Well if Dystopians count, I'd say Oryx and Crake followed by the Year of the Flood, both by Atwood.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kat - Sep 05, 2010 7:24:21 pm PDT #12336 of 28333
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
-t - Sep 05, 2010 7:26:09 pm PDT #12337 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm usually very bad at choosing The Best Anything, but I think I'll go with Anathem.
Consuela - Sep 05, 2010 8:55:45 pm PDT #12338 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The book(s) I've been the most impressed with in the last ten years is probably Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman novels. Amazing world-building.
Strega - Sep 05, 2010 10:29:56 pm PDT #12339 of 28333
This Town Will Never Let Us Go.
It probably isn't, but I love it so much that I don't care.
Jessica - Sep 06, 2010 3:03:24 am PDT #12340 of 28333
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Anathem, no question for me.
Though Cloud Atlas is giving it a run for its money, in a very untraditional way.
brenda m - Sep 06, 2010 5:05:19 am PDT #12341 of 28333
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I haven't read Antathm, but Cryptonomicon is definitely on my list so I'll have to check it out.
Hayden - Sep 06, 2010 5:45:44 pm PDT #12342 of 28333
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Anathem and Cloud Atlas are both fantastic indeed.
Steph L. - Sep 06, 2010 5:51:47 pm PDT #12343 of 28333
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I need to re-read Anathem. Despite my general disgruntledness with books that have their own glossary, and despite the fact that the ending(s) made my head spin, it was excellent.
lisah - Sep 07, 2010 7:48:16 am PDT #12344 of 28333
Punishingly Intricate
I just finished and loved Cloud Atlas but would never think of it as being sci-fi. It is really good and worth reading though.
Jessica - Sep 07, 2010 7:53:03 am PDT #12345 of 28333
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
but would never think of it as being sci-fi.
Most of it doesn't read like SF, but OTOH, half of it takes place in 2 future time periods, one of which is explicitly SFish (enslaved human clones etc) and the other of which is the post-apocalyptic remains of the other.