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The discworkd series
William Gibson’s books
Neal Stephenson’s books (except Anathem, too looong)
Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud
Dan Simmons books
The Atrocity archives by Charles Stross (just discovered this one, a must read!)
The master and Margarita
Kunderna (the old ones)
Umberto Eco (especially Baudolino)
So basically sci-fi or fantasy in a plausible heavy setting I guess :-D
Edit: forgot the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy OFC!
My mind got jogged so I’ll add Catch 22 by Joseph Heller to the list too. IMO definitely a good read if you liked the HHGTTG.
Try some Vonnegut if you haven’t. hgttg really feels like a derivative of Sirens of Titan in particular. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of my favorites too
I’ll check him out, read some pages of Sirens of Titans and weeelll it feels a tad old if you get what I mean, like even if it was a really good book then, the tropes have worn out now. Will check out though!
Anything by Ian McDonald.
This is How You Lose the Time War
Black Science, Paper Girls (graphic novels)
The Crow (the movie)
All of these are very light reading. I think the target demographic for this sort of stuff is teenagers.
Thanks but I’m into more heavy duty stuff :-)