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Written by David JONES on 2025-01-07 at 17:13

When Orbital won the Booker prize there was a lot of talk about it being "the first winner set in space", as if they were trying to avoid saying "Sci-Fi novel" (because Sci-Fi is forbidden in literary circles). Now i've read it, i can say that it is a Sci-Fi novel; in particular because there is a crewed moon mission.

That's also the reason i read one "speculative fiction" novel last year. It's Oryx and Crake. Speculative fiction is when Margaret Atwood writes a Sci-Fi novel.

[#]bookstodon #scifi

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Written by Noodlemaz on 2025-01-07 at 17:22

@drj I appreciate you for saying crewed.

Also, really didn't like O&C. Do not get the hype.

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Written by David JONES on 2025-01-07 at 17:28

@noodlemaz it's a small step, but i have been trying to de-man my vocabulary. It's nice that you notice, though i would like us to live in a world where it becomes routine and unnoticeable.

I love Atwood's writing, so even though i thought the story, characters, and world-building of Oryx and Crake were a bit meh, i still enjoyed it. I read Children of Time the same year which is much better.

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Written by Noodlemaz on 2025-01-07 at 17:45

@drj yes Adrian is great! Enjoy the next two :)

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Written by Greg Bell on 2025-01-07 at 22:26

@noodlemaz @drj Tchaikovsky almost can't miss!

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Written by HowToPhil (Phillip R) on 2025-01-07 at 17:27

@drj It really pisses me off that "scifi" is treated as some kind of dirty word

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Written by David JONES on 2025-01-07 at 17:31

@howtophil yup, yup. This is all prompted by an adjacent thread discussing how "pillow talk" (sexy time) pollutes serious novels (in the minds of the critics that write for the Times Literary Supplement).

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Written by HowToPhil (Phillip R) on 2025-01-07 at 18:23

@drj Fucking puritans

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Written by Pete Bleackley on 2025-01-07 at 20:05

@drj cf Magical Realism: fantasy for literary snobs

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Written by mathew on 2025-01-08 at 03:25

@drj There was also "Time's Arrow" by Martin Amis, shortlisted for the Booker in spite of clearly being SF and arguably ripping off its central idea from Philip K. Dick.

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