Best sci-fi?

[Anonymous No.18325844]

This is far and away the best thing I’ve ever read.
Where to from here?

[Anonymous No.18325850]

KSR is Bugman drivel. Read good sci fi

[Anonymous No.18325856]

[Anonymous No.18326675]

>>18325850
Thanks I’ll check this out.
I see he’s got heaps of stuff on open library.com.

[Anonymous No.18327059]

Anyone else got anything good?
I’ve got nothing to do and I’m sick of YouTube and movies!
Anything appreciated.
I’ve also been enjoying Brandon Sanderson and Sam Sisivath’s Babylon series lately, but finished all their books.

[Anonymous No.18327118]

>>18325856
Best thing to ever be made by this board. Such a classic.

[Anonymous No.18327129]

>>18325844
The kino that filtered /lit/

[Anonymous No.18327135]

>>18325844
Okay, I'll bite. Sell me on it, cuck.

[Anonymous No.18327162]

>>18325850
Elaborate.

[Anonymous No.18327208]

>>18327135
>Sell me on it
Fair enough.
It’s REALLY long and keeps up the interest through the vast majority of all 3 books.
Characters built really well.
Covers chemistry, biology, maths, physics, politics, relationships, religion, morality - everything basically, in depth but in understandable terms.
There’s no pew pew aliens shit.
Everything is based on reality, current and anticipated tech. (He describes ipads in a book written in the late 70s)
It’s all pretty believable.
Um... it’s just really good. I wouldn’t have thought it would be my thing, but a colleague hounded me until I gave in, and I’m so glad I did.

[Anonymous No.18327233]

>>18325856
I’m marathoning these right now. Half out of curiosity. Half for the memes.

[Anonymous No.18327261]

>”Duh I love da space thrustahs and duh Dyson’s spheres and duh parts when duh space cruisers fyte each odder in duh big space baddle Hurrr”
>*shits pants*
>*stars directly at the sun for 5 unbroken minutes*
>*blinks asynchronously*
>*writes an award winning sci fi novel*

[Anonymous No.18327266]

>>18327129
I was looking for this pic. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.18327274]

>>18327208
Sounds boring AF tbqhwyfam

[Anonymous No.18327334]

>>18325844
Destiny lore, bitch

[Anonymous No.18327390]

>>18327162
No

[Anonymous No.18328277]

>>18327274
filtered genrehateshitter

[Anonymous No.18328372]

>>18327261
Stick to fantasy, kiddo

[Anonymous No.18328386]

>>18327208
You forgot the part about communist propaganda

[Anonymous No.18328747]

>>18325844
>This is far and away the best thing I’ve ever read.
I have read Red Mars - when I remember this book at least two fifths of it seem to consist of descriptions of gelological features.

[Anonymous No.18329655]

>>18325844
>>18327129
The problem with Red Mars is that the author is not really interested in the early phase of colonization, which is arguably the most interesting part, and moves onto when Mars is quite settled by Swiss, Arabs, Japanese and so forth as the original 100 have scattered to the winds. The book would be much better if it actually focused on the early phase, with the geology and so on, and did not skip so much ahead in time when many of the early questions are already settled. The book could’ve answered the question of terraforming and exploration just as well, even better actually, with just the original 100.

[Anonymous No.18329676]

>>18328747
>>18327129

[Anonymous No.18330441]

>>18325844
It's some of the best scifi. That you got through it is a sign you can and should read similarly "difficult" books. Then it won't be far and away the best anymore, but that's fine.

[Anonymous No.18330470]

>>18325844
Mainstays:
>Ringworld
>Hyperion
>foundation
>any of the well known Asimov, Clarke and Dick books/stories

Dune, le guin, Vance, the list goes on. Just read Hyperion I guess

[Anonymous No.18331291]

The Culture Series.

[Anonymous No.18332590]

>>18325844
Try Inverted World by Christopher Priest

[Anonymous No.18332630]

>>18330441
>you can and should read similarly "difficult" books
Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.18333251]

>>18325856

[Anonymous No.18333343]

>>18325844
>anything by Asimov (you can really start from anywhere with his series and I like some of his short stories even better than foundation)
>Hyperion cantos
>Shadow of the torturer
>Dune (I have to put it on the list)
oh and not really epic but I love hg wells

[Anonymous No.18333793]

>>18325850
/This

KSR is pure s o i

his uptopian worlds are perfect relfections of his own life as a wealthy spoiled """intellectual""" elitist living in the eternal summer of Southern California surronded in an echo chamber of fellow like minded empty shells of men who debate wine vintages and believe they are partaking in radical social activism on twitter/blog/tumblr/whatever they use. he is the Jonathan Franzen of science fiction

if you live in a million dollar house with a "Black Lives Matter/In This House We Believe in Science" sign stuck in the front lawn you are probably a fan of KSR. but make sure to remind Pedro not to remove the sign when he is mowing the lawn.

[Anonymous No.18333830]

is there anything more cringe or s o i than space based science fiction?

99% of it is pure garbage. the childish fantasies of empty men. the distances of the stars are too great for any of these utopian quasi-religious dreams to have any realistic chance. go look up NASA/sagan/cosmic coon videos on youtube and read the comments, it is full of soulless bugmen writing as if they are witnessing religious revelation. some video of science fiction movie clips with Sagan speaking will bring them to tears as if they are having some profound experience. these are people with a giant hole in their heart that should be filled with the Glory of Grace but they have managed to somehow shove "space ships", "orbital colonies" and "dyson spheres" into it. They speak of our future in space like a devout Christian may speak of His coming return and yet these are the same people who will "dunk on christians" for being close minded on red/dit and the other websites they obessive over. they worship the Masters of the Bugmen like Elon, they fantasize about escaping to Mars to build a clean utopian techno-rational system they know will never exist on Earth due to blacks, climate, resource deleption etc.

in conclusion, fuck science fiction and the faggots who worship it

[Anonymous No.18333856]

>>18333830
Didn't read. Kill yourself tradlarper.

[Anonymous No.18333859]

>>18333856
t.

[Anonymous No.18333871]

>>18333859
>ifunny watermark

[Anonymous No.18334047]

>Book of the New Sun
>Canticle for Leibowitz
>Brave New World

[Anonymous No.18334783]

>>18333830
Faggot

[Anonymous No.18335857]

>>18328277
But anon... I love science fiction!

[Anonymous No.18335871]

>>18325844
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton.

[Anonymous No.18337213]

>>18329655

The book isn't really about terraforming Mars, that's just the setting. The trilogy is really about how to build a new world after the end of the Cold War. It was written in the 90s in the "end of history" zeitgeist when globalism was still hyped with optimism.

[Anonymous No.18337223]

>>18333830
Based

[Anonymous No.18337803]

>>18325844
Anon how did you do it. I'm not at the end of Red Mars and even though I have to agree it's great. I'm on the verge of being filtered from going to green and blue.

[Anonymous No.18338088]

>>18333830
I never thought about it that way. still I think hyperion is pretty good. even if the author has a hard on for Buddhism. and enders game is by a mormon

[Anonymous No.18338106]

>>18335871
I love that series, what was your favourite pov/story line?

[Anonymous No.18338383]

Kino alert

[Anonymous No.18338484]

>>18330441
>>18332630
Just go read gene wolfe and enjoy actual literature

[Anonymous No.18338506]

>>18333251
What?

[Anonymous No.18338784]

>>18333830
holy shit based

[Anonymous No.18338791]

>>18333793
based. fuck KSR

[Anonymous No.18338796]

>>18327135
elon musk read it as a kid and ended up building a space company to land humans on mars when he grew up

[Anonymous No.18338797]

>>18325844

[Anonymous No.18338907]

Try this

[Anonymous No.18338926]

Revelation space is excellent

[Anonymous No.18338991]

>>18338106
I was a big of Capone and his organization. Loved the Bkackhawks. Dexter Quinn pissed me off quite a bit. Don't know why but the whole Lalond part before the Dysfunction drew me in. The scavenging in the ruin ring was another cool touch. Thought it was great all round. How about you?

[Anonymous No.18339135]

>>18338991
Lalond def pull me in too, also all the lewd shit, and the mercs landing, also just all the world building. Capone was great. I liked the stuff with Ralph Hitch on Ombery in the second book and the Earth B7 shit in the 3rd. Did you read any other Hamilton stuff?

[Anonymous No.18339171]

we are legion (we are bob) series by taylor is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.18339176]

>>18339135
Not yet, just that series so far. I found a couple at Goodwill but haven't started on any of them yet. The Ralph Hitch are was the fighting on the peninsula? It's been a few years now since I finished them.

[Anonymous No.18339195]

>>18339176
yeah in the 2nd book it was the containment shit, when I did a re-read during covid it was pretty lolz. Then the 3rd book was the assault, which was pretty kino.

I read Fallen Dragon, which was okay as a stand alone, and the Void trilogy what was decent, but not as tight or interesting as Night's Dawn which is saying something cause ND is hellah fucking bloated.

[Anonymous No.18339612]

>>18339195
Fallen Dragon is one of those I found. The Blackhawks and Voidhawks made that last two books for me. So good. And the crazy habitat (Dariat?) was another highlight I just remembered.

[Anonymous No.18339754]

>>18333859
>>18333830
you will never be a real christian

[Anonymous No.18339806]

>>18328277
Silence, commie

[Anonymous No.18339814]

>>18332630
Zelazny and Wolfe

[Anonymous No.18340237]

Dune and Hyperion tend to stand out in topping GOAT lists for sci-fi.

I really like Red Rising, but it's pulp action sci-fi. Alistair Reynolds has truly great hard sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.18340282]

>>18338797
How do you end up going with such a horrific cover. At that point you may as well make some hyper-minimal abstract art.

[Anonymous No.18340304]

>>18325844
I'm not big into sci-fi but "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" was probably the best sci-fi I've read. Very short too.

[Anonymous No.18340682]

>>18340282
They turn me off from reading them.

[Anonymous No.18340695]

>>18325844
straight to /sffg/ and don't let me see you around here again.

[Anonymous No.18341859]

>>18338907
We aren't allowed to talk about them here.

[Anonymous No.18342294]

>>18338907
Seconding this post. Very original plot and genuinely creepy. I don’t know what the AVGN has to do with it.

[Anonymous No.18342366]

>>18325844
Aurora by the same author is great too

>>18325850
yeah Silverberg is keyed. I would recommend 'The world inside'. It's the ultimate cuck novel

[Anonymous No.18342371]

>>18333830
Fore those who are interested, the reason scifi gives the impression of being religious and occultic so much is because it is. If you compare Swedenborgs travel through the afterlife where he meets aliens and travels too different planets too scifo you already see comparisons. You are reading the seculiar version of christian theosophy.