A short story by e.m Forster named The Machine Stops. It outlines a society that lives in and worships a machine that provides everything needed to live. People no longer meet face to face, but communicate via an instant messaging system with a screen. Nobody goes outside by choice. It was written in 1909.
CapnStarryVere on
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. Surprisingly modernist.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe; Thomas Chatterton’s poetry; both prefigured the themes and styles of the Romantic period.
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Men of Maize by miguel angel asturias. One of the first (perhaps the first?) magical realist novels.
Lu Xun’s short stories. He pioneered the use of vernacular Chinese in fiction.
mendizabal1 on
M. Houellebecq, Plateforme
Pope_Asimov_III on
20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne. Pretty much the entire Jules Verne catalogue.
Also, The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle. A book about an island with living dinosaurs written in 1912, which in turn inspired the Crichton novel and film series.
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A short story by e.m Forster named The Machine Stops. It outlines a society that lives in and worships a machine that provides everything needed to live. People no longer meet face to face, but communicate via an instant messaging system with a screen. Nobody goes outside by choice. It was written in 1909.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. Surprisingly modernist.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe; Thomas Chatterton’s poetry; both prefigured the themes and styles of the Romantic period.
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Men of Maize by miguel angel asturias. One of the first (perhaps the first?) magical realist novels.
Lu Xun’s short stories. He pioneered the use of vernacular Chinese in fiction.
M. Houellebecq, Plateforme
20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne. Pretty much the entire Jules Verne catalogue.
Also, The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle. A book about an island with living dinosaurs written in 1912, which in turn inspired the Crichton novel and film series.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons.