ercles on 10/10/2006 at 22:37
It may suprise you to find out that you can have great pieces of writing that fall under the brand of science fiction. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner are good examples. Science fiction is also a fairly nebulous title, and as such it's fairly ridiculous to just come out and say that The Handmaid's Tale isn't scifi, when it could quite clearly be labeled as such.
OnionBob on 10/10/2006 at 23:21
It may suprise you to find out that you can have great pieces of writing that fall under the brand of science fiction.
OnionBob on 10/10/2006 at 23:22
oh and i have to say now it's looking somewhat like my participation in the book club is going to be suspended for a while owing to sudden massive loads of work piled on by my PhD and teaching etc. :(
Aerothorn on 12/10/2006 at 22:03
haha silly english majors and their silly papers
Paz on 18/10/2006 at 12:03
Last time some people said "oh woe I missed my chance to vote", so I was planning to bump this in order to perhaps lure a few more in before the poll closed.
However, since I've obviously missed that boat, it's now a bump to say we have a winner!
Stitch on 18/10/2006 at 15:04
<U>Motherless Brooklyn</U> it is! Should be a good month.
ignatios on 18/10/2006 at 15:49
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it quite a bit.
Also, despite my apparent absense in the Wasp Factory thread, I did read and enjoy it. I just didn't have anything to add to the conversation (apart from "lol me too").
tungsten on 18/10/2006 at 16:34
ehm what are we reading in October? I've kinda lost the thread, and the titles change and confuse simple minds like me.
Paz on 18/10/2006 at 16:39
Ender's Game.
My second-hand copy of which arrived today, handily. I've been using (
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/) (for it and The Wasp Factory, as my local library failed on both counts) - which is pretty good for finding a cheapo bargain. In the UK, at least. They seem to be at least semi-international as well.
Scroll down through the options if you do a search for stuff though, because although they put the "cheapest" first, they don't take postage into account. So something costing £2.50 with £2.50 p&p is listed above something costing £3.99 and offering free p&p (rather foolishly, but hey).
Aerothorn on 18/10/2006 at 17:23
That's pricey for ABE. I get my hard-to-find, hard cover, first edition of Ready, Okay for $1. ABE is sweet.
