Vintage Month #SoManyLinks
Posted on: January 5, 2021
All Y’All Vintage SciFi Month-ers have been BUSY! I am IN AWE! So many posts have gone up, the @VintageSciFi_ twitter feed has gone wild, and it is only the first week of January!
Here’s links to SO MANY wonderful Vintage Scifi Month posts! I’m doing my best to keep up with people who have commented here, linked back to Little Red Reviewer, tweeted to @VintageSciFiMonth_ on twitter or used the hashtag #VintageSciFiMonth. if I missed your link, I apologize, and feel free to leave your links in the comments either in this post or in the “Vintage SciFi Month” tab up at the top of the page.
We’ve got a lot of folks already talking about The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin. Grace LaPointe brought our attention to her acclaimed essay on the novel (spoilers!) that was presented in 2009.
Howling Frog enjoyed the detective/spy adventure (in spaaaaaace!) book Watchers of the Dark by Lloyd Biggle Jr.
Reißwolf reviewed Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg and New Rose Hotel by William Gibson (aw yeah cyberpunk!)
Lexlingua enjoyed the far future / mythology / secret technology 1968 Hugo winning novel Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
IzzyReads picked up Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick a book that opens in January 2021.
Jim at Classics of Science Fiction has a seemingly never ending list of suggested Vintage Sci Fi short stories for anyone who isn’t sure where to start their Vintage journey
Joe at Eclectic Theist is now finally able to read Anny McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books in order! He’s up to Dragonflight.
Michael is getting a kick out of his Ace Doubles. it’s a two-fer, literally!
Classic movie fan? Cinemashrew enjoyed the vintage scifi/horror flick Invisible Ray, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
Did you know that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of Elon Musk’s favorite books? Me neither! Hullabaloloo decided to give it a try and see what all the fuss was about
Need more classic scifi movies? Warren Watched a Movie has an indepth write up of The Day The Earth Stood Still directed by Robert Wise
apologies if I missed anyone, please throw your links in the comments so everyone can find your link.
18 Responses to "Vintage Month #SoManyLinks"
January 6, 2021 at 11:17 am
Thank you for these roundups! I really appreciate them.
Now I’m off to go comment on some posts. 🙂
January 7, 2021 at 6:47 am
Jesuits in Space: 1955 “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke:
https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/01/07/the-star-1955-religious-sf-short-story-by-arthur-c-clarke/
January 7, 2021 at 1:00 pm
[…] Vintage Science Fiction Month comes every year, right after Santa. The gist is simple: read speculative fiction written before 1980 (or the year you were born) and write about it in January. Vintage Science Fiction Month is the brainchild of Andrea at The Little Red Reviewer. […]
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January 8, 2021 at 8:19 am
George R.R. Martin can do SF: 1979 novelette “The Way of Cross and Dragon” won Hugo and Locus Awards:
https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/the-way-of-cross-and-dragon-1979-religious-sf-novelette-by-george-r-r-martin/
January 8, 2021 at 4:14 pm
Here’s my review of More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon: https://www.scifimind.com/more-than-human-by-theodore-sturgeon/
January 10, 2021 at 6:44 am
It’s me again. I’m not sure if this one counts, because it’s magical realism. But one never wants to miss an Ellison story for vintage month:
Jeffty is Five (1977) short story by Harlan Ellison – review: https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/jeffty-is-five-1977-magic-realism-short-story-by-harlan-ellison/
[…] It’s not too late to join Vintage Science Fiction Month and Off the Grid Readathon is January 15 – […]
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January 12, 2021 at 7:59 am
Cordwainer Smith’s 1955 SF short story “The Game of Rat and Dragon” : https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/the-game-of-rat-and-dragon-1955-space-opera-short-story-by-cordwainer-smith/
January 13, 2021 at 1:27 am
Here’s Margaret Cavendish writing an SF adventure in 1666: https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-blazing-world.html
January 13, 2021 at 7:14 pm
1971: the book is called Time Masters, and they aren’t. But it was pretty good. https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-time-masters.html
January 14, 2021 at 3:45 am
Here’s another one, just short of missing the set date:
William Gibson’s 1981 cyberpunk short story “Johnny Mnemonic” with the adorable Molly Millions: https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/johnny-mnemonic-1981-cyberpunk-short-story-by-william-gibson/
January 14, 2021 at 2:46 pm
[…] Vintage Science Fiction Month comes every year, right after Santa. The gist is simple: read speculative fiction written before 1980 (or the year you were born) and write about it in January. Vintage Science Fiction Month is the brainchild of Andrea at The Little Red Reviewer. […]
January 15, 2021 at 10:08 am
J. G. Ballard 1960 dystopian novelette “The Voices of Time”: https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/the-voices-of-time-1960-dystopian-novelette-by-j-g-ballard/
January 16, 2021 at 8:02 pm
What is January without a Star Trek story? Plus, Sulu has a hippie haircut! https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-entropy-effect.html
January 6, 2021 at 9:56 am
LGBTQ+ in 1966: “Day Million” by Frederik Pohl: https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/day-million-1966-post-humanity-short-story-by-frederik-pohl/
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