Olga Tokarczuk Recommends Visionary Science Fiction
5 days ago
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- Olga Tokarczuk's fiction explores boundaries between nations, ethnicities, and reality vs. dreams.
- Tokarczuk recommends sci-fi and speculative-fiction writers who masterfully blend the fantastical and the prosaic.
- Stanisław Lem's 'The Star Diaries' and 'The Cyberiad' are highlighted for their humor and exploration of paradoxes.
- Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' is praised for its vision of a disintegrating world and the thin line between reality and perception.
- Brian Aldiss's 'Hothouse' is noted for its surreal vision of Earth dominated by intelligent plants.
- Ted Chiang's 'Stories of Your Life and Others' is admired for its philosophical reflection on time and language.
- Cixin Liu's 'The Three-Body Problem' is recommended for its epic scope and exploration of cosmology and civilization.