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sup /lit

i wanna start readin some sci-fi/space-adventure books.
any suggestions??
cheers.

>> No.426671

dune.

>> No.426674

>>426666
>eight planets
:(

>> No.426678

>>426674

slowpoke.jpg or just sad that there are now only 8 planets?

>> No.426679

Ken MacLeod "The Star Fraction"

>> No.426689

>>426666
There are 13 planets. Stop being elitist

>> No.426735

>>426666

FU you and your quadruples!

As for the book, try Ray Bradbury "The Martian Chronicles"

>> No.426743
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426743

I miss pluto.

Pic related.

>> No.426748

Science fiction: Egan.
Space adventure: Reynolds' Revelation Space stories.

>> No.426754 [DELETED] 

I see what you did there

>> No.426757

>>426743
I see what you did there

>> No.426759

Armor by John Steakley.

Also, >>426671

>> No.426762

>>426666

Science Fiction:
David Brin's Uplift Saga (Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach)
Kiln People by David Brin
William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse Dune)
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun)
Takeshi Kovacs Series by Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies)
Noir by K.W. Jeter
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties)
The Postman by David Brin
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Fallen Angels by Larry Niven
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Forever series (Forever War and Forever Peace) by Joe Haldeman

>> No.426772

>>426735

Martian Chronicles, seconded.

Your image is now my wallpaper, OP.

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426787

Good Space Fiction:
Iain M Banks, Excession (and most of his other science fiction books)
Greg Egan, Diaspora
Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark/Pushing Ice
Peter Watts, Blindsight (online at http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm but read a book version)
Paul McAuley, Eternal Light (a really underrated author!)

>> No.426791

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>> No.426885

>>426759
seconded.
Also the worthing saga and birthright: book of man.

>> No.426911

Strugatsky brothers.

In particular: "Far Rainbow"