Paperbacks, that is.
After spending many, many nights in the thick of
thousand-page classic epics, Hopper has decided to lighten his fare with a voyage
through some of his collected and gnarled science fiction paperbacks. Sadly,
few have made the southwest journey from New Jersey to Texas, but what hasn’t
has been replaced by newer gnarled works.
So I decided, tentatively, to spend the end of May and
the month of June returning to my science fiction roots, with the following reading
plan:
The
Galactic Rejects (1973) by Andrew J. Offutt
The
Water of Thought (1981) by Fred Saberhagen
The
Colors of Space (1963) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Voyage
to the Cities of the Dead (1984) by Alan Dean Foster
and two novellas (novellae?) by one of the truly
greats, Robert Silverberg
“Sailing to Byzantium” (1985)
“Born with the Dead” (1975)
Each work is barely an inch thick at most, anywhere from 75 to 275 pages. I
budget about 5 days reading time for each (if that).
I’ve already finished one in an epic three-day read amidst
a lot of graduation hoopla (to be discussed in tomorrow’s post).
And I realize it’s Memorial Day. Those who peek in
here every now and then note that I’ve had a heavy fascination with the
American Civil War, World War II, and the Napoleonic Wars, going back at least
a decade. Once summer is in full swing and the little ones have their schedules
down and the dog days fall upon us, I intend to make my way through the
following works:
With
the Old Breed (1981) by Eugene Bondurant Sledge (battle
of Peleliu in the Pacific)
The
Battle of Kursk (1999) by David M. Glantz and Jonathan M.
House
Dirty
Little Secrets of World War II (1994) by James F.
Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi
And again, these will all feed in to a project I’m
working on with all the force and fury of a Mediterranean-bound glacier in northernmost
Norway.
Anyway, say a prayer today for those who’ve given the
ultimate sacrifice. The family here plans on viewing the movie Dunkirk this evening.
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