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Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:17:33 2014 No.5882880 [Reply] [Original]

what's the best science fiction novel i've never heard of?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:19:57 2014 No.5882888 >>5882880 BNW

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:21:52 2014 No.5882893 The Universe Where OP is Popular and Gets a Girlfriend. Name is pretty self-explanatory. Good story but it's a little too unrealistic for me

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:23:00 2014 No.5882896 File: 34 KB, 312x475, dispossessed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882880 Pic unless you've heard of it. If you have, then just go down the list of Le Guin, PKD, and Wolfe novels until you hit one you haven't heard of.ihb

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:23:55 2014 No.5882900 It's like I'm on r/books

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:24:05 2014 No.5882903 >>5882896 haven't heard of it. thank you

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:24:29 2014 No.5882907 Existence by David Brin.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:25:10 2014 No.5882908 File: 602 KB, 500x500, ayyy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882896

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:27:40 2014 No.5882919 >>5882900 how do you know what its like there

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:36:16 2014 No.5882947 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:49:47 2014 No.5882991 Solaris? I don't know what you haven't heard of.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:52:38 2014 No.5883000 >>5882991 like the ones that the casual sci fi reader hasn't heard of

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 20:52:39 2014 No.5883001 >>5882880 A wild guess: "The Paradox Men" by Charles Harness.

>>	傘 !CAERF1YrA. Fri Dec 19 21:02:13 2014 No.5883035 File: 49 KB, 330x500, Ten+Billion+Days+and+One+Hundred+Billion+Nights.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 21:04:02 2014 No.5883042 Burgess' The Wanting Seed I guess doesn't get mentioned much comparatively Benson's The Lord of The World I suppose might be making a comeback with the pope's endorsement

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 19 21:14:55 2014 No.5883089 >>5882919 Because I'm addicted to the internet and /lit/ moves too slow.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 01:46:19 2014 No.5883891 File: 18 KB, 314x475, vurt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Vurt by Jeff Noon

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 02:10:29 2014 No.5883945 >>5882880 Hawking's A Brief History of Time it's not fiction, though, or at least not supposed to be

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 02:18:56 2014 No.5883972 dune

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:19:22 2014 No.5884386 File: 45 KB, 416x640, Pulaster.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pulaster. But I guess there's no translation to any language.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:21:00 2014 No.5884392 Russell's Wasp dat guerrilla terrorism

Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:24:29 2014 No.5884399
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Kim Stanley Robinson lives nearby my university and visited my sci-fi class to speak about his novels and literature and whatnot; really cool and funny guy. Although he's not exactly obscure, a lot of people don't know about him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:28:36 2014 No.5884409 >>5882880 The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester. Gibson named it as his favorite SF novel a few years ago, and it greatly influenced the cyberpunk genre as it grew in the 80s.

Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:32:38 2014 No.5884417
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Any of the short stories by Ken Liu, a lot of which you can find on his website. His short story "The Paper Menagerie" cleaned house by winning the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards (first time any work of fiction has swept all three awards).

He is a relatively new sci-fi writer and despite his having great success (see: above), he's never talked about on here (like so many non-canonized authors)...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:34:01 2014 No.5884421 >>5884417 I would recommend "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" as a good starting place with Liu. Also nominated for a Hugo and is a fucking great story.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:34:15 2014 No.5884422 >>5884417 In a similar vain: Is Ted Chiang well-known? He writes amazing quasi-SF, yet he publishes so slow

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:35:01 2014 No.5884423 >>5884421 link: http://kenliu.name/binary/liu_the_man_who_ended_history.pdf

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:36:05 2014 No.5884426 >>5884422 I've never heard of him, so he's unknown to me at least. Any recommendations for where to start with Chiang's work?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:37:26 2014 No.5884428 >>5884422 Damn, dude is racking up the awards. Surprised I haven't heard of him. Thanks turning me on to him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 06:45:06 2014 No.5884445 >>5884426 There's a great collection of short stories in Stories of Your Life and Others There's also a published novella (The Lifecycle of Software Objects) which I didn't love as much as the stories, but it was still good

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Sat Dec 20 06:47:19 2014 No.5884454 >>5884422 he is well-known, like every his work gets an award

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 15:34:31 2014 No.5885889 >>5882880 The sons of Zefyr. It is my first sci-fi novel op. It'll be memorable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 21:36:37 2014 No.5887468 File: 598 KB, 725x1086, This Perfect Day .jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882880

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 22:29:02 2014 No.5887667 File: 28 KB, 258x400, arslan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 23:38:41 2014 No.5887878 File: 76 KB, 750x482, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The transmigration of Timothy archer and the three stigmata of Palmer eldrich by Philip k dick, and 2001: a space odyssey

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 20 23:43:21 2014 No.5887893 "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, its getting more popular on /lit but still pretty unheard of.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 08:13:18 2014 No.5889100 >>5883891 High five shit was dope

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 12:25:46 2014 No.5889739 File: 40 KB, 320x320, Shambling towards hiroshima.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Or anything by this author, though some of them fall into the fantasy category.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 17:03:31 2014 No.5890637 File: 36 KB, 720x360, plat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5884422 Can confirm, ted chiang very good. good strong speculative fiction/ sci-fi

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 17:06:31 2014 No.5890645 >>5882880 Obligatory Book Of The New Sun and 5th Head of Cerberus recommendations.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 17:13:44 2014 No.5890676 >>5884417 I fucking love The Liu. "The Waves" is fucking amazing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 18:44:47 2014 No.5891008 File: 17 KB, 180x300, Age.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882880 Eerily accurate depiction of a future society (until he throws an octopus alien in for no good reason) and comfy as all hell.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 18:55:38 2014 No.5891042 >>5882991 Seconding Solaris, if you like hard sci fi. One of the best I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 19:11:17 2014 No.5891097 >>5891042 solaris isn't hard sci fi. most of it is just whiny faggot love shit

>>	Maring Sun Dec 21 23:57:19 2014 No.5892298 File: 9 KB, 315x268, chris-hansen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882893 Why don't you have a seat right over there?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 21 23:59:48 2014 No.5892303 >>5883089 go read instead of lurking reddit u fag

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 22 10:14:03 2014 No.5893642 File: 15 KB, 307x475, dhalgren-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 22 12:38:22 2014 No.5894017 Mockingbird

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 22 20:16:11 2014 No.5895517 File: 26 KB, 460x276, Noel-Edmonds--008[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882908 >>5882896

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 22 20:17:50 2014 No.5895522 >>5883035 What's the deal with this, I'm intrigued.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 22 20:18:31 2014 No.5895526 >>5884399 I wish he'd write fewer books about global warming.

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