Books

[Kugelfisch]

When did nationalism become a bad thing?

When the (((nationless))) decided it'd be much easier to own people via trade and finance.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

There's a new Einstein book out: Einstein's war : how relativity triumphed amid the vicious nationalism of World War I and the description is all about him defeating bigotry AND nationalism with science!

Matthew Stanley's epic tale is a celebration of how bigotry and nationalism can be defeated, and of what science can offer when they are.

Lol, WTF?!

I'm surprised this isn't about how his waifu was the actual driving force behind him. Oh wait, he was a bit of a crappy husbando

[Guest]

Books are dead fellas. Book publishing is even more infested with SJW's than comic books.

[Kugelfisch]

That's like saying that music is dead because the mainstream is all garbage. It always has been that way. But unlike comics, there's good stuff still made.

[rabidtictac]

It takes way less cuckoldry and ass-kissing to get a book made than a movie or vidya gaem. Plenty of good books exist and we have hundreds of years of backlog to get through, unless you're a faggot who pretends past novels were all trash.

I can give you some recommendations right now, if you'd like. Modern or old, you can pick. Off the top of my head, Neal Asher is a fantastic writer of science fiction. Short stories in particular, but his dark transformation trilogy is probably his best work in novels. I recently finished the Voyage of the Sable Keech and found it underwhelming compared to the usual high standard his books set.

https://www.amazon.com/Gabble-Other-Sto ... way&sr=8-1

This collection is decent, but some of the best stories are missing. Alien Archeology, Adaptogenic and Choudapt are probably the best ones in this set. The Other Gun is noticeable in its absence. I think that story best summarizes the brutality, insanity and otherworldly quality of Asher's writing.

Alistair Reynolds has been a solid writer for ages now. Again, short fiction is what I prefer with him. Zima Blue springs to mind, but there are many, many stories of his to recommend.

Likewise, Harry Harrison. Famed for the Stainless Steel Rat series, he wrote a lot of fantastic short fiction. Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N. is a parody of overblown space opera and quintessential Harrison humor. I Always Do What Teddy Says, From Fanaticism, or For Reward (a deconstruction of the assassin/spy genre), Space Rats of the CCC and Waiting Place are some of the best short stories I've ever read. He has another fantastic one whose name escapes me now.

I think the best way to find new authors you like is to read short story collections within genres you tend to enjoy. You'll be exposed to a lot of shit. Most of it will be bad, but you'll find good stuff. A lot of the old science fiction collections feature short stories written by Reynolds, Asimov and other usual suspects.

[Keith Chegwin]

If anything books are less cucked than any other entertainment medium. Firstly there are lots of publishers covering all sorts of niches and secondly nobody actually reads so you can get away with quite a lot.

[Kugelfisch]

>nobody reads
That tired old meme again. There's absurd sums of money being made with books and it's growing. My shitty, little super market in bumfuck nowhere makes well past 10k Euroshekels a year alone.
Sure, movies and gayms make lots of money but try actually selling copies of that shit and you'll see that books is where it's at if you want to actually earn something instead of just having turnover for nothing.

[Guest]

Normalfags don't read books, they don't even listen to audiobooks like Sargoy.

[Kugelfisch]

Normalfags don't read books, they don't even listen to audiobooks like Sargoy.

Hilariously wrong. The fuck you think Harry Pottery and 50 Shades of Anal Fisting made mad dosh from? It certainly wasn't 4chonger stone masonry boards and NEETs.

[Keith Chegwin]

>nobody reads
That tired old meme again. There's absurd sums of money being made with books and it's growing. My shitty, little super market in bumfuck nowhere makes well past 10k Euroshekels a year alone.

Hilariously wrong. The fuck you think Harry Pottery and 50 Shades of Anal Fisting made mad dosh from? It certainly wasn't 4chonger stone masonry boards and NEETs.

See, this is where you're fucked up. The kind of books you sell at your supermarket, no offence, are more likely to be airport novels. Cheap, disposable trash. Not exactly high literature. Yes, there's a lot of money in airport novels, and in books generally. But people do not read. We as society are used to getting information quickly. It takes time and dedication to read someone's six hundred page life's work, which is exactly why most people don't.