/lit/ - Literature

Purple schmurple

I'm writing sword&planet and my prose is as purple and unapologetic as it gets, and I love it. Modern sff literature is too concerned with itself, it's all too self-important for me to take anything to heart, because I know these modern authors are simple robot-minds that cater to the hypersocialized blue light-addled consumers who need the gray and dull grim to give color to their lives. The irony.

>favorite wordsmith
I'm not allowed to say Tolkien aren't I? Fine, Gene Wolfe.
>good prose in sff
Book of the New Sun
>reading
Finishing Ringworld, foundation, and rereading The Darkness that Comes Before.

>>13491711
Unironically my novel:3

>>13486084
Reeee
No, I never thought it was original but I didn't think there was an actual whole genre of it. I heard and read some space opera, the mainstream things mostly, but that's about it.
Oh well, genres are arbitrary. What makes Dune scifi and not sword and planet? Doesn't change my writing and ideas in any shape.

>>8884361

Books I'm currently reading/have read:

Sci Fi- -

The Aeronaut's Windlass
Ender's Game
Leviathan's Wake
Caliban's War
Abaddon's Gate

Fantasy- -
The Eye of the World


Do you guys have any suggestions for Sci Fi novels that feature a gang of people traveling through unexplored space encountering alien creatures? Or maybe people stationed on remote refueling stations? I love deep space psychology exploration.