[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: the drive-by back up or Adventures in SF/Fantasy Ignorance.

[Sean Dwyer]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:39:46AM +0000, Barry Arrowsmith wrote:

> Neal Asher 
> Jon Courtenay Grimwood 
> Richard Morgan 
> Iain M. Banks 
> Bruce Sterling 
> Ken Macleod 
> 
> might be  worth considering. 
> No utopias among that lot and Banks can  have a vicious sense of 
> humour. (Note: the 'M.' is important - Iain Banks is the same writer 
> but *not* with his SF hat on.) 

Well utopias aren't all they're cracked up to be: some intellectual food I
consume weekly is an mp3 podcast available from the BBC each week with Melvyn
Bragg chatting to a few know-it-alls, and this week was all about the various
utopias constructed since the 19th century and interesting stuff it is,
telling you much about underlying social attitudes, some quite surprising.
Dystopias are the in thing now though. Scribble, scribble, good list

> or save money and visit their website  
> 
> https://secure.locusmag.com 
> 
> for a pretty good overview. 
> 
> 
> Hope that helps. 

They have a nice 2004 reading list I can scavenge from, ta :)

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