Thursday, April 09, 2015

The 50 Best Genre-Bending Books

The 50 Best Genre-Bending Books

10 comments:

Jeff Meyerson said...

I don't know what it says, except that this is not really a category (or whatever) for me, but I've only read about six or seven of these.

Jeff

Deb said...

Yeah--me too. A lot of these "steampunk" novels just don't do it for me.

Todd Mason said...

The thunderous ignorance of what "genre" means, on even the shallowest level, just makes me angry.

I bet you didn't know that NECROMANCER was the first sf novel that involved what could be called "technobabble"...

Unknown said...

I didn't.

Todd Mason said...

I'm pretty sure I wrote NEUROMANCER....but spell check must die, and die soon. Even thought I can certainly use it at times. Auto correct not so much.

Unknown said...

I knew what you meant. I've heard that story before. I don't know if it's true, though.

Steve Oerkfitz said...

Read about 14 of these.
Deb-I don't believe any of these are really steampunk.

Todd Mason said...

You mean, "technobabble"? That has been a feature of sf before Gernsback...Frances Godwin used a sort of prototechnobabble in his proto-sf THE MAN IN THE MOONE in 1638...a special species of swan, donate know, can fly you to the Moon(e)....

Todd Mason said...

Spellcheck doesn't believe in "doncha"...I'm about to donate a disabling of autocorrect.

Todd Mason said...

A couple are kinda sorta (ah) steampunk, at least: THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, and one other (and autocorrect is now back, somehow).