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Jan 30, 2018 11:50PM

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Nu, SF-ul e o literatura a ideilor cu miez, trebuie sa iti dea de gandit, nu neaparat sa te sperie. Uita-te la Dune, la ciclul Fundatiei, la Picnic la marginea drumului, la Jocul lui Ender si la mii si mii de alte romane SF care nu trezesc nici o teroare, doar curiozitate si admiratie.

In alta ordine de idei, fara legatura cu The Left Hand of Darkness, am gasit o lista care are titlul: 15 Novels That Subvert Traditional Gender Roles si in lista, o carte cu o descriere interesanta:
Sphinx de Anne Garréta
This love story, written by one of the few female members of Oulipo, does Jeanette Winterson one better. It concerns two characters: one a white theologian, the other a black cabaret dancer, neither with an identified gender. As Gaëlle Cogan put it in The Kenyon Review:
It is only if one steps out of a binary gender categorization and agrees to consider gender as a polarized field including a spectrum of possibilities that Sphinx takes on its true Oulipian nature—as kaleidoscopic as Queneau’s Hundred Thousand Million Poems, offering an infinity of permutations. In Garréta’s writing, the either/or obligation, either feminine or masculine, dissolves. The characters could as well be neither masculine nor feminine, or both masculine and feminine.
And it doesn’t matter, because what is left when gender is removed is exactly what you want in a book like this: a beautiful, lush, playful love story. Very French.



Nu vad linkul.

Sunt pe telefon deocamdata, intr-un lounge. Nu-mi dau seama care e problema, linkul pare scris corect... dar o sa incerc din nou cand ajung inapoi acasa.


Mi s-a parut curios titlul listei desi am citit din lista doar Fructele Maniei fiindca-ti spune ce carti pot fi similare/comparate, nu pentru indemnul titlului in sine.
Edit: Uite si niste carti de care n-ai auzit: https://bookriot.com/2018/04/02/best-...

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Ar merita recitită. Îmi dai idei ;)
Gabriel wrote: "O listă propusă de The New York Times cu cele mai bune cărți ale anului 2019...
The 10 Best Books of 2019"
Mulțumesc pentru sugestie! Toate titlurile din listă mi-au atras atenția. Aș începe cu Exhalation (Stories) de Ted Chiang.

Dacă te apuci de ea dă un semn pe Buddy Reads, sunt și eu interesat și poate mai găsim și alți amatori...


am citit deja 10 de pe lista, in general foarte bine scrise, ceea ce ma face sa cred ca cine a facut lista se pricepe destul de bine la SF. Inca vreo 10 le aveam deja in asteptare, sper macar una sa ajunga si pe tableta sau ebook reader. Dar m-am impotmolit nitel cu ultima mega-serie de dark fantasy la care mestec de aproape 2 luni fara prea mare success (Mage's Blood)

Din lista aceea am citit/ascultat si eu patru si din cele citite Old Man's War m-a dezamagit (mi s-a parut incredibil ca autorul nu are sinonime pentru said) si The Three Body Problem e preferata mea (am citit undeva ca un fan a scris un fanfiction considerat la fel de bun ca si seria in sine).



Hai sa citim Artemis, am citit (si vazut) Martianul si mi-a(u) placut. Fa un thread cand vrei sa incepi Artemis si atunci o sa-l incep si eu.

Da, și mie mi se pare interesantă lista, am adăugat deja câteva cărți de acolo la To read. Însă asemănările cu Expanse sunt destul de subțiri.

Da, și mie mi se pare in..."
toata lumea incearca sa atraga atentia numind una din seriile foarte la moda. La fel s-a intimplat cu Game of Thrones, toate seriile noi de dark fantasy erau comparate cu G R R Martin, sau in anii 80 cu Tolkien.
Mai corect era sa fie un titlu de 'popular space opera'

copertile sint de Michael Whelan. Am un folder mare de tot pe calculator cu arta lui. Cred ca favorite sint copertile de la Tad Williams. Alt grafician bun este Keith Parkinson

Interesantă lista, deși mi se pare un pic ciudat ca Numele trandafirului să fie inclusă la capitolul "stabilizarea şi nuanţarea personalităţii", iar pentru "înțelepciune" nu apar recomandate decât două cărți de ficțiune.
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