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A 12-Question SF/F/H Book Meme at SF Signal
I thought we could play here, too.
1. The last sf/f/h book I read and enjoyed was: John Varley's Blue Champagne, an excellent collection of ideal SF stories.
2. The last sf/f/h book I read and did not enjoy was: Robert Silverberg's Up the Line, a sort of an indulgent mess of a time-travel novel. I didn't hate it, though - the last SF book I had a hard time finishing goes back to February and Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three or Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships and the last book I couldn't finish goes back to June of last year with Ian Watson's The Very Slow Time Machine.
3. A sf/f/h book that I would recommend to new sf/f/h readers is: pass. Unless see #6/#8.
4. A sf/f/h book that I would recommend to seasoned sf/f/h readers is: ditto. Unless see #9.
5. The sf/f/h book I most want to read next is: whatever's next in the pile.
6. My favorite sf/f/h book series includes: well, it probably is the Foundation or Robot/Empire/Foundation series.
7. I will read anything by this sf/f/h author: strangely enough, Isaac Asimov (one of the books I'm currently reading is Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor).
8. The first sf/f/h book I read was: strangely enough, I think it was The Foundation Trilogy.
9. The sf/f/h book I'm most surprised that more people don't like is: Greg Egan's Diaspora, which should have knocked the SF world on its ear as the Neuromancer of the 90s.
10. The sf/f/h book I'm surprised so many people do like is: the Bujold books. I just don't see it. I mean, I can't stand Ender's Game, but I see the attraction in a distant, theoretical way. The Bujold thing just kind of mystifies me.
11. The most expensive sf/f/h book I own is: almost certainly my 30 dollar The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction/The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. For actual fiction, I don't know. One candidate is The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1 which I paid 30 bucks for - but it came with a free bonus book of Emshwiller: Infinity X 2 which had a sticker price of 40 bucks. So I don't know how to count that. 30/0? 15/15? Is the 40 buck book a 40 buck book? Otherwise, it'd probably be one of several Dozois annual anthologies that cost around 20 bucks even in trade paper. But I don't collect zillion dollar first editions or anything.
12. The number of sf/f/h books I own and have yet to read is: no idea - maybe a couple hundred? Over one hundred, anyway. I mean, I just added 50-some the other day.
I thought we could play here, too.
1. The last sf/f/h book I read and enjoyed was: John Varley's Blue Champagne, an excellent collection of ideal SF stories.
2. The last sf/f/h book I read and did not enjoy was: Robert Silverberg's Up the Line, a sort of an indulgent mess of a time-travel novel. I didn't hate it, though - the last SF book I had a hard time finishing goes back to February and Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three or Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships and the last book I couldn't finish goes back to June of last year with Ian Watson's The Very Slow Time Machine.
3. A sf/f/h book that I would recommend to new sf/f/h readers is: pass. Unless see #6/#8.
4. A sf/f/h book that I would recommend to seasoned sf/f/h readers is: ditto. Unless see #9.
5. The sf/f/h book I most want to read next is: whatever's next in the pile.
6. My favorite sf/f/h book series includes: well, it probably is the Foundation or Robot/Empire/Foundation series.
7. I will read anything by this sf/f/h author: strangely enough, Isaac Asimov (one of the books I'm currently reading is Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor).
8. The first sf/f/h book I read was: strangely enough, I think it was The Foundation Trilogy.
9. The sf/f/h book I'm most surprised that more people don't like is: Greg Egan's Diaspora, which should have knocked the SF world on its ear as the Neuromancer of the 90s.
10. The sf/f/h book I'm surprised so many people do like is: the Bujold books. I just don't see it. I mean, I can't stand Ender's Game, but I see the attraction in a distant, theoretical way. The Bujold thing just kind of mystifies me.
11. The most expensive sf/f/h book I own is: almost certainly my 30 dollar The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction/The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. For actual fiction, I don't know. One candidate is The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1 which I paid 30 bucks for - but it came with a free bonus book of Emshwiller: Infinity X 2 which had a sticker price of 40 bucks. So I don't know how to count that. 30/0? 15/15? Is the 40 buck book a 40 buck book? Otherwise, it'd probably be one of several Dozois annual anthologies that cost around 20 bucks even in trade paper. But I don't collect zillion dollar first editions or anything.
12. The number of sf/f/h books I own and have yet to read is: no idea - maybe a couple hundred? Over one hundred, anyway. I mean, I just added 50-some the other day.