Comments | asyouknow_bob: Datlow's Inferno

asyouknow_bob

Datlow's Inferno

Feb 21, 2008 01:32

I started reading science fiction as a kid, 'way back in the '60s, so I absorbed the Party Line of the day, the one that was promulgated back during the 'New Wave' Wars: that 'science fiction' was but a subset of the larger universe of 'speculative fiction'.

'Speculative Fiction' (known to its friends as 'SF') included 'science fiction', but also ( Read more... )

librarything, reviews, sf, horror

Comments 2

bluetyson February 21 2008, 08:05:43 UTC

Yeah, the roundup is long enough to be a sixties paperback. In fact, I'd buy a book of just those. :)

I was a bigtime horror reader as a younger teenager and young kid think I saw my first Hammer movie when I was 7 - I guess when it was really popular and the library had heaps.

She kept mentioning Laird Barron - definitely a fan of his.

The horror roundups in Stephen Jones Mammoth Books of Best New Horror are pretty good, too, though.

bluetyson February 21 2008, 15:17:04 UTC

Intellectually, I can admire a well-turned horror story.

Emotionally, I don't need to read horror - I find Real Life to be frightening enough, thank you very much.

So I find that the round-up pretty much fulfulls my Annual Requirement; I can make myself aware of the Names To Watch, pretty well infer what stories not to read on a bet, learn what I might be able to read on a sunny day, etc.