Well. These two pieces are drawn with the deliberate intent of amusing certain people, so they're twisted into my perception of what they like.
I used to enjoy "hard" SF, but I quit caring so much about the tech theory. Or quit pretending to care. These days I kinda tend towards stuff that has an emotional component to it, or stuff that explores some weird corner. Or carelessly complex modern space opera!
A lot of the "classics" are, frankly, unreadable. Doc Smith or van Vogt are tough to plow through.
The authors I find myself re-reading the most right now are Michael Swanwick and Iain (M.) Banks. On and off I go re-read some of Gene Wolfe's stuff but I don't always have the energy to climb the mountains of his books! Now and then I might read some Bruce Sterling or William Gibson... and every so often I keep pulling out my copy of the complete works of Cordwainer Smith.
Like anyone else around Puzzlebox, I've read a lot of stuff listed on the wiki's suggested reading - and looking at the first book reminds me that I should re-read it!
But I've been reading SF as long as I can remember reading. At one point I had pretty much all of Larry Niven's work - I didn't get rid of it, I just stopped getting more and he kept writing. I've got a decent pile of Heinlein, of Asimov, of Bradbury... I've read a lot of it, and little bits of everything pop up here and there.
And I love drawing fins. My graphic sense tends to create futures somewhere between Buck Rogers and the Jetsons. My narrative sense demands much more ambiguity of motive.
All that said... plastic-hulled spiders who swarm about the asteroid belt, and mind-controlling kitsune from the outer planets, are definitely in the realm of science fantasy.
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Date: 2005-05-24 11:22 pm (UTC)I used to enjoy "hard" SF, but I quit caring so much about the tech theory. Or quit pretending to care. These days I kinda tend towards stuff that has an emotional component to it, or stuff that explores some weird corner. Or carelessly complex modern space opera!
A lot of the "classics" are, frankly, unreadable. Doc Smith or van Vogt are tough to plow through.
The authors I find myself re-reading the most right now are Michael Swanwick and Iain (M.) Banks. On and off I go re-read some of Gene Wolfe's stuff but I don't always have the energy to climb the mountains of his books! Now and then I might read some Bruce Sterling or William Gibson... and every so often I keep pulling out my copy of the complete works of Cordwainer Smith.
Like anyone else around Puzzlebox, I've read a lot of stuff listed on the wiki's suggested reading - and looking at the first book reminds me that I should re-read it!
But I've been reading SF as long as I can remember reading. At one point I had pretty much all of Larry Niven's work - I didn't get rid of it, I just stopped getting more and he kept writing. I've got a decent pile of Heinlein, of Asimov, of Bradbury... I've read a lot of it, and little bits of everything pop up here and there.
And I love drawing fins. My graphic sense tends to create futures somewhere between Buck Rogers and the Jetsons. My narrative sense demands much more ambiguity of motive.
All that said... plastic-hulled spiders who swarm about the asteroid belt, and mind-controlling kitsune from the outer planets, are definitely in the realm of science fantasy.