Since there seems to be quite a bit of overlap here already I’d just like to list three authors who haven’t been mentioned yet. Extremely highly recommended.
Stanislaw Lem: pretty much everything, but you should start with Cyberiad and His Master’s Voice.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: First and foremost I recommend Roadside Picnic. (later adapted to the Stalker movie and the Stalker games). Their other books range from decent to great.
Jorge Louis Borges: everything. He was not strictly a sci-fi author but was actually marketed in the Soviet bloc as sci-fi, and justifiably so. I would call him a writer of “philosophy fiction”.
Since there seems to be quite a bit of overlap here already I’d just like to list three authors who haven’t been mentioned yet. Extremely highly recommended.
Stanislaw Lem: pretty much everything, but you should start with Cyberiad and His Master’s Voice.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: First and foremost I recommend Roadside Picnic. (later adapted to the Stalker movie and the Stalker games). Their other books range from decent to great.
Jorge Louis Borges: everything. He was not strictly a sci-fi author but was actually marketed in the Soviet bloc as sci-fi, and justifiably so. I would call him a writer of “philosophy fiction”.