What did you get out of Vintage Month?

Posted by: Redhead on: January 31, 2020

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Every January, I get to read some cool stuff that isn’t usually on my radar. This year was no different. (ok, well, some of it was on my radar,  but my reaction to what I was reading was nice and surprising!)

 

But?  Something happened this January during my Vintage reads that has never happened before.  I mean, it has, but not due to reading vintage science fiction.

 

what happened, you ask?

 

Reading Vintage Science Fiction this year, more than any other year I’ve done this, made me want to go out and get a ton of biographies.  I want to get a biography of Begum Rokheya, Oscar Wilde, and Orson Welles, and I want to know all about Mary Shelley’s world, and what life was like when she grew up.   I want to know more cool stuff about these hella cool people!

 

I’m not a biography reader,  so saying that I want to read biographies is a big stinkin’ deal!

 

Your turn:

What did you get out of Vintage Science Fiction Month this year?

 

While you’re chewing on that,  here’s the latest batch of Vintage links!

 

Heather at Froodian Slip enjoyed Isaac Asimov’s famous Foundation, and she’s interested to see what happens next in the series. She also enjoyed Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, a collection of stories that revolve around a man who is so freakish that the freak shows don’t even want him.

 

WikiFiction celebrates Jack Vance’s novel Emphyrio, which turns 50 years old this year. John didn’t much care for Emphyrio, but he is a huge fan of Asimov’s The End of Eternity.

 

Howling Frog continues to amaze, with reviews of Star Trek 10 by James Blish (I LOVE these Star Trek episode novelizations!),  The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ordeal in Otherwhere by Andre Norton,  and Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper.

 

Bookforager had a good time with Trader to the Stars by Poul Anderson, and now I am also imagining Rijn as talking with  Brian Blessed’s voice!

 

If audio is more your thing, SFFAudio has an excellent podcast, courtesy LibriVox, of Philip Jose Farmer’s The Green Odyssey. They also have audio of Ray Bradbury’s I, Mars. Their website has a TON of Vintage discussions!

 

Video more your thing? Head over to Lydia Schoch’s site for a review of the short 1930 scifi film It’s a Bird . Lydia also had a good time reminiscing about The Trouble with Tribbles.

 

Neal at Gutenberg’s Son has some excellent suggestions, if you’re looking for a new Vintage book to read.

 

It’s official, Sara Light-Waller has THE BEST garage door!

 

Kristin Brand recommends Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, with a few disclaimers.

 

Mervi’s reviews reviews Jack Vance’s final Planet of Adventure volume, The Pnume.  The aliens are fun and curious, even if some of the scenes were eye-rolling.

 

Planetary Defense Command gave E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman books a try, with Galactic Patrol. He enjoyed the wackyness, but wasn’t real keen on the telepathy stuff.

 

SciFi Mind read Frank Herbert’s Destination Void, which asks the questions of how (or why) do you keep a mission alive,  when the mission may have been designed to fail?  Thanks to John’s review, this book has now become a MUST READ for me!

 

I get most of these links through our twitter feed and by people leaving their links in the “Vintage Scifi Not-A-Challenge tab up top.  Apologies if I missed yours!  Please leave your link in the comments, and I’ll do my best to get this post updated with your links.

 

Thank you everyone, for an amazing Vintage month!!

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