Science-Fiction/Fantasy Books for People Who Don't Like Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Despite Hollywood’s best efforts to persuade you otherwise, genre fiction isn’t all about spaceships, robots, elves and wizards. It’s about the expression of ideas and concepts too broad to be contained by the rules, regulations and boundaries of our known experience.
Here’s a list of some of my favourite works of speculative fiction that should appeal to the more literary minded reader:
- The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Separation by Christopher Priest
- The Bridge by Iain Banks
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
- The Time-Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Scar by China Mieville
- The Owl Service by Alan Garner
- The Children of Men by P. D. James
- The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
- The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanti Laski
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Sacrament by Clive Barker
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
- The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
- The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
