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Will sci-fi ever be considered 'fine litterature'

>> No.17321941

If redditors get their way then yes.

>> No.17321952

>>17321941
Rent free

>> No.17321957

>>17321935
Jules Verne already did it. The issue is that the majority of writers don't have natural talent nor a robust literary education.

>> No.17321958

>>17321952
t. redditor

>> No.17321966

I thought golden age sci-fi could be quite /lit/. The best sci-fi uses technology to tell a parable, like Asimov with his robots. The stories shouldn't actually be about technology, rather the technology is the vehicle for the message

>> No.17321981

>>17321935

"A typical late-career passage comes in Foundation and Earth (1986) when a starship lands on a secluded world and Trevize appraises the topless woman who appears to greet the visitors:

She was not much more than 1.5 meters in height, and her breasts, though shapely, were small. Yet she did not seem unripe. The nipples were large and the areolae dark, though that might be the result of her brownish skin color."

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>>17321935
>fine litterature
It already is considered that, OP.

>> No.17321998

>>17321966

Did you read The Gods Themselves anon? The message was porn. The entire book had dimension harvesting energy devices and scientists fighting against tyrannical governments only to end up being centered about an abstract alien threesome. Sure Sci-fi will be fine literature - if by that you mean meme'd to death by /lit/

>> No.17322007

>>17321935
All I want to write is literary sci-fi. You can do Solarpunk/Cyberpunk versions of every single great author/book. Everything is a remix anyway, in updating it with technology you should be able to make it different enough to be new.

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>>17321958
>t. redditor

>> No.17322019

>>17321998
no I haven't but that book is from the later part of asimov's career

>> No.17322036

>>17321957
This, plus Wells. Dick and Wolfe are okay too.

Most contemporary sci-fi authors have watched too much Star Wars and other Reddit schlock and fall into tropes.

>> No.17322375

>>17321935
maybe if the genre didn't attract the most revolting sort of bugman.

>> No.17322390

>Dick
>Delany
>Silverberg
>Malzberg
>Effinger
>Sturgeon
>Crowley
>Brunner

>> No.17322951

>>17321935
> caring about what others think of genres you enjoy reading / writing