Hey Nick! As always, very interesting ~ especially because, per usual too, I am unfamiliar with these works and now curious to find out more (albeit that SciFi turned me off probably 60 years ago as being more cowboys, chases and crashes, now in space....) Is there a scifi writer you see as writing mainly of LIFE (in all its minor verses and vagaries,) sans world beating heroics, in its imagined future? I love J.G. Ballard in this regard, and recently re-read and loved again Bradbury's Farenheit 451, where the world beating is essentially an afternote. Any Samuel Delany fit this bill? Curious about him!
I can think if a few. Philip K Dick. His book A Scanner Darkly is my favorite. Margaret Atwood's spec fic (Handmaid's Tale and her Maddadam trilogy). Ursula K Le Guin (The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Hand of Darkness). Octavia Butler. Kate Wilhelm. And Connie Willis. If I think of others, I'll send.
Delany is good, but not quite what you're describing - I don't think.
Hey Nick! As always, very interesting ~ especially because, per usual too, I am unfamiliar with these works and now curious to find out more (albeit that SciFi turned me off probably 60 years ago as being more cowboys, chases and crashes, now in space....) Is there a scifi writer you see as writing mainly of LIFE (in all its minor verses and vagaries,) sans world beating heroics, in its imagined future? I love J.G. Ballard in this regard, and recently re-read and loved again Bradbury's Farenheit 451, where the world beating is essentially an afternote. Any Samuel Delany fit this bill? Curious about him!
Thanks Laura!
I can think if a few. Philip K Dick. His book A Scanner Darkly is my favorite. Margaret Atwood's spec fic (Handmaid's Tale and her Maddadam trilogy). Ursula K Le Guin (The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Hand of Darkness). Octavia Butler. Kate Wilhelm. And Connie Willis. If I think of others, I'll send.
Delany is good, but not quite what you're describing - I don't think.