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Some books I recommend: Note: I am starting to avoid the use of the debased term 'sci-fi'. Most if not all of these books could be described as science fiction, even Clan of Cave Bear which is based on painstaking archeological research. I am also tending away from the similiarly meaningless cliche 'cyberpunk'. Dystopia: "1984" and "Animal Farm" - George Orwell "Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley "The Fifth Sacred Thing" - Starhawk "Neuromancer" and "Virtual Light" - William Gibson "Galaxies like Grains of Sand" - Brian Aldiss "Vurt" - Jeff Noon "The Time Machine" - HG Wells "A Clockwork Orange" - Anthony Burgess "The Carefully Considered Rape of the World" - Shepard Mead Fantasy: "Neverness", "the Broken God" - David Zindell "Dancers at the End of Time" - Michael Moorcock "the Disposessed", the "Wizard of Earthsea" trilogy - Ursula Le Guin Sheri S. Tepper - especially "Six Moon Dance" and the "Mavin Manyshaped" series - read anything she's written, she's great! "Durdane" trilogy (the Faceless Man, the Brave Free Men, the Asutra) - Jack Vance "Dune" - Frank Herbert The Death Gate Cycle - Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman "Clan of Cave Bear" - Jane M. Auel "Jonathon Livingston Seagull" and "Inspirations" - Richard Bach Horror: "Insomnia" - Stephen King "Blood Red Angel" - obscure fantasy, can't remember the author - gory but excellent Satire: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently series - Douglas Adams Anything ever written by Terry Pratchett, especially "Strata". My favourite of the MANY discworld novels is probably "Thief of Time" or "Pyramids". Anything written by Ben Elton, especially "This Other Eden" and "Stark" Realism: "Bombadiers" - Po Bronson "Flowers for Algernon" - Daniel Keyes "The Pearl" - John Steinbeck "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee Non-Fiction: "Revolutionary Self-Theory" - Spectacular Times "The Abolition of Work" - Bob Black "Society of the Spectacle" - Guy Debord "Cyberia - Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace" - Douglas Rushkoff "Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin" - Steven Jay Gould "Voltaire's Bastards" - John Ralston Saul Some magazines to look at: Boheme Adbusters Year Zero One International Psychogeographic Some books I want to read: "Gangs of America" - Ted Nace "The Running Man" - Richard Bachman "Lord of the Rings" - J.R.R Tolkien "Instant God" - Cliff Taylor Free Electronic Fiction: Baen Free eBook Library Cory Doctorow |
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