RE: Eagle Time Reading List
11-24-2017, 07:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-24-2017, 08:13 PM by GenetiXientist.)
I've been on a transcendent/transhuman sci-fi kick recently: I can happily recommend Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men (if you get past a bit of weird racialism in the first few chapters) and Star Maker, as well as Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. I'm currently in the middle of the sequel/prequel to the last of those, and it's also real good.
Also gonna recommend Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light and Arthur Clarke's The City and the Stars, though Zelazny's myth/sci fi/fantasy mix isn't for everyone and Clarke's writing is a lot more about ideas than good characters.
Oh, should also mention that I've been devouring Borges too. If you can get your hands on Ficciones or El Aleph, I highly, highly recommend doing so. He's by far the most mindbendingly weird writer I've ever encountered, and that's meant in the best possible manner.
Also gonna recommend Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light and Arthur Clarke's The City and the Stars, though Zelazny's myth/sci fi/fantasy mix isn't for everyone and Clarke's writing is a lot more about ideas than good characters.
Oh, should also mention that I've been devouring Borges too. If you can get your hands on Ficciones or El Aleph, I highly, highly recommend doing so. He's by far the most mindbendingly weird writer I've ever encountered, and that's meant in the best possible manner.