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250 pages left to go on Blue Mars

>> No.1331775

Maybe read some Asimov if you like sci fi, you may not feel the urge to inform us how long you've been suffering.

>> No.1331778

>>1331775
I read him once, sucked

>> No.1331785

>>1331778
Robinson is trash. Clear troll

>> No.1331789

I LIKED RAINBOW MARS.

>> No.1331797

>>1331785
I read Foundation, it was just old-fashioned British 'locked room mystery', like Agatha Critisie and Arthur Conan Doyle and etc, but recast with 1950s American white collar office workers

>> No.1331810

>>1331797
the importance of the vault to the story is minimal

>> No.1331845

>>1331810
thats not what locked room mystery means you idiot

>> No.1332014 [DELETED] 

>>1331797
foundation is eehhhh

read the Complete Robot. I love robots. You should too, it makes you no less human to love robots. For what is a soul, than the anthropological properties we impose upon machines?

>> No.1332017

>>1331797
foundation is eehhhh

read the Complete Robot. I love robots. You should too, it makes you no less human to love robots. For what is a soul, than the anthropological properties we impose upon others?

>> No.1332019

>Books about people on Mars

What the fuck is this gay shit.
Go read something that will improve your brain instead.

>> No.1332025

>>1332019
fine then, post good scifi books asshole.

(thanks :D)

>> No.1332036

>>1332025
>Scifi books

>Good

"A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can not read."

Guess what, good books don't mean shit that appeals to your violent and sexual adolescent fantasies.
A good book is one that improves your mind, makes you think, and inspires you to do something in the real world.
Not bullshit about wizards and fairies or people flying through space.

>> No.1332039

>>1332036
>implying scifi hasn't influenced a huge, huge amount of kids to go on and engineer some crazy scifi shit

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>>1332036

just shut the fuck up right now. you're a pretentious dick with no life experience trying to belittle others. if you knew your asshole from your elbow about "improving your mind," you'd shut that cock-holster you call a mouth and let people read what interests them. Go lecture somewhere else, and stay the fuck out of the thread.

>> No.1332054

>>1332039
>implying sci-fi doesn't inspire infantile attitudes among readers

>implying sci-fi writers have any understanding of how humans actually interact or how the human mind actually works

>implying that "crazy sci-fi shit" wasn't inspired by engineers' and scientists' complex mental problem-solving skills rather than some shitty paperback novel they read in high school.

>> No.1332056 [DELETED] 

>>1332054

>implying your not a gay nigger who rapes babies for Tolstoy

>> No.1332058

>>1332039
15 year old detected

>> No.1332061

>>1332058

17 year old with inflated ego detected

>> No.1332065

>>1332054

congrats brah! you won the internet. no one will ever read sci-fi again. now tell me, what does your english professor (who tells you what you should and shouldn't enjoy) suggest we read now?

>> No.1332067

>>1332065
my professor always told me to stop reading ahead in class.

>> No.1332072

>>1332065
English professor?
I assume you've never heard of independent thought.
However one inspiration to me is the Persian writer Sahmad Behrangi, who would go to libraries and bookstores and explicitly tell patrons if the book they were thinking of getting was mind-numbing trash, and would suggest a more thought-provoking book instead.

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1332073

I'm sad to see a sci-fi thread turn into a shit-storm :-(

Anyway congrats OP in getting through one of the most epic series.

What are you planning on reading next? Another epic, a thriller, a hard sf adventure?

>> No.1332075

>mfw I discuss Asimov with my professor while you're arguing that it has no literary merit

>> No.1332083

>>1332072

Sahmad Behrangi sounds like the world's biggest douchbag. Imagine if someone did this at a record store, outside a movie theater, etc. It's the very definition of pretentiousness towards other's tastes.

Honestly, for your own good as a human being, stop emulating the behavior of a fool. While I rarely advocate physical violence, I certainly hope your idol got a least one swift kick in the ass for his misguided efforts.

>> No.1332085

>>1332083
I guess it would depend how he did it. If he just sidled up to them and nonchalantly offered his opinion on the book and suggested it then it wouldn't be so bad.

>> No.1332086

>>1332072

I just looked up your asshole idol. First of all, you misspelled his name. Secondly, his major life work appears to be a children's book titled "The Little Black Fish."

Kill yourself. Now.

>> No.1332088

>>1332085

Of course that would still be bad. And creepy. The common response was most likely: "Uh, do you work here?" Followed by a healthy "Then get the fuck away from me."

>> No.1332099

>>1332086
..but... persian is the new russian

>> No.1332102

>people flying through space.

BULLSHIT, THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN THE MOON LANDING WAS FAKED I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I AM A SERIOUS LITERATURE MAN

>> No.1332106

>>1332086
You realize that book was banned in Iran because it spoke out against the government, right?
It has too much political weight to simply be looked at as a children's book.

>> No.1332108

>>1332106
how edgy

>> No.1332110

>>1332106
Debbie Does Dallas is also banned in Iran, but that doesn't mean it's suddenly high class literature. It's not exactly HARD to get banned in Iran.

>> No.1332114

God, what the FUCK /lit/? What is wrong with you cunts?

>> No.1332116

Try some Iain M Banks next, his Culture books are awesome. Or Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, if you want another quality series with old people fucking in it.

>> No.1332119

>>1332054
Wow. I kind of half to agree with this.

>> No.1332123

>>1332119

>namefag
>half to agree
>half

you're making this way too easy

>> No.1332134

>>1332116
I have to second Iain M. Banks, but let me also add Adam Roberts (particularly Stone), Alastair Reynolds (start with Revelation Space and go from there) and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, the Diamond Age and Anathem.

>> No.1332280

>>1332019
>>1332036
>>1332054
no idea what you're talking about