Sunday, April 07, 2002

§ Washington Post Book World April 7, 2002 This week's Book World is a special SF and fantasy issue with numerous articles and reviews, including: Michael Swanwick on "A half-dozen fantasy classics perfect for the big screen", by Moorcock, Mirrlees, Gaiman, Eddison, Pratchett, and Mieville Charles Sheffield on hard SF, including a quiz and a list Several brief reviews by Michael Dirda Nick Gevers on SF's Great Author: Gene Wolfe Gregory Feeley reviews the latest books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and John Clute Elizabeth Hand on the feminizations of SF culture Favorite SF/F works of various eminent writers, editors and critics, including Michael Chabon, James Hynes, Daniel Handler, Daniel Pinkwater, plus Disch, Crowley, Gaiman, Datlow, et al Paul Di Filippo on SF from small presses And finally, Michael Dirda's report from the recent International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. 11:29:28 PM

Tomas writes: Sam's musings on SciFi books made me think again about my all-time favorite SciFi books of all times. My personal favorites would be, after some hard choices, the entire Dune Saga (Frank Herbert) and Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity It's funny you should mention that. It so happens that recently I posted a list of my top 20 or so SF books of all time. I don't fancy Dune or Assimov at all but have a look. It may change a bit because I have been reading some seminal British "New Wave" SF of the 60's - Disch, Sladek, Christopher. Moorcock and they need to go in there somewhere. Most notably Disch's "Camp Concentration." 11:26:56 PM

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