Extollager
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This thread isn't connected with a publication project.
I'd like to hear from people who have stories to nominate for an imaginary anthology of science fiction stories that possess a strange beauty. I'm not going to define what "strange beauty" or "eerie beauty" mean. The stories I'll list below are ones that I would nominate for such an anthology.
I'm thinking that one of the things that "justifies" science fiction as a genre is that it can provide us with literary experience, with imaginative experience, with feelings, that other genres can't provide just so.
My list, off the top of my head, would include:
Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air"
Moore and Kuttner's "Vintage Season"
Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day"
Damon Knight's "Stranger Station"
Algis Budrys's novella "Rogue Moon"
Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days"
One way of getting at what I have in mind is that these are stories that, if they'd been really well done, could have been outstanding teleplays in the old series of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
Let's compile titles and after we have a bunch, maybe then, inductively, draw from them the characteristics they have in common and that might enable us to verbalize what "eerie beauty" is.
I'd like to hear from people who have stories to nominate for an imaginary anthology of science fiction stories that possess a strange beauty. I'm not going to define what "strange beauty" or "eerie beauty" mean. The stories I'll list below are ones that I would nominate for such an anthology.
I'm thinking that one of the things that "justifies" science fiction as a genre is that it can provide us with literary experience, with imaginative experience, with feelings, that other genres can't provide just so.
My list, off the top of my head, would include:
Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air"
Moore and Kuttner's "Vintage Season"
Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day"
Damon Knight's "Stranger Station"
Algis Budrys's novella "Rogue Moon"
Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days"
One way of getting at what I have in mind is that these are stories that, if they'd been really well done, could have been outstanding teleplays in the old series of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
Let's compile titles and after we have a bunch, maybe then, inductively, draw from them the characteristics they have in common and that might enable us to verbalize what "eerie beauty" is.