Redpill me on sci-fi, /lit/. > Either wondrous with a sense

>>9284321
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>>9284321
I choose the former. Doc Smith and ERB.

>>9284321
What about new wave? Like J.G. Ballard?

>>9284359
I feel like this board's going to rip me to shreds if I say the wrong thing.
I literally just picked up some comedic Sci-Fi, Douglas Adams and Yahtzee Croshaw. I know very little about the genre.

>>9284364
Basically it sucks. The genre sucks. Vurt is good. But even that probably sucks.

>>9284370
Then what doesn't suck, Dr. Subjective Opinion PhD?

>>9284400
Roadside Picnic

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>>9284321

>>9284321
"boring" means you need to cut down on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in your diet, because you have the attention span of an anopheles mosquito.

>>9284668
Bradbury and Sturgeon were fantasy writers, anon.

>>9285005
They're speculative fiction, science fiction - with the stress on 'fiction', i.e. fantasy. Bradbury is speculating about life on Mars. Sturgeon is writing about a psychic evolution.

The school of SF/sci-fi is much more broad than the Campbell school of Heinlein/Asimov/Clarke ('men with screwdrivers' stories) and Star Wars.