/lit/ - Literature

>>23413530
I love the last (i think it was the last, the one with the super computer) chapter of that book
>"Christ, what an imagination I've got!"
kino
The book is so prescient and well written than it doesn't even make me miserable and instead it just left me amazed. The Jagged orbit, also by Brunner has some disturbingly prescient passages too.
>Be an individual!'“ Conroy contrived to make the slogan sound obscene. “And what's this been twisted into? The biggest Big Lie in history! It's no use making your life so private you refuse to learn from other people's experience—you just get stuck in a groove of mistakes you need never have made.
>We have more knowledge available at the turn of a switch than ever before, we can bring any part of the world into our own homes, and what do we do with it? Half the time We advertise goods people can't afford, and anyhow they've got the color and hold controls adrift because the pretty patterns are fun to look at when you've bolted and barred your mind with drugs. Split! Divide! Separate! Shut your eyes and maybe it'll go away!
>“We mine our gardens, we close our frontiers, we barricade our cities with Macnamara lines to shut off black from white, we divide, divide, divide!” A stamp emphasized each repetition of the word. “It gets into our families, goddamn it, it gets into our very lovemaking!
>Christ, do you know I had a girl student last year who thought she was having an affair with a boy back home and all they'd ever done was sit in front of the comweb and masturbate at each other? Twenty miles apart! They'd never even kissed! We're going insane, our whole blasted species—we're heading for screaming ochlophobia! Another couple of generations and husbands will be afraid to be alone in the same room with their wives, mothers will be afraid of their babies, if there are any babies!
>“And for what purpose? Why are we encouraging the spread of this lunacy? I mean we here, in North America. I don't mean the Afrikaners sitting smug on top of their pullulating heap of poor black devils hungry, half-naked and diseased, the richest people in the world battening on the poorest. That's just greed, which is a comparatively clean kind of vice. I'm talking about perversion, horrible, disgusting, systematic, deliberate perversion of the power of Reason to destroy people without killing them, to strip them of their initiative, their joy in life, their hope, for Christ's sake, their last ultimate irreducible human resource, hope.
>Out of sheer desperation millions of people are abandoning the use of reason, bankrupting themselves to buy mass-produced Plastic idols, in a last puerile attempt to outdo the bastards who've made 'Reason' a dirty word.

>>21748777
USA is Stand on Zanzibar, Jagged Orbit and the Sheep Look Up

>>21719641
posting the superior cover

>>21580631
The Best one is Stand of Zanzibar (1968), it's like John Dos Passos USA Trilogy but scifi, and it's still very relevant to this day.
Canticle for Leibowitz, so depressing that the author killed himself lmao
The Genocides thomas disch (spoiler: it's shit)
The Long Loud Silence

>>15759323
>Fantasy
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever
Elric
>scifi
Stand on Zanzibar
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Genocides (kind of lame desu)
The Simulacra
We Who Are About To...