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post #101 of 107
3/12/09 at 3:40pm
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Originally Posted by blipper View Post
The Night Land is excellent but not an easy read due to the strange writing style he uses in it. Still, a crazy gem. Have you read Hodgson's 'House on the Borderland', JetManX? One of my favourite "way-out-there" tales.
Ja. My thoughts are in the "Is the Horror Novel Dead?" thread. I'd link but my computer is on demerol at the moment. Hodgson has some great images and atmosphere, but he needed a tough creative-writing teacher to help him structure the thing.

Also, A Wrinkle in Time was one of the few books (maybe the only book) I re-read several times as a kid. Each time I knew there were deep flaws, but the singular ideas and how it all comes together is definitely a child-imagination-shaping moment.


(Damn, I really need to change my name...)
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post #102 of 107
3/12/09 at 7:44pm
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Originally Posted by FutekiNa, Irate Pirate View Post
Not a novel, but I'd really recommend "The Hard SF Renaissance," edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, which is a pretty big collection of short Hard SF stories.
And if you like that, you'll like 'The Ascent of Wonder', which is an older collection from the same editors.
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post #103 of 107
3/14/09 at 10:04am
Thanks to this thread, I picked up Ilium by Dan Simmons. Fantastic, I've forgotten how much fun real sci-fi could be. I used to gobble up sci-fi anthologies when I was around 12, but I haven't read any in many years since.
Olympos is on its way in the mail.
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post #104 of 107
3/14/09 at 12:41pm
Permutation City by Greg Egan is currently molesting my brain. Sci-fi so hard I'm practically squinting at the pages and techno jargon thrown at me.
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post #105 of 107
3/14/09 at 4:20pm
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Originally Posted by Mr.Crowley View Post
Thanks to this thread, I picked up Ilium by Dan Simmons. Fantastic, I've forgotten how much fun real sci-fi could be. I used to gobble up sci-fi anthologies when I was around 12, but I haven't read any in many years since.
Olympos is on its way in the mail.
Olympos has a tonal shift from Illium, but I might like Olympos more then Illium. Illium is more Homer, and Olympos is more Love Craft.
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post #106 of 107
3/14/09 at 4:33pm
What is that novel by a big sci fi writer that is being turned into a movie by a decently big director that Devin(there was an article) says doesn't seem like it would work on film because it's too high brow? I think the cover had a ship of some kind and it was a purpleish cover.
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post #107 of 107
3/14/09 at 6:33pm
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Olympos is more Love Craft.
That makes me a very happy man. Not that I don't love all the greek mythology stuff, but I love all things "Lovecraftian".
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