Hi all! I just finished “The Three Body Problem” by Liu Cixin and enjoyed it a lot. It’s got me curious about sci-fi written elsewhere in the world and what cultural differences may appear in sci-fi written from a non-US perspective.

Does anyone have recommendations for what I should check out next? I only speak English and (sort of) French so I’m reliant on translations to one of those languages. Thanks!

  • severien@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    As a counterpoint I can recommend the Metro series by Dmitry Glukhovsky, who is an anti-war Russian, recently sentenced (in absentia) to 8 years in prison.

    • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Interesting… that’s the 2nd video game based on a book that I had no idea was a book.

      The other being S.T.A.L.K.E.R. which was based on the book Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who are also Russian.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic

      Now we have a whole rabbit hole of Russian genre fiction!

    • Skripoon@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      I recommend read him very attentively. The author is young, without a coherent picture of the world, in the middle of metro 2033 it turns into a hodgepodge of contradictions.

    • paradoxical@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’ve been meaning to read the Metro books! Loved the games but never got around to reading the source material. Thanks for the reminder!