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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,
Montreal
Quebec
Canada
Tanzania
United-states
Ireland
Alexandria
Al-iskandariyah
Egypt
United-kingdom
Zanzibar
Britain
Thu Feb 12 2004 at 1:11:14
Borgor crept forward across the stony floor. He d trekked for many leagues across the plains of V lsht to reach the lair of the nekromancer Yoxxat, in the heart of the isolated volcano. Muttering a prayer to Benef, god of adventurers, he pressed on. How had he let the president talk him into this? Distracted, he did not notice the narrow chasm until it was nearly too late. Only by shooting out a hand and grabbing a stalactite did he avoid a hundred-foot plunge into boiling lava!
So you ve decided to design a world. Maybe you re a budding novelist.
Germany
Muttering
Bayern
United-states
France
Greece
French
Greeks
America
Karen-wynn-fonstad-atlas
Philip-pullman
Lois-mcmaster-bujold
Image Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter
The Greeks had a word, hubris, that gets thrown about a lot. I have the impression that it means something like “self-confidence.” Right? Self-confidence is great stuff! Empowering! There are no challenges that human ingenuity cannot overcome: social conflicts, climate change, plagues and pandemics. We’ll just power through it all like a tank through soap bubbles.
I must admit that not every science fiction author adopts this buoyant stance. Some of them have taken a contrary point of view, in fact, positing that there are some circumstances that will defeat humans, no matter how smart and persevering they are. Circumstances like alien worlds that cannot be terraformed into human-friendly resort planets. Here are five worlds that steadfastly resist meddling…
Greece
Greeks
James-davis-nicoll
Karen-lofstrom
Burke-semiosis
Cj-cherryh-cyteen
Lois-mcmaster-bujold-vorkosigan
Adriennel-travis
Brian-stableford
Ames-research-center-daniel-rutter
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Games-research
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