The whole map is literature. A one that carries you to different places and times in a million stories. We all have best-selling books we know and recognize. Chances are they're the booksites your school teachers give you or those on bestseller lists. Providing you are willing to venture off those beaten tracks; plenty is left out there for discovery. These little-known books are like hidden gems. They may not be as visually attractive or come from authors you know. Don't be duped by it, though. Original voices and stories hide out in other less-travelled books as well. All the narratives in these novels can captivate and sweep you away for journeys like never before.
Check out some of these treasures, along with the experiences they offer.
1. Aliens Are With Us
One of those books about aliens is bound to provide an in-depth look at first contact and what it takes for humans to speak the same language as faraway beings. In his opinion, the questions of whether aliens are visiting Earth and, if so, how they would interact with humanity are all handled by Bill Rountree in “Aliens Are With Us!” Bill Rountree offers his original, genuine insights and what the aliens told him … on these issues and more. Aliens At Work: A Journey Into The Unknown It offers a fresh perspective into the hidden mysteries of space, much more than recounting a series of alien contacts.
Bill Rountree has retired early from his high-paying job as a Computer software manager and plans to tell the story of the mysterious visits he began receiving at age eight.
For the first few years, an alien device simply observed him. However, two separate times after that, a voice spoke to him and said they were people of another planet with intelligent minds. This also drops more clues about why they are here.) For more than half a century, these and myriad other visits to and fro occurred many times each year.
2. A Fire Upon the Deep
A Ural Vigne's A Fire Upon the Deep is poised by singular voices and perspectives. It recounts the story of human scientists who accidentally unleashed an age-old Blight on the universe.
The Blight is racing an expedition trying to find a secret that may boost its power or how the cure it. A Family of scientists on a remote oasis of rich vegetation come under attack by the seething hordes, and in their very first moments, Lorette gets kidnapped from right out front; twenty-five to fifty-klicks nuked one time too often by themselves against an alien race inhabiting individualist off-world-cognitive furballs good enough for civilization.
The children need to be rescued, and a secret that might save the entire interplanetary civilization has quickly germinated in less-than-human soil.
3. The Sparrow
If you have not read the book yet, it tells of Jesuit priest Father Emilio Sandoz and his crew as they prepare for — the journey to — a distant planet called Rakhat.
Every chapter alternates between the past and present, not following conventional linear storytelling. The book is thus set in Earth, Rakhat, and covers the time 2019–2060. The protagonist is Father Emilio Sandoz. Nonetheless, it takes an all-seeing third-person vantage. Viewers are offered access to a portfolio of feelings, often very personal, as the sentient beings in Framed: Essay on redemption or whatever is your associated planet, with each one joining Emilio at his plot line.
4. The Folly of Loving Life
The Folly of Loving Life, on the other hand, is evidence that independent publishing often effectively harvests experimental fiction.
For example, Monica Drake made that mistake — churning out The Folly of Loving Life. Monica Drake's long lives of a cast of characters in this series of connected stories. And in that time—or pages—life both shrinks and expands. This collection shows what it feels like to live many decades and see all the years go by. Hostia is a tale where the comedy is decidedly fist-tipped (as opposed to just sharp) — they are stories steeped in gritty humour, created in Portland, Oregon, what was once beautiful and brutal but has now been marketized.
5. The World Goes On
The World Goes On by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet from the Hungarian. Here, the speaker from ‘The World Goes On' will tell us another story, one that opens with her speaking in first person and then shares just eleven more joyous anecdotes before saying farewell (‘for here I would leave this earth and these stars because I would take nothing with me').
As László Krasznahoraki puts it:” Every text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation and immersing ourselves in the current of thought or narrative. In his desolate ponderings and as he wanders through the maze of lanes in Shanghai, captivated by waterfalls.
A giant of a man is roaring at him about the essence of one drop on the Ganges, and all that hurts his eyes near dusk in Varanasi because they cost only believing when he was three feet two slimmer ago.
Finally
There is something cool about discovery, which oftentimes isn't as fulfilling when referring to lesser-known books. They let you go beyond your creative boundaries, explore new writing angles and ideas, and create fresh plots.
We're not talking about sticking to top genres. Get out of his comfort zone and try something completely different.
The ice will surprise you, and the treasures beneath may shock you. You could get hooked on what appears to be an esoteric historical fiction novel. Or a bizarre coming-of-age story resonates with you deeply due to your own life.
