Need a Book Group Book - Sci-Fi/Fantasy?!

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DuchessOfAvon · 18/07/2009 18:01

Jeepers. We have decided this year that we each have to select from a different genre and I have drawn Sci-Fi/Fantasy. I have no idea where to start.

Any tips?

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motherpi · 18/07/2009 18:47

You could go old school with John Wyndham's The Day of The Trffids (in my top five fav books, and nothing like the film/tv prog). In fact, anything by him is brilliant.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is wonderful and thought-provoking (but futuristic rather than sci-fi, maybe)

Pratchett & Gaiman's Good Omens is a hilarious light read.

umm

Iain M Banks' culture novels are modern sci-fi and pretty good.

DH calls Dan Simmons Hyperion a 'flawless sci-fi novel'.

Good luck

Tambajam · 18/07/2009 18:06

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Blindness - Jose Saramago (was a book choice at our bookclub and probably one of the most discussion-provoking in many years)

cyteen · 18/07/2009 18:04

You'll be reassured to know that there are loads of brilliant books to choose from, at least.

Flamesparrow · 18/07/2009 18:03

Well, we can start with narrowing it down to sci fi OR fantasy.

What kinds of books do you normally like? It will help narrow down the choices

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