Books like The Angel Maker
25 science fiction books to read after The Angel Maker, by Stefan Brijs, 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 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Three Body Problem (chinese)
by Liu, Cixin
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If you are looking for an introduction to the best Chinese science fiction, look no further than Lui Cixin's stunning and much celebrated award-winning trilogy which has sold nearly half...
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19. Utopia
by Thomas More
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Throughout the Middle Ages there had been folk stories about perfect places, whether it was Heaven or the Land of Cockaigne, but when More wrote about a perfect place he...
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20. From The Earth To The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Of all the works of translated science fiction, there can be few rivals for the mass and continuing popularity of Jules Verne's extraordinary voyages. Between 1863 and his death in...
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21. The Time Ship
by Enrique Gaspar
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Before the end of the 19th century, everyone who travelled in time did so by falling asleep or being transported by magic, devices which gave the traveller no control over...
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22. Roadside Picnic
by Arkady Strugatsky
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During the Cold War, little of the science fiction being written in the Soviet Union managed to reach the West. The one exception was the work of the brothers Arkady...
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23. Solaris
by Lem, Stanislaw
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A trek across an alien planet is also a coming of age story.
Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a research station hovering over the ocean-covered planet Solaris and finds it nearly deserted: his mentor is dead, and the two surviving scientists seem to...
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24. We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We was written in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and though Zamyatin was himself a Bolshevik, the novel expressed his disquiet at the structuring of society that the...
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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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