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So /lit/,

what's your opinion about science-fiction?

>> No.1815553

some of it's cool, some of it drools. just like every other genre or THING in the human imagination besides child porn and steampunk

>> No.1815554

I could like it if i try, but i think it's like playing video games, something that can entertain u but it won't make u smarter or brighter.

>> No.1815559

Some books are good, some aren't. It's a genre, it's bound to be like that. Your question is too vague.

>> No.1815561

>>1815554
there are pretty much no video games with good, intelligent adult narratives*. even if you turn up your nose at everything that goes on the science fiction shelf at the bookstore there are a lot of highfalutin literary novelists who write scifi under a different name (or just write scifi, period).

*besides paperboy for genesis

>> No.1815569

So what you think about writers like Asimov, Philip K. Dick?

>> No.1815570

>>1815554
Try reading 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons

>> No.1815572

>>1815570

Thanks for the suggestion

>> No.1815573

Depends on what science-fiction. Do you have any special author in mind?

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>>1815569
they suck

>> No.1815593

I prefer hard science fiction.

Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynold, Greg Egan, Gregory Benford, Peter Watts.
Although not all their books shine.

Iain Banks has more space-operish SF but he is quite good also.

>> No.1815596

>>1815569
Much of Dick sux. Asimov was good for me 15 years ago, when I was 15 ;)
Foundation series sux though. I prefer his short stories

>> No.1815602

>>1815569
I've never read anything by Dick but I finally picked up a book by Asimov on a whim (The Robots of Dawn) and was surprised at how much I liked it. I tried Pebble In The Sky and liked it too (to a lesser degree though). Trying to read the Galactic Empire series before I start on Foundation though.

As for scifi in general, haven't read much to be honest.

>> No.1815607

>>1815570
So, did somebody read Hyperion?
I think that besides rather weak stuff, there are really great themes.

>> No.1815614

>>1815570
I've been wondering if that's good. I loved Summer of Night but didn't much care at all for The Terror, so I'm iffy. Neither are science fiction though of course...

>>1815593
Is the Revelation Space series any good, dya know?

>> No.1815623

I like when science-fiction makes me think that the stuff can be real.

>> No.1817351

>>1815614
Revelation Space is vert good, yes.
Pushing Ice is also worth reading.

>> No.1817606

>>1815602
The Foundation trilogy wasn't that good. Of course thats also all I have read by Asimov.

>> No.1817737

>>1815596
>Much of Dick sux
>Foundation series sux though
>sux

Sure you're not still 15, bro?

>> No.1817744

Rewarding and Satisfying if done correctly (which it almost always never is).

>> No.1817816

Try Dune, greatest of all time

>> No.1819223

>>1817737
32.

>> No.1820967

>>1815559

counter-sage 50


FUCKING VICTORY

>> No.1821595

Good Science/Speculative fiction does make the genre worth exploring:

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree Jr.
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
Camp Concentration - Thomas M. Disch

>> No.1821640

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is amazing dystopian novel that Huxley ripped off in Brave New World. Also, the Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley is a great, earlier sci-fi short story.

>> No.1821680

I like science fiction. Yay! But some of it is bad. Boo! One science fiction author said that 90% of anything is crap. He's probably right! Go Ted Sturgeon!