nobody was really reading the general thread which is just was well, since generality is the enemy of all art
the most recent <a href="http://freakytrigger.co.uk/slugoftime";>slug of time</a> show had dr. who and pulp sci fi author rebecca levene on to discuss brian aldiss' second ever story, written in 1957, called "all the world's tears" .. and it feels, crumbling, gothic, severe. it takes place far into the future but feels equally as if it takes place far in the past, at the butt end of a human race that no one will mourn because it's become too joyless.
any other s.f. strike you guys as "gothic"?
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 October 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)
Maybe M. John Harrison's Viriconium stuff, although Byzantine wd be the more obvious adjective.
― Poll Wall (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 October 2008 11:32 (seventeen years ago)
a canticle for liebowitz by walter miller? the book of the new sun series by gene wolfe?
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 11 October 2008 11:55 (seventeen years ago)
Gene Wolfe is good. China Mieville?
Caitlin Kiernan!
― BigLurks, Saturday, 11 October 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)
A lot of Jack Vance's SF has that kind of ancient/future feel: The Dragon Masters, the Demon Princes series. They also feature ruthless, obsessed anti-heroes, which is classic Gothic stuff.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 18 October 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)
Blindsight by Peter Watts.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)
not really gothic but very spooky, atmospheric, chilly. features scientifically plausible space vampires and zombie aliens.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)
really, it's a lot more clever and well-written than that description makes it sound.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 18 October 2008 17:57 (seventeen years ago)