tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784614179764573691.post2931856848316316129..comments2023-10-03T08:16:38.347-07:00Comments on BLOGISFACTORY: 100 SF book listSome dude stuck in the Midwesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852056495927941030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784614179764573691.post-6555761120963000112010-08-20T23:27:08.396-07:002010-08-20T23:27:08.396-07:00I would like to exchange links with your site blog...I would like to exchange links with your site blogisfactory.blogspot.com<br />Is this possible?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784614179764573691.post-19785568209658246612010-08-10T12:31:16.707-07:002010-08-10T12:31:16.707-07:00[color=#5588aa]Nice blog! I haven't bumped on ...[color=#5588aa]Nice blog! I haven't bumped on blogisfactory.blogspot.com before in my surfing!I found very useful information about<br />[/color] [url=http://nuscin-online.info]anti-aging[/url] [color=#5588aa]here... Keep up the hard work![/color]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784614179764573691.post-59318221988661375782010-07-26T09:16:44.289-07:002010-07-26T09:16:44.289-07:00Thanks Eric. I've already loaded Electric Shee...Thanks Eric. I've already loaded Electric Sheep on my eReader.Some dude stuck in the Midwesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00852056495927941030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784614179764573691.post-48597680884047838952010-07-23T18:28:32.151-07:002010-07-23T18:28:32.151-07:00P.S.
Oh: personally, I think the original novella...P.S.<br /><br />Oh: personally, I think the original <i>novella</i> version of Daniel Keyes' "Flowers For Algernon" is much better than the expanded <i>novel</i> version, which feels padded and, as I recall, drags. (It's been twenty years since I read the novel, I have to add--I might feel differently about it now, frankly.) My personal recommendation would be that you look for that one in a collection of short stories (it's frequently anthologized) instead of picking up the novel (which can also be found under the alternate title <i>Charly</i>, taken from a movie adaptation of the work). That one's a pretty powerful and sad piece of work, too, in either form.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-784614179764573691.post-10506782571720341632010-07-23T18:23:53.708-07:002010-07-23T18:23:53.708-07:00I haven't read most of these, but yes: you sho...I haven't read most of these, but yes: you should read Vonnegut. Even if you decide you hate him, he's one of those crucial 20th-Century writers you should at least be passingly familiar with.<br /><br />Ditto squared for George Orwell: aside from the fact that <i>1984</i> is one of the most influential and referenced works of the 20th Century, the man was just a genius at the English language. Although his most famous works can be treated as SF and Fantasy (<i>1984</i> and <i>Animal Farm</i>, respectively), Orwell's a writer who should just be read for the sake of the English language.<br /><br />And I have to put in a plug for Philip K. Dick, who, for all his flaws, is one of my favorite fiction novelists of all time. I suggest starting with <i>Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep</i> and/or <i>UBIK</i> (not on the list). PKD was, aside from being a great SF writer, someone who anticipated late-20th/early-21st Century <i>literature</i>: ambiguous, metaphysical, concerned with reality vs. perceptions of reality, etc. PKD was a writer whose work fits comfortably with "serious" and "literary" writers like Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon, even if those guys are admittedly better stylists. (PKD's work was hampered by the quantity of it: constantly broke, he took massive quantities of speed and wrotewrotewrotewrotewrote to get submissions in to feed the family--and much of his work suffered, accordingly. Additionally, as a writer for a pulp--as opposed to literary--market, he also found himself hampered by a need to write things that might <i>sell</i> even at the cost of what might have worked <i>better</i>. Still, brilliant writer.) <i>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch</i> is a difficult go, frankly. <i>VALIS</i>, on the other hand, is one of my favorite novels of all time. As for <i>A Scanner Darkly</i>: written during PKD's "personal" phase and drawing on his own experiences as an addict and hanging out with addicts, it's a pretty harrowing antidrug novel and really, really, really damn good.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.com