/lit/ - Literature

My favorites in no particular order:

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Rendezvous with Rama
I, Robot
Through a Scanner, Darkly
Stranger in a Strange Land
Ender's Game
The Player of Games
Cryptonomicon
Neuromancer
Ringworld

The Time Machine

>>19487074

>The Player of Games
>Through a Scanner, Darkly
Thx, added to my to read list.

>Ringworld
meh, boring over rated, more of a science fanticy than science fiction

>Rendezvous with Rama
>I, Robot
>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Well worth reading

>Cryptonomicon
>Neuromancer
>Stranger in a Strange Land
>Ender's Game
Hard to beat

>Heinlein, Neal Stephenson
Nearly everything these two wrote is worth reading. Heinlein can be a little derivative if you read a lot of his work.
>Orson Card
Nearly all his sci fi / fantasy is ok, he has some historical shit and Mormon shit that I couldn't get through. His early works are better, some of his newer work lacks soul. I listened to some presentation of his talking about how he's so much better now and how he is perfecting the art of fiction. So much bullshit.
>Asimov, Arthur Clark
I read most their works, it's not unreadable but I didn't think most was quite worthy of the hype.

I would recommend Ursula Le Guin, she was every bit as good and Clark or Asimov, she gets you in characters heads like Card and that's something I rather like.
L. Ron Hubbard is boycotted on principle.

Some decent science fantasy series I would recommend are Dune and John Carter.

In no particular order:
More than Human
Triton
Dying Inside
Stars my Destination
This Immortal
Star Maker
Voyage to Arcturus
Beyond Apollo
Sirens of Titan
Some PKD probably (Scanner Darkly is a fine pick)

An objective list would look something like this
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Time Machine
2001
Clockwork Orange
A Princess of Mars
A Voyage to Arcturus
Neuromancer
Three Body Problem
If Heinlein is on the list, it's Strangers in a Strange Land

>>19487814

>>19487831
post yours

>>19487397
>Zelazny
>Delany
I've been thinking about getting into them. Are they really worth getting into?

>>19487888
Yes. Nice trips

Children of Time is my favorite I've read in recent years

>>19487814
>An objective list would look something like this
Not a horrible list, but 2001? Seriously?
It's really not that good or ground breaking as far as scifi goes
A Space odyssey has been done better elsewhere (Foundation and Earth)
First contact stories have been done better (the forever war, the mote in God's eye)
I read it recently and I really don't get the hype for it. The film is well made of course but the plot is nothing special as is the book

My list would look more like
>The Caves of Steel (3 laws of robotics being a huge thing to come out of it and the other robot books)
>Fahrenheit 451/1984/Brave New World (pick one, although all are dystopia classics)
>Starship Troopers (basically created the military scifi genre which is huge now)
>the time machine
>Frankenstein
>I am legend (has had 4 film adaptations, many imitators and it's message about generational divides in humanity make it more than just a survival story)
There's others that can be added but these are all big ones

>>19489022
I keep meaning to read this. Is it really that good

>>19489059
Oh absolutely. Going to read the sequel once I'm not so busy

It's been a while since the last time I've read sci-fi, but my favorite are:

Solaris
Roadside Picnic
Neuromancer
Do androids dream of electric sheeps?
Burning Chrome
Frankestein
The city and the stars
Songs from a distant earth
Hyperion
Fall of Hyperion

>>19489268
Also Scanner Darkly, it might be even better than "Do androids..."

>>19489022
Children of Time was pretty good and I'm reading the sequel now.

My favourite of all time though is Book of the New Sun (counting as one book)

>>19489268
>The city and the stars
Liked this one but the ending was a bit of a let down.

>>19489268
>Neuromancer
Gibson's prose is evocative, but otherwise I don't understand the praise

>>19489057
>Not a horrible list, but 2001? Seriously?
I think the list is based off of popularity, sort of like how Bob Dylan and The Beatles are #1 on every music list despite Leonard Cohen, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, and Bowie being better than them, to name a few.
>Hyperion
>Dune
>Book of the New Sun
>A Canticle for Leibowitz
>Schild's Ladder
>The City & the City
>Snow Crash
>Cloud Atlas
>Jurassic Park
>Valis
It would be more interesting to list the top ten sci-fi from the 2000s/10s/20s

>all these plebs

Non-pleb list:
Stations of the Tide
Startide Rising
A Deepness in the Sky
The Algebraist
Cyteen
Anathema
Count to a Trillion
The Hitchhiker's Guide

Honorable mentions to Pat Cadogan, Charles Stross, Peter Watts, and Ted Chiang

>>19490359
reddit

>>19490359
*Anathem
Fook ac

>>19490364
?

>>19490385
reddit

>>19490304
>sci-fi from the 2000s/10s/20s
>interesting

Any list without Douglas Adams on it is a fake list

>>19491654
>>19490390

>>19491665
Only midwit pseuds think Douglas Adams is Reddit

>>19491669
Sheckley did everything Douglas Adams did, he did it better, and he did it first.

>>19487814
2001 belongs on a sci-fi top 10... when it comes to films. The book by itself isn't very significant. Put Lem and the Strugatskys in there

Roadside Picnic is the most overrated piece of shit I ever read
>MC is a retard who gets by mostly on luck
>Daughter is a literal monkey
>Authors obviously know nothing about science and philosophy, but they hope the readers don't notice

Movie was leagues better and had some actual philosophy in it

>>19491841
filtered

>>19491684

>>19489108
The sequel doesn't really live up to the first one but it's ok I guess.

>no Slaughterhouse 5
Does /lit/ not like Vonnegut?

>>19490359
Anathem is a great book.

>>19494308
so it goes

>>19490359
> A Deepness in the Sky
Did you mean A Fire Upon the Deep?

>>19487042
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
Nightside the Long Sun
Lake of the Long Sun
Caldé of the Long Sun
Exodus from the Long Sun
On Blues Waters
In Greens Jungles
Return to the Whorl

Honourable mention: Dying Earth

Only thing not mentioned somewhere in this thread that should be, and that I can think of off the top of my head, is Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.

>>19489268
what have you been reading?

>>19487042
My favorites are A Fire Upon The Deep and Neuromancer

>>19487375
>Heinlein, Neal Stephenson
>Nearly everything these two wrote is worth reading

Most Stephenson is total fucking wankery. Never felt like a novelist has wasted my time with their writing more than this guy. The guy should have stopped with Snow Crash.

>Ursula Le Guin, she was every bit as good and Clark or Asimov,
This is true though.

>>19489268
>>19490304
>Hyperion
I just finished it a few weeks ago and I'm kind of surprised to see it in 2 lists here. I liked it, but it definitely didnt make any lasting impact on me

Tuf voyaging
Stranger in a strange land
Starship troopers
Three body problem
Foundation
A scanner darkly
The left hand of darkness
Dune
2001
Enders game

1. The Invasion
2. The Visitor
3. The Encounter
4. The Message
5. The Predator
6. The Capture
7. The Stranger
8. The Andalite's Gift
9. The Alien
10. The Secret

>>19487042
The Time Machine
The End of Eternity
The Stars My Destination
Dune
Lord of Light
Neuromancer
Canticle for Leibowitz
The Forever War
Book of the New Sun
Enders Game

Any books like this?

>>19487074
Sci Fi before the computer age isn't sci fi it's an anachronism

Anyone read it ?
https://www.tor.com/2021/12/01/book-reviews-termination-shock-by-neal-stephenson/#more-671533

>>19498114
Horrific take

>>19487074
>neuromancer
jesus christ man...

>>19498114
I do feel that Sci Fi lit got a whole lot better after Star Wars came out

>>19494702
>Did you mean A Fire Upon the Deep?

What? No. AFUD is trash.

>>19498171
no

>>19497944
Ellimist Chronicles was GOAT

>>19487042
Selected by extra terrestials by william tompkins
space relations a slightly gothic interplanetary tale


the best sci fi books are those that aren't intended to be