I know I have been negligent lately, when it comes to keeping this blog updated. All I can say is that work has been crushing; an average of three days out of town per week for the last 10 weeks. Fortunately, the end of my excessive travel is in sight, so I should find the time I need to at update this (personally beloved) site at least once per week. <\/p>\n
In the meantime, here’s a new meme that I found over on Ian Sales’ wonderful, SF-centric blog, It Doesn’t Have To Be Right…<\/a>, which used to finish with the admonition, “it just has to sound good,” but no longer does. I guess Ian thought the last phrase was best left unstated. Anyway, this meme came from the SFX Book Club<\/a> (sorry, the original link on Ian’s site was busted. Just find it yourself). It’s supposed to be a list of SF classics. As per usual, there are a few weird and unexpected entries, but for the most part, some classics are listed. I’m supposed to bold the ones I’ve read. If I started the book and threw against the wall in a rage, I’ll italicize it. <\/p>\n 1. The War Of The Worlds<\/strong> by HG Wells I really need to reread Star Maker and Pavane, so I can get them up here. I’ve read one book of Cities in Flight, but not all four. Someday I’ll get to that one, when I’m in a better mood. Blish, IMHO, requires enormous patience, but can be rewarding. <\/p>\n So I think having read this many makes me an SF classicist! 35 not counting the ones I’ve started and left unfinished, or thrown out a window, 40 counting them. I have turned my attention lately to new books. Guess my timing was right, ’cause I have read a lot of the old stuff! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know I have been negligent lately, when it comes to keeping this blog updated. All I can say is that work has been crushing; an average of three days out of town per week for the last 10 weeks. Fortunately, the end of my excessive travel is in sight, so I should find the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. The Martian Chronicle<\/strong>s by Ray Bradbury
\n3. Ringworld<\/strong> by Larry Niven
\n4. A Princess of Mars<\/strong> by Edgar Rice Burroughs
\n5. A Canticle for Leibowitz<\/strong> by Walter M Miller
\n6. The Stars My Destination<\/strong> by Alfred Bester
\n7. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
\n8. Rendezvous with Rama<\/strong> by Arthur C Clarke
\n9. The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
\n10. The Forever War<\/strong> by Joe Haldeman
\n11. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
\n12. Dangerous Visions<\/strong> edited by Harlan Ellison
\n13. A Wizard of Earthsea<\/em> by Ursula K Le Guin
\n14. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/strong> by Philip K Dick
\n15. The Player of Games<\/strong> by Iain Banks
\n16. Pavane<\/strong> by Keith Roberts
\n17. Neuromancer<\/em> by William Gibson
\n18. Collected Ghost Stories of MR James
\n19. I Am Legend<\/strong> by Richard Matheson
\n20. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
\n21. Stand on Zanziba<\/strong>r by John Brunner
\n22. Planet of the Apes<\/strong> by Pierre Boulle
\n23. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/strong> by Robert Heinlein
\n24. Blood Music<\/strong> by Greg Bear
\n25. Non Stop<\/em> by Brian Aldiss
\n26. Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/strong> by Jonathan Swift
\n27. Dune<\/strong> by Frank Herbert
\n28. The Left Hand of Darkness<\/strong> by Ursula Le Guin
\n29. A Case of Conscience<\/strong> by James Blish
\n30. Flowers for Algernon<\/strong> by Daniel Keyes
\n31. Star Maker<\/strong> by Olaf Stapledon
\n32. Frankenstein<\/strong> by Mary Shelley
\n33. The Einstein Intersection<\/strong> by Samuel R Delany
\n34. The Day Of The Triffids<\/strong> by John Wyndham
\n35. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
\n36. Vurt by Jeff Noon
\n37. Foundation<\/strong> by Isaac Asimov
\n38. The City And The Stars<\/strong> by Arthur C Clarke
\n39. Strata by Terry Pratchett
\n40. The Centauri Device by M John Harrison
\n41. Earth Abides<\/strong> by George R Stewart
\n42. Snow Crash<\/em> by Neal Stephenson
\n43. The Death of Grass<\/strong> by John Christopher
\n44. Starship Troopers<\/strong> by Robert Heinlein
\n45. Brave New World<\/strong> by Aldous Huxley
\n46. From The Earth To The Moon by Jules Verne
\n47. Interview With The Vampire<\/strong> by Anne Rice
\n48. Life During Wartime<\/strong> by Lucius Shepard
\n49. Perdido Street Station by China Mi\u00e9ville
\n50. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/strong> by CS Lewis
\n51. Cities In Flight by James Blish<\/p>\n