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What does /lit/ think of science fiction? Currently I'm reading the second book in the "Altered Carbon" series: Broken Angels.

I'm trying to write a short story, I've got a few ideas, but what does /lit/ think I should have in it?

>> No.1005163

>what does /lit/ think I should have in it?

Words. Preferably in a coherent string of syntactically correct sentences.

>> No.1005164

No way! I'm reading "Altered Carbon" too!

Well, more finally finishing it. A friend of mine is letting me borrow it and I've been taking some time off from writing. Finally have a chance to finish it without worrying about fucking up my prose and sounding like another author.

What part are you up to?

I just started part 4 tonight.

>> No.1006429

>>1005164
part 4? I finished Altered Carbon, and Woken Furies, which are 1 and 3. I have yet to finish 2.
>>1005163
durp derp derp hurr durr

>> No.1006435

you should put in some planets and space captains and a few robots and some sweet outerspace battles BRRRRREWWW PEW PEW PEW FUCK YEAH SPAAAAAAACE

>> No.1006441

>>1006435
fuck yeeeah, pew pew pew

>> No.1006445

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SciFiGhetto

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1006462

pew pew jetpacks.
sci-fi ftw

>> No.1006489

I didn't like Altered Carbon. I don't remember the protagonist's name but I felt like his solution to every problem was to shoot it in the face. I went in expecting a sci-fi detective story and I ended up with a lot of people getting shot. Over and over again.

>> No.1006502

>>1006445
I don't believe in the lies of TV Tropes. It's the Lady Gaga of Wikis. It sucks you in, you can't get out and you forcefully begin to like it against your will.

>> No.1006505

>>1006489
and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

But honestly I did like it because of that.

>> No.1006512

>>1006489

I went in expecting an ultraviolent gorefest with writing that had been widely lauded and I must say, I was not in the least disappointed. What reviews did you read?

>> No.1006517

>>1006512

i try not to read reviews. a friend said it was like the Joe Pitt casebooks, but set in space. He was wrong.

>> No.1006539

>>1006489
>Takeshi Kovacs
>solution to every problem is to shoot it in the face
Pretty much, yeah. Setting was pretty neat-o though, which seems to be the way a lot of Morgan's novels work: awesome setting, risible story and characters. Market Forces was cool if you didn't take it too seriously (Conflict Investment was a sweet idea, I'm surprised that it isn't an actual field, but the justification for the world-wide Mad Max fetish was retardedly flimsy).