My Favorite Speculative Fiction Books

When I was eighteen, I discovered science fiction, and I read almost nothing else. 

This went on for about ten years. Scifi, scifi, scifi. Lots and lots of science fiction.

And then I stopped. 

I discovered literary fiction and nonfiction that reads like fiction, and I never went back.

But now, forty years later, I want to read the books I've missed. Science fiction. Fantasy. Speculative fiction.

Could you suggest some titles?

Here are some of my favorite science fiction and fantasy books. Maybe this will give you a good idea about what I have loved in the past.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Color of Magic (Discworld #1) by Terry Pratchett

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Babel by R. F. Kuang

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

What speculative fiction have you loved?

What would you recommend to me?

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