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In reply to the discussion: What is your favorite genre of book? Mine are mysteries. And you? [View all]electric_blue68
(24,454 posts)I read many of the greats Clark, Asimov, Bradbury, Simak, Sturgeon. Then the "New Wave" came along in the ?70's - read more short storiy anthologies than novels. 80's David Brin's Uplift Universe, Lost track of novels in the 90's onward till about ?2018 try to read more re ebooks/library (not too successfully yet). Oh I kept looking at the SF section at B&N (until a yr or two before covid) through all that time. So there's authors I know of '90s+ but not read. Competing interests with modest $ was an issue (still is, even more so)
Actually I just remembered I had started checking out SF anthologies from the library in 2017+ then waylaid by covid.
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Haven't read the Latin authors that made the Magical Realism more known?
Read Forever by Pete Hamill, and Shoeless Joe Jackson (just finished) but the movie Field of Dreams (a favorite!) is considered MR which I saw in the movie thearter.
I might be interested in some Historical Fiction. I read an SF 2nd of 2 novels by Connie Willis - about WWII London which was SF bc there were time traveling historians visiting the period.
I just recently finished Kindred by Octavia Butler. A 1976 early 20's Black woman is repeatedly pulled back into slavery time in ?Virginia.
Re SF Maybe I should look up Best SF novels of the 90's, the 00s etc
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