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<blockquote data-quote="tattiemasher" data-source="post: 622498" data-attributes="member: 7209"><p>Some excellent suggestions in the thread, particularly 'The Forever War' and 'Starship Troopers', real classics. From the western world I really enjoyed most of the stuff I've read by Olaf Stapledon. He's a bit too left-wing in some of his beliefs, but he attempts some novels on an epic scale and it's really interesting to see where he goes with it. In particular, 'Last and First Men' which traces the entire history and extinction of humanity, 'Star Maker' which looks at the entire history of life in the universe, and 'Nebula Maker' which imagines celestial bodies as forms of life as well. 'Odd John' was worth a read as well.</p><p></p><p>For some sci-fi from the former Soviet bloc, the Strugatsky brothers did some great stuff in Russia. 'Hard to be a God' is probably my favourite of theirs, the setting is basically a future world in which Earth is observing a primitive world, and has inserted an agent to observe what is going on. He gets caught up in a personal feud, and starts his own form of revolution against what he sees as an oppressive religious dictatorship. 'Roadside Picnic' you should also read if you liked 'Stalker' by Tarkovsky, it's the book which the film was based on. Metro 2033 is probably one of the better modern sci-fi books from Russia, set in a post-apocalyptic Moscow where humans eke out an existence in the Metro system. I loved 'Memoirs Found in a Bathtub' by Stanislaw Lem, it's a reflection on just how ridiculous bureacracy and state secrecy is getting to.</p><p></p><p>An honourable mention to 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', it's also in the post-apocalyptic mould, but I really enjoyed it.</p><p></p><p>The most recent sci-fi I read was 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut. The premise is a future world where automation and computer-controlled society renders most people economically inefficient and so the overwhelming majority of society is either propped up in monotonous maintenance work or enlisted in the army. It was good enough to get a thumbs-up from me, though I found some of the characters a bit hollow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tattiemasher, post: 622498, member: 7209"] Some excellent suggestions in the thread, particularly 'The Forever War' and 'Starship Troopers', real classics. From the western world I really enjoyed most of the stuff I've read by Olaf Stapledon. He's a bit too left-wing in some of his beliefs, but he attempts some novels on an epic scale and it's really interesting to see where he goes with it. In particular, 'Last and First Men' which traces the entire history and extinction of humanity, 'Star Maker' which looks at the entire history of life in the universe, and 'Nebula Maker' which imagines celestial bodies as forms of life as well. 'Odd John' was worth a read as well. For some sci-fi from the former Soviet bloc, the Strugatsky brothers did some great stuff in Russia. 'Hard to be a God' is probably my favourite of theirs, the setting is basically a future world in which Earth is observing a primitive world, and has inserted an agent to observe what is going on. He gets caught up in a personal feud, and starts his own form of revolution against what he sees as an oppressive religious dictatorship. 'Roadside Picnic' you should also read if you liked 'Stalker' by Tarkovsky, it's the book which the film was based on. Metro 2033 is probably one of the better modern sci-fi books from Russia, set in a post-apocalyptic Moscow where humans eke out an existence in the Metro system. I loved 'Memoirs Found in a Bathtub' by Stanislaw Lem, it's a reflection on just how ridiculous bureacracy and state secrecy is getting to. An honourable mention to 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', it's also in the post-apocalyptic mould, but I really enjoyed it. The most recent sci-fi I read was 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut. The premise is a future world where automation and computer-controlled society renders most people economically inefficient and so the overwhelming majority of society is either propped up in monotonous maintenance work or enlisted in the army. It was good enough to get a thumbs-up from me, though I found some of the characters a bit hollow. [/QUOTE]
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