Sunday, 2 March 2014

Schrodinger's Cat ~ Le Guin
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of his Mouth ~ Zelazny

Saturday, 15 February 2014

It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow by Ursula Le Guin
I have no mouth and I must scream by Harlan Ellison
The land ironclads by H G Wells

Monday, 3 February 2014

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Beasts, Engine Summer ~ John Crowley
The Incredible Tide ~ Alexander Keys
Eden ~ Stanislaw Lem
Snow Goose ~ Paul Gallico
The Snail on the Slope ~ Strugatsky Brothers

Beggars in Spain ~ Nancy Kress
The Ship Who Sang ~ Anne McCaffrey
Goat Song ~ Poul Anderson
Great Work of Time ~ John Crowley
Surface Tension ~ James Blish
Dolphin's Way ~ Gordon Dickson
Balanced Ecology ~ James Schmitz
Driftglass ~ Samuel Delany
A Meeting With Medusa ~ Arthur C Clarke
Lot ~ Ward Moore
Air Raid ~ John Varley

Monday, 30 December 2013

The Hole Man
The Queen of Air and Darkness
A Meeting With Medusa
The Green Hills of Earth
Surface Tension

Martin is a good writer, but you can tell when writing is driven by pure emotion, and when it has something more going for it than just emotion. Take Blish's Surface Tension. The sublimation of science, or a scientific technique into emotion and character is difficult, but that's why the masters are the masters.

Friday, 20 December 2013

Krazy Kat
Pogo
World's Fair
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Course of the Heart
China Mountain Zhang
Air
The Separation
The Sparrow
The Female Man
Wild Life (Molly Gloss)
Gargantia on Verdurous Planet
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
Encyclopedia of Animals
The Mirror and the Lamp
Anatomy of Criticism
The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
Archeologies of the Future
Paradise Lost
The Odyssey
The Road to Reality
Doctor Who

Yeah, I'm set.