AIR Will Rock Your World
This summer, everything you know about flight
about terror
about power
...will change.
Fly the uncanny skies August 2008. From Vertigo Comics.
Posted by on 02/22 at 12:10 AM
Salaam dear G,
After coming away dissatisfied with a series of stellar-reviewed but ultimately boring novels, I came across Wired magazine’s “Why Sci-Fi is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing”, which posits that since there are only so many reality based novels one can read, “science fiction is the last great literature of ideas.”
So, I’d love it if you would share a list of sci-fi/fantasy/graphic novels that rocked your world and perspective.
Because if I have to read about yet another wealthy family’s woes, patriarch’s extra-marital affairs, and aimless, and unlikable twenty- and thirty-somethings I am going to begin burning NYT best sellers.
Thanks! 
Warmly,
Baraka
Posted by Baraka on 02/22 at 02:52 AM
PS - Is this a new graphic novel that you’re working on?
If so, I’m super excited! Congrats!
Posted by Baraka on 02/22 at 03:00 AM
Hahahaha...that was a perfect synopsis of all the big ‘character’ novels around right now. It’s kind of amazing. I agree about scifi--after all, in the 50s/60s it was one of the main genres writers could use to criticize the government without getting hassled. Look at Rod Serling.
And AIR will be a monthly series--one 22 page issue per month, collected into anthologies every 6 months or so. So just like superhero comics, only literary.
Posted by Willow on 02/22 at 04:12 AM
And since you ask:
Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Spook Country by “
The Invisibles by Grant Morrison (comic series)
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis (also a comic)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (de-press-ing)
Posted by Willow on 02/22 at 04:23 AM
Thanks!
I’ve read Eco & Atwood’s but look forward to reading the rest!
Posted by Baraka on 02/22 at 11:05 PM
FYI, the SF Chron article: “8 comic books to read before you die”
Posted by Baraka on 02/22 at 11:48 PM
Can’t wait. Have you been reading Wood’s DMZ at all? It’s some of the best and timeliest shit I’ve seen since I dunno when.
Posted by Dave on 02/23 at 12:38 AM
I think DMZ is his best work to date. I hung out with him at the Vertigo booth for awhile at the last San Diego Con, signing stuff, and he got SWAMPED by DMZ fans. Pretty cool.
Posted by Willow on 02/23 at 03:30 AM
Wood has actually raised the bar a little too high, honestly. I just read “Fight For Tomorrow” (and was pleasantly surprised, incidentally, that I could read the Chinese on the cover; I’m getting better!) and it was perfectly good. If it hadn’t said Wood on the cover I wouldn’t have felt let down at all, but there it is. Yes, I’m the reason you guys hate your readers :-(
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