Vintage Sci-Fi Round Up!
Posted on: January 9, 2020
We’re about a week into Vintage month, and it’s been so wonderful so far! There’s been wonderful discussions in comments sections, chit chat on twitter, cool stuff happening every where!
I catch the posts I can, so anything i missed, feel free to leave a link in the comments.
Howling Frog Books is having a blast using the Vintage SciFi Month bingo card, and has reviewed Spock Must Die by James Blish, Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison, and Exiled from Earth by Ben Bova. Three reviews in a week? Yikes, I gotta up my game!
Bookforager has a beautifully written review of Driftglass by Samuel R Delany. Srsly, if you have not read his work, you are missing out!
Eclectic Theist enjoys Past Master by R.A. Lafferty, with bonus recommendations in the comments section.
Kristen Brand has a blast talking about her favorite Vintage Scifi tropes. What are you favorite vintage scifi tropes? which ones annoy you?
Wiki Fiction offers a very indepth look at Stanislaw Lem’s fiction, and primarily the frustration with Solaris. I too was frustrated, but as luck would have it, I ended up being OK with how it ends.
Judith Tarr (yes, that Judith Tarr!) is over at Tor.com talking about reading Andre Norton’s Quag Keep. Fantasy fiction certainly wasn’t new in the last 70s, but Dungeons and Dragons was.
Sara Light-Waller has an excellent profile of Captain Future, at PulpFest. the mythos of Captain Future goes back to the first Worldcon, how cool is that?
Still looking for Vintage recommendations? Prepare to have your TBR explode. Not only does Joachim Boaz have a list of excellent Vintage Scifi recommendations, he’s got an entire website, Science Fiction and other Suspect Ruminations that is 99.99% Vintage Scifi Goodness!
I know I missed plenty of links. Help a girl out and put them in the comments? you can also tweet them to @VintageSciFi_
6 Responses to "Vintage Sci-Fi Round Up!"
2 | Sara Light-Waller (@saralightwaller)
January 9, 2020 at 9:52 pm
Thanks so much for including my article. Cheers!
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January 10, 2020 at 12:05 pm
I haven’t finished my first book yet (busy, busy, busy), but I’ll be finishing it this weekend and posting about it then.
January 10, 2020 at 8:32 pm
the only way I got a bunch of posts up already is cuz I read the stuff in December! I 100% get the busy-ness!
January 16, 2020 at 3:55 pm
Here’s a link to my post today: https://lydiaschoch.com/vintage-science-fiction-month-second-variety-by-philip-k-dick/
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January 9, 2020 at 1:23 pm
This is a great roundup. I’ll have a post of my own to add next week. I’m working on it now. 🙂
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