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Bezig met laden... Dreams of the Technariondoor Sean McMullen
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I was sent this for review by Interzone. I don’t think I’ve read anything by McMullen before, a few short stories perhaps. Some of the stories in this collection appeared in Interzone, although I don’t recall them. As sf collections go, Dreams of the Technarion is strong on ideas, if not on story – one or two feel like premises in search of a plot. But what makes the book is the final story… which isn’t a story at all but an essay on the history of Australian science fiction. It’s fascinating stuff – and amusing too, albeit not always intentionally: when discussing early Australian pulp magazines, McMullen writes, “This is not the sort of thing to make the average SF reader do handstands, but it was good enough for an average Australian male caught in a toilet without a newspaper”, which I’m not entirely sure means what McMullen intended it to mean… Anyway, I almost certainly wouldn’t have read this had I not been sent it for review, but I’m glad I did. There’s certainly much worse out there, often much more acclaimed, and the essay on the history of Australian sf is fascinating stuff. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Hugo finalist and steampunk master Sean McMullen presents ten science fiction stories that skirt the borderlands of reality-and most of the science is not fiction. * The Andromedans will arrive and wipe us out in a few centuries, so should we be worried? * We can't yet accelerate a space probe to a tenth of the speed of light, but we already have the technology to slow it down. * Will humanity be doomed unless all astronauts go on creative writing courses? * Oscar Wilde is dead, so why is he still writing? * What Roman warship was powered by fish? * Why were the Metropolitan Police interested in quantum entanglement back in 1899? * Why was an American typist trying to save the world from computers in 1875? And this volume includes: OUTPOST OF WONDER - SF in Australia 1832-2017 Based on the research for Sean's twenty-six books and articles on Australian SF, this is the amazing, heroic, sometimes amusing and occasionally horrifying story of nearly two centuries of science fiction by Australians. How many Hugo Awards has Australian SF brought home? How many Oscars? Which Australian novels may have saved the world? Who wrote and staged a feminist space opera in 1958? More Australian SF has been published since 2000 than in the rest of its history put together, but what are its prospects for the future? If you want answers, you will have to keep reading. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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