>Used to love Science Fiction >Haven't read any in

>>9103495
Scratch that, I lied, last sci-fi novel I read was Roadside Picnic.

>>9103495
Idk what you've read but check out le guin if you haven't done so

>>9103495
No. Hopefully your taste has evolved to something more literary.

>>9103495
If you want recommendations, you should first list few books which you read and liked.

after having read actual books, only Wolfe will have any merit as far as sci fi goes

>>9103583
Hell, I've read just about everything, I really enjoyed Niven's Ringworld books and Clarke's Rama books.

Anything with genuinely strange, far-out critters or situations would be appreciated.

>>9103495

As you keep reading sci-fi seems progressively less interesting imo.

>>9103608
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Rogue Moon
A Voyage to Arcturus

>>9103495
just reread P.K.Dick, problem solved

Venusia

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Lovecraft, Read the beginning of Call of Cthulu or Dagon. Solid oldschool

>>9103792
Not scifi, though.

>>9103495
>>9103518
>>9103608
OP, you're literally below trash. When the earth gets evacuated, you being left behind, as with the countless other stagnant retards like you, will be one of mankind's gifts to the future.

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Have you read Lord of Light?

It's one of the most unique takes on sci-fi I've ever read. Probably my favorite sci-fi book ever.

>>9103495
Read Stanislaw Lem or Frank Herbert's Dune.

>>9103580
Found the English major.

Enjoy your scintillating career in burger-flipping.

>>9103698
You certainly start to realise that most sci-fi authors suffer from a stunted imagination. There's some profitable cherry-picking to be done in the genre, though.

Hyperion Saga?
Cyberpunk books?

>>9103495
Have you read other Strugatzky books? Lem?

read seveneves

>oh how unliterary
>I suppose if you must wallow you might 'read' some Wolfe

My god this board is full of absolute faggots, read Hammer's Slammers OP.

>>9103495
Been there, done that, and I'm afraid it's no going back. I mean, I read one from time to time, just to get my mind off the things that really interest me, but the magic is gone. All I see are simple plots, simple characters and huge sections of technical filler, that I need to skimp read through.

An advice for those that still love science fiction. Don't go from it. Stay with it, and you'll still have a lot of fun reading it.

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>>9103495
If you haven't read Nineteen Eighty-Four, you really should.

>mfw /lit/ likes to pretend it isn't actually sci-fi.

>>9103495
Read Crusade's End

>>9103608
I feel like Iain M. Banks loses out on this board. The culture series is excellent, and his mainstream fiction isn't too bad either.

>>9103816
You'd be surprised how Lovecraftian horror implements science fiction and how it inspired sci-fi writers afterwards.

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>>9103495
Have you read the Nights Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton?

I could upload a digital version if you'd like

>>9103495
>sci fi
But it's board about literature, anon.

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>people who scoff at science fiction
>majored in liberal burger flipping while many sci-fi classics were written by STEM PhDs

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>>9103495
Seriously this one. I could tell more but have to leave right now. Check goodreads or something.

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Book of the New Sun. It's a perfect mesh of literary and sci-fi.

>>9105425
Just because you have a PhD in physics doesn't mean you can write an interesting story

>>9105481
Sci-fi is usually attacked for being a low-brow genre, not badly written.

>>9105519
What does low-brow mean, in this context? Anyway, if you compare the best sci-fi prose to the best of literary fiction it's really no contest. And I say that as a huge sci-fi fan

>>9105401
g-guess not

they are great books guys, i swear

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>>9103495

>>9104485
seconded, but start with snow crash its shorter and if you like that youll like anything else by him. my personal fave is cryptonomicon

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>>9105557
Do it senpai

>>9104588
>pick up first Hammer's Slammers omnibus
>introduction by Gene Wolfe

What am I supposed to make of this

>>9103495
Star Maker

It's pretty awesome

>>9103816
The Whisperer In Darkness is the most sci-fi of his stories, read that

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I love sci-fi, but it feels like such a waste of time, I could be reading some deeper shit yet here I am reading a book as big as the bible about spacetravel.

>>9105732
I feel the same way about 4chan.

>>9105732
Philosophical sci-fi is more interesting than scientific sci-fi.

>>9105732
Gonna repeat my recommendation of Star Maker then. It gets pretty thoughtful as it goes on, Stapleton's views of civilization and his deist beliefs really come through, it's a lot more than a story about aliens.

>>9105732
P K D
K
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Phillip is unironically very philosophical. He absolutely loves to turn things we take for granted on their heads and write entire novels based on these kinds of things.

>>9105519
>Sci-fi is usually attacked for being a low-brow genre, not badly written
Entirely wrong. Bad prose (and characterisation) is by far the most common criticism.

Whats some good short stories?

>>9105835
Arthur C Clarke, The Star

>>9105838
thanks!

>>9105835
Ballard's short stories are good. Fun starting points might be The Intensive Care Unit, Manhole 69, Having a Wonderful Time, The Dead Astronaut and (getting into some of his weirder stuff) The Voices of Time.

Gene Wolfe as well, obviously.

>>9104459
>Hyperion Saga?
How does this compares to the Foundation Saga? I did a quick look up on google and it sounds pretty much like Asimov's.

Not OP btw.

Only speculative fiction I ever bothered with was Lovecraft. Is it worth going beyond that?

>>9104253
>buttmad manchild got his feelings hurt because someone criticized his pew pew masturbatory fantasy adventure books

>>9106566
>Hyperion
A+
>Fall of Hyperion
B+
>Endymion
C-
>Rise of Endymion
F

Stop after Fall.

>>9104253
>>9107588
English Major here, I have yet to have a class without at least one sci-fi novel. 'Never Let Me Go', 'Under The Skin', 'The Road', 'Oryx and Crake' and this semester 'The Windup Girl' features in my third-year unit "Utopian and Dystopian Visions."

So, you know, literature and sci-fi aren't mutually exclusive. And it's unwise at best, absolute idiocy at worst, to imply that an overlap between the two is impossible.

>>9107620
This, Hyperion and FOH are fantastic, didn't bother reading Endymion.

Read some Harlan Ellison, OP.

>>9107642

Those are good books but there are English classes on pretty much everything. It's not as if you only study literature, and that being featured in a university syllabus is some kind of honor.

>>9103495
Science fiction is generally tge worst genre. Generally, you ether get pulpy stuff, or hard scifi which is the most autistic shit.

>>9105557
Different anon but they look pretty interesting and I'm adding them to my backlog, could you upload a digital copy for me?