/lit/ - Literature

first for sanderson a hack

second for mark lawrence an edgy hack

I like old stuff like Leigh Brackett

then i say something

>>10967732
he really is awful but I wish the last meme sister book was twice as long. Sometimes I'm repusled by the cringy clichedness of it and sometimes it's beyond comfy.

FUUUGGGG
I was going to make the new thread and dedicate it to the tight pussy that is coming soon.

Also link to the old thread you faggot. I nearly made one because I didn't see a new thread link

Webnovels are novels too

Opinions on Greg Bear?

Opinions on this?

>>10967968
>non-male author
Come on.

>>10967919
Which ones?

Does anyone have any comfy fantasy like the hobbit or when they first set off in fellowship? I’m talking more of a starter D&D campaign story with small minor enemies and countryside’s and taverns and shit

>>10968023
W O R M
O
R
M

Where exactly does the tight pussy thing come from? I dont remember reading anything about it in any of the lightbringer books.

>>10968023
I'm sorry for being born in this world! is alright
also https://whocaresnovels.com/about/

>>10967919
as much as i love how satisfying it is to read reincarnation web novels (it's basically a written wetdream), I can't think of a single WN/LN I'd want to keep on my bookshelf.. maybe pic related if only for the cover art and if the translation is good.

>>10968037
Paksenarrion?

>>10967905
Why does /sffg/ dislike Weeks so much?
Name a better scene than Gavin strapped down and getting his eye burnt out rather than using black to escape.

>>10968334
His new series was pretty well liked around here until that jade gates business.

>>10968334
the MC is such a fucking cuck that i couldn't read past 1/3 of the first book

>>10968334
Everyone who dislikes him is probably thinking of his Night Angel series which is shit tier edgy YA

what's a good sf/f tattoo?

>>10968443
There are no such thing as a good tattoo.

>>10968334
>>10968334
I like Brent Weeks. Night Angel Trilogy and Lightbringer series.
The GRI knows no bounds.

>>10968469
Yeah. It's top tier GRI

Is bakker the king of GRI? I cant think of anyone who really competes?

>>10967480
Im on the first book in the prince of nothing series and its pretty good so far, has anyone on lit read it

>>10967480
>>10967786
>>10968037
"Comfy" is bad. Same impulse as "just turn your brain off". You want to be "comfy", just sedate yourself 24/7.

>>10968628
It doesn't have to just be combat, mang.

>>10968539
see >>10968469

>>10968215
"Warlock of the magus world" and "Your and My Asylum" are legitimate pulp and wouldn't be out of place next to early mtg books or even dare I say it, gene wolf.

Perhaps not comparable in writing quality though.

It's almost 2 years, whatever happened to Centipede Press releasing their edition of the Dune series? I can't find any updates online.

is it normal for an adventure novel to have one built-up villain for each place they go?

>>10968983
generally theres 3 scenrios for adventure novels.
one where theres a new "obstacle"(eg. villain) at each major plot advancement.
one where everything builds up to confronting the last plot point
and one that is the same as the second but with a sudden twist.

>>10969013
What about hybrids of 1 and 2 where there's a new villain for each segment but there's a main villain built up over the course of the story

>>10969036
it falls under 2. where the buildup is part of each segment.
adventure novels are really quite simple in their makeup. i really just read them for the scenarios and world since most are just interchangable plotwise.

>>10969054
Are they though? there's other stories beyond
>Destroy x
>Retrieve y
>Find your way home to z

>>10967480
you guys like dragonflight?

>>10969134
I like Anne McAffrey, the Pern series definitely when downhill after her son started writing them though.

>>10967968
Pretty good tebehe

>>10968450
Nor is there verb conjugation in the English language you fucking twat.

What's the comfiest, most relaxing series you've ever read?

>>10969483

Oh boy. I didn't notice the thread title or bickering before posting, I guess this was a bad time to ask.

>>10968628

Most people find challenge elsewhere in their lives and turn to hobbies for relaxation. Some people lead sedentary lives and enjoy being engaged by their hobbies. Etc etc.

There are two motivations for attacking others. One, for personal gain. Two, to distract from yourself. Maybe you often feel scrutinized in real life and it became a habit, but here you're anonymous. We don't know you and therefore can't hurt you anymore than you can hurt us. You don't have to be this way unless you want to be.

Okay so I'm about two thirds to three quarters of the way through the Vorkosigan series and I think this is easily some of the best space opera written by a contemporary author. Bujold does a great job of balancing things between serious and lighthearted, and making everything feel like a real, lived in universe without the modern trend of beating the reader over the head with a CIA World Factbook and calling it "world building."

>>10969493
>>10969483
What would your answer be, anon? Mine would be Vance's Lyonesse trilogy

>>10969483
read pic related recently
pretty comfy

>>10968469
GRI?

>>10969483
Redwall

What is a good fantasy series to read? I need something new, preferably something written post 2000.

>>10969665

>>10969631
This is trash. I'm not saying this to be edgy, or contrarian, or to shit on something popular. This is undoubtedly the worst fantasy book I've ever read.
Somewhere in there is a somewhat neat, vague idea in regards to worldbuilding, but everything from dialogue, prose in general, plotting, pacing, and characterization is just atrocious.
The characterization especially, it's the most two-dimensional, stereotypical and trope-y shit I've read in a long time.

And no, it's got nothing in common with Firefly apart from featuring a crew doing semi-legal shit with their ship. That's it.

>>10969792
What did you like best anon, Firefly or Outlaw Star?

>>10969709
what kind of fantasy do you want?

also try the flowchart in the op
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21327.jpg

>>10969732
id swap imajica for weaveworld

>>10969709
Warrior of the fog

I'm on the second last Black Company book so no ending spoilerinos but can someone tell me why nobody immediately true named Soulcatcher when all possible names were spoken at the Barrowlands?

>>10969979
I don't know exactly. I've read Lord of the Rings, A bunch of Sanderson, Name of the Wind etc. Basically the big names that everyone has heard of, I've also read the Gentleman's bastards, Chronicle of the Unhewn throne, the first two wheel of time books. There are bit's in each book that like and didn't like. I looked at your flowchart and His Majesty's dragon seems interesting.

But if you have anything you'd recommend.

So a friend of mine recommend me some series about an immortal mage, and every book is about different times of his life, the world is divided in "levels".
He cant remember the name.

>>10969483
>>10969684
I was going to post exactly this. Good taste, anon.

>>10970024
Could be Warlock of the Magus World, though I think that description is sufficiently generic to be a lot of books.

>>10967934
I enjoyed Blood Music, but thought Darwin's Radio was a bit shit. IMO he's a classic example of an author with good ideas but mediocre story

>>10968443
Herve Valechez, but that's not /lit/.

>>10969732
>The Man Who Folded Himself
ok is this an ironic list because I just looked at the synopsis for this and this sounds like the author wrote down their shitty wet-dream

im going to add this to my reading list

>>10967968
One of those rare YA books that are absolutely amazing.

What should I read next from our boy Philip K. Dick. So far I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,A Scanner Darkly,The Man in the High Castle,Ubik and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. I listed them from most to least enjoyment.

>>10970412
I don't know if it's ironic, but it certainly is not a quality list. There are certainly better GRI books out there than many listed on that chart.

>>10968101
The fourth book. Kips new wife apparently is so tight he can't even get it in. There is even a 2 page discussion from the author at the end.

>>10970630
>a very special episode

>>10970578

>>10971524
>Execagenesis

Is there a series similar to Conan, but with a sprawling story, rather than standalone novels?
Kind of like Dunk and Egg.

>>10971717
gor

>>10969483
When I first read LotR after seeing the movies I thought it was the most boring thing and figured I'd never touch it again. I couldn't even get through 20p of The Silmarillion. After that I discovered ASoIaF and a bunch of other series, and figured LotR to be creative but objectively the worst written of them all. I remember skipping as a kid all the "boringer parts" describing nature and was annoyed I couldn't understand what the fuck all those geographical landmarks meant. Horrid writing, I thought.
Now that I'm nearly two decades older, I can't read anything that isn't Tolkien and truly enjoy it. I regularly parse through The LotR and The Silmarillion and I'm always struck by the sheer beauty of the language.
Nowadays whenever I pick up one of these random fantasy series told in third person limited by an author that clearly has no passion for growing things, I just lose all interest. It's in every way a contemporary story except the characters are pretending to be in a fantasy video game.
I'm always amazed when Bakker says PoN was half inspiration from Tolkien and half from Herbert because, while I do think he has some of best prose you can find in fantasy, he has no subtlety in terms of characterization and no real passion for natural aspects of world-building. Not sure why I inserted this rant, but yeah.

>>10967968
Very good read. I still gotta get the other two.

>>10969709
>post 2000
>good
Not a dino, but you're pushing your luck.

Is there anything good which is fairly similar to a canticle for leibowitz?

>>10972027
Canticle for Leibowitz and Shadow of the Torturer pretty much go together. Both are written by Catholic authors passionate about sci-fi and and dealing with similar themes. AFAIK, even Alasdair MacIntyre references them a fair number of times.

>>10971985
>After that I discovered ASoIaF and a bunch of other series

Care to share some of those series anon? I'm asking because I'm going through that phase now actually.

>>10972027
The sparrow? its about Jesuit priests going on a space mission to meat some aliens.
But its not the same.

>>10969631
WHAT EVER YOU DO. DO NOT READ THAT SKYPUNK SHIT BOOKS IN THAT PIC.

IF I CAN FIND THE FUCKER WHO REC'D THEM TO ME.

>>10971985
tl;dr
tolkien shit trash anyways

>>10971985
Nice blog, actually.

>>10970624
>NB degeneracy and quality may vary
>what is a disclaimer
>who do I read a picture

>>10972112
>written by a woman
>Sandoz struggles with but maintains his clerical celibacy, as does his mentor, a gay priest in his order
dropped

>>10972197
yea the view on celibacy is something a woman thinks is fine.

I have a little obsession with the Vampire mythology - what are the best vampire fantasy books besides Bram Stoker's.

>>10972027
>Rebuilding after a catastrophe
Earth Abides, Book of the New Sun

>Catholicism in SF
Out of the Silent Planet, Book of the New Sun

Why can't we get artworks like these anymore?

No one cares about your stupid dinosaur covers.

>>10972104
Malazan, PoN, Elric, Conan. Many disgusting ones like Sanderson and Rothfuss. Only thing I haven't read is WoT.

A bit disappointed. Not enough Magic Law, which is the main reason I even picked up the book. It also seemed like the author took the "do NOT dump exposition" advice a bit too much too heart, which is why interesting things get mentioned but never developed. Even at the very end, I'm still not sure what any of that stuff actually entailed.

On the other hand, I liked the author's writing style. How are the other Craft books?

>>10971717
>Sword & Sorcery
>sprawling story
Not really compatible with one another.

>>10967480
>female warrior

>>10972510
Yeah it's fantasy, so what?

>>10972599
They ruin books

>>10972725
For you

god damnit you faggots just give me some fantasy about countryside adventures with the bois

tfw you will never be a dungeon irl

>>10969483
My comfiest memories ever are of reading Expedition late at night, snuggled in my bed with the heat from the wood stove traveling upstairs to my room while it snows outside. I love just getting totally lost in it.

>>10968037
Did you read rift war?

>>10972244
Fevre Dream was pretty good.

>>10969483
Discworld

>>10972137
You are a nigger

>>10972244
Listing all the Vamp books Suggested in /lit/ over the years
>Let the Right One In
>Carmilla
>The Historian
>Fevre Dream
>Salem's Lot
>I Am Legend
>Necroscope
>The Witching Hour
>Interview with the Vampire 1-2

I'm trying to get through the prologue(s) of Way of Kings. Any tips?

>>10973307
>prologue(s)
that's basically the whole book along with Shallan chapters meant to bore you to death

>>10973307
Who reads the prologue

>>10972244
They Thirst by Robert McCammon

>>10972244
Carrion Comfort

>>10973774
>simmons
does that have a not-so-hot sequel as well?

>>10972384
Second book completely shit the bed. It was about the protagonist being led around by his dick (wish i was joking)

wait, the last book of the Dune series ends on a cliff hanger? Should I even bother reading past Children of Dune?

Thrall out in fall
https://williamscorner.blog/2018/04/08/april-status/#comments
Wonder how long after the audiobook will be out.

Someone find me The Testament of Tall Eagle in epub or mobi please.

>>10972244
Varney the vampire

>>10973307
get drunk and/or blazed

>>10973346
>>10973423
believe he's talking about the beginning where the Assassin in White murders Gavilar

>>10973307
Get past the assasination and the first Kaladin chapter and you should be fine as long as you don't kill yourself when a Shallan chapter starts

>>10973307
get past the shallan chapters, once you get into the kaladin and dalinar chapters you should be good. im halfway through way of kings and its pretty good once you get past the first 150 pages.

>>10974111
well yeah that was pretty boring, i don't even remember why that was important

>>10973834
Read God Emperor then drop it.

recommend me some books about spooks.
basically secret (government or otherwise) agencies that deal with shit that goes bump in the night or ayyliums. ive read a bunch of the monster hutner books some where alright but most were just boring.

>>10967786
In that note, how is aspect emperor?
I finished Warrior Prophet last week and feel a little bit burned out on it.

>>10975065
The Wolfhound Century series is about a policeman in the Fantasy Soviet Union who gets summoned to not-Moscow to hunt down a terrorist, but he gradually gets involved in much stranger things and has to use all his skills as a detective to evade the secret police.

>>10975121
thanks ill check it out.

>>10974722
You don't remember why the event that resulted in the entire shattered plains war and set Szeth and Dalinar's character arcs in motion was important?

>>10974330
Yeah, WoK had a really rocky start. It took a while for it to grab my interest, didn't manage to really do so until Kaladin arrived at the Shattered plains and we met Dalinar and Adolin. Shallan's story only gets good near the end.

>>10973307
Why would you force yourself to read it?

This has been surprisingly good for fantasy pulp. Does it get better or worse from here? And how far do I want to go into the extended clusterfuck of associated books?

I Need dream like fantasy. Is this a good choice?

june is too far....

What are some good books to read about Martian colonization? I've already read The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury and liked it a lot.

>>10975626
Red mars

>>10975626
Heinlein's Red Planet, it's good YA.

>>10975619
what the fuck
I'm the biggest Watts fanboy out there (or apparently not), is this the new novel for the Sunflowers Cycle? Where the fuck has this been lurking, I knew he was working on something I didn't realise we had a title/cover let-alone a publication date! gas gas

>>10972244
Vampires in Space

>>10968037
Streams of Silver is pretty much that.

>>10972244
I Am Legend is THE best book about vampires ever written.

>as is often said, the world is ordered to some plan (whether one formed prior to its creation or one derived during the billion aeons of its existence by the inexorable logic of order and growth makes no difference) then in all things there must be both the miniature representation of higher glories and the enhanced depiction of smaller matters.

What does this mean? I wasn't having too hard of a time with the series till now but Severian's thoughts are starting to make my brain hurt.

>>10972383
Save yourself the trouble and don't read WoT. It's just not worth it.

>>10975918
He means that everything that happens must happen that way because determinism and that the laws of nature can be deduced/induced from individual events as a response. I think it's some kind of theological point that Christians came up in Medieval times that science only makes sense in a world created by God because otherwise there's be no laws and everything would just be chaos.

>>10975928
there'd*

>>10975928
Thanks, makes it a little more clear. His wording throws me off.

>>10975065
Infected - Scott Siegler

so i've been reading the name on the wind and enjoying it

only to find the author has pretty much been on hiatus for 10 years or some such

but i'm nearing the end of the first book, is it worth investing my time in the second book or should i read a different series?

>>10976438
Second book is worse. Probably read it anyway.

Nothing like that crack cocaine hit of the first novel out there I'm afraid.

>>10976498
i dunno i might read malazan and get some grim dark going

or try and finish lies of locke lamora

>>10976438
I read the second book and it's still good, but for some fucking reason the author decides to write in two absolutely boring segments, in sequence, in the second half of the book. A fucking training arc in a book, what the fuck.

>>10976508
>i dunno i might read malazan
just why

>>10976514
i enjoyed what i read so far didn't get too far into it

>>10976438
Yeah and he apparently today he announced that he was going to break his writing hiatus by writing some filler D&D crossover with Rick and Morty (had to check it wasn't an April Fools joke). Apparently not. Rothfuss really is writing what is the most hilarious middle finger ever.

And not even a fucking book, but a fucking comic.

DoS is clearly going to get delayed for the rest of eternity and return right in time for Kvothe 'I Fucked a Sex Goddess For 99% Of The Book As Filler'.

Don't waste your time with the second book. WMF has a shit reputation for a reason. Name kind of strings you along with the promise it might get good, but WMF has zero plot and zero pacing.

The only thing that can redeem this series is a return to the Chandrian mystery and it's not going to happen.

There aren't that many good books, though, you might enjoy Lord of Light if you haven't already read that.

>>10976521
*he apparently announced

>>10976521
damn aye lord of light whats that?

>Dune Prequel Authors Are Consulting on Remake 03.30.2018
>Dune Prequel Authors
https://movieweb.com/dune-remake-consultants-brian-herbert-kevin-j-anderson/

im a bit late but was this an april fool's joke?

>>10976518
Hundreds of characters later you may be asking yourself why you didn't stop where you are now.

>>10976551
well ok what should i read once i've finished name on the wind then?

>>10976531
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13821.Lord_of_Light
The tone and setting is totally different from what you are currently reading, but it was the last fantasy book that I remembered properly enjoying. Plus, I really enjoyed the MC
>His followers called him
Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.
Just a random recommendation of a book you might enjoy, since it's so easy to download as many books as your heart desires nowadays. (Except for some older books ;_;7)

>>10976575
sounds shit

>>10976551
He's not going to feel majorly cucked until WMF, let him enjoy Name. Maybe when hell freezes over Rothfuss will eventually do everyone a favour and pretend that that steaming WMF turd doesn't exist and write an actually decent novel.

>>10976588
well what else should i read my sister gave me sanderson's way of kings shit to read but i didn't really enjoy his writing style in WoT?

>>10976595
You realise that you can literally download every book you want to read on the internet for free, right?
>>10976583
It's great actually. I chucked it on the bottom of my reading pile because of the weird setting, but kicked myself for not reading it earlier.

>>10976608
are you retarded?

>>10976615
Empty vessels make the most noise.

>>10976633
i might just read blindsight

>>10976648
>an excellent idea, the post

>>10976595
It's an okay series.

I'm going to go in a different direction at suggest you read something a little bit more difficult. Try the Wizard Knight books by Gene Wolfe; they're fucking weird, but great fantasy.

And for a completely different direction, more historical fantasy, I also recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

>>10976595
You could give WoK a try, I personally don't like it but I guess it's popular for a reason.

Have you read LotR? It's genuinely good, probably the best "epic fantasy" ever written. You could always try some anthology, since they give you a taste of many writers. GRRM, the fat fuck, have edited a couple decent SF&F anthologies if you're interested.

People that want quick modern pulp to read.

>>10968215
Thats because most LN are tiny as hell 150~ page books.

Kawakami is pretty much the only popular author putting out anything big.

>>10967480

My favorite movies are Drive and the original 1954 Godzilla. My favorite TV show is BoJack Horseman. My favorite sci-fi book is Vurt. Favorite fantasy books are the Magicians trilogy and the Elric saga (which had some weak writing at times but I loved the protagonist).

Please recommend me some more sci-fi and fantasy based on this information.

>>10977279 here.
I forgot Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser on my fantasy list.

This is the worst piece of shit I've ever read.

>>10977279
>>10977285
So you like emotional, bittersweet stories with a lot of style and some action in 'em.

I don't have any recommendations. Just seems like what you like.

>>10977279
I don't really know anything about the references you posted. Here is a book with a cool birdlady on the cover.
Your move.

>>10977160
that's Log Horizon or that other story with Horizon in the name? Either way, didnt know it could be so thick

>>10967480
Read this recently. Bleakest goddamn thing I think I've ever read. Any sci-fi with a more....humanistic turn towards it? Something more optimistic?

>>10977427
Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon

test

>>10977279
If you love the bitter irony of BoJack, I gotchu senpai. Also has some of the darkness of Elric (later on).

Why is there no fantasy with Oyakodon? Even in those harem books like Daniel Black and Wild Wastes.

>>10969732
>want to write a trashy harem story like some fo these
>want to go full freud and add the protagonists own mom to his harem
Wonder if that's crossing the line?

>>10977301
Post the worst excerpts so we can all have a laugh.

>>10967480
Is there anyone out there who writes fantasy based on psychology? This has been the one things about the Persona games I always loved and filled my own interest in Carl Young.

>>10970493
>>10971996
I might want to read it. I'm only familiar with Studio Ghibli is out of patient. While I'm at it, would Kiki's Delivery Service be worth the time? Only thing I know about that book versus the movie is that Kiki had long hair in the movie only adopts the first quarter of the book.

>>10977301
The first book was already a very big pile of shit.

>>10977518
>post a series where the bad guy wins

New Mother of Learning chapter out

>>10975619
>>10975740
I've only read blindopraxia (loved blindsight, echo was above average but not as good), how would you rate the Sunflower Cycle?

>>10977731
That's a guy in the pic isn't it?

>>10977968
From the pieces of Sunflowers I've read off Watt's site, they're a bit disjointed (but I suppose for a collection of short works what can you expect), but it's still got that eerily unnerving tone you can expect from Watts.

I recommend his collection of stories Beyond the Rift, which has loads of great stories including one from the Sunflower Cycle. Also re-read Echo in a year or two, trust me on this.

>>10971985
So your taste turned to shit over time, interesting. LotR is a pioneer work, trashy garbage otherwise.

>>10977782
First 3 Dune books

>>10978010
Why, is the last Firefall book coming out then??

>>10977301
>fantasy book is fucking shit

DO TELL

>>10977449
Ubik, trust me on this

>>10976521
>>10976438

another one for the list

>>10976521
I have no idea how a decent and kinda funny tv show like Rick&Morty managed to gain the most cancerous following outside of MLP in such a short amount of time.

>>10978136
I'm starting to like Brian Blessed's corpse after being cloned as a badger: the author. Gotta give props to a man who does not care at all about his legacy and is fine flipping his fand off

>>10976895
got any more good pulp?
I red all other ones except LitRpg one and wild wastes does not click yet

>>10978136
he wrote in his blog 501577 word since release of the second book and Name of wind is 243020 words long

I checked this last month or something like that

>>10976438
>so i've been reading the name on the wind and enjoying it

>>10978031
No, but I hated Echopraxia after my first read but it's gold if you give it a re-read.

so this is just a girl red rising with accounting instead of mining?

>>10978325
Ah okay, I think I can see that being a thing. Mostly I just wish Watts' editor would get him to rewrite the very dynamic moments/action scenes so that the reader can actually follow them properly.

Also poor Valerie :(
My vampire waifu just wanted someone like her to talk to and then Bruks goes and does that to her...

>>10978178
Dan Harmon is a piece of shit who attracts flies.

>>10975544
They are all exactly the same.

>>10977948
zzz now Zach conveniently has soul perception. This thing is dragging on too long with the power wanks. It is still satisfying to an extent, but it feels like the author just keeps putting new questions and it's just a big mess now.

I think it was neater when it was more focused and the foreshadowing was more consistent like the little girl on the bridge

>>10977596
Play up the angst, and **POOF**, it's literature.

>>10978369
I hate it when authors name people, places and nations horrendous silly sounding shit. It's my number one itch with LeGuin. Just go with a period in history or some culture-related thing and go with it for fuck's sake, if I can accept a 19th century androginous man race and a Star Trek Federation insert trying to integrate them peacefully and not outright invading I can accept them being called Lara or Mark.

>>10977279
Conan, if you have not read it.

>>10978348
>Bruks goes and does that to her...
>Bruks
Bruks was long dead by then

And I certainly agree Watts has no idea how to write an action scene, bless him

>>10977596

That literally happens in one of the novels in that list, except he is his own mother because he got surgery to become a woman before he fucked himself to give birth to himself

DICKS

You can probably get the book at a local library or something, and YOU WOULD NOT DOWNLOAD A CAR, would you?
Download: http://b-ok.xyz/s/?q=Flow+my+tears+the+policeman+said

>>10978638
Double Dicks, forgot the image.

Andrew Cartmel is the worst science fiction writer to ever live, prove me wrong.

>>10977482
Stop doing shit to get banned.... Or are you ban evading....

>>10978136
Who fucking cares, the series is dogshit.

>>10977596
Need more mommy books. Of course make the mom either young, or some long lived youthful milf.

>>10978675
Kevin J Anderson and Teddy Beale exist

>>10978309
but its ok because she ditches the guy before it gets to sex, or does she

>>10978708
Have either of them ever used the phrase "cherry red nipples"?

>>10977968
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_TheIsland.pdf
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Hotshot.pdf
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_09_14_reprint/
Freeze Frame Revolution in June...

>>10978675
What's wrong with the cartmel masterplan?

>>10978644
Why are we slipping the due date?

>>10978369
Did he write this?

>>10978481
>people in real life don't have weird names
>so fantasy names should all be normal american names I am used to
>i as an American am entitled to having things adjusted for my want
>because I am the center of the universe
Kys

>>10978747
It's shit and the VNAs are shit.

Pick up an EDA, do yourself a favor.

>>10978638
>YOU WOULD NOT DOWNLOAD A CAR, would you?
Funny thing. There is a download for a 3d printable car

>>10978764
I am not Americam you twat, I just hate how retarded and unmemorable the names in her books are. Herbert struck the perfect balance of weirdness and familiarity in names, LeGuin was utter shit at naming things.

>>10978737
Have you read any of the Dune prequels muh man?

>>10978748
Because it's (kinda) monthly. We're already reading this book slightly faster than the previous ones.

>>10978782
What about Sanderson and his soup of names?

>>10978776
Looms are canon.

>>10978801
http://factionparadox.wikia.com/wiki/Señor_105

Only obscure faction paradox spinoffs are canon. And also Class.

>>10978811
The latest Book of the Enemy is great by the way

>>10978776
Jokes aside, the Doctor of the Virgin New Adventures feels like a completely different creature when lined up with iterations of the character from both before and after the publication of the VNAs. Nu ace was an embarrassing idea and the generic cyberpunk of Warhead and Warchild is truly too dull to read.

And Transit sucks

>>10978799
I'm sorry if I wanted to feast my eyes on shit I'd just go down into a sewer. I'd come out cleaner too, at least in a spiritual sense

>>10978832
>responded to the wrong post
I guess I'll die now

>>10978332
wait my bad, i meant economics not accounting

>>10978332
It's not young adult. Which is a good sign.

>>10976438
/sffg/ is pretty much like minded on the subject of Rothfuss

Namely, fuck that guy

>>10978722
She is probably the most used goods in the whole book.

>>10978791
>Dune prequels
no such thing

>>10978423
I agree, it feels kinda aimless now. Though the end of the loops are coming up and that's providing some tension. They really should have been more cautious with the lich and mind magic. I wonder if he'll drag himself along.

>>10977970
NO
In fact, in my opinion, she's the best girl in the whole series.

>>10977732
The feminist shit is off the charts in the second one.

>>10978837
Wait, how many of us are in this thread?

>>10978638
>>10978644
Piss-off, I'm reading Roadside Picnic. You can't control me!

>>10979121
100 even
>>10979136
That's strike three anon... I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to leave 4chan forever.

>>10978722
Shes LITERALLY a whore anon

I want to read a sci-fi book. I have a Drew Karpsyhn book and then I have Prelude to Foundation and Foundation.

Haven't read in a long time, any suggestions on what to read first?

>>10979419
Superluminary by John C. Wright
>inb4 soytears

>>10973607
I love how the cover looks like a 1950's horror B movie poster.

>>10979419
Original Foundation Trilogy then Robutts then Prelude then Edge/Earth
>>10979430
JCW is shitter tier like Scalzi.

>>10979419
Read Foundation first, then Prelude. I don't know that Drew fellow.

>>10979496
>>10979501
Oh yeah, you should try and acquire that and read it before Prelude.

>>10979496
>JCW is shitter tier like Scalzi.
Nice try, soy.

>>10979527
>JCW
>better than Asimov
Yeah if you are a redditor.

>>10979536
I didn't say that all, you retarded fuck lol
I think the soy has gone to your brain.

For whatever reason I bought a fuck load of sci-fi books as a kid and never read them.
I have
>Hitchhikers Guide Series
>Edgar Rice Burrough's series
Any suggestions out of those two or are they awful?

>>10979546
>I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING
>recommends a retarded book over Foundation
Looks like you didn't read anything either.

>>10979561
lol you haven't read Superluminary. Go back to plebbit, you insufferable homo.

>>10979576
>lol
>lol
>lol
Newfag retard outs itself.

>>10979552
i never read hitchhiker but i sort of liked the movie

What the fuck was the writer of this book smoking? And why did the publisher try to turn it into an et spinoff series.

>>10975544
>how far do I want to go into
Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends are worth it.

>>10979617
As far away as possible muh dude

>>10979583
>triggered by 'lol'
Holy fucking soy. Please leave already.

>>10979704
Not the guy you were having a spat with, but why would not liking Superluminary indicate an over saturation of soy? I've only read around half of it.

>>10979617
>Reading books written by women
Don't do this to yourself. Trust me.

>>10978026
What's good, then?

i broke my arm but still want to read, is there a good way to read shit online these days? i have no idea what ways might exist now. the newest thing i know is like amazon kindle.

>>10980314
Read on your phone. Google Play Books lets you upload your epubs and pdfs to the cloud and read on any device, including your browser.

kindles are usually shit and unless you install custom rom youll be locked into the amazon store or something like that.
if you want a good e-reader you gotta splurge upwards of 400 bucks for a good e-ink reader.
or you know just use your phone. that works too or any tablet really. or a notebook.
moonreader+ and readera are good ebook readers since they support pretty much all formats from pdf and epub to azw.
mobilism.org is a good place for ebooks or undernet/irchighways #ebooks channel.

>>10980363
meant to quote >>10980314

>>10980363
>kindles are usually shit and unless you install custom rom youll be locked into the amazon store or something like that.

google calibre

>>10980314
Audiobooks
TTS programs when no official audiobook isn't available

are web novels literature

>>10980375
No.

is fan fiction literature

I usually just read canon /lit/ but I've always been wanting to get into Battletech shit because I just like the idea of mega solar spanning corporations engaged in proxy wars/full fledged wars + all the houses and shit. I've read Dune, anything on the same scale regarding Battletech?

>>10980373
>TTS programs when no official audiobook isn't available
is that actually viable?
pretty much the only good tts voice engine is the one made by google all others sound really robotic to me. googles voice engine actually sounds human and can use pronounciation and inflection.

>>10980461
>is that actually viable?
No.

>>10980346 >>10980363 >>10980371 >>10980373
thanks for the replies, i think i'll bring home my work tablet and try that out
trying to read a paperback is suffering with a cast on, was thinking about moving my monitor close to my bed or something but im literally retarded and forgot tablets have non-work functions. my phone is ancient so that might not work out

>>10980496
pro tip. if your tablet has an amoled screen or any oled screen. set up your e-reader to have black background and white text instead the other way around. with amoled screens black pixels arent actually turned on saving you immense amounts of battery. it affects oled screens to some degree too. since they do some light clustering for pixels that makes it so only so many pixels in a group of black pixels are actually on to provide light.

>>10980084
>being such a snowflake faggot

>>10979704
>soy

Even our memes are getting terrible. The reddit invasion has turned this shithole into something so much worse: a boring shithole

>>10980564
>>10980560
samefag reddittr

>>10980571
Time for me to go

>>10979552
hitchhikers is good

>>10979136
Oh, the reading is hardly mandatory and Roadside Picnic is a great book. Have a fun read! There's probably time for both.

>>10979552
I have not read Hitchhiker since my middle teens. I hold the memory very dear, but I don't dare reread it because I might not find it as hilarious as an adult.

>>10980758
I found it more hilarious each time I reread it(ages 15, 20-21, 26-27).

>>10978309
What exactly is the problem here? Is this supposed to be like Dany shitting?

>>10975544
There's interquels for that trilogy, you should read those. Then there's two prequel books about Raistlin, I think they were okay.

>>10980887
Glorifying being a beta orbiter is pretty pathetic, particularly when the character is your self-insert power fantasy.

>>10980926
I never felt he was being glorified. The fact that it's Kvothe telling the story just reeks of him deluding himself.
But that's just how I took it and I'm of course wrong so I'll just see myself out.

Is the Expanse any good? Been looking for something to read after I finish Malazan Book of the Fallen.

big up whoever was reccing this in the last thread

I've been drearily dragging myself through Egan and Stross, but I'm only something like 15% of the way in and my socks are blown off. what's the lowdown on Wright? I've seen memes but ignored them before. Is the rest of this series as good as this?

>>10980972
GoT in semi-realistic space, read the first one and see.

>>10980984
Will do, would you say it shares the prose and incessant focus on characters no one cares about like the last two GoT books?

>>10980987
From what I read no, but I've only =like the first three of the expanse before I got bored so I can't talk for it's entirety, but then I don't usually read longer series so don't let my boredom be an indicator of quality.

>>10980987
>incessant focus on characters no one cares about
yes it does
>fucking belters

>>10980972
Yeah, and no, it's absolutely nothing like GoT.

>>10980461
Neo Bridget and a few others saip5 voices are great.
There are programs that allows you to drop the epub, set pitch and speed, then press record and walk away. When you come back the book is "converted" into a voice of your choice.

>tfw I’ve invented an elaborate fantasy world in my head along with the storylines for the first three books in a series along with what would be the endgame

>but I’m scared to write it in case it’s shit

>>10981220
Of course it's going to be shit, anon. But shit sells! So go on, do it! Write it all down before you get Alzheimer's and forget it!

>>10968089
Ward is considerably better so far imo, and what I've read of Twig was really good stuff too

>>10968217
>>10968037
This, anon. First book slowly ramps up the scale, but then it goes back down in later books. The whole series feels like a bunch of DnD campaigns

>>10975065
The Rook

>>10976511
the training arc and lewd zone itself wasn't terrible as a concept, it was the author blatantly shoving his political views on sex and society into it in a jarring, boring manner that made it shit. It didn't fit into the book well at all and was so goddamned smutty out of nowhere.

>>10981220
just add homo characters & female protaginists & claim you are not an english first language writer

>>10981271
>the training arc and lewd zone itself wasn't terrible as a concept
Yes they were. Especially the training arc that literally do not advance the plot in any way. We don't yet know if there's any point in showing the readers Faerie, or if it's just pointless worldbuilding, but the whole sex godess arc is stupid as fuck.

I started the Black Company last night and it's, uh... shit. The writing style feels jerky and disconnected, tons of short sentences just jumping from one thing to the next with less build-up than payoff, which is none.

Does it ever get better?

>>10981478
As someone who served in the army I found Black Company to be very endearing, guess you just had to be there to get it.

>>10975918
Late to the thread today...but I see this as an expression of "As Above, So Below". Severian is expounding upon the notion that the Greater Glories of the Mysteries of the Heavens get sort of "played out" in human dramas on Earth. Also, there's the reciprocal notion that the small gets magnified to enlarge and enrich the perceptions of the mind. It reminds me of the Lotus flower, whose seed contains a miniature image of the full grown flower within.
I thought I'd be able to nail those thoughts down better, but oh well.

>>10981478
ur shit

>>10981576
Ah, so I guess the answer is no. Bummer.

You'd hate to be Danish.

>>10981653
Was this made by some Anglo who was butthurt over getting rekt by Danes?

>>10981717
I doubt it, given that England is almost gone too. Then again Ireland is also gone, so who knows.

>>10981653
is this a "just draw random lines" sorta thing

>>10980019
John C. Wright is a Catholic conservative and he triggers the soys hilariously.

>>10981653
>Scotia isn't even Scotland
>Offa, more like off yourself because you're fucking Welsh urgh
>Brittany has been shortened to just Brit
>Ostreich is fucking nowhere near Austria
>The shape of """"Florence""""
>A Northernly ice-edge castle called "Black Fort"

Now, the meme names
>GROAT
>BEL PAN
>THE LORG

this is without a doubt one of the worst maps I've ever fucking seen, and I used to browse /wbg/ on /tg/

>>10981653
>all these equally sized square shaped countries

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