A co-worker was giving away a bunch of books from his collection. I noticed that one of them said "Nobel Prize for Literature" on the cover so I snatched it up.Seven pages into José Saramago's The Cave I have judged it to be a science fiction novel. I find this surprising. Who expects a Nobel prize winner from Portugal to publish science fiction?
Saramago published The Cave in 2000, he won the Nobel for literature in 1998.
Maybe I am wrong, maybe The Cave is not a science fiction novel. But so far the fictional setting he calls "The Center" seems an awful lot like Perdido Street Station . . .
I'll let you know how things develop in the book. In the mean time, anyone else know of a speculative fiction author who has received similar acclaim?
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