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Orbit_Established
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"Post some good, weird Science Fiction"


  

          


Films, TV, comics, graphic novels, books

Good strange shit

let's build on some alternate takes on reality up in this
piece nahmsayin

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My dad has been hyping up a collection of 1950's sci-fi novels
Jan 15th 2014
1
Stars My Destination is pretty dope
Apr 03rd 2014
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SAMUEL DELANY. nuff said
Jan 15th 2014
2
I really don't understand how someone who's read Delany
Jan 15th 2014
4
RE: I really don't understand how someone who's read Delany
Jan 16th 2014
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      i wasn't trying to come off like that, it just really surprised me
Jan 16th 2014
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           I really appreciate this exchange, but have to interject:
Jan 16th 2014
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           RE: I really appreciate this exchange, but have to interject:
Jan 16th 2014
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           RE: i wasn't trying to come off like that, it just really surprised me
Jan 16th 2014
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I'll be reading him for my next project period in my MFA
Jan 15th 2014
5
RE: I'll be reading him for my next project period in my MFA
Jan 16th 2014
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      so after reading a lot about Delany's work and life
Apr 03rd 2014
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Delany is the James Joyce of sci-fi
Jan 18th 2014
34
Explain
Jan 19th 2014
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      He's difficult to read the same way Joyce is
Jan 19th 2014
42
Finished NOVA last night
Aug 03rd 2014
93
WHICH BRAVE SOULS IN HERE HAVE READ...
Nov 29th 2014
97
Few good relatively recent comics
Jan 15th 2014
3
I fell off on "Manhattan Projects". Did that stay good?
Jan 15th 2014
8
      yup, stayed amazing.
Jan 16th 2014
15
           Agreed, and just got this as a companion piece from the library:
Jan 16th 2014
24
                nice
Jan 17th 2014
28
Damn, this post good already. Thanks y'all. Keep this going. n/m
Jan 15th 2014
6
From that Madlib record digging video: La Planete Sauvage
Jan 15th 2014
7
This movie is BANANAS.
Jan 18th 2014
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The movie is 90% of the reason I made this post
Jan 19th 2014
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      That movie is it's own level of fucked upness
Jan 19th 2014
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love this movie. thank you madlib.
Apr 07th 2014
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I just found my copy of it.
Jul 28th 2014
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Movie: Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)
Jan 15th 2014
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absolutely STELLAR recommendation. watched it 3 times in a week
Nov 30th 2014
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      About time someone else watched this.
Dec 02nd 2014
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           it was amazeballs. shit i probs need to watch it again
May 07th 2015
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Recent shit:
Jan 15th 2014
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Upstream Color was beautiful looking and pretentious
Jan 15th 2014
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His acting is what made it pretentious for me
Jan 15th 2014
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Shane shot for the stars but missed the most important one
Jan 16th 2014
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Prophet is fucking crazy
Jan 16th 2014
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      +1 for Prophet over here too
Apr 03rd 2014
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comics are really the best space for this as far as current publishing
Jan 16th 2014
17
China Mieville. I know he's trendy, but he's really excellent. eom
Jan 16th 2014
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agreed. it takes me a bit to get into his books sometimes
Jan 17th 2014
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      I cannot get into his work
Jan 18th 2014
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           i really have to be in the mood for him
Jan 20th 2014
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post jack : h.p. lovecraft
Jan 17th 2014
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nah, this is what I want....good stuff. n/m
Jan 17th 2014
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People speak highly of the "Mountains of Madness" novella
Jan 17th 2014
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Let me hip you on where to go with Mr. Lovecraft
Jan 18th 2014
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      good to know. been meaning to get into him for a while
Jan 19th 2014
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           Note: H.P. Lovecraft is HORROR
Jan 19th 2014
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                RE: Note: H.P. Lovecraft is HORROR
Apr 07th 2014
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For comics I recommend Fear Agent
Jan 17th 2014
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Read that Volume 1 omnibus recently... INCREDIBLE
Apr 03rd 2014
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Obviously -- JG Ballard.
Jan 17th 2014
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Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland...
Jan 17th 2014
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of course Octavia Butler
Jan 18th 2014
33
A deepness in the sky - Vernon Vinge
Jan 19th 2014
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Good post
Feb 02nd 2014
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Novels.
Feb 03rd 2014
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^^^Mentioned 'Ringworld'. You're a solid Homo sapien
Feb 03rd 2014
50
Anyone here into Charles Stross
Feb 03rd 2014
48
Philip K. Dick's work is far out..
Feb 03rd 2014
49
He's just the fucking man, period.
Feb 03rd 2014
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thank you for this. I'm gunna read PKD for my next
Apr 03rd 2014
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word
Apr 03rd 2014
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Flow My Tears was a mess of a book. I did enjoy reading it tho
Sep 29th 2014
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      Do Androids Dream, please. It's glorious as shit
May 07th 2015
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           werd. I'll give it him another go
May 07th 2015
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Let's keep this up
Apr 03rd 2014
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The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodovar
Apr 03rd 2014
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okay. i wasn't alone in putting it in the realm of sci-fi
Apr 03rd 2014
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      Not at all
Apr 05th 2014
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Looking for contemporary (last decade) black sf writers
Apr 03rd 2014
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RE: Looking for contemporary (last decade) black sf writers
Apr 03rd 2014
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      Not big on anthologies but these look great thanks
Apr 04th 2014
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           RE: Not big on anthologies but these look great thanks
Apr 04th 2014
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                Got Mothership from the library, digging it so far
May 16th 2014
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Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
Apr 03rd 2014
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Moon.
Apr 03rd 2014
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LOL. Stop it. I know you have some contributions, list them, beyotch
Apr 04th 2014
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      LOLFL
Apr 04th 2014
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      http://i50.tinypic.com/2mgnsid.jpg
Apr 06th 2014
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Nowhere Men (comic)
Apr 03rd 2014
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Some short films
Apr 03rd 2014
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SMH...this post made me buy a NEW Kindle Paperwhite
Apr 04th 2014
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Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson
Apr 06th 2014
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Apr 06th 2014
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Dope....You should have at least 14 replies, negroid, contribute
Apr 07th 2014
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so I just watched Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Apr 07th 2014
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Just picked up The Waking Engine....
Apr 07th 2014
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For Fantasy Heads: Patrick Rothfuss' KingKiller Chronicles..
Apr 07th 2014
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Under The Skin (Film)
Apr 25th 2014
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you're a kindle dude, right?
Apr 26th 2014
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If you don't send that shit asap
Apr 26th 2014
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man
Apr 26th 2014
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pretty great list
Apr 26th 2014
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bro you mind sharing
Apr 27th 2014
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heeeeeeeeeeeyyy!!!!
May 11th 2015
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bookmark
Apr 27th 2014
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21 Books that changed Science Fiction
Jul 27th 2014
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List is flawed. Where is DUNE?
Dec 02nd 2014
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Black Mirror (TV)
Jul 28th 2014
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Neuromancer really is a brilliant work of art
Oct 30th 2014
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welp...i SAW it, but i can't REALLY tell ya...
Nov 01st 2014
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Monstro - Junot Diaz
Nov 29th 2014
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Discovered Kingmaker on Amazon. Not a perfect book,
Dec 02nd 2014
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some stuff i stumbled across on spotify
May 05th 2015
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Me reading from my forthcoming novel:
May 05th 2015
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Oh shit!!! When it on sale?
May 06th 2015
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RE: Oh shit!!! When it on sale?
May 06th 2015
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So glad you posted this
May 06th 2015
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So no ones read A Deepness in The Sky - Vinge??
May 06th 2015
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Just finished Snow Crash
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That book practically birthed startup culture
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mashpg89
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1. "My dad has been hyping up a collection of 1950's sci-fi novels"
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I haven't read them so can't give a personal recommendation, but he's enjoyed the collection a lot. Ironically, my dad and my uncle got each other this collection without knowing it for Christmas.

American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950's

http://www.amazon.com/American-Science-Fiction-Classic-Novels/dp/1598531573/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389763642&sr=8-1&keywords=1950%27s+science+fiction

the novels are:

Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth / The Space Merchants
Theodore Sturgeon / More Than Human
Leigh Brackett / The Long Tomorrow
Richard Matheson / The Shrinking Man
Robert Heinlein / Double Star
Alfred Bester / The Stars My Destination
James Blish / A Case of Conscience
Algis Budrys / Who?
Fritz Leiber / The Big Time

I'm told the novels are fun, quick reads that are surprisingly leftist for being written in times of such Communist fear-mongering. Some of the stories are relevant today and were very ahead of their time.

I'm not a big science fiction reader, but I trust my dad's taste in books and have confidence in passing on his recommendation.

  

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56. "Stars My Destination is pretty dope"
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Premise is simple yet wacky, the protagonist is an asshole but he's pitted against even bigger assholes so you wanna see him win. Been meaning to check out more of Bester's work.

In general I do like the older sci-fi stuff. I have a collection of short stories that ranges from the 30s-60s and even the stuff that doesn't hold up does so in an entertaining way

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2. "SAMUEL DELANY. nuff said"
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his science fiction/fantasy is weird, in your face, esoteric, graphic and violent as hell and really fucking good.

do a search for him at amazon.com and start reading.

I would recommend you start with Dhalgren FIRST. Hogg, his first book, is OUSTANDINGLY graphic and violent. I always tell people go to back to Hogg *AND* The Mad Man AFTER they've read Delany's hard science fiction.

Dhalgren
Nova
Driftglass (short story collection)

these are great books to read first.

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imcvspl
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4. "I really don't understand how someone who's read Delany"
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can reccomend Dhalgren as a first read of his. I mean it's one of my favorite books of all time. I've written songs about it and shit, but there's noway I'd pass it on to someone just asking for a good SciFi book. Especially if I have Delany's whole bibliography at my disposal. And then you go and reccomend Hogg and Mad Man, those aren't even considered SciFi.

The thing about Delany, from the perspective of the casual Sci Fi reader, is you have to build up to his takes on sex. For most Sci Fi readers sex isn't an integral part of their expectations, and so the raw graphic nature of Delany's approach can be quite the turn off and even offend if not prepared, You gotta build up to that by establishing how strong Delany is at the fundamentals of the genre, so that it can be appreciated why he adds that layer and what it helps to reveal about the worlds he paints.

In this regard I'd say it's far more appropriate to start with something like Babel-17, Nova or Triton work. One of my underrated favorites of his is Stars in My Pocket, but even without the graphic sex, it takes an appreciation of Delany worlds to really get into it.

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13. "RE: I really don't understand how someone who's read Delany"
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>can reccomend Dhalgren as a first read of his. I mean it's
>one of my favorite books of all time. I've written songs
>about it and shit, but there's noway I'd pass it on to someone
>just asking for a good SciFi book. Especially if I have
>Delany's whole bibliography at my disposal. And then you go
>and reccomend Hogg and Mad Man, those aren't even considered
>SciFi.


it's called personal choice and that was how it was recommended to me when I came to Delany's books?

people can read any of his books anyway they want to. That's how I found his books and that's how I started.

And, I never said HOGG or THE MAD MAN were sci-fi. They aren't. Where do you see that in my original post?

those two books, in the most fluid of senses, are, imho, fantasy and Delany is often put in the sci-fi/fantasy category.


>The thing about Delany, from the perspective of the casual Sci
>Fi reader, is you have to build up to his takes on sex. For
>most Sci Fi readers sex isn't an integral part of their
>expectations, and so the raw graphic nature of Delany's
>approach can be quite the turn off and even offend if not
>prepared, You gotta build up to that by establishing how
>strong Delany is at the fundamentals of the genre, so that it
>can be appreciated why he adds that layer and what it helps to
>reveal about the worlds he paints.

Do you? because I know many people who read his work who didn't need a build up persay because the thread of sexuality is apparent in everything he's written. Even if you were a light sci-fi fan. You pick up any of his books and you would immediately guess sexuality will be a focal point of his work.

>
>In this regard I'd say it's far more appropriate to start with
>something like Babel-17, Nova or Triton work. One of my
>underrated favorites of his is Stars in My Pocket, but even
>without the graphic sex, it takes an appreciation of Delany
>worlds to really get into it.
>


Once again, people can start wherever they want with his book. i started with Dhalgren and it was fine for me. I have no qualms telling anyone who's interested in his work to start there just like i'll also tell them to start with something else.

As long as people find their way in and ENJOY his work, that's really the main takeaway for all of this.

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14. "i wasn't trying to come off like that, it just really surprised me"
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in the 'someone recomended Orbit Established read Dhalgren' kind of way. I think I fast forwarded to the 'which one of you told me to read Dhalgren' post in which O_E shared his opinion about the book and... i digress.

Incidentally I think it's the volume of Dhalgren not to mention how it flows that makes it not an easy one to start out with. And I say that as someone who's reccommended it to people before, not as an introduction to Delany though but As a 'what's this book is it any good' response when folk see it on the shelf. I think one of the people I did so to actually read it to the end, and they were of a very specific character type. You know the type that's not going to freak out three quarters of the way when the words start spreading out to the margins. That would actually appreciate that.

I can only imagine what O_E would think if he got that far, and honestly mostly out of not wanting to see that Delany post. Or imagining him picking up Hogg or Mad Man based on the idea of them being sci-fi. Yeah...

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Orbit_Established
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19. "I really appreciate this exchange, but have to interject: "
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Surely there's an order to an author's work, and some
things are read better before others, but I hear this
discussion too fucking much-

Sometimes its okay to just say that a great book is a
great book and people should read it.

If Dhalgren is one of your favorite books ever, then why
in blue fuck would you not recommend that to someone?
You might not actually be the deepest person in the world,
and I'm not shitting on you--reading has this odd way of
making us all sensitive, emo and in our own heads about
the stuff we like

This is the kind of pretentiousness that turns people
off.

So let's frame this question differently:

Someone, rather intelligent and well-read, wants to sit down
and read a Delaney book -- what should they read?



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22. "RE: I really appreciate this exchange, but have to interject: "
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>
>So let's frame this question differently:
>
>Someone, rather intelligent and well-read, wants to sit down
>and read a Delaney book -- what should they read?
>
>

I'd say something along the lines of this: "In no particular order, you pick any one of these and you are GOOD TO GO:

Dhalgren
Nova
Driftglass (short story collection)

Your choice. You pick. Enjoy yourself. You're welcome.

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21. "RE: i wasn't trying to come off like that, it just really surprised me"
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>in the 'someone recomended Orbit Established read Dhalgren'
>kind of way. I think I fast forwarded to the 'which one of
>you told me to read Dhalgren' post in which O_E shared his
>opinion about the book and... i digress.
>
>Incidentally I think it's the volume of Dhalgren not to
>mention how it flows that makes it not an easy one to start
>out with. And I say that as someone who's reccommended it to
>people before, not as an introduction to Delany though but As
>a 'what's this book is it any good' response when folk see it
>on the shelf. I think one of the people I did so to actually
>read it to the end, and they were of a very specific character
>type. You know the type that's not going to freak out three
>quarters of the way when the words start spreading out to the
>margins. That would actually appreciate that.
>
>I can only imagine what O_E would think if he got that far,
>and honestly mostly out of not wanting to see that Delany
>post. Or imagining him picking up Hogg or Mad Man based on
>the idea of them being sci-fi. Yeah...
>
>

and once again, I never included them as being "sci-fi", not did I even suggest they were.

the hell are you reading above? smh

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5. "I'll be reading him for my next project period in my MFA"
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can't wait. I may actually choose 2-3 books from your list

  

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23. "RE: I'll be reading him for my next project period in my MFA"
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>can't wait. I may actually choose 2-3 books from your list


cool but Delany has *MANY* books.

but whatever you choose, you'll definitely enjoy it!

Get Out the Room
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64. "so after reading a lot about Delany's work and life"
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Thu Apr-03-14 04:53 PM by astralblak

  

          

I can understand imcpsvl's points

I'm staying away from Hogg, because it's not "hard" sci-fi and I have no interest in that type of novel at this point in my readings.

as I addressed in O_E's OKS post I also won't be getting into Dahlgren anytime soon. 800 pgs, just not in the cards right now. I read the first 10 @ BNN on Saturday and it blew my wig back. Beautiful esoteric stream of consciousness prose

I'm gunna go with Nova and Babel-187 AND MAYBE his collection of shorts

this post is awesome by the way

  

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34. "Delany is the James Joyce of sci-fi"
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Something you should know in advance.


"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

  

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38. "Explain"
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42. "He's difficult to read the same way Joyce is"
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You gotta "give" as a reader a lot to get into it - obviously with good results.
DHALGREN is probably the closest thing to ULYSSES sci-fi has, in terms of stream of conscious writing.


"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

  

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93. "Finished NOVA last night"
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Sun Aug-03-14 01:00 PM by astralblak

  

          

for much of the book, I was just enjoying it, but not sold on it's "greatness". I was a bit outside the world of the story, because Delany kind of just drops the reader inside of Pleides/Draco 3172, and builds it as we move along, but once I got my footing, the quality of the prose became evident.

While some of the early fight scenes were a bit clunky and not very engaging, his descriptions of the landscapes and character's features, were pitch perfect. Yet, the Twins and Sebastian and Tyy seemed to have nothing to do for most of the book, and some Katin's monologues should've just been exposition.

BUT then the last 30-40 pages hit and YO! shit is fish grease. It makes the rest of the book come together so well.

also Mouse's riff about the intimacy and importance of being in the now; Katin's monologue on the cultural dialectal materialism of their world(s) and the his struggles with writing his novel; and Lorq's passage about meaninglessness, death, and action; were things of beauty.

Alongside the awesomeness of the last two fights, I fuxs with this.

I'll be reading Babel-17 some time next week

and think I'll get to Equinox/Tides of Lust in the future


  

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97. "WHICH BRAVE SOULS IN HERE HAVE READ..."
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The Tides of Lust

I really want to have a little conversation about it, even those of you who have read HOG, since it seems that many of the themes present in HOG first appeared in The Tides of Lust...

a crass, repugnant, brave, and poetic short novel.

  

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3. "Few good relatively recent comics"
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Strange Science Fantasy: http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Science-Fantasy-Scott-Morse/dp/1600108881 - first thing I read from Scott Morse, and the only thing I've looked at since was a Magic Pickle book I bought for my kid. But this is fantastic, great ideas. The fact that it's all captioned - no dialog - turns off some comics fans, but the ideas in this were terrific. I mean, The Shogunaut...

Jonathan Hickman's creator-owned comics are something I've enjoyed. Not sure how they;d play to your sensibilities, o_e; he seems to combine the Big Ideas of a Morrison with the widescreen theatricality of a Millar, if that makes sense. One I really liked that slipped under the radar of most is Transhuman: http://www.amazon.com/Transhuman-Jonathan-Hickman/dp/1582409226

One running now called Black Science is only on #2, but first two were promising.

There was an awesome one-shot a ways back, I can't remember what it was called, but the general idea was that STDs had been conquered and people were free to love whomever (and whatever) they wanted.



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8. "I fell off on "Manhattan Projects". Did that stay good?"
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15. "yup, stayed amazing."
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24. "Agreed, and just got this as a companion piece from the library:"
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http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Jim-Ottaviani/dp/1596438274

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28. "nice"
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6. "Damn, this post good already. Thanks y'all. Keep this going. n/m"
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7. "From that Madlib record digging video: La Planete Sauvage"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Planet

I first heard the music, started reading more about it

I'm gonna grab the book but the movie is not easy to
find but is "out there"


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35. "This movie is BANANAS."
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DO NOT WATCH IT HIGH.




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40. "The movie is 90% of the reason I made this post"
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I was like:

"How much weird shit like this is out there that I've never even heard
of?"

  

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43. "That movie is it's own level of fucked upness"
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Explaining the movie is utterly pointless.
Great flick.


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78. "love this movie. thank you madlib."
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92. "I just found my copy of it."
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9. "Movie: Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)"
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Available on Netflix Streaming...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ertVYn750

  

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99. "absolutely STELLAR recommendation. watched it 3 times in a week"
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shit was just...perfect.

V.

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101. "About time someone else watched this."
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Everytime this post got bumped I was hoping someone gave it a chance.

  

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109. "it was amazeballs. shit i probs need to watch it again"
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been a while.

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10. "Recent shit:"
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1. Upstream Color: amazing low budget sci-fi thriller meets Terrence Malick.

2. Universal Solider: Day of Reckoning = Beginning to get a real cult following. It's like the first Universal Solider flick crossed with Enter the Void and Children of Men.

3. Prophet (comic) = It's like Dune on acid

  

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11. "Upstream Color was beautiful looking and pretentious"
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Carruth's riddle me this story telling is annoying as shit
Amy Seimetz was great as the lead

  

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12. "His acting is what made it pretentious for me"
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Loved everything else about it though.

  

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16. "Shane shot for the stars but missed the most important one"
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>Carruth's riddle me this story telling is annoying as shit

I think it worked well in Primer but UC was way too baffling for something so ambitious. I thought about mentioning it when I saw the post title but I don't think there's enough crazy coffee combos in the world for OE to get through it. I might've bounced myself if I wasn't such a big fan of the man & there hadn't been a Q&A after.

>Amy Seimetz was great as the lead

Her & the score kept me captivated but I was still unfulfilled once all was said & done.

  

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20. "Prophet is fucking crazy"
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particularly when you consider it was a rebooted Liefield comic. What gets me is the tone...the slow pace of it all/lack of dialog just makes it an even trippier read.

  

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57. "+1 for Prophet over here too"
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17. "comics are really the best space for this as far as current publishing"
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I'm a big fan of Warren Ellis' sci-fi work, in particular because he seems to enjoy publishing short stories that you can get in trade paperback, so you get all the punch without the plotting tedium of most serialized comics. I loved:

Supergod -- a story of nations creating their own gods as a kind of arms race
Orbiter -- more of a space story, about the mysterious return of a space shuttle thought lost
Ministry of Space -- what if the waning British Empire had actually made an attempt in the space race?

as mentioned by Lonesome D above, Jonathan Hickman been killing it lately. Manhattan Projects is just amazing, although ongoing, and has one or two trade paperbacks out (that are highly recommended). it's everything weird, bizarre, fun, insanely open-ended creative-wise about comics.

recently I've also enjoyed Greg Rucka's Lazarus, first trade is out now, about a future of feifdoms in a world of limited resources.

overall, though, there's just tons of great stories like this in comics, since the pen and the page make the only limitation on sci-fi storytelling one's own imagination. if I really worked my head around it, I could go a while.

oh and last note -- last sci-fi author (you know, book books) that I remember really enjoying is Iain M. Banks. I used to buy books by him on author-name alone, and I was never disappointed.

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18. "China Mieville. I know he's trendy, but he's really excellent. eom"
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30. "agreed. it takes me a bit to get into his books sometimes"
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i stopped and started Perdido Street Station and The City & The City before i finally got rolling in both of them. Kraken was a lot easier to get into from jump, but all are well worth the read.

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36. "I cannot get into his work"
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I have no idea why.
It's not bad, but I just get a few chapters in and I lose every ounce of interest. And I really wanted to like KRAKEN too.


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45. "i really have to be in the mood for him"
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i've had books of his checked out that sit around for weeks while i finish other stuff, and then i'll be able to dive in. i think part of it has to do with just plowing through, even there is stuff that doesn't make sense or grab me right away. in those three instances, i was able to get into the stories.

couldn't do Un Lun Dun, though. only gave it one shot and it just wasn't sitting right.

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25. "post jack : h.p. lovecraft"
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where do i start?

just got my hands on an e-copy of his ography... it's pretty daunting, to say the least.

(pardon the god for piggybacking your thread, btw)

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26. "nah, this is what I want....good stuff. n/m"
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31. "People speak highly of the "Mountains of Madness" novella"
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Haven't read of his stuff, so I can't vouch for it.

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37. "Let me hip you on where to go with Mr. Lovecraft"
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Start with one of the following three options:
Any of the short stories found in here -
http://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecraft-Complete-Fiction-H/dp/1435122968/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_har?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390091314&sr=1-1&keywords=barnes+and+noble+h.p.+lovecraft
or At The Mountains Of Madness
or The Call Of Cthulhu

I'd personally recommend starting with Mountains, but any of the three options are great.

Also check out The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
http://www.cthulhulives.org/
They do radio shows and silent movies, etc of Lovecraft's work - most of which you can find (or other similar awesomeness) on Youtube.


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41. "good to know. been meaning to get into him for a while"
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but i think I'm going Delany, Butler, Dick, then Lovecraft. I'm gunna read Neuromancer soon too

Sci-Fi is something I have not read much of at all

  

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44. "Note: H.P. Lovecraft is HORROR"
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Just letting you know.
You go in expecting spaceships, you will be sorely disappointed.
Lovecraft's is on the same shelf as Poe, except with monsters.


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76. "RE: Note: H.P. Lovecraft is HORROR"
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There's definitely some sci-fi elements in there, though... almost like he's reaching for sci-fi sometimes but doesn't quite have the background to make it.

It's been a few years since reading him - it's like he started off in this gothic-horror place but as he got older different influences creep in, some of the then-new physics a la relativity alongside "theosophic" ideas - that weird late-19th/early-20th pseudo-science occultism that no doubt influenced late 20th century new age/paranormal ideologies. I'd contrast him against Bradbury who can sometimes write about futuristic or science-y things but often without the science. Certain Lovecraft stories felt a little more science-fiction-oriented in that they drew just enough on reality to make it a little more unnerving/believable. Another potential comparison might be fellow "weird tale" writer Clark Ashton Smith who would sometimes write about space travel and alien worlds but also in a way more consistent with what I think of as fantasy.

"The Colour Out Of Space" and "The Whisperer In Darkness" stand out to me in particular as being in a sci-fi vein, although it's been a while and I'm left with impressions rather than detailed specifics - I remember certain elements and that they both were particularly good stories (some Lovecraft is very dry IMHO).

I was surprised at times in Lovecraft at how some of the themes resonated with me and still felt relatively modern via their subsequent influence; I could relate them to ideas I had encountered in X-Files or in pop-culture paranormal discussions like I had heard on Art Bell's radio show in the 1990s. It led me to realize how old some of those tropes were and a better understanding of how extensive the paranormal mythology is, shaping itself out of bits from science, folklore, history, fiction, etc., into something unique from those individual sources - not quite a belief system due to no standardized canon or interpretation, but neither is it wholly factual or fictional. I came away feeling like Lovecraft had to have been an influence on that ideology whether or not its adherents were aware of it.

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27. "For comics I recommend Fear Agent"
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It's some straight up space cowboy stuff with a great story.

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58. "Read that Volume 1 omnibus recently... INCREDIBLE"
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The visuals, the story pacing... it just blew me away

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29. "Obviously -- JG Ballard."
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32. "Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland..."
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and the End of the World was interesting. It lost me in the final act but it was a worthwhile read.

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33. "of course Octavia Butler"
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http://octaviabutler.org/publications/

anyone of these you start with you'll be good to go.

Get Out the Room
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39. "A deepness in the sky - Vernon Vinge"
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I am sure it's not new or compelling, but it was to me, read it over the holidays. Not perfect, and long as shit, but some great ideas and really quality culture building. Actually got it of some list of best scifi books for economists ... Some really interesting concepts

  

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46. "Good post"
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<---https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DL9AVTQ

  

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47. "Novels."
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IQ84.Haruki Murakami
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson{100x better than the film}.
The Left Hand of Darkness . Ursula Le Guin
The Naked Sun. Isaac Asimov
A Scanner Darkly/ Philip K. Dick
Ringworld.Larry Niven

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50. "^^^Mentioned 'Ringworld'. You're a solid Homo sapien"
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48. "Anyone here into Charles Stross"
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I've read Accelerando and another one. Really dig him, and want to follow a series I think.

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49. "Philip K. Dick's work is far out.."
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said
Ubik
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


to name a few

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51. "He's just the fucking man, period."
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>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>Flow My Tears the Policeman Said
>Ubik
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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>
>to name a few


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62. "thank you for this. I'm gunna read PKD for my next"
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grad school project period and was looking for some choices from his vast works

  

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55. "word"
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>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>Flow My Tears the Policeman Said
>Ubik
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

PKD will straight-up put his crazy inside you. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. Ubik is probably my favorite, but I also dug Martian Time Slip, A Scanner Darkly, and Valis.

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94. "Flow My Tears was a mess of a book. I did enjoy reading it tho"
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Valis was mostly pretentious ruminating

I don't know when I'll get around to the others

  

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110. "Do Androids Dream, please. It's glorious as shit"
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Scanner Darkly is excellent but it low key gave me
weird dreams


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111. "werd. I'll give it him another go"
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52. "Let's keep this up"
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53. "The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodovar"
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awesome movie
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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

  

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63. "okay. i wasn't alone in putting it in the realm of sci-fi"
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easily one of my favorite movies by him or ever

  

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72. "Not at all "
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Definitely dipped his toe in
And in a fantastic way
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54. "Looking for contemporary (last decade) black sf writers"
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60. "RE: Looking for contemporary (last decade) black sf writers"
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You can find a bunch in these anthologies

http://www.amazon.com/AfroSF-Science-Fiction-African-Writers/dp/098700896X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396552362&sr=1-1&keywords=afrosf

http://www.amazon.com/Steamfunk-Milton-J-Davis/dp/0980084253/ref=pd_sim_b_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=10AHVYB7EBXN9CH9WR4Z

http://www.amazon.com/Mothership-Afrofuturism-Beyond-Bill-Campbell/dp/0989141144/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396552488&sr=1-1&keywords=mothership+tales+from+afrofuturism+and+beyond

Fun is the new gritty

  

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67. "Not big on anthologies but these look great thanks"
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69. "RE: Not big on anthologies but these look great thanks"
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AfroSF and Mothership are pretty good, but I mostly use anthologies like those in order to find a grip of authors and go from there.

Fun is the new gritty

  

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89. "Got Mothership from the library, digging it so far"
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59. "Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch"
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Really twisted book.


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61. "Moon."
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___________________

Mar-A-Lago delenda est

  

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68. "LOL. Stop it. I know you have some contributions, list them, beyotch"
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Moon was some SHIT and you know it

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70. " LOLFL"
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73. "http://i50.tinypic.com/2mgnsid.jpg"
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http://i50.tinypic.com/2mgnsid.jpg

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65. "Nowhere Men (comic)"
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66. "Some short films"
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Robots of Brixton by Kibwe Tavares
http://vimeo.com/25092596

A Killer Surprise by Kevin Killebrew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2NNP9YwfCo

Transporter by Damon Colquhoun
http://vimeo.com/72568784

Telescope by Collin Davis
http://vimeo.com/72943796

Record/Play by Jesse Atlas
http://vimeo.com/75869689

Abe by Rob McLellan
http://vimeo.com/64114843

Fun is the new gritty

  

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71. "SMH...this post made me buy a NEW Kindle Paperwhite"
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I had one, left it on the fucking train, dope device

I'm looking at all this shit like "I'm copping"

  

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74. "Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson"
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i guess its more hard core sci fi and not weird sci fi. but i really like the mars trilogy


and of course in the comic worlds, Saga


  

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75. ""
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short 28 minute film told in a series of black and white still images about a man in post apocalyptic Paris haunted by a vivid memory as a child from just before WWII who travels back and forth in time and ultimately comes to uncover the meaning of the image from his childhood that has followed him his entire life. Very creative exploration of time and memory and was the inspiration for 12 Monkeys.

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79. "Dope....You should have at least 14 replies, negroid, contribute"
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77. "so I just watched Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning"
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on Netflix

that shit was OD violent and strange. underground secret soldier armies, clones, mind control, Van Dam in face paint, and the illest bat fight ever

it was like a more coherent, but stupider Primer, made by a man who said fuck the naval gazing and actually likes his penis in wet vagina

it was weird, ridiculous, and good

  

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80. "Just picked up The Waking Engine...."
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Author is David Edison. I'm about 15% in according to Kindle. Pretty decent so far.

Intriguing premise:

Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die.

Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times . . . until they come at last to the City Unspoken, where the gateway to True Death can be found.

Wayfarers and pilgrims are drawn to the City, which is home to murderous aristocrats, disguised gods and goddesses, a sadistic faerie princess, immortal prostitutes and queens, a captive angel, gangs of feral Death Boys and Charnel Girls . . . and one very confused New Yorker.

Late of Manhattan, Cooper finds himself in a City that is not what it once was. The gateway to True Death is failing, so that the City is becoming overrun by the Dying, who clot its byzantine streets and alleys . . . and a spreading madness threatens to engulf the entire metaverse.


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"To Each His Reach"

  

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81. "For Fantasy Heads: Patrick Rothfuss' KingKiller Chronicles.."
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Name of the Wind was pretty badass. Wise Man's Fear, the followup, was real solid too.

Don't know when the third book is due out.
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82. "Under The Skin (Film)"
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yes it's anchored but it deserves mention here

  

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83. "you're a kindle dude, right?"
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sf masterworks

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_masterworks.asp

i have the first 100 books in the series, in mobi and epub format. i can send you them shits if you're interested.

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it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - sherlock holmes

  

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84. "If you don't send that shit asap"
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>sf masterworks
>
>https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_masterworks.asp
>
>i have the first 100 books in the series, in mobi and epub
>format. i can send you them shits if you're interested.

Bet bet bet

You need me to hit you on da box?

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85. "man"
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i'm glad i've read most of those or i'd waste a lot of time.

  

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86. "pretty great list"
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i'd love that link as well if you got it.

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87. "bro you mind sharing"
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112. "heeeeeeeeeeeyyy!!!! "
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*i'm shameless w/ it*

laink. enbox. something?


peace & blessings,

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focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
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88. "bookmark "
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90. "21 Books that changed Science Fiction"
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http://io9.com/21-books-that-changed-science-fiction-and-fantasy-forev-1610590701

Thoughts

  

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102. "List is flawed. Where is DUNE?"
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91. "Black Mirror (TV)"
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Great British Sci-Fi anthology series in the vein of The Twilight Zone but skewed more towards technology. Only two seasons, each with just three episodes.

  

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95. "Neuromancer really is a brilliant work of art"
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from the world building

to the attention to detail

to the themes and concepts

to the class and race dynamics

to the actual written style of the book, which in some ways is it's weakness

but yeah, great great book

  

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96. "welp...i SAW it, but i can't REALLY tell ya..."
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..i GUESS it qualifies as SciFi, but i honestly can't tell if it was truly 'GOOD' or not...it may indeed have been GOOD...i just...i just...

look...i CAN tell ya this....just know that me and my wife & son watched it one saturday many years ago... and after watching it we were loopy, perplexed, unsure of what we'd just witnessed...
we joked that the flick must have been emitting some sort of visual acid cuz we felt like we were straight trippin...

oh yeah...the flick was "Big Man Japan"

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Man-Japan-Riki-Takeuchi/dp/B0023BZ65S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414872245&sr=8-1&keywords=big+man+japan

  

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98. "Monstro - Junot Diaz"
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/monstro

  

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100. "Discovered Kingmaker on Amazon. Not a perfect book,"
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but very entertaining. Was optioned by Mark Canton (producer of 300).

Kingmaker - Christian Cantrell
http://www.amazon.com/Kingmaker-Christian-Cantrell-ebook/dp/B00BEKO7D6

*America's Favorite*

  

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103. "some stuff i stumbled across on spotify"
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classic audiobooks
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/2ZGrUJ8GVyw3gGO3XgFTly

radio dramas
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/1CYblmWDusIJDkpOUFgdaD

blake's 7
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/2UiH8FRStT4RlfYHHA14KT

horror classics
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/3bboSFT6qxw9HB1mzqDj4O

lovecraft
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/3uoRM3wbD1D0L4sHeBzCAb

poe
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/20qnZDC2bTpETZf5sLkuFg

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104. "Me reading from my forthcoming novel:"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlAX5Ja6c2Q

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105. "Oh shit!!! When it on sale?"
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106. "RE: Oh shit!!! When it on sale?"
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End of summer. I just received a literary fellowship which will allow me to clean things up for the final draft. Release will be late August/early September.

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107. "So glad you posted this"
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Do that thing man!!

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108. "So no ones read A Deepness in The Sky - Vinge??"
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its been a while but I still think about it

  

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113. "Just finished Snow Crash"
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took me forever

fuck, it was a messy and a chore, but overall very fucn dope. Hiro, Raven, Y.T. were all dope ass characters...

the action scenes were awesome

and the way Stephenson was thinking of shit we now call Siri, Wikipedia, Google Earth, and online Gaming, is just mind boggling

  

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114. "That book practically birthed startup culture"
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Speaking from both sides of that statement. The way his ideas became business models in the ten years that followed in no small way shaped the internet as we know it today.

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