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dustydigger
Posted 2016-11-11 4:54 AM (#14555 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: UK		Yay,keep it up Thomas,hope you finish. Feeling quite smug that I have read everything on your list except the Simak.When I reopen Dusty's Bar after New Year I hope we can have a sort of campaigh to resurrect interest in some of the older writers.Have you read Jim Harris's blog about all the books which no longer made it onto version 4 of the Classics of SF list? I was absolutely gobsmacked at some of the books that were lost - Animal Farm,Bring the Jubilee,The Chrysalids.Downward to the Earth,The Long Tomorrow and Zelazny's short stories in particular. Plus some of the lighter fun oldtimers like Kuttner,C L Moore,Harry Harrison etc,perhaps not classics but good fun. Got to expect it with the passage of time.Since SF is really about the preocupations of the present,we should expect books to lose relevance and seem oldfashioned,but its sad really. Time winnows the chaff away.
And on a personal level I am not pleased that no less than 28 books I have read have been removed!
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