Hi, everyone! Welcome back. WordPress has been giving me grief with scheduling posts, so my latest book review and last Saturday’s post went out late! Luckily, it looks like everything’s back to normal. If you want to check out my latest book review, find the link here.
I’m excited to announce that Rachel E. Greco, a writer and freelance editor, recently published a guest post I had written! I actually published this post earlier: 10 Greatest Golden Age Science Fiction Novels.
You can find the link to the previous post on MY blog here: 10 Greatest Golden Age Science Fiction Novels
Then you can find the post on Rachel’s blog through here: 10 Greatest Golden Age Science Fiction Novels
Also, check out Rachel’s bio here: Feel like you can’t measure up? That you just don’t have what it takes or that you want to be more like so and so?
Me too. I’ve always struggled with being content in my own skin. Since my characters are part of me, they do too (the poor things!).
I write stories for people with cracks in them: people who are imperfect and know they are. Who struggle to see the beauty within them.
While journeying with gritty, just-as-broken characters as yourself into enchanted forests, over dragon-filled lands, or into a futuristic cyberpunk world, you will realize alongside my characters that you are beautiful and loved, even with your cracks and imperfections. There’s a place for you here.
So, are you ready? Ready to be brave and see the beauty that lies within you? If so, check out my books!
Here’s also a quick summary of my guest post: I created a list of some of the most important works of sci-fi during the science fiction Golden Age. Books included Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall, Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, and more. Before you go, here’s an excerpt of the post!
The first book on this list technically doesn’t count as a novel, but as it’s considered a classic within the Golden Age, it was too important not to share. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a short story collection published in 1950 and made up of several stories, including the well-known “There Will Come Soft Rains.” All the stories work to create a single narrative about the people of Earth first traveling to Mars, colonizing the planet and settling there, and eventually abandoning it during a devastating nuclear war on Earth.
This book also delves into several different issues that Bradbury wanted to address. The first story takes place right after World War II, and Bradbury makes a point of explaining throughout how the U.S. runs the risk of nuclear war. In Bradbury’s opinion, our focus on technology encourages an event like this to eventually happen. He also includes specific stories that target specific issues, such as racism in “Way in the Middle of the Air” and religion in “—And the Moon Be Still as Bright.” Each story might be worth reading on its own, but the book itself remains essential.
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