/lit/ - Literature

I like Aldiss, he shoots out ideas like a machine gun and Hothouse was my first major literary masturbation session

>>3859230
I love frank Herbert. i only just started reading foundation be Asimov, but Herbert still better. i really enjoyed the first ring world novel so i must mention Larry Niven

OP here

Got to be Heinlein for me. I was fortunate enough to read Stranger in a Strange Land before Starship Troopers so I got a more proper introduction to him. Can't say enough about the guy, his Future Histories are excellent, as well as all the Lazarus Long tales.

Does this board have issue with sci-fi?

Asimov.

His descriptions of places and characters are so thin, yet I still see the places and people he wrote of years and years later.

When I go back and reread his earlier work for method pointers I'm often flabbergasted with how simple and straightforward it all is, and for all that I still see it all.

It's like reading an effective, and freakishly abridged Tolkien.

I like them all.
Simmons, Card, Clarke, Asimov,
All of them except Heinlein.

(tried Hamilton and Gibson too but those were just terrible)

philip k dick only

>>3859230
Every single one of those authors is shit. Why is /lit/ so pleb when it comes to science fiction?

>>3860452
No, as long as you're not a tard about it. Same thing with fantasy.

E. E. "Doc" Smith.

Fuck yeah, lensmen.

>>3860496
>mfw trying to read neuromancer

>>3860526
Who do you like then?

OP - read more science fiction.

>Asimov
I got The Tyrannosaurs Prescription the other weekend for a dollar.
Being Asimov, good goes without saying, but what should I expect?

Call me a pleb but I really enjoy Greg Bear. I used to play Halo and I read the books as a teenager, and someone recommended that I read the Forerunner saga. It was actually quite good IMO.

>>3861329
sooooo dated. Almost painful to read now, along with Van Vogt.

Guys, is this one book or several? Considering buying pic related.

>>3859230
Ursula LeGuin

Another good golden age writer was Theodore Sturgeon, who could actually write good distinct characters with some emotional depth. Clifford Simak also holds up well after all this time.

I am pretty close to finish Neuromancer by Gibson and I love it.

>>3862529
first book of a series but complete on its own. Opinions about the series vary but personally I found each one a bit more turgid and less interesting than the last.

>>3862546
Have you read Left Hand of Darkness? Is it worth reading? I've had it on my kindle for months now, but I can never get past the opening chapter.

>>3862529
Read the first, maybe the second. Only read the rest if you're really, really into it.

>>3862529

The first one and God Emperor were great.

>>3862871
yeah, it's good if you like Ursula LeGuin's social fiction in general. The EarthSea and Powers trilogies are more accessible, and the Disposessed is deeper.

I've read and liked Dick's Man in the High Castle and Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, I've also read DADoES and didn't think much of it, should I read Ubik or Valis next? Any other Dick recommendations would be appreciated.

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, a shame so few know about it. The original progenitor to Cyberpunk in both the cyber and the punk terms.