Blew my mind

Its a book that takes whisks you away from your present material world and transports you to the psychological reality of a possible tomorrow.

I was 21 and it was in 2000, my honours year at university. I read it, incongruously, in a farmhouse, sitting up in bed leaning against a wooden wall.

It was on my Science Fiction course at Uni and I remember a friend saying that he'd read the first 50 pages and he had no idea what was going on. It struck me then as odd that a book should be so willfully incomprehensible. When I read it I loved the ambiguity between reality and cyberspace. It tore my mind open because of the complete and utter disorientation, and otherness of the future Gibson gives us. It seemed more real and, at the same time, more foreign than any other science fiction I've ever read.

The Little Prince

Not the hardest Science Fiction you're likely to encounter but still conceptually and philosophically very moving. Brilliant.

Dune

The scope! The insight! What intelligent and interesting people! And it all happened. Herbert made me believe it did.

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