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Never been too taken with Dick's short stories, I think he was better at novels.
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I have this but have yet to read it. There is a little known film version with Michael Caine, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina.
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This is really two novellas, I read 'Universe' on its own and much prefer it with its unresolved by powerful ending, I think the sequel doesn't live up to that original novella. I'd rate 'Universe' on its own as one of the best of early Heinlein.
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It took me a long time to find this second hand, it was OOP at the time. I quite liked it although I know some are offended by the portrait of the gay character. I rather liked how uncompromising Silverberg was in not making the characters sympathet…
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My favourite novel. Read it when I was 18 upon a recommendation from my English teacher and it transformed my idea of what a novel could be. So subversive and modern too. 'Bartleby' and 'Benito Cereno' are also amazing. “I have written a wicked boo…
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I'd rather we go with a Ballard novel like Drowned World, Crystal World or Crash. So I'll vote for Wilhelm's novel which is really a series of interlinked novellas that seems to be considered here best novel. Her short stories are brilliant.
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Love Priest, up there with Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ and Thomas Disch for high literary sf for me.
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I've read the short story he expanded into this book and it is quite haunting. Silverberg is often his best around novella length I think.
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This is the guy who wrote the book that Roeg based The Man Who Fell to Earth on. I think I have a copy of this novel, good to hear it delivers I'll have to dig it up.
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Have this on my to-read list. The synopsis sounds a bit like James Blish's brilliant short story 'Common Time' but there the physics and the character's mental state are metaphors for each other which is what makes it such a rich story.
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Love this novel, one of the gems of the British new wave.
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Priest is kinda underrated I think. Haven't read these particular stories though. I have his novel The Seperation cued up on Audible.
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Big Ballard fan but I agree his early stories are generally better although I enjoy some of his later avant garde shorts in The Atrocity Exhibition.
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I haven't read Mowat since I was a kid, he was required reading in Canadian schools. Never Cry Wolf has a very memorable set piece at the end of the novel.
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I've read it all and The Martian Chronicles is the best by far I'd say.
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Sorry for the typos, typing on a tablet is a pain!
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My go to with writers I’m unfamiliar with are the great Sf and Fantasy Encylopedias edited by John Clute, Peter Nicholls, John Grant, Brian Stableford and others, now entirely available online. Here is their entry of Sutcliff: http://sf-encyclop…
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Thanks, I was struggling with this as well.
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So much goodness here, huge fan of many of these writers. Here are some recommendations if you are intrigued by what you read here: CL Moore: all the classic short stories she wrote with Henry Kuttner, my favs include ‘Vintage Season,’ ‘The Ch…