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Some, I'm surprised I've never read. Zelazny is (IMHO) one of the most literary authors to grace SF, but I missed one, I guess.
Heinlein, though not quite as literate, is one of my favorites, and I missed his classic in the year I was born (and get raised eyebrows from fellow SF fans for missing that particular novel). The irony does not escape me that I missed Moon, yet actually did read the simplistic, and fairly cliché Double Star, which plot has been done from Shakespeare to Disney.
2003's Hominids was an interesting SF story, but I got far too bogged down in the political implications of it (i.e. Homo neanderthal society would have been naturist and pacifist, while those short-sighted, small brained Homo sapiens are so warlike and exploitative.... Danger, long rant about this....) Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon was a far, far better book from 2003, very similar to Neuromancer's anti-utopian, yet caustically poetic vision. Given that Gibson has deteriorated as a writer while Morgan has improved, makes me even more annoyed.
Hugo winners, from 1953 to 2005. Bold the one's you've read (ganked from
katestine):( Read more... )
And the discussion:
Some, I'm surprised I've never read. Zelazny is (IMHO) one of the most literary authors to grace SF, but I missed one, I guess.
Heinlein, though not quite as literate, is one of my favorites, and I missed his classic in the year I was born (and get raised eyebrows from fellow SF fans for missing that particular novel). The irony does not escape me that I missed Moon, yet actually did read the simplistic, and fairly cliché Double Star, which plot has been done from Shakespeare to Disney.
2003's Hominids was an interesting SF story, but I got far too bogged down in the political implications of it (i.e. Homo neanderthal society would have been naturist and pacifist, while those short-sighted, small brained Homo sapiens are so warlike and exploitative.... Danger, long rant about this....) Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon was a far, far better book from 2003, very similar to Neuromancer's anti-utopian, yet caustically poetic vision. Given that Gibson has deteriorated as a writer while Morgan has improved, makes me even more annoyed.
