These lists read like a "Who's who" of science fiction.
With so many great writers, past and present, it seems odd that sci-fi has such a low opinion rating from the masses. Yet at the same time Hollywood is pumping out movies of a sci-fi genre left and right.
Perhaps the techno wave running through society makes sci-fi seem like a normal trend. Such as cell phone designed to look like Star trek communicators so that now sci-fi is mundane reality.
DARPA has a "Terminator" prototype robot which will soon be either as battle suit like in "Avatar" or a Terminator battle robot.
NASA has ion drive motors for really long distance travel.
Space X has a rocket that hovers just like the 1950's movies.
Meanwhile the Dystopian society predicted in so many sci-fi novels seems to be unfolding before our very eyes.
With all this, where is my flying car?
Anyway here goes.
deaders list
- Philip K. Dick;
- Isaac Asimov;
- Robert Anton Wilson;
- Andre Norton
- Heinlein;
- A.E. Van Vogt;
- Alfred Bester;
- Cyril M. Kornbluth;
- Fritz Leiber;
- JRR tolken;
- CS Lewis
In days gone by I used to buy "The Years Best Science Fiction" edited by Gardner Dozois every single year without fail.
However in the last couple of years I nave been remiss in keeping up with my old habits which I do find that I miss.
A nice quiet afternoon spent reading doesn't ever seem to be wasted time.
I ponder how I had the time to do so when I was younger but now cannot find the time to do so when the days still have 24 hours each.
Some political type reading that I have enjoyed in the past.
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4. Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand
5. Neuromancer and also Snow Crash by William Gibson
6. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
7. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne