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Grimdark Sci-fi 2016-03-25 05:35:12 Post No.7849056
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Grimdark Sci-fi Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:35:12 Post No. 7849056 [Report] [View this topic]

What are some grimdark Sci-fi authors? I want pure fucking edge. I wanna read about space rape.

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:41:08 Post No.7849063
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:41:08 Post No.7849063 [Report]

I would come on her face...

Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:55:39 Post No.7849094
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:55:39 Post No.7849094 [Report]

Gap Cycle

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Works of Literature under forty pages 2016-03-25 05:26:40 Post No.7849025
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Works of Literature under forty pages Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:26:40 Post No. 7849025 [Report] [View this topic]

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:27:46 Post No.7849035
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>>7849025

Thats a really good photograph OP saving to my collection

Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:29:49 Post No.7849041
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:29:49 Post No.7849041 [Report]

Gogol's The Overcoat

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:57:03 Post No. 7848950 [Report] [View this topic]

I have four books on my desk, can't decide which to read.

Starship Troopers,
Snow Crash,
Johnny Got His Gun,
and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
http://strawpoll.me/7177796

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:59:09 Post No.7848959
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:59:09 Post No.7848959 [Report]

Read something by the Pynch instead

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:00:03 Post No.7848960 [Report]

>Johnny Got His Gun,

The only good book in that pile of pre-adolescent American shit

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>>7848959
pynchon is worse than those

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:50:35 Post No. 7848937 [Report] [View this topic]

What are some good "dark" fantasy books?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:51:43 Post No.7848940
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https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkEnlightenment/

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>>7848937
Pic related, also City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:06:40 Post No. 7848803 [Report] [View this topic]

I know nothing about either of these two books but they are both on my read list. Which one should I start out with? Which one is better?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:14:04 Post No.7848826
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>>7848803
They're both complete shit and Franzen's a hack. You'd honestly even be better off reading Tao Lin. That's how bad Franzen is.

Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:16:22 Post No.7848836
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:16:22 Post No.7848836 [Report]

>>7848826
why is this guy so bad, exactly?
he seems to be reasonably well regarded outside /lit/ i think he was even on time magazine (i haven't read him, just curious)

Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:19:09 Post No.7848844
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>>7848836
I've seen threads on the Corrections a couple times on /lit/ lately

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Dostoevsky 2016-03-25 03:58:10 Post No.7848773
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Dostoevsky Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:58:10 Post No. 7848773 [Report] [View this topic]

Is he overrated?

I personally don't think so, but I seem to come across this opinion a fair bit here on /lit/...

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:02:58 Post No.7848790
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:02:58 Post No.7848790 [Report]

/lit/ just spouts nabokov meme reviews

Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:06:39 Post No.7848802
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:06:39 Post No.7848802 [Report]

overrated according to who?

If it means you aren't going to read any other Russian authors then sure

Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:12:42 Post No.7848821
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:12:42 Post No.7848821 [Report]

Not really. One of the facts I dislike, though, is that some of his are made into his christian perspective, like "christianism saves you from nihilism" and that shit.

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Book preservation 2016-03-25 03:44:32 Post No.7848724
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Book preservation Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:44:32 Post No. 7848724 [Report] [View this topic]

Best way to take care of/repair old books? hardcover and papetback

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:46:28 Post No.7848729
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Binding on the spine is getting dry and falling off

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just cover them man

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>>7848724
>pito perez

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2016-03-25 03:39:03 Post No.7848707
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:39:03 Post No. 7848707 [Report] [View this topic]

How patrician is this /lit/

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:44:38 Post No.7848725
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:44:38 Post No.7848725 [Report]

Not very. If you want a patrician extra-terrestrial contact book try His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem

Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:46:42 Post No.7848732
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>>7848707
>reddit fodder
>patrician

Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:48:47 Post No.7848743
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>>7848707
It's pop science, meaning it's a commercial product that was literally designed for the masses rather than the highly educated. The very definition of plebeian

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:21:48 Post No. 7848641 [Report] [View this topic]

I am not a regular poster here so excuse me if this is old news but have you guys heard that

The author of The Martian wrote a Ready Player One fanfiction

who else #hypedbeyond belief?

http://www.blastr.com/2016-3-22/martian-author-wrote-ready-player-one-fan-fiction-which-now-official-canon

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:25:03 Post No.7848653
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>>7848641
please be bait

Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:35:56 Post No.7848698
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>>7848653
why would you think that?

Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:41:10 Post No.7848714
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:41:10 Post No.7848714 [Report]

bump

where are the Wier fans

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:21:36 Post No. 7848638 [Report] [View this topic]

" im twenty six inches tall" so, im supposed to believe that this guy is that ridiculously small?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:24:20 Post No.7848648
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>>7848638
It's fiction, you can believe or not believe what ever the fuck you want to believe

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>>7848648
No adult is that fucking short, was the fuck whas lagerkvist thinking? why the need of making him that fucking small?

Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:28:02 Post No.7848668
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>>7848666
idk if u realized this, but he is a dwarf

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:10:47 Post No. 7848605 [Report] [View this topic]

>God is dead
>tfw I fell for the /lit/ meme
>tfw you read the full quote and realize how it is constantly taken out of context and does not actually go against the notion of God existing
>tfw he actually makes sense

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:13:09 Post No.7848614
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:13:09 Post No.7848614 [Report]

remember when /lit/ was spammed with that pic

Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:42:45 Post No.7849066
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 05:42:45 Post No.7849066 [Report]

>>7848605
yes, but there are worse misinterpretations.

God is dead, God is dying... God is a principle of death, of nihilism. God is anti-life.
That's what he meant, if I recall correctly.

Anonymous 2016-03-25 14:44:11 Post No.7849917
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>>7848605
>>7849066

It goes against the notion of God existing, you're just retard kids overinterpreting.

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:01:27 Post No. 7848567 [Report] [View this topic]

My friend gave me The Martian and I liked it well enough. I thought it was good to see some hard SF get noticed for a change over the usual space operas. Andy Weir isn't a genius or anything but he told a good story. I even liked the movie even though I don't really care about Matt Damon.

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:02:14 Post No.7848570
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>>7848567
>My friend gave me The Martian and I liked it well enough
>Andy Weir isn't a genius or anything but he told a good story
you just discovered that you aren't /lit/ material

Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:02:33 Post No.7848573
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>>7848567
reddit general?

Anonymous 2016-03-25 03:15:30 Post No.7848625
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>>7848567
conform or you won't survive

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 02:32:02 Post No. 7848468 [Report] [View this topic]

What are some novels that deal with the topic of biological senescence/the fear of getting older? The more anxiety and telluric the better!

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 02:35:05 Post No.7848480
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Bluebeard, the most underrated Vonnegut novel in my opinion. Breakfast of Champions, somewhat.

Vonnegut is simplistic but, in my opinion, good at storytelling and making characters.

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>>7848468
h e l l o
what definition of telluric are you using in this context?

Anonymous 2016-03-25 02:36:13 Post No.7848486
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 02:36:13 Post No.7848486 [Report]

Cormac McCarthy?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 02:00:27 Post No. 7848358 [Report] [View this topic]

is Red Storm Rising and other Tom Clancy novels /lit/ tier
>im gonna read it anyways

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:11:56 Post No.7848819
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>>7848358
The Hunt for the Red October is very technical. I'm not so sure about the other books.

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 04:15:50 Post No.7848833 [Report]

David Foster Wallace lists them in his top favorite books of all time

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 01:44:03 Post No. 7848300 [Report] [View this topic]

how good are the translations from russian?
what am i missing by not reading the original versions?

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Anonymous 2016-03-25 01:45:21 Post No.7848304
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Anonymous 2016-03-25 01:45:21 Post No.7848304 [Report]

You'll never fully understand Russian anyways...

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>>7848300
Louise and Aylmer maude translation of Tolstoy's work is relevant and beautiful. Just have no faith in others' translation. Example P&V for Fyodor since that article came out.

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>>7848327
>that article
link

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