Bill Christensen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules VerneBill Christensen@bruces How about the year that Jules Verne published "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"? Apparently, "sf dystopia" was a London workhouse in 1870. https://t.co/1bHEGVyR30
Paperback, Mass Market, 1985
$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lord of the Flies
William GoldingBill Christensen"One year after William Golding published The Lord of the Flies, Heinlein answered Golding’s Hobbesian cynicism in 1955 with a far more optimistic vision of youthful virtue in The Tunnel in the Sky." https://t.co/8a8FmLLEoN
Paperback, 2003
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Clans of the Alphane Moon
Philip K. DickBill ChristensenAmazon is developing Philip K. Dick's novel "Clans of the Alphane Moon" as some sort of series. You can read the incredibly Phildickian short story, "Shell Game" (1954) online - Dick expanded this story to make the novel. #scifi #philipkdick #amazon https://t.co/Peg0DF7X9n
Paperback, 2013
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stand on Zanzibar
John BrunnerBill Christensen@pilliarscreatio They look like real-life karatands from 'Stand on Zanzibar' by John Brunner "drawn on or off the hand, it remained flexible and nearly as soft as good leather. Struck against a resistant surface... its outer layers became as rigid as metal.' References: https://t.co/QNUgxHyQIU
Paperback, 2021
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Neuromancer
William GibsonBill Christensen@liron AIs should be isolated. Sure, software is now designed to spread across machines, but I still like this idea, from William Gibson's "Neuromancer", written almost forty years ago: https://t.co/ECuAY3UyAO
Paperback, 2000
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Journey in Other Worlds
John Jacob AstorBill Christensen"To recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village..." @elonmusk @ElectrekCo (From "A Journey In Other Worlds", by John Jacob Astor IV, published by D. Appleton and Co. in 1894) https://t.co/GFfxm8Fgt2
Paperback, 2015
$6.89Member price:$3.44 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sargasso of Space
Edmond HamiltonBill Christensen@dsfpspacefl1ght @nyrath I think it looks kind of cool. We could go further, and gather up all the major pieces of stuff in LEO and make a ‘Sargasso Station’, ala “The Sargasso of Space" by Edmond Hamilton, published by Astounding Stories in 1931.
Paperback, 2023
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules VerneBill Christensen@bruces How about the year that Jules Verne published "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"? Apparently, "sf dystopia" was a London workhouse in 1870. https://t.co/1bHEGVyR30
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City of Pearl
Karen TravissBill Christensen@bruces I know lots of examples of sfnal drones, but the first person AFAIK to describe a selfie drone that follows you around was Karen Traviss in “City of Pearl” (2004) https://t.co/8KOALlZ412
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A Journey in Other Worlds
J. J. AstorBill Christensen"To recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village..." @elonmusk @ElectrekCo (From "A Journey In Other Worlds", by John Jacob Astor IV, published by D. Appleton and Co. in 1894) https://t.co/GFfxm8Fgt2
Hardcover, 2008
$29.95Member price:$26.95 + Free shipping10% off