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Our promiscuous, body-swapping descendants will hit the skids in the third book in John Varley's Steel Beach trilogy — if he ever gets around to finishing it. Varley's Irontown Blues is one of the most long overdue books in science fiction according to SF Signal. Varley told Locus the book would be a futuristic detective story, and things would be "looking kind of bad for the human race" by the end of it. Other authors who should crank out those delayed works, according to SF Signal.
Arthur C. Clarke has three long-awaited books on the list, including the intriguingly titled Mars Brat. But the king of announced-but-not-released novels is Jerry Pournelle, who has a whopping six books on the list including the Spartan Hegemony. To be fair, three of those are collaborations with Larry Niven, who's also keeping us waiting for the collaborator-free Ghost Ships. Harlan Ellison has two books on the list, but does anybody really care about him any more?
The Most Eagerly Awaited And Long Overdue SF Books [SF Signal]
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I'm always eagerly awaiting anything from Niven, alone or colabo.
Biggest slacker in SF: Luke Skywalker. Why?
Instead of joining the Rebellion, he whines about how he wants to join the Rebellion and refuses to move out of Uncle Owen's basement until Owen and Berru were charcoal briquets.
Luke thought he was the shiz-nit. Just look how he bragged about shooting womprats in his T-16. The T-16 Skyhopper was the SW equivalent of a 1981 VW Rabbit. I say that because comparing a T-16 to a Gremlin is an insult to Gremlins.
Hey Luke, you're not cool and all the black art-house trash outfits won't change that. While Biggs was off fighting for something, Luke was living like Fonz above the garage. Lousy punk.
Other things Luke would rather do than join up - hang out at the Toshi Station mall. SLACKER! When R2-D4 blew a bad motivator, Luke ran to Uncle Owen to get the jawas to take the droid back. A better plan would have been to haggle down the price of the droid and replace the motivator. But that would involve Luke dirtying up his hands.
I can go on but I won't. There isn't enough storage on Gawker's servers to list all the reasons that Luke Skywalker is SF's biggest slacker.
When i bought Red Thunder w/o looking at it, assuming that no way is varley going to do something else, and found it to be a huge pile of shit, my entire worldview crumbled a bit. Golden Globe and Steel Beach are the best post-heinlien books of their type. I WANT IRONTOWN!!!!
@nutbastard:
I couldn't get into Golden Globe. I'll give it a try again. Steel Beach was fantastic. Can't wait to shoot up more Varley.
I still can't figure out why Titan wasn't made into a epis movie trilogy.
How is there going to be a sequel, anyhow? I thought all the Heinleiners were hitting the trail and that was that. Not that i'm not glad it's coming! Also, shouldn't 'The Last Dangerous Visions' also make this list?
You know it would have been really nice if you had linked to the posting that inspired the SF Signal posting.
That would have been something I wrote, BTW.
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