A Weird List?

Ray_Otus

@Apocryphal, check out number nine!

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5892742/10-ultra-weird-science-fiction-novels-that-became-required-reading?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

rossum

That does sound odd. Only one I've read on that list was The Man Who Folded Himself, which I recall really enjoying.

Ray_Otus

Chris and I read The Mount and enjoyed it. But that's the only one I've read.

Apocryphal

I’d love to do some of these as club picks. The Female Man and Lilith’s Brood particularly. I’ve read The Mount and Stranger in a strange land. Neither was _that_ weird, but both were mind bending.

clash_bowley

I think Ubik is weird. The rest, not so much. Dhalgren is just so pretentious it flies up its own ass.

dr_mitch

I remember quite strongly disliking Stranger in a Strange Land, but it's been long enough I can't remember why. Probably mainly the obnoxious part of Heinlein's philosophy coming through. As mentioned, it gave the world the word "grok", which I've even seen in a mathematics textbook.

Of the rest in the list, I quite fancy reading Ubik and Lilith's Brood.