| Re: Mieville Recommends...
IMHO Viriconuium, by M John Harrison is one of the top 5 best fantasy/sci-fi series ever written. Mieville also mentions Course of Heat by MJH, which is novle that belongs on all top 20 speculative fiction lists IMHO.
Other novels listed on their that I think are of the highest quality listed:
Use of Weapons - Ian M. Banks (really anything buy Banks represent among teh best sci-fi recently)
The Master and Maragrita - Mikhail Bulgakov (classic literature)
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K DIck - (move coming out and Dick is a legend)
Strange Evil - Jane Gaskel
The Star Fraction - Ken Macleod - Haven't read this particular novel by Macleod but he is defintely a upper echelon author for mwhat I can tell of hsi otehr work.
Wicked - Gregory Maguire - Admittedly, I think this was overated.
He mentions Moorcock who is of course a god in fantasy/sci-fi
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake - Along with MJH's Viriconium in my top 5 works of speculative fiction ever and maybe the #1.
Northern Compass - Phillip Pullman - IMHO Pullman is far and away the best author writing speculaive fiction for younger readers.
The Mars trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson
Mary Shelley is of course a classic legend in literature.
Iron Dragon's Daugther - Michael Swanwick - The only stand alone novels worth reading with elves in it besides perhaps Matt Stover's Blades of Tyshalle since maybe 50 years ago in Poul Anderson's classic Broken Sword and not written by Tolkien.
Guilver travels - Swift - Classic.
Island of R. Moreau - HG Wells - Forget the retarded movie one of the best horror novels ever written
Oscar Wilde is a Legend
Fifth Head of Cerebus - Gene Wolfe - If Mieville deosn't have the best prose Wolfe does currently IMHO. 3 Superior novellas.
From what I have read this is a awesome list. |