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Old 9th February 2005, 09:53 AM   #56 (permalink)
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Re: Recent Buys

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Originally Posted by Leto
Well you can find some Gérard Klein book translated on Amazon :
his masterpiece Starmaster's gambit, translated by John Brunner : the Overlords of war, A Mote in Time's Eye and Day before tomorrow. Click on the links to access the Amazon pages. As they're quite old, they're really cheap but it largely worth the read.

Gérard Klein is the guy who's responsible for the translation of Frank Herbert, Cordwainer Smith (IIRC) and several other SF writers in France.

Any Indian writer to reccomend ?
Thanks! I can't afford to order online for a while (the taxman cometh this April and all) but I'll take a look.

I haven't really read either of these authors, but Samit Basu has a comedic fantasy novel called The Simoquin Prophecies, while Amitav Ghosh's The Clacutta Chromosome has signficant sf elements. It actually won the Arthur C Clarke Award, and comes recommended by John Clute. I've been searching for it, but have only found all of Ghosh's other books, so far!
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