Post /m/-related literature worth reading. New or old doesn't

yukikaze
good luck yukikaze ( chohei kambayashi)
leviathan ( david lynn golemon)

>>15114967
Metropolis
the book that tied in with the silent movie
As far as I understand it was sorta like 2001 where the movie and the book were developed concurrently.
It expands the story beyond even the restored versions of the movie.

RUR's worth glancing through for historical sake but I didn't get much from it beyond that. Maybe there's some great wordplay in the Polish version that doesn't carry over to English?

The forever war

>>15114967
Armor, by Steakley
Hammer's Slammers (why the fuck does no bookstore ever have it? I live in Portland, even Powells doesn't have it.)
Leviathan (the teen book about biopunk/dieselpunk WW1)
Bolo (at least the first couple anthologies)

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>>15115141
The last book of the series particularly.

>>15115141
Lensman is like the most apeshit utterly insane and over the top super robot anime only without actual robots

>>15115979
I also recommend the John Carter of Mars/Barsoom books if you dug Lensman.

>>15115995
It's a shame the movie flopped so bad.

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Titanicus
by
Dan Abnett

Really good, even despite being a Warhammer 40,000 novel.

>>15115141
God damn I wish Lensman was on project guttenburg. I can't find any boxset of the books for a decent price.

I wish I had saved the download links that VF-Kun posted years ago.

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>>15115979

I might take some flak for suggesting this but the Jack McKinney Robotech novels are pretty good reads. Especially the two Macross Saga novels.

>>15114967
Wolves on the Border, from the Battletech novels. Assuming you don't mind 80's portrayals of other cultures.

Actually, most of the Battletech novels are at least decent plot wise, if you can ignore Stackpole writing the same character 50 times, and pretty great for mecha battles on the page.

Don't read Far Country though. It's just bad

>>15116420
What's wrong with bootleg Battle of Endor with extra stupid?

>>15115979
I thought the power suits counted as robots?

>>15114967
Hyperion is pretty good.
War of the Worlds for a classic

>>15116329
It's a shame the anime series wasn't as good as the movie and ignored its continuity

>>15114967
I don't think that /m/ appeal really works in literature. Armor is a mediocre character study about hero myths versus reality and Starship Troopers is a series of light political essays tied together by YA action which caught on completely by mistake. I've never read anything else that I think I'd consider remotely /m/. I just don't see it working. /m/ is all about visuals.

Anything by Evan Currie. The tech in his books is fantastic, but big mechs don't show up too much. However he loves going into details during battles.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12753230-on-silver-wings

Great series with lots of interesting ideas I guarantee you haven't considered.

>>15116489
You seriously have never read a good story about spaceships and futuristic machines?

>>15116507
I don't really think that the usual 'honorary /m/' criteria apply in literature. I think that /m/ is kind of an aesthetic as much as it's a style/genre. I've read good stories with spaceships and futuristic machines but I don't think that any of them really had the /m/ factor.

>>15116420
>Wolves on the Border
Minobu Tetsuhara did nothing wrong.

>>15116400
They are better than they have any right to be.

>>15115979
Self piloting ships, drones, and power-armor are robots enough.

>>15117061
Power armor are armor, not robutts

still mecha thought

>>15116288
Why? I can find the whole saga without much problems.

>>15117078
Might not be a robot, but the suit was basically a tank, it even has an engine in it.

>>15114967
All You Need is Kill if nobody's said it already. Modern classic.

I'm reading Armada and aside from LOOK HOW MANY NERD REFERENCES WE CAN SHOVE IN it's actually quite fun once it gets going.

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The Honor Harrington series is always a great time.

It's basically just several thousand pages of spaceship combat.

>>15116512

Military sci fi seems plenty of /m/ to me. The aesthetics are in your head when you read.

>>15116524
except lose

>>15118177
Can't beat the Goons, man.

Well, unless you're Wayne Waco (did nothing wrong).

>>15117260
There is also a healthy dose of power armor combat.

>>15117260
Until it fragmented into dozens of barely relevant side stories about intrigue on some backwater planet or other --- most taking place around the same time so the main plot doesn't have to go anywhere --- anyways.

Tried a preview of the latest book and the infodump of irrelevant people and their politics was so thick I just couldn't get through it. I know it's supposed to tie together all the side stories and the main series but I guess I just miss the old Harrington death rides.

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The Armor of God (Diego Valenzuela) kinda new put it late 2010's
Not a bad read good military / mecha

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>>15117260

Lost Fleet

>>15114967
Does Keith Laumer's BOLO count? I mean, it's not giant stompy robots, its giant planet destroying tanks, but it's still really good.

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>>15116454

>I thought the power suits counted as robots?

Power armor are mecha but not robots, its a mechanical "mobile suit".

Its like saying a crewed tanks was robots its not, the only robot tank are Bolos

>>15122973
Bolos have human commanders, anon.

>>15122993
75% of their functions are runned by AI, they're just like Orbital Frames but in the shape of tanks.

Humans are there just to make decissions and commands, not to control it completely.

>>15114967
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is superior Heinlein. /m/ike is broest of bros.

>>15115074

Definitely the Forever War, excellent book.

>>15123067
Programs don't quite equal a robot.
Since cam-shafts can also be considered somewhat as "programs" and since these all require human execution of said programs.
Maybe you're mixing 'computers' with "robots" here.

>>15123665
The problem is the Bolos are actually autonomous, only require the commander to give a set of commands or override it and given another set of command, not just equipment app like you just said.

Hell the latest X and XX onwards are even directly controled by AI and can be crewed by a commander to oversee it or be left on its own, its pretty much becomes a robot already.

Feet of Clay is a Discworld novel about golems. /m/ as all hell, really.

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>>15114967
Legend of the galactic heroes.
3 out of ten books have been translated and viz media has green lighted the translations on 4 and 5 at least.

As for what they are about, warfare in space, politics and life of the admirals within both sides of the war.

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>>15116288
YO!

https://mega.nz/#!Yd8XGQCD!krP_bK6WRfk0ADjDWBL2i4Ey1j9TPjv29gxrAqcX2WY

>>15116286
I actually rather liked his THunderbolts book

Really wanted to look up Titanicus; but wonder which army they fuck with...

>>15126668
It's largely hot Admech on Admech action. There's actually a surprisingly decent amount of focus on the transhumanism and how their lives differ from conventional humans, making it especially /m/.

I really like Titanicus.

>>15116286

Gristle-faced and lipless, the regiments of the dead howl out their awful calumny as your footfall passes. Dun smoke fills the massive cavity of space. Oh machine! Oh divine engine! Furnace hot the welter of your combustion, buckling the rancid air of heaven's arch and fusing the mould of the ground to glass. The princeps in his amniosis, drinking liquid data, broken by the beautiful agony of being so mighty, feels the burden of your great walk as surely as if he had carved the mausoleum plaques of your every last victim alone, by hand, until finger bones peep through eroded flesh. Oh metal god! The union is fierce, like a maelstrom in black water, like a seething cauldron on a fire in which you boil and cook together, no start of one, no end of another, but both admixed, like an alloy. To be clutched by god! To feel the incendiary hunger ring in your marrow! Oh lucky man!

Do you ever really sleep? In the long between-times, in the silences wasted in oily holds and scaffold frames, do you sleep then? When the enginseers reduce you to dormancy, is that sleep for you? Do you dream then, great engine? What do you dream about?

>>15126720
Titanicus was probably the last good 40k book I read.

>>15126575
Not him but thanks, namefag.

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No idea how accurate this is.

>>15129775
I've read a chunk of those and it seems reasonably correct. Descent of Angels needs to be in heresy tier, though. I don't know how you can make middle ages monster hunting with supersoldiers dull, but the author found a way.

>>15129855
I'd say Red Tithe and the Baneblade series should be included as good tier.

I always recommend Dune even if the Butlerian Jihad makes the setting inherently anti-computer

>>15129775
They wrote a book of the game Fire Warrior?

>>15129775
>Priest of Mars
>Not good tier

What kind of heretek whoever make this shit?

>>15129954
They have techno berbers and royal knight with power armor, so its ok i guess.

>>15129775
Is there something wrong with Dan's The Founding omni? I thought it should be higher. Good read but is it weak compared to the others?

>>15131439
Compared to Eisenhorn and Ravenor? Yes. I wouldn't say there's anything particularly wrong with it, though. Some of the characterization and plot are a bit shallow, which makes considering how early in the series and in Abnett's writing career they are, but even that's not bad, just less good than other books are (and still better than most).

>>15117370
More than that, there are things a book can convey that you can never get on screen or in a comic, or would be awkward or impractical to include. Stuff like how do the characters think and feel, what the experience of operating the machinery is actually like, what memories or images they relate it to.

Wait. Are people just recommending Lensmen because of the anime? From what I heard and the little I've seen, it ain't exactly a 1:1 adaption.

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>>15137895
I'm not seeing your point. Both the original novels and the anime are /m/ related even if they have little to nothing to do with one another.

>>15138770
You're not seeing the point because you're answering your own question instead of the one you were replying to.

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>>15139113
he answered it though

they're both /m/ related despite your dumb ass insistence that anything that isn't Gundam doesn't count as /m/ which explains your confusion.

>an anons posts:
>>Are people just recommending Lensmen because of the anime?
>in a novel thread

>>15138770
>autist forces it into yet another "what is/isn't /m/" shitpost
>>15139419
>"another" autist
>calls someone "dumb ass"
>while doubling down on the non-existent "not-/m/" shit posting

I sincerely hope this is what it seems like and 1 anon fucking up instead of 2. For god's sake, it's a /lit/+/m/ thread, how can someone imply they read a whole book yet fuck up reading a post.

>>15139573
Considering the actual novels were what was posted it stands to reason the retard talking incoherently about the anime was in the wrong. Of course the reason somebody brought up these influential novels going back to the 19 fucking 30's was because of the an obscure 1980's anime movie, really makes total sense.

>>15139878
>lensmen anime
>obscure
>on /m/
You're really grasping for straws here. In fact, /m/ is literally the only board that's repeatedly had threads and discussed the anime.
Even the subs for it are /m/subs+TSHS. You should really rethink your logic here.

>>15129775

Looks reasonable, with the exception that Double Eagle is not on there. It's an older book that's basically Biggles of the Imperial Air Force fights Space WWI over France and Space WWII over the Pacific.

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Reading pic related (1986 japanese edition, probably the same type that shirow masamune read).

Only 3/4ths in and /m/ as hell.

The Paradox Trilogy by Rachel Bach.
Basically, it's about a female power armor mercenary. There's also aliens, psychic powers, and a zombie virus.

>>15140066
The whole Sprawl trilogy is brilliant even if some things are outdated

No Asimov and Lem mentioned, /m/, seriously?

Also, you can try reading ANY book pretending main character is an android. It can be really entertaining, the last one I did was PiHKAL and well, with Ann Shulgin's new age/hallucination bullshit being so "system error" I chuckled more than I should.

>>15133885

I agree whole heartidly! Evan c currie who I posted about earlier loves writing over and over in detail about steel hitting steel at ridiculous speeds. Describing this in detail makes the reader see bits and pieces of the battle in slow motion for example. All the while you get a front row seat to how characters react before and after this steel tears shit up. Books can objectively be very /m.

Leviathan '99 by Ray Bradbury. It's a sci-fi retelling of Moby Dick and it's fucking majestic. Really short too. It's in a collection called Now and Forever, along with another Bradbury short story called "Somewhere a Band is Playing", and while it's not /m/, it's just as beautiful.

>>15142235
I always expect people are already aware of Asimov and Lem, though it's probably a good call to mention them regardless.

This was a short fantastic read.
It's mainly written in the format of interview dialogues and journal entries. It starts with a little girl falling into a hole while riding her bike in the woods near her house. She lands on a giant metal hand.
I'm really looking forward to the sequel coming this year.

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>>15143278
fuck I forgot the picture I'm an idiot.

>>15144262
I like Hamilton, he's one of those pulp era writers that did the comics circle. I'm more familiar with him thru the old DC comics sci-fi anthologies, but Captain Future seems pretty cool.

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>>15144262
Tsuburaya made a show out of that.

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>>15143283
Interesting, I might check it out sometime. Thanks for the rec!

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>>15144316
>I like Hamilton, he's one of those pulp era writers that did the comics circle. I'm more familiar with him thru the old DC comics sci-fi anthologies
got any easy piracy links for those? I liked Star Wolf and what I've read of Captain Future

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>>15144885
Sorry, I grabbed Strange Adventures/Mystery in Space years ago and I don't have the Action Comics/etc he did in archive.
His one on-going story was basically riffing Captain Future but replaced the robot with a big strong martian from a desert planet and a little smart venusian from a water planet (pic related).

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>>15144885
Btw Japan also did a riff on his Captain Future.

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>>15146632
What are you talking about? This show got dubbed in my country and there's almost no similarity whatsoever. Rainbow Sentai takes place on Earth and it's just about this orphan boy who works with an Earth Defense Team to fight some alien invanders. They never leave this setting.

You might be thinking of Captain Ultra.

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>>15147259
iirc the Captain Future anime was just "Captain Future" and didn't screw with the story too much

Captain Ultra's pretty cool, too

>>15114967
Does Starship troopers even really count as mecha?

>>15129954
The Dune prequels are all about mechs, especially the Titans which were just brains in transformers

>>15147259
Yeah, I realized I fucked up little after posting. It was an entry in some anime encyclopedia book thing from decades ago that said it was doing a Captain Future thing. I read the entry years ago but never bothered looking it up, it took me minutes to look up the similarities were slight.

>>15147298
It's more mecha than toku.

>>15147300
I'm told the prequels are unfortunately garbage from a writing perspective. Confirm/deny?

>>15148344
They are very inferior to Frank's works, but passable (at least the two books I've read are). The last book written to finish the story is shit not worthy of attention.

>>15129775
Soul Drinkers Omnibus is definitely not as good as the rest on that tier. It's written pretty poorly, and only the last book was actually decent, the other two are forgettable and have flashes of good writing. Ultramarine Omnibus should be on the good tier because it's written decently and the characters are engaging, especially the humans. I don't even know why Bastion Wars is on heresy tier, I read the inquisitor book and the imperial guard book in that omnibus and it was pretty good shit in that it's all mystery and intrigue, though it shows the Imperium in a shitty light, so fans of the imperium might not like it.

>>15148344
Dune without Frank is barely Dune, no matter what.

And yeah the ending is a giant pile of wtf. Everybody's kwizatz haderaches and Lil' Clone Leto II rides sandworms in water like they're dolphins and then Duncan is the double kiwtaz haderguy and then they win. Or something.

>>15148455
>sandworms in water
But... but this kills the sandworm.

>>15148468
Genetically modified sandworms.

>>15148468
the sandworms are all probably kwizatz haderaches too

>>15148344
just stick with the trilogy and forget anything else exists. actually just stick with the first book, it's safer that way.

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>>15114967
This is a short read, and I'm pretty sure the author lurks /m/.
Bubblegum Crisis / Blade Runner kind of feel.

>>15150721
Name reminds of Metal Skin Panic MADOX 01.

>>15150721
Not just lurks. He got advice from /m/ when he was writing it.

>>15151359
What really?!? thats radical

>>15151470
https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/7325077/#7325738

Thankfully this one survived the archive purges.

>>15147298
Dude, they're basically Madox 01 in space.

And power armors/exos are mecha, only westaboos and /k/ink would think otherwise.

>>15151519
Nice. Thanks, anon

bump?

>>15114967
Few of the short stories from Starcraft 2, although most of the time it's about the lore surrounding them mechs.

http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html

>>15115091
Presumably people don't feel like selling it, or buy it when they see it.

>>15116286
He's not bad, really. A number of Titans are involved in a scene in one book (a parade) and one is fought in a later book.

The "Stalk Tanks" used by the Blood Pact in the Gaunts Ghosts novels would also be considered interesting by some here, being six limbed insectoid type armored vehicles with lasers and stuff on them.