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Improbable Lobster posted:hey ehhh, not really my cup of tea i read the roadside picnic during summer and it was really boring even for a soviet novel is princess of mars entertaining?
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Improbable Lobster posted:dead mountaineers inn is also really funny i've heard about that one before there's a soviet estonian movie made about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4QGecvBWsY
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Trig Discipline posted:interesting idea, but not told in a way that really brought me in This is the biggest problem I have with scifi novels. Many scifi authors are ideas men, and you can't make a novel that's just based around an idea. You need interesting plot and characters for a good novel. Though you can make good short stories about just ideas eg. I have no mouth and I must scream.
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why isn't there a series about the laundry files
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asimov is the biggest offender among the ideas men scifi authors
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i like his short stories, but his novels suffer from the characters being just wikipedia dispensers
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Nintendo Kid posted:half his novels are just short stories stapled together though this is also a bad thing short stories should be stand-alones decent short stories that are smashed together turn into bad novels, eg. i liked moorcock's elric short stories when i read them from anthologies, but they didn't work at all as novels
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Old Man's War and Forever War.
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Larry Parrish posted:I read those but thanks could you/rest of the thread recommend other books like them basically, good military scifi
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Larry Parrish posted:Honestly I really liked Starship Troopers. People like to think of it as Heinlein chest-thumping about the military but it reads a lot more like an enlisted guy who later gets commissioned as an officer chest-thumping about the military. Which is what the main character is. Yeah, I kinda liked it.
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the movie was better, but the book wasn't bad and it has made more people mad than mein kampf has
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Glorgnole posted:there's a book called Armor by john steakley, which isn't exactly a good book but it was written in reaction to starship troopers not having enough gritty spaceman bug fighting so if that's the itch you want to scratch give it a read. thanks
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syscall girl posted:I liked it tbh, i liked scifi and fantasy much more when i was 13 most of it is meant for kids anyway this will probably also be a controversial opinion itt
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:nah i don't think it will cause much upset. given the fate of this thread's OP it is probably best to be very clear on exactly what things are meant for children oh ffs what's the deal with scifi and pedos
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Moist von Lipwig posted:normal rapists like fantasy, pedos like scifi there has been a few threads in ask/tell made by prison guards and prisoners. most prisons seem to have dungeons & dragons groups. and they are filled with pedos
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Larry Parrish posted:The 'skinnies' were allied with the 'bugs' so humanity decided to brutally pwn a few towns to make them decide that allying with humanity is a smarter plan. IIRC. That's one of the many scifi books I started reading but didn't finish.
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the first one was good
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syscall girl posted:uh, brisco county jr. hell yeah! drat that was a good show
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Elder Postsman posted:i haven't clicked on this thread in like 7000 posts but i watched interstellar a few days ago and did not care for it. it was very long. also bad
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Segmentation Fault posted:How would you even see anywhere near properly? 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:also I watched Interstellar a week or two ago. it was good for the most part. i liked the robots. the robots were cool
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Shaggar posted:r2 sticks his probe in every slot he can find.
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looks like someone got triggered by robodicks
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painted bird posted:also this thread is tiresome as gently caress and i don't know why i bother posting you shouldn't post here
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Sham bam bamina! posted:neuromancer is fantastic and one of the few scis fi that actually capture the atmosphere of the milieu in the sheer tone of the writing itself (along with dune and uhhh give me a minute here) 1984?
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The Jaunt is also really spoopy.
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Gus Hobbleton posted:forgot to convert house of suns to mobi before leaving the house, so starting on wasp factory instead now there's an interesting novel!
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:they're all really, really good; you should place an order for them right now 
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Amethyst posted:who cares about shared universes and canon. they are made up stories with their own tones and narratives at the date posted:Actually, it is the entire Marvel Comic Universe that is bad.
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vOv posted:currently about 1/3 of the way through the second Craft book, thank you to whoever recommended these craft book?
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wasp factory is a pro-read
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i watched the first episode of jessica jones she has a nice rear end, but other than that the show is nothing special
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i remember an asimov story where some guy has his brain removed by a nazi scientist and put into a robot, and he's unable to stop himself from following instructions, so one night he breaks the microphones in his ears so he can't hear the orders anymore and rampages the gently caress out of the lab what was the name of that story
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indigi posted:I think Cat's Cradle is really loving good, without a doubt a grade A book, but it's definitely not his best, probably not even top three. people who say it's better than Slaughterhouse V baffle me Slaughterhouse 5 was better than Cat's Cradle, and while both were good books neither was a masterpiece.
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Necronomoticon posted:is jessica jones any good, or is it entry level sci-fi for teens a la doctor who/cw shows/marvel cinematic universe? it's not very good
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infernal machines posted:unfortunately BSG was also mostly a bad show, so that's not really a plus there bsg was an entertaining show, unlike all of the superhero shows
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