Hi all! I just finished “The Three Body Problem” by Liu Cixin and enjoyed it a lot. It’s got me curious about sci-fi written elsewhere in the world and what cultural differences may appear in sci-fi written from a non-US perspective.
Does anyone have recommendations for what I should check out next? I only speak English and (sort of) French so I’m reliant on translations to one of those languages. Thanks!
As a counterpoint I can recommend the Metro series by Dmitry Glukhovsky, who is an anti-war Russian, recently sentenced (in absentia) to 8 years in prison.
Interesting… that’s the 2nd video game based on a book that I had no idea was a book.
The other being S.T.A.L.K.E.R. which was based on the book Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who are also Russian.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
Now we have a whole rabbit hole of Russian genre fiction!
I recommend read him very attentively. The author is young, without a coherent picture of the world, in the middle of metro 2033 it turns into a hodgepodge of contradictions.
I’ve been meaning to read the Metro books! Loved the games but never got around to reading the source material. Thanks for the reminder!