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Sci books I have read so far:

>Brave new world
Horrible prose, plot has no point, vastly overrated

>Stranger in a strange land
Pure gold. BOTYAY

>Hitchhiker's 5-book trilogy
First one was god tier. Second felt too forced. The rest just suck balls

>Fountains of Paradise
Great story and setting. Some characters felt unnecessary and out of place though. Ending was epic (why do they call this structure Kalidasa's tower?)

>Rendezvous with Rama
Amazing, loved the mistery.

>Rama II
Shit nigger what are you doing!? Frivolous drama. Minimal sci, shitty story overall.

>The Forever War
Nice story, memorable characters, loved it

>Forever Peace
WTF Man is this story going anywhere? Could you possibly make it more cryptic?

>City of Pearl
Feminists in space, move along, nothing to see here.

I still have to read the Ender Saga and Dune. So far my absolute favorite is Stranger in a Strange Land.

Recommend me moar Epic Sci-Fi, /lit/

>> No.1164752

>>1164209
>Brave new world
>Horrible prose, plot has no point, vastly overrated

This is one of the first books i truly enjoyed, and I feel I need to defend it.
You may not understand the plot, but that is not even the point. Huxley merely makes observations of his current environment, and predicted a future that could be.
Having been written in about 3 decades ago, you have to appreciate how well his predictions has come true.
The genius was not in the writing, but in the imagining

>> No.1164762

Left Hand of motherfuckin' Darkness
Lord of Light
We

>> No.1164764

>>1164209
954-4495?

>> No.1164771

PHILIP K DICK - UBIK

READ IT NOW

>> No.1164773

>>1164752

>3 decades ago

Try 8.

>> No.1164793

The Foundation series (or just the first 3)

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1164828

you need some Gene Wolfe

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1164839

Snow Crash

>> No.1165286

>>1164209

Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russel

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1165294

the best is yet to come

>> No.1165300

>>Stranger in a strange land
>Pure gold. BOTYAY
surely you jest? Heinlein sucks
>reading the subsequent Rama books
ya dun goof'd
protip: the Arthur C. Clarke books written through the 1980s-2000s with his name in big bold and a co-authors under that - all actually written by the co-author exclusively.
>>1164771
PKD is over rated.