Books
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Robert Silverberg has done some blinders down the years. Didn’t he have a retelling if the Gilgamesh legends?
I Had to look it up as I’ve been out of the sci-fi scene since the early 80s. He wrote something called Gilgamesh in the Outback,which he won an award for. Otherwise I know nothing about it. Happy to find out he’s 85 and living in San Francisco.
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Robert Silverberg is very good. His best known book is "Lord Valentine's Castle". It's reminiscent of Jack Vance's work, IMHO.
Another author who is mostly known of sci fi aficionados is Poul Anderson. He's got a good time-travel book (really a collection of short stories) called "Time Patrol". There's a whole series of books in that setting, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson_bibliography#Time_Patrol
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In the sci-fi sorta vein, I really think Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossed and The Left Hand of Darkness were both incredible. Stunning prose and really compelling thought experiments abound.
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I never managed to get into her work but I am fascinated by this (which I have never read):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas -
Robin Hobb is good, but she's written an awful lot of books in that series! I'm halfway through the third part of the third trilogy. (And there are two more trilogies set in the same world and time period.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is another good series. He's up to book three of seven, I think that four is pretty close.
I've actually read all the Hobb books, and it is a lot. I think my two favorite trilogies within it were the liveship one and the rainforest one; basically, the ones without Fitz, that whiny prick.
I liked The Lies of Locke Lamora, but the second and third books were definitely better.
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Just started reading William Gibson's latest Agency and there's a neat little reference to Self Edge in Chapter 5.
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Just started reading William Gibson's latest Agency and there's a neat little reference to Self Edge in Chapter 5.
I have it in the pile but I keep on moving it down as a new Gibson novel is such an event for me that I want to be in a position to savour it. Given the number of kids both small and tall I have around me that may not be until 2022.
That being said, after some lighter, somewhat derivative sci-fo reads over the summer, I’ve just kicked it up a notch with this:
Late to the party, but I’ve been excited about it for ages, and two chapters in I know it is going to be quite the experience.
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Found this book in the cellar of my my parents in law in a beatiful old handmade kitchen from 1960. I didn’t remember that I’ve already read this book and tacked a lot of pages in the late 90’. Asked about it in the family and several members recalled to know it ???.
Reread it and was fascinated.
There is music in there, I’ve definitely overheard in the past, because I didn’t understood Bach at this time (and nowadays)! Digging deeper …Love the Bass Line starting around 8:25 minutes.
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Dude! I have the English version @Aetas
And a couple other Hiroshige books
…and that same edition of the same Heinlein novel. And I love Bach.
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I was thinking about 634 and its inspiration by Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary dual-wielding samurai who wrote A Book of Five Rings after his retirement, where he became a cave-dwelling ascetic monk-like figure. There was a serial biography written about him in Japan by Eiji Yoshikawa. It goes through his life from young adulthood through his battles, culminating with his final battle with Sasaki Kojirō and his nodachi (Japanese version of a claymore). I read it long ago and have resolved that it’s time to read it again. Highly recommended for Japanophiles or people who just think medieval Japanese culture and samurai are cool.
