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2567496

Anonymous Mon Apr 16 09:34:40 2012 No.2567496 [Reply] [Original]

What book is the pinnacle of science fiction?
Why?

Thanks

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:22:40 2012 No.2567535 There is no such thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:26:41 2012 No.2567538 The Sirens of Titan /thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:51:40 2012 No.2567556 The Bible. I'm serious. No other book has deluded so many people over thousands of years with such bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:54:40 2012 No.2567558 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is widely considered one of the earliest and best sci-fis (I haven't read it) Sage.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 11:40:40 2012 No.2567589 Genesis, Exodus, Job, The Gospel of Mark, The Gospel of John are undoubtedly the greatest literary texts of the West. The Homeric poems are close behind, and Shakespeare is in third place, off in the distance.

>>	OP_Art_a_Fahjot Mon Apr 16 12:34:56 2012 No.2567643 >>2567556 That's not Sci-fi. It's fantasy. Did you even read it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 12:41:53 2012 No.2567650 Dying of the Light is the pinnacle of stories where the ending makes you want to punch RR Martin in the gut

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 12:43:53 2012 No.2567652 >>2567538 The Sirens of Titan is a Hugo Award-nominated novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, stoped reading right there >free will >issue isihsgigidigidy