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Just started reading Out of the silent planet and I'm having a blast.
Any reccs for series with a similar feel
also general C.S Lewis discussion

>> No.14472186
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>>14472181
read plsread pls

>> No.14472193

>>14472186
can you sell me?
I'm a big slut for hard sci fi

>> No.14472199

>>14472181
Don't forget to read The Dark Tower.

>> No.14472203

>>14472199
haven't read it yet but I've heard it's a LOTR ripoff. How is it on the philosophical side of things?

>> No.14472217

>>14472193
It’s kind of like Snow Crash, but more realistic. Engineer finds this strange VR game which is actually aliens. All to the back drop of the Cultural Revolution. I personally wasn’t a huge fan of the VR parts, but I enjoyed the non-Sci-Fi parts.

>> No.14472220

>>14472203
No idea, it's a manuscript tho and it's related to the Space Trilogy. Read once you're done with the trilogy.

>> No.14472232

>>14472220
oh kek I was thinking of the Stephen King novels

>> No.14472236

>>14472217
sounds interesting, I'll look into it

>> No.14472255

>>14472186
Is this ancient aliens?

>> No.14472266

>>14472193
Don't read anything about it online, even >>14472217 is a huge spoiler honestly, so fuck that guy.

What I liked about it is that it 1) Is just good sci-fi. It has lot of believable, but very fascinating sci-fi concepts that are interwoven with the plot in a way that makes sense. I'm reasonably educated in physics, and I don't think most of whats there is unbelieveable. Certainly never broke the immersion. 2) It has a really cool scope. This is kind of spoiler-y but it starts off as a story about a scientist in a labor camp in china, then it moves on til its about the entire multiverse till the end of time, but it does so gradually, and details how humans (individuals and groups) respond to that. 3) It doesn't exactly subvert expectations, its more like it constantly subverts the expectation of subversion. There are tons of times where there seems like the author is setting up a moment for the story to go in a certain way, where it is impossible for the story to go in the way it seems like it is going, and then it goes there anyways, but in a way that's interesting.

>>14472255
no.

>> No.14472281

>>14472266
noice, that's actually what I was looking for. And don't worry I'm pretty drunk so I'll forget what the other dude said by morning, In fact I already have