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              @jwaaaap assume you'd have read a bunch of these... Day of the Triffids (and Wyndham generally) is perfect for this.
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            @jwaaaap I love the sense of the everyday lives of various strata of society in The Space Merchants (beautiful offhand worldbuilding)
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          @jwaaaap Constellation Games is the best scifi book I've read about videogames.
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        @jwaaaap Of course, LeGuin. I kinda want to reread The Dispossessed again now.
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      @jwaaaap there's a strand of children's TV I grew up with that had protagonists who treated very weird things very straightforwardly.
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    @jwaaaap which feels very British, very childlike and very real. Examples: youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_495760&feature=iv&src_vid=lVbQco001_M&v=oNTIBBYf9C4, Woof!, The Queen's Nose.
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      @jwaaaap oh, and last one: One of my favourite books is Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. I love the way the collage of scenes builds up.