This should have been an 'effin panel

[thebitterguy]

Fifty works of SF Socialists should read. Rand gets included under "know your enemy". That's gotta rock.

And, once again, I ain't read much.

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[pyat.livejournal.com]

Speaking of socialism and SF, tonight's Fortress of Solitude is all about Realms. I'll post a link when YouTube finally finishes reviewing the darn thing. It's been 10 hours at this point - usually takes about 20 min.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, God. Go back to the painful times, why don't you.

Hey, amusing thought: It's been five years! Aaaaagh!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

If you count the original magazine... it's TEN years.

[thebitterguy]

I was just thinking since Peter stopped answering phone calls. (i.e. the unofficial cancellation).

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I gave up waiting and loaded it on My Space (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=892401234&n=2)...

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I've read five of these. I suck.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

It's kind of sad how few of these I've even heard of. I've read, of course, A Scanner Darkly and The Dispossessed, but since my exposure to PKD, peake, borges, le guin, burroughs, etc, I've had less time and inclination to read genre stuff simply because it's genre stuff. At the same time, though, the lack of weird in mainstream fiction bores me.

[kaijugal.livejournal.com]

I've read several of these, I'll probably save this list and persue some of the others at some point. Thanks for posting it.

Being interested in stories of stories featuring dystopian future societies and post-holocaust sci-fi you think I'd be the biggest Emo Kid on your friends list, suprisingly I'm non emo.

Remind me I said this after I get back from watching "An Inconvenient Truth" XD

[ladystarstruck.livejournal.com]

4/50 - I fail! Especially considering two of those four were so long ago I don't remember how they went.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I've read 14 out of the 50. I'm largely uninterested in reading any of the novels written in the 19th century that I haven't already read, but there are several of the 1960s and later novels that I definitely should read, the Mack Reynolds' novel and The Iron Dream being the most obvious - I tried Robinson's Mars books, but like too much of his work, it was far too slow and uninterestingly written. I am pleased to have read almost 1/3rd though.

[noondaypaisley.livejournal.com]

some pretty obscure stuff there. I wouldn't know how to even find a good deal of it.

I have to say including "The yellow wallpaper" as SF is reaching in my opinion. Some of her other stuff is SF, that's not.

Thanks for the list though, lots of fun stuff to think about.

[thebitterguy]

It's at least better than the darn 50 Conservative rock songs bit.

I haven't read The yellow Wallpaper since high school. And that may have been a short story.