{"id":147,"date":"2009-02-19T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-03-15T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:32:46","slug":"getting-back-into-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/02\/19\/getting-back-into-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting back into science fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nReader Chris Y, in comments to <a href=\"index.php?entry=\/20090210-sf-awards-considered-harmful.txt\">this post<\/a> asks:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\n<cite>Gloriana<\/cite> is not Moorcock at his best, but <cite>Riddley Walker<\/cite> (1982) is an all time classic, and <cite>Heliconia Spring<\/cite> (1983) is well worth reading. I more or less gave up on SF about that time, with the decline of the New Wave and the resurgence of boring old hardcore. Who should I read to get back into it? I&#8217;ve tried Charlie Stross, who seems OK; anybody else?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSo we&#8217;re looking for recommendations for somebody who likes New Wave science fiction and Charlie Stross, but is less keen on hardcore science fiction. What I immediately think of is the socalled  <cite>New Weird<\/cite>, a self-conscious literary movement of a few years ago that sort of coalesced around <a href=\"\/books\/perdido.html\">China Mi&eacute;ville<\/a> and the generation of up and coming authors that got compared to him. Other New Weird authors include <a href=\"\/books\/year-of-our-war.html\">Steph Swainson<\/a>, <a href=\"\/books\/centauri-device.html\">M. John Harrison<\/a> and on the more space opera side of things, Alastair Reynolds.  Tachyon Publications has put out an Ann and Jeff Vandermeer edited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tachyonpublications.com\/book\/New_Weird.html\">anthology<\/a> of New Weird stories that looks to be a good starter. Another author that might be of interest is <a href=\"\/books\/swiftly.html\">Adam Roberts<\/a>, whose work I don&#8217;t actually like all that much but I do admire, if that makes any sense.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the Strossian side of things, there&#8217;s <a href=\"\/books\/execution-channel.html\">Ken MacLeod<\/a>, not to mention <a href=\"\/books\/algebraist.html\">Iain M. Banks<\/a> and <a href=\"\/books\/brasyl.html\">Ian McDonald<\/a>. Two underrated authors I only discovered myself last year are <a href=\"\/books\/ammonite.html\">Nicola Griffith<\/a>, writing feminist science fiction in the best sense of the word, as well as <a href=\"\/books\/british-summertime.html\">Paul Cornell<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAny other recommendations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Chris Y, in comments to this post asks: Gloriana is not Moorcock at his best, but Riddley Walker (1982) is an all time classic, and Heliconia Spring (1983) is well worth reading. I more or less gave up on SF about that time, with the decline of the New Wave and the resurgence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[36,2441],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-recommended-reading","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}