Countdown to the Time Warp
Posted December 5, 2011
on:Ok, so I mixed my metaphors just a little bit. ..
Planning to join me for Vintage SF Month this January? (wait, what? click for introduction and faqs and plenty of recommendations)
Here’s a spiffy badge-y thing for you to use. Put it in your sidebar, in your reviews, whatever you’d like. And if you don’t need no stinkin’ badges, that’s OK too.
Closer to January I’ll also set up a tab up at the top where everyone can post their review links in the comments so we can all see what everyone else is up to. It’s gonna be just swell!
In no particular order, here’s what I’ve come up with so far that I’m planning to read in January:
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
The Stars are Ours by Andre Norton
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Space Lords by Cordwainer Smith
City by Clifford Simak
The Heaven Makers by Frank Herbert
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Regan’s Planet by Robert Silverberg
Something by A.E. Van Vogt
Something by Jack Vance
something by Robert E Howard
And if I get through that list, it’s not like I don’t have stacks and stacks of other Vintage goodies to read.
Remember, this is a not-a-challenge. no sign ups, no e-mails, no reminders, no contests or points or winners. Just old fashioned pulpy fun.
oh, and btw, I’m working on my “best of 2011” list, really, I am. 😉
33 Responses to "Countdown to the Time Warp"
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Well, all my planned posts on the early Hugo winners have been pushed off until January for the holidays anyhow, so I guess I’ll be in-theme by default!
Also, if you can get your hands on some CL Moore to help out your gender balance, I recommend her work. 🙂
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I can’t wait to see what everyone is reading. I plan on joining the group read of “Foundation”. After that I am thinking of reading Jack Vance’s 5 book “Demon Princes” saga.
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This is a great idea! And the perfect excuse to read the vintage sci-fi I have been meaning to. Though I’m thinking four, maybe five books will go on my list. Hats off to you for putting down 14!
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How fun and I like your banner! I’d like to join as I have at least three books selected for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience that qualify as vintage. Don’t know how many I will read in January but certainly at least one.
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I love vintage sci fi so count me in. I’m going to read Foundation as a part of Carl’s challenge. I also hope to read some Heinlein ( The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Rocket Ship Galileo or Starman Jones ), some Jack Vance ( Tales of a Dying Earth ) and some James White ( the first book in his hospital station series ).
I also love your non-challenge banner.
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1 | Carl V.
December 5, 2011 at 8:41 am
Love the banner. I’m not sure, but I think I may actually have that book in my collection. 🙂
We and Space Lords are great. I hope you enjoy them. If I could recommend any Vance, I would go with The Dying Earth. I know there is a larger collection under that name but the first book in that universe is a series of 5 or 6 short stories and they are very good indeed. A mixture of fantasy and science fiction.
I look forward to reading some great vintage stuff during your non-challenge as well as the ever-growing pile of contemporary stuff for my own non-challenge.
I’m really looking forward to the group/book club read of Foundation.
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Redhead
December 6, 2011 at 7:36 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if you DO have the book from the banner! 😀
If you’ve got chapter chunks or dates set up for Foundation, can you e-mail that to me?
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Carl V.
December 6, 2011 at 7:44 pm
I haven’t yet, but I’ll map it out soon and post about it and send you the link.
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