/m/ novel thread mk II. Discuss and talk about /m/ related

>>14810563
you should try OP

First part of Armor is pretty good. Didn't finish the second part. There's a lot of not-amazing to good /m/ books by Western writers. If I have time later I'll try and remember some good ones I enjoyed. Also Fall of Reach is very good for more details and things related to Mjolnir armor. Haven't read past the first book in Yukikaze but that's tech-porn as well. If we count body mods as /m/ theres another book I liked that I cannot remember the name of for the life of me, it's where body mods got common and cheap. Main character went by the name of whisper and could slow his heart rate and reduce his body temp, there was a guy who turned himself into an alligator man, MC's buddy was called Grasshopper ans had super long legs with carbon fiber springs or something like that. Was neat.

>>14810950
>the first book in Yukikaze

Apart from book 2 (GL yukikaze) I can't find the first book anywhere on the internet. Why is that?

>>14810563
Does the pic imply that The Forever War was an emotionally gripping novel? It was fantastic scifi, and I liked the characters, but it never reached the level of "feels" for me.

I thought it was kind of strange how the far-future sections felt so much sillier and cartoony than the early sections.

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>>14813339
This MGS3 Hiimdaisy comic meme was the first thing I thought of when I reached that scene in the stasis field during the final battle, drawing the clever plan in the soil.

>>14811159
There you go

https://mega.nz/#!UV9kHBBK!3yvfDDAitHPmpHSe99eUkxWsKmGSEq-Q7ZQlWd61kfk

Where is the dude who used to post and create threads like this and went by the name something like "archivist" ?

>>14813339
I assume that it is just good ol' fashion feel guy memes.

>>14810563

What would a Forever Feel even feel like?

>>14813607
To be immortal and see everyone else wither away with time, with only thing accompanying is loneliness.
Only thing colder than space is human heart.

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>>14813650

It's not cold. It's warm, but the warmth extends to none other. The greatest form of feel.

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>>14813658
>that pic.
That was too much for me to handle.
>>14810563
On the topic, recently I read All you need is Kill. Ending was too downer for me, but then I have heard the movie has made it typically hollywood happy ending.

>>14810563
I, Robot and related stories may be worth a shot. I heard that it's what inspired Robot Detective.

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Book of the Long Sun is set inside an O'Neill Cylinder. its also written by The Master, Gene Wolfe.
Its really cool, you should check it out.

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>>14810563

Ive read all the important Asimov and Dick
Working on Gibson right now
Who should I read next? Heinlen?

>>14811159
Because you should be spending money on both of them?

>>14813754
I want to, but there is no bookstore here that keeps it.

>t. 3rd world country.

/m/pill me on Hammer's Slammers.

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>>14813738
>Ive read all the important Asimov
Including Norby?

>>14814062
One with hovercraft tank?

>>14814279
Yep. Also, get into Ringo's stuff. Posleen have cool powered armors, Prince Roger have gaint, four armed toad aliens in power armors. Late Honorverse is also more /m/ and less naval battles in space, with cyborgs, agresive use of nanotech and good old colony drop.
Also, Bolo. Laumer, that is.

There is this series of sci-fi war books that I read when I was pretty young that I cannot for the life of me remember what they were titled.
I remember more about the technology and shit.
Most of it was infantry/squad based combat but there were also some tank team and air-air combat parts.

The infantry weapons that were mainly used were flechette rifles that just chewed through everything. Also some kind of wire guns. They loaded them with spools of wire which the gun would accelerate it and then snip are adjustable lengths.

I believe the tanks were hover tanks, don't remmeber much about them.
The fighter "planes" weren't really planes anymore. I remember them being described as more egg shaped, mainly because they used some kind of gravity drive to fly/change directions when wanted.

I know this is a long shot but someone might recognize it. Also for some reason I feel like the covers had a lot of orange on them.

>>14814523
>late Honorverse
>aka "Haven had more missiles then the enemy and the enemy all died the end" the series
>ever
It's like Mahan wrote about space combat.

Laumer's Bolo stuff is great, though.

>>14814948
I was talking more about Alliance and whole Mesa mess. And come one, Prague was great little story.

>>14814954
>TOTALLY NOT LIBERAL STRAWMAN GUYS antagonist
>TOTALLY NOT DA JEWS GUYS antagonist
That part's just as bad.

>>14813738
Haldeman.

>>14815114
>supersoldier girls
>programable nanozombies
>psionics
>Harrington is a frickin' newtype
>Cachat and co
>Oyster motherfucking BAY.
Admit it, it is entertaining. I don't see as many parallels as american would do thou, so I take those books differently than you.

>>14815114
>TOTALLY NOT DA JEWS GUYS antagonist

Oh so you've read Battlefield Earth too.

>>14814523
Eh I like Ringo's looking glass series if just because its fucking Zerg versus dudes throwing science at a wall to see what happens and later on becomes a macross ripoff sorta.

>>14817027
Considering they've used Ayumi Hamasaki's Evolution in that book, it's more of tribute really. Anime zone. Scary.

As for Zerg, have you tried Butcher's Alera? Not a sci-fi series but still good read.

>>14810563
What are some actual feel inducing /m/ literature?

>>14813731
>>14814523
>>14813518

Thanks /m/ate.

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What does /m/ feel about the Books of the New Sun?

>>14814523
Does the Honorverse have a stereotypical target demographic? When I look at the covers and skim the general setting, it almost sounds like a young adult series that girls would love. But when I look at other aspects, it doesn't seem that way at all.

Weren't the Gundam 00 novels got translated at some points?
Can anyone upload that?

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>>14819675
there were some stabs at YA-ing Honor a few years back iirc
usually it's military SF
its target audience is the author

>>14819675
Somewhere between milfic and space opera.

Baen Books in a nutshell. Milfic, space opera, and occasionally some really dumb looking cover art.

I myself kinda dropped Honor at book 1 because I wasn't really feeling it, though. I kinda glaze over real hard with space opera these days unless it's in visual media and even then what locks my attention in tends to be the effects work (which doesn't exist in written prose so...).

>>14814523
Prince Roger is fucking great

>>14819647
Fucking near impenetrable on the first read

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You guys should read this book and its sequel, Echopraxia, in fact you guys should read also his other book series, Rift, shits pretty cooland bleak as all fuck

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>>14821589
Totally.

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>>14821665
THIS
FUCKING THIS

>>14817423
Jonas' arc in book of the new sun.

>>14819647
A Masterpiece

>>14817423
Terminus by Stanislaw Lem

I came for the comedy short stories and then they stopped being comedies.

>>14821665
man, that was fucking spooky

>>14821665
Nah. This dude has some cool ideas, but he can't write sympathetic or interesting characters to save his life.

Also, Blindsight was self-indulgent to a fucking extreme. His sociopathy fetish, teenager-tier edge, and misanthropy that bordered on self-parody might it impossible to take it seriously.

Easily the most overrated science fiction novel I've ever read. Fucking horrid, goddamn.

>>14829657
*made it

I don't think you can consider Dune /m/ because one of the core principles of its setting is that any "thinking machines" are banned and replaced by Mentats, but you should read it anyway if you haven't.

>>14810950
Armor was painful as hell to read but I think I like it looking back on it. Switching from the autistic supersoldier to the insufferable rogue and then back and forth between them made for unpleasant reading but I feel like I got the point.

There's some more bug action if you keep going but more importantly I don't think that soldier-guy really has any payoff unless you keep going. The first part of the book is engaging action but is only really a prologue.

>>14829774
I only read the first novel years ago, but I remember that there are still basic computers, discreetly out of sight beneath the traditional architecture. Of course they ban AI, and they prefer mentats to digital calculators, but I thought the latter was more of an aesthetic/moral choice collateral to the Butlerian jihad, and not to imply that they think a TI-82 will take control of the spice trade.

There's gotta be some degree of computer in those spice-mining convoys and the space transports. Sure, those spice-eating space mutant pilots are responsible for the navigation, but some aspects of the ship are computerized, right?

Plenty of manually-operated mechs in /m/, and I think even your run-of-the-mill GM or Zaku would be okay under the Butlerian jihad, just not ALICE or... huh, there sure aren't a lot of AIs in Gundam, they're even rarer than aliens.

Not sure whether or not the RX-78-2's learning computer would violate the Butlerian jihad.

>>14829885
>I only read the first novel years ago, but I remember that there are still basic computers, discreetly out of sight beneath the traditional architecture.

Yeah but they can't "think". They're essentially big calculators. Mentats think.

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Anybody read this? Is it any good?

>>14832281
This fucking faggot, I refuse to read any of his books because the jackass simply lifts wholesale his images from games, thats a goddamn AC and he has another book that has Raiden on the cover

>>14832281
Damn the other anon is right, I recognize slightly modified Stasis torso, Unsung head and I can't really place the legs though

Are there fan translations for the other Legend of the Galactic Heroes novels?

Did anybody ever online-ify the Dirty Pair books?

>>14834641
As far as I can tell, not really.

>>14829888
In most of the /m/ I watch, the mecha don't think either. If we're talking strictly about piloting-giant-humanoid-robots /m/.

>>14829657
That wasn't my take on it at all.

The MC eventually realizes too late that he has needed people all along. He realizes that his ability to read people isn't a tool of manipulation, but actually a kind of prosthetic empathy that allows him to sympathize with other people in spite of his own limited capacity for emotion. The Chinese-room analogy is really the theme of the book. (A system that produces reliable results is valid even if it supposedly lacks "awareness".) Therefore, if the MC can reliably act empathetic, then he essentially *is* empathetic.
Likewise, if the alien life can reliably arrive at intelligent-seeming actions then it essentially is intelligent.

No one is going to mistake Blindsight for a character-driven novel, but it has some of the freshest and most exiting ideas I've seen in SF in a long time.

(P.S. Great example of Chinese-room problem solving in real life. A species of spider that uses fucking *time-sharing* to approximate mammalian levels of intelligence with only a few hundred thousand neurons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider))

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Leviathan always hits that /m/ itch

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>>14836011
God that was a great trilogy. Loved the artwork, the leads were all really good and the love story wasn't annoying or didn't hijack the plot.

Also loved how they made the two different alliances use different tech (bio-weapons vs steam mechas) and how Westerfeld introduced and wrote historical figures. It was a great read and I agree with you that its a great /m/ book.

>>14834321
theres the official translation

>>14836039
>>14836011
Fuck, it's been a long time. I should reread it.

>>14832320
I doubt he chose that cover. Its usually the publisher that makes those decisions.

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>>14821077
>occasionally some really dumb looking cover art.

So with NanoWrimo around the corner is anybody doing some /m/ themed writing? I'm torn between a couple genres right now and not sure where I'm gonna end up myself.

How's the Expanse series? Really digging the show, was wondering if the books were worth it (and are there any differences between them?)