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.
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?)
My first vintage review, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells: http://beyondthebrush.blogspot.com/2012/01/time-machine.html
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My latest for Vintage Month, the collection Orbit 7:
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/orbit-7-edited-by-damon-knight
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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
Just posted a review of Enterprise: Stardust by K. H. Scheer(http://sciencefictiontimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/enterprise-stardust-by-k-h-scheer.html)
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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.
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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
My first discussion post for Foundation and Empire is up now:
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/foundation-and-empire-group-read-part-1
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
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