Book time.

[crows]

I am not promising to take any of the following recommendations. But I might!

Right now, I'm reading and nearly through with Shirley Jackson's short novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It's excellent. I think I'd like to read science fiction next... and can't really shake out of my head any major recommendations for science fiction that I've had lately. As a general rule, I tend to prefer books that tuck off into the odd corners of genres, and I'm not apt to enjoy your basic throw-away, pew-pew space opera adventure story. I like magical realism, post apocalypse, distopias...I like Burgess and Borges and Gregory Maguire and Ambrose Bierce.

Any ideas, oh internot hive-mind?

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Any of China Mieville's New Crobuzon series: Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council. They roughly go in the order listed, but you can get the sense of the later ones without reading the earlier ones.

I like Tim Powers, too, but my favorite is his spy novel, Declare. (And On Stranger Tides, which is about pirates and voodoo.)