LOVE Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Hitchhiker's Guide! Flowers is also one of my new favourites thanks to you. I must get to Kindred. My recommendation would be Ursula K LeGuin's The Word for World is Forest. Its only 100 pages or so, and its about colonialism, deforestation, and the exploitation and enslavement of indigenous life.
@@joshyaks and have aged so well. Only thing that I've seen in her books I've read that didn't was 1 line in A Wizard of Earthsea about women's magic being evil or inferior to men's magic which LeGuin would later address and rectify.
Man, we have such similar taste haha. I know you’ll like Kindred, when you get to it. I just added The Word for World is Forest to my list last week. I just finished The Lathe of Heaven and I LOVE her sci fi. Definitely going to read more. I’ll pick this up or Left Hand of Darkness up next.
@bookswithzara Oh, very nice. "Slaughterhouse 5" is a popular work by Vonnegut. But I'm starting with a short story collection from him to get a variety. I have enjoyed his old interviews as well. I remember his appearance in the movie "Back to School," starring Rodney Dangerfield.
I really need to give Algernon a second chance!! And yeees Kindred is so good! Also, I bought 36 Streets because of your review and it's staring at me from my kindle, hopefully I can get around to it soon!! Thanks for the recs ;)
The War of the Worlds! I'm just so sad I missed the latest special edition but it was too expensive T_T "Do Androids..." is so cool; I really liked the empathy theme going on around it; it was very interesting to read and reflect on. It's foundational on the cyberpunk genre, as well. Algernon, I think I've bored you saying how much I loved it, and it was thanks to your recommendation! I need to read Hitchhiker and 36 Streets--especially because of the themes! BTW, I'm reading Priest's "The Affirmation" and I think you may like that one! It's another scifi classic from the SF Masterwork collection, but its heavily thematic around memory and identity; first person narration, but give it a chance. It's good.
