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is there any High sci fi

like a pnychon Sci fi guy

thanks

>> No.3897904

Even if there was, /lit/ wouldn't admit it.

>> No.3898017

>>3897904
But there isn't.

>> No.3898029

No... the only "high" things are the things which transcend any obvious generic distinctions. that said, there are a few books that were written before 'science-fiction' as a genre become a structurally limited thing which are interesting... A Voyage to Arcturus and The Night Lands among them

>> No.3898033

>>3898029
>The Night Land
rather

>> No.3898071

>>3897902
There is none. Just admit you're lowbrow and read what you want instead of trying to look intelligent on /lit/. How can you fail this much at living?

>> No.3898085

>>3898029
>A Voyage to Arcturus
This may not be what OP is looking for, but I would certainly recommend it.

>> No.3898094

>>3898071
well basically i'm looking for something with good prose

>> No.3898097

The whole genre of cyberpunk was inspired partly by Pynchon. Neuromancer is the go-to recommendation I guess.

>> No.3898100

>>3898094
Dr J and Mr H; the Last Man, and Frankenstein

>> No.3898145

>>3898094
M. John Harrison

>> No.3898154

Book of the New Sun

>> No.3898163

>>3898154
>herp derp

>> No.3898168

>>3898163
g8 b8 m8

>> No.3898174

Yes, his name is Pynchon.

This guy is autistic >>3897904

>> No.3898178

>>3898029
This is obviously true, and same applies to fantasy, crime fiction, westerns and so on

"All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one." - Walter Benjamin

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Philip K. Dick. I have no idea what /lit/'s stance on PKD is (and I don't really care), but I've always thought of him as cream of the crop as far as sci-fi goes. Also Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Sci-fi staples, and for a good reason.

>> No.3898187

Ursula K. Le Guin

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3898193

>>3898187

Left Hand of Darkness is the best science fiction book I've ever read. Anybody who considers themselves avid sci-fi fans need to have read this book.

I was sort of disappointed by The Word for

>> No.3898201

>>3898193

is World is Forest, though.

Looks like I cut myself off there.

>> No.3898204

>>3898174
>Pynchon
>science fiction
Stop already. If your favorite genre is bad, trying to make it look better by lumping actual authors under it is not going to help.

>> No.3898212

>>3898182
>Also Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Sci-fi staples, and for a good reason.
Did you actually read it? His prose is Dan Brown level, the nam-shub thing is disjointed as fuck and never actually develops after the 50 page Wikipedia-like infodump as Stephenson is too busy introducing pointless action sequences one after another. It's shit.

>> No.3898527

>>3898193

But The Dispossessed is so much better.

>> No.3899596

>>3898212
Dan Brown is good yo

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3899601

Gene Wolfe
Samuel R Delany
Ursula Le Guin
Walter M. Miller

PKD quite good not so "literary" but well regarded nonetheless

Kazuo Ishiguro
Cormac McCarthy
Margaret Atwood
Doris Lessing
George Orwell
literary or "mainstream" authors who have written SF

New Wave SF is pretty good.

I haven't read all these writers personally so take it with a grain of salt but from what I've heard these may fit the bill

Cormac McCarthy

>> No.3899602

>>3899601

whoops ignore that last line lol

>> No.3899619

>>3898182
>>3898212
Diamond Age is far, far better.

>> No.3899636

>>3897902
WS Burroughs.

>> No.3899637

>>3899601
oh my god tried reading mccarthy's the road today and i had to stop. his prose was so fucking terrible, and his formatting was even worse. no quotes around dialogue? really? his use of pronouns was fucking confusing - couldn't tell if he was talking about the child or the man... my god.

i'm done with creative novels. give me theoretical and philosophical stuff with no fluff

>> No.3899647

Maybe there's something you guys can help me on before I start a whole thread on it: I remember being recommended a book here which was supposed to be genuinely frightening, but I forgot what it was titled. It was written in the late twenties so the modern genres hadn't started crystallizing, it was about a man who built some radio machine which could contact the dead. The title had "water," I think. I know this isn't much to go on but any help is appreciated.

>> No.3899724

>>3899596
I don't even know what to say to this.

>> No.3899745

the three stigmata of palmer eldritch. drugs + martian colonists + crazy phillip k dick theology

>> No.3899780

>>3897902
>like a pnychon Sci fi guy
Pynchon is _already_ sci-fi, you moron. He was even nominated for the Nebula.

>> No.3899783

End of Eternity

>> No.3899845

>>3897902

not a single mention of stanislaw lem? he wrote solaris..