Congratulations to Dave Itzkoff for his shrewd, funny piece in The New York Times Book Review yesterday. Double congratulations for his having the wisdom to suggest two of the Science Fiction classics on Overlook’s backlist. From Itzkoff’s piece, “Planetary Politics”:
… As the primary season approaches, we offer a few sci-fi suggestions to some of the Democratic and Republican contenders — and to a few major players on the periphery who could use the remedial reading….
[Barack Obama] should tell reporters he’s read Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock: Obsessed with Messianic ideas, a man with issues about his lineage travels back in time to discover he is actually the Messiah….
[Fred Thompson] might also consider reading Non-Stop, by Brian W. Aldiss: Having been away from their native soil for countless years, a starship passenger and his fellow travelers lose their ability to live among a civilized society and regress to a feral state.
We here at the Overlook Press agree. Get your copies before the campaigns clean us out!
No comments:
Post a Comment