I still remember a lot of his books fondly-particularly Jurassic Park and Sphere-but I’ve kind of soured on him in retrospect when it was pointed out to me that his works-though they employ a lot of the trappings of science fiction-are kind of anti-science fiction in a way because science is always the “bad guy” in his books. I don’t know about a book I changed my mind about per se, but I was a huge fan of Michael Crichton in my late teens, and his work really helped get me into science fiction. How about a book you've changed your mind about over time-either positively or negatively?
But given current events, I’ve been thinking if I had time I would revisit Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, because looking back on it now it was frighteningly prescient.Ĥ. There’s so much I haven’t read that I feel like I should have, it’s really hard to justify.
Though I guess that count will be increasing now that I’m editing novels, because during the course of editing any of the novels I acquire for my imprint, I’ve had to re-read those multiple times each.īut itching to…I’m not sure. I think I’ve only ever re-read a handful of books in my life, including my favorite book, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. You’re talking to an editor, man-I don’t have time to re-read anything! :) Hell, it’s hard enough keeping up with all the unpublished manuscripts I have to read, let alone, you know, reading pretty much every piece of short fiction published in the field over the course of the year, as necessitated by my role as series editor for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy! That said, I’ve never been much of a re-reader. Is there a book you're currently itching to re-read?
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