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Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:41:41 2020 No.15224951 [Reply] [Original]

What are some mind bending sci fi?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:45:27 2020 No.15224966 >>15224951 Blindsight is really acclaimed here, but I am a brainlet and couldn't get it

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:47:46 2020 No.15224973 File: 24 KB, 205x320, Three Worlds Collide.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15224951 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HawFh7RvDM4RyoJ2d/three-worlds-collide-0-8

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:47:55 2020 No.15224974 >>15224951 Star Maker by Olaf Stapleton. It's an astral projection journey through the history of intelligent life in the universe.

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:56:24 2020 No.15225010

>>15224973
It's a moderately clever first contact story that is ruined by Yudkowsky's terrible prose and the cringeworthy preachy tone he takes about rationalist positions. Not to mention the anime references. The entire story hinges upon 3 different interestellar species being retarded enough to buy fully into the caricature of benthamism that passes for reasonable utilitarianism in LessWrong, and not only that, but being so completely unequipped to deal with beings unlike themselves that the only way they can reconcile said retarded Benthamism with a species with different perceptions of happiness/pleasure is to either genocide them or reprogram their biology into a happy medium

Also, that entire bit where they first contact the hedonist aliens is stolen from Accelerando.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 02:11:53 2020 No.15225295 >>15224951 >>15224951 I love Colin Wilson. Still haven't found anything that made me feel the way Voyage to Arcturus did

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 02:59:19 2020 No.15225546 File: 67 KB, 937x1171, 1587861937027.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Currently half way through Children of Time. Quite enjoying it so far

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 03:04:15 2020 No.15225576 >>15225546 this picture bothers me so much everytime it's posted.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:04:12 2020 No.15226168 Voyage to Arcturus

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 05:07:48 2020 No.15226189 >>15225295 Seconding Colin Wilson's scifi, and Voyage of Arcturus as well. Fun fact: Harold Bloom wrote an unsuccessful spiritual sequel to Voyage Also seconding Stapledon. Last and First Men was one of the greatest books I ever read.

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