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dustydigger
Posted 2016-04-06 10:48 AM (#13181 - in reply to #13118)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1980s SF Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: UK		OK,I have chosen my books. Since in my OCD way I will also be reading award winning SF etc in date order, this is ,for the most part a seriously heavy(including physically at times ! lol) list of reads. Probably fascinating and rewarding,but time consuming. Here's my list of 80s books on the agenda over probably the next year or so
1980:Joan D Vinge - The Snow Queen
1981: John Crowley - Little,Big
1982 : Gene Wolfe - Sword of the Lictor
1882 : Michael Bishop - No Enemy But Time
1983 : C J Cherryh - 40.000 in Gehenna
1984 : Larry Niven - The Integral Trees
1985 : Larry Niven - Footfall
1986 : Pat Murphy - The Falling Woman
1986 : Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Earth
1986 : Joan Slonczewski - A Door into Ocean
1986 : Pat Murphy - The Falling Woman
1986 : David Brin - Heart of the Comet
1987 : Octavia R Butler - Dawn
1987 : Ken Grimwood - Replay
1988 : Elizabeth Ann Scarborough - The Healer's War
1988 : Isaac Asimov - Prelude to Foundation
1989 : Allen Steele - Orbital Decay

Pretty eclectic,interesting and probably absorbing,but I am not going to be able to read all seventeen in 5 months! Even trying for the basic 10,there's no way some of these books will take only two weeks to read! Oh well,can but try. At least the challenge as a whole lasts to the end of Dec 2017. Perhaps I will have finished these by then,and will ignore the 90s challenge? After all have you SEEN the monster tomes from the 90s decade in the context of my phobia of massive wristbreaking tomes???....Domesday Book,Fire Upon the Deep,Green Mars,Blue Mars,Endymion.Game of Thrones,Rise of Endymion,The Sparrow,Cryptonomicon,Darwin's Radio....EEK!

Edited by dustydigger 2016-04-06 10:51 AM

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