/lit/ - Literature

Is it okay for a 28 year old man to read science fiction / fantasy novels?

>>12930430
yes,you shouldn't be reading shit like WoT at that age tho

Is mobilism a safe site to register at? Normally I just google "mobilism book name author" and with a little searching I can find the book but lately it's been harder. Maybe because the books have been recently published. But I can't actually search the site without registering

>>12930430
who cares

>>12930430
Most 28 year olds only watch capeshit and play video games, so it's a plus if anything

>>12930451
Yes it's perfectly safe. You should also use http://libgen.io/ and make sure you click 'Fiction' before searching.

>historical fiction with some fantasy thrown in
This is what grimderp should have been instead of edgy Lord of the Rings. Take the realism of historical fiction and had varying degrees of fantasy that fit within whatever context the writer is working with.

>>12930403
Why would I host books from other cultures since they’re all inferior to American culture?

>>12930662
Because he's asking for SFF literature not burger recipes.

>>12930692
Calm down, Mohammed.

>>12930662
Burgers have never written a single good book. Most of the authors who write books that I enjoy are English and the remaining authors that I enjoy books from have non english names.

Hollywood has clearly rotted the brains of Amerimutts.

So I am coming up with the main theme's of the book series. One of the primary ones is "Gods are surprisingly weak to Neurotoxins".

>>12930634
Ggk writes shit, and you should feel bad for reading historical fiction with a few talking ghosts and liking it.

Thoughts on the Shades of Magic series?

>>12930773
See: >>12930709

About to read Alastair Reynolds. What to expect?

>>12930889
why are paperback books so comfy?

>>12930817
The only good character in that entire shit series is Holland and the characters make Fire Emblem Fates tier retarded decisions like sending the only 3 magic users you have on a fucking boat when they're the only three people keeping you alive. Don't read it. If you wish to read books by this author, read Vicious instead.

The Chronicles of Amber has a similar magic system and is superior.

>>12930889
notenoughcherryh/10

>>12930889
They aren't, it's simply nostalgia.

>>12930889
>What to expect?
Great space operas. Your average protagonist is more villainous than the most villainous villain who ever villained in any other series and Reynolds presents them as heroes.

>>12930898
They aren't, it's simply nostalgia.

>>12930944
How are you going to read books when the internet gets shut down?

What's the best edition I could order from amazon or wherever of Tolkien's books? I intend to have everything by or related to him.

>>12930951
I think we'd all have bigger concerns if the internet got shut down.

>>12930967
I might actually go outside and talk to people if that ever happened.

>>12930951
>he doesn't have a pirated amazon server made from a raspberry pi that connects to his kindle
>he doesn't have his library as well as the tools and reading programs backed up on multiple ssd, hdd, and sd cards
>he doesn't have a couple solar panels that charges usb to connect his kindle to
Look at this poseur

>>12930953
Whichever edition is the most expensive and has a decent amount of good reviews.

>>12930953
>I intend to have everything by or related to him.
Good luck getting all the Tolkienesque derivatives that popped up over the decades.

>>12930979
What if you accidentally trip while reading and the e-reader breaks?

>>12930979
lol sorry I'm not a virgin like you yes I am

How does sffg feel about the Greatcoats Series?
Im currently half way through the third one, and I enjoyed the first 2, but I find this one is really starting to drag. Was the 4th a satisfying ending, or does the author just end up shitting the bed? I'd rather not waste the money if its just gonna fizzle out.

>>12930991
Do you buy only of one thing when you are planning to keep something for decades? You keep spares for repairs.

>>12930998
DNF'd after a chapter because there seemed to be nothing that grabbed me.

>>12931003
I know its just a ripoff of the Three Musketeers, but the dialogue actually kinda hooked me initially, de Castell actually writes pretty good banter, and the religion gets pretty interesting as the series goes on, but I'm finding it that as it becomes more central to the story, its not enough alone to carry the plot.

>>12931019
I didn't even read far enough to realise that it was similar to the three musketeers. The fact that I can pirate literally anything off the internet that I desire means that I don't give books too much of a chance nowadays.

>>12930920
So, Vicious is the superhero one, right? How is it and have you read it's sequel Vengeance?

>>12930953
asking this again to get legit answers.

>>12931046
They're both good in my opinion but there are many books that are better than them.

>>12930889
How do you read a person?

>>12931166
>Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
When you have a person who has literal writing all over them.
>House of Suns
By having the good guys tacitly consent to them getting sliced into pieces as thin as sashimi and putting them on display if they survive being removed from stasis without turning into smashed human pottery first. Maybe they will eventually talk. Based Reynolds.

Whats the best way to read the Elric series on my phone? I keep finding one-off google dox and shit, but nothing consistent or that remembers my place. Anyone have good links?

Meluha is shit tho. A hackjob.

t.pooinloo

>>12930170
Oh, Serpentwar's a later thing, I meant Silverthorn and A Darkness At Sethanon.

>>12931308
Yea. The gary stu is overpowering. The English is preddy horrid too.

>>12931166
The prose

/sffg/, is a character struggling to prove that he's not a weakling a reasonable internal conflict, or a dull and shallow one?

Would it matter if he's a cripple?

>>12930953
whichever one has the original illustrations. In all honesty, the dude is a way better artist and designer than he is a writer

>>12931404
So you want to write a glokta?

>>12931314
Yeah,Arutha is the main protagonist of Silverthorn (pug plays a role near the end)
Tomas and Pug are the main characters again in A Darkness at Sethanon.

>>12930998
third book and fourth book drag a bit in the middle but have good endings. I really like de castells dialogue, even if it can get a bit much at times. A really enjoyable series.

Any good modern vamp books? A la Vampire the Masquerade?

>>12931413
not exactly.

He had to have his right hand amputated as a child and was raised by an abusive aunt who constantly belittled his masculinity. Naturally, that kind of thing leaves him with an massive inferiority complex powered by toxic masculinity, and as a result he's an angry runt who's motivated by pride and spite to face every challenge as if he were the big, stronk warrior he wants to be instead of the 90lbs-when-soaking-wet alchemy prodigy he actually is.

There's also a whole thing about how he absolutely hates people saying "need a hand?", to the point that he'd probably rather fall off a cliff out of spite than accept help, because he finds both the phrase and the gesture to be unbearably condescending

>>12930634
agreed, but even then don't forget it's fantasy you're writing. Make that shit imaginative, even at its darkest

>>12931485
>toxic masculinity

>>12931404
>weakling a reasonable internal conflict, or a dull and shallow one?
a common theme. dont know if its overdone or just bland. mite b cool depending how its written.
>Would it matter if he's a cripple?
a few stories do this. ususally its either cripple overcomes his weakness in clever ways or magic cures him and he becomes THE DESTINED ONE or some other bullshit.
either way is fine really if its presented interestingly.

>>12931485
>toxic masculinity

>>12931482
an unatracktive vampire.
old school ugly ass nosferatu style vamp wakes up in modern times and has to content with all the twilight nu-vampire wimps and the vampires are cool misunderstood craze.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26494476-an-unattractive-vampire

>>12931516
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26494476-an-unattractive-vampire
Is it gory? or more YA?

>>12931512
Damn... How they so thicc...

>>12931488
>>12931512
anything can be toxic if you handle it poorly enough

>>12931532
its a dark comedy. its not YA but it could be seen as satire of YA.

>>12930889
I once heard Revelation Space described as Lovecraftian cyberpunk space opera. So... that. I liked RS enough to read everything else set in the universe (Except for Elysium Fire, which I haven't gotten around to yet), so I guess it must have been pretty good. You are going to read RS, right, Anon?

What is gravity's rainbow about? Im debating reading it and wanna know if Id actually be interested or if Im just getting memed

>>12931213
Are you trolling? Use an e-reader app? Like any one of the million that are on the play store?
I use Lithium.

>>12930978
No you would not.

What are some stories about a hero's quest to bang the hot villainess?

>>12931720
Holy shit that's what sarah maas looks like? I've definitely got to read throne of glass now

>>12931779
Autist.

>>12931755
I have no idea. You mean a good, hard revenge dicking after he finally catches up with her?
That\s an untapped market, right there.

>>12931482
Kim Newman writes good vampires.

Do I need to read The First and Last Men before Star Maker?
Would reading Star Maker before ruin The First and Last Men?

>>12931793
No I mean making the hot villainess his waifu.

>>12931846
But if she's a real scoundrel she'll stab him in the back at the first opportunity.

>>12931793
oh my who's this scrotum sorceress

Just finished Tiamats Wrath, was pretty fun, but

>Tfw Laconia did something wrong

Feelsbadman

>>12931903
Nigga is you serious?

>>12931404
>better artist than writer
are you on crack?

>>12931993
>Why don't you know this random E whore?

>>12932039
Illiterate or phone poster.
On top of being a lil' bitch.

>>12932049
>Hurr you are illiterate for not knowing my random E whore

Anyone here read Moers? Additional question: if it was in English, how was it? I only read the german version so I'm pretty interested if the translation holds up.

>>12932050
You are probably an Apple user.

>>12932063
Cool story bro, enjoy your E whore.

Is there any other fantasy world that can even come close to matching the scope of Middle-Earth?

It just occurred to me, has there ever been a book that actually explores a fantasy realm through the eves of elves?

Like they're always this distant superior or at least elder race, we never actually see anything from their perspective.

elves are faggots

Fae are more entertaining than elves, especially when they are as amoral as fuck.

>>12932224
I remember reading one that was similar to that, I can't remember the title
>Nerdy MC is becoming a Wizard
>His chad bro gets a sword from a Dragon or some shit
>Decides he's going to dick the elf queen
>He's like 13, but he's dead set on dicking the elf queen
>He dicks the elf queen after lots of uncomfortable silences from her son who is much older than him
>

It's been a while since I read whatever it was, but I never forgot about how the madlad just up and decided he would dick the elf queen.

>>12930430
Got into sci fi at 24 years old, it's fine. Huge regret I never got exposed to it as a teen though.

>>12932224
>we never actually see anything from their perspective.
Cause it'd be boring as shit.

>>12930403
I'm trying to get into the Elric series but this is confusing. What order are you supposed to read them in? I normally follow publication order but everything I'm reading says to not do that, but they also don't seem to have all the titles.

>>12932328
https://rossonl.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/how-to-read-the-elric-saga-publication-order-vs-chronology-ii/

>>12932341
>https://rossonl.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/how-to-read-the-elric-saga-publication-order-vs-chronology-ii/
That doesn't have The Vanishing Tower nor does it mention Elric at the End of Time. I appreciate the response but I found the exact same link via my own searching, I'm asking for people with personal experience.

>>12932353
Start with Elric of Melnibone, finish the main shit with Stormbringer, read the rest in any order you like.

>Not satisfied with the cancerous nature of his books, man wants to put literal cancer in them.

>>12932425
Wow, that sounds astonishingly terrible. It's literally a "What if X but Y" premise.

>>12932425
what the hell is this guy's problem with ruling classes

>>12931482
it's mainly werewolves but glen duncan's the last werewolf books have some vampires in them that get more prominent in later books

>>12932074
>>12932050
>>12932039
>>12931903
>phone using apple fanboy outs himself and tries to take the high horse while all the other 4chan users point at him and laugh

>>12932240
Someone name this book so we can make it monthly reading

>>12932436
He is an Americlap. You know Klapistanis have an almost violent reaction to anything monarchy or ruling class. The were indoctrinated well from birth. That's why they are all scum cunts who don't respect their fellow man.

>>12932575
Well I can't remember the title but I'll give some more details to see if anyone else can place it
>Elves were created as a slave race to a race of demigods, the magic macguffin the chad friend gets from the Dragon belonged to one of them
>It had a stereotypical white bearded wizard in blue robes with stars on them on the cover

>>12932600
Younger men dicking older women is my fetish. It helps when you try to seed them.

Any fantasy loterature that explores sbeve?

>>12932171
warhammer is unironically larger in scope lol

So is bakkers stuff actually good or is it just torture porn? the guys here haven't done a great job shilling it desu.

>>12933199
It's not good. It's great. Bakker's prose is above and beyond just about anything else I've read in fantasy; and while his writing can be dark to the brink of being edgy, he pulls its off convincingly; and presents some of the more complicated characters in grimdark today.

Not for the faint of heart, though, if you don't like a story where no one is necessarily the good guy, and where horrible stuff happens to just about every character even vaguely likeable.

>>12933270
Man you're laying it on too thick.

>>12933333
:,^(

>>12933270
>mention his name and bakker fags start frothing at the mouth

>>12932600
Magician, Raymond E. Feist.
That's a dark rabbit hole to go down. Lot of sequels.

>>12933448
Magician would be so fucking good if it was just split into two single pov parts

the swapping really dragged it down for me

I still like it. The sequels are probably a little tighter, less d&d in prose, than Magician, but damn if it didn't have some good scenes. I tend to agree with you though, maybe string a few more chapters together before shifting viewpoint. As it is there can be a lot of set up chapters in a row with absolutely no pay off.

>>12933507
Meant for
>>12933463
I need to sleep.

>>12931793
I like how all the cover art for her books is just a fantasy version of her.

>>12930430
Stop being so insecure and just like whatever you want to like.

>>12930430
Of course it is you insecure twat, just don't into
>Gurm
>jordan
>sanderhack
>maas
>ya
>chinkshit

>>12933199
I’m halfway through the darkness that comes before and I’m digging it

>>12933557
Well if you were an acclaimed author wouldn't you want your face plastered on the cover.
Plus she looks good. No one want to look at, let's say >>12933270 his mug.

>>12932055
I really liked his books a kid, he has a great imagination. The part in Bluebear about the inhabitants of the capital city really sparked my world building autism. I read them in Finnish though, which was fine. But it has been at least 15 years since I read them.

>>12933270
Is he Canadian? Why does he look retarded?

>>12933630
>he doesn't know bakker is slaying it every night

>>12933679
Probably related to you. Sibling to your parents if I had to guess.

>>12933696
blown the fuck out

>>12933695
He could be making money on the side as a gigolo but he still has a derpy face.
And you need hot people on the cover.

>>12933629
>>12933199
it's so fucking dark, but God it's gripping
Sort of so dark you can't stop reading it, like watching an extremely brutal car wreck

>>12933758
Gib milkies pls mommy

>>12931903
>not having the brain capacity or technical ability to read file names

this is what posts on this board

disgusting

>>12933601
>sanderhack
but he's in the recommended list

favorite fantasy based in the underworld, hell etc?

>>12933270

>>12933983
it's not actually a question negro

>>12934176
Sabriel isnt completely based in the underworld but its a pretty big part of the story and has one of the most interesting takes on it I've read.

>>12934221
are you accusing me of bait

What are some books with a really comfy main couple?

>>12934301
Eragon

>>12934301

Warcraft: Day of the Dragon

>>12934301
Sapkowski's Witcher books

>>12932597
>not like us yuropeons who bow down not only to the EJew, but useless kings and queens as well!

>>12932425
>I think the magic system is cool
Everything wrong with modern fantasy in one short sentence.

>tfw it's nearly impossible to buy Discworld in paperback in Argentina
why live?

>>12930403
Anyone got a link for the newest undying mercenaries book?

>>12934416
Ah didn't even know there was a new one. This series is like tasty fast food.

https://userscloud.com/hfige8ho3uun

>>12934431
Thanks, I know right? Anything you'd recommend along the same vein? Been meaning to read Larsons other work but haven't gotten around to it.

>>12933448
Warning about this, the guy dicking the elf queen is about 10% of the book since it has a bunch of povs, it's also pretty pg13. Pug sucks.

>>12934329
But Yennifer is shit. Triss is obviously the superior choice.

>>12930403
Is it wrong that I enjoyed the first two Witcher books
Sapkowski makes me cringe on occasion but there's something so comfy about his stories
Waiting on Blood of Elves to arrive in the post, and I'm genuinely psyched

>>12934641
they're still a comfy main couple, tho

lilac and gooseberries

>>12934319
Eragon is so fucking good.

>>12934655
What's Henry Cavill doing in a wig?

>>12934704

>>12934710
lol

>>12934641
>What are some books

>>12934714
You never actually... did... read it do you?
Its a very complex love story between voluptious sapphira and brazen farmhand eragon, im sure you wouldnt even understanf Eragons legion intricasies and desires, culminating with his impregnation and subsequent egg-laying of Saphira in book 4!

>>12934845
If it was dragon porn I might have liked it. It was not dragon porn and was just a bland fantasy story laden with near plagiarism, uninteresting characters, and purple prose.

>>12934726
>>12934710

Mediocre joke because the guy is an actor and it wouldn't be at all surprising to find him wearing a wig. You are now both banned from lit.

>>12932353
Read them like this:
>Elric of Melnibone
>The Fortress of the Pearl
>Sailors of the Seas of Fate
>The Weird of the White Wolf
>The Vanishing Tower
>Revenge of the Rose
>The Bane of the Black Sword
>Stormbringer
Elric at the End of Time fits between SotSoF and WotWW,it's actually a crossover between elric and the series Dancers at the End of Time,you shouldn't read it if you havent read those first,it's completely irrelevant to the elric story,it feels more like a side chapter of DatEoT.

>>12934854
>having rich prose is a bad thing nowadays

>>12934869
>rich prose

>>12934877
he said purple prose, anon, doesn't that mean overtly rich prose?

>>12934301
Hawk & Fisher by Simon Green
Tiger and Del by Jennifer Roberson
Song & Swords by Elaine Cunningham

>>12934906
>>12934877
never read Eragon btw

>got one book all but finished
>another one is winding up for the final act
>have sequels ready to read
>a couple of new releases by authors I like
>don't want to read any of them right now

tfw bored for no reason, I'm reading through shitty goodreads recs trying to find something that jumps out at me.

>>12934912
>Tiger and Del by Jennifer Roberson
While they eventually become a decent couple, expect a bunch of rape, NTR bait, torture, etc. I mean the female lead even has a rape baby who she loves and cares for a lot. In summary, if you're looking for a comfy romance female writers usually aren't the way to go.

>>12934176
God's demon

HEY GUYS LOOK WHAT I FOUND SOMEONE DOWNLOADING

>>12932240
>>12932612
>Your mom will never cuck you with a pre-teen shota
Feels bad

>>12931793
She looks like that cute mommy that gives you tendies
She probably fucks black guys tho
>>12935133
That's me

>>12935167
Fuck i meant >>12935133 for >>12935103
too many sneedpost on /tv/

>finally group my books on kindle
>I have 27 books that I just stopped reading 60-80% of the way through
lol if I finish these all off whilst also reading new stuff at my current pace I could probably get some insane total of like 120 books finished by years end
I wont tho

lol this is the map at the start of a 650 page epic fantasy novel with a very serious in tone blurb (seven blades in black)

anyone who disrespects maps gets a lot of goodwill from me

Man, I just want a book with cute elves. It feels like every modern fantasy writer is so desperate to "subvert tropes" so they enter don't include elves or or make some retarded variation of elves just so they can brag how different they are from Tolkien's elves.

>>12935371
It's not like Tolkien's elves are particularly cute

What's a good read that isn't outright comedy but has light-hearted moments?

>>12935448
Cradle

>>12935448
Images of the Goddess

>>12935371
don't even bother looking
there are no Deedlit tier elves in /lit/

>>12931553
>You are going to read RS, right, Anon?
Yea. Need a map already.

>>12935371
You can try the longsword chronicles, if you don’t mind YA

Whats your favorite Verne story?

>>12936012
20k leagues under the sea by a long margin.
the descriptions of everything are just so vivid and the characters are very nicely portrayed.
i dont dislike his other novels but that book stands out to me by a great deal among all of his books.
that bein said im not a vernian and i know those guys fight each other to death over which is the "objectively" best.

What are some book characters that remind you of this image?

>>12936118
>>>/a/

>>12936238
I need books

>>12935833
If you’re asking for a reading order, I can give a little bit of input when it comes to Revelation Space, but I haven’t read much outside of that universe.

The standard RS reading order goes Revelation Space -> Chasm City -> Redemption Ark -> Absolution Gap. Chasm City is a mostly standalone story that’s chronologically a prequel to RS, but it seems to expect a prior understanding of the RS universe, so you’ve got to have read RS first. It also establishes some ideas that are used in the later novels, so the best time to read it is after Revelation Space, but prior to Redemption Ark. I accidently skipped Chasm City, and there were a couple of moments in Redemption Ark where I got the idea that I'd missed something.

Redemption Ark, and Absolution Gap, are both of a lower quality than Revelation Space, I have to admit, but I didn’t regret reading them. The very end of the story (the end of Absolution Gap) is actually kind of mind fucking, and I enjoyed it a lot. The world building also stays up to par throughout all four novels, so in my opinion, it’s worth it just for that. The Conjoiners are a fascinating little faction, and you’d know next to nothing about them without reading the sequels.

The Prefect, and Elysium Fire, are both set about a hundred years prior to Revelation Space. They're entirely detached stories, and are purely optional. Personally, I found The Prefect mildly enticing, but the protagonist clearly isn't a very interesting character, as his sequel is the only RS novel I haven't read. Read these only if you've exhausted all other content.

That’s it for the novels. As for the short stories, they're quick, and easy reads, so I'd recommend reading them if you manage to finish the main RS sequence, and still want more. Of note are Glacial, and Diamond Dogs. Both have interesting concepts that I think are genuinely worth reading (if you enjoy RS, that is). There's also The Great Wall of Mars, which provides backstory on one of the characters from the RS sequels. I imagine the short stories are highly personal, though, so I'd recommend just buying the Galactic North collection, and reading them front to back. For example, I personally enjoyed Weather I want to teach Weather the ways of baseline human love, and by that, I mean sex but I wouldn’t recommend it to others.

What did you guys think about the new GoT episode?

Should I read The Demon Princes by Jack Vance, Book of the New Sun or Player of Games by Iain M Banks? I just finished Consider Phlebas and it was "eh" enjoyable but many anons told me Player of Games is far better because Iain was just learning to write action with Phlebas

>>12936559
Unfortunately, both the Demon Princes and Player of Games was shit and I never liked Book of the New Suns. Banks has always struck me as a three to four star writer at most. And Chasm City by Reynolds covers similar themes to Use of Weapons (which people praise) but CC is much better.

>>12936539
never read the books or watched the series and I love lotr and fantasy. Got seems really tryhard

>>12936539
I don't watch GoT and dropped the book series after the third book to be honest.

>>12936539
Watched for the memes, but I literally have no interest in the "plot" of this clusterfuck nor do I have any interesting continuing to watch it. I'll probably catch up with it again to see how it ended but that's it.

Is this joke unironically cringeworthy

>dramatic scene where magic is first introduced to the MC
>the sorcerer recites song lyrics as he flicks a coin in the air, and using charged up magical potential fires it fast enough to knock a tree down
>because he's trying to be cool his shot misses by a fucking right angle and he blows up his own goddamn cover

Would you rather have leprosy or hypocrisy?

Are the Trader's Tale books by Nathan Lowell any good?

>>12936846
I'm already a hypocrite, I have nothing to lose

>>12936846
Who of us can claim freedom from it?

>>12936846
One is an actual medical condition.

Speaking of leprosy, what's the name of that edgy book in which the MC has leprosy and he rapes some chick?

>>12936865
>he wants double hypocrisy

>>12936942
I-is hypocrisy infectious? Asking for a friend.

>>12936881
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
I wouldn't really classify it as an edgy book myself

>>12936881
The Chronicles of Wojak Doomer the Depressed

I'm almost done with All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson and that will conclude my reading of the three trilogies he's written.

What should I read next? Prior to ATP it had been a little while since I'd read scifi and I'd like to read one or two more before I go back to different genres. I might order The Peripheral and Burning Chrome.

>>12937334
The Word for World is Forest. If nothing else, it's a major change of pace from what you've been reading.

>>12937334
Man just read All Tomorrows it's brilliantly crazy.

>>12936802
It's okay if his magic is just a natural talent and his int and wis are really low.

>>12937429
I'll check it out. Got a friend that's been bugging me to read Le Guin so he'll like that I finally read something by her.

>>12937442
I am, got about a third left.

I've also got Mistborn by Sanderson that's been sitting on my shelf for six months or so. Worth a read?

>>12933758
>>12933946

>>12937551
Its pretty dumb

how do you structure your folder on your reader? i just got a new tablet and just scrolling between folders is a pain, what do you guys use for library in android?

>>12936802
Sounds like his "magic" is kinetic energy manipulation.
The lyrics thing would work if it's satire or a comedy.

>>12936881
The edgy naysaying of Thomas Covenant?

>>12937606
Moonreader pro
Would be better getting a dedicated ereader with e-ink though.

>>12937656
i use moonreader pro for reading, but for organizing stuff im looking for something like calibre but on android, for now i can host calibre web locally

>dedicated ereader with e-ink
im still a college student, i have no money for that

>>12936559
Read The Demon Princes, I thought they were great. Book 4 is 10/10

>>12937678
>going to college
I hope you're doing STEM, medicine or law. Cause college is a waste otherwise.

>>12937733
im doing cs

>>12932425
>american author disparages the nobility episode

>>12934641
Soulcatcher could beat up Triss

>>12935371
Age of Myth has a cute lesbo elf

>>12938085
>lesbian elf
No wonder their species is dying out

I need a good book to read during night shift. Help

>>12938135
Age of Myth

Game of Thrones fans are the most obnoxious cringe fag fans on the planet.

How the hell do you find new things to read? I'm sure there's good stuff out there, but how do you find it when it's buried beneath ten million LitRPG turds and billions of fap fics for middle aged women?

>>12938174
Firstly, the fanfics written for middle aged women are unironically better than the majority of the absolute turds pushed for publication nowadays which include retarded books like the Ruin of Kings and The Wise Man's Fear.

Secondly, if you spent even a tiny bit of effort looking at the charts in the OP and reading their summaries or doing an action known as lurking the fuck more or checking the archives, you can get a general idea of what is actually good and what is actually bad because it might come as a surprise to you but yes, you can pirate 99% of books in existence off the internet.

>>12938135
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a very nice one.

>>12930403

It's basically not reading when all you read is Nothingness.

>>12938224
That's some depp shit right there. I'll have to ponder its manifold implications.

>>12938138
>>12938200
Hey thanks, think im gonna read stigmata. You know any comedies? like Cugels saga

>>12937775
I hope your computer science is a lead up to neural networking or quantum computing. Because normal cs field is over saturated.

>>12938255
I seem to gravitate only towards black humour like Johannes Cabal and Kurt Vonnegut, etc.

>Tom Holt uses his KJ Parker pseudonym to exclusively write serious tragic fantasy stories with unlikable protagonists
>new book is incredibly fun and the protagonist is incredibly likable

Guess he must have decided he's more established as a writer under the KJ Parker name or something.
(This is my boty so far btw)

lmao Ian McEwan is dumb as shit

>>12938416
Get over it anon, we've already been through this, hard sci fi is dead and isn't coming back.

>>12938280
>A non CS person expressing his retarded opinion about CS, referencing fields he doesn't know the first thing about.

>>12938440
this isn't even hard scifi he's describing fucking frankenstein without realising it lol

This is the funniest start to a self-pub novel ever
>evil warrior monks train someone into the ultimate warrior
>one of them accidentally tells him to protect his friends and have a conscience as he chokes on his dying breath fucking up their entire plot

It's so dumb I love it

>>12938513
Does he really get a gf that breaks up with him because he is an edgy autist with a secret identity?

>>12938513
One of, if not the most autistic series out there.

>>12938567
not there yet
>>12938596
If it was intended as a comedy about an overpowered autistic mc then it's an absolutely incredible feat of writing, if it was supposed to be a serious and dark fantasy then the author is fucking terrible.

(Also I'm reading the "revised edition" and there's already been one spelling mistake- "boarders" when they meant borders)

>>12938567
she breaks up with him because he doesn't / can't love her. he tells her that everything about their relationship at the start was simply an act.

>>12938513
>>12938655
even the author seems to realise it was a ridiculous setup and that the mc was far too over-powered as he's had to backtrack on a lot of those plot points in the last few books.

>>12938174
Read old things
t. dino gang

https://twitter.com/pnh/status/1117816296773697536

make the next thread dedicated to the pringles guy

>tfw Wolfe is dead

>he's really dead
Oh wow. Granted dude was 87 years old so he was bound to croak soon anyway, but still.

Have any good coming of age stories come out in the last year, science fiction or fantasy? It's been about that long since I've looked.

Haven't read anything since I finished off The Magicians, which is a perfect series.

F in peace

So can ethically I pirate all of his books now?

>>12938513
its pretty entertaining but the author wrote himself into a corner with many things and had to retroactively backtrack on some things.
i like the humor but it really needs a rewrite from the start. it could be much better than what it currently is.

>>12939087
I'm gonna honor him by doing my favorite activity: eating Pringles

Oh damn, he died? RIP
Granted, I thought he died 20 years ago, still sad though.

>>12939141
I just did that, now I feel sick.

Was Wolfe working on anything new before he died, what was the last book he released anyway? Also what should I read next from him giving all that I've read is Fifth Head of Cerberus and Book of the New Sun.

Gene Wolf appreciation.
But pic related is great too.

>>12938513
Cover looks stolen from a Weeks book

>>12939230
>what was the last book he released anyway?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Borrowed_Man

Sounds decent, I'll make sure to nominate it for next month's monthly reading.

>In 2015, Wolfe announced that he was working on a sequel to A Borrowed Man, which is to be titled Interlibrary Loan; however, he specified that he "[hadn't] finished it yet, and it may not be published"

>>12938839
based

NOOOOOO

>>12930403
So, The Collected Works of Philip K. Dick. Is the five volume set all I need?

RIP Pringles Man.
Who's the greatest living speculative fiction author now? Is it really gonna be Bakker? Fuck my life.

>>12939520
Pic related.

>>12939520
Harry Turtledove? He does the history stuff more, though.

>>12939520
It hasn't changed from being Delany for a while now :)

>>12939520
> Is it really gonna be Bakker?
No

>>12939520
Cherryh never stopped writing

>>12939571
More like guy guzzling gay

>>12939520
Ada Palmer

>>12939571
I had pictured him differently.

Are there any books with some cool selfless Lepers. Just finished darkest dungeon and he was a cool as fuck character.

>>12939652
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant :^)

>Wolfe dies and the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris immediately goes up in flames.
Coincidence?

now we'll never know if jolenta was asking for it or not

So what's some background reading to understand what Wolfe does in BotNS? Borges and Vance are obvious ones, anything else?

>>12939571
based

>>12939793
fuck you, you stupid based poster

>>12939735
w-why are you winking anon?

>>12939803
;^)

>>12939803
Because everyone knows that the leper is a rapist asshole.

>>12939841
He raped ONE girl

>>12939652
Never Die by Rob Hayes

>>12939854
Who had been exceedingly nice to him. So basically she asked for it and he isn't a rapist at all.

>>12939854
Yeah and your dad made you suck only ONE cock, faggot.

>>12939857
Nice, read it just the other day when some anon on here recommended it. Thanks anyways.
>>12939841
They're meant to be cool dudes not rapists

>>12939766
Good riddance.

>>12939798
unbased

>>12938456
As someone who lurked in /g/ for more than 6 years, I think I'm qualified to know where the technology industry is going.

Considering picking up Red Rising. Thought?

>>12932240
That's a doujin series. Except there's no son involved.

https://exhentai.org/g/1190522/c47cabfb2d/

>>12939892
>Except there's no son involved.
Dropped

>>12939890
dont think and youll have a good time

What ever happened to container anon? I haven't seen him in 2 years.

someone make the next OP the one with gene and the hammer, you know the one

>>12939946
This?

>>12939946
Or this.

>>12939946
Maybe this

>>12939941
Who the fug is container anon?

>>12939978
Someone add a halo on top of Gene.

Threadmaker here, Wolfe-fags, you've got the next thread right?
I'm off then, I need a vacation.

>>12939791
Knowing your christianity, and Homer certainly helps.

>>12940100
slave no don't no don't go we need you

>>12939941
I've been hiding. Drywall going up but I work like a lamed mule.

>>12940017
Do it yourself.

>>12940172
>drywall
So you haven't put up the shelves as yet?
What if the world ends, and 200 years in the future people find your container in the desert?
You've been at this for years and you still haven't made headway.

>>12938077
>yuropeon author sucks the cock of the EU

Any good books for a sci-fi virgin?

>>12940762
Foundation Trilogy

>tfw Wolfe finally has his Moss Aelf waifu

>Wolfe dies
>Notre-Dame burning
What a day

>>12940762
hainish cycle

>>12940762
2001, Contact, Ringworld

We really need to rework the OP. It's 95% shit nobody gives any amount of a fuck for, and maybe one to three lines of important relevant information.

>>12941130
Remove everything except for the Monthly Reading links tbqh.

>>12939501
>tfw on book 4
Those are all his short stories, yes.

>>12940401
I know it's pathetic. I am not good at this.

>>12941257
>>12941257
>>12941257

>>12930967
I don't know about you, but I'd still have to read guides on shit like cooking and farming in the apocalypse.

>>12941120
>any good books for a sci-fi virgin
>Contact
Only read this if you want to stay a virgin.

>>12939501
Only if you don't care about his novels.