Obscure Classics of Science Fiction

[Wrath of the Swarm]

I think most fans of literary Sci-Fi have a few works they love, but aren't particularly well known. My obscure favorites are Sea of Glass and Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear. Some people will recognize the second from the so-so movie adaptation, but hardly anyone's heard of the first.

What are yours?

 

[KenM]

The Lensmen books by EE "Doc" Smith. Reason I say they are obscure is I think they have been out of print for awhile.

 

[Silver Moon]

Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear. Some people will recognize [it] from the so-so movie adaptation.

And Longyear had actually adapted his sci-fi story from a short story set during WWII about a Japanese soldier and an American soldier stranded on a pacific island together. It was later made into the film "Hell in the Pacific" starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Stainless Steel Rat
The Well Worlds Saga by Chalker

 

[CCamfield]

The Dragon Never Sleeps and Shadowline, both by Glen Cook.

 

[KenM]

Sorry to get off topic, but I heard the ending in the Enemy Mine movie is ALOT different the the book.

 

[Wrath of the Swarm]

Sorry to get off topic, but I heard the ending in the Enemy Mine movie is ALOT different the the book.

The end scene is identical in both (I think... it's been a while), but the last half or so of the movie shares almost nothing with the book.

 

[Hand of Evil]

"Slippery" Jim diGriz, obscure? That makes the world a sad place indeed.

I said that because you just don't see them on the selves anymore, out of print (I think).

 

[Mark]

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Study Guide for Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz

Review of A Canticle for Leibowitz (Spoilers)

"Extraordinary ... chillingly effective." - Time

"Angry, eloquent ... a terrific story." - The New York Times

"An extraordinary novel ... Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim, profound both intellectually and morally, and, above all ... simply such a memorable story as to stay with the reader for years." - Chicago Tribune

"An exciting and imaginative story ... Unconditionally recommended." - Library Journal

 

[CCamfield]

Stainless Steel Rat

"Slippery" Jim diGriz, obscure? That makes the world a sad place indeed.