On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:22 PM Jitendra Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thaths, you asked about Covid - one of my coping mechanisms has been > walking 10K steps every day while listening to Kate Baker read SF stories > over at ClarkesWorld magazine. Thanks, Jitendra. When the pandemic began I went through all the Jeeves and Wodehouse audiobooks I had collected over time (my favorite narrator is Johnathan Cecil) . Since then I have been averaging one audio book a month (that I borrow through my local public library). > I became familiar with a lot of excellent SF > being written in China and Korea through this podcast. Oh that reminds me, > "Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation" > compiled by Ken Liu is absolutely worth a read. I particularly enjoyed > Ken's introduction. > I listened to the Three Body Problem series as an audiobook several years ago and liked them. Speaking of non-Western Sci Fi, what is the state of Indian speculative fiction these days. I read a short story set in the Bengal Presidency some days ago, but cannot find the name of the author or the story. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
