![]() ![]() One common complaint I’ve heard is about how long so many sci-fi/fantasy books are. ![]() I have always enjoyed science fiction, but I can understand why many people do not. I also agree that Arrival was a great film adaptation of a short story, maybe even better than the story.I recently finished Ted Chiang’s sci-fi short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others, an engaging, smart, and varied set of stories that stretch and contract and circle back on themselves in surprising ways. I would be hard pressed to say which I enjoyed more, the book or the movie, and that’s rare for me. Like he says, “That’s some catch, that catch 22” to which his shrink responds, “It’s the best.”īoth of these books happen to be the two books that I think translated really well to film. It’s funny, but it’s sort of a symptom of the psychosis he is going through that would make him ineligible to fly more missions, but as long as he’s sane enough to not want to fly more missions, then he’s not insane. It’s not like Vonnegut’s book where the character slips through time and space, but the main character seems to be having these real life hallucinations/reliving of episodes of his life, all out of order and out of whack. But, although not science fiction, Catch 22 (1962 in paperback) was the first book that had a character slipping through time. I really like Slaughterhouse 5, published in 1969. Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know!
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