Science Fiction Aficionados discussion
Monthly Group Read Suggestions
>
March 2013 Sci-fi in Translation nominations
date
newest »
newest »
I'll nominate Virus: The Day of Resurrection by Sakyo Komatsu. I'll also show my enthusiasm for Roadside Picnic which is sitting in my TBR pile. Or I guess resting in my TBR cloud? Not sure what the equivalent of a pile is for ebooks....
Everyone thinks they know it.Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
But how many of us have actually read the original.
I certainly haven't but I'd love a reason to give it a go.
I'd like to nominated We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (apologies if it's been a featured read already, I didn't find it on the group bookshelf though). It's such a classic and yet I've never gotten around to reading it.
Many good choices-- I read Planet of the Apes as a youngster and it truly is different from the movies-- I'd love to read Rod Serling's original script for the movie which supposedly followed the book more closely? Otherwise, I suppose anything by Jules Verne or Stanislaw Lem, but for something different, how about The Lord of the Sands of Timeby Issui Ogawa?
Mod
I would like to read 'The Investigation' by Stanislaw Lem. I read a couple of his books years ago and was impressed by his inventiveness. I've not read this one, but it promises to be an amalgam of two of my favourite genres, detective and sci-fi.
Mod
Science Fiction Aficionados
Books mentioned in this topic
The Crimson Labyrinth (other topics)A Journey to the Center of the Earth (other topics)
The Lord of the Sands of Time (other topics)
The Scar (other topics)
We (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Jules Verne (other topics)Stanisław Lem (other topics)
Pierre Boulle (other topics)
Sakyo Komatsu (other topics)
Arkady Strugatsky (other topics)
My nomination is Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and his brother....
Allnominations will count and need not be seconded except to show your enthusiasm! We will have a run off poll of the winners