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KharBevNor:
Can we please, please, please stop describing literature and sci-fi as entirely separate things? thanks!
Joseph:
Agreed (hopefully that wasn't directed at me at all? I don't think I've said anything that could be construed like that, and I certainly don't think along those lines, but for whatever reason I feel guilty anyhow).
I'll admit that since I was in high school my reading of sci-fi and fantasy has really fallen off, mostly because my reading tends to follow certain progressive lines: I'll read a book, and then read a variety of reviews of the book, and if they are available, interviews with the author and and of his/her/etc. own essays that I can find. I'll then take the names and titles I gather from that, and try and follow through on at least a few of them, or at least add them to my ever growing list for future reading. Unfortunately, it's pretty uncommon for "genre" writers to end up being discussed, as the literary community tends to shun them for whatever reasons. There are exceptions though: Nabokov was pretty outspoken about such genre divides being meaningless, and on his recommendations I've read some Russian sci-fi (like Aleksey Tolstoy). Guy Davenport and Jonathan Williams are also pretty comfortable approaching and recommending books from across the literary spectrum.
So, Khar, is there any sci-fi you'd especially recommend? Lately I've read and enjoyed Samuel R. Delany and Avram Davidson, and I've always had a lot of love for Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick.
Scandanavian War Machine:
I just bought Dan Simmons' Hyperion for about the fifth time in my life, this time digitally on my new Kindle.
I am super psyched to reread it and it's sequels. Last time I read them was 2006.
I'm about 30% of the way through Hyperion and it is extremely awesome but the Kindle version has a lot of really stupid typos, which leads me to believe maybe it was transcribed by a computer or something because of stuff like turning "of" into "qf" or "dl" or any other combination of letters that might sort of accidentally look similar to "of."
Also, they apparently decided to "correct" Simmons' grammar from time to time by inserting commas, except they did so without reading the entire sentence first so there are all these incorrect commas fucking up the flow, confusing the message and shit.
Wish they would have tried a little harder with it.
Joseph:
Sounds like they probably just scanned the book and converted it to text. The inserted commas are maybe flecks of dust or markings on the original page that the text converter interpreted as punctuation?
I have to say, eReaders don't have much attraction to me.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 28 Jan 2011, 08:49 ---Can we please, please, please stop describing literature and sci-fi as entirely separate things? thanks!
--- End quote ---
Only as long as we continue to recognise that while literature can encompass any genre, there is a clear difference between "literary" and "non-literary" writing.
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