A Political History of SF

[Tim Strzechowski]

I gotta echo those sentiments regarding Bester, especially The Demolished Man.  Great book, especially if you're ready to clean your Pynchon palate with some sci-fi.  I read it right before Christmas ... I was floored.  Good stuff!

When time permits, I'll read The Stars My Destination.  In the meantime, I'm reading Palace Walk at the moment, just got a copy of Cormac's The Road (which I hear kicks arse), and received as a gift the Zac Smith GR Illustrated ... and that's not counting the piles of other books that await my attention.

Plus, this past weekend I received one of them new-fangled iPods, and am having a *damn* good time rediscovering music ...




  I grew up reading post-Hiroshima science fiction, and most of it is an embarrassment to me now.  Not all, though.

  Alfred Bester stands out, for me, as the very best writer in the genre.  Both of his great novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, stand out from the rest of science fiction and can really stand to be mentioned in a discussion of Pynchon.  His other stuff is also great. 

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