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SHIT NIGGERS, THIS SHOULDN'T BE THAT HARD

PLEASE NAME AN AWESOME PIECE OF FANTASY/SF THAT WASN'T WRITTEN BY:

GEORGE R R MARTIN
PHILLIP K DICK
ORSON SCOTT CARD
ANDRE NORTON
J R R TOLKIEN
URSULA K LE GUIN
JEFFREY BITCHHOUSE
R A SALVATORE
MARGARET WEISE
TRACY HICKMAN
ROBERT HEINLEIN
TERRY BROOKS

IF YOU CAN DO THIS, I SHALL RETURN TO /lit/ WITHIN THREE DAYS TIME AND PRESENT AN IN-DEPTH, CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE OFFERING

THANK YOU AND GOOD DAY

>> No.1660944

William Gibson. Specifically, Nueromancer and Pattern Recognition.

>> No.1660947

once someone here said Borges was SF. try Vonnegut.

>> No.1660948

Worm ouroboros
Dune

>> No.1660949

Roadside Picnic

>> No.1660950

>>1660940
frank herbert

>> No.1660954

As stated earlier : Vonnegut, Herbert.
For awesome ideas, but a very bad writing : Philip Jose Farmer (I must warn you : the guy had some serious oedipian issues).

>> No.1660955

>>1660948
Damn it you beat me to it :/

>> No.1660960

FUCK THIS SHIT, ENGAGING HARD MODE:

NEW CRITERIA: THIS MUST BE THE FIRST TIME THIS AUTHOR HAS BEEN POSTED ON /lit/

IT CANNOT BE AN AUTHOR WHO HAS BEEN POSTED ON /lit/ BEFORE

THANK YOU AND SORRY FOR THE AMENDMENT BUT YOU GUYS WERE JUST TOSSING ME THE SAME OLD SHIT

GOOD DAY

>> No.1660961

>>1660949
this is a great book but way too short.

also Ray Bradbury.

may i also add that i sickens me that people seem to want to help out capsguy more than any other random anon help threads. maybe im exaggerating though.

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The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny(As well as Doorways in the Sand, and any of his short stories)
The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie(And anything else by him)
Latro in the Mist(And Soldier of Sidon) by Gene Wolfe

>> No.1660968

>>1660961
>implying there's only one capsguy

>> No.1660971
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>JEFFREY BITCHHOUSE

>> No.1660972

samuel r delany? dhalgren?

>> No.1660973

>>1660961
Can a book be "too short"?
Length never really mattered to me, really.

My biggest problem with that book was the shitty translation and the near impossibility of finding it in the US.

>> No.1660978

Well duh! Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen

Also the mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

>> No.1660986

>>1660960
1: fuck your hardmode, and 2: Okay fine: Neal Barrett, Jr.

Go.

>> No.1660991

>>1660961
>>1660961
yeah fucking capsguy, he's actually a bit of a cunt

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1660995

I TYPE A LONG RESPONSE TO THIS THREAD BUT FUCK IT

I WILL BE READING AND REVIEWING DHALGREN BY SAMUEL R DELANY ONCE I FIND THE SHIT ONLINE BECAUSE IT SURE AS FUCK AINT ON THE SITES IN THE STICKY AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF I GET INVOLVED WITH THE MUDSLIDE OF FUCKBALLITUDE THAT IS USENET

UNTIL THEN, /THREAD, AND FUCK EVERYBODY WHO IGNORED HARD MODE

>> No.1661004

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Can Cat's Cradle count as SF?

>> No.1661002

>>1660991
he's ok. just extremely overrated. like im hated more by anons/litclubbers only because i try to be a dick sometimes. he's liked for doing the opposite.

>> No.1661007

>>1660991
WHATEVER FAG, CAPSGUY IS NOT ONE PERSON, THE ORIGINAL TRIPFAG IS LONG GONE

CAPSGUY IS A MEME THAT HAS BEEN ON /v/, /b/, /tv/, AND /x/ FOREVER

IT HELPS GET POINTS ACROSS WHEN 4CHAN IS BEING SHITTY

DEAL WITH IT

>> No.1661009

>>1660995

dhalgren is in hard mode, by the way. good luck and i look forward to listening to you shout about it

anybody else read it and wanna talk about it?

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>mfw the list doesn't contain Pratchett, Gaiman, Asimov, or Simmons

>> No.1661030

>>1661024
Or Bradbury, Clarke, Lem, Harrison, McDevitt, or Zahn.

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>>1661007
>CAPSGUY IS A MEME THAT HAS BEEN ON /tv/

NO.

>> No.1661048

The Bible.

>> No.1661070

>>1661007
>>1661007
hahahahhaha oh wow.
no.

>> No.1661071

>>1661035
YEP

>> No.1661080

>>1661035
>genuine thread
>everyone bitches about capsguy
>"nobody cares about capsguy"
>everyone responding
>butthurt everywhere

such is life in the tripfag mansion

>> No.1661120

>>1660995
I have Dhalgren in a doc file. Got it from IRC #ebooks on irchighway

>> No.1661126

Joe Haldeman - The Forever War

>> No.1661149
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Stephen Kings Dark Tower series seven books of did that just fucking happen!?

>> No.1661150

The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Stand on Zanzibar, Jack Brunner
The Demon Prince series, Jack Vance
Farfhd and the Grey Mouser series, Fritz Leiber
Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
First Law series, Joe Abercrombie
Little, Big, John Crowley
River of Gods, Ian McDonald
The Peshawar Lancers, SM Stirling
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Amber series, Roger Zelazny
Uplift Cycle, David Brin
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
ER Eddison, The Worm Ouroborous

And of course Dune, Forever War, Dhalgren, Concrete Island, and Canticle for Leibowitz.

There. 19 books or series, none of which are by your authors. In fact, better than a lot of the authors on your list.

>> No.1661231

It's really shocking to me how people - even those who read a lot of science fiction - can lack knowledge about science fiction and fantasy to this extent where they don't know anything outside of a few well-publicized names. I don't even mean to shit on OP since even knowing Dick and Heinlein is fairly well read these days, but, you know, step your game up if you claim to be a sci-fi fan. There's such a wide, wild world of speculative fiction out there, go out and experience it, you dig?

>> No.1661234

>>1661231
As far as I can tell, every time I step away from the major names in fantasy I'm just reading total shit. The least famous author I've enjoyed was Gemmell.

>> No.1661236

roger zelazny is a good author, DL everything he wrote, tim powers is good. All the old fantasy authors like robert e howard are good.

Right away i can see you have gone wrong, you should not be reading any Forgotten realms garbage, you shouldn't be reading anything which includes liberal trash like race mixing or "forbidden love". And finally, women write ROMANCE novels, they do not write fantasy or sci-fi. There is no point to ever read a novel written by a woman.

>> No.1661247

>>1661234
I don't know about that. I mean, I guess it depends on how you define major name - Ted Sturgeon? Fred Pohl?

I think there really is a lot of good stuff out there that doesn't get read at all. Although usually it doesn't appeal to the same audience as a Dragonlance novel or Forgotten Realms. I would say those are shit, but opinions differ, I guess.

>>1661236
uh. ignore the racism. but zelazny and powers are legit writers.

>> No.1661257

>>1661247
i read the anubis gates and i was super fucking disappointed. maybe because i wasn't expecting a long 100 page romp through dickensian england. also the time travel tricks powers used are super obvious. i don't know... maybe if i had read it when it came out, i wouldn't have been so hip to its tricks