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14271527 No.14271527 [Reply] [Original]

can you name a single book outside of botns that is worthy of being placed in the canon?

>> No.14271846

I like Hyperion, canticle of libovitz, but yea it's almost all trash

>> No.14272028

>>14271527
You've got it backwards. All the "serious" and "intelligent" sci-fi is trash written by people like /lit/ posters. Meanwhile stuff like Pandora's Star is better than LoTR

>> No.14272032

>>14271527
Nobody cares about the canon.

>> No.14272076

>>14272032
They should.

>> No.14272085

>>14272076
But why?

>> No.14273088

>>14271527
Depends on the nature of the story, if all you're doing is "worldbuilding" then your whole story is basically just avalanched by irrelevant fluff and impossible of carrying a greater meaning.

>> No.14273394
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Some Russian science fiction is excellent:
Stanislaw Lem
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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>>14271527
>can you name a single book outside of botns
His short stories are great as well ya dingus.