What are the most underrated science fiction books?
Cyrano de Bergerac's
depends on your taste I guess since the good ones are by consensus
>>7649910
The stars my destination
4 that rage fuelled main character craving
>>7650062
>The stars my destination
Technically this and Stand on Zanzibar are 'underrated' in the strict sense that you get people who are super evangelical about them (I used to be the biggest Bester fanboy going) but they remain comparatively obscure. Not sure it's what OP is looking for, though.
>>7650083
>I used to be the biggest Bester fanboy going
What dislodged Bester?
>>7650114
I dunno, just not being a teenager anymore, I guess. It's not that I stopped liking his stuff or anything.
The Bible
>>7649910
Solaris
the first good translation was written in like 2011
>>7650158
Aw, thought you might've had some outrageous Space Moby Dick.
>>7650160
Pretty sure thats fantasy.
>>7650162
This and His Master's Voice are awesome. Stanislaw Lem is probably the crossover point between genre and literary fiction.
I don't want to reveal my hand but I might. I just might.
>>7650233
> the crossover point between genre and literary fiction.
There's been dozens of those m8
Sci-fi is not literature.
>>7651082
Nice meme
Anyway Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke is a great book that rarely gets mentioned anywhere.
>>7649910
Synners
>>7651082
Sewer, Gas & Electric – Matt Ruff
Carve the Sky – Alexander Jablokov
Stations of the Tide – Michael Swanwick
Speaker for the Dead. (I thought it was better than Ender's Game)
Software – Rudy Rucker
>>7651307
good choice
Ready player one is an underrated gem
>>7651690
Too far even for trolling
Helliconia Spring - Brian Aldiss
Four Ways to Forgiveness - Le Guin
Bloodchild - Octavia Butler
Gene Wolfe's short stories
Some of the short stories by Samuel "Hogg" Delany I've read have been really good namely "Aye, and Gomorrah," and "The Star Pit" but I haven't read that much of his books and some of them sound pretty literally gay.
>>7650020
this!
"Lords of the Starship" by Mark S Geston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_the_Starship
Slaughter house five by Kurt Vonnegut.
You probably haven't heard of him.
>>7651566
>Carve the Sky – Alexander Jablokov
yes
>Software – Rudy Rucker
yes
>Speaker for the Dead.
no
> (I thought it was better than Ender's Game)
it's not that hard being better than a steaming pile of shit
Not sure if underrated, but Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
