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What is the most formidable contender for the best sci fi novel ever written?

>> No.15323192

>>15323041
That's like asking what's the best shit someone's ever eaten

>> No.15323246

Book of the New Sun

>> No.15323248

>>15323192
rude

>> No.15323726

Masters of Rome

>> No.15323756

>>15323192
???

>> No.15323761

>>15323041
it's probably not even the best novel in the Dune series. LOL

>>15323192
correct answer.

>> No.15323817

>>15323192
le epic patrician has arrived

>> No.15323919

>>15323041
I've never liked these "epic" SF novels - they're like soap operas to me.. - , I'd probably chose "The Sirens of Titan" or one Kir Bulychov book "Naked People" - this one is anti-authoritarian in a spirit of "1984" - but completely unique and original.

>> No.15323993

>>15323041
For starters Dune is Space Fantasy and not actual sci-fi.

>> No.15324067

>>15323041
Roadside Picnic
The Lathe of Heaven

>> No.15324160

Asimov is dope af

>> No.15324184

>>15323993
There's no such thing as hard science fiction.

>> No.15324192
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15324192

>>15323041
Pic related. The rest of the genre is capeshit in space.

>> No.15324197

>>15323192
Very based

>> No.15324268

>>15323041
Childhoods End
Hard to be a God

>> No.15324279

The Time Machine

>> No.15324420

>>15324160
>>15324192
>>15324268
I'd honestly take anything that isn't those shallow "muh sci fantasy space opera" anyday. Asimov is the only one who can make good space opera and Dick and Clarke have made some of the best philosopical readings sci fi has ever offered

>> No.15324525

>>15324420
You sound like a faggot.

>> No.15324586

>>15323993

Dune is soft science fiction since it doesn't really too heavily on gadgets and technology, in the books, at least before Heretics of Dune, the Butlerian Jihad had nearly destroyed most technology and there were prohibitions against making advanced tech that could imitate human minds. There is still gadgets and tech(maula pistols, lasguns, still suits, etc.) but the emphasis in Dune is placed on the characters.

>> No.15324655

>>15324586
A reminder that the butlerian jihad was launched over the scourge of abortion.

>> No.15324897

>>15324525
you sound like someone who hasn't read a book in his life, so why are you here?