Posts

Showing posts from November, 2012

Some Sci-Fi Recommendations

Image
I spent last week at the minister's study group, Ohio River Group , that I attend each year (I've missed only once since joining in 2005).  This year's theme was "Space," and during our meeting a growing list of science fiction suggestions was posted by its members on the white board.  What follows here is that list, with my own personal notations when I have any.  For confidentiality's sake, I am not posting either who posted these works, nor some of their own comments about why that went up on our white board. Robert Sawyer: Starplex , Calculating God , Factoring Humanity , and Flashforward Of the things on this list that I haven't read, these will be first on my list. Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake: A Novel , and The Year of the Flood I've read some of Atwood's works (including The Handmaid's Tale , of course), and would consider myself a fan of hers.  I will be adding these two to my reading list, as I also heard a really