Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
James Nicoll wrote:
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
_Flow_ was read by me. As you can personally attest, PKD isn't for
everyone. Yet he seems to mostly work for me. Presumably PKD's
partially New Wave, given the appearance of "Faith of Our Fathers"
in _Dangerous Visions_?
Speaking of ambiguous utopia, yesterday a different New Wave
novel was jettisoned by me half way through for failure to follow a
plot, or plotlessness. A leading Lafferty scholar (how many authors
can claim their own personal scholar?) warns as much in his Intro to
Lafferty [1]:
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
334 by Thomas M. Disch
The Godwhale by T. J. Bass
I've read the Le Guin and the Bass, although I was aware of the other two.
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg
A Song for Lya by George R. R. Martin
On the Street of the Serpents or, The Assassination of Chairman Mao, As Effected by the Author in Seville, Spain, in the Spring of 1992, a Year of No Certain Historicity by Michael Bishop
All of them.
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
If the Stars Are Gods by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
The Rest Is Silence by Charles L. Grant
Twilla by Tom Reamy
The first and the last. I am not well read in Grant's work.
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Engine at Heartspring's Center by Roger Zelazny
After King Kong Fell by Philip Jose Farmer
The Le Guin and the Zelazny.
Which 1975 Nebula Dramatic Presentation Have You Seen?
Sleeper by Woody Allen
Frankenstein: The True Story by Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood
The Fantastic Planet by Steve Hayes and Rene Laloux and Roland Topor
and Stefan Wul
Only the Woody Allen. All I remember is the scene with the VW Beetle.
I've never heard of the other two film. I don't know why this
category existed at this time.
James Nicoll wrote:
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
334 by Thomas M. Disch
Only these, and it took me thirty five years to finish the LeGuin. I
kicked myself when I realized how good it is.
And twenty years to get the reference in the title of Dick's novel.
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg
A Song for Lya by George R. R. Martin
Just these.
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
If the Stars Are Gods by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
Only this.
The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Engine at Heartspring's Center by Roger Zelazny
After King Kong Fell by Philip Jose Farmer
I recall none of them. I missed a Zelazny?
James Nicoll wrote:
In article <[email protected]>, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
_Flow_ was read by me. As you can personally attest, PKD isn't for
everyone. Yet he seems to mostly work for me. Presumably PKD's
partially New Wave, given the appearance of "Faith of Our Fathers"
in _Dangerous Visions_?
Speaking of ambiguous utopia, yesterday a different New Wave
novel was jettisoned by me half way through for failure to follow a
plot, or plotlessness. A leading Lafferty scholar (how many authors
can claim their own personal scholar?) warns as much in his Intro to
Lafferty [1]:
[big snip]
I do not get the attraction of Lafferty at all.
I can understand that, in general.
But not even "900 Grandmothers"?
James Nicoll wrote:
In article <[email protected]>, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
_Flow_ was read by me. As you can personally attest, PKD isn't for
everyone. Yet he seems to mostly work for me. Presumably PKD's
partially New Wave, given the appearance of "Faith of Our Fathers"
in _Dangerous Visions_?
Speaking of ambiguous utopia, yesterday a different New Wave
novel was jettisoned by me half way through for failure to follow a
plot, or plotlessness. A leading Lafferty scholar (how many authors
can claim their own personal scholar?) warns as much in his Intro to
Lafferty [1]:
[big snip]
I do not get the attraction of Lafferty at all.
I can understand that, in general.
But not even "900 Grandmothers"?
William Hyde wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
Don wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
_Flow_ was read by me. As you can personally attest, PKD isn't for
everyone. Yet he seems to mostly work for me. Presumably PKD's
partially New Wave, given the appearance of "Faith of Our Fathers"
in _Dangerous Visions_?
Speaking of ambiguous utopia, yesterday a different New Wave
novel was jettisoned by me half way through for failure to follow a
plot, or plotlessness. A leading Lafferty scholar (how many authors
can claim their own personal scholar?) warns as much in his Intro to
Lafferty [1]:
[big snip]
I do not get the attraction of Lafferty at all.
I can understand that, in general.
But not even "900 Grandmothers"?
I haven't finished a Lafferty novel and although I do not read many
short stories, many of Lafferty's short stories are brilliantly clever.
I don't like ghost stories, my favourites of his being con men tales
where the con man can be anything from a woman to a supernatural being.
If I read three in a row, the first is forgotten before the third is finished!
I enjoy PK Dick and Flow My Tears which was a little confusing. In your
other post were you referring to the 'song"?
Titus G wrote:
William Hyde wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
Don wrote:
James Nicoll wrote:
Which 1975 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
_Flow_ was read by me. As you can personally attest, PKD isn't for
everyone. Yet he seems to mostly work for me. Presumably PKD's
partially New Wave, given the appearance of "Faith of Our Fathers"
in _Dangerous Visions_?
Speaking of ambiguous utopia, yesterday a different New Wave
novel was jettisoned by me half way through for failure to follow a
plot, or plotlessness. A leading Lafferty scholar (how many authors
can claim their own personal scholar?) warns as much in his Intro to >>>>> Lafferty [1]:
[big snip]
I do not get the attraction of Lafferty at all.
I can understand that, in general.
But not even "900 Grandmothers"?
I haven't finished a Lafferty novel and although I do not read many
short stories, many of Lafferty's short stories are brilliantly clever.
I don't like ghost stories, my favourites of his being con men tales
where the con man can be anything from a woman to a supernatural being.
If I read three in a row, the first is forgotten before the third is
finished!
I enjoy PK Dick and Flow My Tears which was a little confusing. In your
other post were you referring to the 'song"?
Lafferty's short stories work for me. Perhaps readers need to fragmen-
tize his longer novels to take thought timeouts between situations.
The idea density in his novels may be unsuitable for long audiobooks.
_Past Master_ may very well need to be read to appreciate it.
Lafferty's Hopp-Equation Space piques my interest. In the words of
leading Lafferty scholar Ferguson:
Thus [Lafferty] maps the navigation of Hopp-Equation Space
onto the navigation of Laffertian space; the journey becomes
a metaphor for reading, well, any of his novels really, but
for Past Master in particular.
And in Lafferty's own words:
The Law of Conservation of Psychic Totality will not be
abridged. There were four and a half years of psychic
awareness to be compressed into one month, and it forced
its compression into these intense and rapid dreams.
There is a great lot of psychic space debris, and when
one enters its area on Hopp-Equation flight one experiences
it. Every poignant thing that ever happened, every comic
or horrifying or exalting episode that ever took place,
is still drifting somewhere in space. One runs into
fragments (and concentrations) of billions of minds
there; it is never lost, it is only spread out thin.
My mind sees parallels between Hopp-Equation Space and the supra-
cosmos, orthogonal multi-verse exposition found in Perry Rhodan's
Die Meister der Insel Zyklus.
Danke,
As I recall, if you like the Lafferty shorts and not the novels,
_Space Chantey_ may be sort of an in-between point, having been
half of an Ace-Double.
Snip
On 20/03/24 09:15, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
As I recall, if you like the Lafferty shorts and not the novels,
_Space Chantey_ may be sort of an in-between point, having been
half of an Ace-Double.
That is the novel I began, but didn't get very far through, after it was >suggested here a long time ago, perhaps by you?
I have "Archipelago" to read and the opening chapters were as
entertaining to begin as his short stories are.
Many of his Kindle novels are only NZ$2 at Amazon Australia but I
noticed this hard back for NZ$560.96c; just to the right of the Kindle
price of NZ$10.74c, >https://www.amazon.com.au/Lafferty-Orbit-R-ebook/dp/B01DT74Q2I/
Surely a misprint?
Titus G wrote:
Snip
On 20/03/24 09:15, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
As I recall, if you like the Lafferty shorts and not the novels,
_Space Chantey_ may be sort of an in-between point, having been
half of an Ace-Double.
That is the novel I began, but didn't get very far through, after it was
suggested here a long time ago, perhaps by you?
I have "Archipelago" to read and the opening chapters were as
entertaining to begin as his short stories are.
Many of his Kindle novels are only NZ$2 at Amazon Australia but I
noticed this hard back for NZ$560.96c; just to the right of the Kindle
price of NZ$10.74c,
https://www.amazon.com.au/Lafferty-Orbit-R-ebook/dp/B01DT74Q2I/
Surely a misprint?
This sort of thing does happen. For years, David Wishart's "The Lydian >Baker" was only available as a (cheaply produced) paperback for $360. My >second year statistical mechanics book, a $7 hardback, was on sale for
$510, while Nathan Divinsky's "Rings and Radicals" (a mathematics book, >despite its title) was on sale for about a hundred times my purchase
price - and someone on this group offered to buy it from me even so.
Michael F. Stemper wrote:[snip]
On 20/03/2024 15.24, William Hyde wrote:Clearly, a history of subversive political organizations!
while Nathan Divinsky's "Rings and Radicals" (a mathematics book,
despite its title)
What else would it be? Chemistry?
[Sean Connery:] I am to eliminate all free radicals
[Pamela Salem, who died a month ago:] Oh... Do be careful.
On 20/03/2024 15.24, William Hyde wrote:
while Nathan Divinsky's "Rings and Radicals" (a mathematics book, despite its title)
What else would it be? Chemistry?
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