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<blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 8243838" data-attributes="member: 75787">[edited post — on reflection, arguing merits of literary criticism of Aldsis’s writing in this forum isn’t on topic]&nbsp;I have read Non-Stop, The Primal Urge, Hothouse, Report on Probability A, Barefoot in the Head, Moreau's Other Island, The Helliconia Series, Jocasta, the collections &quot;Space, Time and Nathaniel&quot;, Starswarm,&nbsp; Brothers of the Head, and many of his short stories in other collections. I read some of The Malachi Tapestry, but didn't finish it. I have read several of his essays, but cannot recall where and when I look at his bibliography, many works ring bells but I cannot be definite that I have read them.Aldiss can be dry, but STAN, in particular I would call out as well worth reading even now, many decades later. I do find his credentials and accolades deserved, and so overall would give strong weight to his views. In particular, I don’t find more modern definitions of space opera more compelling than his.I enjoy both classic space opera (I have read the Lensmen series — the exemplar of space opera — several times) and modern space opera (I recommend Iain Banks to any who will listen). Modern space opera is better, I feel, but no more so than any other genre within sci-if, so the modern re-definitions that stress good writing and characterization don’t add much to me; they just say “we write better space opera now than we used to”.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gorgon Zee, post: 8243838, member: 75787"] [edited post — on reflection, arguing merits of literary criticism of Aldsis’s writing in this forum isn’t on topic] I have read[I] Non-Stop[/I],[I] The Primal Urge[/I], [I]Hothouse[/I], [I]Report on Probability A[/I], [I]Barefoot in the Head[/I], [I]Moreau's Other Island[/I], The [I]Helliconia[/I] Series, [I]Jocasta[/I], the collections "[I]Space, Time and Nathaniel[/I]", [I]Starswarm[/I], [I]Brothers of the Head[/I], and many of his short stories in other collections. I read some of [I]The Malachi Tapestry[/I], but didn't finish it. I have read several of his essays, but cannot recall where and when I look at his bibliography, many works ring bells but I cannot be definite that I have read them. Aldiss can be dry, but STAN, in particular I would call out as well worth reading even now, many decades later. I do find his credentials and accolades deserved, and so overall would give strong weight to his views. In particular, I don’t find more modern definitions of space opera more compelling than his. I enjoy both classic space opera (I have read the Lensmen series — the exemplar of space opera — several times) and modern space opera (I recommend Iain Banks to any who will listen). Modern space opera is better, I feel, but no more so than any other genre within sci-if, so the modern re-definitions that stress good writing and characterization don’t add much to me; they just say “we write better space opera now than we used to”. [/QUOTE]

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