Oddly enough, I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and it was Octavia Butler novels that made me think about it (which the author of this article mentions as something she'd like to spend more time on). It struck me that it's taken me nearly half my life to get around to reading Octavia Butler; how that happened for a rabid scifi fan, I don't know. But, she's amazing, in the same class of writer as Asimov, Herbert, Atwood, Clarke, and Bradbury.
Though I also like Joseph Heller...so, I probably won't choose Butler over Heller, but I'll continue to read both, until the supply has run out.
Comments
Oddly enough, I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and it was Octavia Butler novels that made me think about it (which the author of this article mentions as something she'd like to spend more time on). It struck me that it's taken me nearly half my life to get around to reading Octavia Butler; how that happened for a rabid scifi fan, I don't know. But, she's amazing, in the same class of writer as Asimov, Herbert, Atwood, Clarke, and Bradbury.
Though I also like Joseph Heller...so, I probably won't choose Butler over Heller, but I'll continue to read both, until the supply has run out.
Heller does not have that many titles. Catch-22 is a towering work but the others are still all good.