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Libraries and book recommendations thread Libraries: http://clockwise3rldkgu.onion/index.php - Clockwise http://xfmro77i3lixucja.onion/ - Imperial Library of Trantor http://c3jemx2ube5v5zpg.onion/ - Hidden book club (currently down, but bookmark it because it will likely be back soon) Recommendation: If you haven't read the foundation series by Isaac Asimov yet drop everything and do that right now.

>>1 Wow, thanks for these links anon

>>1 awesome links OP. Here is some from my archives; http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz Custom ebook search engines https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=001639227550064093264:dznewka3cca http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=000661023013169144559:a1-kkiboeco

Did... /lit/ get wiped? Am I missing something here?

>>5 oh my sweet summer child wasn't just lit, the entire site flatlined https://lainchan.org/q/res/1.html OP, these are excellent, excellent links, thanks for sharing I made a what are you reading thread shortly before the recreation of /lit/, which i think is proximal to this thread but towards a different end i have recently discovered ted chiang - who's Story of Your Life was adapted into Arrival - and am crushing so hard right now. his writing itself is absolutely excellent, and his themes, while not necessarily cyberpunk, are super aligned with many explored in SEL. reading through his collection Stories of Your Life and Others, which has the aforementioned titular story. Well worth checking out.

>>http://www.cyberpunkforums.com/viewtopic.php?id=3850 Ongoing project of mine that you all might be interested in.

>>12 Got pdf of battronica?

I bought a book on Amazon for the Kindle Cloud Reader Does anyone know how I can retrieve the file so I can share it with some anons?

Peter Watts is a very good author. I highly recommend Blindsight if you want some of that dank existential horror in a terse cynical style. http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

Can anyone recommend me a horror book? Something along the lines of the HP lovecraft mythos. I don't enjoy reading lovecraft though. I really enjoy Stephen king and what he usually does with horror, but i was looking for something closer to lovecraft's mythos.

I really love Neal Stephenson but I recently found Greg Egan and he may have taken my no1 spot for hard sci-fi. http://www.gregegan.net/ I'd never heard of him until recently he doesn't seem really well known.

>>1104 He is very well known and won numerous awards

Where did the huge book thread go? There was a thread of like 400 books. I wanted to get the eloquent rubyist book but the thread is gone.

>>1125 http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Eloquent%20Ruby

The Angry Decade by Kenneth Allsop I've searched it everywhere but couldn't find ;_;

With school coming up and gen lib being down I thought I would bump this asking for any other libraries. I generally use pirate bay or a private tracker. Also Laintracker has a bunch of good security books

Does Lainchan have any sort of good books to read infographic? I've pretty much never really read many books across my life nor have I really watched much media and kinda wanted to start trying out reading now. The few shows that I have watched and enjoyed are things like lain, xavier renegade angel, eva, angel's egg and that sorta pretentious niche soykaf, just encase anyone has any recommendations they might think I'd like.

>>2473 it really depends, you might want to start with short stories, then work your way into books, or you might just want to start with longer books. I do have a few infographics (that I need to look for) but those are usually based on a certain frame of mind/genre. what kinds of things interest you? aside from the mentioned anime?

>>2473 Personal recommendations, especially if you are not a strong reader (i.e. not used to reading extensive rambling texts) would be to start with some older "young adult" novels. Recommended authors are Tolkien and C.S. lewis (both friends, Tolkien was a master at world crafting, as can be seen by his "simarillion" but the hobbit is a good introduction to his works) lewis was more influenced by the judeochristian faith, which is reflected in his countless allusions to biblical characters and moral decisions (no further spoilers, read the chronicles of narnia for yourself) the little prince is a great introduction to philosophy, and it is a short book that has been translated into over 20 languages IIRC, and the story goes along with several of the themes of isolation, maturity, and fitting in, much like lain I would also recommend to the more sci-fi oriented, books such as farenheit 451 (the HBO movie was a soykaf adaptation) and other books by ray Bradbury and the short stories "i have no mouth and I must scream"/"the machine stops" for the more heavy existentialist sci-fi. Another author I would highly recommend is Robert Heinlein, who although introduces many musings on politics, service, and becoming a self made man, does have a great writing style. A short story by ayn rand (starting to get more political) would be the short book anthem (about 100 pages IIRC) can read it in an afternoon. >The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. a series I would recommend would be the MADDADAM series by Margaret Atwood, it deals with lots of cyberpunk subjects like the dark web, low life industries and genetic engineering

>>2474 I pretty much spend all my time either programmin', playing video games but most of all shipostin on various chans, which is what I mean by I haven't really watched a lotta media. A lot of it just doesn't really fit my fancy and i was wondering if books might be more my thing. I guess you could say psychological is my favourite genre, but I don't know If I wanna jump right into something like that. Like I mentioned I also like Xavier: Renegade Angel which isn't anime but instead a early 2000's adult swim black comedy which had amazing tier wordplay, I wouldn't mind reading a book that can make me laugh as much as that show did. >>2475 this lainon got a good understanding of the sort of stuff I'd like to explore. I am more a fan of the distant future sci-fi settings, not really space opera but instead 'Everything's fuarrrked and there is no god to save us now' sorta sci-fi. I'll check out your recommendations for sure Thanks to both of you for the reply!

to give you some summaries of the books listed >not really space opera but instead 'Everything's fuarrrked and there is no god to save us now' sorta sci-fi. sounds exactly like oryx and crake a couple kids raised online and their adult struggle to survive after the world goes to soykaf. half the book is about the main characters childhoods, the other half is their adult lives where everything is fuarrrked better summarized by wikipedia as >Jimmy meets and befriends a brilliant science student named Glenn. Jimmy begins to refer to him as Crake when he uses that name in an online trivia game called Extinctathon. Jimmy and Crake spend much of their leisure time playing online games, smoking "skunkweed" and watching underground videos such as live executions, graphic surgery, Noodie News, frog squashing, and [cheese pizza]. >farenheit 451 a guy who gets paid to burn books out of curiosity starts to read them, gets pissed at society and his normal person wife, and befriends a girl who is an outcast in society because she likes to enjoy life and is curious about the world around her instead of being like all the other normal people her age >the machine stops a man lives in a bubble after the world has been fuarrrked by industrialization, his mother is a total normal person, raises questions about universal basic income and automation you might like "1984", but I personally thought it was a slow book. >a guy who works for the censorship office starts to collaborate with a rebel movement after meeting a girl he bangs, i cant really remember much (read the book about 15 years ago), except he also scribbles his hate in a diary and lives in a panopticon of a society slaughterhouse 5 might be worth looking into as is "brave new world" Harrison bergeron is a good short story, basically a chad meme fights against a bunch of normal people who try to make everybody equal, but they do it by putting weights on the strong and playing annoying sounds to the intelligent (this basically made the protagonist even stronger) city of ember might be good, I have only ever seen the movie with saoirse ronan but it seems like it is probably a good book, also wikipedia says it is a series. the idea is that people live in a bunker underground because of nuclear war another series might be one second after, which follows a dad and his family after an EMP attack is launched against the united states, similar to a book called "alas babylon" which is about a communities response to nuclear war in a small american town. these two inspired a good portion of the "prepper" movement

>>2477 All of those do sound really interesting. Most things I enjoy I get drawn in by the fact that the world is unique and interesting instead. I'll probably check out "the machine stops" first because that one seemed most likely to draw me in. Thanks again.

>>2475 >the little prince is a great introduction to philosophy, and it is a short book that has been translated into over 20 languages IIRC, and the story goes along with several of the themes of isolation, maturity, and fitting in, much like lain This seems so obvious but I wasn't sure why that book striked my fancy when I saw it. Thanks lainon!

Hey I struggled to find a thread in which this topic would fit in better so I'll just bring it up in here: I got a friend on the Philippines who wants to be an animator but due to being forced to work in a factory, to sustain his family, he's not able to pursue this dream. I wanted to support him by supplying him with books and resources to at least learn the theoretical basics. Do you guys have any recommendations for books and ideas where to upload them in a way that they are readable online without consuming much data?

>>3060 I don't have a digital version of it, but the best book you can buy is Animation: From Script to Screen by Shamus Culhane. He was one of Disney's animators back in the day and basically wrote a textbook/workbook on getting the hardcore skills to become an animator. Hia book is filled with old-school training techniques. You won't find anything on computer-generated stuff. That said, if your friend spends a year doing what the book suggests he'll have a strong animation foundation to build hia CG skills on top of.

>>2477 Slaughterhouse 5 is one of my favorites, Vonnegut is a master of his genre.

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I'll give my recs. My credentials are having spent my childhood with a couple bookcases of adult SF in lieu of friends or parental guidance. Thraxis series, by Martin Millar writing as Martin Scott. A morbidly obese private detective in a fantasy world, and his half-elf/half-orc ex gladiator barmaid sidekick. The Greenwich Village Trilogy: The Butterfly Kid, by Chester Anderson The Unicorn Girl, by Michael Kurland The Probability Pad, by T.A. Waters Three 60's science fiction authors write themselves as the heroes of a trilogy of psychedelic adventure novels. Autumn Angels, by Arthur Byron Cover A pop culture parody of the Dying Earth subgenre, like if Michael Moorecock's Dancers At The End Of Time was written by Douglas Adams as a huge copyright-violating crossover. Future Man has godlike powers, which came at the cost of their imagination, so they assume personas from history and fiction, so the heroes are Godlike Men who are patterned after Ham, the lawyer from Doc Savage, and Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon, and there are versions of Bonnie and Clyde, Queen Victoria, Fu Manchu, Bill The Galactic Hero, Lois Lane, Captain Marvel, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Hawkman, The Man With No Name, and Nero Wolfe. There is a transcendent moment when The Fat Man (Greenstreet) encounters The Other Fat Man (Wolfe), and they spend some time sizing each other up, and The Fat Man says "I am a man who enjoys sizing another man up, and so much more if there is more of another man to size up." The Other Fat Man, after some preamble, suggests that everything the heroes have done up to this point has been according to his plan, to which the Fat Man replies that perhaps The Other Fat Man's plan has been going according to his plan, which, although he doesn't let on, actually upsets The Other Fat Man a great deal, to the point which he really wants to say "pfui", but he's so deeply shaken that he's not sure at this point if he will enunciate it properly. Cover also takes a shot at David Gerrold, by writing the Tribbles in as "The Boring Green Balls Of Fur". The Battle Circle trilogy, by Piers Anthony. Sos the Rope Var the Stick Neq the Sword Post-apocalyptic story about a society based on duelling, the heroes make the usual quest to uncover their secret technologically advanced masters, then realise they've screwed up and reinvented war, and try to put the genie back in the bottle. Destiny's Road, by Larry Niven A teenage boy goes on the run after killing a mercenary, and follows a trade route cut into the bedrock of his planet by the original colonists of his world, infiltrating one society after another, and learning on the way the secrets of his civilisation, its true rulers, and discovering the one pin he can pull to bring it all smashing down. >>1100 If you grok Lovecraft, you should check out his influences, like William Hope Hodgson, especially "The House On The Borderland", "Carnacki The Ghost Finder" and "The Night Land", which invented the genre of Cosmic Horror that Howie perfected, and Algernon Blackwood, hands down the best teller of ghost stories. If you liked his earlier work, like The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, you should check out Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft was pretty much doing his Dunsany riff on Kadath.

>>1100 Blood Meridian is pretty horrifying

>>3117 I can second this rec. Good book

I got a sore soul to soak it in poetic balm. Something crazy and beutiful, whatever the subject but trite motives nor hackneyed meters. Last I did enjoyed Tate's Ghost soldiers and a ballad of post exotisist. Please advise!

>>3138 Ya read Bukowski?

>>3147 i haven't yet, but seem like i really need to. thank you, my brother. the other piece i alluded to is Anoine Volodine's Post Exotisism in ten lessons, lesson 11 which i find crazy good.

Wow, you're a really nice friend

My best readings. I recommend all these books. 1 Billion Wicked Thoughts: A study of the human sexuality by 2 data scientists, using one year of Yahoo search queries. Fascinating and essential. Masters of Doom: The story of John Carmack and Romero, the creators of the Doom video game. Great for anyone who loves video games. Come and Take It: I am a big fan of Cody Wilson, and even if the books has not all the story, or his punch lines, I recommend it. The book covers the period from the moment he had the idea of the wiki weapon when he is in law school to the release of the Liberator, the very first 3D printed gun. Dark Net + Radicals of Jamie Barlett: I really love this author. Dark Net is really about cyber culture, bitcoin adoption, crypto-anarchism history, when Radicals is more about new political movements.

Bumping this thread so it doesn't die, some interesting stuff here.

fuarrrking love Asimov. Foundation and Empire is my fav book of all time.