MY READER'S BLOCK: Vintage Science Fiction Month

SCAM artist alert

Apparently there is someone calling themself "Luigi Calloway" out there who is claiming to be associated with the Mount TBR Reading Challenge. He is contacting authors and telling them if they pay him, then their books will be used for the challenge. It's possible he's also telling people they must pay to participate in any way. Please know that there is absolutely no charge associated in any way with this reading challenge and that this person does not represent me or anything associated with my blog. There will NEVER be a reason for anyone to have to pay for participation in any way for any of my challenges. If only people who exert this much time and effort on scamming people would put it into something worthwhile....like reading their own books!

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Vintage Science Fiction Month

From Redhead at Little Red Reviewer:
It’s time to start thinking about Vintage Science Fiction month! Since 2012 I’ve dedicated the month of January to reading “older than I am” science fiction, and invited the entire blogosphere to come with me on an interstellar journey across the stars and into our own minds. We’ve met trickster aliens, ridden dragons, won wars, negotiated with hive minds and tried to understand androids. We’ve read satire, space opera, high concept metaphysics, alternate histories and impossible futures. We’ve gone to Venus, Mars, the center of the Earth, and beyond the edges of the galaxy. Beyond books, bloggers have talked about radio programs, movies, and TV shows.
You should come with us this year!

What Qualifies:
Anything or anyone who created science fiction, or something speculative fiction-ish that was published (or recorded, or put on TV or the silver screen) before 1979. It can be hard scifi, or not. Have aliens, or not. Fantasy is OK too. Jules Verne is perfect, so is Mary Shelley. Or maybe War of the Worlds, original Star Trek, C.L. Moore, Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Cordwainer Smith, Clifford Simak, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kurt Vonnegut, James Tiptree Jr, A.E. van Vogt, Frank Herbert, I can go on forever here.

I am in for another round. Like last year, my commitment will be at least two science fiction reads in January.

1. Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home by James Tiptree, Jr. [1973] (1/2/15)
2. Asimov's Choice: Black Holes & Bug-Eyed Monsters by George H. Scithers (ed) [1977] (1/9/15)
3. Alpha 2 by Robert Silverberg (ed) [1971] (1/18/15)
4. Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Revisited by Walter B. Gibson (adapted by) [1964] (1/20/15)
5. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham [1951] (1/22/15)