F-LIST HELP! FANTASY AND SCI-FI READING LISTS?

[innocentlyjaded]

But first...

Went to UST yesterday with team7, [Unknown site tag] and Garro (of komiks.ph to talk to Prof. Lito Zulueta of the Varsitarian. Mia and Garro went wild in Joli's, while I bought a brush pen. Thanks to Mia (whose handwriting is amazing in itself), I dug up the Speedball guide I bought with lethologica some months ago and started on pointed brush calligraphy. Are there any calligraphy classes here in the metro?

Oh, before we went to Sir Lito's office I spied a copy of Dapitan Prose in one of the shelves. Gyaaah, Dapitan Prose! So before we left I asked him if I could buy one. He got a copy from his computer desk and gave one to me~! In the first place, I didn't know if it should be free or not, but I was willing to buy one, really.

Was pleased to see a contribution from Nat there. I don't know if she posted that one in the mailing list, but I'll be looking forward to reading it. Saw that Chuck morethanfiction has a story in it too! My eyes are too blind then that I did not know you were included in the 2001-2005 Ustetika Literary Folio?!?! SOMEONE STAB ME NOW PLEASE! Way belated congratulations! Gah, now I must find a copy of that as well. I'm going to review Dapitan Prose and Dapitan Poetry for the RoD blog. Going to be my first time in doing so. I'll probably bomb (... maybe) but better start something than do absolutely nothing at all).

I miss UST ^__^ I wasn't able to go to the registrar's office and ask if I can be re-admitted (... sounds odd), but I will go back soon-ish. Promised people I will... seriously, this time.

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Now, to address the topic in the subject field on top.

The New World's Alliance's week-long convention will be starting on Monday, July 9 and will be up until Sunday, July 15 in Rockwell Mall, Makati. Of course, RoD will be there. I will be manning the RoD booth the whole day on Monday. If any of you guys want to drop by, please do. Join RoD! Entrance to the convention floor is free, don't worry..

On Saturday and Sunday, RoD will be hosting some panel discussions about topics like fanfictions and fandoms and books and comic books being turned to movies. I'm going to help co-present the second topic along with another one, Works of the Fantastic in Other Languages and Cultures (or historical fantasy); Reading Lists For Fantasy & Sci Fi.

I know there are a lot of readers in my flist, so I turn to you guys for help. Mm, hit me with the books you've read or want to read (sci-fi and fantasy, of course). Or post your own reading list. You will be credited on the panel. Or basically, reply with any ideas that come into your head with regards to sci-fi and fantasy. I know there are a lot of sub-genres under those two, but I only know so little, so any help will be very much appreciated. Point me to websites or online papers and stuff. I'll be asking help from my fellow RoD-ers too, of course.

eheh. figures that I start being serious about this barely a week off before the talks. bah.

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- Chel, congratulations! Good grief, the known world must be in for a shock, you're all being parents now...

- Hannah, I'll probably read all your entries this weekend and post a mega-reply about the whole thing.

- My thoughts are with you, Wowie. Hope the second opinion doesn't show anything serious too.

Comments

[miir.livejournal.com]

How do you do brush calligraphy? I'm really curious, since Randy asked me about it too. The only kind I can do is with pens.

Will drop by Monday evening :)

[miir.livejournal.com]

P.S. No titles for now, but authors I liked:

Ursula le Guin
Ray Bradbury
Orson Scott Card
Timothy Zahn
Michael Stackpole
Madeleine L'Engle (the series that starts with A Wrinkle of Time -- not sure if it can be classified as sci-fi or fantasy, but it does incorporate elements of both)

Will try to post more as soon as I remember ^^;

[innocentlyjaded.livejournal.com]

Mm, right now I'm just going by what the Speedball textbook is instructing. It's saying it's all about the tip size, pressure and angle of strokes. Then there's a table of letter strokes. I'll scan it for you tomorrow? Or do you have that really thin textbook as well?

Yay, Monday night! ^__^

Ah, yay! Thanks for the recs!

[miir.livejournal.com]

Ah, I don't have the Speedball book. I don't have any primers for calligraphy. What I do have talks about uh advanced techniques. (I make that mistake a lot when buying books -- I pick what's interesting instead of what's necessary x_X)

I'm sorry the list of authors is so short! I'm pretty sure I... know... fantasy authors, it's just that my brain can't access those files right now. Haha.

[magiqa.livejournal.com]

The Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett!!! XDDD I honestly think they're great fantasy novels. Of course, Gaiman's a staple. And the strangeness of Ray Bradbury as well as the graphic novel works of Alan Moore...

Will add more later if I think of more.

[ksolaris.livejournal.com]

Anything by Stephen Donaldson.

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

SF&F Comedy: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (SF, adapted to a movie and comic), Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (fantasy, adapted to animation, plays, see http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com), Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (fantasy, stand-alone), books by Tom Holt (fantasy).

Epic Fantasy: Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Fantasy Epic disguised as Sci Fi: Star Wars, Dune by Frank Herbert

Historical Fantasy: Books by Guy Gavriel Kay, Books by Harry Turtledove, Naomi Novik's Temeraire series

Romance Fantasy: Dark Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop, Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey, Merry Gentry and Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton (also doubles as alternate history fantasy)

Usually Classified as Young Adult Fantasy: Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, Eragon series by Christopher Paolini, The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper, Wizard of Earthsea series by ursula le Guin, Tamora Pierce books, Garth Nix, Lemony Snickett, Pierce Anthony

Mainstream fantasy: Shanarra series by Terry Brooks, Riftworld series by Raymond E. Feist, Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy and Dragonlance Legends trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Drizz't series by R.A. Salvatore

Pulp/Sword & Sorcery Fantasy: Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard, Lankhmar series by Fritz Leiber

Cyberpunk SF: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Neuromancer by William Gibson

Arthurian Fantasy: The Mists of Avalon by Marrion Zimmer Bradley, Once and Future King by T.H. White

Typical Young Adult Scifi: A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeline le'Engle, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Important Fantasy novels in the 70's: Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock, Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson, (Shanarra series by Terry Brooks, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien)

Link List to Classics of Fantasy: http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2006/09/classics-of-fantasy.html

Other Sci-Fi Authors to look into: Robert Heinlein (young adult scifi and modern commentary), Isaac Asimov (pioneered Three Laws of Robotics, concept scifi), Greg Bear (hard sci-fi), Anne McCaffrey (fantasy author claiming it's really scifi), Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

Other Fantasy Authors: Jeff Vandermeer (speculative fiction), China Mieville (political, blending SF&F), Tim Powers, Jeffrey Ford, Michael Chabon ("literary fantasy"), Kurt Vonnegut (the real literary fantasy), Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison (veteran writer for various media), Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series, Kelly Link,

[caduceum.livejournal.com]

Wilson and I are in the planning stages. We'd love to see you there! :)

Anyways, for Sci-Fi of course, the quintessential Philip K Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, Arthur Conan Doyle's dated but amusing Lost World. And maybe it's not very popular but I liked Asimov's short story Nightfall. It's been made into a full-length novel but is no long by Asimov.

As for my posts, I've come to a resolution. I wanna know what you think :D

[chelli-vanelli.livejournal.com]

thanks karen. we're all excited here. i have my own spawn to unleash into the world. hehe. love you.

[miir.livejournal.com]

Also -- sorry won't be able to go to the NWA event on weekdays. Not feeling well and the weather's really horrible. ^^;;