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1393827 No.1393827 [Reply] [Original]

deal with it

>> No.1393834

Science fiction > "Proper Literature"

Tut tut to you good Sir.

>> No.1393835

>proper literature
>proper

There you go. Plus proper literature doesn't need extraneous things like jetpacks to increase their value.

>> No.1393838

Here's a book that is both science fiction AND proper literature: "A Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsay.

Harold Bloom said of it:

[The story is a] "remorseless drive to death, beyond the pleasure/pain principle... It is that singular kind of nightmare...in which you encounter a series of terrifying faces, and only gradually do you come to realise that these faces are terrified, and that you are the cause of the terror."

— Agon, p. 208, 215

Since it's the Festive Season, have a link to the complete text:

http://www.selparisbooks.com/classics/sf0009.html

>> No.1393846

>>1393835

>jetpacks
>extraneous

How dare you.

>> No.1393847

I think there is science fiction that is proper literature, or at least in my own definition of what is proper.

Dhalgren comes to mind.

>> No.1393882

One of those guys has a jetpack.

Really, how am I supposed to choose the other one?

>> No.1393891

>>1393882

Because a properly rendered walk in the park, a truly understood commune, a conversation writ fully, is more terrifying and innovative than the most dangerous, brilliant jetpack.

>> No.1393914

>>1393891
so like what happens if the jetpack is properly rendered? :O