People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions. The popular “A” list can be found here, and the full alphabetical index is here. Please comment to add any B writers that I may have missed, and of course to argue with my choices.
I’m linking to my posts on the books where I have made such posts.
My B shelf begins with a disturbingly large number of copies of
Destinies, a paperback SF magazine edited by Jim Baen in my own personal golden age of the late seventies and early eighties. How I loved it and waited eagerly for new copies to arrive in the bookshop! There doesn’t seem much point recommending it now but if you happen to see copies lying around it’s still worth picking up for the Spider Robinson reviews (lacerating books most people have now forgotten) the Pournelle essays on space futures and technology,
Some thoughts on the inhabited universe … … and all the science-fiction tales I ve loved before.
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It s not surprising that, in this new Age of Anxiety, UFOs are once again in the news. Back in the 1950s, when I was growing up, our national anxieties about nuclear war, insidious creeping communism and the United States new role as superpower and global policeman produced many sightings of, even interactions with, UFOs or flying saucers, as in the age of Fiestaware they were known. The government, the military, the scientists all denied that these phenomena were of extraterrestrial origin, attributing them to weather balloons, the planet Venus, mass hallucination, and shared delusion in the case of one couple who claimed to be abducted and who corroborated one another s stories. Discredited, the flying saucer stories gave way to the assassinations, wars and moon shots of the
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Sunday, October 25, 2020
This is an update to 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels. It s mostly an addition of 30 more authors (many from outside the big SF names ) but I also made some other tweaks.
I ve been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if there s anything that has managed to elude me over the years. I ve also tried to catch up with more recent authors given that I don t read as many books as I used to. (The market for science fiction short stories, in general, is in something of a decline but there are still some fabulous recent stories out there.)
Stephen King’s THE JAUNT to Teleport Terror To Your TV
Fear the Walking Dead co-creator Dave Erickson will adapt IT author Stephen King s teleportation terror short The Jaunt into a TV series. By Mike Sprague
Fear the Walking Dead) will adapt Stephen King’s
The Jaunt into a TV series. No word on when or where it will hit – or when production will begin.
But…
Elise Henderson, President of MRC Television, shared in a statement: “
We’ve long admired Dave’s visionary creative work and are thrilled to welcome him to MRC. A true master of his craft, he’s the ideal partner to build upon the work of Stephen King, and create and develop more originals as the studio continues to expand.”