I am currently reading the science fiction book , The Human Division by John Scalzi. I have also checked out another sy-fi book The Soldier by Neal Asher. Additionally, I also have books by Greg Bear and Stephen Baxter on my “to be read” shelf. So I have decided to create a new challenge! My June and July Other Worlds Challenge. The goal is to spend the next two months reading Science Fiction books.
Hmm, as I sit here thinking about this challenge, I wonder if I have created it as a way to get away from this world that I mcurrently live in. One which in fact seems like an other world horror show?
In addition to the books listed above, I also have several science fiction books on my Kindle that I want to read.
E.K. Takes on the Classic Works of Clifford Simak
Finally, one of my 2018 Reading Challenges is to read books by classic science fiction writers whose books I haven’t read. One of those writers is Clifford Simak
From Amazon:
During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written….
Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Without Simak, science fiction would have been without its most humane element, its most humane spokesman for the wisdom of the ordinary person and the value of life lived close to the land.” —James Gunn
“To read science-fiction is to read Simak. The reader who does not like Simak stories does not like science-fiction at all.” —Robert A. Heinlein
So today I put in a request to check out Way Station from my library. I also purchased the e-book version of the Nebula Award nominated All Flesh is Grass for a whole $1.99.
As I was finishing this post this thought crossed my mind. What will I do if an author, whose work I can’t wait to read releases a book in June or July? I read it ,duh! But I just checked and there’s good news. Two of may favorite authors Karin Slaughter and William Kent Krueger won’t be releasing their new books until August. So it’s off to Other Worlds !!!