Science-fiction is a genre that is notorious for not aging especially well. Certainly the science part often becomes dated within decades (and occasionally even within years) of a work being written.
Still, I find it interesting that no one has mentioned works by Fredrick Pohl, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, et al. Many of the better-known books by these authors are littered with anachronisms from a present-day perspective. Regardless, novels like Pohl's Gateway, Vance's Dying Earth and The Demon Princes series, Anderson's Flandry cycle, anything by Dick but especially Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Zelazny's Lord of Light, Moorcock's Cornelius chronicles and Robert Silverberg's Nightwings are all well worth the effort.
M John Harrison and Gene Wolfe are two of my favorite writers currently active in both the science-fiction and fantasy genres. Harrison's Viriconium sequence and Wolfe's Book of the New Sun are not necessarily easy reads, yet in my estimation, they are well worth the effort.
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Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:06 am
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Re: Books!
I know not what life is, nor death.
Year in year out-all but a dream.
Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
I stand in the moonlit dawn,
Free from clouds of attachment.
Year in year out-all but a dream.
Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
I stand in the moonlit dawn,
Free from clouds of attachment.