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OK, where do I start with that? B.


People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions. The popular “A” list can be found here, and the full alphabetical index is here. Please comment to add any B writers that I may have missed, and of course to argue with my choices.
I’m linking to my posts on the books where I have made such posts.
My B shelf begins with a disturbingly large number of copies of
Destinies, a paperback SF magazine edited by Jim Baen in my own personal golden age of the late seventies and early eighties. How I loved it and waited eagerly for new copies to arrive in the bookshop! There doesn’t seem much point recommending it now but if you happen to see copies lying around it’s still worth picking up for the Spider Robinson reviews (lacerating books most people have now forgotten) the Pournelle essays on space futures and ....

United States , Al Iskandariyah , United Kingdom , Terry Bisson , Iain Banks , Jim Baen , Gemma Bull , John Barnes , David Brin , Spider Robinson , Anne Bronte , Octavia Butler , Wildfell Hall , James Blish , Anthony Burgess , Le Guin , Emily Bronte , Alfred Bester , Lois Mcmaster Bujold , Orson Scott Card , Mildred Downey Broxon , Jane Eyre , Greg Bear , Gillian Bradshaw , Lloyd Biggle Jr , Charlotte Bronte ,

Paul Di Filippo Reviews The Society of Time by John Brunner


Was John Brunner’s life a tragedy? In some undeniable senses, yes. Possessed of enormous talents, but also an array of character faults, he became his own worst enemy and his later-era career suffered immensely in large part due to one poor decision to stake too much effort and hopes on a mainstream novel that took too long to write and then failed to sell (
The Great Steamboat Race). And atop those business setbacks, his health was poor and he died awfully young only age 60 in a cosmically apt but somewhat inglorious setting: the 1995 Worldcon.
But on the other hand, now that we have passed the 25th anniversary of his death, the personal details of his life the mortal horrors and human mundanities recede somewhat from the foreground of his biography, and the mountain ranges of his books remain. Thus it is with every writer, great and small, in their posthumous days. And so we can now see that Brunner’s life was, using this perspective, consequential and victorious, no ....

United Kingdom , United States , Anderson Dominic Flandry , Paul Di Filippo , Joel Sackstone , Robert Silverberg , Mike Ashley , Deborah Newton , John Brunner , Don Miguel Navarro , Society Of Time , British Library , Great Steamboat Race , Shockwave Rider , Times Without Number , Jonbar Hinge , Spanish Armada , Spanish Empire , Poul Anderson , Dominic Flandry , Word Not , Amerindian Ruled California , Father Ramon , Wild Talent , Galactic Storm , Science Fiction ,