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1439338 No.1439338 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/, what are good science fiction novels? I'm talking books that don't read like you're reading an lsd-trip by a bandwagon writer. More like reading a good novel that happens to take place in a different time, place and with different morals and physics.

Excuse my English.

>> No.1439359
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1439359

Dan Simmons - Hyperion

>> No.1439366

READ SOME DAN ABNETT FUCKIN INQUISITORS - LIKE A REAL GODDAMNED MANLY MAN!
WITH A HAIR ON YOUR CHEST!

>> No.1439409

no one else?

>> No.1439426

>>1439409
Science fiction is low tier.

>> No.1439435

>>1439426

cool, but you kwon, didn't asked for your opinion about scifi. so stop being twelve and understand what op is asking for

>> No.1439438

>>1439435
can eye act tuff if eye has bad inglish two!? grrrrrrrrrrrrrr now im a bare take me serius!

>> No.1439441

>>1439426
Funny, seeing as people on /lit/ seem to only read catch 22 and stephen king novels, and frequently ask if they should read dostoevski, but never do read them/

>> No.1439444

Philip K Dick

>> No.1439445

>>1439441
Not my fault some people who are on /lit/ can't read decent books; I spoke for myself, and I claim that science fiction books are terrible.

>> No.1439452

>>1439445

omg you're such a huge faggot

>> No.1439454

>>1439445
name me four science fiction books you have read and a good reason why all of them are bad.

Your opinion is worth shit if you dont back it.

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>>1439454
Four books?
>Twilight
>New Moon
>Eclipse
>Breaking Dawn

>> No.1439463

>>1439460
not science fiction by far, ever

>> No.1439464

>>1439445

detected a fag who sometimes read dostevskij without understanding it. and that makes him feel a great philosopher

>> No.1439470

>>1439463
Wow you responded so quickly, must be pretty lonely just refreshing this page in hopes that I take you serious.
>>1439464
Nice failed assumption, how can you read books if you always assume the wrong thing?

>> No.1439479

>>1439470
There are more people on /lit/ than you, me and those 3 Stephen King fanboys.

Besides, he spelt Dostoevski differently

>> No.1439486

>>1439470
serious is an adjective, you're looking for an adverb.
How can you read books when you fail at basic English and fail to answer the initial question.

>> No.1439488

>>1439479
Camus and Sartre are superior to King, Dostoevski was decent mind you.

>> No.1439492

Phillip K. Fucking Dick

>> No.1439496

>>1439486
Que? Vas?

>> No.1439500

>>1439479
>>1439488
Dostoevsky is usually rendered like this in English, fools. The guy who spelt it differently is probably speaking a Slavic language with a Latin script from their rendering.

>> No.1439515

>>1439500
and?

>> No.1439519

>>1439515
And you're a faggot.

>> No.1439522

>>1439338

Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks.
Inquisitor by Ian Watson (this may be hard to find).

>> No.1439526

>>1439519
My you can state people's sexuality just how they type? You should start a career in it, and start by telling my wife that I'm not gay.

>> No.1439529

The Foundation trilogy.

>> No.1439634
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1439634

Ender's Game.

>> No.1439659

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Those are the last three science fiction novels I've read. Going through a bit of a military sci-fi phase right now.

>> No.1439692

>>1439464
How can you so comfortably sit there knowing to have failed at spelling Dostoévskiĭ (Dostoiévski as most Portuguese translators agree on; Dostoyevsky in English)?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#Last_name_spelling

>> No.1439709

>>1439703
>>1439692
Nice self bump, and knowing you spend over an hour on /lit/

>> No.1439714

>>1439709
spent

>> No.1439715

>>1439714
>Inglish

>> No.1439723

>>1439709
I fail to see what you are trying to accomplish by this. What if a man bumps a thread just hoping for someone to see what he posted, not letting it go to waste?
Either way, you failed at your hunch. It's wrong. I don't like cats. I don't use childish emotional images on my posts; they are rarely of need.

>> No.1439730

>>1439723
oops
saged by accident

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1439733

>>1439723

>> No.1439742

ITT: 7 people arguing thinking there is only one other person there

>> No.1439746

>>1439742
see
>>1439470