10-23-2012, 10:51 AM | #31 |
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The way it's going, it looks like Cloud Atlas will win by default.
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10-23-2012, 11:42 AM | #32 | |
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I’d like to nominate “Against the Day” by Thomas Pynchon—and yes, I know, but I feel just fine calling this science fiction, albeit “science fiction written in 1900”, as Louis Menand from the New Yorker put it.
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10-23-2012, 04:32 PM | #33 |
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I nominate Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock by Christopher L. Bennett. Love time travel tales.
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10-23-2012, 06:11 PM | #34 |
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My nominations
I would like to third the nomination for Ubik and Beggars in Spain and second The Dreaming Jewels
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10-23-2012, 06:26 PM | #35 |
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I nominate Summer of Love, A Time Travel by Lisa Mason. Hippies, drugs, temporal displacement. Who could ask for more?
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10-23-2012, 06:50 PM | #36 |
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For my third and last nomination, one that's been on my to-be-read list (and my Kindle) for some time now, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.
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10-23-2012, 07:02 PM | #37 | |
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I just taped the probably terrible 2009 movie on the weekend. I watched the older British movie on netflix last year. I like all John Wyndham's books. Four days and hardly any fully nominated books for this category? What gives? Last edited by Synamon; 10-23-2012 at 07:05 PM. |
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10-23-2012, 07:29 PM | #38 | |
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10-23-2012, 07:31 PM | #39 |
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I'd like to nominate Metropolis by Thea von Harbou, the novelization of Fritz Lang's classic film by his wife/collaborator. From a review at Amazon :
Thea von Harbou's book is the indispensable companion to Fritz Lang's immortal film. As most people know, Lang's film was butchered by German and American editors-we have lost about 25% of the film. Essential scenes and many of the subplots were deleted to make it fit within a small time frame. Reality Check: The shorter the film, the more times they can show it, and the more money they collect. Consequently, with the best of restorations, we are seeing a film with as many gaps as a hockey player's smile. This book, which was serially published before the film's release, fills in the gaps. You get a better sense of the story that Lang and von Harbou are trying the tell. The book allows you to get inside the heads of Freder and co. in a way that the film does not allow. You get a stronger feel for the dystopic milieu that Freder fixes. This story is essentially mythic, so devotees of Joseph Campbell, George Lucas, and James N. Frey will devour the book and the film. You see the messianic and redemptive elements that makes this story so enduring. This story is one of my favorites, and rates with anything C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkein wrote, although not with the same level of craftsmanship. In the public domain. A Feedbooks link. |
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10-23-2012, 07:46 PM | #41 |
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A great choice. Metropolis is one of my all-time favorite films, and the newly discovered and restored footage, while still not quite complete, lets us see just how much we missed the first time we saw it.
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10-23-2012, 09:13 PM | #43 |
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Just for a quick reminder, Beggars in Spain can be had for less then $1 or maybe free from your local library's overdrive eBook section.
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10-24-2012, 01:08 AM | #45 |
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Normally I would look through the many nifty books in my collection and nominate an obscure, but worthy choice; however, there are already plenty of really good nominations that could use a helping hand. So...I would like to use my votes to second Metropolis, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Verdant Skies.
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