Or you can read William S. Burroughs or Samuel Delany and do both at once.
And since I am already overposted:
On Doris Lessing:
> William Gibson on science fiction:
"it's mapping the present"
Which is what Lessing does so well while creating her alternative worlds and voices. She also has the hope that in doing so, the world can be changed for the better. No wonder it took them so bloody long to give her the prize.
Brian