/lit/ - Literature

The anti-genre fiction meme has been around for some time but I think aside from rustling a few jimmies and getting a smile as a whole the meme hurts the readership which might be turned off to anything confined to a genre.

My favorite novels are elevated genre novels. They're novels which get so much more out of being a genre, that use the genre to tell us something about being human and to ask really important questions. Sci-fi is so easy to build for that because you create something different, create something new, and you say "how would we react to that as humans?" or you just drop it in the middle and let humans be humans around it. I think with that you can reveal so much about the weirdness of being alive and of having a mind and having desires and all the rest of this by adding something new to the mix.

The best cover

I really enjoy Heinlein's books. Almost everything I've had the chance to read has been decent to amazing.

For one shot scifi you should look up The Windup Girl or The Forever War.

Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers
both are sermerv ma fervurt berks

I don't know how many millions of times this was discussed here, but: is Heinlein a sexist pig? I can't make up my mind.

Is robert a heinlein a /lit/ approved author? I fucking love his books

Let's say this is my favorite novel. How low class am I?
Also, is this just a meme-like status book much like "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" is at /mu/

just finished this.

No wonder fucking hippies cum all over this book.

It was pretty good though, and Jubal Harshaw is the best character ever.

Stranger in a Strange Land.

I love this book. Tell me why I should hate it.

the cover for Stranger in a Strange Land

So, who is your favorite character ever, /lit/?

I choose Jubal Harshaw

Stranger in a Strange Land.

3/4ths the way through.

Started pretty good, but turned to shit faster than a Taco Bell Burrito.