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Hello, /lit/. I recently been wanting to write a space exploration story, but I need some more inspiration. Any good stories you might want to recommend me reading? I'm looking for sci-fi. Thank you.

>> No.3117781

Heya, just a suggestion; /tg/ has quite a bit of inspiration to be harvested.
>>>/tg/
Just another source of information for you, fellow writer.
Warhammer is a pretty good for space-y things.

>> No.3117794

>>3117781

Thanks. I'll look into it.

>> No.3117900

>>3117775
I don't read a huge amount of sci-fi but I really liked a book called 'The Forever War' by Joe Halderman. Lots of really interesting ideas in that one.

>> No.3117907

How do you get inspiration for writing?

How do you start writing? I never know where to start. I get a idea in my head then I get overwhelmed and never start anything

>> No.3117917

>Alastair Reynolds
>Hannu Rajaniemi
>Iain M Banks
>Charles Stross

All of these are famous, good scifi writers who involve space.

>> No.3117921

>>3117907

Well, I sit in my bed, hear some drum and bass (Closest thing that I can get into a wild ride in space.), look at some art most of the times and when I get an idea, I scribble down notes. Eventually, when I feel like it (Usually during the later hours at night.), I start to write. However, I haven't finished any story I've attempted to write, though.

>> No.3117924

>>3117900
>>3117917

Thank you for your suggestions, I'll start reading in a bit.

>> No.3117929

>>3117921

but where do you start? Do you get an idea then outline it or do you just come up with some scene and just write?

>> No.3117939

>>3117929

Well, I usually get a interesting idea that makes me think and I start to build from there, adding more links to it, more details.

Like the android from Prometheus said; "Big things have small beginnings."

I recall writing a short story for my English class one time that the idea came from a picture that I saw a while back. It was a really old galaxy, and I was curious about it, so I imagined; "What would happen if we went there?" So I made a story just about that, space travelling across the universe to land in that galaxy.

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>>3117775
Anything by John Scalzi, he's a pretty good writer.
The Bolo Series by Keith Laumer.
Alan Dean Foster's Damned trilogy is okay, nothing super special.
HFY threads on /tg/
Dune series
Armor
The Honor Harrington Series

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>>3118039
Also Warhammer 40K, if you're into that kind of thing. If you want to start reading 40K I'd suggest the Ciaphus Cain Novels.

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>>3118048
Robert Beutner's Orphanage series is good for about two books as well.