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dustydigger
Posted 2021-01-28 4:55 AM (#22870 - in reply to #22775)
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Location: UK		I read a fair to middling Edmond Hamilton tale,World With a Thousand Moons,and a shorter story,The Stars,My Brothers.A bit bland,and written well before his marriage to Leigh Brackett,so none of her subtle nudges towards a more modern take on women.Its claimed that they always worked apart save for one collaboration,but definitely his work in general improved greatly in later years. Apparently he did a lot of work on the early Superman and Batman stories for DC comics,including the well respected Last Days of Superman episodes in 1962.
Iam sorting out my reads for February,mostly 1950s stuff. Also trying for two or three award winners per month.Trying to fill in any early gaps in my lists,so probably Christopher Priest The Inverted World and Michael G Coney Brontomek will feature. Have read 67/69 Hugo winners,and 54/56 Nebulas,but am doing very badly with the BSFA award,only read 17/59 winners,despite being a Brit! lol Shame on me.I do have plans for reading a reasonable number this year to at least partially fill the ignorance gap. Looking at:
Michael G Coney - Brontomek!
Allette de Bodard - House of Shattered Wings
P K Dick - A Scanner Darkly
Colin Greenland - Take Back Plenty
Christopher Priest - Inverted World
Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow
Ian Watson - The Jonah Kit
At least that will bring my tally into the mid twenties,but a long way to go.

Edited by dustydigger 2021-01-28 4:59 AM

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