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Sci-fi/fantasy are overrepresented, but "narrowly-focused"? I'm interested in what you think that focus is? Anyway, The Jungle is a classic by any measure, Dau

by t-3 4y ago

Sci-fi/fantasy are overrepresented, but "narrowly-focused"? I'm interested in what you think that focus is? Anyway, The Jungle is a classic by any measure, Dau is a classic, Downbelow Station and most of the rest of Cherryh's catalog, Horatio Hornblower, The Book of the New Sun, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Hyperion, Riddley Walker, Blindsight... I could keep going all night. Listing these off, I realize that I forgot Dostoevsky in my list. Paulo Coelho should probably be there too.

cratermoon 4y ago
> I'm interested in what you think that focus is? 20th century writers, modernists and later. Yes, you added Dostoevsky in your follow-up, and he happens to fall in late 19th century, but still, modern. How about Daniel Defoe, Ann Radcliffe, Murasaki Shikibu, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Thomas Malory, or Attar of Nishapur? Also, One Thousand and One Nights, various anonymous authors.