Book series: C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series. -- speculative interspecies fiction that makes sense of politics.
Book: Domesday Book, Connie Willis. Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg Borderliners, Peter Hoeg A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle
ETA: Other people have nominated this -- but I have not seen anywhere one of my favorite books: Larque on the Wing, by Nancy Springer. Larque is a 40-year-old woman who is a 'decorative' painter, who one day on a whim goes to get a beauty makeover -- and comes out of the shop a 20-year-old gay man. Things get a bit crazy after that, especially with her husband and sons, her father the silver cowboy and her mother who, ultimately, is transformed into her true self. It's funny, fantastic, and great storytelling. (And still available in paperback if you look hard enough.)
All the books are, in their own ways, lifechanging. Hoeg writes like nobody else, from viewpoints no one else has. Wrinkle in Time has lived with me and in me for more than 40 years. Domesday book has carried me through so much.
Television series: Eureka (A Town Called Eureka) -- fun science! The Twilight Zone (the original series) -- great storytelling, great acting, wonderful stories. Primeval (prefer first two-three seasons) -- time travel, dinosaurs, science and Britain. Lots of fun. Torchwood (original series, not Children of Earth or Miracle Day) -- Because it had so much joy in it, despite everything.
Movie series: Star Wars, original trilogy, (Eps. 4-6)
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Date: 2011-08-13 02:09 am (UTC)Book: Domesday Book, Connie Willis.
Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
Borderliners, Peter Hoeg
A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'EngleETA: Other people have nominated this -- but I have not seen anywhere one of my favorite books: Larque on the Wing, by Nancy Springer. Larque is a 40-year-old woman who is a 'decorative' painter, who one day on a whim goes to get a beauty makeover -- and comes out of the shop a 20-year-old gay man. Things get a bit crazy after that, especially with her husband and sons, her father the silver cowboy and her mother who, ultimately, is transformed into her true self. It's funny, fantastic, and great storytelling. (And still available in paperback if you look hard enough.)
All the books are, in their own ways, lifechanging. Hoeg writes like nobody else, from viewpoints no one else has. Wrinkle in Time has lived with me and in me for more than 40 years. Domesday book has carried me through so much.
Television series: Eureka (A Town Called Eureka) -- fun science!
The Twilight Zone (the original series) -- great storytelling, great acting, wonderful stories.
Primeval (prefer first two-three seasons) -- time travel, dinosaurs, science and Britain. Lots of fun.
Torchwood (original series, not Children of Earth or Miracle Day) -- Because it had so much joy in it, despite everything.
Movie series: Star Wars, original trilogy, (Eps. 4-6)