People who like to read speculative fiction are mostly attracted by the ingenious and interlocking plot, brain-burning, exciting, twisty, shocking... Without seeing the end, you will never guess the truth. Excellent speculative fiction often makes people read it all night long!
There are countless such outstanding speculative novels, in this issue I have compiled a "best speculative fiction top 10 book list" selected by Douban netizens, if you also like speculative fiction, start by reading these classics.
01 "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes"
Author: [English] Arthur Conan Doyle
Douban score: 9.3
Introduction:
"The Complete Detective Sherlock Holmes" can be described as an immortal classic that ushered in the "golden age" of detective fiction history. Sherlock Holmes's novel, which has been translated into 57 languages over the past hundred years, has swept the world, and is known as the "Bible" in speculative fiction by speculative fans, which is the most respected detective novel in history and must not be missed, and it is also a wonderful book suitable for all ages.
In the more than one hundred years since the birth of "Dark Red Study", Holmes has fought invincible hands all over the world, and his influence has long crossed the corner of reasoning and become synonymous with the detective in people's hearts. The publication of The Complete Detective Sherlock Holmes made Holmes a well-known hero among British readers, and also made its author Conan Doyle famous in one fell swoop, and posterity called him "the father of detective fiction".
02《Midnight Night》
Author: [Japanese] Keigo Higashino
Douban score: 9.1
"White Night" is Keigo Higashino's best-known masterpiece to date, with all the elements of a classic masterpiece: a bizarre murder case that spans nearly 20 years and a thrilling story: sad love, paradoxical fate, heinous crime, complex human duels and redemptions... In 1973, a man stabbed to death with a sharp object was found in an abandoned building in Osaka. The case is elusive and unresolved. In the following 20 years, the evil born out of the case gradually sprouted and grew, and the flower of evil blossomed. The lives of those involved in the case are gradually shrouded in more and more heavy shadows...
"There is no sun in my sky, it is always night, but it is not dark, because something has replaced the sun. It wasn't as bright as the sun, but it was enough for me. With this light, I can turn night into day. I've never had the sun, so I'm not afraid of losing. "I only hope to walk hand in hand in the sun", this desperate thought that symbolizes the core of the story of this book is like a beautiful pretense, as countless messy, depressing, and sad episodes of events are restored like documentaries, and the last trace of warmth is completely abandoned, and thousands of readers are sad and moved in a love that redeems sin.
03 "Detective Reasoning of Agatha Christie"
Author: [English] Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie Detective Reasoning "Poirot" Series (32 volumes) includes Mystery of the Blue Train, Mystery of the Tomb, Human Record, Silent Witness, Murder on the Orient Express, Crime in the Sun, The Mystery of Roger, Massacre on the Nile, Death Date, Cliff Hills, Murder on ABC, Ghost in the Empty Valley, Murder in the Clouds, Beer Murder, Stiles Manor Strange Case, Cats in the Pigeons, Hole Cards After the Funeral, Behind the Scenes, Murder by a Dentist, Golf Course Murder, Temple of the Dead, Four Devil Heads, Christmas Mystery, Coffin, The Third Girl, Tragedy in Three Acts, Strange Bell, The Elephant's Testimony, Death of a Cleaning Woman, Deadly Legacy, Murder on halloween Eve.
Agatha Christie is known as the queen of detective mystery fiction. The English edition of her book has sold more than 1 billion copies, translated into more than 100 languages, and sold more than 1 billion copies. She wrote 80 detective novels and short story collections, 19 screenplays, and 6 novels published under the pseudonym Mary West McCourt during her lifetime. The number of writings is second only to Shakespeare. With the advent of Poirot, the most outstanding and popular detective image in literary history created by Christie, and Miss Marple, who is known for her female intuition and human concern, the symbolic meaning of the name Christie is now almost equivalent to "detective mystery novel".
04 "Golden Dreams"
Author: [Sun] Kotaro Isaka
Douban score: 9.0
Japan's new prime minister was assassinated on the streets of Sendai by a remote-controlled plane carrying a bomb. The police immediately identified a man named Masaharu Aoyagi as the killer. Aoyagi is forced to flee, and gradually discovers that someone has already laid a trap: two years ago, when he was a courier, he became extremely popular for saving female stars, which became the reason for being framed; half a year ago, threatening phone calls continued to harass the courier company, and he was forced to resign; two months ago, he was framed as a satyr while riding a car; on the day of the crime, the TV station broadcast surveillance video showing that people who resembled him bought a remote-controlled plane; the next day, the police announced that he called to admit that he was the murderer. Aoyagi was speechless and fell under siege.
05 "The Dedication of Suspect X"
Author: [Japanese] Keigo Higashino
The once-in-a-century mathematical genius Shi Shen has the only pleasure every day is to go to a fixed bento shop to buy lunch, just to see yasuko, a neighbor who works in a bento shop. Yasuko and her daughter are dependent on each other and kill their ex-husband who came to pester. The stone god offered to take care of the aftermath. Shi Shen set up an unbelievable bureau, so that the police can only knock on the periphery, and can not be related to the case at all. What technique did the Stone God use?
06 "No One Survives"
Douban score: 8.9
Ten people who did not know each other were invited by the wealthy Mr. Owen to a private villa on Indian Island. After dinner, a mysterious voice uncovers the terrible secrets that people have hidden in their hearts. That night, the young Mr. Marston died mysteriously, the ancient nursery rhymes hung over everyone like a curse, it seemed that a pair of mysterious glasses were always peeping at this game of death, and the visitors were like disappearing Indian porcelain people walking towards death one after another...
07 "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Author: [Swedish] Steger Larsen
Douban score: 8.5
Bromwest, a well-respected financial journalist whose career had always been to expose corporate scandals, suddenly fell to the bottom of his career for defamation for a report, and had to resign as the publisher of Millennium magazine, which he personally founded. At this moment, a great entrepreneur, Henry Van Yair, suddenly came to the door and offered an incredible price, asking Bronwest to spend a year writing a biography of him, while secretly investigating the disappearance of a long-dormant teenage girl whose niece had mysteriously disappeared forty years earlier on an island owned by their family in northern Sweden. Unemployed and facing financial crisis, Blomwest accepted the troubling plea. Eventually, he discovers the creepy secrets behind this glamorous and eminent family.
08 "The Truth of the Bride"
Author: Natsuhiko Kyoka
The black virgin with spiders in the aristocratic girls' school listens to the desire to kill on the night of the full moon; in the spider web mansion where the rich family has lived for generations, the heirs of the family have died one after another; in the sensational "continuous killing of the eye-breaking demon", the girl spider is quietly busy by the window... In the fabric of infinite cause and effect, strangle all prey, and do not die. Who, exactly, is the spider? Detective Yukizu is also trapped in the TianluoDi Net, can Kyogokudo discover the mystery?
09 Klein's Pot
Author: [Japanese] Okajima duo
Douban score: 8.8
Uesugi has never been so excited – the story he wrote was bought by Epsilon R&D to be made into a new game of the subversive era, Klein 2, and invited to work as a game tester with the young girl Isa. Uesugi is completely immersed in the perfect virtual world created by K2, and is amazed by its realism and foresight. However, as the test progressed, epsilon's behavior was so mysterious that he became suspicious, and the game constantly heard someone warn him: "Run!" At the same time, a girl who claimed to be a friend of Irisa's found Uesugi, who said that Isa had been missing for many days and had not heard from her. However, in the process of searching for someone, both began to suspect that the other was lying, because their memories were completely wrong...
10 "Strange Wind Years"
Author: [U.S.] Robert McCammon
One cold spring morning, before dawn, Corey accompanied his father to deliver milk door to door, when he suddenly saw a car rushing into the lake. Dad desperately jumped into the water to save people, but when he struggled to swim to the car, he saw a scene that made his soul scatter: the man was dead, his hands were handcuffed to the steering wheel, his body was complete, he had obviously been tortured, and a wire was wrapped around his neck. The unexplained mystery sinks as the car sinks, as if engulfed in the unfathomable waters of a dark lake. After that day, Corey and Dad began trying to track down the truth. The elaborate murder has a loophole, and the murderer is forced to clean up the mess.
And the scene at the bottom of the lake entangled the simple and kind father like an evil spirit, and his spirit was on the verge of collapse. Corey must find out the truth in order to get his beloved dad back. A green feather, taking Corey all the way to track down the murderer, explore the mysterious world of strange winds, explore the truth of life, explore the intertwined good and evil in human nature, explore the meaning of life and death...