hey,
if you want to dig deep into the soul of scifi and its substance you´ll
have to read late american 50ies / 60ies scifi and the things that came
afterwards... that is the relevant period. while in the 60ies american
television and cinema illustrated their subsconsious fear about russian
invasions by issueing the never-ending "alien invasion" topic the real
shit was only in the books.. the focus was on deep human psychology and
scifi-writers where way ahead of their times..
look for books by these geniouses..
more psy-fi
phillip k dick (u know him)
john brunner (get a copy of "players and the play of people" and "quicksand"
frank herbert ("the santaroga barrier")
more classical scifi
philipp josé farmer ("riverworld")
jack vance (the mighty romancier of scifi, he created hyper-realistic
scenarios of alien worlds and cultures, read the "alastor"-cyclus...)
from the later writers I like Ian Banks... (but thats 80ies)
but there is more excellent writers but I don´t dare to go down into my
underground vaults cause I might nog get back before midnight ;)
bob humid
Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 49 lines Never could get into Gibson (but then I've only read 1.6 Gibson books,
> Never could get into Gibson (but then I've only read 1.6 Gibson books,
> perhaps I should give him another shot someday)
>
> ...or "cyberpunk" in general. Always seemed too faddish, more style
> than substance - I mean, it always seemed too disconnected from
> possible reality, more tech-fantasy than sci-fi. But then sci-fi and
> fantasy are pretty much one and the same, really. Speaking of which,
> The closest I've come to enjoying cyberpunk was China Mieville's
> _Perdido Street Station_, which I know isn't really cyberpunk - if
> anything it's "steampunk", but I wanted to mention it because it's a
> beautiful book. Does anyone know if his "sequel" books "The Scar" and
> "Iron Council" are similar at all, or "as good"?
>
> I suppose "cyberpunk" is the IDM fiction style - comes to mind when
> thinking of early Warp (B12, early Autechre...)
>
> But don't real hackers only rave? :P
> -adam piontek
>
> n3wjack wrote:
>
>> or William Gibson,
>> TEH cyberpunk writer imo
>>
>> Philip K. Dick rulz btw, started reading some of his books after
>> seeing Blade Runner which was based on his "Do Androids Dream of
>> Electric Sheep" book
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:31:02 -0400, Adam Piontek <adam@damek.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Well Lem is good, of course. Never read any Philip K Dick, but I keep
>>> meaning to. Kim Stanley Robinson is also good, and he wrote his thesis
>>> on PKD. Don't read his Antarctica, though, it's not very good.
>>>
>>> Other than that I give high respect to Ken MacLeod and Alastair
>>> Reynolds
>>> - Scottish & Welsh/Dutch (respectively) authors of smart space opera...
>>> Something vaguely IDM about them. If you like Vernor Vinge...
>>>
>>> -adam piontek
>>
>
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