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Re:Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published by lynx23 on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:49AM (#41902389)
Wha? The best sci-fi novel ever written? An Ode to free love?

Stranger In A Strange Land is so creepy, I started to wonder about the sanity of Heinlein. A sex cult around a pseudo-alien? C'mon. It feels like it was written by a 14 year old.

I would submit Incandescence as the best sci-fi novel ever written.

But tastes obviously differ.

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Re:Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published by JadeNB on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:10AM (#41904360)
> I would submit Incandescence as the best sci-fi novel ever written.

In a world with both Greg Egan and Ted Chiang writing sci-fi, one has to exclude their novels from any best-of comparisons just to give other authors a fighting chance.

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Re:Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published by zeroonetwothree on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:58AM (#41904912)
Ted Chiang hasn’t published any novels.
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Re:Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published by lynx23 on Monday October 21, 2024 @12:06PM (#41905584)
Oh damn, DEI has finally made its way into books! The Horror. I totally dsagree. We dont have to shoot down exceptionally good peple just so that the mediocre are noticed. I dont want to notice the mediocre, I dont have time for their stuff.
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