RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff
07-20-2013, 12:30 AM
Dune definitely has its flaws (Herbert's prose gets hilariously pompous in the later books), but I still like it. I'm a sucker for anything with POLITICAL SPACE INTRIGUE and EXOTIC ALIEN CULTURES. Plus it's just unique and weird. But again, there's also a certain amount of nostalgia there for me.
I'ma wholeheartedly stand behind Neuromancer, though. Gibson is one of those SF authors that I'd recommend as a great literary writer, not just a good genre fiction writer. I think my biggest problem with Neuromancer was that since it's been imitated by so many people since, it's hard to appreciate how revolutionary it was at the time.
On the subject of classic SF, though, I will never like the Foundation series. It just reads like the world's blandest history textbook - no character development or scene-setting whatsoever. It's the perfect example of why people usually dislike genre fiction. Same with Ringworld.
I'ma wholeheartedly stand behind Neuromancer, though. Gibson is one of those SF authors that I'd recommend as a great literary writer, not just a good genre fiction writer. I think my biggest problem with Neuromancer was that since it's been imitated by so many people since, it's hard to appreciate how revolutionary it was at the time.
On the subject of classic SF, though, I will never like the Foundation series. It just reads like the world's blandest history textbook - no character development or scene-setting whatsoever. It's the perfect example of why people usually dislike genre fiction. Same with Ringworld.