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"Must-Read" Sci Fi books
Houdinimachine:
Well, I honestly don't see any defining qualities of Sci Fi in his work. I mean, Breakfast of Champions is fucking weird and is certainly not realistic, but there's no scientific explanation for what happens. He just has it happen. It's not even futuristic. Calling him sci fi would be calling Shakespeare's works fantasies.
Lines:
he's sort of on the same level as bradbury in how they use their sci-fi, he's more fantastical and focuses more on the society than the technology. it's "softer" sci-fi, but it's still sci-fi. i dunno. Harrison Bergeron is a really good short story.
KharBevNor:
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Yeah, the '!' is part of the title, and fucking annoying it is. Also, Illuminatus! is really NOTHING like SeaQuest. Unless SeaQuest had a lot more zombie nazi death-legions, lovecraftian monstrosities, rampant weed-smoking and kinky sex than I remember. I think the best way to describe Illuminatus! would be to imagine an unholy combination of Foucaults Pendulum, Catch 22, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Call of Cthulhu, Naked Lunch, Ulysses, Good Omens, The Principia Discordia and shit knows what else written by, well, lets call a spade a spade, two majorly doped out Playboy editors. It is a book that has literally altered my perception of reality.
And 'Slaughterhouse 5' is normally acknowledged as sci-fi.
mberan42:
But SeaQuest DSV had Darwin, the talking Dolphin! And freakin' Jonathan Brandis!! Come ON!!
KharBevNor:
Does Darwin write poetry, tell dirty jokes or battle zombie nazi death legions in secret underground seas?
I THINK NOT.
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