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50 years later Replicants are still running… except now, running the world. Who were once hunted have become the hunters - they are not running away but are Runners after you.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… and this one is going on my watch list too! No time to die before the binge ends!🤖🌧️
#BladeRunner2099 #BladeRunner #RidleyScott #PhilipKDick #cyberpunk #scifi #tvseries #PrimeVideo
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50 years later Replicants are still running… except now, running the world. Who were once hunted have become the hunters - they are not running away but are Runners after you.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… and this one is going on my watch list too! No time to die before the binge ends!🤖🌧️
#BladeRunner2099 #BladeRunner #RidleyScott #PhilipKDick #cyberpunk #scifi #tvseries #PrimeVideo
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With a Replicant uprising serving as the plot, Blade Runner 2099 will air on Amazon Prime Video. It premieres on November 25, 2026.
Amazon will be releasing all right episodes at once. Hopefully it'll be a binge worthy chapter in the Blade Runner universe.
Source: https://youtu.be/0Dr8I_RyRCg?is=lJuoKuLfI7Ok97ZF
#Movies #Film #Cinema #BladeRunner #BladeRunner2099 #PhilipKDick #RidleyScott #MichelleYeoh #HunterSchafer #Vangelis #Deckard #VoightKampffTest #CyberPunk #CassetteFuturism #NeoNoir
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With a Replicant uprising serving as the plot, Blade Runner 2099 will air on Amazon Prime Video. It premieres on November 25, 2026.
Amazon will be releasing all right episodes at once. Hopefully it'll be a binge worthy chapter in the Blade Runner universe.
Source: https://youtu.be/0Dr8I_RyRCg?is=lJuoKuLfI7Ok97ZF
#Movies #Film #Cinema #BladeRunner #BladeRunner2099 #PhilipKDick #RidleyScott #MichelleYeoh #HunterSchafer #Vangelis #Deckard #VoightKampffTest #CyberPunk #CassetteFuturism #NeoNoir
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Two Cyberpunk shows are coming and I am super excited. This is probably my favourite sub-genre of SF.
Blade Runner 2099 was shifted from 2027 to November 2026 likely due to the fact that Neuromancer was announced as coming in January 2027.
For Neuromancer I’m only concerned that the lead doesn’t look sick and wasted enough as Case. I can get over that.
Unfortunately, I’ve already seen people on ShitTube saying Neuromancer’s Molly shouldn’t be a person of colour and apparently Blade Runner 2099 is terrible and garbage because of women.
No one has seen either show.
I really fucking just can’t with these toxic arseholes masquerading as fans.
Me, ima watch the shit out of both, fuck the haters.
#Neuromancer #BladeRunner2099 #BladeRunner #Cyberpunk #WilliamGibson #PhilipKDick
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Two Cyberpunk shows are coming and I am super excited. This is probably my favourite sub-genre of SF.
Blade Runner 2099 was shifted from 2027 to November 2026 likely due to the fact that Neuromancer was announced as coming in January 2027.
For Neuromancer I’m only concerned that the lead doesn’t look sick and wasted enough as Case. I can get over that.
Unfortunately, I’ve already seen people on ShitTube saying Neuromancer’s Molly shouldn’t be a person of colour and apparently Blade Runner 2099 is terrible and garbage because of women.
No one has seen either show.
I really fucking just can’t with these toxic arseholes masquerading as fans.
Me, ima watch the shit out of both, fuck the haters.
#Neuromancer #BladeRunner2099 #BladeRunner #Cyberpunk #WilliamGibson #PhilipKDick
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Read Martian Time Slip by Phillip Dick. Though I am a big fan of his, I have never read this one before. It caught my eye by having an autistic as the sci-fi aspect of the story.
The character Manfred is a type 2/3 non verbal who is used by a rich developer for time travel and seeing into the future and past. Dick has some interesting theories about the inner workings of autistics. Despite being published in 1964 it has a compassion for autistics. This might be because back them it was linked with schizophrenia and Dick was also schizophrenic.
Highly recommended for those who read autistic characters in fiction.
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Read Martian Time Slip by Phillip Dick. Though I am a big fan of his, I have never read this one before. It caught my eye by having an autistic as the sci-fi aspect of the story.
The character Manfred is a type 2/3 non verbal who is used by a rich developer for time travel and seeing into the future and past. Dick has some interesting theories about the inner workings of autistics. Despite being published in 1964 it has a compassion for autistics. This might be because back them it was linked with schizophrenia and Dick was also schizophrenic.
Highly recommended for those who read autistic characters in fiction.
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#NowWatching : #TotalRecall (1990)
This morning I read the #PhilipKDick story ("We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"), so now I've gotta watch the movie. 😂
Plus, anything from 1990 is guaranteed to have some peak #Schwarzenegger , and for #Verhoeven , it sits between #Robocop and #StarshipTroopers , so I'm expecting a lot from him as well.
🍿 🎥
#film #cinema #movies #fridaynightmovies #90smovies #90sfilms
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OS TRÊS ESTIGMAS DE PALMER ELDRITCH – Philip K. Dick (resenha na rede)
“Como você sabe que o que está vivendo é a realidade?”
#resenhanarede
#resenha
#ficçãocientífica
#bladerunner
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Et voici notre sélection des trois infos en imaginaire du 15 juillet !
- La Horde du contrevent d'Alain Damasio est au théâtre ! On vous dit tout sur Actusf.
- On vous fait découvrir une maison d'édition qui publie du fantastique dans de petits livres. Rendez-vous dans notre podcast.
- Metal Hurlant sort en août un numéro spécial Philip K.Dick !#sciencefiction #sciencefictionfan #sciencefictionseries #philipKDick #LaHordeducontrevent #alainDamasio #fantasy #fantastique #fantastiquebook
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Un numéro de Métal Hurlant sur Philip K.Dick !
Rendez-vous chez vos marchands de journaux le 26 août prochain.
On vous donne les infos sur Actusf !
#MetalHurlant #PhilipKDick #sciencefiction
https://www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-article/un-num%C3%A9ro-de-m%C3%A9tal-hurlant-sur-philip-k-dick
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Un numéro de Métal Hurlant sur Philip K.Dick !
Rendez-vous chez vos marchands de journaux le 26 août prochain.
On vous donne les infos sur Actusf !
#MetalHurlant #PhilipKDick #sciencefiction
https://www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-article/un-num%C3%A9ro-de-m%C3%A9tal-hurlant-sur-philip-k-dick
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L'âme mécanique, pourquoi j'ai choisi l'écriture à épisodes ?
Réponse : https://go.harold-cath.be/k
Illustration Felis Dsouza@pexels
#SFFF #philipkdick #robotique #ia #valleederangeante #etsidemain
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L'âme mécanique, pourquoi j'ai choisi l'écriture à épisodes ?
Réponse : https://go.harold-cath.be/k
Illustration Felis Dsouza@pexels
#SFFF #philipkdick #robotique #ia #valleederangeante #etsidemain
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Recenzje fantastyczne:
»[Recenzja] „Transmigracja Timothy’ego Archera” Philip K. Dick«To historia o charyzmatycznym amerykańskim biskupie (właśnie Timothym Archerze) prowadzącym zaawansowane badania dotyczące Nowego Testamentu. Jeśli skupić się wyłącznie na fabule, cała opowieść jest prosta: po śmierci syna i kochanki Archer, dręczony wątpliwościami dotyczącymi prawdziwej natury Jezusa wyrusza w podróż, podczas której ma nadzieję znaleźć wyjaśnienia wątpliwości, jakie od dłuższego czasu go nawiedzają...
#Fahrenheit_zin #HannaFronczak #recenzja #PhilipKDick #LechJęczmyk #DomWydawniczyRebis #WojciechSiudmak #Rebis #GrzegorzDziamski #TransmigracjaTimothyegoArchera #TheTransmigrationofTimothyArcher
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Recenzje fantastyczne:
»[Recenzja] „Transmigracja Timothy’ego Archera” Philip K. Dick«To historia o charyzmatycznym amerykańskim biskupie (właśnie Timothym Archerze) prowadzącym zaawansowane badania dotyczące Nowego Testamentu. Jeśli skupić się wyłącznie na fabule, cała opowieść jest prosta: po śmierci syna i kochanki Archer, dręczony wątpliwościami dotyczącymi prawdziwej natury Jezusa wyrusza w podróż, podczas której ma nadzieję znaleźć wyjaśnienia wątpliwości, jakie od dłuższego czasu go nawiedzają...
#Fahrenheit_zin #HannaFronczak #recenzja #PhilipKDick #LechJęczmyk #DomWydawniczyRebis #WojciechSiudmak #Rebis #GrzegorzDziamski #TransmigracjaTimothyegoArchera #TheTransmigrationofTimothyArcher
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#fotovorschlag 'USA'
Ich bin kein großer Fan der USA und heutzutage schon gar nicht, aber ich mag einige US-amerikanische Schriftsteller sehr gerne.
Dazu gehört auch der alte Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) mit seinen Science Fiction Romanen und Short Stories, der das Genre sehr beeinflusst hat.#schriftsteller #lektüre #sciencefiction #philipkdick #zukunftsvisionen
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#fotovorschlag 'USA'
Ich bin kein großer Fan der USA und heutzutage schon gar nicht, aber ich mag einige US-amerikanische Schriftsteller sehr gerne.
Dazu gehört auch der alte Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) mit seinen Science Fiction Romanen und Short Stories, der das Genre sehr beeinflusst hat.#schriftsteller #lektüre #sciencefiction #philipkdick #zukunftsvisionen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ganymede_Takeover
finished this today, really cool ideas but the characters were a little cartoonish. The other author wrote the short story that "They Live" (the film) was based on
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ganymede_Takeover
finished this today, really cool ideas but the characters were a little cartoonish. The other author wrote the short story that "They Live" (the film) was based on
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Ever feel like they’re building #AM-WEB a few blocks away from where you live?
#Toronto #PKD #MartianTimeSlip #PhilipKDick -
Fantapolemiche del weekend
Non sono più una ragazza, e lo dico con quella serenità che arriva solo dopo molti anni di giornalismo, parecchi scaffali riempiti e un numero imprecisato di entusiasmi sopravvissuti alla prova del tempo. Da bambina mio padre mi metteva in mano Asimov, Heinlein e Vance con la stessa naturalezza con cui altri, più prudenti, consegnano le fiabe. È stata una fortuna enorme. Alla fantascienza devo la curiosità, il vizio di guardare di lato, l’abitudine a diffidare delle superfici lisce e […]https://leargenteetesteduovo.com/2026/06/30/fantapolemiche-del-weekend/
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Fantapolemiche del weekend
Non sono più una ragazza, e lo dico con quella serenità che arriva solo dopo molti anni di giornalismo, parecchi scaffali riempiti e un numero imprecisato di entusiasmi sopravvissuti alla prova del tempo. Da bambina mio padre mi metteva in mano Asimov, Heinlein e Vance con la stessa naturalezza con cui altri, più prudenti, consegnano le fiabe. È stata una fortuna enorme. Alla fantascienza devo la curiosità, il vizio di guardare di lato, l’abitudine a diffidare delle superfici lisce e […]https://leargenteetesteduovo.com/2026/06/30/fantapolemiche-del-weekend/
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Books #SciFi #PhilipKDick 10 Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of All Time http://dlvr.it/TTDPkk
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Books #SciFi #PhilipKDick 10 Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of All Time http://dlvr.it/TTDPkk
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIX
What pre-1985 science fiction adventures have you started this summer? Any great reads? Disappointing ones? Intriguing discoveries? Here’s the April installment of this column.
- A selection of read volumes from my shelves
In a conversation on Blueksy, someone asked for my history of science fiction recommendations (including a few general surveys). I scoured my shelves and came up with an all-too-large pile (with some notable volumes I wanted to include but could not find) of favorite histories of science fiction. See photo below. I tried to include monographs that were not studies of single authors.
As I am a historian by training and trade who holds on to some of my disciplinary ticks and hangups, I also included works by trained academics with two major exceptions 1) Mike Ashley’s multi-volume study of science fiction magazines (but no other recent works exist and they’re really good for the nuts and bolts of genre magazines) and 2) Alec Nevala-Lee’s approachable and well-researched group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (2018). Both should be read.
- A photo of a few of my history of science fiction recommendations
I deliberately avoided works by science fiction authors like Damon Knight, Brian W. Aldiss, and Frederik Pohl. They’re great sources and I own and have read many of them but…. they are not histories by trained scholars. I do not mean for this to come off as elitist. Rather, my personal remit for my list—I needed to winnow down the hundreds and hundreds I own–was deliberately narrow! I read and use sources widely. Remember, these are my favorites — they might not be the best but they got me thinking and reading and writing. And that’s what we all should be doing, reading what makes us happy.
Before we get to the the curated birthdays and brief thoughts on the science fiction volumes above, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read! You’re also welcome to list your favorite histories of the genre.
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- Samuel R. Delany and Howard V. Chaykin’s Empire (1978). I love the art! The story? One of Delany’s weakest outings. It’s a shame.
- Robert Holdstock’s Eye Among the Blind (1976). His anthropologically inclined first novel contains “kerns of his later genius” according to my 2014. Most details have faded. That can’t be said to his far superior Where Time Winds Blow (1981). If you only know Holdstock for Mythago Wood (1984), definitely check out his earlier more overt science fictional works. That said, I really need to read Mythago Wood!
- Kate Wilhelm’s Abyss (1971) is a underrated outing (two novellas) by a master near the top of her game. I particularly enjoyed “The Plastic Abyss” (1971): As the human drama (the entrenched patterns and fritctions of society’s expected social roles) swirls at the forefront, the SF premise generates the unease—in this case an attempt to secure funding for an experimental absorptive material onto which life-like images can be projected.
- Philip K. Dick’s Our Friends From Frolix 8 (1970). One of many PKD novels that have clumped together into a terrifying indistinguishable distillation of his unease and what makes him great. This is too say, I read a lot of PKD early in my SF reading career and can’t remember which details relate to which books!
What am I writing about?
The merciful appearance of summer break early this month — and a summer with little planned travel — has allowed me to get back into the flow of writing reviews and working on larger projects. Since the April installment of this series, I’ve read reviewed and written about the following: Exploration Log 14: Anti-Racism in Chandler Davis’ “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950), two posts on Clifford D. Simak: “Madness from Mars” (1939) and “Hermit of Mars” (1939) and his collection The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960), Polly Toynbee’s Leftovers (1966) and Lewis Gibbs’ Late Final (1951), Richard Wilson’s “Strike” (1953), and Knut Faldbakken’s Sweetwater (1976, trans. Joan Tate, 1994), which appeared originally in the first issue of Rachel S. Cordasco’s magazine Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine.
The summer has allowed me to return to my article (and accompanying historical research) on Edward A. Johnson’s Light Ahead for the Negro (1904). First major summer step? I finished Richard A. Paschal’s Jim Crow in North Carolina: The Legislative Program from 1865-1920 (2021) to integrate into my article! I will spend as much as the afternoon as possible at my favorite coffee shop trying to eek out a few more pages or to reacquaint myself with my 200+ electronic newspaper clippings I’ve collected.
I’m also working on my review of SF in translation for the second issue of Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine. I’ll keep the author and book secret until it appears in the first few weeks of August. As for non fiction for the site, I’m working on a few early Clifford D. Simak fanzine articles for my Exploration Log series.
What am I reading?
This is a rare moment for reasons connected to my before-mentioned article that I do not have a science fiction work already lined up to read. It’s a radically attempt to FINISH writing projects that have acted as anchors to other writing and reading. That said, no worries blog friends — I have plenty of half-finished reviews waiting in the wings. Stay tuned.
- Photo of Steve Batterson’s The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom (2023) on my history shelf with other books
On the non-fiction front: I have been eying Steve Batterson’s The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom (2023) after writing about Chandler Davis’ amazing fanzine article “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950) for my Exploration Log series.
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
June 10th: Artist Don Maitz (1953-).
June 11th: Josephine Saxton (1935-2023). I recommend The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith (1969). She was a unique and underrated voice of the New Wave. I also covered her first three published short stories.
June 12th: Frank K. Kelly (1914-2010). I wrote about an example of his dark 30s pulp here: “Famine on Mars” (1934).
June 12th: Henry Slesar (1927-2002).
June 13th: Artist Ralph McQuarrie (1929-2012). Best known for his Star Wars art. He also created SF covers.
- James Gurney’s cover for William Greenleaf’s The Tartarus Incident (1983)
June 14th: Artist James Gurney (1958-). Best known for Dinotopia (1992) (and the sequels). Another very influential book in my childhood. He also created a SF covers.
June 14th: Stephen Tall (1908-1981).
June 14th: Ruthven Todd (1914-1978). I recently acquired his marginally SF work The Lost Traveller (1943). I’ll feature it in a purchase post eventually.
June 14th: Laurence Yep (1948-). A complete unknown to me. I acquired one of his novels recently: Seademons (1977) .
June 14th: Artist Peter Goodfellow (1950-2022). One of my favorite British SF artists.
- Mitchell Hooks’ cover for the 1962 1st edition
June 15th: J. F. Bone (1916-2006). Best known for his novel The Lani People (1962). One of many novels with humanoid cat women. Blargh.
June 15th: Artist Neal Adams (1941-2022). Best known for his Tarzan covers.
June 15th: Brian Jacques (1939-2011). I’ve mentioned my love his Jacques’ Redwall sequence in previous year installments of the birthday list. If there’s a single author responsible for my adoration for reading and maps, it’s him.
June 17th: Wallace Wood (1927-1981).
June 17th: John Hersey (1914-1993). Best known for his non-fiction work Hiroshima (1946), Hersey also wrote three SFF volumes. I read and enjoyed his overpopulation themed novel My Petition for More Space (1974). I acquired his satire of the National Defense Education Act (1968) novel The Child Buyer (1960).
June 17th: Garen Drussaï (1916-2009). She wrote five science fiction stories in the mid-50s, including her “consumer hell” story “Woman’s Work” (1956) that I must finally get around to reading.
June 17th: Dean Ing (1931-2020).
- The Brothers Quay cover for the 1st edition of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly (1977)
June 17th: Tim and Steve Quay (1947-) (The Brothers Quay). Before their brilliant short films, they created a handful of covers early in their career! I found their 1st edition cover of PKD’s A Scanner Darkly (1977) the best.
June 18th: Artist Jody A. Lee (1958-).
June 18th: Roger Ebert (1942-2013). Ebert, a famous film-reviewer, also published two science fiction short stories in 1972.
June 19th: Mark Adlard (1932-). I reviewed the first volume–Interface (1971)–in his Tcity trilogy back in 2015.
June 19th: Brian Ball (1932-2020). A slick pulp-SF author, if that is your thing. I reviewed Singularity Station (1973) in 2013.
- Peter Goodfellow’s cover for the 1977 UK edition of Grimus (1975)
June 19th: Salman Rushdie (1947-). I have my eyes on his first SF novel Grimus (1975) (above).
June 20th: Pamela Zoline (1941-). I love the rightly celebrated “The Heat Death of the Universe” (1967) and wish she wrote more than the handful of short stories.
June 21st: Cleve Cartmill (1908-1964). Best known for the controversy over “Deadline” (1944) “which described an atomic bomb a year before one was ever dropped, which the government attempted to suppress.” Should I read it? I imagine it is historically important but a poor story. Did he write anything else worth reading?
June 21st: David J. Skal (1952-2024). I’ve only read Skal’s short story “Chains” (1971).
June 22nd: Lima de Freitas (1927-1998). One of my top 5 science fiction artists — I love his line work. For a few examples I gathered, see this thread on Bluesky. I also posted about his work on my site: The Futuristic Cities of Lima de Freitas.
June 22nd: Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006). I’ve reviewed Clay’s Ark (1984), Dawn (1987) and Mind of My Mind (1977). Clay’s Ark (1984) is really really good. Covered it last year.
June 23rd: Michael Shaara (1928-1988). His collection Soldier Boy (1982) judges me from the shelf. I’ve been meaning to read it since 2015!
- Paul Orban’s interior art for A. J. Deutsch’s “A Subway Named Mobius” (1950) in Astounding Science Fiction, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. (December 1950)
June 23rd: Artist Paul Orban (1896-1974). I enjoy his style of interior art — the variety of lines and shading.
June 23rd: Artist Alan Craddock (1956-). I do not enjoy his style of cover art!
- Alan Craddock’s cover art for the 1985 Orbit edition of David Gerrold’s A Day for Damnation (1984)
For book reviews consult the INDEX
For cover art posts consult the INDEX
For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX
#1930s #1950s #1960s #1970s #1980s #avantGarde #bookReview #bookReviews #books #fiction #HowardVChaykin #KateWilhelm #philipKDick #RobertHoldstock #SamuelRDelany #sciFi #scienceFiction -
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIX
What pre-1985 science fiction adventures have you started this summer? Any great reads? Disappointing ones? Intriguing discoveries? Here’s the April installment of this column.
- A selection of read volumes from my shelves
In a conversation on Blueksy, someone asked for my history of science fiction recommendations (including a few general surveys). I scoured my shelves and came up with an all-too-large pile (with some notable volumes I wanted to include but could not find) of favorite histories of science fiction. See photo below. I tried to include monographs that were not studies of single authors.
As I am a historian by training and trade who holds on to some of my disciplinary ticks and hangups, I also included works by trained academics with two major exceptions 1) Mike Ashley’s multi-volume study of science fiction magazines (but no other recent works exist and they’re really good for the nuts and bolts of genre magazines) and 2) Alec Nevala-Lee’s approachable and well-researched group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (2018). Both should be read.
- A photo of a few of my history of science fiction recommendations
I deliberately avoided works by science fiction authors like Damon Knight, Brian W. Aldiss, and Frederik Pohl. They’re great sources and I own and have read many of them but…. they are not histories by trained scholars. I do not mean for this to come off as elitist. Rather, my personal remit for my list—I needed to winnow down the hundreds and hundreds I own–was deliberately narrow! I read and use sources widely. Remember, these are my favorites — they might not be the best but they got me thinking and reading and writing. And that’s what we all should be doing, reading what makes us happy.
Before we get to the the curated birthdays and brief thoughts on the science fiction volumes above, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read! You’re also welcome to list your favorite histories of the genre.
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- Samuel R. Delany and Howard V. Chaykin’s Empire (1978). I love the art! The story? One of Delany’s weakest outings. It’s a shame.
- Robert Holdstock’s Eye Among the Blind (1976). His anthropologically inclined first novel contains “kerns of his later genius” according to my 2014. Most details have faded. That can’t be said to his far superior Where Time Winds Blow (1981). If you only know Holdstock for Mythago Wood (1984), definitely check out his earlier more overt science fictional works. That said, I really need to read Mythago Wood!
- Kate Wilhelm’s Abyss (1971) is a underrated outing (two novellas) by a master near the top of her game. I particularly enjoyed “The Plastic Abyss” (1971): As the human drama (the entrenched patterns and fritctions of society’s expected social roles) swirls at the forefront, the SF premise generates the unease—in this case an attempt to secure funding for an experimental absorptive material onto which life-like images can be projected.
- Philip K. Dick’s Our Friends From Frolix 8 (1970). One of many PKD novels that have clumped together into a terrifying indistinguishable distillation of his unease and what makes him great. This is too say, I read a lot of PKD early in my SF reading career and can’t remember which details relate to which books!
What am I writing about?
The merciful appearance of summer break early this month — and a summer with little planned travel — has allowed me to get back into the flow of writing reviews and working on larger projects. Since the April installment of this series, I’ve read reviewed and written about the following: Exploration Log 14: Anti-Racism in Chandler Davis’ “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950), two posts on Clifford D. Simak: “Madness from Mars” (1939) and “Hermit of Mars” (1939) and his collection The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960), Polly Toynbee’s Leftovers (1966) and Lewis Gibbs’ Late Final (1951), Richard Wilson’s “Strike” (1953), and Knut Faldbakken’s Sweetwater (1976, trans. Joan Tate, 1994), which appeared originally in the first issue of Rachel S. Cordasco’s magazine Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine.
The summer has allowed me to return to my article (and accompanying historical research) on Edward A. Johnson’s Light Ahead for the Negro (1904). First major summer step? I finished Richard A. Paschal’s Jim Crow in North Carolina: The Legislative Program from 1865-1920 (2021) to integrate into my article! I will spend as much as the afternoon as possible at my favorite coffee shop trying to eek out a few more pages or to reacquaint myself with my 200+ electronic newspaper clippings I’ve collected.
I’m also working on my review of SF in translation for the second issue of Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine. I’ll keep the author and book secret until it appears in the first few weeks of August. As for non fiction for the site, I’m working on a few early Clifford D. Simak fanzine articles for my Exploration Log series.
What am I reading?
This is a rare moment for reasons connected to my before-mentioned article that I do not have a science fiction work already lined up to read. It’s a radically attempt to FINISH writing projects that have acted as anchors to other writing and reading. That said, no worries blog friends — I have plenty of half-finished reviews waiting in the wings. Stay tuned.
- Photo of Steve Batterson’s The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom (2023) on my history shelf with other books
On the non-fiction front: I have been eying Steve Batterson’s The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom (2023) after writing about Chandler Davis’ amazing fanzine article “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950) for my Exploration Log series.
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
June 10th: Artist Don Maitz (1953-).
June 11th: Josephine Saxton (1935-2023). I recommend The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith (1969). She was a unique and underrated voice of the New Wave. I also covered her first three published short stories.
June 12th: Frank K. Kelly (1914-2010). I wrote about an example of his dark 30s pulp here: “Famine on Mars” (1934).
June 12th: Henry Slesar (1927-2002).
June 13th: Artist Ralph McQuarrie (1929-2012). Best known for his Star Wars art. He also created SF covers.
- James Gurney’s cover for William Greenleaf’s The Tartarus Incident (1983)
June 14th: Artist James Gurney (1958-). Best known for Dinotopia (1992) (and the sequels). Another very influential book in my childhood. He also created a SF covers.
June 14th: Stephen Tall (1908-1981).
June 14th: Ruthven Todd (1914-1978). I recently acquired his marginally SF work The Lost Traveller (1943). I’ll feature it in a purchase post eventually.
June 14th: Laurence Yep (1948-). A complete unknown to me. I acquired one of his novels recently: Seademons (1977) .
June 14th: Artist Peter Goodfellow (1950-2022). One of my favorite British SF artists.
- Mitchell Hooks’ cover for the 1962 1st edition
June 15th: J. F. Bone (1916-2006). Best known for his novel The Lani People (1962). One of many novels with humanoid cat women. Blargh.
June 15th: Artist Neal Adams (1941-2022). Best known for his Tarzan covers.
June 15th: Brian Jacques (1939-2011). I’ve mentioned my love his Jacques’ Redwall sequence in previous year installments of the birthday list. If there’s a single author responsible for my adoration for reading and maps, it’s him.
June 17th: Wallace Wood (1927-1981).
June 17th: John Hersey (1914-1993). Best known for his non-fiction work Hiroshima (1946), Hersey also wrote three SFF volumes. I read and enjoyed his overpopulation themed novel My Petition for More Space (1974). I acquired his satire of the National Defense Education Act (1968) novel The Child Buyer (1960).
June 17th: Garen Drussaï (1916-2009). She wrote five science fiction stories in the mid-50s, including her “consumer hell” story “Woman’s Work” (1956) that I must finally get around to reading.
June 17th: Dean Ing (1931-2020).
- The Brothers Quay cover for the 1st edition of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly (1977)
June 17th: Tim and Steve Quay (1947-) (The Brothers Quay). Before their brilliant short films, they created a handful of covers early in their career! I found their 1st edition cover of PKD’s A Scanner Darkly (1977) the best.
June 18th: Artist Jody A. Lee (1958-).
June 18th: Roger Ebert (1942-2013). Ebert, a famous film-reviewer, also published two science fiction short stories in 1972.
June 19th: Mark Adlard (1932-). I reviewed the first volume–Interface (1971)–in his Tcity trilogy back in 2015.
June 19th: Brian Ball (1932-2020). A slick pulp-SF author, if that is your thing. I reviewed Singularity Station (1973) in 2013.
- Peter Goodfellow’s cover for the 1977 UK edition of Grimus (1975)
June 19th: Salman Rushdie (1947-). I have my eyes on his first SF novel Grimus (1975) (above).
June 20th: Pamela Zoline (1941-). I love the rightly celebrated “The Heat Death of the Universe” (1967) and wish she wrote more than the handful of short stories.
June 21st: Cleve Cartmill (1908-1964). Best known for the controversy over “Deadline” (1944) “which described an atomic bomb a year before one was ever dropped, which the government attempted to suppress.” Should I read it? I imagine it is historically important but a poor story. Did he write anything else worth reading?
June 21st: David J. Skal (1952-2024). I’ve only read Skal’s short story “Chains” (1971).
June 22nd: Lima de Freitas (1927-1998). One of my top 5 science fiction artists — I love his line work. For a few examples I gathered, see this thread on Bluesky. I also posted about his work on my site: The Futuristic Cities of Lima de Freitas.
June 22nd: Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006). I’ve reviewed Clay’s Ark (1984), Dawn (1987) and Mind of My Mind (1977). Clay’s Ark (1984) is really really good. Covered it last year.
June 23rd: Michael Shaara (1928-1988). His collection Soldier Boy (1982) judges me from the shelf. I’ve been meaning to read it since 2015!
- Paul Orban’s interior art for A. J. Deutsch’s “A Subway Named Mobius” (1950) in Astounding Science Fiction, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. (December 1950)
June 23rd: Artist Paul Orban (1896-1974). I enjoy his style of interior art — the variety of lines and shading.
June 23rd: Artist Alan Craddock (1956-). I do not enjoy his style of cover art!
- Alan Craddock’s cover art for the 1985 Orbit edition of David Gerrold’s A Day for Damnation (1984)
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This piece on a #book about “Muskism” by #HenryFarrell is a good read, but contains a curiously elliptical reference to a longstanding interest of mine - #PKD: “I’ve recently been re-reading a lot of #PhilipKDick for reasons, and this bit from The Transmigration of Timothy Archer sticks out: …”
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"je suis vivant et vous êtes morts" : en fait, #PhilipKDick avait vu trop de comptes de bots sur son réseau social, et trop de sites fabriqués par des IA.
Version verre à moitié plein : ptett que vivre dans une sauciss... une société de simulacres pétés va nous faire valoriser de se comporter humainement, genre s'écouter et se répondre, empathie, toussa.
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Toute cette semaine, sur le podcast Actusf (on vous laisse aller chercher ça sur les plateformes de podcasts), on vous parle d'Uchronie.
Et aujourd'hui, Etienne Barillier nous fait un focus sur un chef d'oeuvre du genre : Le Maître du Haut Château !
#sciencefiction #uchronie #sciencefictionfan #filmsciencefiction #sciencefictionstories #PhilipKDick #litterature #sciencefictionbook
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On poursuit notre semaine spéciale Uchronie dans notre podcast !
Etienne Barillier nous raconte Le Maître du Haut Château...
Par ici : https://buff.ly/YtOgGj7
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Après une série #PhilipKDick j'enchaîne sur un classique que j'avais envie de découvrir avec Le Roi en jaune de #RobertWChambers
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Après une série #PhilipKDick j'enchaîne sur un classique que j'avais envie de découvrir avec Le Roi en jaune de #RobertWChambers
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
Total Recall offers a glimpse in the future where ESPN, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Pepsi, Philips, Coca-Cola, and Fujifilm seem to be just some of the larger corporations which advertise very prominently.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
Total Recall offers a glimpse in the future where ESPN, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Pepsi, Philips, Coca-Cola, and Fujifilm seem to be just some of the larger corporations which advertise very prominently.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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Troisième #livre de la Trilogie Divine de #PhilipKDick terminé. Une sacré trilogie qui montre les nombreuses facettes de l'auteur, une acrobatie entre l'expérience mystique et le rationnel.
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Troisième #livre de la Trilogie Divine de #PhilipKDick terminé. Une sacré trilogie qui montre les nombreuses facettes de l'auteur, une acrobatie entre l'expérience mystique et le rationnel.
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I recall the impact of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick as teenager but feel exhausted to even think of watching any series that consists of several seasons. This is not the first time I wish the creators (not by someone who was not involved with the original production) could just edit the opposite of director's cut and squeeze the whole series into six to eight episodes. Let every actor pick their favorite scene or something. :) #Netflix #philipkdick #themaninthehighcastle
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I recall the impact of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick as teenager but feel exhausted to even think of watching any series that consists of several seasons. This is not the first time I wish the creators (not by someone who was not involved with the original production) could just edit the opposite of director's cut and squeeze the whole series into six to eight episodes. Let every actor pick their favorite scene or something. :) #Netflix #philipkdick #themaninthehighcastle
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I'm selling all my PKD books, because I need the cash, badly.
SOLD! thank you all for boosting :)Book titles are in the alt text because they don't fit in the toot.
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I'm selling all my PKD books, because I need the cash, badly.
SOLD! thank you all for boosting :)Book titles are in the alt text because they don't fit in the toot.
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
The protagonist "waking up" with amnesia, putting the pieces of a puzzle together while staying in a hotel filled with clues, a call from a strange contact, a dive bar, and an evil corporation. The only downside is that you can't re-watch it for the first time again.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
The protagonist "waking up" with amnesia, putting the pieces of a puzzle together while staying in a hotel filled with clues, a call from a strange contact, a dive bar, and an evil corporation. The only downside is that you can't re-watch it for the first time again.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
Our first piece of information that Douglas Quaid isn't who he seems to be is the way he manages to kill would be assassins in cold-blooded efficiency.
The film kicks into high gear from here on out, living up to the of "Get ready for the ride of your life" tagline.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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To celebrate Total Recall turning 36 years old recently, look forward to some follow-up posts.
Our first piece of information that Douglas Quaid isn't who he seems to be is the way he manages to kill would be assassins in cold-blooded efficiency.
The film kicks into high gear from here on out, living up to the of "Get ready for the ride of your life" tagline.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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Total Recall turns 36 years old today. It premiered back in 1990.
Based off "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" penned by Philip K. Dick, it earned $260+ million dollars.
It did get a 2012 remake, but I think it's safe to say the original is better received.
In honour of Total Recall, I'll be posting one or two follow-up videos.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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Total Recall turns 36 years old today. It premiered back in 1990.
Based off "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" penned by Philip K. Dick, it earned $260+ million dollars.
It did get a 2012 remake, but I think it's safe to say the original is better received.
In honour of Total Recall, I'll be posting one or two follow-up videos.
#OTD #Movies #Film #Cinema #TotalRecall #PhilipKDick #PaulVerhoeven #Schwarzenegger #RonnyCox #MichaelIronside #Squibs
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“The climax of this #novel, which is brilliant, is that a woman finds Abendsen and says what does your #novel mean?” fivebooks.com/best-books/j... #TheManInTheHighCastle #TheGrasshopperLiesHeavy #PKD #PhilipKDick #parallelworlds #books #BookSky
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“The climax of this #novel, which is brilliant, is that a woman finds Abendsen and says what does your #novel mean?” fivebooks.com/best-books/j... #TheManInTheHighCastle #TheGrasshopperLiesHeavy #PKD #PhilipKDick #parallelworlds #books #BookSky
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"Always beware of manifestations too lofty to identify themselves." - from Deus Irae by #PhilipKDick and #RogerZelazny, 1976