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20113963 No.20113963 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books (not graphic novels) with a Moebius-like feel?
A sense of adventure and wonder, magic, mysticism and technology intertwined, nature, etc

>> No.20113968

>>20113963
Book of the new sun

>> No.20114200

Pynchon

>> No.20114389

>>20113963
bump

>> No.20114429

>>20113963
I have not found any so far because the Moebius "feel" is entirely about aesthetics with very little substance to hold it together.

>> No.20114449

on the other hand, you can simply take your favorite space-pulp-fantasy novel (Dune, BOTNS as mentioned above, etc.) and imagine it drawn in the Moebius art style. Voilà

>> No.20114460

Erewhon

>> No.20114467

Clark Ashton Smith
Lovecraft's dream cycle

>> No.20114479

>>20113963
Abarat, at least the first two, haven't read the 3rd.

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The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance has this exact feel.

>> No.20115342

>>20113963
The Darkness That Comes Before, although it's very dark, almost horror themed adventure, mystery, philosophy, and science.

Borges stories overall.

Pynchon.

Victor Pelevin, The Helmet of Horror is a quick read, I like Homo Sapiens more though.

>> No.20115364

>>20115342
Hyperion too. Illium is good too but not nearly as good. Endymion, the follow up to the two Hyperion books is only decent.

Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space Universe has this feel. Bit dark, hard sci-fi. Chasm City and the Prefect are my favorite.

Snow Crash has this. It's goofy and very 80s, but fun. It's less surreal than stuff like Borges, Pynchon, and Bakker though.

For actual genre fiction, Bakker comes out on top. For the more highly respected literature, I put Borges on top, but Crying of Lot 49 is truly great. Pelevin doesn't go to quite the same heights.

100 Years of Solitude doesn't have the science elements but is fantastic too.

>> No.20116952

>>20113963
Lord Dunsany's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". Like a softer version of Lovecraft with more fantasy but all the weirdness.

>> No.20117003

>>20113963
Book of the New Sun by Wolfe, Dying Earth by Jack Vance, and I would throw Zotique just to be sure.

Man they really dont write fantasy books like they used to.