And with January drawn to a close, so too has this year’s Sci-Fi Experience 2014. It was my first year participating and I had quite a lot of fun, even when I managed to mess up my schedule rather, er, spectacularly and life/things conspired to wreck my confidence in talking about books. I have, by now, kind of managed with two of the books I read this month. (Out of ten. And one of them was written by a friend and it is awesome, even subtracting bias from my reaction, so it doesn’t count.)
Anyway! This is going to be a joyous post rather than a sad one! I spent most of the two these past two months discussing science fiction games as these are the way I experienced most of my science fiction when I was little and, so, science fiction as a whole has a strong tie to non-book media, especially games. (Given the amount of technology inherent in the lot of them, this amuses me and it feels fitting.)
Looking back at my initial post I had a few reading goals in mind. I mostly failed at them because I forgot when, exactly, the vintage scifi month was held. This is because I am brilliant with dates. I had 19 books in my initial pool. I read a grand total of 12 of them, which I don’t think is too shabby. I did add the novelette Fallen and the book Mindline. The latter was predicted, the former… not so much. (But I loved Primordia so much.) I had a lot of fun spending so much time in science fiction, though with the amount of fantasy I read I did end up feeling a little unbalanced partway through January. (So I went off and read something other than science fiction.) You’ll also notice that January is when I started to drop the ball on posting about the experience, which leaves me sad. I had a lot of fun and I’ll certainly be participating again if time permits.
So that leaves me with a round-up of all the posts I made. But first! A small note:
Thank you, Carl, for hosting the Sci-Fi Experience again this year! I hope you’ve had masses and masses of fun with it! <3 See you next year! (Unless someone I know invents a time machine and I’ll go back in time to join earlier challenges as well, in which case “See you in the past!” ^_~)