/lit/ - Literature

>>3697462
>delightful quirkiness
>amazingly funny

>>3697422
>buying books from a store

Return Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It's grade Z trash

I knew I was in trouble when the first line of the foreward said: 'Star Maker is the most wonderful novel I have ever read', raising serious questions about how many books the foreward's writer has read.

The skepticism continued when I realized the novel was written in the first person. I'm generally not a fan of first person writing; I think it's a cheap gimmick.
The 'I' of the novel becomes an unembodied consciousness exploring the stars. This is an interesting idea, but all likeability is sucked out of it within the first 30 pages.

The consciousness comes to a planet exactly like Earth, but it's not Earth. The consciousness finds intelligent beings there, exactly like humans, but they aren't humans. The 'I' somehow inhabits one of these alien's minds and communicates with it. Instead of exploring the possibilities of potentially schizophrenic aliens, the novel's alien just accepts that an off-world consciousness can communicate with it. Suspiciously, the other world has all of the same technologies and philosophies as Earth: railways, skyscrapers, agriculture, communism, and capitalism. Great ideas fo' a unique alien culture, huh?

So the aliens find a way to disconnect their consciousness from their bodies as well, and they become a traveling group of souls through the universe looking for life. They come across many worlds and species that are stunningly uninspired. The problem with aliens in science-fiction novels is they're always over-described. The more ambiguity in description the better. Apparently Olaf Stapledon never got that lesson.

The rest of the novel is just a future history. What is meant by that is the book goes on to describe future events as if they just happened. The problem with this approach is that he doesn't set up any characters that we connect with, it's just 'recording' events that supposedly happened. This approach is incredibly boring and tedious. Anyone can write this shit.

Overall, this is a shitty book and should be avoided.

Ayo whattup you now in the presence of the mighty Hands Of Zeus aka the grand imperial Cocaine Biceps or the magnificent Galaxy Knuckles etc etc... Truth be told I wasnt gon review this shit cuz I wasnt really feelin the last couple Cudder joints namsayin..so I aint wanna bother readin this shit even.

I dont even know what to say b. Like forreal...after readin this shit...I wouldnt be surprised if this nigga could pollinate a flower wit his fuckin breath son. A forreal....this sounds like the soundtrack to some Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants type shit son. Thats what Im gon always think of son...

This is what little marshmallow ass muthafuckas do tho. Word. Now clown ass niggas is gon try n justify this shit as son jus dealin wit real nigga emotions n shit...or like he aint afraid to jus be honest.

Nah. Fuck ya real emotions b.

>>3679364
You know, it's solipsists like you that bomb people.

HAHA I remember when I was 12.
>reading fast
You don't absorb anything but you feel smart for reading books.
I can read about 50 pages per hour depending on page size, margin length, and font size.

The animation looks like shit.

Are you from Mars?

Unless you're collecting first editions, there is no point in watching what edition you buy.
It's latter.

>Afrofuturism is an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.

Thoughts?

This is only like the fourth time this subject has come up on this board
quints get!

>>3677753
>There haven't been any good sci-fi in the last 20 years.
I LOVE IT when people pretend they know shit about sci fi.

>>3677700
That actually sounds like a high class name.

But I doubt it's really yours. You wouldn't post that here.

Science fiction is probably the most respected of the genre fiction.
People still haven't forgotten the 50's.

Meditate on your name (or changing it).
If your name isn't unique, you won't be unique

>>3677215
Never heard of it.

Im so toke
I guess Im gone of that green sticky
just ripped a muthaphukkin hole in my brand new dickies
from walkin to close to the fuckin barb wire
thats when I know I've got 10 dollars on some fire
If you can do this muthaphukka
lets get a twenty
fuck white zig zags
I need some brown stickys

More discussion on this novel: commence.

That movie was Appleseed by the way.

>>3677076
>felt he had to point out the trip was different
You really are Satan, aren't you?

>>3677060
You know, I see posts like this and I think that you guys truly believe the opposite. You're just saying that to be shitty, but you know the truth. You just can't handle the truth.

>>3677054
*Yes's*
I make silly mistakes when I get excited.

>>3677042
I heard Rush's new track 'Fly From Here'. Their first without Jon Anderson and it's complete ass. Like really. It's not even passable.

>>3677042
Oh I fucking love Yes!!!

>You and I is a masterpiece
>Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) is a masterpiece
>Long Distance Roundaround is a masterpiece
>The Remembering is a masterpiece

>>3677032
Lol was just reminded of the lyrics by Fuckmaster Sex:
Bust a nut in a hoagie and create a new subspecies.