I feel too that it is an impossible task, but I was saddened that nobody yet mentioned Clifford Simak. An incredible fusion of perfect SF with a melancholic vision of USA in the fifties.
I don't know where to begin, but certainly his City is one of the best books ever written. Stop. No arguments accepted.
And Waystation, do not let me even begin to talk about it... it takes you to the heart.
... or Highway of eternity !!! One of the most wonderful and surreal descriptions of time travel I ever read ...
You don't know SF if you don't know Simak.
alessandro
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