![]() ![]() Prose novels have more space to tell their story. Reading the source novel not only showed me how faithful the graphic novel adaptation was, but how the original book was a deeper reading experience. ![]() I was happily surprised when that proved to not be the case. To be honest, so soon after reading the graphic novel adaptation, I was expecting some amount of "been there, done that" when I was reading the novel. Luckily, I had an unread copy lying around. I was so enamored of it, that I just had to read the 1979 classic on which it was based. The graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and illustrated by John Jennings was fantastic. It was the story of a black writer named Dana who, through some unexplained phenomenon, is transported from 1970s California to a pre-Civil War slave plantation. If you recall, a few months back, I read the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. ![]() The first classic is the one most recently written. And yet I did recently find time to read some speculative fiction classics, stories I (mostly) hadn't read before. There are more classic stories than I will ever have time to read. I wish I could say I've read all the classics…but the numbers are against me. I love classic science fiction because, despite its faults, it offers a window into our past. I like to think that my taste in speculative fiction encompasses a wide spectrum of stories – not only stories written in different sub-genres, or in different writing styles, or by different writers…but also stories written in different times. ![]()
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