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Originally Posted by Wes  Yeah, I have a pretty large section of unread books too, but I think it's worse with unwatched DVDs. Just finding the time, and things aren't going to get any better - even after 11 years of solid DVD collecting there's still a raft of great Cinema out there that I have still to get... Phil, I'm writing down all these recommendations, cos I'm in on a big sci-fi buzz at the moment. Your two picks from earlier are on the way from Amazon, and I'm sneaking in a read of Day of the Triffids before they arrive... |
Oh jeez, don't get me started on unwatched films (I've just had a splurge in town whilst I was Xmas shopping).
I read Triffids years ago, when I first started secondary school in fact, another brilliant slice of British sci-fi.
I'd highly, highly, highly recommend Alisdair Gray's
Lanark too, which isn't strictly sci-fi, but certainly features sci-fi tropes - it's another epic read that brings something new to literature and also how typography is used in books (it took him 30 years to write too!)
And I can't recommend enough Dan Simmons'
Hyperion cantos or his
Ilium and
Olympus novels. So rich in literary references and absolute rip roaring adventure tales - he really is an incredibly talented writer (
Drood and
The Terror are two other non sci-fi books that left me reeling).