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Points: 20712 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2013 at 10:03
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I haven't read  Čapek or We (We has been on my list for awhile).

Some of my classic faves are:

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leobowitz
Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris

Stephen King - The Tommyknockers

More modern dystopian novels:

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Jose Saramago - Blindness
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Hugh Howley - Wool (not a fave, I just read and liked it recently)

Fantasyish:

Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Dumas Club


And Stephen King and Peter Straub - The Talisman

And I must admit that I really enjoyed the Hunger Games novels.


The next book I want to read is Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan)
If you like Lem try 'The Investigation' by him. Not exactly sci-fi or fantasy but very strange.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Points: 39080 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2013 at 15:00
Very strange is what I very like, so I will definitely look for it.  Thanks!
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Points: 39080 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2013 at 15:34
Would probably be more helpful if you listed particular titles by the authors that you would particularly recommend.
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Points: 5319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2013 at 15:57
China Mielville

Bas-Lag series[edit]

Standalone works[edit]

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China Miéville on Bookbits radio talks about Embassytown.

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The Jewels of Aptor1962published as Ace-Double F-173 together with Second Ending by James White
Captives of the Flame1963published as Ace-Double F-199 together with The Psionic Menace by John Brunner, republished as the more definitive Out of the Dead City[23]
included in omnibus edition: The Fall of the Towers
The Towers of Toron1964published as Ace-Double F-261 together with The Lunar Eye by Robert Moore Williams, included in omnibus edition: The Fall of the Towers
City of a Thousand Suns1965published by Ace Books as F-322, included in omnibus edition: The Fall of the Towers
The Ballad of Beta-21965published as Ace-Double M-121 together with Alpha Yes, Terra No! by Emil Petaja
Empire Star1966published as Ace-Double M-139 together with The Tree Lord of Imeten byTom Purdom
Babel-171966published by Ace Books as F-388, Nebula Award winner, 1966;[3]
Hugo Award nominee, 1967[4]
The Einstein Intersection1967published by Ace Books as F-427, Nebula Award winner, 1967[4]
Hugo Award nominee, 1968[24]
Nova1968ISBN 0-553-10031-9Hugo Award nominee, 1969[25]
The Tides of Lust1973ISBN 0-86130-016-5published by Lancer Books as #71344, later reprinted under Delany's preferred title Equinox (1994), ISBN 1-56333-157-8.
Dhalgren1975ISBN 0-553-14861-3Nebula Award nominee, 1975;[26]
Locus Award nominee, 1976[27]
Triton1976ISBN 0-553-12680-6also published as Trouble on Triton;
Nebula Award nominee, 1976[27]
Empire1978ISBN 0-425-03900-5with Howard Chaykin a "visual novel"
published by Byron Preiss / Berkley Windhover
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand1984ISBN 0-553-05053-2Locus Award nominee, 1985;[28]
Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1987[29]
They Fly at Çiron1993ISBN 0-9633637-1-9
The Mad Man1994ISBN 1-56333-193-4
Hogg1995ISBN 0-932511-91-0
Phallos (novella)2004ISBN 0-917453-41-7
Dark Reflections2007ISBN 0-7867-1947-8Stonewall Book Award winner, 2008;
Lambda Award nominee, 2007;[30]
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders2012ISBN 978-1-59350-203-4Chapter 90 was inadvertently left out by the printer, and was published inSensitive Skin magazine, December 2012.


How helpful is that?
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Points: 39080 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2013 at 16:31
It's not.  That just looks spammy, and I wouldn't even know if you've read most of those.  Instead of copying and pasting a chunk from wikipedia, I think that mentioning, as I said, "particular titles [or names of series] by the authors that you would particularly recommend" would be much more helpful in such a  topic as this.  In other words, think of an author, then streamline down to the titles that you would most recommend/ or like the most.  Mine was too much of a laundry list in this topic too.  It's rather like someone saying, "I'm looking for a good jazz album -- based on these albums that I like, what titles would you recommend?", and then you throw at them every piece of music that Sun Ra ever worked on.

Earlier you wrote:

Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

Frederick Pohl
Peter Hamilton
David Brin
Philip Jose Farmer


Well, I've read Gateway, but never finished the Heechee Saga (sometimes I am limited to what's available in the library, though I mean to buy more books), and I really like his Man Plus novel.  Peter Hamilton I don't know.  David Brin, been meaning to try his Uplift novels. And I tried some of farmer's Riverworld saga in high school.
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Points: 18016 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2013 at 16:39
Just about anything by Larry Niven or Philip K Dick.

One book I read fairly recently that I really loved was Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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Points: 5319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2013 at 17:22
When I find an author I like I usually try to read all of their books.
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