/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5070117]

ITT: novels where humanity faces aliens.

- war
- politics
- theology

The smarter the better, but if it's good, recommend away.

[Anonymous No.5070126]

Definitely read The Forever War though it might not be exactly what you're looking for. I'd recommend avoiding spoiling it, too.

[Anonymous No.5070130]

>>5070126

it's exactly what I'm looking for. I loved reading it, though I was thoroughly disappointed with the aliens, eventually.

Should I read the rest of that series?

[Anonymous No.5070133]

I'm writing my own story about first contact with aliens. So far I have written two words: "Ayy lmao"

[Anonymous No.5070144]

Posting this because I don't expect anyone else will.

It looks like comedy at first but then isn't. Pretty smart stuff but mostly dialogue.

[Anonymous No.5070201]

Nevermind the hate, this one is legendary.

[Anonymous No.5070219]

[Anonymous No.5070222]

>genre fiction

[Anonymous No.5070225]

>>5070222
*tips literary fedora*

[Anonymous No.5070234]

>theology

Any sufficiently advanced civilization will be 100% atheist.

[Anonymous No.5070236]

>>5070234

Of course not, don't be stupid. Pic related, it's what you're doing.

[Anonymous No.5070249]

[Anonymous No.5071029]

>The plot begins with the discovery of an intelligent alien species on a planet orbiting an anomalous star, dubbed On/Off because for 215 of every 250 years it is dormant, releasing almost no energy. During this period, the planet freezes and its fauna go into hibernation. The planet's inhabitants, called "Spiders" by the humans for their resemblance to arachnids, have reached a stage of technological development very similar to that of Earth's humans in the early 20th century, although humans believe that they may once have been capable of space travel. If this is true, then whoever can establish ties with the aliens first could reap unimaginable rewards; humans have made contact with only one other intelligent (but non-technological) alien species in millennia of travel through the stars. Two human groups launch expeditions to the Spider world: the Qeng Ho (pronounced Cheng Ho and named after the explorer Zheng He), traders who have developed a common interstellar culture for humanity; and the Emergents, an authoritarian civilization that literally enslaves selected human minds and has only recently re-emerged from a Dark Age.
Half of it is written from the alien POV, he pulls it off really well

[Anonymous No.5071299]

>>5070234
tell that to the fucking Idirans.

[Anonymous No.5071425]

>>5070234
Not necesarily, religion is a delusion that motivates people, that's why there is a lack of atheist presidents

[Anonymous No.5071934]

>>5070234
unless the civilization operates like an ant colony and every citizen has a set role and knows nothing else outside that role. the leaders or "brain" citizens may be atheist but the 95% that makes up the rest of civilization would not know better and religion may actually be used as a way of control.

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.5071950]

>>5071299
haha, i remembered them too

>>5071425
religion isn't a delusion, it's a philosophic choice whose correctness you cannot measure
atheism is the same

[Anonymous No.5072000]

>>5071950
>correctness you cannot measure

If it's used to justify natural phenomenon (as it very often is), then its correctness is absolutely measurable.

[Anonymous No.5072040]