Hi /lit/, I want to make a graph of recommended sf works by era
So far for the 1950s I can think of The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, The Space Merchants, Cities in Flight, A Canticle for Leibowitz, probably a few more
And so far 1960s Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune, Man in the High Castle, Babel-17 and Einstein Intersection and Nova, The Dispossessed and Left Hand of Darkness
I can't think of too many for the 70s and 80s, probably concentrated too much on older works and recent stuff :/
So any suggestions?
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>>9082503
the dispossessed was published in '74 you retard
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Roadside Picnic
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>>9082503
1. You're cancer. You've deigned yourself worthy enough to make a half assed chart, but you haven't read half the works you name dropped. And you clearly have no expertise and therefore no business attempting this in the first place.
2. Stop trying to make charts, period, but especially if you need /lit/ as a think tank.
3. I'm going back to afking in Lol, hopefully all my accounts will be banned by the end of this year, and I'll devote my time to being even more of a sociopath.
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Guess the book from stock photo game
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Of mice and men
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What authors are /lit/ equivalent of indie\twee pop?
>inb4 Stephen Chbosky\ John Green
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just stopping by to say that belle and sebastian are boring as fuck.
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>>9082421
Early Singles are great.
Latter is shit imao
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I dunno, but twee pop is awesome. Go sailor, the school, allo darlin, trixies big red motorbike, everyone asks about you, advantage lucy; it's all great stuff. I didn't know the smiths were twee, but they're god tier.
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I just finished this. Bawled my fucking eyes out. Why was Edith such a cunt???????
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Because she was raised to get whatever the hell she wanted. Look at the character of her parents.
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Poor Grace
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>>9081567
Seriously now, what the fuck was Lomax' problem? He seems evil for no real reason at all or at least no motive
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did knausgaard save literature by killing irony?
is his the voice that dfw foresaw?
what the fuck was the end of my struggle volume 3? why was there a tween orgy?
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>>9081435
>tween orgy
sign me up
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>>9081438
his novels have a suspicious amount of hebephilia in them. come to think of it, so did the ice palace
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I've actually been thinking about how DFW might receive the Karl Ove books since I read them.
Hopefully on the poltergeist express. But, seriously, I think KOK might have been DFWs man.
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I'm curious, do you think he has a job?
Authors like Pynchon and DeLillo are obviously revered, but they're not hit writers by any means. How do they make a living? People like Gass/DFW/Junot Diaz/etc. all have university teaching jobs.
How does this guy pay the bills? Is it weird to ask that?
>select all images with a store front
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>>9081281
>Pay
>Bills
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>>9081281
They're not at Stephen King or J.K. Rowling levels, but they still sell quite a bit of books. They can live.
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If you live modestly a few million can go a long way.
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MORAL PRAGMATIST READIN'
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what about it?
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JOHN GREEN FOLLOWIN
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LOWTIERANIMEWATCHIN
Thinking of reading pic related. I hear it's Patrician-tier fantasy.
Am I on the right path or am I falling for a meme?
Help me, fellas.
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>>9080714
Bloom thinks its gonna be canon, so it's probably good.
I hope he'll like my book.
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STOP SPAMMING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>9080714
It's excellent. Peake, Eddison, and Wolfe are the patrician fantasy triumvirate. I think you'll know pretty quickly whether it's your thing or not.
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Futurism, AI, and Plato 2017-02-09 02:55:27 Post No.9080713
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So long as technological progress holds relatively steady, I think it is reasonable to say that one day we might have artificial intelligence comparable to our human intelligence.
So, could an artificial intelligence one day serve as a truly enlightened despot, similar to how Plato envisioned a philosopher king in the Republic?
Let's discuss.
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No, because the AI would just kill everyone.
There is literally no situation in which an AI doesn't kill everyone.
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>>9080713
Why would you trust an AI to run society
Nature has provided a hundred million years of tried and true leadership
Why not let an AI impregnate your girlfriend you cyber cuck
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>>9080932
this
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Why isn't this book discussed more often? I am 300 pages into it and it's fucking amazing. What did you think?
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Barth has been discussed into the ground. I can only talk about this pirate rape meme for so many years. Babbys second pomo
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>>9080674
What's funny is that I put it off for a long time, reading a ton of other postmodern lit, before I finally picked this one up. I'm not sure why I put it off so long, he's clearly up there with the best of them, in my opinion. Fair enough, though. Guess I'll just fuck off and look through the archives.
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barth is sublime
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>hurr I don't use commas when listing things and am therefore great prose stylist.
Does he have any redeeming qualities?
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FARTS
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>>9080187
fair point.
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>Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.
Any books on mindfulness that aren't just new age horseshit?
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>>9080036
OP's pic truly nails it. It's a bit uncanny.
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>>9080036
The only thing that applies to me in that image are glasses (unless the drink doubles as tea).
Read Dogen, OP.
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>>9080047
Really special, ain't you?
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>tfw accidentally started with the Sumerians
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>mfw I began with the Babylonians
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The sumerians are the best place to start though
Gilgamesh is literally the greatest story ever told
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>mfw started with the postmodernists
"I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar."
Where were you when Nietzsche BTFO every argument for God's existence in one aphorism?
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>it's another "reductionist fedoras appropriate Nietzsche for the nth time" episode
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>>9079281
>Impling that Nietzsche is the god of fedoras who never have read a book of him
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>>9079281
I guarantee I have a more solid understanding and have read far more Nietzsche than you have.
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Has any book ever made you cry? 2017-02-08 03:37:48 Post No.9078169
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Has any book ever made you cry?
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Don Quixote came very close. The amount of misfortune that he experiences throughout the book andSancho's final words to Don Quixote before the Don dies - basically saying their adventures should continue because that's when they're at their happiest, no matter how low things get for themhad me wallowing over the book for a while. That's the closest to crying I've come from reading a book. His misfortune became my own ;_;
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>>9078203
iktf
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The death of a certain character in tale of two cities got me hard