Vintage SciFi Not-a-Challenge
Welcome to the Vintage Science Fiction not-a-challenge! Through out the month of January, 2012, I will be reading and discussing as much “older than I am” science fiction and fantasy that I can, and everyone is invited to join me! We’ll be talking about time travel, laser guns, early robotics, first contact, swords and sorcery, predictions for humanity and the authors who came up with it all. Haphazardly, the defining year for “vintage” is 1979. Read all about it here, here, and here. The only “rule” for this not-a-challenge is that your blog post must be during the month of January.
You too, can be on red alert for the Interstellar Patrol by using the badge above in your posts, or blog side bar, or wherever you’d like.
Reviewing or discussing a vintage SF/F book during the month of January? Leave the title, author and a link to your blog post in the comments below. on Twitter? use #VintageSciFi .
If you get to the end of January and you still need more, head on over to Stainless Steel Droppings to join the 2012 Science Fiction Experience.
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January 2, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Now that the holidays are over, I’m posting a bunch of early Hugo Award winners. I read this a couple months back, but that’s usually how long it takes me to post my reviews…
The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, 1953 http://bluefairysbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/demolished-man.html
Highlights: Early versions of psychic cops and use of telepathic powers. (Where did you think the name of the Babylon 5 character came from?)
January 3, 2012 at 1:22 am
I’ve posted a few initial thoughts on The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham.
http://pekinghomunculus.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/the-day-of-the-triffids-an-introduction/
January 27, 2012 at 11:03 am
It took me way to long to read this short novel, but it is finally finished. The full review is here: http://pekinghomunculus.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/the-day-of-the-triffids/
January 3, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Here’s our Ye Olde Book Club selections for January, 1918-1939 Sci-Fi:
http://darkcargo.com/2012/01/01/ye-olde-booke-club-january/
January 3, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Hm. 1979. The year I was born. Not sure if that makes me vintage or not.
Here’s my first review, ‘Beyond this Horizon’, by Robert A Heinlein.
http://snakeoilreview.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/robert-a-heinlein-beyond-this-horizon/
January 5, 2012 at 1:16 pm
My first vintage review, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells: http://beyondthebrush.blogspot.com/2012/01/time-machine.html
January 7, 2012 at 7:41 am
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January 8, 2012 at 7:34 am
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January 8, 2012 at 8:04 am
Well, this isn’t from 79 I’m afraid. Hope still okay. My thoughts on A Journey to the Centre of the Earth:
http://lynnsbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/a-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth-by-jules-verne/
Not chosen my next one yet!
Lynn 
January 10, 2012 at 4:19 am
My latest for Vintage Month, the collection Orbit 7:
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/orbit-7-edited-by-damon-knight
January 10, 2012 at 7:04 am
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January 10, 2012 at 9:38 am
Here’s my latest:
http://bookswithoutanypictures.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/nightwings-by-robert-silverberg/
Review of “Nightwings,” by Robert Silverberg
January 10, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Another week, another Hugo Winner. This book is often held to be the “Worst book to win the Hugo”:
They’d Rather Be Right, by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, 1954
http://bluefairysbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/theyd-rather-be-right.html
January 12, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Just posted a review of Enterprise: Stardust by K. H. Scheer(http://sciencefictiontimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/enterprise-stardust-by-k-h-scheer.html)
January 13, 2012 at 11:14 am
My latest, and it does seem to be popular this month as well, ‘The Time Machine’, by H.G. Wells:
http://snakeoilreview.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/h-g-wells-the-time-machine/
January 14, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Hello
Just wanted to add my latest, Positronic Man – which I loved!
Lynn
http://lynnsbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-positronic-man-by-isaac-asimov/
January 15, 2012 at 1:42 pm
[...] For January’s YOBC, I selected several science fiction pieces from between World War I and World War II to participate with LittleRedReviewer’s Vintage Sci-Fi month. [...]
January 15, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Have you listened to Orson Welles’ radio dramatization of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds? Fascinating!
http://darkcargo.com/2012/01/15/welles-wells-war-of-the-worlds-radio-drama/
January 15, 2012 at 3:11 pm
[...] was for last September’s YOBC but I didn’t get to it until this January, and since LittleRed is doing her Vintage Sci-Fi month I thought the mention now would be [...]
January 15, 2012 at 7:54 pm
[...] was looking for stuff from our Vintage Sci-Fi period of between the world wars, and found some interesting things, and interesting omissions. [...]
January 16, 2012 at 1:29 am
Part 2 of my discussion of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation is now up, another one down for the Vintage SF Month. 
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/foundation-group-read-the-conclusion
January 16, 2012 at 10:55 pm
My post for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is up: http://storiesgeek.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/fahrenheit-451/
January 17, 2012 at 1:05 am
Just put up my review of Robert Silverberg’s Pulp SF novella collection, Hunt the Space-Witch! Deliciously entertaining.
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/hunt-the-space-witch-robert-silverberg
January 18, 2012 at 8:29 am
Just posted my review of H.G. Wells’ collected short stories. This kept me busy for a while!
http://snakeoilreview.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/h-g-wells-the-complete-short-stories/
January 19, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Here is my first review for the challenge this month, my thoughts on Watership Down: http://alsgeekbanter.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-review-watership-down.html
January 19, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Oops, forgot to post my Hugo Winner from earlier this week!
Double Star, by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956
An actor is press-ganged into interstellar politics; I really liked this one!
http://bluefairysbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/double-star.html
January 20, 2012 at 3:04 pm
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January 21, 2012 at 11:02 am
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January 21, 2012 at 11:48 am
Another one, this time it’s Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘Against the Fall of Night’.
http://snakeoilreview.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/arthur-c-clarke-against-the-fall-of-night/
January 22, 2012 at 11:48 am
Two in a row! Philip K. Dick’s ‘Vulcan’s Hammer’
http://snakeoilreview.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/philip-k-dick-vulcans-hammer/
January 22, 2012 at 5:23 pm
I reviewed “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells:
http://bookswithoutanypictures.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/the-war-of-the-worlds-by-h-g-wells/
January 23, 2012 at 9:44 am
Woo! I’m on a roll!
4th book to win the Hugo Award: ‘The Big Time’ by Fritz Leiber
Short, but had fantastic prose. It’s a small, personal story about mistrust and human nature, except the characters are all part of a Time War, and are drawn from across human history. Plus there’s aliens.
http://bluefairysbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/big-time.html
January 23, 2012 at 3:28 pm
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January 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Something that has been missing from science fiction is the old pulp round robin story. My comments can be found (http://sciencefictiontimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/story-with-18-writers.html.
January 26, 2012 at 9:30 am
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[...] reading The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, and yay, just in time to get one more in for the Vintage Science Fiction month (January) as well as The 2012 Science Fiction Experience (through February). And also one [...]
January 27, 2012 at 1:08 pm
One last one, The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin: http://storiesgeek.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/the-dispossessed/ Thanks for a great month!
January 27, 2012 at 6:02 pm
My second review for the challenge, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams:
http://alsgeekbanter.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-review-hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy.html
January 29, 2012 at 10:00 am
My first discussion post for Foundation and Empire is up now:
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/foundation-and-empire-group-read-part-1
January 31, 2012 at 8:15 am
One more Hugo winner to close out the month:
A Case of Conscience, by James Blish, from 1958
http://bluefairysbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/case-of-conscience.html
March 18, 2012 at 11:36 am
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