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Showing posts with label Jules Verne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jules Verne. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Links about Reading

Jayaprakash on "How not to read in straight lines"

Harper's:  Future as Parable By John Crowley


Reading [Chekov] makes you more sympathetic


No surprise there.




Gregory Benford:  Verne to Varley: Hard SF Evolves

Jonathan Lethem on the subversive power of comics and science fiction 
The 'Dissident Gardens' author talks about Captain America, Philip K. Dick, and writing about his grandmother's sex life

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ray Bradbury on Ray Bradbury

"[M]y big science-fiction influences are H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.... I’m a lot like Verne—a writer of moral fables, an instructor in the humanities. He believes the human being is in a strange situation in a very strange world, and he believes that we can triumph by behaving morally. His hero Nemo—who in a way is the flip side of Melville’s madman, Ahab—goes about the world taking weapons away from people to instruct them toward peace."
-- Ray Bradbury from a Paris Review interview