/lit/ - Literature

>>8497980
/lit/, /v/, /b/ and /tv/ spring to mind. What would you consider a fifth? /co/? /int/? I consider /int/ and exceptional board at its one job (International meming) but I know others dislike it.

To stay on track let me just say the Book of the New Sun starts too bloody slow.

Also is pic related the ship from Tau Zero?

>>8480441
I warn you it's dreadful, I'm almost depressed re-reading it from earlier.

>A figure lying under a thick thermal rug jerked suddenly awake, turned over, and scratched their beard. Eyes rising, they followed the path of the beige lighter craft as it descended from the sky over the horizon, the E.R.C.O markings scarcely visible on its side. The rapid rise from stratospheric speeds to normal jet speeds had created the tonal explosion which awoke the man on the hillside. He pulled the blanket off himself, and stood.

Or, if you're feeling especially masochistic.

>Sleeping fully clothed, he proceeded to unfurl the long poncho-like coat he wore over his skinsuit until it touched the ground. The coat couldn’t help but rattle as he adjusted it, as it was ornamented with hundreds of tiny metal and plastic shapes. Mostly rectangular, the odd disk or large square broke up the design. From afar, it resembled some contemporary design or a camouflage of varying shades of black and grey. But drawing close, the minute mass of shapes reviled itself to be memory cards. Flash cards, memory sticks, information banks. All over the cloak, hundreds of the tiny little novels were fastened to the base material, with the odd larger disk or bulkier unit disguised among them. The overlapping plates almost resembled the steel chainmail worn by soldiers of ages past, or the carbonfibre variants still worn today.

Only part I'm happy with is the idea.