amarok2005
Ephemeral Spectre
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As long as I was getting my books out of storage (had to -- with this being about our hottest and most humid summer ever, they were starting to mildew), I decided to answer the question that has plagued Mankind for seconds: Do I have more science fiction or Fortean books?
I decided not to count books about SF, like Billion Year Spree, or non-fiction by authors usually thought of as SF writers, like Clarke's Profiles of the Future. And sometimes the line between SF and fantasy was a bit blurry.
Fortean books were easier, but some ghost books, for example, are simple by-the-campfire reads, while others are serious delvings into the paranormal. Forteana slides into folklore and legend at one end, and into more-or-less non-fiction at the other (William Corliss' book on atmospheric phenomena - fortean; another book on weird halos and such seemed like straight science).
So: The final tally: Science Fiction -- 682 books. Fortean -- 508
SF wins! ("Ah, good forteana is hard to come by," grumbles the crowd. "And you've got four bloody versions of 'War of the Worlds!'")
I also have 791 comic books as of today. And 961 magazines, at least 200 of which are Fortean Times alone!
Now . . . if I just had time to read some . . .
I decided not to count books about SF, like Billion Year Spree, or non-fiction by authors usually thought of as SF writers, like Clarke's Profiles of the Future. And sometimes the line between SF and fantasy was a bit blurry.
Fortean books were easier, but some ghost books, for example, are simple by-the-campfire reads, while others are serious delvings into the paranormal. Forteana slides into folklore and legend at one end, and into more-or-less non-fiction at the other (William Corliss' book on atmospheric phenomena - fortean; another book on weird halos and such seemed like straight science).
So: The final tally: Science Fiction -- 682 books. Fortean -- 508
SF wins! ("Ah, good forteana is hard to come by," grumbles the crowd. "And you've got four bloody versions of 'War of the Worlds!'")
I also have 791 comic books as of today. And 961 magazines, at least 200 of which are Fortean Times alone!
Now . . . if I just had time to read some . . .