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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. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Bonus points for any books you believe are classics from that time period. Any language, but only fiction please.

I'm really excited to see what Lemmy has.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Neal Stephenson

[+] ianovic69@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

This book is one of those that just lives in my head, like its scenes and images pop into view whenever I'm thinking of sci-fi, especially cyberpunk.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon are among my favorites. I'm also a bit of a sucker for the techno-futuristic theme of the former, and echno-enthusiasm theme of the latter. Growing up as an IT geek in the 90's made a lot of it strike a home run with me.

Rise and Fall of the D.O.D.O. is pretty cool. It's written as an epistolary of letters, diary entries, corporate memos, and voicemails, which gives it an interesting and fun angle.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

I had to scroll way too far for Stephenson. He has some ups and downs (as all creators do), but some of his novels are mind blowingly awesome.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Diamond Age is my all time favourite (although I read it just one time as I do with all books). In the current age of AI it is very relevant. If nano technology and AI will progress we'll maybe head into the depicted scenario and I hope I'm still alive then.

Cryptonomicon, Anathem, The Baroque Cycle are wild rides and masterpieces too. Anathem was a bit hard to get into but it got really exciting after the first 300 pages (of ~1000) or so.

[–] cammoblammo@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gotta say, every time I go out and look at the moon I can’t help but wonder what would happen if it somehow exploded. Then I find myself wondering why I’m not in an asteroid-mining ship and end up questioning all my life choices.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 3 points 7 months ago

N. K. Jemison