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Bringing up this thread again as I am trying to remember the author and title of a book I would classify "fantasy" and not science fiction. A modern writer. The book starts out in a mammoth library, and the protaganist's family owns a bookstore; the book(s) held some mystery and magic, and danger.
To me magic is just science unexplained and since I'm not well versed in technology I believe that fantasy and SF are the same.
They are both works of fiction anyway.
And I also never could determine if Mary Shelly's Frankenstein was fantasy or SF.
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I have titled this "The Birth of a Monster" because Frankenstein can be read as a tale of what happens when a man tries to create a child without a woman. It can, however, also be read as an account of a woman's anxieties and insecurities about her own creative and reproductive capabilities. The story of Frankenstein is the first articulation of a woman's experience of pregnancy and related fears. Mary Shelley, in the development and education of the monster, discusses child development and education and how the nurturing of a loving parent is extremely important in the moral development of an individual. Thus, in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley examines her own fears and thoughts about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development.
While creating his child, Victor never considered whether this creature would even want to exist. He also didn't take enough care with the creature's appearance. He could not take the time to make small parts so he created a being of gigantic size. Victor never considered how such a creature would be able to exist with human beings. He did not take time with the features either and created a being with a horrifying appearance. Unable to accept his creation, Victor abandons his "child" and all parental responsibility. He even wishes that his "child" were dead.
Well, Tricky D, troublemaker personified, after speading an hour here and an hour there, checking all the new-fangled descriptors for literature from: magical realism, fantasy, science fiction, literature, novels, and sub-categories within those, I haven't found the book I am trying to remember.
So, I am not the personal to proclaim the definer for Frankenstein book.
I finally found the name of the two books that I would classify fantasy and forgot the title and author.
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, a mystery fantasy, that may fall into good literature.
And, Charles de Lindt, an author who was introduced to me by a friend, who has written scads of short stories, novels and chapbooks. He, too wrote about a book within a book in "The Little Country."
Now I can sleep until I forget another title and/or author!
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Bringing up this thread again as I am trying to remember the author and title of a book I would classify "fantasy" and not science fiction. A modern writer. The book starts out in a mammoth library, and the protaganist's family owns a bookstore; the book(s) held some mystery and magic, and danger.
I finally found the name of the two books that I would classify fantasy and forgot the title and author.
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, a mystery fantasy, that may fall into good literature.
And, Charles de Lindt, an author who was introduced to me by a friend, who has written scads of short stories, novels and chapbooks. He, too wrote about a book within a book in "The Little Country."
Now I can sleep until I forget another title and/or author!
Charles deLint has written scads of books, blending magic, faerie, NA shamanism, and Celtic mythology. IMO, he's the best of the urban fantasists, and my favorite is Dreams Underfoot.
James Schmitz wrote about a lot more than The Witches of Karres, and there's actually a new one coming [or already came] out by Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint, I think.
Another favorite is the Mars trilogy, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, and I canNOT remember the name of the writer! Maybe Greg Bear, but I don't know.
Other all-time favorites: Sterling Lanier's post-apocolyptic stories about Per Heiro Desteen, The Unforsaken Hiero and Hiero's Journey. It takes place about 3,000 years in the future, and there are actually a few places from the before-the-disaster time that are vaguely recognizable, for instance, Neean is what's left of Indianapolis.
A.E. van Vogt's Slan. I think she was the first woman to write sci/fi, followed closely by Zenna Henderson's The People stories.
Just about finished unpacking and re-discovered one of my favourite 21st century female science fiction writers: Joan Slonczewski. Dr. Slonczewski brings her science training into the realm of fantasy. She won the Campbell award for "A Door into Ocean."
I was so taken with Dr. Slonczewski's work I phoned her and bought her out of print books from her directly (a fellow scientist who writes can't be ignored ).
Those are just a few of my faves. Don't want to overwhelm y'all.
Anyone else out there enjoy fantasy or science fiction?
Aw, come on now...how can you possibly lump fantasy and SF together? Personally I hate having to sort through the fantasy drivel in my local bookstore in order to find the SF gems...
Aw, come on now...how can you possibly lump fantasy and SF together? Personally I hate having to sort through the fantasy drivel in my local bookstore in order to find the SF gems...
But some sci/fi is fantasy. Sci/fi is not all hard tech. I remember one, but not the title or author, that took place in the far away future on some highly technological worlds. The 'hero' was assisted in tracking down bad guys by a small group of Native American shamans, who would appear out of the sky in a spirit canoe, which they paddled through time and space. Not exactly just spirit, either, because at times he'd get in it physically and they would take him to whichever world he needed to go to, through both time and space, so he would arrive before whatever ships the bad guys were using. It was fascinating. And there's also the Petaybee series by McCaffrey and Scarborough, or don't you consider them sci/fi stories? Or the Darkover books?
What do you consider gems of sci/fi?
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To me magic is just science unexplained and since I'm not well versed in technology I believe that fantasy and SF are the same.
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