moorcock. Like eating Mickey D's after feasting on Kobe beef. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:10:34 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Has anyone read the novel called "We" ? They say that is the grandfather to many of the bleaker scifi novels such as Brave New World and 1984. info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
