lit - literature

>>1965
It was a 90's genre.

>>1967
80's*

>>1969
It may have begun in the late 80s, but it was pretty much off the radar until the 90s.

Also 90s was the decade of grunge and rapidly growing technologies that the everyday dude and dudette could see (but not understand).

The 90s was also the end of the booming economy in the 80s.

I have always wondered why /cyber/s and such have tried to stick to 80s.

it's back kids
http://junk.soykaf.org/library/

>>2114
nice

>>2084
what? i dont understand what your asking.

its like this

>>>/lit/2076

>>2086
So that is how you do it.

If the author was ok with it, I think that would be a cool thing to put in lainzine 3.

>>1883
Yeah that bit didn't really fit, it didn't feel cyberpunk or lain-y, just sounded like being an asshole.

Catching a 404 on the lain link, also not able to access the lainzine pdf files that have been linked to in this thread. Did the zine go down for some reason?

>>2102
The link is dead for me too. But the PDFs work fine.

>>2047
YOU FOOL

>>2047
rip

>>2020
Not really. But we get it, you're edgy as fuarrrk.

The Foundation should publish a physical book with the top SCP.

I'm really digging this one.
I've always been fond of the SCPs that are borderline impossible to talk about directly. Like the toaster. I'm a classic.

scp 184 is probably my favourite
http://scp-wiki.com/scp-184

have some spores but haven't takn the plunge yet

>>1937
Yeah, I think a lot of utilitarianism makes perfect sense, but not the hedonistic part.

I don't have any problems with making assumptions. Dunno where you got that from.

>>1936
I never thought I'd found the "meaning" of life. I think if there is one, it will require a much better understanding of the universe than the one we have now.

>>1936
New to the thread but I pretty much agree with you anyway.

I don't think that necessarily means that it's a bad idea to impose a common set of morals so as to deter people who would be less naturally altruistic, though.

I minored in philosophy because it seemed like quick easy path to earn study credits. It was, took me less than a year to complete that minor. Then the damn thing stuck on me big time, mostly thanks to political philosophy course which could be called massive eye-opener in many ways (that there is more than one idea of what is justice really shook me to core, it was unthinkable before). Another shaker course was classics, where Anscombe dissects what intention really means. Sounds boring but holy batman it was interesting! Scored straight A's on both courses.

Then I filled the blanks left by education, reading things university didn't include in curricula (careful with these books, kids!). I read fascist philosophy straight from source (Giovanni Gentile) and traditionalism (Julius Evola) and new right (Hans-Hermann Hoppe). Oddly enough, minor didn't cover even Nietzsche, so him too. Main drive was and is pure curiosity, as entire other half of political spectrum was dismissed from curricula. Evola's "Ride the Tiger" was another massive shaker. Not because it's particularly good in analytical sense, but because it was like "waaaah?? this kind of ideas can be formulated on paper in coherent way??". So off the whack of what is considered "normal" so to speak. Also the first in this category I've read.

During the past year I've been reading into neo-reactionary philosophy (Nick Land and Mencius Moldbug mostly). Considering how new neo-reactionary thought is, I think it spawned in early 00's, it's also most fascinating. Moldbug's "Open letter for open-minded liberals" (excellent read, all of them) is intended as easy text for unwashed, but I think it still prerequires philosophical foundation (Anscombe, Russell and Nozic/Rawls suffices) to fully appreciate. What makes neo-reactionary thought so interesting is timing and method. It is basically highly amped version of critical theory without any goal other than trashing the entire whig history and associated philosophies. The best part of it is that it all makes oddly much sense. The timing is interesting because it reinforces the central tenet of Cathedral. I mentioned that my minors curricula didn't include right-wing philosophies. Why? Likely because it is not considered important and there is limited time for humans to study something, so the faculty needs to select what to give students to read. Obviously the things that are considered most important are the philosophies with most impact Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1983
I was new to the thread too, I guess that wasn't obvious.

Sorry if I misunderstood you - do you mean that it's a good idea to tell people that e.g. murder is wrong and altruism is good?

I think those statements are true, in the sense that they represent my attitudes. I don't think they are true in the sense that they represent objective features of the world. I would have no problem with teaching children (imposing on them) that my morals are true, because I prefer that people don't murder.

>>1990
I follow a lot of Less Wrong users on Tumblr; none of them are reactionaries. I have not heard good things about Moldbug. IIRC, and I probably don't, he used shoddy statistics to prove that life under monarchy was more prosperous than it is now. Though the first few parts of his Open Letter are so far mostly agreeable and mildly entertaining. Can you give some examples of NRx ideas that you think are useful or interesting?

>>1921
Yeah, that seems like a good idea for the vocabulary part. Still doesn't solve the problem with grammar.

Why not read fiction written in english? It will improve your vocabulary. You could also read it out loud.

So far I've downloaded The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation and Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation. I have also found a site named grammar-monster.com.

And I understand the need to read more for the vocabulary part. I'm going to work on reading a lot more. I downloaded Snow Crash and Neuromancer recently. Thanks for the book suggestions from the other Lainon.

I have this for you!

>>1925
Thanks Lainon! I'm adding this book to my studies.

This is awesome, any chance of it getting finished, or a bulk download link?

>>2024
I already posted this on /art/
https://lainchan.org/art/res/1516.html#1578

>>2025
Thank you kindly.

>>1720
Smith of Wootton Major is by him and definitely worth reading. Thanks for upping all these books! There are some I had started and never finished. Ironically, one that I haven't completed is Unfinished Tales ;_;

>>1719
The Children of Hurin is one of his darker stories, but it is one of my favorites!

>>1716
>.epub
What's a good program for reading this format?

>>1963
on Windows, Sumatra.
I use qpdfview on Linux
no idea for Mac

>>1977
The Mac has an app by default called Books.

>>1977
FBReader for Android.

What's the plot? And through what medium do you access it? Thinking of reading it.

It's Hunter S. Thompson's biography and body of popular works suitably transported and retold in an edgier Futurama metropolis.

There's an underlying plot, but it's a slow burn with plenty of world-building elaboration and digressions. Basically, it's a story of a professional journalist who's been out of the loop for a bit and needs to get back into the swing of things. The swing of things here being all future shock and weird.

It's relatively easy to follow, easily digested enough, but it holds some kind of hearty value in my opinion. It's twisted, but human nonetheless

Transmetropolitan is one of my favourite comic series, but I had to force myself at the beginning.

It seemed so juvenile, but I've got a serious soft spot for fake product placement in sci-fi, so I adored every shot on the streets just to oggle the billboards.

Once I got to know the characters and the tone I grew to love it.
I like Thompson's work in a "can't look away from the car crash" sort of way.
But I think the outlandishness of his anecdotes is aided by it all being told by him in the past tense. We're given information in the way he wants.
In TransMet, learning about events in real-time (that is, learning info at the same time the characters do) feels a lot less natural.
Spider's articles are probably as good as the writing gets, fictional gonzo journalism is a good format.

So good characters, well written, very nice art. 10/10 sci-fi world.

I love Transmet with all my heart and soul.
I remember finding it funny how the trans-species fuarrrkers reminded me of tumblr, of the general tendency of people anymore to make some special identity for themselves and in doing so often reduce themselves to victimhood simply for the sake of it. I remember finding the level of apathy.. Pretty realistic, actually. And the amount of corruption, and the everything. It was great.

It's somewhat depressing though, since I don't think we're going to HAVE a Spider.

This is my first time actually posting on lainchan, only my second time logging on, but any community that likes Transmet is awwright.

PS: Hillary's the Smiler, Trump's the Beast.

I liked the story with the rats in the wall. I had a couple HP Lovecraft books but sadly didn't read them all. I've watched the Re-Animator 80s movie (Classic if you haven't watched it) but yet to read the story itself. I think I will today Lainon, thanks.

These should be saved at https://soykaf.org/

>>1948
ree at the fact www.soykaf.org doesn't redirect to soykaf.org tbh

Test

>>1891
You're welcome. I dump my favorite authors' stuff intermittently. Just made a new thread here if you or anyone else is interested.

>>1952

>>1954
And here is his last book, The Rum Diary
>>1950

Hope you enjoyed this month's selection. Think I'll post a cyberpunk themed dump next week on the 11th. Keep an eye out if you're interested.
Cheers