I bought two of the 3 Book of the New Sun Easton editions released for the Science Fiction book club. Good ones. Shame that Book 3 was made in a different format and book 4 wasn't even adapted.
Are any of these Christian, Biblically adherent, knowing that the only life in the universe is created by God here on Earth? For the rest of universe is made for God's Glory?
Sheesh. On Wings of Song may have been a commercial failure, but it was praised by figures as disparate as Harold Bloom, William Gibson, David Pringle, John Clute and Michael Bishop. And the market is not always a meritocracy, though you seem to use them as synonyms.
Never could get into Joanna Russ, but an alternate worlds story by her sounds interesting.
Perelandra (Voyage to Venus) just might be my favorite C.S. Lewis work. Lewis had amazing powers of description, from lyrical descriptions of the Venusian landscape to the most brutal, visceral description of a fight I think I've ever read.
I bought two of the 3 Book of the New Sun Easton editions released for the Science Fiction book club. Good ones. Shame that Book 3 was made in a different format and book 4 wasn't even adapted.
Great list. What surprises me is how many of them I've read over the years.
Are any of these Christian, Biblically adherent, knowing that the only life in the universe is created by God here on Earth? For the rest of universe is made for God's Glory?
James Blish's is at least. Orson Scott Card has a lot of catholicism in ender's game and speaker for the dead.
Well... I ordered something called "Justified"..... We'll see!!! :P
Thanks!
C.S. Lewis, of course.
Gene Wolfe, Cordwainer Smith, and Zenna Henderson are 3 classic SF greats who fit that description as well.
Sheesh. On Wings of Song may have been a commercial failure, but it was praised by figures as disparate as Harold Bloom, William Gibson, David Pringle, John Clute and Michael Bishop. And the market is not always a meritocracy, though you seem to use them as synonyms.
Never could get into Joanna Russ, but an alternate worlds story by her sounds interesting.
Perelandra (Voyage to Venus) just might be my favorite C.S. Lewis work. Lewis had amazing powers of description, from lyrical descriptions of the Venusian landscape to the most brutal, visceral description of a fight I think I've ever read.
Outstanding list. Thank you for this.