/lit/ - Literature

>>19713776

random chart on my folder

>>9939325

Imagine putting Conan The Barbarian on Mars. That's science fantasy, ERB's John Carter. Or writing about a King on planet Saturn, or a necromancer on Venus. It's just about transposing some fantasy elements with exotic secondary planet setting.

Soft SF is more like pic related.

new wave/soft science fiction

Science fiction books can't match the visual impact of something like Interstellar and 2000AD, or the gross spectacle of mandibles and tentacles of Alien, Predator, etc.

But they can examine human behavior and social psychologies, and play with tensions between interesting ideas, in a way that movies can only do superficially. At least, this is what a lot of high-minded literary SF tries to do.

There are still plenty of adventure tales and rollicking space operas as well, to rival the likes of Star Wars. This has been going on for a hundred years, since Edgar Rice Burroughs. So there's no shortage of escapist thrills either.

Maybe the problem is you don't know where to look.

>>9284321

>>9277924
>scifi charts
Here's your soft SF

Now, months on and after more reading, I would put Ballard's The Drowned World in there instead of Finney's Body Snatchers, and include Miller's A Canticle For Leibowitz.

Can somebody throw a military sci-fi chart together?

soft science fiction

>>9103495

>>8938761
Here's a chart I made. If you can't find anything here, try another genre.

>>8694551
There's literature in some of these - also look at Kurt Vonnegut's early sci-fi.

>>8633204
Making charts is pretty fun though. Only self restraint has stopped me from putting it in an OP - because when it comes down to it, I am a humble man who would not wish to inflict my subjective reality onto other people like that.

>>8632216
I might have been anonyposting for a week.

>>8600194
Sirens Of Titan, Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5. These are books of futuristic dystopias, apocalypses, aliens, speculative technology, books which made the Hugos lists. I don't know about his short stories, but I would guess he ran off a few SF stories there, too.

Vonnegut was a 'soft' SF writer for half of his career (the better half.) People who are new to science fiction could do a lot worse than pick up a copy of Cat's Cradle.

He just isn't regarded as science fiction because the literary establishment accepted him, and he appears to have distanced himself from it.

Come at me anons. Here is a quick and dirty selected 'soft' SF chart I did.