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Is this really the best sci-fi novel ever written?

>> No.18860087

no, book of the new sun is

>> No.18860110

>>18860086
Presently, it is.

>> No.18860121

>>18860086
Let me guess, just like "stretched his legs" this is just a meme by old pearl-clutching farts who can't count?

>> No.18860129

Presently.

>> No.18860179

>>18860121
Open the damn book at a random point and take a shot everytime you read "presently".

>> No.18860201

>>18860086
a present is a gift presenting itself
i don't get the problem here, its a beautiful word

>> No.18860219

I don't get it

>> No.18860229

>>18860179
not him but page 302-303 no instances
I'm going to take a poo presently

>> No.18860230

>>18860086
Ctrl+f "presently"
Chapter 1 - 0
Chapter 2 - 3
Chapter 3 - 2
Chapter 4 - 1
Chapter 5 - 3
Chapter 6 - 2
Chapter 7 - 1
That counts presently in author's speech and in characters' speech, if we discount the second type then there are minus 3 instances, 2 in chapter 5 and 1 in chapter 6.
Go get fucked you kvetching kike, seriously.

>> No.18860233

>>18860230
take a joke sweatlord

>> No.18860252

>>18860230
There's no way they're that few. No way. I just read the fucking book and it felt like every 3 paragraphs there was a "presently" hitting me in the eye.

>> No.18860254

>>18860230
>if we discount the second type
Yeah, our bullshit sounds more believable if we discount contrary evidence. Well found.

>> No.18860264

>>18860230
You're such a lying kike holy shit. I just downloaded a Dune PDF from eMule and counted all the "presently" and there are exactly 59.

Lying piece of shit.

>> No.18860265
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1. Hyperion (Simmons)
2. Nightland (Hodgson)
3. City (Simak)

>> No.18860270

>>18860265
Man, Hyperion was so good. So ambitious, so complex and so original.

>> No.18860321
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>>18860087
No it’s fucking not. It sucks and it STINKS
>oh hey, I’m a torturer
>and when I was young I met a revolutionary, who doesn’t appear for the rest of the book
>and I got in big trouble because I mercy-killed my crush! Wuh woh!
>and now I’m being kicked out of Hogwarts, but I get caught up in so many side quests that I don’t even leave le city until the very last page of the book!
>these side quests include:
>meeting Andre the giant and his tard wrangler
>going to a greenhouse and seeing visions of the past and meeting a lady in lake who might be my mother or whatever, who fucking knows
>going to a thrift shop, and meeting two sibling who want to rob me for my valuable sword (this will be the main focus of the book, because why not lol)
>and I get a mulligan that’s the title of book two! Wowie!
>also, there’s a giant spaceship that appears for a second. Don’t forget to buy book 2 you stupid faggot dunce of a reader!

>> No.18860353

That's not the fall of reach.

>> No.18860359

>>18860321
Anon, I'm looking at you with disappointed eyes. è.é

>> No.18860398

>>18860359
I’m looking at you with angry eyes.
For convincing me to read this pile of rubbish.
I had to drop book two when he ran into the cave of glowing monkeys and it turned out the dream he had last book actually mattered. I didn’t recall any of it, so, yeah, dropped hard
But the execution scene was nice. Really nice.

>> No.18860409

>>18860230
>>18860264
>k-kike!
So who is j*w here? Antisemitism is complicated.

>> No.18860444

>>18860230
There was a thread the other day, op made this meme from that thread, not from actually reading the book. Shocker.

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All the Dune slagging off making me want to reread it.

>> No.18860461

>>18860409
Just get the PDF and count them yourself. They're 59.

>> No.18860637

>>18860458
The Chad Dune reader VS the Virgin Dune poster.

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>>18860458
>>18860637

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>>18860932
Improved version.

>> No.18860965

>>18860321
Filtered by Gene Wolfe, many such cases.

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>>18860958
>>18860932
Nice work bro

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>>18860265
Hyperion is based, I haven't read the others but I will.

>> No.18862002

>>18861076
Fall of Hyperion is kino

>> No.18862008

>>18860321
Crazy to think all of this happens only within like 200 pages. Thank you for reminding me of how great BotNS is, anon.

>> No.18863034

>>18860321

Wolfe-sama filters the faithful sheep from the brainlet goats. Anon can’t handle the Proustian style narration.

>> No.18863062

>>18860265
Never heard of Hyperion before, stuck out to me in a bookstore the other day and I bought it. Man I'm glad I did

>> No.18863085

>>18860086
What a gay meme YES it’s the best and suck my cock