/lit/ - Literature

>>14890567
>>14890574
So how bizarre is this shit? People talk about it like it's the absolute cream of the crop of weird fiction.

>>10660533
>any essential /brit/ scifi?

>H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine" & "The Island of Dr Moreau"

>William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land" (the prose is arguably terrible but the conceptually it's fucking amazing. Read this one with some strong whisky.)

>David Lindsay's "A Voyage To Arcturus" (more philosophical and theological with little in the way of plot, but definitely essential. Absolutely incredible imagery and feels).

>Arthur C. Clarke "Rendevous with Rama" (and others)

>Charles Stross "Accelerando"

>George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty Four" (not a personal favourite but it is essential and you have to admire how efficient his prose is)

>Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"

>Douglas Adams "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (it's unironically still funny)

>Iain M. Banks "Player of Games"

There must be a lot I missed but those are all pretty essential

>>10660646
>Surprisingly few desu. The only British sci-fi author that I can recall AND would call essential is Iain M. Banks.

Have you considered suicide, my good man?