Tag: science fiction
Posted on December 24, 2015
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Somehow I never read The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, despite reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers multiple times in middle and high school. Especially odd because at that time I tended to go deep on science fiction… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”
Posted on October 26, 2015
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I admit I was a bit skeptical when someone loaned me The Martian recently and told me I should read it. The Martian? That new movie with Matt Damon? Isn’t that an airplane book, not real literature? (Yes, despite my devotion to comics and… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Martian”
Posted on August 13, 2014
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Over the past couple years, I’ve been re-reading what at one time were my favorite books ever, Frank Herbert’s Dune series. In a previous post, I decided that my estimation of the series had fallen a few notches since high school, due largely to the… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: God Emperor of Dune”
Posted on September 9, 2013
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According to an obituary a few days ago in the Washington Post, science fiction author Frederick Pohl died on 2 September, aged 93. In junior high and high school, I read science fiction voraciously, and Frederick Pohl was one of my favorite authors (another… Continue Reading “Remembering Frederick Pohl”
Posted on July 24, 2013
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When I was a teen-ager, I was a little obsessed with Frank Herbert’s Dune series. It’s a science fiction series with deep world-building and lots of political intrigue, and has become a cult favorite since the publication of the first book in the mid-1960s. Over… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Children of Dune”
