/lit/ - Literature

>>6979138
You love the way an unwashed, uncircumcised, smegma-encrusted cock tastes.

>>6979145
>>6979151
I liked Cat's Cradle best.

No I don't support free love

>>6979180
22 yo white male who dropped out of college and works at Target. Tries super hard to get girls, and, while not a virgin, might as well be one considering he has only had sex twice.

>>6979151
you don't actually like science fiction

>>6979200
Pretty far off

>>6979163
That was actually my favorite as well, although I thought Sirens was much more of a scifi novel.
Breakfast of Champions is another favorite of mine but that one isn't much of a scifi novel either.
Gallapagos is my least favorite. I picked up Deadeye Dick recently, plan on reading it after I finish White Noise.

>>6979204
Well, I tried.

>>6979203
You got me there.

>>6979138
My favourite science fiction too, OP. We might along, although I'm not a sexual deviant in any way.

brave new world

>>6979219
This was mine until I read Dhalgren.

>>6979214
I fucking love it, I read the entire book in like 3 days when I first got my hands on it, it stands out so much, it's in my top five favorite books.

>>6979219
>>6979151
I think you're both underage or manchildren.

You'll prob deny it though.

>>6979233
scifi is a manchild genre in general.

>>6979219
You're the kind of person who would wear a fedora if 4chan didn't tell you not to.

>>6979233
I've read maybe 5 sci-fi novels in total and that was the one that I kept coming back to.
Science fiction in general seems too preoccupied with escapism and painstaking detail in my experience. I wish I knew more sci fi that was really on that /lit/ level instead of simple /book/

>>6979252
pleb manchild

Atwood - Blind Assassin

>>6979255
harsh dude

>>6979138

Pedophile STEM-major manchild.

>>6979266
I'm a somewhat bisexual (leaning hetero) nappy haired, 20 year old Math and English double major.

>>6979271

Bullseye.
It's not too late to renounce your pleb degenerate lifestyle.

>>6979138
warriors of the silence

>>6979275
I'm neither a pedophile nor a manchild.

I DO use a lot of drugs and drink a lot, but that's just because it's fun and I joined a fraternity, and I'll stop that shit after college, I don't really get into it heavily during the summers.

Nigga my "pleb lifestyle" is surely more interesting than whatever bullshit your pale skinned ass does. Fuck outta here.

>>6979287
How can you be sure his ass has been skinned, oh great homo?

>>6979271

le bi face XD

>>6979138
This looks super interesting. Think I'm going to order it.

>>6979317
It's a great book, it flies under the radar because it polarized science fiction readers and it's not exactly an easy read.

>>6979302
What are you memeing about?

>>6979532
Just ordered it. How are his other works?

>>6979260

>>6979138
Halfway through Dhalgren right now and while I'm enjoying it, it's not blowing me away like pic related. I think its reputation for difficulty made me expect something different, it seems to be more like the ambiguities of Book of the New Sun.

>>6979574
His early works are post-apocalyptic science fantasy (never read any of them).

Empire Star is a fun science fiction novella, it's a bildungsroman and one of the major themes is perception (like Dhalgren).

Babel-17 is about a SF war that revolves around language, which is interesting, and Nova has been viewed as a precursor to the cyberpunk genre.

I haven't read anything else but his bibliography seems very strong, Dhalgren came after he stopped publishing for a bit and moved into more serious, experimental prose.

>>6979138
plz dont bully

Alright

>>6979251
>"Anarcho-Communism is the best form of human society"
>"How do you get around obvious crippling problems X, Y, and Z?"
>" It just works."

Frankenstein
Solaris
The Dispossessed
Three Stigmata
Roadside picnic

>>6979180
you're gay

>>6979200
you like feet

>>6979608
you like being cucked

>>6979200
god fuck that book, I was so hyped to read it and isaac disappointed so hard

>>6979138
I'm almost done this and I'm loving every page. I'm straight, white and slightly conservative, but lots of intertextuality makes for a great read. I plan on writing and publishing an article on it in the near future. Lots of stuff in this book, and a surprising lack of work published on it.

>>6979660
Way to ignore the thread's purpose.

In the book, there problems are that they have a primitive planet with very little resources. They over come most of their problems because they're a mature enough civilization to get along.

>>6979765
Are you saying he wrote action filled adventures at some point?

>>6979776
also Canticle for Leibowitz- curious to hear what lit thinks of this one. I don't come here enough to see it discussed ever

>>6979782
I'll be honest, all the Asimov I've read consists of one of his short stories as well as the first foundation book. I just didn't enjoy it very much: I found the prose awkward, the story disjointed and the science a bit sketchy, even from a layman's perspective (that said, it was written circa 1950)

I didn't enjoy it very much, but I recognize that he's a hugely influential author. Can you recommend anything by him for a slightly more than casual sci fi reader?

>>6979801
Was graduating middle school stressful for you?

>>6979825
I actually just don't read sci fi, that's what you were supposed to figure out

>>6979825
Was graduating high school stressful for you?

>>6979825
>reads scifi
>thinks he's better than somebody else
Saw this from the front page, I came here to laugh at you. So I laugh. Ha! Haha! Hahaha! Ha!

>>6979848
A little bit actually. Do you wanna talk about it with me?

>>6979765
you were supposed to be 12 when you read it

why's the whole thread fantasy and sci-fi?

anyway, >>6979639 has good taste. everyone else, step it up.

>>6979714
> you like feet

lol, nailed it.

got loaned this by a prof back in my early days of college, really blew me away at the time. I haven't revisited it since but I remember liking it a lot

>people who read pulpy manchild genre fiction calling other people "plebs"

This thread is fucking hilarious.

>>6979252
Lol there's another cover, newer edition of SF masterworks

>>6979874
>Not browsing in catalog view
>Dares to even fucking speak

Behead this pleb

>>6979252
It's such an amazing book. Unlike much of Wolfe's work, it's still firmly rooted in its genre tradition, but the way he morphs and twists said tradition is just breathtaking.

>>6979825
Listens to power metal.

i liked the sequels

>>6980269
go back to /mu/ you basic bitch.

>>6980335
>m-muh sci-fi

Fucking nerd.

I'm gonna read assemblers of infinity, is it a good read?

Based on book, and we are finally getting official translations, so it counts.

>>6979783
Think it's well liked here. I thought it was great

>>6979782
So they solved the economic calculation problem?

no bully

the most fun I've had with any sci-fi

>>6980333

It's also one of my favorites and I also prefer the sequels, so clearly you must be very awesome

>>6979796
not her obviously but maybe check out the robot short stories.
I read Foundation when I was 18 and I loved it. You have to suspend disbelief for it to work though.

Asimov might not be the scifi writer for you.

Can't say it's my all-time favorite, but really wanted to post something that is not more than 20 years old.

Still pretty good.

>>6981168
I get that sense. It's a bit sad though, because I feel like I've been spoiled by the space operas of his literary offspring (Vinge, Simmons, etc), and now I can't enjoy the original stuff.

I remember Foundation really aggravated me because it would discuss civilizations that had lost the understanding of nuclear power, and then in the next page said civilization would be shown traveling through interstellar space.

Stuff like that is just a stumbling block, even if one (like myself) only has the most basic understanding of science. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief only to the point where the technology gets so advanced that it doesn't actually exist for me to understand it in the first place.

>I'd buy Farcaster portals, but trip over non-nuclear space faring societies

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (and the rest of the Riverworld series)

>>6979783
I was told to read that book by a neckbeard friend of mine because it was pro-catholic and interesting plot

When I went to the bookstore to get it the guy ringing me up basically jizzed his pants and told me how his dad had a first edition signed by the author or whatever. He then wrote down a whole bunch of sci-fi novels I should read by the likes of Heinlein, Herbert, and Gene Wolf

Never got around to reading them though...

>>6981219
If stuff like that was a stumbling block, you didn't understand the premise very well.

>>6979145
I love the Sirens of Titan.

Also pic related is excellent.
>inb4 GRRM is trash

>>6979287
>Pale ass

Sure showed him my nigga

>>6979287
>bisexual
>fraternity

I was going to call you a douche for joining a frat, but now I think you're really smart.
Good luck getting some hetero ass.

>>6981389
What do you mean?

>>6980333
this is the correct answer

pls r8

>>6983271
Pretty good. Star Maker is also a fine read.

Lem - Solaris

R8

>>6981377
Not my favorite, but I loved reading this for the first time a few weeks ago.

Gravity's Rainbow

Also the best book of all time

>>6980680
It's a good show but god damn if its fans don't come crawling out of the woodwork if anybody mentions something related to space.

Barely read any sci-fi so excuse me for being entry level

>>6983888
10/10

>>6979138

>>6984471

I have read 221 Sci-Fi books and this is my favourite too

>>6980333
Came here to post this and maybe Hyperion Falls.

Fuck Endymion, though.

>>6981170
>that cover
It's like they didn't want to spend much money on it, so they just traced something out of: "How to Draw Anime: Book One."

>>6984429
Jokes aside, it wasn't scifi because the technology in it was mostly real (except for some obvious exceptions like Impolex-G and Byron).

>>6979138
nah

>>6979138
Four-way tie between Solaris, The Book of the New Sun, Aniara, and A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Actually, nah, it's The Book of the New Sun.

For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny

http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

>>6979868
What was the purpose of Tehanu?

>>6984956
What didn't you like about endymion?

>>6981204
You love Arnold schwarzenegger movies.

I love this book so much

>>6981204
>>6986513
>le patricians can't enjoy an everyman protag you proles

>>6986576
Hey, it's my favorite book. Also, I love Arnold schwarzenegger movies.

>>6985075
You like fucking little boys up the ass.

>>6986682
No you

Pretty much anything by Reynolds is 10/10 for me.

>>6985075
you refused to use the showers in middle school

>>6986570
you think inception makes sense and have timecop on both vhs and dvd

>>6987100
you believe in atlantis

>>6984915
>>6979783
your favorite past time is sealing technical manuals in airtight crates and burying them near marked megaliths

>>6981377
you browse /k/ and have over 1200 armor piercing bullets buried under your porch

>>6981204
you're a career criminal

>>6980935
you were ruthlessly bullied in high school

>>6979825
you subscribe to the economist but never actually read it

>>6979624
you masturbate to short hair/andro girl threads on /s/

>>6987151
I DID refuse to use the showers in middle school! How'd you come to that conclusion?

I'm posting this mostly because I like this cover a lot and want to look at it

sci-fi is legitimately for high schoolers

>>6987414
Calm down Sasha Grey, there are tons of toilets for you to lick yet.

>>6987414
Broad, sweeping generalizations are trademarks of the adolescent mind

>>6987425
>>6987428
>these rebuttals
>reading sci-fi
>still virgins

>>>/reddit/

>>6987431
>If I post a frog, it means I win!

>>6987431
>responding that fast
You just came here for this didn't you

>>6987435

>>6987445
I have to admit I laughed at this when the text came up.

This was fun, anon. Maybe one day soon I'll come into one of your threads and act like a retard for attention too.

>>6987452
I can't wait :^)

>>6979796
>I found the prose awkward

I thought the dialog he had written for the characters was very odd, like they were being overly formal pricks all the time. Maybe that's just how people talked back then but it feels odd reading it in 2015.

>>6979825
Leftist, Luddite, pro-Islam, pro-terrorism

>>6987411
I was pretty surprised at the lack of PKD in this thread, but Im assuming both you (like me) want to read more science fiction but don't want to embrace a big series, so you "stick to dick" for entertaining leaps between genre lit.

I was going to pick up Solaris, anyone here read it? Would recommend?

>>6979138
nah

>>6987716
not who you responded too, but that's my favorite PKD book and a spot on description of what kind of sci-fi fan I am

>>6987716
solaris was incredible

>>6979138

>>6985075
You graduated from a California high school.
>>6980954
You're a STEM major, most likely comp-sci. You browse /g/ also.
>>6979825
You also thought Star Wars was the best movie of all time. You've seen it at least three times.
>>6979200
You're controlling in a relationship.
>>6988757
You are easily aroused.

Canticle! and The Road!

This tied with A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Not Catholic btw.

>>6988872
You took welding classes so you could learn how to put metal bits on your hockey gear. Sometimes you wander outside with your armor on and pretend you're hunting for food while the apocalypse mutants are asleep.

>>6988941
Your parents were neglectful, leaving you to develop something approaching schizoid disorder. You will never confirm whether you are mentally ill because you don't trust mental health professionals. Also, you killed a girl with a blowtorch once.

>>6987181
pun loving pervert

eDun

>>6989379
you saw your daddy doing cocaine out of a hooker's asshole when you were three, and he told you it was magic dust that would let daddy do better at his job, and you believed him

>>6989469
; £;; how do you know dis~

>>6989055

Top kek m8

Speaking of sci-fi, any good recommendation? I want to visit otherworldly planets and feel like I've taken drugs.

Ayn rand - anthema

>>6989576
>L, we know from the anime your baits suck.

>>6979252
The real question is why those covers are mostly terrible. Although top left is acceptable for its classic sci-fi look.

>>6988941
>and other stories and other stories
Damn, I'm intrigued.

>>6989660

The first story in the collection is called "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories"

Clever huh? That story is part of his Archipelago series. Another one in that collection is called "The Death of Doctor Island"

Bite me.

>>6979138

>>6979244
You like mathematics.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - The Doomed City

I can't find a picture of the English version, is this not published anymore?

>>6989751
Ah, I guess there is no English translation.

>>6989722
repressed homo

>>6989764
>liking wrestling

>>6979138
Your favourite song is by the village people.
Your favourite food is cock.

>>6979783
Love this book.

>>6988765
Sol Weintraub's and Consul's stories

>>6979138

Nobody knows my joy.

Lord of light by zelazny

>>6979868

To set up the The Other Wind, and be completely pointless otherwise, unfortunately.

>>6985135

this >>6990526
was meant to reply

>>6990486
You are obviously courteous to women, children, and the elderly, a secret philanthropist, and a very fashionable gentleman.

>>6990477
I did not like this book, it wasn't bad compared to the mountains of literature that exist though. I think I just had higher expectations

Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds.

>>6990477
oh also uhh, really wants to be into literature but feels like they're not fully into literature. Expect big things in your future.

pic related. Based Chalker so underrated.

Is Heinlein considered /pol/?Also is one supposed to take this at face value?Because I totally do.

>>6992395
yeah he's like the inventor of Libertarian terminology.

>>6989732
Nice guess

>>6993096
you like to tuck your penis between your legs and dance around in front of the mirror

>>6992395
you believe hitler did nothing wrong

>>6987716
I've been wanting to read Solaris but the only available editions I've found have George Clooney on them.

>>6993112
Who doesn't?

x2

>>6990454
Does this image imply a positive or negative reaction? I thought those two stories were pretty strong

>>6993256
Ian McKellen hated filming The Hobbit movies because of the horrible conditions he had to work under. The image is probably meant to show people some of what he had to deal with.

>>6989606
this nigga

>>6989606
You were legitimately upset when Christopher Lee died.

Harlan Ellison- Strange Candy

>>6989631
Top left is good. I also like the second one from the right on the bottom row with all the orange, but maybe that's because it's the one I read. It's pretty but the quote and title are a bit big and cluttering.

>>6983865
>I loved Dhalgren and own the Complete Kake Comics by Tom of Finland

>>6993256
its supposed to be a feels image, he breaks down in tears.

>>6979251
> She's a fat female with no tits

>>6979138

>>6995033
you're a bitter manlet

>>7000196
you have a lego town in your basement and pretend you are their god and regularly devise cruel punishments for your populace

The Man in the High Castle - PKD