Weren't they, rave? My first dance with 60s SF was with the works of Aldiss and Moorcock. I spent a year conducting full reality tests on my surroundings after reading my first Jerry Cornelius novel.
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] Re: What was the last SF novel you read that made you go "WOW!"? Date : Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:40:54 -0000 From : "ravenadal" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com "The Left Hand of Darkness" (1969) by Ursula Le Guin is a SF novel that totally spun my head around. My writing is also heavily influenced by the "Croyd" (1967)novels of Ian Wallace. For me, the concept of "up time" and "down time" was like a hit of something uncut! But I read all of these novels at least a decade before I read "Neuromancer." (My goodness! The sixties were a fertile decade for mind-blowing SF!). ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" wrote: > > The question about Asimov's "Foundation" septology leads me to ask what was > the last SF novel you read that made you go "WOW!" And, by that, I mean the > last novel that made your head spin around. For me it was William Gibson's > "Neuromancer" and that was published in 1984, twenty-five years ago! > > By-the-by, I am only interested in novel novels - do not summit graphic > novels. > > Thanks, > > ~rave! > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
