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Need a good recommendation on good sci-fi. Similar to Asimov.

>> No.3456388

alfred bester

>> No.3456696

I want Asimov style sideburns

>> No.3456759

L. Ron Hubbard wrote in a similarly straightforward style, and his plots were similarly pulp-influenced with Golden Age sophistication. Hubbard, like Asimov, also stands as among the world’s most enduring and widely read authors of popular fiction.

>> No.3456818

Hubbard's work isn't nearly as scientific as I'd like. I'll check out Bester though. Thanks.

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Asimov had this kind of slow, plodding style... you will never see an Asimov protagonist punch another guy out or say "fuck". they're too polite. now, Jack Vance's characters are polite as fuck, but they fuck each other over all the time. with big smiles on their faces.

okay. Jack Vance's "Planet of Adventure" series (the Tschai books)... an earth spaceship checking out signals from an alien planet is shot down, only one guy survives and he has to deal with four different races of aliens who live on that planet, as well as their imported human slaves, before he can steal a ship and get back to earth.

better than asimov, in my arrogant opinion.

>> No.3458389

>>3458383
tales of a dying earth in excellent

>> No.3459970

>>3458383
>or say fuck
I'm pretty sure there's a character in Foundation who's every other word is [EXPLETIVE].

>> No.3459972

>>3456353
I just finished reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Its pretty good, and as a huge fan of Asimov I recommend it.

>> No.3460008

>>3459970
In fiction written for the pulp market in the early/mid 1940s? Don't think so, no.

>> No.3460510

>>3459970

[citation needed]

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>>3459972
Hyperion was a great book. the guy has a hardon for Wordsworth, but that's okay.

the three books that followed it were.. okay... (the evil cybrid Radamanth Nemes is an obvious shout-out to Jack Vance, from her description).. but... man. Simmons makes his characters jump through so many hoops, just to get that one time-travel joke in.

the number of times Aenea tells Raul "just do this. don't ask questions, just DO IT"... and he DOES. it goes beyond trust and into obsessive insanity.

"Here. get into this canoe, sail it down the river through the farcasters. yes, it'll take you to another planet. don't ask where, or what you're supposed to do when you get there. GO." and he does. wow.

i think it suffered little from progressive escalation, in that the Shrike was a fucking Bad Ass in the first book, but by book four was actually on the verge of losing a fight now and then.

>> No.3460550

>>3458389

it is. "Chun the Unavoidable", heh heh. but it's fantasy, and some science fiction fans look down on it.

"the Eyes of the Overworld" is just BEGGING to be made into a film. Rowan Atkinson as Cugel and Ian Holm as Iucounu.

Cugel is such an opportunistic shit, you have to admire him.