A brilliant novel that immediately made me want to check out more of his work. Books that were about big ideas and new-fangled concepts like the internet or genetic engineering? What about authors like David Brin?īrin first came to my attention through his work on the Asimov successor series The Second Foundation trilogy.
But what about those big names that started in this era? Those ‘proper’ science fiction authors, writing ‘proper’ science fiction novels.
In terms of science fictional history, this period saw the decline of the old names like Asimov and Heinlein, and eventually the rise of the space opera and military SF that dominates much of my reading today. I’ve read books from this period, but not as many as from the eras either side. One of the larger gaps in my library is the period running from 1980-2010. I also read a lot of older works, because even if I don’t enjoy them as narratives, there’s an academic value in seeing where the genre came from. I read a lot of modern science fiction, because it’s the stuff I like, but also because it’s a good idea to keep on top of the current conversation around the genre. This is why I read as broadly as I do, because you never know where something good is going to spring up from. Wonderful ideas secreted away in parts of the genre I haven’t touched. But it also means that there are things I’m missing out on.
It means I always have a long list of books to try out when my TBR runs dry. Like any reader, there are vast gaps in my collection. Could the answer be contained within our own Sun. Yet if all intelligent life has been uplifted by another, where are humanity’s guardians. Having raised the intelligence of chimps and dolphins, we have caught the attention of the galactic community.
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