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Mirel Palada


As you probably will observe, I tend to incline the balance toward the stylish part of the science fiction literature. It's only a small attempt to restore justice in a field flooded nowadays by literally thousands of junk pages.
Novels Short Stories
Brian Aldiss
  • Helliconia Trilogy

    Alfred Bester

  • Tiger! Tiger!

    John Brunner

  • Stand on Zanzibar

    Philip K. Dick

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Ubik

    Thomas M. Disch

  • 337

    William Gibson

  • Neuromancer

    Robert Heinlein

  • Stranger in a Stange Land
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

    Frank Herbert
    The Dune cycle, especially the first three titles:

  • Dune
  • Dune Messiah
  • Children of Dune

    Robert Holdstock

  • Mythago Wood

    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Always Coming Home
  • The Left Hand Of Darkness

    Stanislaw Lem

  • Solaris
  • The Cyberiad

    Arkadi and Boris Strugartsky

  • The Roadside Picnic

    Theodore Sturgeon

  • More Than Human

    J. R. R. Tolkien

  • The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
    		• Samuel R. Delany
  • "Aye, and Gomorrah"

    Harlan Ellison
    Any of his short story collections, especially the ones from the 60s and 70s:

  • Jeffty Is Five
  • The Deathbird
  • I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
  • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

    William Gibson

  • "The Winter Market"

    George R. R. Martin

  • "The Sand Kings"

    Cordwainer Smith

  • The Rediscovery of Man
    Any of his short stories

    Theodore Sturgeon

  • "Slow Sculpture"

    Jack Vance

  • "The Moon Moth"
    Any of his stories about that spatial detective, sorry, I forgot his name

    Gene Wolfe

  • The Fifth Head Of Cerberus and Other Stories

    Roger Zelazny

  • "He Who Shapes"

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