/lit/ - Literature

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>>6089127
>>6089129
Kafka is funny. Thinking he's sad is the result of a misreading.

>>6021514
This one?

>>6021518
Gotta put it together yourself m8

They're all in the wiki.

I think I'm going to make a chart like this that is a /lit/ guide to literary science fiction.


Off the top of my head I'm thinking Gene Wolfe, Phillip K Dick, Margret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, and Stanislaw Lem. Should I include incursions into sci-fi by non sci-fi authors like Nabokov's Ada or Hesse's Glass bead game or something else? (these have a tendency to not be too "sci-fi" but that can be said of most literary science fiction). Should I also include genre heavyweights like Asimov or Clarke? Or perhaps just a more literary work or two of theirs?


So, with books not yet chosen,
>Gene Wolfe
>PKD
>Atwood
>Vonnegut
>Stanislaw Lem
>(undecided Literature authors writing sci-fi or "Speculative Fiction" uncharacteristically)
>(undecided big sci-fi names like Heinlein or Asimov)
Help me out here. I'll dump my charts folder in the meantime

Is Kim Stanley Robinson's name actually interned to sound like The Swiss Family Robinson, or is it just me?

I'll post the few that I have saved. If they're "troll charts," I apologize.

don't forget, "exit-tier" means suicide.

>>4114926
definitely read steppenwolf. maybe some of this chart too

>>4063409
>>4063412
>>4063519

I've heard this is just a list of depressing books and that"exit-level" refers to exiting the world - these are books to read before committing suicide, supposedly. Most of them sound depressing: I've heard Stoner is a popular suggestion for that kind of stuff here, and I'm guessing an encyclopedic examination of Melancholia might be kind of a bummer; but what's so depressing about a book on the difference between English English and American English? Supposedly it's actually quite humourous.

Are these books as depressing as I think they are? and I think they may turn out to be very depressing.

We already have one.

Maybe we could add to it, if you need to.

Here you go, these are ones that appeal more to me.

Of course we can't ever all agree on one book. Someone will always either genuinely hate it or, at least, pretend to hate if for the sake of debate usually so they can sound smart and stroke their ego. Or just to be an edgy /b/.