quoted 9 lines My own recommendations:>>My own recommendations:
>>Jorge Luis Borges - anything, but particularly the collection called
>>Labyrinths, not sci-fi, but what the heck, deals with the infinite
>>Thomas Pynchon - has to be Gravity's Rainbow really.
>>Samuel R. Delaney - dhalgren, don't know where to start, just read it.
>>Jeff Noon - the earlier ones, particularly Vurt and Pollen.
>>Donald Barthelme - again not really sci-fi, but freaky enough to include.
>
>Now ~that~ is a worthwhile reading list.
Agreed. It's also, I think, stuff-that-appeals-to-me-in-the-same-way-that-IDM-does
far more than the more overtly sci-fi stuff earlier in the thread - there's a distinct
vibe of unpredictable, confusing, sometimes beautiful, sometimes funny and
sometimes scary. Add in William Burroughs and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the same
vein, though.
David
ps is the new Jacen Solo as good as boomkat are implying?
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