Well, I'm leaning toward Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, as I'm curious to know how "hard" science fiction plays out in a novel. However, I know that many are interested in alternate histories/universes, and so going with that category next would make sense, in which case I wouldn't mind tackling The Man in the High Castle or Snow Crash.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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