This inspired me, with the help of the invaluable Internet Speculative Fiction Database, to come up with this partial list of the fantasy books of 1962 (including science fiction as a subset of fantasy, of course). It was a very good year!
All hail to the five writers on the list (that I know of) still Among Those Present -- honored friends and colleagues, all.
- Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse
- J.G. Ballard, Billennium
- J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World
- J.G. Ballard, The Voices of Time
- J.G. Ballard, The Wind from Nowhere
- Robert Bloch, Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones and Labyrinths (first English translations of these collections)
- Ray Bradbury, R Is for Rocket
- Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
- John Brunner, No Future in It
- Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
- Avram Davidson, Or All the Seas with Oysters
- Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor
- August Derleth, ed., Dark Mind, Dark Heart
- August Derleth, Lonesome Places
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
- Harlan Ellison, Ellison Wonderland
- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Russell Kirk, Old House of Fear
- Russell Kirk, The Surly Sullen Bell
- Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
- John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything
- Katherine MacLean, The Diploids
- Naomi Mitchison, Memoirs of a Spacewoman
- H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy
- Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, The Wonder Effect
- Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth (first, posthumous publication, 50 years after Twain’s death)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
2 comments:
Greg Feeley reminds me that 1962 also was the year of Nabokov's unclassifiable Pale Fire, which belongs on the list depending on how you classify it.
I would also add William Melvin Kelley's A Different Drummer, which could be classified either as a fable or an alternate history of the civil rights movement in America.
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