Ye Olde Booke Club, January

Hey! It’s Vintage Sci-Fi month, as deemed necessary by Little Red Reviewer!

Darkcargo posts for Vintage SciFi month:

http://darkcargo.com/2012/01/08/a-tiny-bit-about-jack-williamson/

http://darkcargo.com/2012/01/15/brave-new-world-double-feature/

http://darkcargo.com/2012/01/15/welles-wells-war-of-the-worlds-radio-drama/

http://darkcargo.com/2012/01/15/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/

So, I’m burdening you with a heavy load this month, but I think you can bear the weight of this awesomeness.

Additionally, this year I’m asking you to select an enormous book of Classic Literature and delve into it. Take your time with that one.

Katermellon suggested that I also select a short story for the YOBC monthly picks as a way to explore authors without committing time to a whole novel. So, you’ll find either a short story or audio somethin’ or ‘nuther selected each month along with the novel.

January, YOBC: vintage Sci-Fi month:

We’re camping out in America during the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the tail end of the Prohibition, and between the two World Wars. Interesting times, indeed. Interesting, scary, horrifying times. Little wonder that people escaped into speculative fiction.

*Treaty of Versailles ends WWI, 1919*
*18th Constitutional Amendment prohibits consumption/transportation/sale of alcohol in the US, 1920*
*19th Constitutional Amendment grants women the right to vote, 1920*
*KKK reaches highest membership, mid-1920′s*
Tarzan, King of the Jungle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1927
Short Story– The Call of Chthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft, 1928
*Stock Market crash, 1929*
*Duke Ellington: “It Don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing!”*
Short Story: Gladiator, Phillip Wylie
*Construction begins on Hoover Dam, 1931*
Novel– Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
Short story– The Phoenix on the Sword, Robert E. Howard, 1932
*Prohibition repealed, 1933*
Short Story– Dead Star Station, Jack Williamson
*The Long March leads Mao Zedong to power in Communist China, 1934*
Triplanitary, E. E. “Doc” Smith, 1934
*Georgia O’Keefe: Ram’s Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, 1935*
*Soil Conservation Act, 1936*
*The Shadow radio drama premiers, 1937*
Audio– War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells, radio theater production by Orson Welles, 1938.
*Nazis begin Final Solution, 1939*
*Stalin becomes premier of Soviet Union, 1941*