Post by account_disabled on Dec 30, 2023 4:56:08 GMT
The first science fiction novel I read was The Fatal Eggs by M. Bulgakov. At the time I didn't yet know this author, but the title of the novel brought to mind the television drama I had seen many years ago, inspired by Bulgakov's work. Then I moved on to Asimov's stories and immediately afterwards to his series on the Foundation. However, it was neither Bulgakov nor Asimov who left an impression on me and inspired me, but two other authors. Philip K. Dick's novels : even if I didn't like the first novel I read, Ubik , I liked the following ones, more or less, and I'm slowly reading all his works. Why did Philip K.
Dick impress me? I don't know precisely, I think due to a series of factors: the realism that he managed to introduce into his stories, his incipits that make the novels seem like everyday stories before transporting the reader into a distant future or a another planet. Here is the right key to reading them: those Special Data science fiction novels are truly "everyday stories", even if they come from the future, often a future that is now "outdated" for us who read in the 21st century. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: When you read Mitchell, you notice it right away. Not only for his style, which has something magical, but for how he managed to innovate both science fiction and fiction in general. The Cloud Atlas is a sci-fi novel sui generis, which has greatly influenced my ideas and to which I will be indebted for life if I ever manage to complete my novel.
There wasn't an evolution here either, but two parallel ways of writing science fiction: Dick and Mitchell are authors who changed my points of view on this beautiful literary genre. Classic and modern horror I have always appreciated horror stories, even if I preferred reading them to watching films, which I can no longer stand. Seen one horror movie, you've seen them all, at least for the last few decades, in my opinion. However, there are 3 authors whose horror stories I appreciated. The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe : Read many years ago, Poe's horror stories captured me for their diversity, their realism. They hide anguish and melancholy, they are pages from which sadness and inner suffering exude. The tales of HP Lovecraft : a very different horror, which flows into the fantastic, adventurous stories, full of mystery and mystery, of real monsters, born from nightmares and sidereal spaces.
Dick impress me? I don't know precisely, I think due to a series of factors: the realism that he managed to introduce into his stories, his incipits that make the novels seem like everyday stories before transporting the reader into a distant future or a another planet. Here is the right key to reading them: those Special Data science fiction novels are truly "everyday stories", even if they come from the future, often a future that is now "outdated" for us who read in the 21st century. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: When you read Mitchell, you notice it right away. Not only for his style, which has something magical, but for how he managed to innovate both science fiction and fiction in general. The Cloud Atlas is a sci-fi novel sui generis, which has greatly influenced my ideas and to which I will be indebted for life if I ever manage to complete my novel.
There wasn't an evolution here either, but two parallel ways of writing science fiction: Dick and Mitchell are authors who changed my points of view on this beautiful literary genre. Classic and modern horror I have always appreciated horror stories, even if I preferred reading them to watching films, which I can no longer stand. Seen one horror movie, you've seen them all, at least for the last few decades, in my opinion. However, there are 3 authors whose horror stories I appreciated. The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe : Read many years ago, Poe's horror stories captured me for their diversity, their realism. They hide anguish and melancholy, they are pages from which sadness and inner suffering exude. The tales of HP Lovecraft : a very different horror, which flows into the fantastic, adventurous stories, full of mystery and mystery, of real monsters, born from nightmares and sidereal spaces.