![]() ![]() thanks Jacob!Īre you having as much fun as Jacob and I are this month? If you liked exploring something new with bloggers all over the world, I recommend checking out Short Story February (short stories for a short month!) over at Tip The Wink. Jacob at Red Star Reviews is not only my incredible Vintagae Month co-host, but he curates and RTs and reposts much of what is found on those feeds so everyone else can find it. Looking for more Vintage scifi? follow on twitter, and check out the #VintageSciFi and #VintageSciFiMonth feeds on both twitter and instagram. Kaedrin reviews Wasp by Eric Frank Russell and Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (Anderson seems very popular this year!)īushi enjoyed Jerry Pournelle’s King David’s Spaceship, clunky opening aside Is it nostalgia? something more? He also has a fascinating essay on Books that start Snowballing Themes James Wallace Harris delves deep into Why we read vintage science fiction. Planetary Defense Command reviews Isaac Asimov’s Intergalactic Empires I am kicking myself for not buying ALL OF THEM at John King Books in Detroit!) Jean at Howling Frog enjoys a James Blish’s Star Trek 7 TOS episode novelization (and I can’t even tell you how much I adore these little books. HeinleinĮven you don’t speak Italian, google translate may be able to help you enjoy this in depth review of The Sands of Mars by Arthur C Clarke, from Nella’s blog Le Chateau Ambulant , “Call Me Joe” by Poul Anderson, and “All You Zombies” by Robert A. SciFi Story of the Week tackles short fiction: “Tunesmith” by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Mervi is on a Leigh Brackett kick, reviewing The Sword of Rhiannon, The Best of Planet Stories #1 and The Ginger Star LeGuin’s The Lathe of Heaven as her Vintage read look at all this Vintage-y goodness you’ve posted in the last little while!Ī Jagged Orbit reviewed Ralph 124C41+ by Hugo Gernsback (hey, that guy’s first name rings a bell. And they’ll be discovering for the first time authors like Robert Jackson Bennett, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Iain M Banks, Julie Czerneda, and Will McIntosh. when I am 80 years old, someone somewhere will be defining Vintage Science Fiction as anything written before 2016. The year is arbitrary, and if someone else defines Vintage science fiction differently, their definition is just as correct as mine. Personally, I define “Vintage science fiction” as anything published before 1979. When used as an adjective, there is no specific year or time period attached to the word vintage. Old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes.īeing the best of its kind: They praised the play as vintage O’Neill. Representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars vintage movies. I’ll be there in about 45 years, and by then we’ll have flying driverless cars, our smartphones will be embedded in our skulls, we’ll have androids and robots, and we’ll be flying all over the inner solar system.īut besides all that, I can’t wait to see what “Vintage Science Fiction” will look like in 30 years.ĭ includes the following in their definition of the adjective Vintage: ![]() You guys, I can’t wait to be 80 years old. ![]()
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