/lit/ - Literature

>>20676371
Not a dig site but close enough

>SAVES modern sci-fi

>>19836466

Name a better first contact story.
>inb4 Bakker

>>19009569
Watts as in the other canuck. The one who wrote Blindsight.

What are some other books that will blow my mind like Blindsight ?

>"Tell me more about your cousins," Rorschach sent.
>"Our cousins lie about the family tree," Sascha replied, "with nieces and nephews and Neanderthals. We do not like annoying cousins."
>"We'd like to know about this tree."
Sascha muted the channel and gave us a look that said Could it be any more obvious? "It couldn't have parsed that. There were three linguistic ambiguities in there. It just ignored them."
>"Well, it asked for clarification," Bates pointed out.
>"It asked a follow-up question. Different thing entirely."

What is the third linguistic ambiguity? "Lies" and "annoying" are obvious, but what is the third one?

what the F*CK am i reading?
Got this yesterday, and I already halved it, im enjoying it a lot, but...wat?

What the fuck am I reading?

what the fuck am i reading?

>>10278848
>Just finished this, thoughts?
Has a philosophical zombie ever been a great man of history?

Is this any good?

Is this any good?

Any contemporary sci fi authors or novels worth reading?

>>8886226

It's actually a masterpiece and pretty clearly a work of genius. Peter watts also ripped of ted chiang hard

Help me out here /lit/. I tried reading this and I eventually set it down because I wasn't enjoying it. I'm a fan of cosmic horror and all that but I reached a point where I had gotten tired of how dreary and miserable the characters, tone, prose, and setting are. I can take grim books but I don't like it when it doesn't feel like there's a point to any of the gloom. Am I missing something?

What are more "first contact" type of stories that are unsettling. I thought pic related and the Three Body problem books had some ideas in them that really were terrifying in some ways

Doesn't feel like it. Most futuristic sci-fi has cyberpunk kinda shit in it.

I just read this and even it had stuff that blends into the genre.

This was great. It's nice to read some sci-fi with understanding of detailed biology for once and not just vague broad terminology.

Any other books like this that blend actual science with good story telling?

What are some books similar to this?

>>6185585
Blindsight