weird scifi

Dahlgren by Samaul Delany is like Kafka only in the WTF??? Factor.

 

Definitely anything by Phillip K. Dick.. A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids dream of electric sheep, We can remember it for you wholesale, etc.
Although The game-Players of Titan made my brain hurt.
Also worth a look is Iain M. Banks - Look to Windward, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and ESPECIALLY Feersum Endjinn.

 

space-time doughnuts. by that mathamatician guy. infinity minus one. darn i can't remember his name. he only wrote a few that i know of. only two of which i've actually read. ruddy rucker, that's who i'm thinking of. i knew it would come to me.

his writing is like an acid trip. except you have to really work your brain to see it. takes you on a trip AND streatches you at the same time.

clifford simak maybe. some of vonnigut's stuff. hmmm. as mentioned dick definately. ted sturgeon wrote some good ones. there's a kind of minianthology of three of his novella length works that i think would fit the catigory, the title story of it was case and the dreamer. the other two were 'if all men were brothers would you let one marry your sister' and 'when you dream, when you love'. that last i didn't much care for of the three. i liked the questions "if all men ..." raised, and 'case ...' was as trippy a trip as you'd ever care to trip.

there was also a long short story or short novella called 'zozzle said the zozzle mind' that appeared/was printed in analog back in the early 70s, though i forget who wrote it.

ah, and then there's lafferty! look up the lafferty shrine on the net, if you can't find any of his works at your local second hand book store. there all out of print and getting damd rare to find and i don't know of anyone doing any reprints. someone damd well ought to though.

continued on next rock, ride a tin can, 900 grandmothers, frog on the mountain, death and designation among the asadi, his pook children and thier bandersnatch verses and seven day dissapearers, reefs of earth is a novel lenth work about them.

arive at easterwine, sandaliotus where are you, if you want weired, lafferty's your man. willi mcgilly, dusty scroggins, focault og, constantine quish, valery mok, gutboy bloodbucket, he had a way with naming his charicters too. charles cogsworth, dioginese pontifix.

we shamble through our longish terms
of lavalusion mind
till we be ponderous pachiderms
encased in ancient rind

-audifax o'hanlon-

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Agreed.

 

....but *noiseConcrete* with instruments trying to imitate and fuse sounds from both automated and natural sources. Staccato dissonant jarring passages form angular atonal structures which dissolve, flowing into haunting spacious chromatic tones, resolving in peaceful intimate melodies.
"What's this music?" he ask an avatar with the name tag 'Shannon Egan'.
"I believe this ditty is the latest by the Hermetical Hermit", replies Shannon.
Another nearby guest wearing the name tag 'Galatea Gibson Platt' interrupts, "Profound isn't it. It's Opus 3; 'The Kaleidoscopic Theme of the pseudo King Chromium'. An exquisite work. But, the composer's name is the Hermetical 'Hippie'".
"Oh, really?" ask Shannon, "That's a gas."
"Yes, he just changed it a few minutes ago", replies Galatea.
"Well, isn't that just lovely," replies Shannon.
Ubi reaches her hand out and takes a pastry from a nearby tray. "Mmmm, blotto." She says.
"Would you care for some? They're luscious cinnamon starch lumps. Simply divine," adds Galatea. "Fresh deep fried dough dipped in vanilla cream cheese icing. Can't go wrong with those flavors."
A warm aroma rises into Jeds nostrils, "Golly, that smells good, but it doesn't sound very healthy."
"Oh young'un, that's no issue here -- this is neuroSpace," states Galatea while spreading her arms and spinning around, "Bon appetit!"
Jed takes a pastry and bites into it. The taste penetrates his senses. A warm tingling euphoria washes over him. "Yummy, it's making me woozy. This must be the most pleasurable feeling, umm, or taste I've ever experienced." After a few moments the feeling fades.
"Quite scrumptious," agrees Galatea, "and it really ignites the neurons."
"Some element of sin was certainly involved in the programming of this delectable confection," confesses Shannon.
"Succulent, you must agree." Says Galatea.

-- exceprt from nSpace by Dovin Melhee

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperbac...nspace/7534554

 

vurt - by Jeff Noon

..very VERY wierd and GOOD

 

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

 

This thread is awesome. I'm all about weird fiction; it's all I write and pretty much all I read. The Bizarros are a group of contemporary writers doing just this kind of thing - I would recommend taking a look at Cameron Pierce's Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden, Carlton Mellick III's Punk Land, and D. Harlan Wilson's Psuedo-City.

Steve Aylett's in a league of his own. Extremely poetic, endless weird sci-ideas, and very surreal. Read Slaughtermatic first, and maybe a few others like Atom or Lint, but eventually work your way to Shamanspace. It's a very tricky but beautiful masterpiece.

 

i just found this thread and want to respond to the thread starter:

i really wouldnt classify kafka as a "scifi"-writer.... kafka is a league on its own. if you want to read similar works, marquez may be of your taste. but again, kafka is no "sci-fi" writer

 

"nSpace" by Dovin Melhee,
completely out of the box scifi novel, and fun to read:

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/nspace/7534554