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From: robertsl@stolaf.UUCP (Laurence C. Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Request from an SF Diletante
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 12:09:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 12:09:38 1986
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Must-read, classic SF?

I'd have to second or third the recommendation for Gene Wolfe's
_Book_of_the_New_Sun_ Tetralogy.

Other stuff:  Thomas Disch's _Camp_Concentration_, which is about the nature
of intelligence. 

Some biting satirical SF would be good to read, like Pohl & Kornbluth's
_Space_Merchants_, which is aboutadvertising and marketing.  

I also think there's merit in books by Somtow Sucharitkul (_Light_on_
_the_Sound_) and Norman Spinrad (_The_Last_Hurrah_of_the_Golden_Horde_).

Did anyone mention Walter Miller's _A_Canticle_For_Leibowitz_?  That's
mandatory post-nuclear-war stuff.