{"id":343,"date":"2017-09-06T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2024-01-03T22:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T04:18:58","slug":"victor-milan-on-classic-sf-works-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/victor-milan-on-classic-sf-works-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Mil\u00e1n on classic SF works to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tor.com’s excellent “Five Books” section has a recent piece by Victor Mil\u00e1n, “Five Classic Works of SFF by Authors We Must Not Forget.”<\/a> He recommends Jirel of Joiry<\/em> by C.L. Moore,\u00a0The Planetary Adventures of Eric John Stark<\/em> by Leigh Brackett,\u00a0The Dragon Masters<\/em> by Jack Vance,\u00a0Berserker (Berserker Series Book 1)<\/em> by Fred Saberhagen and\u00a0Lord of Light<\/em> by Roger Zelazny.<\/p>\n

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Mil\u00e1n won the Prometheus Award in 1986 for Cybernetic Samurai.<\/em>\u00a0His latest book is The Dinosaur Princess.<\/em> Find out more about him.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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* Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/strong>For the full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees \u2013 for the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the enhanced\u00a0Prometheus Awards page<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on the LFS website, which now includes convenient links to all published essay-reviews in our Appreciation series of more than 100 past winners since 1979.<\/p>\n

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Libertarian futurists believe that culture matters! We understand that the arts and literature can be vital in envisioning a freer and better future – and in some ways can be even more powerful than politics in the long run, by sparking innovation, better ideas, peace, prosperity, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other\u2019s rights, individuality and human dignity.<\/p>\n

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Tor.com’s excellent “Five Books” section has a recent piece by Victor Mil\u00e1n, “Five Classic Works of SFF by Authors We Must Not Forget.” He recommends Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore,\u00a0The Planetary Adventures of Eric John Stark by Leigh Brackett,\u00a0The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance,\u00a0Berserker (Berserker Series Book 1) by Fred Saberhagen and\u00a0Lord of Light … Continue reading Victor Mil\u00e1n on classic SF works to remember<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,10,8,37],"tags":[2213,2002,2211,3,1445,2212,2214,663,171],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-news","category-review","category-memorial-tributes","tag-c-l-moore","tag-cybernetic-samurai","tag-fred-saberhagen","tag-jack-vance","tag-leigh-brackett","tag-roger-zelazny","tag-the-dinosaur-princess","tag-tor-com","tag-victor-milan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-5x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}