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| 1265.1 | | WHOS01::BOWERS | Dave Bowers @WHO | Wed Mar 22 1995 13:42 | 11 |
| How about (books):
"The Difference Engine" - William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
"Pavane" - Keith Roberts(?)
(Games):
"Space: 1899" (PC Game)
There are numerous Sherlock Holmes pastiches which come VERY close to being
S-F, including a series with Prof. Moriarty as the hero where the plots tend to
involve hi-tech threats to Victorian England. Isaac Asimov also edited an
anthology called "Sherlock Holmes in Space and Time".
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| 1265.2 | Professor Challenger | BLKPUD::CHEETHAMD | | Fri Mar 31 1995 12:15 | 6 |
| The Professor Challenger stories by Conan Doyle would certainly come
under the heading of SF, the one title I remember is The Lost World but
I have certainly read others. I suggest that you try a Conan Doyle
omnibus
Dennis
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| 1265.3 | | AUSSIE::GARSON | achtentachtig kacheltjes | Mon Apr 03 1995 05:11 | 4 |
| re .0
Isaac Asimov editted (?) an anthology called something like "Nineteenth
Century Science fiction". (Will check tonight.)
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| 1265.4 | Something Fishy | KERNEL::BARLOWD | | Thu Apr 06 1995 11:40 | 14 |
| re .0
I would reccomend the Novels of E.R. Eddington.
The Worm Ouroboros
Fish Dinner in Memphis
two others I can not remeber the name of.
they are highly reccomended but are more Fantasy. The worm Ouroboros is really a
comment about the politics of Europe at the turn of the Century.
Most of the late Victorian early Edwardian SF appears to be Fantasy.
Dave Barlow
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| 1265.5 | | RT128::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Thu Apr 06 1995 13:47 | 18 |
| Nit time:
It E.R. Eddison
The titles I can remember are:
The Worm Ouroboros
Fish Dinner at Memmison
The Menzentian Gate
And one other title
The one I enjoyed was "Worm" -- once it gets past the somewhat clumsy
opening, it develops into one of the best adventure stories I've ever
read. The vocabulary is completely over the top, even by Victorian
standards, and some of the physical descriptions do seem to go on and
on forever, but -- neat characters (especially the bad guys) and a
terrific plot.
andrew
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| 1265.6 | | WHOS01::BOWERS | Dave Bowers @WHO | Mon Apr 17 1995 15:19 | 3 |
| _Mistress_of_Mistresses_, If memory serves (I read through Eddison about
25 years ago) precedes _A_Fish_Dinner_in_Memmison_ and has some of the
same characters.
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| 1265.7 | | OOTOOL::CHELSEA | Mostly harmless. | Mon Apr 17 1995 17:14 | 1 |
| I think A&E is doing a biography of Jules Verne tonight at 8 pm.
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| 1265.8 | Just to say HI | KERNEL::BARLOWD | | Thu Apr 20 1995 12:09 | 9 |
| Hello
I have not actually read Fish dinner et al but thoroughly enjoyed the Worm. As
you say the langauge was OTT and then some. Many people credit Tolkien as the
father of the modern fantasy but after reading Eddison I would be more tempted
to give hime the credit.
DB
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