I´m curious too, Dano...

Magenta Spiral: I do like Fahrenheidt 451, but not the movie, just the book. For my opinion the possibilities in a movie are too limited to show what you expected in your fantasy.
Thank you for the message. The "Twilight Zone" is very interesting, but I haven´t red yet Huxley´s "The Doors of Perception" (I just know "Brave New World").
At the time being I´m not "at home", so I cannot check the authors I would like you to get to know, for instance Nesvadba, a Czech Science Fiction writer. Do you know him?
To make things clear, I AM a fan of Science Fiction, but I read a lot of other books (seldom bestsellers).
Have a nice day.

Magenta Spiral: I´m sorry but I did not find this one in English. It was published in Moskow (MIR 1979/1982) and Berlin.
The name of the authors is spelled differently in English: Strugatski or Strugatzki, Arkadi (or Arkady) and Boris.
I found one of their very famous books in English:
"Hard to be a God" (Daw Books, Inc. 1974)
Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky have been very popular und were frequently met with in Soviet scientific journals. They write stories and novels about robots or strangers from outer space, most of them with a fine sense of humour and at the time, when the Soviet Union ruled Eastern Europe, with more or less hidden criticism of the Soviet system.
Boris, born 1933, is an astronomer who was working at the computer laboratory of Pulkovo Observatory. Arkady, born 1925, is a linguist specializing in the Japanese, and also a translator and reviewer.

Magenta Spiral: I´m going to check whether you can get them in English; I know them in German and in Russian...

It seems you like Sience Fiction, too. Do you know "The Way to Amalthea" by Arkadi and Boris Strugazki (or some other novels by the brothers Strukazki)?

Certainly a very fine company... Did you ever read "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro?
At the moment I´m reading: "The last Emperor" (From Emperor to Citizen. The Autobiography of Aisin-Gidoro PU YI). Very interesting indeed.
And I recommend: Umberto Ecco: "Baudolino" (a book for those who did not forget the dreams of their youth or even childhood.)
A very intersting book too: Jung Chang: "Wild Swans". (Jung Chang, born 1952 in Yibin/Sichuan (China) was the first Chinese to receive a doctorate of a British University. She has been living in England since 1978.)
If your are intersted in history: Milovan Djilas: "Worlds and Bridges". (Djilas, who was a politician in the former Yugoslawia, wrote this book in jail in Belgrad. In this book you will find some of the important sources for the Balkan Wars, now and before the First World War.)

And what about Selma Lagerloef: "Nils Holgerson"?