Three Older Sci-Fi Books Worth Knowing About [100 Book Challenge #1 & 2]

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00:00 Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ
06:46 Thorns by Robert Silverberg
13:24 Don't Bite the Sun by Tanith Lee

[casualmajestic]

Finally another bookpill. I‘ve been on withdrawal.

[tylerappel]

Bookpilled, if you read this, thank you endlessly for your recommendations and critical analysis. You've already led me to some of the greatest reading experiences of my life. Excited to keep digging in! Wishing you all the best!

[braydenpresley]

I get a Bookpilled notification. I stop what I'm doing. I watch Bookpilled.

[zaprod]

I appreciate your unwavering respect for the genre and your viewers. And your candor is refreshing for younger viewers like myself. Thanks for such helpful videos, and good luck on the rest of the challenge!

[JakeFromMaine]

BABE WAKE UP WE'RE GOING TO THE PUNISHMENT PRAIRIE

[Etherchannel]

I bought the Library of America edition of Joanna Russ that has all her major works purely based on your recommendations. So far, I am blown away. Thanks for introducing me to this amazing author.

[AlienBigCat]

Thanks Matt.
Great shirt 👕.
Better prairie.
Excellent tree 🌳.

[disconnected]

Agree with you about those Tanith Lee DAW covers. Those are what got the hooks in me. It’s a bit later and not one of the yellow spines, but I have a PB of The White Serpent (‘87) that is the most stunning thing on my bookshelves.
Good to see you digging in again, my friend. We all enjoy it.

[fullmatthew]

Just found your channel earlier this year. Glad to see you uploading a video again! I really value your thoughts on science fiction novels, along with Outlaw Bookseller.

[asdfhjklacew]

Hi friend. I just found your channel between your last upload and this one, and since then I went back to watch most of your videos including all of your first 100 book challenge videos. You come at books in such a cool way. You have things you like in books but you appreciate being challenged. It makes you a great person to talk about books (in my opinion). I'm also jealous of your wonderful vocabulary. I have even started a list of words to remember/learn that I hear in your videos. I'm trying to learn one per week (the first two were lecherous and didactic). Anyway, overall, just so thankful for your content and feeling so grateful I found your channel in time to watch the new 100 book challenge live. Thanks for your content :) (sorry for the parasocial message btw lul)

[mariatomchick]

I'm really happy that you're liking Joanna Russ. She taught the advanced writing class at the University of Washington when I was attending the UW in the 1980's. I was a Lit major, not a writing student, but the writing students all said she was a serious and sometimes intimidating writing teacher. I remember reading a story of hers called "The Little Dirty Girl" that really resonated with me. And "The Female Man" was one of the key books in the Modern Women's Lit class (along with Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale, " Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire, " and Susanna Moore's first book, "My Old Sweetheart"). Ah, the '80s.

[Warstub]

"The Punishment Prairie." Great Title! 😄

[itsYTYogi]

Your reading comprehension and the ability to comprehend books along with your ability to articulate your opinions is unrivaled on the entire platform.

[Gltch]

Hoping to try out The Female Man again in the New Year. Picked it up earlier as a casual read during work breaks and quickly realized in needs a bit more focus than that 😂

[OmnivorousReader]

Yes! Don't Bite The Sun is fantastic. It has such fascinating insight into social pressure and alienation. And the Bee/Boo/Baa thing - totally foreseeing the mobile phone addiction.

[vdr]

Have you run into Cormac McCarthy's ghost while wandering the prairie?

[SciFiFinds]

I read 4 Robert Silverberg books this year and loved them all so I dipped into his earlier work with 'To Open the Sky' and found it to be a much messier construction. I have Thorns too and I will give it a shot but I get that sense that he took a few novels to really fall into his style and substance. Enjoyed this interview.

[davidcastillo]

Always a good day when we get another BP post. I started reading We Who Are About To...per your recommendation. Your recs always deliver, so I'm fighting my trust in you with Russ' hard-charging, take no prisoners style. It's crazy. She's more velocity than verbiage, and I immediately fell into a like/hate reading of her material. I had to stop 22 pages in, but I'll finish it eventually. Not sure how what my bandwidth is on her work, but what a unique voice in the genre.

[travisgardiner]

YOU FINALLY READ SOMETHING IVE READ OMG. (I only read it because of a review of another Tanith Lee book haha) I read "Biting The Sun" which is the omnibus with the sequel as well, they work wonderfully as one full book

[CrayTheZ]

I'm reading The Sorrow of War right now and it is a BRUTAL book! I highly recommend it as it really immerses the reader into the sheer horror of war and WILL shake you to your core!