Books like The Müller-focker Effect
28 science fiction books to read after The Müller-focker Effect, by John Sladek, the closest match first.
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1. The Centauri Device
by M. John Harrison
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Do you know what they used to call cyberpunk in the 70s? "Hippie space opera", according to the New Worlds Magazine. At least that's what they called Harrison's third space...
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2. A Time Of Changes (1972)
by Silverberg, Robert
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On the planet Borthan, the Covenant forbids selfhood: people are taught to be modest and to say "I" is obscene. Kinnall Darival, a prince who fled his family after a...
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3. The Heat-death Of The Universe
by Pamela Zoline
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Inner space, that touchstone idea of the British New Wave, was not about the psychology of the characters so much as it was contrasting the vastness of the human imagination...
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4. Bug Jack Barron
by Norman Spinrad
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One of the great taboos that the new wave broke was political engagement. This was an era when everyone engaged in politics, from Vietnam protests to feminist campaigns to Stonewall,...
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5. Barefoot In The Head
by Brian Aldiss
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It's hard to know which Brian Aldiss novel to pick out for a list like this. Should it be Greybeard with its aging population living on a sterilised Earth? Or...
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6. And Chaos Died
by Joanna Russ
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Inner space is about the ways that the mind encompasses the world, shapes the world and is shaped by it. The protagonist of Joanna Russ's second novel, And Chaos Died,...
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7. The Cornelius Quartet
by Moorcock, Michael
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The new wave can, all too easily, be presented as humourless, worthy stuff, but it was often exuberant, funny and full of vivid ideas. The best exemplars of this are...
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8. Camp Concentration
by Thomas M. Disch
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One of the developments in scientific thinking during the 1960s that new wave writers caught on to was changing ideas about the power of the mind. Much new wave fiction...
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9. England Swings Sf
by Judith Merril
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This was the anthology that effectively introduced America to the British New Wave. Merril had been living in Britain for a year, and was struck by the energy and enthusiasm...
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10. The Hieros Gamos Of Sam And An Smith
by Josephine Saxton
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"Hieros gamos" means holy marriage, and this is the story of an intense emotional bond that develops between the two characters at the heart of this extraordinary fable. The story...
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11. The Lathe Of Heaven
by Guin, Ursula K. Le
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Le Guin's novel is thought-provoking and explores culture, gender, and psychology on an alien world where gender is a choice.
For new wave writers the world is never a fixed, absolute, unchangeing place, but is, rather, ever changing and ever changeable depending upon how it is perceived, and those perceptions...
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12. Dayworld
by Farmer, Philip Jose
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Philip Jose Farmer's career was revitalised by his engagement with the new wave. The taboo-defying fiction that he had already written in works like The Lovers (1952) suddenly became relevant,...
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13. Collision Course
by Barrington J. Bayley
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Although he would enjoy something of a cult status among some British fans, Bayley is probably one of the forgotten figures of the British New Wave, largely because of his...
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14. Warm Worlds And Otherwise
by James Tiptree Jr.
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James Tiptree appeared as if from nowhere in the late 1960s with a series of beautifully realised stories that yet revealed a dark imagination, particularly when it comes to matters...
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15. The Dream Master
by Zelazny, Roger
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Expanded from the Nebula Award winning novella, "He Who Shapes", this is a story about using dreams to both escape and change the world. Charles Render is the inventor of...
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16. Beyond Apollo -
by Barry N. Malzberg
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How do you turn a technology-heavy subject like the expansion of the manned space programme beyond Apollo, into an unreliable new wave text? By turning it into a novel within...
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17. The Muller-Fokker Effect
by John Sladek
- Same author
Bob is the first truly modern man, having been turned into data and uploaded to computer tape. This novel features other modern and interesting characters and has plenty of fun with words.
Bob is the first truly modern man, having been turned into data and uploaded to computer tape. This novel features other modern and interesting characters and has plenty of fun...
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18. Dangerous Visions
by Harlan Ellison
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Throughout its history, many of the finest and most important works of science fiction have been short stories. Magazines and anthologies have been the lifeblood of the genre for at...
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19. Ubik
by Dick, Philip K.
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What is a best science fiction list without the inclusion of one of the greatest science fiction writers ever? Yes, I'm talking about Philip K. Dick, a man ignored in...
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20. The Complete Roderick
by John Sladek
- Same author
This book is one of my favorites on this list because of the satirical viewpoint of our western society. Roderick, the robot with learning capabilities, is educated by watching television....
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21. Roderick At Random
by John Sladek
- Same author
Roderick at Random is John Sladek's sequel to Roderick, the story of a young robot learning about human society and its strange rules.
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22. The Reproductive System
by John Sladek
- Same author
A new project is to develop a self-replicating mechanism that repairs inter-cellular breakdowns—but the metal boxes begin moving around the lab and feed on the metal, and multiplying.
A new project is to develop a self-replicating mechanism that repairs inter-cellular breakdowns—but the metal boxes begin moving around the lab and feed on the metal, and multiplying.
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23. Inverted World
by Priest, Christopher
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He had reached the age of 650 miles. With its very first words, Inverted World tells us we are in a very different world. In fact, this is one of...
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24. The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
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Whenever you put a list of books together, you'll always get disagreements. But this could well be the most controversial choice of all, because J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition has...
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25. Dhalgren
by Delany, Samuel R.
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NOTE: THIS IS #26 on the TOP 100 LIST. The first 1-25 entries are found on THE TOP 25 BEST SCIENCE FICTION LIST. Dhalgren is one of the peculiarities of...
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26. Pavane
by Keith Roberts
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Pavane is a sequence of linked stories set in the 1960s in a world in which the Spanish Armada had succeeded, Catholicism had defeated Protestantism, and the Church ruled Britain...
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27. Stand On Zanzibar
by John Brunner
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In the 1960s, when overpopulation was a common worry for the future, it was often said that the entire population of the world could stand on the Isle of Wight....
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28. Slaughterhouse-five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Billy Pilgrim was unstuck in time. It sounds like a fairly conventional time travel story. But this is Kurt Vonnegut, and nothing he wrote was ever conventional. In fact, the...
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