/lit/ - Literature

>>15306270
Pretty barebones but a decent start. I'd like to see one just with more /dyingearth/ stories, like "As The Curtain Falls", "Hothouse", "Dancers At The End of Time", "The Wanderer" (the one by Timothy Jarvis", etc

The last one in particular is enjoyably poetic and really conjures the feeling of an immortal who's lived too long and is now living through the death of the world.

>"...tonight the sunset is violet and bile."

>>15111446
Thanks for confirming my suspicions. This is exactly why I don't read anything on a Hugo list. It's more geared towards rewarding and spreading correct-think than, well, good scifi.

I was going to recommend Peter Watts but looks like someone already did >>15111026 (good taste Anon).

As for me, I'm reading pic related. It's another Dying Earth classic, although based in swords and sandals fantasy that just so happens to be sci fi. So far, the swords and sandals (e.g. battle of sand ships) are garbage but the world is amazing (it's at the bottom of the worlds dried up oceans, by description near the Marina's Trench), populated with weird adapted sea life, genetically engineered creatures (e.g. horses have six legs and look more like pill bugs) and there's off-shoots of humanity roaming around (e.g. hive humans, who are 90% asexual, with a surprisingly well developed weird culture fitting their biology).

The story is so so (so far), but the world building is shockingly good for 1974. It's just so fresh and detailed.

Would recommend to fans of Dying Earth or anyone looking for something new.