Books like Golden Days
23 science fiction books to read after Golden Days, by Carolyn See, the closest match first.
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1. Lord Of The Flies
by Golding, William
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A plane carrying schoolboys crashes on an uninhabited Pacific island with no adults left alive. Ralph, who is elected leader after blowing a conch to gather the others, tries to...
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2. The Bridge
by Iain Banks
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A mysterious structure, a symbolic dream, a journey of self-discovery, a love story--this novel has lots to offer.
Iain Banks had written a string of science fiction before he finally burst into print with his brilliant and controversial novel, The Wasp Factory. That and the two novels that...
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3. Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
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When it was first published, Gravity's Rainbow was shortlisted for the Nebula Award, losing out to Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. In their introduction to The Secret History of...
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4. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel Of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
by Amitav Ghosh
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In 1898, the British scientist Ronald Ross, working in Calcutta, made a major discovery about the transmission of malaria for which he would eventually be awarded the Nobel Prize. But...
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5. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel
by Karen Joy Fowler
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Karen Joy Fowler isn't really a mainstream writer: she began writing science fiction, practically all of her short fiction is sf or fantasy, and she jointly founded the James Tiptree...
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6. A Maggot
by John Fowles
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Fowles is known as a postmodern writer, though some of the postmodern techniques he uses could equally be considered fantastic: the god game in The Magus for instance, or the...
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7. C
by Tom Mccarthy
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Even when the British new wave was introducing literary experiment into science fiction, the genre has been suspicious of the avantgarde. There is a sense that no nonsense storytelling does...
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8. Strange Bodies: A Novel
by Marcel Theroux
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Perhaps it is the fact that he is the son of Paul Theroux that tends to get Marcel Theroux tagged as a mainstream novelist. In fact his work has often...
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9. Viper Wine: A Novel
by Hermione Eyre
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This first novel seems like a fairly conventional historical fiction telling the true story of the death of the Stuart beauty Venetia Stanley in 1633. In her thirties she began...
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10. Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls
by Matt Ruff
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Matt Ruff isn't exactly a mainstream writer, his previous novels, Fool on the Hill and Sewer, Gas & Electric were both overtly works of the fantastic, but Set This House...
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11. Resistance
by Owen Sheers
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Sheers is a Welsh poet who chose an unlikely topic for his first novel, because it is basically another version of the Germans winning World War Two, an old and...
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12. Fatherland: A Novel
by Robert Harris
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As we've seen with Philip Roth, alternate history is a popular form with authors who would not normally be interested in writing science fiction, think, for instance, of MacKinlay Kantor's...
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13. The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
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Philip Roth is one of the two or three leading American novelists from the second half of the twentieth century, whose work consistently explored the Jewish experience in modern America....
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14. Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
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Is there anything new to be done with a post-apocalypse scenario? Well, read Station Eleven and find out.In a performance of King Lear, one snowy night in Toronto, the leading...
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15. Lanark
by Alasdair Gray
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Back in the 1950s, a young Alasdair Gray entered a short story in a competition. It came second. That story was part of what would become, nearly 30 years later,...
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16. Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
by Russell Hoban
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Hoban first made his name with books for children, such as the wonderful The Mouse and His Child. When he turned to writing novels for adults, although they seemed to...
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17. Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
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A classic Sci Fi novel where an unexpected pandemic turns into an extinction level event.
Earth Abides is something of a rarity among the work of George R. Stewart. He wrote mostly biographies and studies of American history, and when he did write fiction, as...
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18. Life After Life: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
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Search the sf award shortlists for 2013 and you will look in vain for this novel. It wasn't even submitted for any of the juried awards. Yet it is arguably...
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19. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
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If there is one overused cliché in science fiction, it is the alternate history novel in which Hitler won the Second World War. But this is a novel about the...
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20. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by Mitchell, David
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Inevitably, there is a continuity between past and future. The present is not a cut-off point between one and the other, but simply a sliding scale in the process of...
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21. The New World
by Stackpole, Micheal A.
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A startling look at the role of government, including eugenics.
The three grandchildren of the royal cartographer Qiro Anturasi, a mapmaker whose magic can reshape reality, must save their world from destruction. Nalenyr is besieged on all sides by those...
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22. The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
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An award winning, Canadian novel that explores themes of women in subjugation and agency in a futuristic theocracy.
Throughout its history, one of the strongest and most interesting aspects of science fiction has been its use in satire. And this is just about the most stunning of contemporary...
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23. 1984
by George Orwell
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A classic novel that is definitively a dystopia.
The words have become so commonplace we hardly realise we are using them: Big Brother is watching you, the Ministry of Truth, Room 101, Newspeak, thoughtcrime. George Orwell gave us...
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