Best sci-fi novels with literary merit?

a voyage to arcturus

Altered Carbon is the best Sci-Fi book of all time.

Define "literary merit", chucklefuck.

Anyway, The Forever War I feel has merit because it harkens back to the original point of sci-fi: using technology as a setting to present a contemporary view on society by way of metaphor. It's good regardless, but having military experience heightens it.

Also, The New Sun series is solid overall, great commentary, astounding prose, wicked sense of humor etc

Bloom slightly overrated this novel, although there are some scenes of great intensity. Worth a read.

>>9991304
>define literary merit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_fiction

>>9991328
Not risking another trojan from this site

>>9991338
kek

>>9991312
You think so? Once I heard Bloom's opinions on it, I got hyped, and so far, the book is meeting my expectations. I love just about everything so far.

>>9991246
Pretty much the complete works of Gene Wolfe. The man is so far ahead of everyone else in the game that it's ridiculous.
>The Fifth Head of Cerberus
>Book of the New Sun
>Book of the Long Sun
>Book of the Short Sun
His other work isn't as explicitly science-fiction but it all falls under the general umbrella term of 'genre-fiction'.

>>9991388
Maybe me and Bloom dont quite share the same aesthetic tastes. He also hyped up Tolstoy's Hadji Murad and I was quite meh about that.

One of my own faults with Voyage is that I may have been trying to over-analyse every "event" that happens in the book in reference to gnosticism. Saying that, I still liked it though.

Where you at?

I kept thinking throughout the book though that Christopher Nolan would make a kick-ass movie out of this

>>9991495
Gene Wolfe is a meme. Book of the New Sun is just okay and most of his work is shit.

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>>9991246
*blocks your path*

>>9991246
Scifi novels with literary merit are not known as scifi novels.

>>9991549
Understandable. We must have different tastes then.

And yes, I agree Chris Nolan could make this a fantastic movie.

I think I'm about halfway through chapter 2.

>>9992008
Then what are A Voyage to Arcturus and Solaris known as?

>>9991771
this

>>9991246
Herbert, Ballard and Boulle rank high in this regard imo.

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>>9991246
Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Clarke's Childhood's End
Stapledon's

>>9992439
>halfway through chapter 2

you're not even to the 'trip' yet. it changes dramatically after the night of departure

>>9992719
good taste my dear butts

>>9992719
>Clarke's Childhood's End
dude! allegories on how humans are fundamentally flawed because of their instrinsic alienation from the universe, LMAO
jk, it's a good book

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I forgot somehow We
Just finished it. Really great
I loved the open ended finish

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bought this awhile ago but haven't gotten around to it yet
is it any good, /lit/ ?

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>>9992914
Blindsight is to /sffg/ what Infinite Jest is to /lit/

I don't mean in terms of literary merit, but in terms of accumulated meme capital

>>9992746
I know. I'm fucking hyped.

>>9991756
Lulz looks like someone is lowest common denominator/ functionally illiterate/ a philistine. Or just not very perceptive.

>>9992719
The dispossesed sucks donkey dick. You only like it because its "anarchocommunist" or whatever

>>9993462
It's anarcho-Odoeanist, scrub.

Back to your dildos, fart-fetishist.

book o da new sun

>>9991756
let me just note that in my "new opinions adopted via the internet" notebook

>>9991246
A Voyage to Arcturus
The Book of the New Sun quartet
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Riddley Walker
The Glass Bead Game

>>9991292
It's not even good noir

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>>9992719
Le Guin is an axe-grinding hack. Stapledon is worth reading, though I preferred Last and First Men to Star Maker

>>9994675
glass bead game is not sci fi you scrub

>>9992719
Literally my favs.

>>9993462
Say what you will of the ideology; it's an interesting take regardless.