if you are into fantastic literature (not sci-fi), Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is hard to beat. Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake deals with the future but it is a literary novel rather than straightforward sci-fi. It's also a chilling read.
If you like novels set in the past (as your list suggests), how about Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy set during WW1? It has a queer aspect to it and it delves into the history of psychology too.
I really like AS Byatt: Possession won the Booker back in 1990. It is a rich, beautiful tapestry of literary styles and deals with the nature of love and how much we can really know about the past. Note: the novel contains poetry. Everybody skips the poems. You won't lose a thing.
Alasdair Gray, gosh he is great. Terse and very Scottish. The best introduction to him is Poor Things which is a FABULOUS feminist take on Frankenstein set in Victorian Glasgow. The characters are as mad as hatters and the novel is extremely entertaining and good.
Another favourite author of mine is Jonathan Coe. The House of Sleep is a great novel dealing with narcolepsy, ambiguous sexualities and how much the past can influence the present.
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Date: 2006-01-02 06:28 pm (UTC)If you like novels set in the past (as your list suggests), how about Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy set during WW1? It has a queer aspect to it and it delves into the history of psychology too.
I really like AS Byatt: Possession won the Booker back in 1990. It is a rich, beautiful tapestry of literary styles and deals with the nature of love and how much we can really know about the past. Note: the novel contains poetry. Everybody skips the poems. You won't lose a thing.
Alasdair Gray, gosh he is great. Terse and very Scottish. The best introduction to him is Poor Things which is a FABULOUS feminist take on Frankenstein set in Victorian Glasgow. The characters are as mad as hatters and the novel is extremely entertaining and good.
Another favourite author of mine is Jonathan Coe. The House of Sleep is a great novel dealing with narcolepsy, ambiguous sexualities and how much the past can influence the present.