Re: What were you reading in 1968?

On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:49:22 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Charles Packer wrote:

Was there anything notable, zeitgeist-wise, in SF in the years
around 1968?
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
content=struggle%2C%28Frankenstein+*+20%29&year_start=1934&year_end=2019&corpus=en-
US-2019&smoothing=0
 
(shortened: https://tinyurl.com/az93kexc )
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1968_science_fiction_novels
 

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As far as fiction is concerned:
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LOTR, Stand On Zanzibar, Wollheim&Carr 67, TMIAHM Glory Road, Starship
Troopers (rereads), Foundation, 2001, The Languages of Pao, To live
Forever, the Blue world, Gladiator at law, Search the Sky. The Last
Starship from Earth.
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Those I am pretty sure of.  LOTR absolutely.
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Plus whatever Anderson, Dickson or Herbert came out with that year.  And
probably other rereads, Dune, Earthlight, The Caves of Steel, etc, and a
dozen anthologies.
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I raided my parent's book collection also.  A Neville Shute novel went
down well, but I abandoned Marlowe' Faust partway through.

I don't think I ever read Marlowe's, but Goethe's is in the collection
called /The Great Books of the Western World/ so I read that.

And forgot it as soon as possible. OK, Part 1 at least told a story,
if a tragic one; but Part 2 was entirely idotic and there just for the
show.

The pictures I have seen of the recent nonsense in Paris would have
fit right into Part 2. Nonsense is nonsense, after all.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"