/lit/ - Literature

>>22025892
>>Have the book is filled with weird annoying impossible to remember names of shit that doesn't even matter to the plot
I've genuinely wondered if this is an English-only problem. There are other languages out there. Fantasy names and terms aren't that strange no matter how many hyphens they may have.

>>21877449
>caring about the medium rather than content
why are you like this?

>>20983986
Why are you re-posting from /sffg/?

>>19625962
>>19627173
>mfw people start talking about the classics as if that means anything
I read that shit in highschool when it was part of mandatory book reports.

>>19189566
I just don't understand how SF avoided going down the shitter like fantasy has.

>>19012728
>Gormenghast
>Although the first two installments do not contain any overtly fantastical elements, Gormenghast is almost unanimously categorised as fantasy because of the atmosphere and pseudo-medieval setting.
What?

Anyone here have any experience or advice with finding an agent or getting published?
Sent out the first round of cover letters and samples about 3 weeks, but most places advertise about 6-8 weeks for a response, so just here getting restless now

Im UK based, but apparently its quite similar to the US scene these days

>>17243098
>That comes from this weird tendency where people read fiction to re-affirm their real life beliefs for some reason.

>>14146272
>dropped:
>malazan