I'm about to start reading Brian Aldiss's Helliconia omnibus
Larry Send a noteboard - 02/09/2010 06:45:18 PM
From the little I've read, it seems like the perfect sort of SF book(s) to discuss and it is widely available (I purchased the recently-released Gollancz SF Masterworks edition).
Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker would make for a good, deep discussion, although the books aren't full of difficult language. It's sui generis, though, in that there are no real narrators or characters. Imagine a vast, billions-spanning "history" of mankind and of the cosmos in those two books and you'll be close to it.
And you could always discuss Robert Stanek's works
Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker would make for a good, deep discussion, although the books aren't full of difficult language. It's sui generis, though, in that there are no real narrators or characters. Imagine a vast, billions-spanning "history" of mankind and of the cosmos in those two books and you'll be close to it.
And you could always discuss Robert Stanek's works
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
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02/09/2010 06:21:21 PM
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I'm about to start reading Brian Aldiss's Helliconia omnibus
02/09/2010 06:45:18 PM
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A few ideas...
02/09/2010 09:38:50 PM
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I'm surprised y'all haven't already posted a WoK discussion thread
02/09/2010 10:03:08 PM
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To be a bit unconventional, I nominate Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. *NM*
02/09/2010 11:22:55 PM
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Nothing wrong with unconventional! *NM*
02/09/2010 11:24:10 PM
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Except Brit comic novels don't seem to lend themselves well to discussions *NM*
02/09/2010 11:26:37 PM
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Well, I haven't read Dirk Gently yet (though I intend to). It's the principle of unconventionality..
02/09/2010 11:30:42 PM
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