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[Anonymous No.4674300]

Hello my friends, I am a Russian and looking for an interesting book with modern English, I like sci-fi and something unusual, are there any good books with perspective from non-human creature?

[Anonymous No.4674307]

>>4674300
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[Anonymous No.4674314]

>>4674300
>4
feel free to say any good unusual sci-fi book

[Anonymous No.4674353]

"narrow land" by jack vance is told from perspective of some kind of fish creature that evolves into bipedal hominid. but its just a short story.

"mogworld" by ben croshaw is from perspective of an undead mage who wants to die. its like a slapstick "Simulacron-3" set in WoW.

cant think of anything else atm

[Anonymous No.4674361]

>>4674353
ok, then what about good sci-fi? :(

[Anonymous No.4674410]

>>4674300
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[Anonymous No.4674423]

>>4674410
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[Anonymous No.4674435]

>>4674300
when i was 19 i saw that pic of mayakovsky and was buzzed all my hair off with a #1 because i thought it would look cool
unfortunately it didn't look cool

[Anonymous No.4674447]

Yo Russian man, reccomend me some less known movies.

I remember some russian guy I met once said he liked Balananov movies or something, but I can't even remember how it was spelled.

[Anonymous No.4674482]

>>4674447
With pleasure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Balabanov


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_the_Mountains

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376968/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1925421/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124207/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092930/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094683/

Search also movies of Tarkovsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky


hope it is enough for you. Tarkovsky is mainstream but he is good.

[Anonymous No.4674487]

>>4674300
Have you read Stanislaw Lem?

Solaris and His Masters Voice are pretty great

[Anonymous No.4674488]

>>4674482
and also this

[Anonymous No.4674490]

>>4674447

>>4674410
and this, these films first came to my mind

[Anonymous No.4674494]

>>4674410

my nigga.

thanks for this.

The first few stories in Ray Bradbury Martian Chronicles come to mind.

There's also the Chanur sagas which is a space operatic that deals with constant barriers and politics between alien species. This probably has exactly what you're looking for.

Victory Unintentional is about three terran robots. The second part of The Gods Themselves deals with some interesting aliens. Both are by Isaac Asimov.

Maybe Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, haven't read it yet. I know it has a few non-human characters though its main character is a human.

I'd also mention The Left Hand of Darkness, but I haven't read that one either. Main character is a human but the story has a lot to do with learning an alien perspective. I've heard good things, and it's Ursula Le Guin, can't really go wrong with that.

[Anonymous No.4674497]

>>4674482
>>4674488
>>4674410

Thanks m8. I need to rekindle the little bit of russian I used to know. I live in southern patagonia and my neighbour was a retired KGB colonel in hiding who'd give me russian lessons when I was about 9.

[Anonymous No.4674502]

>>4674300
Chalker's Four Lords of the Diamond is an under-rated hot house flower of speculative fiction.

>perspective from non-human creature

Each of the four volumes, also available as an omnibus single, involve the transformation of a human into something human+alien. Many alien life forms. It rises above its formula format.

[Anonymous No.4674507]

The best I can do for all your criteria, товарищ, is the short story 'The Things' by Peter Watts. It's quite good and can be read online:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

What's good in Russian SF? All I know really is Zamyatin and the Strugatsky brothers.

[Anonymous No.4674521]

>>4674507
I am not good at Russian sci-fi arena but I like Nik Perumov and also I like these series, but I dunno are they available in English http://www.etnogenez.ru/books/

and I also like sergey tarmashev, but I doubt there are any translations

[Anonymous No.4674788]

Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves

About half of the book is written from the viewpoint of aliens in a parallel universe

[Anonymous No.4674799]

You might be interested in the short story "The Things" by Peter Watts. It's told from the perspective of the creature from the film "The Thing". The story's available freely online.

[Anonymous No.4674805]

>>4674799
Oops, I missed >>4674507. Sorry!

[Anonymous No.4674822]

>>4674300
leave ukraine alone :(

[Anonymous No.4674830]

>>4674300
here's an appetizer, OP. A modern day web classic

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html