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Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Every now and then a book surprises me, especially when searching through the often dated fiction for Vintage SciFi Month. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight, first in a mighty line of 23 novels set in the Pern universe, is one of those. It’s a surprise because I’m not a big fan of fantasy, yet I keep finding […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Anne McCaffrey, dragons, Pern, power, psychic powers, relationships, revenge

The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

By John Folk-Williams

The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

On with Vintage Science Fiction Month! H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come (1933) purports to be the “dreamed” history of the next hundred and fifty years of human experience. Be warned: it’s serious future fictional history without a character or action-driven plot, though there are a few strong personalities who take the spotlight […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: dictatorship, economy, future history, H.G. Wells, hopeful future, individuality, information, nationalism, plague, religion, world collapse

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

By John Folk-Williams

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

Continuing on my list for Vintage Science Fiction Month, I read Theodore Sturgeon’s 1953 novel, More Than Human. This was my introduction to Sturgeon’s work, and I’m in awe of his accomplishment. From the beginning, it’s clear you’re in the hands of a master. Forget genre, this is just great fiction writing. Aside from a […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: conscience, gestalt, mind, morality, neurodiversity, people of color, psychic powers, psychotherapy, telepathy, Theodore Sturgeon

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula KM. Le Guin

I’m starting off my Vintage Science Fiction Month with Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (1971). It is one of the most thrilling books I’ve read but also one of the most philosophical and poetic. It achieves an amazing balance in the confrontation between two opposing characters: George Orr, whose “effective” dreams change […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: being, cataclysm, climate change, dreams, mind, The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin

My Vintage Science Fiction Month Reading List for 2021

By John Folk-Williams

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I’m an enthusiastic follower of the Little Red Reviewer’s Vintage Science Fiction Month Not-a-Challenge, and this year I’ve gotten my act together a lot earlier than last, when I squeaked in at the end of the month with a review of Destination Void. The only rule of Vintage Science Fiction Month is whatever you review […]

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Understanding the Alien in Eden by Stanisław Lem

By John Folk-Williams

Understanding the Alien in Eden by Stanislaw Lem

Is understanding the alien even possible for the human mind? That is the question posed by Stanisław Lem‘s Eden, a 1958 novel translated by Marc E. Heine for publication in English in 1989. And has anyone ever had a more exuberant imagination than this great Polish writer in presenting baffling alien civilizations for humans to […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction in Translation, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: alien life forms, alien minds, first contact, human, spaceships, Stanisław Lem

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Fails for me too. "By all the criteria by which I personally judge a book, it failed and yet the fact remains that it has never been out of print in the sixty years since it first hit the market." Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein https://bookforager.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/stranger-in-a-strange-land-by-robert-a-heinlein/ via @bkfrgr

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Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas https://www.quantamagazine.org/supercomputer-simulations-reveal-the-power-inside-a-supernova-20210121/ via @QuantaMagazine

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4 of 5 stars to The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=3759461130

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Much to think about in this overview of Le Guin's work: It’s not Jung’s, it’s mine https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/colin-burrow/it-s-not-jung-s-it-s-mine

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Reading "propulsive intrigue-thriller-disaster format, detailed and textured and specific enough that its progress can be mapped onto contemporary Honolulu" Russell Letson Reviews <b>Pacific Storm</b> by Linda Nagata https://locusmag.com/2021/01/russell-letson-reviews-pacific-storm-by-linda-nagata/ via @locusmag

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