Ian Sales’s 2010s
Posted in Other fiction, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 15 January 2020
The last of Ian’s lists in response to the BBC’s one. He’s appended the whole 100 at the end of his final post.
I’ve read six of these but can’t remember if I read D C Compton’s Synthajoy back in the day.
Women of Wonder is on my tbr pile.
81 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence (1928, UK)
82 Seven Miles Down, Jacques Piccard & Robert S Dietz (1961, USA)
83 Synthajoy, DG Compton (1968, UK)
84 China Mountain Zhang, Maureen F McHugh (1992, USA)
85 Correspondence, Sue Thomas (1991, UK)
86 Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (2013, USA)
86 God’s War, Kameron Hurley (2011, USA)
88 Evening’s Empire, David Herter (2002, USA)
89 Spomeniks, Jan Kempenaers (2010, Belgium)
90 The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers (1946, USA)
91 Leviathan Wakes, James A Corey (2011, USA)
92 Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place, Malcolm Lowry (1961, Canada)
93 Girl Reading, Katie Ward (2011, UK)
94 The Wall Around Eden, Joan Slonczewski (1989, USA)
95 Women of Wonder, Pamela Sargent, ed. (1974, USA)
96 HHhH, Laurent Binet (2012, France)
97 The End of Days, Jenny Erpenbeck (2012, Germany)
98 Nocilla Dream, Agustín Fernández Mallo (2006, Spain)
99 Party Going, Henry Green (1939, UK)
100 The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1931, USA)
Tags: D C Compton, Ian Sales, Other fiction, Science Fiction, Women of Wonder
Ian Sales
17 January 2020 at 08:46
Synthajoy is the one about the woman under arrest in a clinic, and the narrative slips seamlessly back and forth in time. It’s a bravura piece of writing.
I can also recommend the Mallo and Erpenbeck. The Herter is excellent, but probably long out of print and hard to find. Faulkner, Lawrence, Lowry and Green, of course, are definitely worth reading.
jackdeighton
19 January 2020 at 23:39
Ian,
I have vague memories of a story like that but it would have been decades ago I read it.
My tbr pile will just have to get longer and longer…