Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

@MrJameGumb · edit-2 9 months ago

Haruki Murakami. I’ve liked everything he’s written up to 1Q84. I’m sure his newer stuff is good too I just haven’t caught up to them yet lol

If you want something more like hard sci-fi/cyberpunk, I recommend the Otherland series by Tad Williams. It’s seriously probably the best modern sci-fi I’ve ever read

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Have you read the expanse and if so, is it better than the expanse?

@MrJameGumb · 9 months ago

I have not read The Expanse yet, but it looks like a good series!

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Its absolutely incredible IMO. Was hoping you had to compare it. Guess I’ll just have for ead other land and decide for myself. What a shame lol.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

I have read the first book of the Expanse. I liked it but didn’t find any connection to Murakami, perhaps in later novels?

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

I have no idea what you’ve just said

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

I have read the first book of The Expanse, known as Leviathan Wakes. While reading it, I did not discover any connections to Haruki Murakami insofar as the writing nor the way he works a metaphor. I liked reading Murakami a lot; The Expanse not as much. But perhaps in later novels of The Expanse I shall?