I’ve just done a panel on mainstream writers who write science fiction and fantasy. As ever with such things, someone in the audience asked for a list of the books we talked about. Here it is. Everyone else, feel free to add your own recommendations.
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- Toby Litt, Journey Into Space
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
- Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
- David Anthony Durham, Acacia
- Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
- Doris Lessing, Canopus in Argos
That’s what I can remember. We didn’t mention Michael Chabon. He has won a Hugo, he has been assimilated.
Thank you very much for putting this list up, and for being kind enough to tell me so (and give me the website!!) at the con. 🙂
Brian Evenson, for any of his collections and his novels, but especially for his latest, Last Days.
Where would Steve Erickson rate in this discussion?
Naguib Mahfouz perhaps should be considered for several of his novels, including Children of the Alley.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Maybe Milorad Pavić for the way he constructs his stories?
Toni Morrison for Beloved?
Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods?
Those are the sorts of books related to the topic, right?
Nick Harkaway for The gone-Away World?
Larry: Fabulous, thanks.
Nadine: Facepalm.
Nick: Very sorry.