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pizzakarin
Posted 2015-03-16 2:28 PM (#9900 - in reply to #9897)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: Austin, Tx		I looked through my 5 star books specifically for older SF and here's what I came up with:

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton

I'm having a hard time articulating it, but I think what those three have in common and what makes them resonate with me is a sense of humor about the absurdity of humanity.

As far as more recently published favorites:

Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Of the three of those, I expect Blindsight to hold up the least well as it is the mostly likely to be knocked down by improved social theory (one of the things that I think a lot of 50s and 60s books fell to). I expect Old Man's War to hold up the best as it is mostly an adventure story, though the technological trappings may get outdated.

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