Archive for February 12, 2010
YELLOW BLUE TIBIA by Adam Roberts
The main character tells another, “Science fiction is the Olympic Games of the imaginatively fit.” Adam Roberts certainly is in the running for a gold medal with YELLOW BLUE TIBIA. His novel, in the form of a Soviet science fiction writer’s memoir, leads the reader on a perplexing, high-strung, high-concept pursuit. Konstantin Skvorecky (the writer); Stalin; KGB officers; other science fiction writers; an American man and woman representing Scientology; and a phobic, tic-ridden taxi driver all play their parts in this elaborate, ironic, schizophrenic “fantasy.”
February 12, 2010
Tags: 1950s, 1980s, scifi Posted in: Speculative (Beyond Reality) 
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