Paul,
try reading Dickens's journalism - it is of the very highest quality,
with far greater immediacy than his literature.
As for Boris's question, I would recommend H G Wells.
I have just read the other replies, and not the ambiguity (which I
have not seen resolved) in the question. I believe Wells is considered
to be a modern writer, but perhaps you meant a good contemporary (or
near contemporary) writer of British English. If so I would recommend
Iain M Banks. I have not read any of his sci-fi, but I have read him
as Iain Banks (no M) a literary writer, and he is first class. I've
also read a couple of the Flashmans many years ago and enjoyed them,
but they're not sci-fi.
Aldous Huxley is also a good suggestion - he was influenced strongly
by Yevgeny Zamytatin ('We'). George Orwell, too. Although they only
use 'sci-fi' loosely as a mechanism for political comment, the writing
is exceptional. Especially Orwell's - I consider him to be one of the
top maybe 10 writers of English since the 16th century.
Bob
>
> I hate Dickens. I find it unreadable. I had to read much of his work
> in college, and it was a task. Remember, those works were serialized
> in newspapers. Compiled into a single volume, they become rather fat
> and lazy.
> Paul
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 10:40 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
>
> > Boris Liberman wrote:
> > > > Good day.
> > > >
> > > > Out of boredom I am reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as of
> > lately.
> > > > Although nearly devoid of any actual content, I admit
> that it very
> > > > much attracts me with the language of the narrative ;-) .
> > > >
> > > > Here is the question for you. Is there any interesting,
probably
> > > > modern literature such as science fiction for example, that
> > uses good
> > > > old British English that you can recommend to me?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks a whole lot in advance.
> >
> > Given the tenor of the times, anything perhaps by Charles Dickens,
> > except probably not _A Christmas Carol_.
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