what's some high brow science fiction?

[Anonymous No.17758514]

[Anonymous No.17758528]

show me the way

[Anonymous No.17758536]

only plebs care about brows

[Anonymous No.17758546]

>>17758514
Everyone would have their own picks, but putting Hyperion in Cyberpunk is just objectively wrong.

[Anonymous No.17758676]

>>17758514

[Anonymous No.17758700]

>>17758536
I don't care, just asking for a friend...

[Anonymous No.17758758]

>>17758546
>>17758676
thx

[Anonymous No.17758791]

>>17758536
No brow detected

[Anonymous No.17758800]

Call of the Arcade

[Anonymous No.17758823]

The best.

[Anonymous No.17758827]

Literally everything written by Jules Verne.

[Anonymous No.17758858]

>>17758514
>Dying Earth
>New Wave

[Anonymous No.17758944]

>>17758858

[Anonymous No.17759461]

>>17758944
Needs at least one Alfred Bester.

[Anonymous No.17759487]

>>17758514
The Night Land is preddy gud

[Anonymous No.17759488]

>>17758514
Richard Powers

[Anonymous No.17759506]

[Anonymous No.17759511]

>>17758514
This list looks like it was made to indirectly shit on Neuromancer.

[Anonymous No.17759520]

Ken Liu

[Anonymous No.17759529]

>>17759461
nigger Bester was a pulp author during the golden age, he can’t compete

[Anonymous No.17759652]

>>17759529
you take that back you clueless uncultured swine

[Anonymous No.17759733]

>>17758514
How is RUR pulp? Explain yourself

[Anonymous No.17759795]

>>17759652
try actually defending his works rather than insulting me, you’ll find it much more difficult

[Anonymous No.17759894]

>>17759795
you think Stars My Destination or The Demolished Man are pulp, trying to explain their originality to you would be a waste of time; I could try to show you how he was ahead of his time by influencing cyberpunk in the fucking fifties because that's more surface-level, but that might prove to be laborious as fuck

[Anonymous No.17760045]

>>17759894
>turns out you can teleport if you try real hard
Tiger! Tiger! (known as The Stars My Destination by tryhards) is a self-improvement montage. The plot is infantile and the characters, Gully Foyle included, are paper cutouts of people. The writing itself is comic book-tier.
>b-b-but Gully Foyle is my name, Terra is my nation! Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination!
Ha ha, there’s a hokey play on a nineteenth century nursery rhyme immortalized by Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Literary genius!

>hE aLmOsT gOt AwAy WiTh MuRdEr BuT tHe ClEvEr MiNd-ReAdErS cAuGhT hIm!
The Demolished Man is even worse because it doesn’t capture the zeitgeist of the early space age like least TT does. Philip K Dick did it better, and in the same era.
>Venus is a suburb of New York!
>There’s a zoo in the asteroid belt!
He was a redditor.

You can’t honestly have read Lem and Dick and still think Bester is one of the greats. He was a stellar pulp author and his novels are interesting as a time capsule but have no value outside of that historical context.

[Anonymous No.17760138]

>>17760045
These are your takeaways? Like I said, a waste of time.

[Anonymous No.17760167]

>>17760045
Lem and Dick provide just as much depth as you described with Bester. Complete juvenile fantasies with banal commentary and allusions. At least Bester was self-aware with how how trite his novels were

[Anonymous No.17760180]

>>17758514
>a canticle for leibowitz
your chart's still basic by the way and everyone in the thread is now dumber for having seen it

[Anonymous No.17760205]

>>17760138
so far the one thing you’ve said that wasn’t an adhom was
>but muh context

[Anonymous No.17760356]

>>17760180
Based