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SlowRain · 12-02-2010, 11:45 PM

Since the person you're buying for is 20 years old, I'm going to give another plug for China Miéville. You mentioned Sci-Fi and Fantasy, which Miéville sort of combines and makes work. He calls his genre New Weird, but I still think of it as Steampunk. You can try Perdido Street Station for starters. If you're interested in a couple of books, you could try The City & the City, which has won pretty much every major speculative-fiction award out there (Hugo Award, BSFA Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, World Fantasy Award). It's going to be the next Miéville book I read. He's not exactly a literary writer, but I think he tries harder than most to be a decent writer (I didn't particularly care for The Scar, though).

12-02-2010, 11:45 PM	#27
SlowRain Addict Posts: 311 Karma: 9553 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: a Canadian expat in Taiwan Device: HTC 10, Asus Phonepad	Since the person you're buying for is 20 years old, I'm going to give another plug for China Miéville. You mentioned Sci-Fi and Fantasy, which Miéville sort of combines and makes work. He calls his genre New Weird, but I still think of it as Steampunk. You can try Perdido Street Station for starters. If you're interested in a couple of books, you could try The City & the City, which has won pretty much every major speculative-fiction award out there (Hugo Award, BSFA Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, World Fantasy Award). It's going to be the next Miéville book I read. He's not exactly a literary writer, but I think he tries harder than most to be a decent writer (I didn't particularly care for The Scar, though).