Something for people who like fiction: A new interview with Richard Powers! About books that he likes. And he endorses science fiction. "The more 10-foot reptilians who somehow speak English, the better." And he loves A.S. Byatt's Possession, a book I loved, too. (The "parallel lovers" plot in Possession echoes Powers' The Gold Bug Variations, which came first.) Thanks for spotting this, Supergee.
Off to Confluence.
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Powers liking AS Byatt reminds me of my idiosyncratic way of thinking about books: a lot of science fiction is close to the core of what used to be called the Novel of Ideas. I consider AS Byatt a novelist of ideas, but few would consider her as a SF writer.
Similarly, Aldous Huxley, most famous novel from 1932 is usually cited as SF, but ALL of his novels are - to me - Novels Of Ideas.
I've never read any Aldous Huxley. Another enormous gap in my reading.
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