Re: Greatest non-American literary SF

Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To avoid confusion, what would you recommend for non-American (or as Stephen
Colbert would put it "unAmerican") SF?

Be it:
--by non-Americans written in English
--written in a non-English language but has an English translation available
--or has no English version but is so good it justifies learning another
language.

(Please specify which of the 3.)

Stanisław Lem wrote some very good novels and a lot of reasonably good
ones. The very good ones were probably translated. There are also some
other excellent contemporary Polish sci-fi and fantasy writers.
(Wiedźmin by Andrzej Sapkowski rivals Tolkien's LOTR, IMHO).

There are some gems among Russian sci-fi, especially by Strugatsky
brothers ('the golden age of Russian sci-fi'). Contemporary Russian
sci-fi is probably crap.

Learning Russian has, apart from the coolness factor also the additional
benefit of having access to tons of translated otherwise unaccessible
literature, all online, all easily accessible (at least while they keep
ignoring copyright laws :-))

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