literary sci-fi recs

[tanaka]

Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy was a blast. Still haven't found anything quite like it.

[Grey Poupon]

Do any of you have goodreads accounts? I do but I only use it for logging down when I read a book and the occasional review.
I could set up a hipinion account and we'd keep lists there (for other genres too), for posterity.

[Autarch]

book of the new sun! book of the new sun! book of the new sun!

[Autarch]

oh yeah i really like book of the new sun and left hand of darkness too !

and pkd ofc, thanks pottster

Read Book of the Long Sun. Don't read Book Of The Short Sun.

short sun is great though.

[lockheed]

bingo i think you'd really like delany's Neveryon series. i've only read volume 2, Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities, but it's really really good.

[bongo]

can anyone push a bunch of these as epubs or mobis to the dropbox perhaps

[bongo]

bingo i think you'd really like delany's Neveryon series. i've only read volume 2, Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities, but it's really really good.

kk ill scope

[theendoftheworld666@aol.com]

what are the best non dhalgren delaneys

Babel-17 and esp. Trouble on Triton. His non-fiction stuff is excellent too but not science fiction.

I don't think I saw Joanna Russ or Octavia Butler mentioned in here so I will mention them.

[theendoftheworld666@aol.com]

I really need to read the Culture novels soon./

[skith]

Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy was a blast. Still haven't found anything quite like it.

Been meaning to read these

I'm almost done with Ken Liu's "Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" which I highly recommend though it isnt "hard" sci fi. I think Ken translated a lot of Liu Cixin's work in to English.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Fifth Head of Cerberus is about as good as BotNS, although maybe less impressive as a feat of erudition.

[theta]

top recs:

[theta]

i don't think ware is literary but it's amazing and everyone should read it

[bunejug]

demolished man is really good.

[blurst of times]

what are the best non dhalgren delaneys

Babel-17 and esp. Trouble on Triton. His non-fiction stuff is excellent too but not science fiction.

I don't think I saw Joanna Russ or Octavia Butler mentioned in here so I will mention them.

i rec'd butler! but yeah, she deserves more praise

agree w/ svc that fifth head of cerberus is incredible. i'm still working my way through botns for the first time(!), but i'll be impressed if it's as good as cerberus

[deadwolfbones]

Oh hey.

Re: non-Dhalgren Delany, check out Nova, Babel-17, Empire Star, Triton, The Einstein Intersection, and the Neveryon books. Aye, and Gomorrah is also a great collection of short stories (basically an expanded version of Driftglass); I think it's right up there with Ted Chiang's collection and The Best of Gene Wolfe for the best SF short fiction collections.

Lots of stuff by Christopher Priest will tickle the "literary" SF pleasure center, though he can get a bit wanky at times. Inverted World, at least, is excellent.

Ditto most of JG Ballard's stuff (Drowned World, Crystal World, etc.).

The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch. Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch. 334 by Thomas M. Disch.

Gene Wolfe's Peace, Long Sun, Short Sun, and Urth of the New Sun, plus his aforementioned short story collection(s).

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Cloud Atlas, obvs.

A Man Lies Dreaming, by Lavie Tidhar.

More than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon.

Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer. (One of my favorites from recent times.)

Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson.

Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges.

[joe]

What's the best way to own a massive amount of Philip K Dick? Like buy all of those mariner editions? Buy the hardcover Philip K Dick collection? I lent my old crappy editions of the three of his I had to someone who moved to Australia so I'm starting from the beginning.

[theta]

if u don’t do ebooks you should get them from the library

[Eyeball Kid]

If you're willing to drop the $, the Library of America volumes are very nice

[worrywort]

i've only skimmed thread, but didn't see it mentioned:

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

[manvstrees]

insane hipinion checking in the best lem is perfect vaccuum
last line of solaris is top 5 in fiction though

[joe]

if u don’t do ebooks you should get them from the library

I do ebooks, I just feel like I'd like some physicals around for at home reading

If you're willing to drop the $, the Library of America volumes are very nice

Those looks great, not sure if i'm willing to drop $75. Maybe I can find someone to gift it for me. or maybe i should just do it and stave off/embrace the void

[iacus]

What's the best way to own a massive amount of Philip K Dick? Like buy all of those mariner editions? Buy the hardcover Philip K Dick collection? I lent my old crappy editions of the three of his I had to someone who moved to Australia so I'm starting from the beginning.

whatever the cheapest, most beat up, oldest copy is at the used bookstore is the version i always buy

[bongo]

ty very much everyone ))

[baleen]

i can drop a mess on the dbox this wkend

[theendoftheworld666@aol.com]

Don't shy away from Le Guin's short stories either. Ones who walk away from omelas is classic & should be required HS age reading i m o. Perhaps they are all classic if you ask me.

[sadville]

Don't shy away from Le Guin's short stories either. Ones who walk away from omelas is classic & should be required HS age reading i m o. Perhaps they are all classic if you ask me.

fuck, i just read that story. thank you. i am absolutely teaching this to my students toward the end of the semester.

[Skerple]

short stories are le guin's greatest medium

[Skerple]

if you must have so-called literary science fiction cordwainer smith is the best

[silverapples]

i've only skimmed thread, but didn't see it mentioned:

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

oh yeah absolutely