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MrTeatime · 12-29-2011, 01:54 PM

David Mitchell is another good "transition" author: Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas have (some) SF elements, and are highly acclaimed (Cloud Atlas won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award).

All of his books are available in ebook form (in the UK at least).

Iain (M.) Banks is also worth a look: he writes sci-fi under "Iain M Banks" and mainstream fiction under "Iain Banks". "The Bridge" is one of the latter and has a neat sci-fi "feel" to it.

I don't know much about crime fiction, alas :/

12-29-2011, 01:54 PM	#7
MrTeatime Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 513276 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Sony PRS-350	David Mitchell is another good "transition" author: Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas have (some) SF elements, and are highly acclaimed (Cloud Atlas won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award). All of his books are available in ebook form (in the UK at least). Iain (M.) Banks is also worth a look: he writes sci-fi under "Iain M Banks" and mainstream fiction under "Iain Banks". "The Bridge" is one of the latter and has a neat sci-fi "feel" to it. I don't know much about crime fiction, alas :/ Last edited by MrTeatime; 12-29-2011 at 01:59 PM.