Geoffrey Firmin
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Read any Jeff Noon British think he was part of The New Weird movement. Very off beat post cyberpunk sci fiMore new wave SF from the last five days. First two from the US:
Roger Zelazny: Lord Of Light, 1967.
"His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god."
Best to read this without any information going in, as how the world works is only slowly revealed. (An unfilmed script based on this book was used in the 'Canadian Caper' by the CIA in 1979 as seen in Argo.)
Samuel R. Delany: Nova, 1968.
Delany was apparently influenced by Zelazny, though maybe not in this book specifically - this one feels more inspired by Alfred Bester's Stars My Destination (while Zelazny's above felt inspired by Vance's Dying Earth. Incidentally, while paging through the first few pages of Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness using Amazon's 'look inside' feature, I saw that he had dedicated that book to Delany, so I guess the inspiration went both ways). Proto-cyberpunk, it even has a character named Mouse who jacks in to steer a spaceship.
And back to the UK:
Michael Moorcock: The Final Programme, 1968.
"It was a world ruled by the gun, the guitar and the needle, sexier than sex"
A proper psychedelic trip, this one doesn't feel like anything else I've read so far (though it does bring to mind the great 1967 tv series The Prisoner, the dvd set of which I've been rewatching over the last few months). This one was dedicated to Alfred Bester.
Of these three I preferred the first two, even though I read the last in one sitting.