New Years Resolution: Volume 1.

[therrin]

My resolution this year is to blog about every book I read (free reading anyways). At least a sentence. I've been compiling books since sometime in December (I can't remember when) so I should start now before I completely forget.

1)The Best of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber. I've actually already read the book that is basically volume two of this

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[rizwank]

Ex Machina: Ex Cathedra

Last issue I own is #37 - it seemed to be losing it's focus around there. Has it gotten better?

[therrin]

I completely don't know them by issue at all. You might be ahead or behind me. This one seemed like another quasi-tangent, but it actually related back to main plots. It was weird that basically the plot of this storyline was all back loaded to the last comic and a page or two. The Russians (wtf?) and the bat signal. I feel like I should read it again, but it wasn't his strongest work.

The storyline before this "Power Down," definitely wasn't losing focus, it was driving towards a focus and a weird point.

Keep up the resolution

[essentialsaltes]

Yeah, Space-time for Springers is such a good story.

Conjure Wife is awfully dated, particularly by the rather omnipresent 1940's sexism.

Slan also creaks with age, but was important for making 40's sf fans think they were special, like the kids today are all wannabe Hogwarts wizards or vampires.

Re: Keep up the resolution

[therrin]

Space-time for Springers will never be dated until we start seriously genetically engineering cats. It takes work to get a story that can do something like that. I remain in awe that it was a story that after you got to the end you had to reappraise everything you'd previously read.

The sexism didn't bother me so much in Conjure Wife, as it was so utterly necessary to the story. The story just wouldn't have made sense outside the context of the 1940s or 50s.

...Slan...now I understand, and it hurts me. I wish I didn't read that link and its associated sub links. It's like an unbroken chain of stupid idiot drama from annoying people who needed to feel "special" since the beginnings of science fiction time. Gone are my illusions that this was at least a quasi-new thing in sf starting around the 60s or 70s. Now I know it started early and at worst, it's shifted its epicenter of drama from science fiction to fantasy.