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Charlie offers these suggestions for a cold fall day by the fire:
Ý Neuromancer by William Gibson & Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
These books both inspired and defined the global digital age. Like Charles Dickens, Samuel Clemens and H.G. Wells, these two contemporary authors will be read many years from now for their inate ability to capture a time and place in history.
Ý Any short story collections you can find by J.G. Ballard, i.e., Vermillion Sands
A touchstone in modern science fiction and fantasy. Ballard sets a standard that makes most authors look damn lazy by comparison. Unflinching and fantastic in the most imaginative sense of the word. William Burroughs meets William Gibson inside "The Master and Marguerita".
Ý The series - Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy & Arnie Fenner
Beautiful art. An amazing series that isn't kidding around when it means "the best". Makes you want to drop everything and run naked through the art colony.
Ý Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
A short story collection that embraces the stranger adrift in Latin America, with its hot, humid jungles, shamans and exotic cultures. Ancient gods and spaceships collide with great characters and shady motives.
Ý Archangel by Sharon Finn
Angels. Neither biblical nor "The Prophecy, Part Three". A convincing world, filled with mysteries, political intrigue and great, rich characters. (First in a series.)
Ý Imajica by Clive Barker
An engrossing quest book. Its long and builds a world of fantastic good and evil. Barker's mythos feels ancient and powerful and will give you a sense that you should have known that this world beyond the shadows of everyday life exists.
Ý Vurt by Jeff Noon
England meets cyberpunk rock and roll and the Wicker Man. Characters enter another world and state by putting clandestine feathers down their throat to trigger the experience. Mindf*** doesn't begin to describe this book.
Ý The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
How can you not love a children's book with a magic compass, witches, armored, talking polar bears and a quest set in a world where everyone has their own personal dæmon? (First in a series.)
Ý Stalking Tender Prey by Storm Constantine
Angels again. Only dark and sexual. Weird rites, unknown destinies and the fate of the world. Big picture stuff tackled one sweaty body at a time. And Storm makes this all cooler still by providing video on her website of the actual English locations where major scenes in the book take place.(First in a series.)
Ý Noir by K.W. Jeter
The next logical step in cyberpunk. A 21st century crime novel, complete with body jumping.
Ý Dead Girls by Richard Calder
The step in cyberpunk that goes beyond logical and turns it on its head. Wildly imaginative, with dense, lurid prose, twisted vocabulary and man/machine concepts that push the boundaries of science and good taste. Leaves a smoky feeling inside your head like a pungent shot of tawny whiskey. (First in a series.)
Ý Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
Sterling creates worlds of imaginative science that are inhabited by complex politics, solid characters and brilliant, forward-thinking concepts.
Ý Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
A classic science fiction story of impossible odds, heroes and surprises on a galactic scale. (First in a series.)
Ý Skin by Kathe Koja
Koja finds the twisted soul of obsession in the literal bleeding edge of the performance art world. Creepy and engrossing. Repellent and mesmerizing. I couldn't put it down.
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