Re: Mainstream Writers who dabbled in SF

"Tabula Raza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> A recent run through my bookshelves turned up several titles by
mainstream
> authors who made a single foray into SF.  Have I missed any other
minor SF
> classics by mainstream writers?  I'm actually looking for something
you
> thought was above average.  For example, I didn't mention the Updike
novel
> which I didn't care for all that much.

Here are a few:

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger; A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Kingsley Amis, The Alteration
Paul Theroux, O-zone
Flann O'Brian, The Dalkey Archive
William Golding, The Inheritors (some might consider this historical, I
suppose)
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Doris Lessing, Shikasta (a little slow perhaps to be called a classic
maybe)
Stephen Wright, M31

Ron Henry