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Tom:
Please recommend me some then and I'm saying this in all earnest. Especially contemporary authors, I stopped reading a lot ofcontemporary fiction awhile ago beacause i couldn't really find anything that wasn't cliched into oblivion.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 02 Dec 2007, 21:28 ---Nicholson Baker - The Fermata
Martin Amis - Money
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Colson Whitehead - The Intuistionist (I guess this could be sort of maybe argued as a science-fiction-ish thing though)
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (Parts of it are definitely science-fiction, so it would make a good stepping stone, maybe)
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Also:
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
John Updire - Rabbit, Run
Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries
Julian Barnes - England, England
David Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Alice Munro - Who Do You Think You Are?
Ian McEwan - Saturday
Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy Of Dunces
Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
Wayfaring Stranger:
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Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Hummingbird's Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
Bee Season - Myla Golberg
Night Train - Martin Amis
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
The list really goes on and on. There is some great science fiction, but there is an abundance of fantastic literature elsewhere.
I do agree, however, that science fiction has made an incredible impact on our culture in the last half-century or so. For that reason, I think a lot of great science fiction authors (Dick, Bradbury, Heinlen, Asimov, etc.) have a good chance of entering the canon of classic literature. That's a big step for a genre that was barely taken seriously less than a hundred years ago.
Joseph:
Except don't read The Life Of Pi.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 07 Dec 2007, 12:27 ---Vladimir Nabokov
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Nabokov wrote speculative fiction.
Just sayin'.
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