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What about some god tier Sci Fi ?

>> No.6520954

I've been reading Childhood's End and it's pretty good. Super interesting premise IMO.

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>> No.6520986

Olaf Stapledon

>> No.6520987

E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau.

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>>6520960
goddamn watts, i just read both blindsight and echopraxia and now i can't get started on another book because i'm stuck on the characters and unanswered questions about them and the world.

>> No.6522316

Lesabéndio -- Scheerbart
Calvino's scifi book

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>>6520940
You know you want to read Gene Wolfe, 5th Head of Cerberus and Book of the New Sun in particular.

>> No.6522743

I enjoyed the Revelation Space universe.

>> No.6522771

>>6522316
ohh cosmicomics is real good

>> No.6522821

Philip K. Dick

>> No.6523172

>>6522821
PKD is a fucking terrible author. People only give a damn about him because of Bladerunner, which itself was only so good because it changed almost everything about the original story.

>> No.6523449

>>6523172

Too bad Do Androids curbstomps Bladerunner into the fucking ground. BR is only good because of its visual assets, it threw out everything good about the story.

>> No.6523459

Kilgore Trout

>> No.6523504

Ringworld

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>>6523172
I think PKD is a good author but he's definitely overrated, mostly because of the success of cinematic adaptations of his work. His writing was poorly edited and it shows.

>>6520940
>god tier scifi
pic related

>> No.6523513

Stainslaw Lem - Solaris and His Masters Voice are good entries into his works.

>> No.6525644

Armor - Steakely
Old Man's War - Scalzi
Blindsight - Watts
Fine Structure - Hughes

>> No.6525653

>>6520954
I borrowed it from the library and there's a review scribbled in pencil on the first page which says "yet another pseudobuddhist story for childish minds"

>> No.6525663

>>6525653
The irony of that review stings

>> No.6525686

>>6523459
>Kilgore Trout
This, also Hawthorne Abendsen

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>>6520940
For goodness' sake, /lit/, how is it possible to have such a thread up for more than 24 hours without mention of Stanisław Lem?