2026-10-19 16:59 UTC
I’ve just starting getting into a bit of russian/eastern europe scifi. “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin is incredible if you haven’t read it. It is clearly the main inspiration for 1984, but just so much better. Then, just about any book by Stanislaw Lem is great. Solaris is probably the easiest to find and a pretty good more hard-ish sci-fi book, but I gotta recommend “Futurological Congress”. It’s hilarious! Reads like a Douglas Adams book, with an interesting idea at its core. So I think those are my most recent “favorite” books for the moment.
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@Sherad@lemmygrad.ml 2026-10-19 17:32
I can’t help but be that annoying type of person who, when someone brings up 1984, has to immediately tell them about “We” and that Orwell was kind of cringe lol
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@sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2026-10-19 20:33
We is amazing! Read it recently, alongside Swastika Night, which is very different, but similarly dystopian.