No.13687
>>12382I came here because I remember being very entertained by the series "Isaac Asimov's Robot City" even though it's not written by Isaac Asimov but by various authors, it's a good read but I read it when I was younger and I don't have a copy of the books anymore. Check it out if you like scifi and AI.
No.13688
>>12382Dragon's Egg is a scifi about an alien first encounter, written by an astrophysicist (Robert Forward). It's awesome - everyone I've leant it to that has read it said it was great.
No.13689
What's the cheapest way to print a copy of a digital book (that I pirated)? I can't read for too long on a screen, mainly because it's uncomfortable and because I get easily distracted. Plus, I would like to recommend
>>13688 to my dad but I don't want to subject him to hours and hours of looking at a screen.
No.13692
>>13689> I can't read for too long on a screen, mainly because it's uncomfortable and because I get easily distracted.I hear some reading devices are like paper to look at. You might try one of those. Probably cheaper than printing books.
No.22628
are there any nice fiction reading communities online? i want better book recommendations than lurking twitter or whatever
No.22629
>>22628Best I know of is /lit/ unfortunately. Their wiki's alright though.
No.22630
>>22629/lit/ is fucking doodoo have you even seen their catalog in the past 5 or so years
No.22631
>>22630also i just want something relaxed and more open to heterodox topics and the like
No.22639
Read the Foundation series by Asimov.
Best scifi I have ever read in my life.
Should be the default scifi recommendation for Marxists.
Really good shit.
No.22644
>>22639I didn't like it, I thought it was very liberal if anything, also just boring.
No.22744
>>22644😭😭😭😭😭😭 how dare you.
Recommend me something.
No.22745
>>22639I would read it if I knew how to read? Anyone else know these feels bros?
-sent from my google voice
No.22746
>>22744Have you read Solaris yet?
No.22748
>>22746No, I've only seen the Russian? Soviet? movie, which is nice.
No.22749
Finished “Brave New World” recently.
It’s actually kind of funny for a dystopian novel, but for once, I’d like a protagonist in this genre to fight back and win in a way that’s believable.
They all end on such a sour note.
No.22753
>>22744Le Guin is alright, since she stays far away from any kind of utopian speculative-ness
No.22754
>>13689year+ late reply, but lulu
No.31372
>>31368It's fine, but I can imagine not enjoying it if you don't agree with the "why take away suffering when we're meant to suffer" angle. i only really see the book praised in right wing circles.
Also, just a pet peeve but it'll sometimes shift POV with no breaks which gets confusing.
No.31396
What a fiction-book list to chew through?
It would be great if the list also included the page count so I can read through the shortest first.
No.31400
>>12382>17 posts<No mention of the andromeda trilogy that not only written by a soviet paleontogist but came up with the posadist communist aliens before Posadas himself didThe guy is noted to criticise not only capitalism but both Chinese and Soviet comtemporary socialism.
To get a better understanding of the subject on cosmic altruism i would suggest also reading the Killing Star and Three Body Problem that argued the opposite of cancerous destructive life that views cooperations as impossible. It's quite funny how the dark forrest hypethesis completely fall apart the moment any scrutiny or any serious observation of cellular cooperation of life on earth are made.
No.32255
>>31400How does cellular cooperation on earth refute the dark forest? The whole argument is that another interstellar civilization might be subjected to radically different material conditions, which refutes the posadist assumption that a sufficiently advanced civilization must be peaceful communists. Of course this doesn't mean that there aren't alien civilizations who want to cooporate, but we ultimatly can't know this until it is too late, so why risk it?
No.32256
Can someone give me advice about reading books that feel very flow of consciousness and actively make me tired reading them? Just got Man's Fate and have a copy of The Unseen that I would love to read but I think "just" reading them isn't doing any good.
No.32257
>>31400Prob gonna read this.. how is the prose? I read Asimov once and it was the worst fiction I've ever read, I've been scared of STEMcels ever since.
No.32259
>>32257what did you read by him
No.32304
>>13688One of the best first contact story I read is Blindsight from Peter Watts, heavy on science and philosophy, on the bleak side of things because it really question the idea, trough a materialism understanding of reality and a well crafted antagonist, that consciousness is not really a thing.
No.32305
ive been meaning to pick up Malazan again
No.33794
>>12382I've been reading spanish childrens books recently since I figured it would help with learning the language.
I linked the two I've read so far, they're cute, and are interesting challenges.
I'm probably not going toenglish get into reading (English adult) fiction books until I'm 30 or somthn since there's so much to read out there, so I'm never going to post in this thread more than twice.
>>31368Maybe I'll make an exception for this, and Animal farm – but only to see what's the hype's about.
No.33796
>>33794>reading children's booksMost literate poster on here
No.33797
>>33796Imagine trying to make fun of someone for learning a new language. Are you monolingual by any chance?
No.33814
I have started the Grand Journey of Reading both H.P Lovecraft's Complete works of the Cthulhu Mythos, and the Uplift Series. The First book in the Uplift series being Sundiver where Humanity had uplifted their second Species the Dolphin the first being Chimpanzees. While the Cthulhu Mythos is getting my brain working as I get drawn into mysteries.
I have also been doing some language learning also. Been reading some Japanese Short stories with the help of the Kanji that I know and the Kana, while been reading some books in Latin those are really nice. I started to pick up my French again and reading was looking for some more French books to read to improve my literacy again.
No.33826
>>33796I'm the person you originally replied toYeah…
That's what happens when you type a post, think of a better way to convey what you want to say but want to keep part of the original post, and then fail to merge the posts because the brain just filters it.
>I'm probably not going toenglish get into reading (English adult) Should be
>I'm probably not going to get into reading (English adult)
>only to see what's the hype's aboutShould be
>only to see what the hype's aboutetc – plus other mistakes, like the run-on sentence.
>>33797>>33804>>33816Ironically, you guys supported his point with these posts.
No.33830
>>33829https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Fine_ArtsPresumably writing that resembles what someone with an MFA would write
No.39549
>>32304Blindsight was fucking awesome. I've been looking for scifi novels that cover similar subject matter, but haven't been finding shit. Do you know of anything else like it (other than its bizarre sequel Echopraxia)?
>>32305Got bored of it about four books in.
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