What are we reading? 1/07/2024

[giveusaclue]

Anne wrote: "giveusaclue wrote: "I have posted up the four photos of the costumes from the display at the Royal Shakespeare Company. .."

Love the photos. I was trying to work out (roughly) what plays they migh..."

Titania I think! The white one was Oliver as Othello and the blue was Jeremy Irons as Richard Il The dark dress was Queen in the play in Hamlet.

[Berkley]

From the Top 75 SF list I've read 21:

Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown
Excession, by Iain M. Banks
Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Stand, by Stephen King
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
1984, by George Orwell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Dune, by Frank Herbert

Many more than from the 21st century list but then I've read nothing from this SF one more recent than 1996 (Excession, Iain M. Banks).

I think that Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars should have been listed as the whole trilogy, as for me the three books comprise one big story rather than acting as three individual but related novels.

I'll list the ones I want to read later - there'll be quite a few, since there are still several classics I haven't gotten to yet.

[Berkley]

Books on the list I plan to read:

Contact, by Carl Sagan
Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Engine Summer, by John Crowley
The City & The City, by China Miéville
Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Exhalation, by Ted Chiang
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

I could have included many more titles than this: there were so many that I decided to cut it down to those I'm 99% sure I actually will attempt to read at some point, some because they're well-known classics of the genre that I really should have got to by now (e.g. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Left Hand of Darkness, etc), some because I've been impressed by another book from the same author (e.g. Ted Chiang), and some just because they sounded interesting for one reason or another (e.g. The City and the City).