Favorite Sci-Fi Thread

[Anonymous No.11641423]

Post your favorite science fiction books. I'll start.

[Anonymous No.11641425]

yikes

[Anonymous No.11641470]

>>11641425
what's wrong with ender's game?

[Anonymous No.11641479]

>>11641470
it was written by a literal nazi

[Anonymous No.11641485]

>>11641470
it's a wish fulfillment phantasy for pathetic nerds.
(also latent homoeroticism)

[Anonymous No.11641493]

>>11641485
and you should enjoy it - didn't you start with the Greeks ?

>>11641423
Close call between The Forever War and The Inverted World. Anyone knows it ? Other notable novel by Christopher Priest ?

[Anonymous No.11641532]

>>11641479
how? please explain

[Anonymous No.11641540]

>>11641532
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/orson-scott-card-racist-obama_n_3762891.html

[Anonymous No.11641546]

>>11641540
>believing the huffington post

[Anonymous No.11641563]

>>11641479

There's nothing wrong with being a nazi.

[Anonymous No.11641567]

>>11641546
>hurr durr every site that says something true about Drumpf is le fake news ;^)

[Anonymous No.11641573]

>>11641567
okay let's stop this shit before this turns into /pol/

post sci-fi or gtfo

[Anonymous No.11641642]

>>11641479
And Hitler was a great painter. Fuck off, nobody cares.

[Anonymous No.11641791]

Why are there so many bum jokes in the book>>11641423

[Anonymous No.11641829]

>>11641423
Ender's Game is great, but it's really just set up for Speaker for the Dead, which is immensely more powerful and interesting as a novel.

[Anonymous No.11641868]

>>11641470
it's YA

[Anonymous No.11641871]

>>11641567
>huffington post

[Anonymous No.11641880]

>>11641868
what's wrong with YA?

[Anonymous No.11641881]

>>11641567
No but Huff post is

[Anonymous No.11641889]

>>11641880
18+ website, kiddo :)

[Anonymous No.11641922]

My fav sci-fi is either Ubik or Neuromancer. Foundation is also pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.11641925]

>>11641567

[Anonymous No.11641992]

>>11641567
>Drumpf
the only people using drumpf on 4chan unironically are /pol/ falseflaggers, fuck off back to your cesspool

[Anonymous No.11643097]

I love sci-fi, it's the bestest.

[Anonymous No.11643227]

[Anonymous No.11643238]

>>11641992
>telling people you don't like to stop posting
go to /r/books if you want a /pol/ free hugbox

[Anonymous No.11643253]

I know its cringy but I liked it

[Anonymous No.11643274]

>>11643238
Go back to pol if you want to talk about polshit, that's what it's there for

[Anonymous No.11643308]

>>11641470
>>11641479
Idk if he was a "Nazi" but he did donate to pro-family foundations, so he's against faggotry. Which makes me like him even more.

[Anonymous No.11643927]

bump

[Anonymous No.11643956]

>>11643253
I actually hate BZRK. Read it once when I was 15, couldn't follow it. Left it on the shelf for a few years and picked it up again recently to give it another chance. I just can't stand the book.
The concept is cute but the writer does it in such a ham-fisted way that when reading it I felt like the nostalgia of lost youth he tries so hard to shove down the readers' throats took away from whatever semblence of interesting plot there was. The characters were pointless, token, and almost one-dimensional.
and the title was stupid.
and the ending was empty and lazy.

4/10, my brain itches when I think about that book.
Anyway, sorry for shitting on your parade there mate.

[Anonymous No.11643962]

[Anonymous No.11643992]

>>11641423
If anyone posts Fahrenheit 451 I'm going to fucking snap

[Anonymous No.11644011]

this really opened my eyes, I'm never eating books again

[Anonymous No.11644068]

>>11643992
>>11644011
Samefag

[Anonymous No.11644158]

>>11641479
Not a Nazi, just a retard. Happens to all the big (note that I didn't say great) sci-fi authors. Larry Niven advised the federal government to spread rumors that the Feds were harvesting the organs of illegal immigrants, as though that would solve anything.

Pic related, what Card is afraid of.

[Anonymous No.11644194]

>>11644011
This is an oppressive and archaic book, written by a straight white male, and it spawns dangerous and toxic ideas. It ought to be burned for it's overt misogyny, classism and racism.

[Anonymous No.11645384]

>>11641423
>read Ender's Game as a 12-year-old
>whoa cool they're in space and playing like zero gravity laser tag! That's so awesome! Woohoo
>read Ender's game as a 20-year-old
>aw fuck they're child soldiers

[Anonymous No.11645393]

>>11641829
Holy fuck no, Card is not a good enough author to write anything cerebral. Ender's Shadow is ten times better. Speaker for the Dead, in fact that whole series after Ender's Game, is absolute masturbatory trash. Literally muh noble savage but somehow huffs its own farts even harder. There are few books I regret reading, but Speaker for the Dead and its sequels are among them. I wouldn't mind it as much if he had even started approaching writing an interesting story, but he didn't even have the decency to do that.

[Anonymous No.11645394]

>>11643274
>Everything I don't like is /pol/

[Anonymous No.11645405]

>>11645394
funny how so many people think this way. it's not like /pol/ is *the* self-admitted online hive of undesireables today or anything

[Anonymous No.11645416]

>>11645405
I've seen people here on /lit/ call Ben Shapiro "alt-right" in full seriousness. That's so far beyond ignorance to politics and metapolitics today it's not even worth getting into an argument over.

[Anonymous No.11645755]

The spice must flow.

[Anonymous No.11646173]

>>11645384
>read Ender's Game as a 42 year old
>this is a metaphor for state conflict
>read Ender's Game as a 68 year old
>we must prepare for the outside context event immediately

[Anonymous No.11646195]

>>11641423

[Anonymous No.11646298]

[Anonymous No.11646307]

Is Borges considered SciFi? and Pynchon? Depending on your answer it is either Ficciones, Gravity's Rainbow or Solaris

[Anonymous No.11646372]

>>11641423

I know this isn't entirely related but I read Pathfinder by the same author. The first book (actually the first book is called Pathfinder, can't remember the name of the series) was pretty okay, it did leave me wanting to find out more. Second and third books are really fucking shit. Like, I seriously regret spending time reading those. Specially the third book. The ending was horrid and it was like "oh well nothing that has happened really matter! here's some unexpected circumstances for y'all".

I wouldn't read anything by OSC and, even though Ender's Game has so much fame, I don't think that book is good. Or maybe the first one but surely the rest of them are shit.

[Anonymous No.11646473]

>The novel gleefully satirizes Asimov's relatively benign view of how robots would serve humanity, suggesting that the reality would be exactly akin to slavery: robots are worked until they drop and are made the victims of humans' worst appetites, including rape. It also, like Sladek's earlier novel Roderick, mocks the notion of the Three Laws of Robotics and suggests that there is no way such complex moral principles could be hard-wired into any intelligent being; Tik-Tok decides that the "asimov circuits" are in fact a collective delusion, or a form of religion, which robots have been tricked into believing. This liberation from tradition, while it makes him a cruel sociopath and nihilist, also provides him with intellectual insight and artistic talent; thus Tik-Tok is an extreme type of Romantic anti-hero.

I remember reading this in the library, back in the day, and loving it. I was never able to find it after that, even online. But hey, here it is.

[Anonymous No.11646549]

CIXIN
LIU

[Anonymous No.11646711]

Haven't read the sequels tho

[Anonymous No.11646988]

>>11641563
there is a bit, to be fair

[Anonymous No.11646996]

>>11641868
sure... but it came before the YA wave and all the shit that makes YA trash. its just a book where the characters are young teenagers

[Anonymous No.11647002]

>>11641567
huffington post was shit long before Tump was elected

and that page is from 2013 sweetie

[Anonymous No.11647012]

any recommendations for hard sci-fi?
really liked this and rendezvous with rama

[Anonymous No.11647086]

>>11647012
Both excellent books. There are 2 more in the rama series if you havent read them

[Anonymous No.11647089]

Man oh man, all fucking sorts of shit goes down in this bad boy.

[Anonymous No.11647142]

>>11647086
i did, didn't like them

[Anonymous No.11647155]

>>11647142
A fire upon the deep is something i would definitely classify as hard sci-fi. Its hard to even give a general rundown
>>11647086

[Anonymous No.11647438]

>>11646988
for example

[Anonymous No.11647552]

F

[Anonymous No.11647593]

>>11647012
Rendezvous with Rama was pretty good. I liked this one much more tho also by Arthur C Clarke but it is definitely more fantasy sci fi.

[Anonymous No.11647596]

[Anonymous No.11647780]

>>11647593
>Arthur C Clarke
nice, thanks. reminds me i also need to read the 2001 squeals

[Anonymous No.11647853]

>>11641479
And this changes the book how exactly?
You must be a flaming homo

[Anonymous No.11647879]

>>11641470
It predicted the state of new media in an interesting light. Included an iteration of the heavenly twins myth.
Still a pretty mediocre book.

I've yet to read exceptionally good Sci fi so I guess I'd revert to RAMA as my favorite.

>>11641479
Nazi's don't exist anymore

[Anonymous No.11647897]

>>11647853
It's insane how SJW hubris has spread to even 4chan and how pol zoomers provide a perfect strawman for them

I'm [hopping] he was being sarcastic though

[Anonymous No.11647902]

>>11647879
first 3 Foundation books are fantastic same with the 3 Robot novels

[Anonymous No.11647928]

>>11647902
>first 3 Foundation books are fantastic same with the 3 Robot novels
This. Asimov's work is some of the best there is.

[Anonymous No.11648098]

>>11641479
This isn't reddit, are you lost?

[Anonymous No.11649020]

>>11644068
good one mate

[Anonymous No.11649043]

I always liked the honorverse (honor harrington series) best
A nice mix of sci-fi, military elements and political struggle (and the occasional deus ex machina)

[Anonymous No.11649076]

>>11641925
>liberals are the REAL racists!

fuck off, racecuck

[Anonymous No.11649081]

The Foundation Trilogy, the Dune series, anything by Dick.

[Anonymous No.11649110]

>>11641925
>Our g-gun laws are not retarded because we employ niggers and women

Wow America, you are so ahead of everyone else

[Anonymous No.11649120]

>>11641423
Sprawl trilogy
Dont read much scifi though

[Anonymous No.11649140]

[Anonymous No.11649167]

>>11641479

[Anonymous No.11649188]

>>11647089
I must actually come back to it, started it quiet while ago but it got me bored with those wolf like group minded creatures, does it goes back to more sci fi theme or it only further devolves into story of those wolf creatures?

[Anonymous No.11649506]

>>11645755
I guess I'm boring but I like Dune the most. The cycle, though, not a single book. I understand the appeal of the original but I think people who say "only the first book is good" or "first book is the best" really miss on the big picture. I mean, some even manage to miss the PAUL CAN'T STOP JIHAD, BILLIONS DIE message and treat the ending as a straight up happy one. I'd say Dune, Messiah, Children and God-Emperor are pretty much a complete-ish cycle, and then you have Heretics and Chapterhouse which don't end quite as satisfyingly (unless you read Brian's novels, which I have no desire to).

[Anonymous No.11649591]

[Anonymous No.11649677]

>>11649020
>teleports behind you
Better luck next time, kiddo

[Anonymous No.11651390]

>>11649188
It's about half and half the Tines (wolf-like creatures) and the sci fi theme, any more would be spoiling the book I guess

[Anonymous No.11651684]

>>11641423
Awesome book. Reading speaker of the dead. Glad author is against the poz.

[Anonymous No.11651742]

>>11641485
It’s been a long while since I’ve read it, but how in the hell is it wish fulfillment? Ender is tricked into committing genocide that he horribly regrets. Almost every good thing he has is ripped away IIRC

[Anonymous No.11651818]

>>11641423
I'm not a big fan of the original Ender's Game, but the sequels and some of the spinoff's are good. The original novel contains a novel idea and nothing else

[Anonymous No.11651829]

In the last year or so I've read 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Ender's Game, Dune, and Asimov
Now that I read the essentials, where do I go to find the obscure?

[Anonymous No.11651848]

>>11651742
It contrives situation in which you are supposed sympathize with genocide.

[Anonymous No.11651872]

>>11651848

What's wrong with that?

[Anonymous No.11653316]

>>11647596
>read all trilogy at once
>blows my mind
>fucking really blows my mind
>depressed/suicidal since then
Meditation teacher told me that the books trigger the Impermanence Insight but I was not totally prepared.
9/10 would read again (in 10 years if I'm alive).

[Anonymous No.11653946]

>>11644194
Although your ironic response is predictable it still makes me 'Damn...'. What a time to be alive.

[Anonymous No.11653974]

>>11641922
>Ubik
Nice, on my first read right now. So far I love it. Definitely going to read more Dick after this

[Anonymous No.11653995]

>>11641540
>>11641567
>being so young and naive that you think the ULTRA-biased HuffPo is a legit information source.

[Anonymous No.11654027]

>>11647879
I just started Rama 2. RWR is one of my favorite books. Read it as a teenager and just re-read it, now gonna finish the series.

>Nazi's don't exist anymore
This. National Socialist German Nazis are absolutely nothing like modern KKK/AB.

[Anonymous No.11654035]

>>11641479
Why aren't you screaming about books written by liberals or antifa/bolsheviks?

[Anonymous No.11654048]

>>11647902
I've got the first 2 foundation books, but got sidetracked with Rama 2.

[Anonymous No.11654057]

>>11649076
>>11649110
Awww, you cleverly avoided an argument you couldn't refute. Cute.

[Anonymous No.11655845]

Resurrected!

[Anonymous No.11655872]

The book most responsible for ending my edgy atheist phase. Loved it then, cherish it now.

[Anonymous No.11655894]

>>11649591
I was born and raised in the town that inspired Huxley to write BNW. Maybe that's why it's always been so personal and poignant for me; I often feel like John the Savage.

[Anonymous No.11655908]

>>11645393
not that anon but I have to disagree. maybe I was too naive as a kid to read into it past a superficial level, but I thought it was great. sequels not so much.

for the record, i enjoyed Ender's Shadow as well, and really anything having to do with Bean.