I am thankful for science fiction

March 01, 2009

I am thankful for science fiction

I've been a fan of science fiction since...as soon as I found it as a genre. I find the books and movies enlightening, broadening, dazzling, perspective changing...imagination building. A good science fiction novel will reach into your current world and use its symbols and habits, routines and mores and then blow it open with fantastical technologies or inventions from the latest drawing boards of theoretical scientists or just articulate dreamers.

I am always on the prowl for the newest author in science fiction whose won the coveted Hugo and Nebula awards.

My most recent finds in science fiction are the author Kristine Katherine Rusch and her Retrieval Artist series. I read Consequences from that series. There are a few more. She has a blog Kriswrites.

Spin, and its author, Robert Charles Wilson, are another recent delight.

Here are some other authors of sci-fi, I've enjoyed:

William Gibson had a grand series of books. His descriptions from the '80's of a neural network sound remarkably prescient for what we have now and will have in the future.

Orson Scott Card and his Ender's Game series were fun. They had a special delight for me as he places them in Greensboro, NC.

Frank Herbert and the Dune series remain at or near the top. I've only read them a few times. The first time I read Dune I stayed up until dawn to finish it.

Margaret Atwood calls her herself a science futurist, I believe. Regardless, she's written two fascinating books: Oryx and Crake & The Handmaid's Tale. She's an excellent writer, honoring that premise for me where an author takes your current world and its cues and transports you to another.

Isaac Azimov wrote a wonderful series, Foundation. I need to revisit it.

Got any favorites? Let me know.

Posted on March 01, 2009 at 04:00 PM in Gratitude Project - 2009, Iamthankful4 | Permalink

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