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Anonymous Mon Dec 26 21:47:31 2016 No.8889164 [Reply] [Original]

Any contemporary sci fi authors or novels worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 21:49:53 2016 No.8889175 Peter Watts

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 21:52:48 2016 No.8889183 I recently read Flood and Ark by Stephen Baxter and enjoyed them thoroughly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 21:55:37 2016 No.8889196 >>8889175 Have you read this one? The vampire shit was retarded as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 21:57:07 2016 No.8889202 people who say 'salad' when they just mean 'lettuce' should go kill themselves imo

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:00:27 2016 No.8889220 >>8889196 It's not even a vampire, dipshit. It's a hominid apex predator that, like the Neanderthal, interbred with humans. Very clever use of superstition to create yet another post-human character.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:04:22 2016 No.8889235 Annihilation by VanderMeer The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:07:13 2016 No.8889247 seriously lettuce is not called salad when you put it on a fucking sandwich. if you call it salad in that context then you are a braindead piece of shit retard who does not deserve to live

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:13:18 2016 No.8889265 >>8889220 s-sorry Peter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:15:02 2016 No.8889273 >>8889235 >Annihilation by VanderMeer >The book opens with an all-female team of four Dropped.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:16:05 2016 No.8889281 >>8889235 What interesting ideas do they present? For example the main interesting idea behind blindsight is of a super intelligent creature that is nonetheless not self aware.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:22:50 2016 No.8889305 >>8889164 The Expanse novels are pretty nice...i guess...The Martian?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:23:54 2016 No.8889308 >>8889220 Yeah, just like Twilight.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:24:40 2016 No.8889311 File: 34 KB, 324x499, aurora kim stanley robinson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8889164 I liked Seveneves and Aurora. For more simple books this >>8889305 Also >>/sffg/

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 02:12:30 2016 No.8889826 Gene Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 03:34:35 2016 No.8889947 >>8889164 When the humans started torturing the ayys just to try and communicate I wanted the ayys to win.