My Effin' Life

by Geddy Lee

I became a huge John Wyndham fan. I’d never dug The Chrysalids when forced to read it in school but taking in The Midwich Cuckoos and The Day of the Triffids for pleasure was a whole nother world. Among my favourites were Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, a benchmark book in the realm of sci-fi and fantasy; Mervyn Peake’s deliciously dark epic, the Gormenghast trilogy; the work of Lord Dunsany, aka Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, one of the founders of the high fantasy genre (who wrote more than ninety books) and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels. I never quite got into his most esteemed author, Samuel Delany, but thanks to Neil there was suddenly a library full of escapes from the rigors and drudgery of the road. Then, fatefully as it would turn out for Rush, he introduced us to Ayn Rand’s Anthem, which made sense for us to read since we already happened to be writing a song called “Anthem,”