Have you read the Masters of Rome series, by Colleen McCullough ? In SF, I would recommand the Partials sequence, by Dan Wells. (Artificial human beings, plagues, and a humanity unable to reproduce) Another favorite of mine is En famille, (the beginning of the industrial age) from Hector Malot (it's in the public domain). While it deals with some of the same themes as his more famous Sans famille, it's shorter and I find it more uplifting.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2013-04-23 05:37 pm (UTC)In SF, I would recommand the Partials sequence, by Dan Wells. (Artificial human beings, plagues, and a humanity unable to reproduce)
Another favorite of mine is En famille, (the beginning of the industrial age) from Hector Malot (it's in the public domain). While it deals with some of the same themes as his more famous Sans famille, it's shorter and I find it more uplifting.