Rocket Summer is Almost Here!
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
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Hooray for Rocket Summer! Awesome name! And speaking of 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, RIP Donald Sutherland.
@@jamesbarberousse8396 I had seen the original and loved it, but I was not prepared for how frightening the 1978 version was. One of the great remakes.
That was an amazing movie! He was a great actor.
The 1950's Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the first movie that gave me nightmares!!
Love your thumbnail. I don't mind the body-snatchers as long as we don't have book-snatchers! (LOL) Looking forward to the summer!
Nice try
Really looking forward to Rocket Summer!
Ooh good choice for the 50’s. I loved the movie versions.
What a beautiful copy of The Voyage! Great to hear your thoughts, as always. Peace.
Yay! I'm all ready!
A Voyage to Arcturus 1920 hdbk
The People of the Crater 1947 kindle
All Cats Are Grey 1953 kindle
Star Hunter 1961 kindle
Tau Zero 1970 hoopla
The last one is actually for a different read along. It's out of the time parameters but still on theme, so I'm happy.
The Stainless Steel Rat has withstood the test of time. Very enjoyable.
A Voyage to Arcturus is a favourite of mine. I've read it maybe four times now since discovering it in the early 2000s, under different circumstances, the last time so the Chrononauts could record a podcast episode about it. It's such a mysterious and alluring work of art. Really have gotten into some of his other work too, which is even more obscure than this book, but arguably also more accessible, at least in theory. SPhinx was an extremely powerful, emotional story with one of the most moving final chapters I can remember coming across in my time of reading.
I’m going to have to check out his other work.
I am tempted to break out Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men but that would take me a Rocket Year to read with my schedule.
Great selections, Michael! I’m so excited! 😊🚀👏🏼
Mr. Vaughan, you are to cool for school 🏫.
I brought home Journey to the Center of the Earth yesterday to read for week one and it is all your fault. Well, Pat is a bit to blame, also. And why not blame Roger, too? Glad to see you.
I blame myself! 😉🚀
I'm laughing......your thumbnail made me think there was a new vintage movie upload! 😂 (I confess, I'm a fan of vintage pre-1970 sci-fi movies. 🤫). I will be gladly joining your Rocket Summer in July. 👍😊
My first book will be Metropolis by Thea Von Harbou. Published originally in German in 1925, it was written at the same time as the movie Metropolis was being made. As I am a fan of vintage sci-fi movies, this seems a good place to start for me. The book is easy to come by in English these days btw.
I read The Land That Time Forgot last year, and I’m not sure if I should count it as one book or three! Lol. Loved it, though. Action packed from the start. And, wow, vivid imagination, as usual for Burroughs.
Watched this weeks Saturday Science Fiction movie, the classic 1950s Invaders from Mars, wet my appetite for Rocket Summer. Been looking forward to this, ticking most of the boxes, Edward Lytton - The Coming Race, The Best of CL Moore, some Henry Kuttner, and when I think of you I have to include something by the dean of science fiction Murray Leinster.
I usually stick to classic reading but you make me want to branch out into other genres. I have read Frankenstein just this past year. It was great! 👍
I read Frankenstein for the first time this past year and loved it! I think I started on Kindle and then had to buy myself a paper copy. I also somehow listened to an audiobook. (Which hardly ever happens. Not an audiobook fan.) While I did try to put all the Hollywood ideas out of mind, it still was different than I thought. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it!
I've been meaning to start reading Frank Herbert non-Dune books. The Green Brain sounds like the place to start.
If it's called Rocket Summer ( great nod to Ray Bradbury) it should just be about space flight, not just any SF. Sounds great and can work for comics too.
If i was still doing booktube, i would do an event for sf after 1970. 3 months of sf would be great. Rocket Summer, Modern sf, & New Worlds November.
Good Evening Sir Michael, Roger and Mr Clock
I have to admit I am more a Land That Time Forgot person the an Invasion of the body Snatchers, The movies had dwarfed the book It would make an interesting trivia question, Who wrote the Body snatchers. Alarmingly I did not know, and I pride myself on having read most of the Mid 20th Century Science Fiction writers, and remembering their novels,
Fantastic to have you back on the lecture circuit. I am always happy to listen .
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You read The Anubis Gates this year, plus Mythago Wood, plus The Broken Sword, and let’s even throw in Amber. I think I indicated before, that anyone who does those things, and spins it into a full-fledged ‘I’m gonna read a lot of Classic Fantasy this Year!’ reading jag, automatically makes me loyal to any Reading Projects they might create. And so, June on the Range was fun - with its handful of Western picks I committed to (lookin’ at you, True Grit, Bought with a Gun, Prairie Edge, and The Bridge) - but of course I’m in for Rocket Summer too!
But hooliganism and contrariness are unfortunately part of my nature. I can’t quite conform. So, I’m gonna do my books in any order, not decade by sequential decade. I’m starting in the 1940s, but I will be jumping backwards at least once - 1960s may come ahead of 1950s, that sort of rebelliousness run amok. Furthermore - like you I will be starting early….tomorrow I will be starting my first pick, Slaves of Ijax by John Russell Fearn, if I don’t start it tonight. The fact that it’s only 80 pages long means that, hey, I will likely finish it all on June 30th. I know, criminal behaviour, when the start date is clearly marked out as July. But this is the way it will probably go.
My pick from the 1920s will be Insatiability by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. I gotta be in the mood for this one: it’s super long, and the print is teeny-tiny. It may be last. Certainly, blame this book for me changing the order I read in, instead of just chronologically.
Sentinels from Space by Eric Frank Russell will be my 50s pick. 1960s was gonna be a re-read of Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad - and that may happen too - but I have recently acquired something called Island of Fear and Other Science Fiction Stories by William Sambriot; it was published in 1963, but I must say most of the stories are actually from the 1950s….at least four are from the 1960s. I know nothing about this book or author, but when I saw it in the basement of a bookstore I got to crawl through, I was of course too tempted to leave it, with Rocket Summer in mind!
On we go! And thanks to you for creating the reading event, plus thanks to everyone coming in to co-host. I am excited about what lies ahead.
Very cool event! At the least I'm going to try and read Warlord of Mars by ERB and Waystation by Simak. I've read the first two Mars books and Warlord was the next one up, and you got me hooked on Simak by convincing me to read City, which I loved, and I downloaded Waystation to give it a try. I'll probably also read some Sci-fi comics, probably some Wally Wood EC books, and maybe some Kirby. Looking forward to diving in as soon as I finish up Stormbringer by Moorcock.
Ha ha, my parents' kitchen! If you'd had one of those old fashioned Spanish coffee pots on the counter (I looked it up and it's called a "moka pot") I would have freaked out for sure.
For the 1930s, I plan on reading my paperback of _The Legion of Space_ (1935) by Jack Williamson, though I’m not sure what revisions Williamson made between the Astounding Stories serialization in the 1930s and the first book form in 1947.
I liked The Body Snatchers. I read The Green Brain in the 80s. I remember green bugs. Nothing else
Green bugs! Yay !
Ray Bradbury's "Rocket Summer"
Is in the public domain and free on the internet.
It's interesting how classic science fiction seemed to be so short. (Westerns, too!) For example, I usually read Childhood's End in one day. I wonder how and why the trend changed to the gigantic tomes we have now.
Stone cold classics! Looking forward to this..
The Green Brain is completely new to me. Sounds interesting. How about The Purple Cloud by MP Shiel? That seems to be seriously forgotten as well.
My future wife and I took a science fiction class in college together and I wrote a paper on Jules Verne but I haven't read him in years but I've been wanting to reread 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea so it will probably be next after I finish The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff which I'm reading for Independence Day 🇺🇸
Woo hoo! Let’s go! 🚀 ☀️
You're not really in the rustic Vaughn lodge, you're on Mars and the lodge is a psychic construct projected into your mind by the indigenous Martians. Just like in Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".
The 1978 "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers": RIP Donald Sutherland, one of the greats (his performance as the proto-hippie Hot Dog in "Kelly's Heroes" is forever etched in my memory).
Great choice of books, Michael.
The secret of the Rustic Vaughan Lodge revealed!
The Green Brain is ok, better than Arcturus 🤭 Roger has struck again.
How about Edmond Hamilton? Haffner Press has nice collections of his novels. 🙂
E.e. “Doc” Smith
Great event, I've jumped in with some EE Doc Smith. So will we have New Wave November?
The end of June in Front of the Range.
Good for you starting another challenge.
SciFi!!!
Really looking forward to this one. In addition to my books I'll be reading my Buck Rogers comic strip volumes from Hermes Press.😊
Does Roger ever travel up to the Rustic Vaughan Lodge?
I think only once. It was a disaster.
SO happy you are back :) !!!
I think this is a great idea for reading event, but upon greater reflection, at late at night. . .
So is it weird that I think "Rocket Summer" should take place in winter so it warms you up like in the Ray Bradbury story?
Now I just need to get my head out of June on the Range mode! That might be difficult, but I have a book or two that might make the transition nicely. 🤠🚀 Thanks, Michael, I'll be posting a video soon.
All set for Rocket Summer! Btw, I read Louis L'Amour's Son Of A Wanted Man for June On The Range and I loved it! Only the 2nd Western I've ever read. Thanks for introducing the genre to me.
So glad you liked it!
Calm yourself fellow human. Our alien overlords are our friends.
this summer i've just started Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi books, so i guess it fits right?
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Triplanetary. R is for Rocket. RUR. Warren's SPACEMEN magazine. Metropolis.
Farewell to the Master. Who Goes There.
TLTTF by ERB. If there’s anything better, it’s gonna be by Bob Howard. 🫶🏻
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