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SciFi Classics Collection + 4
I'm really happy at the moment, cause my latest order of sci-fi classics have arrived! 2 Huxley books ('Ape and Essence' and 'Island'), Dick's 'A Scanner Darkly' and Orwell's '1984', which of course I have already read but just needed to have in my collection.
I'll be interested in Island, which I might read first. I'm a massive fan of dystopia, and Island will be the first utopia I have read. Should be an interesting comparison methinks :p
I still have about 8 other books to read first though...
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Re: SciFi Classics Collection + 4
Oh, there'll definately be an audio-book or two of it. I imagine you can get some real good ones, thespians and the like. I know people like Ian McKellen do audio books sometimes, so you might get a nice choice.
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Re: SciFi Classics Collection + 4
I'm gonna sound like a broken record here, but my favourite is Brave New World. I also really liked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, which is what the movie BladeRunner is based off (Although I didn't much care for the movie)
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher is a very good young teen dystopian, and introduced some fantastic ideas which still influence my stories and ideas of fiction today, but from the sounds of it is probably a little below your reading level. I imagine it'd be less enjoyable for me now, I read it quite a few years ago.
I'm reading The Book of Dave at the moment, which is... different. It is very good, and some bits are amazing, but it's very explicit, and certain parts of the book are just uncomfortable to read. One of the storylines follows a demented cabbie called Dave, and a lot of those sections are his thoughts, so it gets sort of no hold barred disgusting, racist and graphic. Still, I'm glad I got it, because so far at least it makes up for those parts.
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Re: SciFi Classics Collection + 4
XD You say you've not read many, but you seem to know more than me! I think I'm gaining more reading material from this topic than you are, so thanks for that ^^
If you want more to check out, there are a fair few under my bed waiting for me to finish Book of Dave. Not sure how good they are, but at least one is on the list of Sci-Fi classics, so I should hope they're very good;
Joe Haldeman - Forever War
J G Ballard - High Rise
Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Louise Lawrence - Children of the Dust
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