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Now I’m wondering how I can take a photo of my publishing history bookshelf to make a mass suggestion (or just show off some cool books)….
Steven wrote: "Now I’m wondering how I can take a photo of my publishing history bookshelf to make a mass suggestion (or just show off some cool books)…."Close your eyes, run your hand along the shelf, and stop at random--then nominate that one!
Or let dice decide.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...Been a few years since I read this one and it’s good to remember that Carter’s nonfiction was a lot better than his fiction
Steven wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...Been a few years since I read this one and it’s good to remember that Carter’s nonfiction was a lot better than his fiction"
So nominated!
Imaginary Worlds
Five days left to add another nominee!What say you all?
Okay, the 15th is here--look for the poll!
Who will cast the tie-breaking vote…?Vote, y'all!
Okay then, this month we read Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi.Looking forward to diving into this one for sure!
First: at times I am confused how this Goodreads platform for groups even works. And now I get a note that there won’t be personal correspondence. Oh well. Now. Why is there a preface to this Unutterable Horror? I want to read the guts of the story, not some author explaining (whining) about how he decided to write his rendition. I would rather read that at the end. When I have finished and feel like I want more. Then I read about the author and their opinions.
That being said. This is the first words I have felt helped me.
The intersection of science fiction and supernatural horror would seem to be paradoxical, since science fiction (like mystery fiction) is a mode manifestly based upon the use of reason, whereas the essence of supernatural horror is the incursion of the irrational into an objectively real setting.
Perhaps he should have begun this with his circles of how the genres connected with each other. That intrigued me.
Maybe I’m just too critical or slow on the uptake.
Time to nominate our next group read, this one to be read in January. We'll have until Monday the 15th to nominate books, then the poll will go up to end on the 31st.
This time, let's try something a little different. Let's read a book on the history of SF/F/H publishing or the genre(s) in general.
I'll lead us off with…
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction