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The Nightman · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 2:00 pm

My older sister offered to buy me some books. There's not really any that I can think of that I want right now, but she insists on getting me some, so I could use some recommendations I guess.

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The Willow Witch wrote:

I'm really book hungry for some dystopian future stories. I just finished reading the Birthmarked trilogy, and I thought the first and last books were good, but the second felt like it was rush-written.

I need more dystopian future books, if anyone has read any good ones?

Fahrenheit 451 if you somehow haven't read it.

hotb · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:02 pm

Cordwainer Smith's stories are good and somewhat dystopian

His science fiction works take place in the far future where humanity is ruled over the "Instrumentality of Mankind" who try to protect it with good intentions but in a very mundane utopian way, with regulated emotions and things. A few stories are about the "Underpeople", a lower caste of part-animal people made to do certain jobs and seen as very inhuman.

They might not be as grim as you'd like, they're quite optimistic really, but they're very interesting and imaginative pieces of speculative fiction. They're often written like legends or romantic accounts of something that happened a long while ago.

Ersatz · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:52 pm **Posts:** 2278

The Willow Witch wrote:

I need more dystopian future books, if anyone has read any good ones?

I liked 1984.

Barabba · **Posted:** Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:30 am

I love how these Star Wars audiobooks include sound effects and music.

Doormaster · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 12:32 pm

A Scanner Darkly is p good for dystopian fiction, although it gets a little bit muddled and confusing. It's kind of the point though? So I dunno if it'll fit in with what you're looking for.

Kergan · **Joined:** Mon Jun 10, 2013 7:05 pm **Posts:** 266

I found a collection of old G.R.R. Martin short stories in a garage sale. Those are really great, why did everyone forget they even exited ?
(Also Science-Fiction short stories are the best thing. Ever)

Barabba · **Posted:** Sat May 17, 2014 12:39 am

Were the characters in Redwall normal sized, or were they all human sized?

vealin99 · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2014 10:50 am

I assumed normal sized

Barabba · **Posted:** Mon May 19, 2014 2:39 pm

Yeah, things are a lot more awesome that way.

Madican · **Joined:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:18 pm **Posts:** 13531

New Dresden Files on the 27th. I am ready.

Kergan · **Joined:** Mon Jun 10, 2013 7:05 pm **Posts:** 266

Just read Good Omens again, and ... still one of my favorite books.

mosiyazhi · **Joined:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:48 pm **Posts:** 152

The Power of Silence by Carlos Castaneda

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Madican · **Joined:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:18 pm **Posts:** 13531

My copy of Skin Game arrived today. All is right with the world.

The Nightman · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:29 pm

I'm about halfway through Starship Troopers. I gotta say, I like it a lot. The morality lessons thrown in every now and then are nice.

TheStranger · **Posted:** Thu Jun 12, 2014 11:39 am

Granny Benson wrote:

I'm about halfway through Starship Troopers. I gotta say, I like it a lot. The morality lessons thrown in every now and then are nice.

I hated that book. Fucking militaristic bullshit

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