In search of recommendations after seeing Moon

So, I saw Duncan Jones' film Moon last night and absolutely loved it. I was hoping that others who have seen it might have some recommendations of novels/short fiction/etc. that have the same "feel" to it.

A few things that come to my mind are Ray Bradbury's short stories (like the collection The Illustrated Man) as well as some of the short stories of Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov.

I haven't seen MOON yet, but what I've read gives me an idea it's a bit like Solaris. That's a book and two different movies.

Thanks for the recommendation LitClique, Solaris sounds promising!

I watched the Tarkovsky version of Solaris with subtitles and no commercial interruptions a few months back and was bored to tears. I can only recommend watching this first thing in the morning, else it will put you to sleep. Why is it three hours long? Because it has very little to do. I know, makes sense, doesn't it? The inverse proportion rule applies to movies as well as everything else. the longer the movie, the slower the pace, the less territory it has to cover.

The story is mostly boring talking heads stuff, people thinking deep thoughts, saying deep things, moving like snails, but the concept is certainly inventive, but good God folks, can't they pick up the pace, just a little?

I thought The Last Wave did a better job of dealing with the same subject matter and was all around a better movie. However, Solaris does get a lot of buzz and I suppose if one has not seen it they should. I find myself not liking many things others like, so maybe I am alone in my assessment.

It sounds like you're probably responding to the mind-bend aspect of the story rather than (strictly speaking) the setting, but . . .

Allen Steele's Lunar Descent has a similar socio-economic backdrop of contract workers on the moon. Ben Bova's Moonrise and Moonwar also concern the economic exploitation of the moon by corporations, but they're more about swashbuckling entrepreneurs than hard-case contract workers.

Thanks again for the input, all.

#4 You really need to see Stalker, also by Tarkovsky. Then Solaris won't feel so long. If you grok Stalker, then maybe Solaris will be worth a rewatch?

(Warning, I actually like Stalker. It's not made that way for no reason.)

Just watched the trailer of the movie, and I had to think of the charakter Walter Dangerfield in Philip K. Dicks Dr. Bloodmoney, or how we got along after the bomb (mostly because of the fact that a character is out there on his own, without contact to other human beings)

io9 recently posted If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love, which is an interesting list in general.

Down towards the bottom, they recommend Ophiuchi Hotline for Moon.