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5845495

Anonymous Thu Dec 11 00:04:54 2014 No.5845495 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any good science fiction books, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 00:07:54 2014 No.5845507 Yes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 00:11:38 2014 No.5845523 H.G. Wells, Asimov

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 00:21:04 2014 No.5845546 Also Lem, Delany, Le Guin

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 00:24:05 2014 No.5845552 >>5845523 >>5845546 I should clarify, sorry. Those have literary merit; I meant real science fiction - stuff with aliens and blaster guns and big-titted ladies with bug-eyed monsters on the front.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 00:47:29 2014 No.5845609 >>5845552 >Literary merit Meaningless term.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 13:49:44 2014 No.5847316 Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 13:52:42 2014 No.5847327 >>5845552 I am Anon Prime. The Doom Magnetic Trilogy is awesome.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 18:35:39 2014 No.5848582 >>5845552 Go read Peter F. Hamilton, he writes in the tradition of pulp space opera and is bretty gud at it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 21:46:11 2014 No.5849341 File: 53 KB, 321x500, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5845495 Everything in the SF Masterworks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 21:48:13 2014 No.5849348 >>5845495 Alfred Bester: case closed. /thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 22:05:54 2014 No.5849424 >>5845495 Does Frankenstein count as science fiction?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 22:25:05 2014 No.5849486 >>5849424 Not OP, but yes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 11 22:26:14 2014 No.5849489 the fucking sticky.