Books like Roadside Picnic
30 science fiction books to read after Roadside Picnic, by Arkady Strugatsky, the closest match first.
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1. Thus Were Their Faces
by Silvina Ocampo
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Silvina Ocampo was the wife of Adolfo Bioy Casares and friend of Jorge Luis Borges, so it is easy to anticipate what sort of fiction she wrote. But as this...
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2. The Skylark Of Space And Other Works By E.e.
by E. E. Smith
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"Space opera" was a disparaging term coined by Wilson Tucker for the sort of brash interstellar adventure that has been the staple of science fiction magazines before the Second World...
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3. Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane
by M. John Harrison
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With The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison provided the foundation text of the British Renaissance, or the New Space Opera, or both (depending on who you listen to). Then he...
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4. River Of Gods
by Ian Mcdonald
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The future is here, William Gibson once said, it's just not evenly distributed. That unevenness of distribution is especially apparent in what we still call the Third World, those countries...
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5. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance Hardcover November 18, 2014
by Vandermeer, Jeff
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Trilogies have more or less become the default form of science fiction these days. But even so, producing all three volumes of a trilogy in a year is not exactly...
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6. The Sfwa European Hall Of Fame
by Morrow, James
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Short stories are often a great way for readers to discover new writers, so they are often a key route by which non-Anglophone writers can reach an English readership. Even...
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7. Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Labyrinths, a collection of ficciones and other short pieces from several of Borges's earlier books, was the first opportunity the mass of English speakers had to encounter the work of...
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8. Troll: A Love Story
by Johanna Sinisalo
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One of the things that should make fiction in translation so appealing to science fiction readers is that the stories are often built around very different cultures, traditions, and assumptions ...
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9. Nest Of Worlds
by Marek S. Huberath
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To illustrate the problems associated with translation, this novel was a major success in its native Poland, but even though there was a very fine translation already in existence by...
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10. Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind
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Rosny was the pseudonym of the Belgian writer, Joseph-Henri Boëx, who rivals his near contemporary, H.G. Wells, as one of the founding figures of European science fiction. Or at least,...
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11. The Cusanus Game
by Wolfgang Jeschke
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By the middle of this century, Northern Europe is a nuclear wasteland, with economic and political consequences that threaten the whole of human civilisation. In Italy, a young woman is...
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12. Harmony
by Project Itoh
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Like China, Japan has one of the liveliest science fiction scenes in the world, and one of the least known in the West. Very few Japanese science fiction writers have...
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13. The Angel Maker
by Stefan Brijs
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In a small village at the point where the Dutch, Belgian and German borders meet, a strange doctor arrives with three even stranger children. Slowly, as we come to understand...
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14. The End Of Days
by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Over the last few years a distinct strand of alternate history writing has appeared in which a woman lives and relives her life multiple times during the twentieth century. Leading...
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15. Niels Klim's Underground Travels
by Ludvig Holberg
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Ludvig Holberg was a Norwegian philosopher and playwright whose only novel this was. A utopian satire that poked fun at a lot of contemporary issues, it would have created an...
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16. The Invention Of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
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Adolfo Bioy Casares was the lifelong friend and occasional collaborator of Jorge Luis Borges, but he was also a considerable writer of fantastic literature in his own right, and nothing...
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17. The Year 2440
by Louis Sébastien Mercier
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Mercier was a dramatist and essayist, who was also a member of the Convention at the time of the French Revolution, and on the eve of the Revolution he poured...
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18. Two Planets
by Kurd Lasswitz
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One of the problems with having to rely on translation to the whole other world of science fiction out there, is that it can be terribly hit and miss. For...
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19. The Fourth Circle
by Zoran Živkovic
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Zoran Zivkovic is both writer and translator (he has translated several works of science fiction into Serbian, as well as translating his own fiction into English) so he is far...
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20. The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
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The blurb that accompanies this novel compares it to Huxley and Orwell, but the work it most closely resembles is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. In a clean,...
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21. Worlds Apart
by Alexander Levitsky
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Fantasy and science fiction have at least as long and honourable tradition in Russian fiction as they do throughout Western Europe (and longer than they do in America), and this...
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22. The Method
by Juli Zeh
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There are echoes of both Holmqvist's The Unit and Project Itoh's Harmony in this novel by one of Germany's leading young writers. Derived from an earlier play by Zeh, The...
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23. Monday Begins on Saturday
by Arkady Strugatsky
- Same author
and Boris Strugatsky Vampire Fiction often falls into the Urban Fantasy sub-genre, and this series is a great example of how popular it has become.
and Boris Strugatsky Vampire Fiction often falls into the Urban Fantasy sub-genre, and this series is a great example of how popular it has become.
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24. Behold The Man
by Moorcock, Michael
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A story that is inspired by the Gospel of John and is about a man who travels back in time with the intent of meeting Jesus.
The grandfather paradox – which states that if you go back in time and accidentally kill your grandfather you will never be born, so you cannot travel back in time...
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25. R.u.r.
by Karel Capek
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Czech is hardly a widely spoken language, and in the years immediately after the First World War Czechoslovakia had barely gained its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire which had largely...
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26. Rogue Moon
by Algis Budrys
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A novel that makes the reader confront death.
A massive alien structure is discovered on the moon. In order to explore it, volunteers are scanned in a matter transmitter on Earth and their doppelgangers are projected onto the...
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27. Schismatrix Plus
by Bruce Sterling
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This series is a pioneering example of this sub-genre.
Almost as important as Greg Egan’s work in describing posthumanity is Bruce Sterling’s sequence of Mechanist and Shaper stories in which posthumanity is divided between those who use mechanical means...
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28. Dying Inside
by Silverberg, Robert
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Despite his credentials championing hard, rational science fiction, John W. Campbell was a fervent believer in psi powers. Perhaps because of that, whenever telepathy appeared in science fiction, as in...
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29. 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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30. The Road
by Mccarthy, Cormac
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A father and son walk a burned-out America toward the sea, in McCarthy's bleak and beautiful end-of-the-world novel.
robably one of the most depressing books I’ve read in my life. Oh yes, it’s well written, brilliant maybe, and all that. However, this book stripped all hope away and...
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