TSDK No. 39. The End of the World is Dull, Ladies and Gentlemen

The New Wave of Science Fiction and Beyond, Part 1.

One day in my mid 40s I realized that I didn’t have that many years left to read all the books I was interested in before the Grim Reaper took me in his tender embrace. At a (highly optimistic) rate of 40 a year over the course of three decades I might read a total of 1200, but that didn’t take into account re-reading, or the extra time and effort requi…