Immortality Cults and Mind-Bending Worlds - [3 Books Reviewed]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Three science fiction books that I read recently, which were all great! Books mentioned in the video:
The Dark Side of the Earth by Alfred Bester
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Inverted World by Christopher Priest
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I love how you bring these unknown scifi gems to our attention. I would never know which one to pick up. You have a real talent in giving us just enough information to get us interested.🤔 I think you are filling in a much needed niche on booktube.😀
I always appreciate your support Heidi! I think there are people doing this much better than me but hopefully I will get better as I go :)
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Read the Bester and Priest. Great, great books! Silverberg’s is just waiting forlornly on my bookshelf for me to pick it up. I think ‘Inverted World’ is one of the best SF novels I’ve read in the past couple of years. Keep up the good work!
Thank you sir, means a lot coming from you. Going to watch your video with Ira and Matt on my commute tomorrow.
Ok now I am getting Inverted World.
Keeping my eye out for “Dark Side of the Earth”. Great reviews! Love Book of Skulls.
@@TauZeroSF thank you sir!
Imma leave a comment for the algorithm. I am gonna have a look at inverted world tho :)
Btw if you are on the first register on your yt channel overview or whatever it is in english it says there is no content. Maybe you should change that.
This is an outstanding selection, and your reviews are satisfyingly succinct. I've read each of them and rated each highly with my favorite being The Book of Skulls. That's Silverberg's best era. The Best collection is so good. I liked Inverted World for its imaginative world-building but found the ending too vague to be entirely satisfying.
Sounds like we're aligned quite well! Any books you'd like to see me read and review on an upcoming video?
@@SciFiFinds I'm interested in anything mind-bending and thought-provoking, especially from the '60s, '70s and '80s. I'm not interested in SF which leans heavily on space opera tropes. Here are some recommendations: Radix by A.A. Attanasio, Moderan by David Bunch, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Ubik by PKD, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem, The Doomed City by the Strugatsky brothers. I could go on.
Despite having a Deus ex machina ending, I loved Inverted World. The Book of Skulls is masterfully written and executed.
The Book of Skulls came across as horror to me. Not a complaint, it’s excellent. I haven’t read that Bester collection but he’s great.
I thought book of skulls was an entertaining read, just not really SF
I'd tend to agree with this