Cherryh, but my favourite is Mendoza in Hollywood which is a dreadful title for an outstanding book by Kage Baker about a time-travelling biologist harvesting plants about to be pushed into the brink of extinction by the growth of the film industry. Another book that I particularly love is the above mentioned Heavy Time by C.J. It’s a wonderful book and rightly regarded as a classic. I love several – Doomsday is a classic time travel book by Connie Willis that goes back to the medieval period. What is your favourite book that is set in a different time period (can be historical or futuristic)? I also love the world that Lois McMaster Bujold has created in her Miles Vorkosigan series that sprawls across a chain of planets. The other futuristic setting I particularly enjoy is that in the Earth Girl series by Janet Edwards, where Earth is largely uninhabited apart from those who are unable to leave due to a genetic quirk. To be honest, the story itself isn’t quite as effective as the setting in my opinion – but I’ve dreamed of this landscape many times. One of the most poignant and effective settings is the depiction of a nearly empty Paris, overrun by alien vegetation from portals drawn by Eric Brown in his novel Engineman. I have three… two based on Earth and one that sees us out in the among the stars. What is your favourite futuristic setting from a book? My older self is going to be caught up with the books being published at the time, so my crashing into her reading patterns won’t probably be very welcome. What book/s would you travel forward in time and give to your older self? My younger self would love to read this and derive a great sense of comfort to discover that books like that were in existence as I was getting increasingly disillusioned with many of the contemporary literary offerings I was ploughing through at the time. Her writing style and depiction of space just blew me away. What book/s would you travel back in time and give to your younger self?
The genius that gave us a canon of marvellous plays and beautiful poetry must be worth sitting across the table and chatting to! Even if he only wants to grumble about the weather and the difficulties of finding a boy to adequately play Juliet – especially if he wants to grumble about that one, come to think of it… What writer/s would you like to travel back in time to meet? So… both these periods tend to snag my interest. But I also enjoy the Victorian time – events moved so very quickly during that it was a period of great upheaval and yet isn’t all that long ago.
I love the Tudor period – it’s the period I studied for my History degree so I know a reasonable amount about the history of this time. What is your favourite historical setting for a book? Many thanks to Lynn from Lynn’s Book Blog for nominating me to take part in this lovely tag.
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