It seems your objections to John's behavior (reprehensible while asserting he is morally superior) was the point!

Thanks! I love older science fiction. (I'm old.) But, though I have these, I've never read them. I'll try a few!

R.I.P. Bookdepository 😢

Can I say, "Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in "A". Please listen. May I ask who in america hasn't succum? to hell w/morons; I mean Mormans

I loved that book so much

Banks Sci Fi books are extremely confusing

I also found Odd John and most of Stapledon very repellent.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and your review, thank you!

Thankyou for uploading, miss you ❤

first read it in the 70’s.. I have gotten rid of many books over the years but always kept this one!

I’ve got a couple of chapters to go and it’s good. Not as good as 1984 but it’s a good read so far.

❤💛💚

I wonder if Neal Stephenson thought the same thing you did then wrote _The Diamond Age_ in response.

So C.J. Cherryh was the first female sci fi writer I read when I was 12 years old. Because I had no clue the writer was a female.

Kalanadi- have loved all of your reviews of the Terra Ignota series. I just finished book 4 (I know I am late) I went to your channel to hear your thought sand don't see a review! did you finish the series? if so I would love to see you make a review of the last book and your overall take of the series. I have so many thoughts and would love to hear yours!

I found your video looking for a refresher before I started look to Winward. I think you did a really nice job summarizing everything, and I feel very similar about the novel. I love the culture series… But I definitely found my attention wandering while reading consider

good stuff, the internet sorely lacks more Le Guin enjoyers.

Found your channel after finishing the most recent tale 'Penric and the Bandit'. Agree with your take on enjoying comfort fantasy. I think of the series as tomato soup and toasted cheese sammies on a cold winter day.

It's Ian Banks first Culture novel and it's not my favorite. You can see him world building but it felt a little bit like he was borrowing from Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. Our hero is a pilot with a furry co-copilot of a rogue ship. Smacks of Han and Chewie. Use of Weapons and Player of Games are where it's at.

Cervantes and his book Don Quixote have a special bond, you can tell it just by reading the prologue where he tells the reader to think of the book whatever he wants as if he were trying to warn him about something in the name of entertainment, also Book 1 chapter 9 where the narrator talks makes some weird statements about what History is as if telling us that he is lying.

Wow, that was a great review. Thank you for this video. I also liked this book just finished reading it.

Spoilers!!!!!!

"Consider Phelbas" takes place thousands of years in the past. "Look to Windward" over a thousand years later. (Or at least hundreds, but maybe two or three thousand?) There is a Culture short story called "State of the Art" that has a Culture ship visiting Earth in the 1970's...and they are (mostly) horrified by it - wars, genocide, inequality, Mutually Assured Destruction - but one character loves the differences between Earth and the Culture, and goes native. But another character wants the Culture to swoop in and stop the wars and genocides and famine and disease and poverty...including the fact that we use money at all...and the inequality racism and sexism (and knowing the Culture, the homophobia) and that fact that if the Culture doesn't step in, we will probably destroy ourselves...but the guy who goes native wants the Culture to leave Earth the Hell alone. Banks said that Earth will EVENTUALLY join the Culture. Damn I'd love to be around when something like that happens!

She also wrote a series of nyx shorts that are pretty good. Rapture was my favorite because of the mysterious character that was like locked up in a prison. Her intro I thought was amazing.

You are everything that Orwell warned us about.

Your criticism shows how much you’ve been sheltered from the tribulations compared to we who grow up without wealth and safety as shield to hide behind the cruelty of this world.

Don’t allow her bias to influence you reading this book. Shes judging the violence as if it’s not real life. The problem with ppl that want to censor evil things are that they are breeding a generation of ppl that don’t know true violence and are doomed to repeat history. We need reminders of how dark the world can be so we can teach the next generation what evil looks like.

I would love to see a TV series based on these stories.

hated....surface...detail?????? what am I hearing? how is that possible. that's my absolute favorite.

Good review!👍👍👍📚🤖🚀🐲

Where'd you go???

Can you read Fireflight? I can’t seem to find it anywhere!

I disagree. The Farthest Shore is the best. It`s not about Arren`s journey as a future king, it`s about death. Moreover, it`s directly linked to the first novel since we see Jasper once again although his identity is not revealed. Thus, Le Guin combines the theme of power and the theme of death.

I started reading Change of command by Elizabeth Moon and I honestly recommend it.

I’m sorry to disagree, but I think you missed the entire point of the book.

The culture are not a human civilization. They're explicitly alien. Diziet Sma, a humanoid of the culture that visits actual Earth is described as a black skinned, cat like thing with digitigrade feet. She's described as a quite standard humanoid of the culture in other novels.

The ending of the book by Risto Isomäki (I read it many years ago in Finnish language) is actually tested scientifically now. Wall Street Journal, WSJ, has a video about it here in KZbin, "Inside the Extreme Plan to Refreeze the Arctic | WSJ Future of Everything". The most important thing is though that we have to stop using fossile fuels now.

I just came across this. Great job. Wonderful enunciation! As an old duffer, i am grateful to hear a clear voice w/a dash of passion to it. Yes, LaGuin was quite a writer, as were her parents. Have you read her mother's biography of Ishi? Beautifully poignant.

Female Azmongold?

Finally, some non woke literature.

How did you get on with this project?

Well done!

I first read these books in my 30s when I joined Sci Fi book club. It was part of my introductory order. I figured s 3 in 1 book was great. I also got a Princess of Mars trilogy and a @ volume set The Cronichels of Amber.

So.... I've been saying the names wrong for 35 years. Men Olly, Pet ri on and Pee mer. Who knew?

Those books you enjoyed by Heinlein were from before he became a fascist 🤷 and you're right about them.

All the editor sins you mention for Ellison is just as true of Lin Carter, the difference being that Carter could never write to save his own life.

Other Heinlein (pronounced “hine-line”) that you should read (I’ve read them all) are Citizen of the Galaxy, The Number of the Beast, Time Enough for Love, Tunnel in the Sky, Podkayne of Mars, The Door Into Summer, Puppet Masters, and Orphans of the Sky. Oh… and Farnham’s Freehold & Rocketship Galileo. Well - longer that I thought… better just read them all.

I'm a huge fan of Mr. Ellison, mostly because of his combative flair and his tendency of going all-in for no apparent reason, however, his monstrous ego was sometimes fueled by truly fucked up things and these get especially apparent if one studies them through the cracks of his less successful works.

More true that other anthologies and sf magazines would feature these kinds of stories, but this antho was among the first to try to be all-taboo-breaking fiction. And, alas, that which was once taboo-breaking can seem jejune either at the time, or definitely later...

Thanks!