The Vintage Science Fiction Must Flow
Posted November 9, 2017
on:I had to scrape ice off the car windshield yesterday morning. All the Halloween candy has been eaten. It’s dark when I leave for work in the morning, and dark when I get home. I only have two more episodes to go in Stranger Things 2. I’m tryna figure out what to make for Thanksgiving.
What’s all that mean? It means Vintage Science Fiction Month is almost here!
Once upon a time, I wanted to read more old stuff. I wanted to know more about where science fiction had come from, how science fiction authors reacted to what had come before them, and how science fiction reflected societal trends. Our fiction can be a reflection of our society, don’cha know. That year, I decided I would read only Vintage Scifi during the month of January, and I arbitrarily decided anything from before 1979 would be Vintage, because that was the year I was born. Some people went with the 1979, some people went with whatever year they were born, some people went with something else. As with every bloggy thing I do, there were no hard rules. The goal was to read something “older” and then talk about it online.
#VintageSciFiMonth is now a thing. It’s so big, I have a co-host, Jacob at Red Star Reviews. He runs the @VintageSciFi_ (underscore at the end) twitter feed.
If none of this makes any sense to you, here’s a good post that explains it. Here’s a ginormous list of a zillion Vintage reviews that were done in conjunction with #VintageSciFiMonth.
Thanks to Vintage Science Fiction month, I discovered Cordwainer Smith, Andre Norton, Edmund Hamilton, Samuel Delany, Joan Vinge, Kate Wilhelm, tons of fun Star Trek short stories, Hal Clement, the cheesy goodness that is Space 1999, and so much more. I’m reading it all out of order, and completely out of context, and having a blast.
What can you look forward to this January? Rumor has it there will be a Dune read along, possibly a live tweeting of the 1984 Dune movie, Cover art posts, how and where to find Vintage scifi, and I’m sure there will be Blind Dates with a Vintage Book. You know, all the good stuff you’ve come to expect!
Are you interested in writing a guest post for Vintage Month? guest posts can be anything from a review of a Vintage book you read, to the old scifi short story magazines, to talking about an older scifi movie or TV show you like, to just about anything Vintage Scifi-ish.
Are you interested in hosting a guest post for Vintage month?
Sound off in the comments below, and I will do my best to connect people who want to write a guest post to people who want to host one.
22 Responses to "The Vintage Science Fiction Must Flow"
[…] Andrea over at the Little Red Reviewer apparently started it and has a new post explaining more here. Basically you select some vintage SF to read, blog about, watch, whatever. There isn’t a […]
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Hallo, Hallo Andrea! 🙂
I’m finally going to be able to participate in #VintageSciFiMonth! 🙂 I’ve wanted to join you for at least four years now — I spied the #ReadDune and felt it was kismet since we just talked about this during #RRSciFiMonth! Also, do you know if the #SciFiExperience is being hosted this year? Reason being – I finally have a solid line-up of books I’m reading over Dec/Jan but if the event is on hiatus, I’ll just use my own tag #FuellYourSciFi instead.
Either way, I wanted to say I’m wicked happy I can start participating – I love reading your event posts each year and now I can finally start reading books pub’d 39+ years ago!! It will be nice to start digging into the origins of SciFi!
There is a post I’m thinking of composing for my blog – about trying to sort out the grandfathers + grandmothers of the genre whilst trying to aim for a co-balance of old/new voices of the genre — however, if someone wanted to pitch a topic to me which correlates with Hard Sci Fi origins or something related to Classic #SpaceOpera, I’d entertain hosting them! This is sort of the direction I’m interested in at the moment – other topics I’ll consider too – send them over to me – either DM on Twitter or I have a Contact Page on my blog.
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[…] that encourages us all to read and discuss older science fiction. More information can be found here if you want to hook up and also for Twitter followers check out this and this . Plus, Red Star […]
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[…] you’d like some more details about Vintage Science Fiction Month check out this post from Andrea at the Little Red Reviewer for background and on Twitter @VintageSciFi_ (with the […]
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November 9, 2017 at 1:30 pm
Reblogged this on Every Day Should Be Tuesday and commented:
Join us for Vintage Science Fiction Month in January! I did it last year, and it was a lot of fun. I think I will participate in the re-read and watch of Dune this year, and maybe I will read and review a Heinlein and some Northwest Smith.
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