/lit/ - Literature

>>16399303

superior because of implied frog sex and protagonist gender swap.

>>13229565
a bunch of times. moved on to this.

>why?

> frog-human sex

>>13131810

redpilled me on politics, which is to say, fuckers will screw you any way they can.

>>11865069

>>11750829
(inb4 the sperg who runs the sf general thread demands you move this conversation in there)

asimov's early robot stories
anything that Frank Herbert wrote that wasn't part of the Dune universe (pic related)

...
then read the Dune books.

>>11215840
i loved that book and thought it actually happened, until i found out Charriere made the whole thing up.

fav: pic related, it's one of them

>>11190675
you don't want to ask Anon's opinion, because Anon is only 19 years old and tends to shit on everything. it's safer than coming out and saying you like something.

OP: Dune is pretty good. you might want to check out pic related, too.

>>10968377

everything you need to know about politics.

>>10696410
>I read some Harlan Ellison short stories which were excellent

how old are you? jesus christ.

read this. come for the implied frog - human sex and stay for the court scene where the judge gets a spear in the chest, and it's alllll perfectly legal.

>>10552242
this. it's not Dune, but it has its moments. best court scene near the end EVER.

>>10422422
why not?

it helps if the writer is dead. every so often i toss around ideas for a sequel to this.

>>10327224


> there will never be a sequel

>>10202685
it's not Frank Herbert's best, even by a long shot.

pic related

>>9977294
superior

>>9923707
i prefer this one. purely for the courtroom drama at the end, where the protagonist hurls a spear through one of the judges.

>>9859965

Tria shot a measuring stare at Broey. She wondered why the Gowachin had chosen to wear black today. It was a robe-like garment cut at a sharp angle from shoulders to waist, clearing his ventricles. The ventricles revolted her and Broey knew this. The very thought of them pressing against her . . . She cleared her throat.

>>9853923
superior

> you will never have a GF who is also a literal star

>>9720614
this.

> Frog aliens with a legal system that lets the lawyers kill each other, or judges, or witnesses

> energy beings that can make stargates anywhere and who barely understand us because we're only four-dimensional

> whatever the fuck Ceylang was, three genders, offend one and you offend them all and they'll fucking kill you

> humans that regard everyone else as potential victims

the prequel, "Whipping Star" had even more aliens, but few of them were described with more than a couple of paragraphs.

>>9462186
fuck you in your earhole. fucking based.

>>9408110
superior

Whipping Star by Frank Herbert (the ConSentiency for dummies)

The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert (the ConSentiency for patricians)

i thought this was one of the most political of Frank Herbert's books. he basically called out the (fictional) government (of the time) as complicit in a scheme to trap millions of people and use their bodies in a body swap / immortality deal.

because some of the humans on Dosadi would fuck a Gowachin frog-alien to advance their careers.