satanmcnugget
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like Simon Reynolds, I was also a teenage sci-fi fiend...im sure there are others out there...what are your all-time fave sci-fi novels???
D84 said:Gene Wolfe esp. "The Book of the New Sun" series (omnibus from Fantasy Masterworks)
am I the only person I know who has read this?? awesome novel any way you slice it.
labrat said:the Jerry Cornelius novels are exellent (as far as I recall) and were an exellent calibrant for the young inquring mind who had yet to encounter L.A.N.G.U.A.G.U.E. poetry,Burroughs, Finnegans Wake etc.
One of the reasons I read a lot of Sci-Fi was that most UK provincial public librarys had shitloads(good stuff too)
JG Ballard was always very well represented-compare that to today's cursory copy of Empire of the Sun...
Yes!! I love that series. Really great. Book of the Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun are also pretty good, but not quite as mindblowing as New Sun.D84 said:Gene Wolfe esp. "The Book of the New Sun" series (omnibus from Fantasy Masterworks)
am I the only person I know who has read this?? awesome novel any way you slice it.
k-punk said:Bradbury another classic worth a mention surely...
Much of the SF I read was in those anthology series you used to be able to buy in supermarkets in the 70s for 35p....