Thread of Wonder, the next 5000 posts: science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction 2021 and beyond

I haven't read these since, well not quite since they came out, but the late seventies, I think.

But a few of them have stayed with me all this time and some I read elsewhere later. Table of contents of the first one still looks really good today. Feel like I forced myself to finish that PJF story, but was a bigger fan of some of his other stuff.

I think of "dated" as being like confined, stamped, done, but agree that *somewhat* dated/pleasantly/pungently musty can have its own antique charm, even allure---like I recently finally read this aaancient pb of Ballard's Chronopolis I've had for maybe 20 years, from a thrift store, and the lesser stories, liberated from cold print, would make awesome basis for 60s-early 70s anthology TV (there are also several classics/killers).

“Dated” SF can often have a hauntological effect, if I may.

Read my second Robert Charles Wilson, Blind Lake. It was ok, definitely absolutely not at all hard SF despite the talk of bose-einstein condensates. Felt somehow less satisfying that The Chronoliths even though it didn't play the same trick of unasking all the questions set up at the beginning. Read a bit like an airport thriller in parts. Oh well I bought Spin as well so he's get one more go from me.

There was a good interview with him on Geek's Guide To The Galaxy this week