Science Fiction Picks for Week 4 - The 1960s!

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  • "Rocket Summer" is a month long reading event in July where the aim is to read classic science fiction.
    There are four weekly themes:
    1 SF until 1939
    2 SF from 1940 - 1949
    3 SF from 1950 - 1959
    4 SF from 1960 - 1969
    These are my possible picks for the fourth and final week of the event...
    The event is devised by ‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ and co hosted by:
    ‪@saintdonoghue‬
    ‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬
    ‪@ShawnDStandfast‬
    ‪@LiterateTexan‬
    ‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬
    Books Mentioned:
    Galaxy
    Martian Enterprise - Clifford C Reed
    The Greks Bring Gifts - Murray Leinster
    Budrys' Inferno - Algis Budrys
    Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys
    The Change - George C Foster
    The 22nd Century - John Christopher
    Drunkard's Walk - Frederick Pohl
    Time Gladiator - Mack Reynolds
    The Grey Aliens - J Hunter Holly
    Exodus from Elysium - Jonathan Burke
    Or All the Seas With Oysters - Avram Davidson
    Worlds of the Imperium - Keith Laumer
    Quest of the Three Worlds - Cordwainer Smith
    Stardreamer - Cordwainer Smith
    The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R Delany
    The Night Shapes - James Blish
    The Furies - Keith Roberts
    Why Call them Back from Heaven? - Clifford D Simak
    All the Traps of Earth - Clifford D Simak
    The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis
    Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
    2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
    #booktube #books #reading #read #sf #pulp #scifiction #scifi #sciencefiction #rocketsummer

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  • @Montie-Adkins
    @Montie-Adkins 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    YOU GOT A SIGNED COPY OF 2001!!!!!!!!

    • @GenreBooks23
      @GenreBooks23  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup, that’s the book I’ll grab in a house-fire :)

    • @Montie-Adkins
      @Montie-Adkins 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GenreBooks23 🤣

  • @BookChatWithPat8668
    @BookChatWithPat8668 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gavin, I do believe you are a co-host to this event now too! 👏🏼👍🏼🥰 Another great installment in this series. 😊

    • @GenreBooks23
      @GenreBooks23  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh yeah! I wasn’t when I recorded and uploaded the video though! I will change the blurb, thanks Pat!

    • @BookChatWithPat8668
      @BookChatWithPat8668 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GenreBooks23 😊👏🏼

  • @DianeSLoftis
    @DianeSLoftis 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So many choices So little time tik tok, tik tok 😅 j/k
    Maybe you could put up a few polls or something? How awesome that you own a couple signed copies.

    • @GenreBooks23
      @GenreBooks23  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks. I’m all polled out, with an election 6 days away, but open to preferences/ suggestions.
      Still going to try to read as much as I can!

  • @RaynorReadsStuff
    @RaynorReadsStuff 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So looking forward to this event and your videos of possibilities have given me plenty to mull over. Brilliant. Thanks 😊

    • @GenreBooks23
      @GenreBooks23  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks Debs, it ought to be fun!

  • @ireadthisbookwithchris
    @ireadthisbookwithchris 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rocket summer seems interesting. Maybe I should do it too.

    • @ireadthisbookwithchris
      @ireadthisbookwithchris 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is also a nice looking collection of sci-fi to read.

    • @GenreBooks23
      @GenreBooks23  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You certainly should!

    • @GenreBooks23
      @GenreBooks23  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks very much:)