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Atlas Shrugged

>>4592004

That was some good pasta
>it reminded me of "the gift"
>>the one with the aliens that used the relativistic bomb to blow up earth because they thought we were a threat, but then it was too late to call it back because we'd suddenly become enlightened, but then after the bomb hit we went all nuts for revenge and sent an armada of starships to eat them all

Man, that was a great pasta.
>Anyway your post is like the opposite of Contact by Carl Sagan
>>I got nothing to suggest
Someone needs to write a novel like this, holy shit.

Good pasta here. Got 4 more.

>>4592042

Someone wrote a novel quite like that. Pic-related.

>haters gonna hate, but honestly, it's a great novel

>>4592052

>>4592066

>>4592072

Are there aliens in there? There's a whole lot more family drama than anyone says, though. Gnosticism in California is 90% of the rest.

Still one of my favourite military sci-fi.

>>4592059
eh...

>It's not as grimdark as OP is talking about
But yeah, I second that, and yeah, haters gonna hate, Ender's games was awesome

>>4592086

Agreed it's not that dark, although one could argue.

Childhood's End has many original ideas and can be pretty fucking grim. Sure is nigh mystical.

Need more First Contact stories.

>benevolent faggoty aliens who first seem mean and then turn out to be space hippies with hive mind need not apply

>fucking hate this shit

>>4592086

It's quite dark actually. Card based the war stuff on letters from the Civil War and his knowledge of US military (without going the Kubrick way and shitting all over it and the people in the army).

Much like Catcher in the Rye, don't be fooled by children being main characters: it was written by an adult for an adult audience. You don't win Hugos and Nebulas with kid lit. Think Battle Royale.

>>4592078
that laser was sent by aliens

>>4592116

I forget. Do you know about the Black Knight Satellite?

You should look into it.

>>4592105
I can see that, especially how ENDER FUCKING MERKS THE ENTIRE SPECIES OF THE BUGS LIKE WOW HOLY SHIT NIGGA CALM DOWN, AND THEN LATER HE HAS TO DEAL WITH THE ENTIRE MURDER OF A CIVILIZATION FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE AND HE'S ONLY A LITTLE TINY CHILD FUCK

I can also kinda see it in that sort of philosophy about dealing with enemies that Ender has
>those boys who try to jump him
>>he fucking breaks that one kids arm like a boss
and then later
>>>when that little guy taco tries to do an American History X rape in the bathroom and Ender just fucking kills the shit out of him
>damn ender calm down

Yeah, I agree, Ender's Game is where it's at.
>Although I never understood the appeal of Speaker for the dead

>>4592123
I read on /x] that it's actually just a space blanket
>of course that's exactly what the Anunaki want you to think

>>4592137

I read Speaker recently; it's very different. I was very much into the xenobiology stuff, but I have to say some plotpoints didn't convince me and feel like loose ends.

Should I keep reading these books or does it get really bad after those two?

>>4591981
Pic related. Falls apart a bit near the end though.

>>4592137
I actually enjoyed Speaker more than Ender's Game.
Considering some of Card's controversial views, I was pleasantly surprised by the realistic portrayals of religious and non-religious characters and how they ultimately realise they have more things in common than conflicts.

Not to mention the inclusion of different new forms of life. I just wish they would have explored the Rachni...I mean Buggers culture a bit more.

Ah well, I'm only just starting with Xenocide. Plenty more to look forward to.

>>4592158

Interesting. Is this a novel?

What about Roadside Picnic?

>>4592147
Xenocide was decent. Everything from children of the mind onward is horseshit

>mfw bean turns into a giant

>>4592168

Tempted to read your spoiler. I may get Xenocide then.

>>4592167
Yes

>Aliens visit earth, instead of wanting to destroy earth/take us to your leader, etc. They want to meet a paleontologist.
>Apparently the great extinctions of earth's history happened simultaneously on two other planets
>Aliens are treating this as evidence of god's existence, and want to look at earth's fossil records.
>Lots of philosophy between Euphoric paleontologist and Alien.

Good read, the author writes some pretty interesting stuff, but all of them suffer near the ending.

>>4592175
Spoiler is from one of the later books (Shadow of the Giant) but the series stopped being worthwhile after xenocide.

>>4592052
>The human race is a special and awesome unique snowflake

yawn

>>4592179

I can imagine tying such an ending together must be complicated. I'm fucking sold though, will order this novel right away.

Thank you, based anon.

>>4592186

>>4592052
I liked this a lot, much better than I'd expect from a 4chan pasta. Was there ever any more / an explanation of why the weapons didn't work on the human?

>>4592190
Yeah, he tends to go for really high concept and then spend too much time pontificating instead of resolving it cleanly.
If you end up liking it, I definitely recommend Mindscan, Triggers and Flashfoward (If you watched the lame tv series that got made out of it, its vastly different) by the same author. It's hard to find good Hard SF these days...

>>4592210

Nope. T'is all I got.

http://www.anthropomundus.webs.com/All%20Tomorrows.pdf
This masterpiece.

>ctrl-f
>no Blindsight

More?

Never read it myself, but my old highschool english teacher used to wax ecstatic about Lem's Fiasco

>>4591981
I suggest this one

>>4592165
speaker for the dead was amazing. I thnink all of the four core books were though.
(Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.)