/lit/ - Literature

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The founders wrote literature: Wells, Verne, Poe. Arguably so did Mary Shelley (more for The Last Man than Frankenstein).
Somewhat below that level, but high indeed: Olaf Stapledon, of course. Dick, Lem, H. P. Lovecraft, Yefremov, the Strugatskys. A few one-shot wonders like Orwell for 1984.
That said, there are works and writers than I can't quite classify as literature but can't quite ignore. Colin Wilson for The Philospopher's Stone and The Mind Parasites. Thomas Disch.
And then there are scifi writers who can't remotely be considered literature, but who one delights in even though you know you're consuming junk food. I'm thinking of A. E. Van Vogt, beloved by both Wilson and Dick.
The best science fiction published in recent decades? The Doomed City by the Strugatskys, and the Golden Oecumene trilogy by John C. Wright.

Post books written by humans.