/lit/ - Literature

>>13539417
Thank you thread slave.

sanderfag a hack

night watch, single continuum makes for more interesting re-reads

Based Sword & Sorcery forever triggering the bugmen.

>>13539413
The End if Eternity. Too lazy to answer the rest.

>>13539610
The End of Eternity. Damn my blasted fat fingers!

>>13539584
Are you hitting the gym fatty?

fuck fantasy

>>13539413
>this op is going to trigger the conan poster so much
Based

>>13539712
Conan poster here; I am not triggered. But I'm glad Conan is still triggering you.

Does The Belgariad exist as a pdf somewhere? It doesn't exist for Kindle (at least in my country). Any help is much appreciated.

>>13539446
fantasy needs more big titty barbarian women.

/sffg/ dumb question but suppose I got an agent and they found a publisher for my book. do you think the agent or publisher would pressure me for a second?

>>13540095
What do you mean pressure you? If they now had a financial interest in you of course they'd push you towards things that would tank your/their ability to make money

Is there anyway to sew what is going on in subscribestar? An author left patreon and now I can't see what they post.

>>13540003
Everything is better with big titty barbarian women.

The Broken Sword > LOTR

>>13540318
>t. Michael Moorcock

>>13540275

>>13540340
Fatso stop posting shitty low-res art and hit the gym.

Had an exciting dream for once. Gave me an idea for a story. Then I realized it was just a rip-off of penny dreadful. Even had Eva green in it

>>13540275
>using thin leather "armor"
>leaving the most vulnerable artery accessible on your legs
>spending 2+ hours to put on make up before a battle
>being a dyel

>>13540351

>>13540332
I h8 moorcock actually, the Hawkmoon books are pure dogshit

>>13539446
>>13540003
>>13540275
>>13540340
>>13540351
>>13540366
Yes please. Ridiculous costumes, but they just ... work

>>13540367
The last Chadmoon book was kino tho

>He couldn't remember the last time he had been up this early and he could only just sleepily recall the last hour that had gotten him here. There was a hazy memory of a shower, putting on the blue jeans and plain white tee he had set out the night before, and a breakfast which may have been hot or cold. His normal routine which usually took place at 7AM had started at 3AM in preparation for a cab which was to be outside his house by 3:30 to take him to the last place on Earth he would ever set foot again.

>>13540390

>>13539584
>>13539755
>>13540340
>>13540366
Geary Gravel, can you please stop spamming this shit every thread? We are not going to read your books.

>>13539413
This is my fav book with time travel of the top of my head, seems like a fun little romp that's not quite as good as the other Rat books because the protagonist is wholly reactive and then ends by using the time travel to land a fantastic punchline in the conclusion.

>>13540417
When girls wear costumes like this, do guys shark them and flip up the front revealing their flesh to everyone?

>>13540517
Why does based S&S trigger you bugmen so fiercely?

>>13540533
Of course not.
You pay on Patreon to get the nudes.

>>13539985
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qtw0yyblgv29o68/BDE.rar/file

thats epub/mobi for the whole series convert it yourself if you want pdf for some weird reason

>>13539985
>>13540562
if you don't know how you can convert in calibre but kindle will read mobi files fine

>>13540558
You don't talk about or read S&S beyond like 5 books, it's just image spam every thread dude

>>13540558
It's not the genre it's the repetitive, shitty low-res art you keep posting.
Mix it up a little.
Oh and hit the gym fatty. You are posting men and women in perfect physical shape while probably being being a borderline obese neet who gets winded after a flight of stairs.

>>13540577
>REEEEEEEEEE QUIT POSTING IMAGES ON AN IMAGE BOARD
lol Jesus Christ, plebbit.

>>13540582
>Oh and hit the gym fatty. You are posting men and women in perfect physical shape while probably being being a borderline obese neet who gets winded after a flight of stairs.

>>13540596
So how much do you bench fatty?

>>13540604
Nice try, George.

i mean you're proving our point about you not actually ever discussing books lol

>>13540626
And what books are you discussing, fatty?

>>13540616
I hope George (bless his soul) will help you loose weight butterball.

>>13540643
>I hope George (bless his soul) will help you loose weight butterball.

STOP DERAILING THE THREADS
IF THIS GOES ON I WILL GIVE 5 STARS TO EVERY SARAH J MAAS BOOK ON GOODREADS

Anyone read this? If so; what are you thoughts on it?

>>13540560
Jesus those thighs
>sweating.veg

>>13540591
You do know avatar fagging (what you've been doing for countless threads) and spamming is against the rules right?
What, you will tell the mods and admin to go back to redgit?

>>13540763
Please go be a faggot somewhere else. We're tired of this crap.

>There was no one I could turn to, for now Father was the most feared of all the city’s black sorcerers, and even the priests dared not anger him. Demons of the air and of the river regularly convened at our house. I heard them scratching, their wings and tails dragging, while my sister and I huddled in our room, or kept to the rooftops.

>>13540740
For a small monthly purchase, you could get your name written on those thighs with a love heart.

>>13540829
Only that night Father came to me in a dream, and he stood before my bed wrapped in gauze, his face terrible behind the golden disks. His voice was—I cannot truly describe it—oily, like something dripping, something thick and vile; and the mere fact that such a sound could form itself into words seemed the greatest obscenity of all.
“I have delved too far into the darkness, my son, and my ending can only come with the final mystery. I seek it. My studies are almost complete. It is the culmination of all my labors. But there is one thing I need, one thing I have come back for.”
And in my dream I asked him, “Father, what is it?”
“Your sister.”

This shit's pretty good so far. Gotta nice horror vibe going on.

>>13540669
I'm like 80% sure I saw a 12 year old girl carrying a copy of throne of glass in public today lol

>>13540932
>I saw a 12 year old girl
Go on...

>>13540558
>saying "Bug-Men" instead of "Snake-Men"
ONE JOB

>>13540829
>>13540929
Where is this from?

>>13541166
See
>>13540705

>>13541135
I would never insult Serpent Men like that.

I would like to nominate THE DICK as an author to consider for this subjective construct we are now labeling "sword and planet".

>>13541172
Oh all right, that sounds intriguing.

Help! I'm reading The Wandering Inn and I can't stop! I don't remember the last time I devoured anything like that.

>>13541364
Welcome to the club, we are three against the rest of /sffg/.

>>13541430
I'm in the middle of book 2 right now. That optional mating rituals chapter was pure cringe, but the rest is really fun.
Is it weird that the thing I am mostly looking forward to is leveling up?

>>13541490
The author makes the characters actually grow (as persons), so the skills and level ups feel well deserved. I'm not gonna lie, I cried in a couple of Immortal moments. Definitely my new favorite series of books. I'm gonna re read it now, even though is three million words.

>>13539413
>413
>time travel edition
>completely fucks time travel up

You had so much to live up to anon and you FAILED!

>>13541529

>>13541490
>>13541504
what other good web serials exist? I only know Worm and Wandering Inn.

>>13541562
Let's be honest anon. Homestuck had a lot of problems, but how it handled time travel wasn't one of them

>time travel follows many worlds theorem rules
>separate universes have completely separate flows of time
>the interstitial space between universes and incipispheres makes no distinction between the space and time but in a way that's internally consistent
>It takes a literal hole in the plot to allow for retcon time travel, which seers and time players recognize is unnatural and dangerous

>>13541571
No clue, Wandering Inn is actually my first one. Before that it was just webcomics for me when it came to online fiction. "Kill Six Billion Demons" and "Stand Still, Stay Silent" are probably the best ones in that regard (with K6BD being magnitudes above SSSS but suffering from a horribly slow update schedule) which I am up-to-date with, while I am horribly lagging behind on Unsounded, which features a really incredible world and magic system (Sanderfag deploy) plus amazing art.
If you are interested in that, those are probably the best ones.

/sffg/, how am I supposed to believe a hopeful ending when the world is getting worse and worse every year

>>13541630
You had me until
>Homestuck
Not reading that trash, holy shit, get out!

>>13541686
anon, the world is so horrible now do you really need to make it worse for someone for no good reason?

Thanks for the responses to my Litrpg post last thread anons, ratfic is pretty cool too, lots to read now.

>>13541710
Bringing Homestuck here made MY world worse, don't try to guilt-trip me

>>13540866
Do I look like a cuck?

>>13540799
>We're
>we are
>us
>our
>I am not working by myself

>>13541504
Wish I could still re read books. I just can't justify it to myself with so much unread stuff out there.

>>13541798
>reading the bloated inn
On a related note everybody loves large chests book 4 is out

>>13541798
I don't usually reread, there must be a particular reason like: 1) A new book of a series is released and I forgot what happened on the other books or 2) I enjoyed the book so much that I reread it every year or so
Let's be honest it's not like there are tons of new books that are worth reading. I mostly read books that are pre 2000 but that's just me.

>>13541807
Why are you waiting for the books? Just scrape the whole thing from royalroad

>>13541807
>bloated
It's a serial, of course it's bloated, it's the nature of the thing. Worm is also bloated. You can always skip the chapters that are boring. At least the writing makes me feel something, that's something that have been lacking for me with new books.

>>13541685
The worlds not getting worse, you’re just a whiny bitch

>>13541913
the environment is falling apart, politics have become polarized to the point of insanity, net neutrality is gone and the internet is rapidly being censored across the board, technology companies are now squeezing every dime out of their customers while producing new products that are actually technologically inferior to their old ones, the middle class is fucking gone and oh yeah, anti-vaxers and flat-earthers are totally a thing again

so yeah, things actually are getting worse, you just don't give a shit

>>13541987
People probably thought their world was going to shit when the whole europe was at war too. World is always changing.

>>13541987
Sadpanda is gone and 4chan is next.

>>13541987
It's not exactly the black plague though is it m8

is contact-carl sagan worth a read ?

>>13541995
and it WAS going to shit. Millions of people died as a result of wars, dictatorships, genocides and two nuclear bombings.

>>13542016
oh, and thanks for reminding me: the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is at hand meaning that in a few dozen years we could have the plague again

>>13542017
Definitely

>Sci Fi Horror Fantasy Western

What are some other books that give zero shits about staying within genre rails?

What makes a good villain?

decided after reading the wizard of oz to try Wicked and honestly what the actual fuck am I reading? This shit is fucking Tennessee Williams with munchkins

>>13542094
Conveying a sense of horror, or an arguably rational motive. You can do either or but the villain has to make the reader feel something.

What are some good coming of age stories?

Did anybody mention that Peace Talks was finished on monday?

The Dresden Files will finally continue

>>13542084
that looks pretty cool, how is it?

>>13542154
Bullshit. I won’t believe it until it’s on a shelf

>>13541685
Take the Ballardpill,the world was always shit but we just realized now

>>13539413
what fantasy series has plot good twists?

>>13541913
But it literally is though
We're descending into actual fascism and the planet is dying while the elite laugh at us

>>13540929
>His voice was—I cannot truly describe it—oily, like something dripping, something thick and vile; and the mere fact that such a sound could form itself into words seemed the greatest obscenity of all.
3rd rate Lovecraft imitator.

>>13540571
>>13540577

Shit man, thanks so much. I really appreciate it! Did you just have them laying around or how did you find it? I opened the mobi file and had no problem, so thanks for pointing that out too!

>>13542159

The biggest problem with it is all the narration about how beautiful D is but if you can handle some purple prose it's worth a read.

It's set in an odd world where Vampires genetically engineer werewolves and use auto laser cannons to protect their post nuclear apocalyptic castles. Plus there's ridiculous action like wooden stakes being thrown so hard they catch fire from the friction

>>13540929
I disagree with >>13542403
I think it sounds pretty good

>>13542420
Why would you ever read something like that?
Just watch the anime.

>>13541995

Because it was? WW1 was preceded by an insane concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. You had borderline feudal slavery for most in Europe, and huge parts of Africa, South America, and SE Asia were under brutal colonial rule.

Then connected wars erupt that destroy the adult male population of France, litter the Adriatic coast with corpses, set brother against brother in Russia, fill the alps with frozen Italian corpses, and destroy the Ottoman Empire.

In the aftermath the 1918 Spanish Flu kills more than the war. The "peace" treaty postpones another war instead of stopping it (and people knew this at the time), and sows the seeds of everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East in the following century, the Yugoslav genocides and wars, the Vietnam War, and the Holocaust.

The world was going to shit you credulous cockgoblin.

Is there a /sffg/ approved list of worthwhile cyberpunk/steampunk works?

>>13542490
Nigga stop being such a defeatist and stop being a lying melodramatic pussy.
The causes (notice the plural) of WWI were not something as simple as "insane concentration of wealth in the hands of the few". There was no "borderline feudal slavery" in Europe and colonial affairs were businesses as usual (which you of course do not like).
Everything else you posted is just pure bullshit. But the shit cherry on top of this pile of manure is you (somehow) linking WWI to Middle East (who was, is and will continue to be a shithole of the highest order without anyone's intervention), the Yugoslav wars (of which you know nothing about), Vietnam War (what the flying fuck), and teh HOLOCAUST (the antisemitism being present far before WWI even started, for instance in the Dreyfus affair ).
What I am trying to say here you need to go back. And maybe revoke your Internet access, so you can experience true horror.

>>13542527
Eh I don't think there is really all that much worthwhile novels.

>>13542543

The wealth concentration was something going on at the same time, not the cause of, WWI. The working classes were slaves in all but name because they owned jack shit.

Colonialism being "businesses as usual" is a bad thing, you fucking retard, not an excuse.

>But the shit cherry on top of this pile of manure is you (somehow) linking WWI to Middle East (who was, is and will continue to be a shithole of the highest order without anyone's intervention)

Ahistorical nonsense. What about the fall of the Ottoman Empire? What about the Sykes-Picot Agreement?

>the Yugoslav wars (of which you know nothing about)

What is the creation of Yugoslavia itself along unstable lines with the fall of the Austro-Hungarians?

>Vietnam War

Wilson chose not to support Vietnamese self-determination at Versailles and left it under French rule

>The Holocaust

The Holocaust would never have happened without the Armenian Genocide

>>13542477
because both anime adaptations merely scratch the surface. there's over 30 novels.

>>13542788
I can't read this reddit spacing.

>>13542808
>there's over 30 novels.
That's my point.
Why put yourself through something like that.

>>13542856
Nippon light novels are tiny, use big letters and the prose is Agatha Christie levels of simple.
I wouldn't be surprised if the time spend reading is less than 2 Sanderson novels.

>>13542856
nip LNs are like.... 20k words a piece?

>>13542084
The Iron Dragon's Daughter

>author spends a paragraph complaining about the imperial system in a fantasy book which shouldn’t have either

>>13543135
Basically anything by Swanwick.

>>13541776
Go be triggered somewhere else, bugman.

Dare I say it, is she our queen?

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62737528

>>13543138
Please tell me nobody actually does this

The very definition of based.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62736655

What is sffg's opinion on the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series?

I remember reading the first book and liking it but not a lot else beyond the basic mechanics of the world

>>13542403
>3rd rate Lovecraft imitator.

>>13542477
Look at that old roastie hag with the c-section dressing up to catch the eye of young nubile boys.

>>13542405
np, I looked on Mobilism and they were there

>>13543308
I get what you mean but

>woman has kids, normal birth

"Look at that old roastie hag with the black hole vag"

>woman has kids, c-section

"(insert your post)"

>woman has no kids, sexually not active

"Look at that cat lady hag"

>woman has no kids, sexually active

"Roastie cock carousel etc etc"

>>13543346
Oh I'm sorry cunt did someone tickle your whiskers

>>13543180
>everyone tells you to stop spamming
>you don't listen
>you don't discuss anything about conan
>just post the same pics every thread thread, some nsfw, screaming about "bugmen" and "based s&s"
>gets called out and asked to stop
>continue to spam and shitpost and add jack shit to discussion except "bugman"

>>13543365
ok snakeman

>>13543184
I love slam piggie white women.

>>13543346
I like mature women. But she is a roastie for having a c-section and dressing up with 5 pounds of makeup trying to catch nubile boys.

>>13543365
No one wants you here. Please leave. You're ruining the thread with your plebbit queerness.

>>13543385
i fully understand why someone would want a c-section, I wouldn't want to rip my dick apart by pushing out a crotch goblin either

>>13543371
>>13543389
>we are totally different person who share this opinion
>believe it!

>>13543391
>I wouldn't want to rip my dick apart by pushing out a crotch goblin either
I feel sorry for hyenas.

>>13543395

>>13543395
we actually aren't i just made that comment to stir the pot

>>13543407
>mfw YOU'RE the serpent man

>>13543416
hiss

>>13541571
>>13541682
People keep asking so I made a chart.

>>13542853

Based

>>13542333
>fascism
>bad

>>13542333
> while the elite
You mean the jews

>>13542853

ebin reply my dude :^)
u sure showed that redditor lol

>>13543271
>dude I can't describe it
>muh greatest obscenity

>>13543697
You are incredibly stupid if you think that has anything to do with Lovecraft.

>>13543719
People who use that kind of uselessly vague prose in horror are generally making a misconceived attempt at copying Lovecraft.

>>13543746
>The Mask of the Sorcerer
>horror

>>13543746
Except the character goes on to try and describe it as best as he can. You are still incredibly stupid.

>>13543766
Fair enough, replace "horror" with "monster scenes".

>>13543768
Not really the point, but sure, I am incredibly stupid if that's your main argument.

>>13543746
>if a character has difficulty describing something, but tries to anyways, that means it's a shitty attempt at copying Lovecraft

>>13542333
>We're descending into actual fascism
No, the literal opposite is happening.
Liberalism has been unopposed in the west since the end of WW2.

Before you reply define Fascism in a way that distinguishes it from the USSR, the Axis, and Britain and it's allies during WW2.
Spoiler: "Keep England White" wasn't Moselys slogan, but Churchill's.

>>13542900
>>13542925
Do Japanese even write novels? I feel like everything is a LN simply so they can sell it to a wide demographic.

>>13543428
>blog entries (webseries) are now considered novels
Who is enjoying the end to rational thought. Logic is fucked and it's getting worse. Penis carrying humans are calling themselves female/women and weekly blog posts are considered novels.

Can you guys recommend fantasy in which at least one of the villains is a master manipulator, working behind the scenes without the characters knowing their intentions? Feel free to spoiler wrap the title

>>13543866
light novel is basically a phrase meaning "story realized in numerous chunks to maximize sales and usually accompanied by artwork". it's basically a gateway from manga to books proper.

>>13543886
Foundation

>>13543884
how are web serials different from serials that were published in magazines?

>>13543897
Are LNs usually collected in single volumes? Or would the page count simply be outrageous?

>>13543866
>LN sell it to a wide demographic.
Because LNs are pretty much their YA.

>Do Japanese even write novels? I feel like everything is a LN
Yes. But weebs don't give a shit about novels so nothing gets translated.
There's not much that gets translated.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803902-self-reference-engine
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31140453-orbital-cloud
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223379.The_Merchant_and_the_Alchemist_s_Gate

>>13543866
Well, two of the arguably best known works of Japanese SF and fantasy were novel series so it was definitely a thing in Japan. LNs are simply easy as fuck to get and break into which as an author which skyrocketed their popularity.

>>13541987
Go back to twitter

>>13543886
The Darkness That Comes Before

>>13543184
She is certainly easier on they eyes compared to Patrick or Brandon.

>>13543375
How dare you nigger?!

>>13544108
i want to make her squeal.

>>13544178
I kinda doubt that you are in her league.

>>13544192
i doubt that. im not white. that already entitles me to her womb.

>>13544204
Oh fuck that is beyond disgusting. Please keep your American degeneracy in appropriate containment boards.

>>13544204
Average yuropeon, please leave.

>>13544204
r/asianmasculinity please go back, no one takes you seriously.

>>13543884
Dostoevsky and Twain published some of their books literally like that, you dumb fucking nigger. The only difference was that those were paper journals, and these are digital.
Also I can't help, but notice the irony in criticizing a list containing like 5 explicitly rationalist books (almost the only fantasy these days which gives a fuck about their characters not being absolute morons) as irrational.

>>13544223
>>13544236
>>13544259
thanks for all the (you)s really need that.

I'm currently writing a fantasy romance novel about a young knight and a tsundere warrior princess who team up to save the world from an evil wizard. There's absolutely no sex, just blushing, hand holding, cuddling, etc.

>>13544529
Good for you anon. I'm writing a cyberpunk fantasy western with lizard people. I'm torn between having the MC develop a friendship with one of the deuteragonists (an amazonian lizard lady) or a full on romance.

>>13543404
>implying that proves anything

>tfw not even close to right on time

>>13544656
I dont read fantasy, is there a science fiction monthly reading?

>>13544671
Science Fiction is Fantasy.

>>13544671
>is there a science fiction monthly reading?
Yes. The same one actually. So far this year we've read more sci-fi than fantasy.

>>13544192
Why does that guy get to go to cool historical sites with a gf, I just went there with my mom, and it rained.

>>13544718
I guess I will have to skip july then

Which book evoked the feeling of "What the fuck did i just read?" to you?
I want some mindfuckery.

>>13544192
>ITT: manlet tears

>>13544758
House of Leaves

>>13542527
>Cyberpunk
Pretty much everything by the core cyberpunk group (Sterling,Shirley,Rucker,Gibson,Cadigan,Effinger etc) is pretty cool.
>Steampunk
That's just a cosplay trend,anon

>>13544742
>>13544771
I am gonna stop posting female authors if you guys are going to be like that.

>>13544794
>Pretty much everything by the core cyberpunk group (Sterling,Shirley,Rucker,Gibson,Cadigan,Effinger etc) is pretty cool.
It also isn't all that good.

>what if the hero was a washed up drunk
cool
>what if the knowledge of the past was lost
neat
>what if dragons weren't pure evil
done before but neat
>what if it turns into a generic get the magic power fight the big enemy ending anyway
boooooooooooo

almost finished reading the first Murderbot book,
>he's literally me

>>13544801
Why not stop posting in general?

>>13544801
>It also isn't all that good.
True,but sadly those are the best authors cyberpunk has to offer.

>>13544801
>I am gonna stop posting female authors if you guys are going to be like that.
What a horrible threat.

>>13543375
>>13544108
Imagine Sarah J. Maas doing a cosplay of Lady Death >>13542477

>>13544905
found it.

>>13544916

>>13544860
murderbot's a girl

/sffg/, I want to write a series, but im worried about putting too much development in the first book

i dont want to rush the romantic arcs, character development or mutations

>>13545077
just do it
write it and publish it chapter by chapter on some online forum so you can get feedback
then rewrite it later to better fit into a contiuous book format when you actually publish

>>13544656
>>13544753
I just did the monthly read last night/this morning even though I normally don’t touch fantasy. It’s set in modern America, not some D&D world. I really liked it! Lots of fucked up things happening.

>>13544265
I'm just looking at the mental hoops you and your degenerates are jumping through to show that a webblog is a novel.
>Dostoevsky and Twain published some of their books literally like that, penis carrying humans are calling themselves female/women.
Good to know I avoided them for a reason. Luckily my country wasn't cucked and forced us to read shit like Twain.

>>13545192
>falling for the publisher jew
good goy

Finished this series in a month.

Not the best, but certainly fun. Glad some anon recommended it. I liked the twists and turns. It really goes for high highs and low lows. Best part was probably the kick in the dick at the end of book 2 and how utterly fucked things seem in book 3.

That being said, book 3's resolution did feel rushed.

>>13544916
The face looks like her though.

>>13544656
>https://pastebin.com/b1GM4etd
It all fantasy and "sci fi" classics

>>13545221
Just know that there are only three books, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Anyone read this? It was in my last batch of downloads but it's quite long so I'm not sure about starting it yet

I'm a newfag on /int/ but not on 4chan(nel). wanted to ask if there's a lot of spoiler risk here like /a/? (posting about a series in the middle for example, not browsing around and reading something you shouldn't which is unavoidable)

>>13545327
>/int/

>>13545327
Since everything worth reading has been published a long time ago, yes there’s a spoiler risk. People only typically use spoilers if it’s a new release or if they’re feeling polite.

>>13545341
i keep confusing the two, even going on /int/ when meaning to go to /lit/, sorry.
>>13545464
what i meant is if i were to ask about "hey is book x good?" or "I'm halfway through book y and blah blah blah", if this is the kind of board that spoils stuff on purpose like /a/. you can't go there and post about some series before completing it.

>>13545464
old thing good
new thing bad
golden age authors were all hacks

anyway wanna share this thing? pls no bulli i want to see if its enjoyable

What are your guys' thoughts on Malazan, Chronicles of Amber and Memory sorrow thorn? They seem interesting but from what I have seen readers dont seem to be in agreement regarding them. Are they worth a read?

>>13545585
shit,based,shit

>>13545596
explain why chronicles of amber is based, it was so boring that i stopped reading after 100 pages in the first book with the magical car ride to wherever.

>>13545318
>2 ravens
>an owl
>a wolf
>a baby
>a woman
>a man with a sword and tattoos on his face
It's probably shit.

>>13545664
To you.
But to it's target demographic is super cool.

>>13545557
By share, do you mean trade tales? It's what this gen is about, finding new things.

If on the other hand, you are asking someone to spoonfeed you when that book is readily available online and an anon showed how to get shit last thread, then gtfo.

>>13545670
Target demographic is trannies? (It looks like a man in a wig in your pic)

>>13545682
>It looks like a man in a wig in your pic
You don't know who that is?
Fucking zoomers.

>>13545685
any sort of androgyny is muh big bad tranny, don’t you get it?

>>13545685
If being 30 something makes me a zoomer, then I am.
I actually read, I'm not a tourist from /tv/, /a/, /v/ or /co/ like you and your friends are. If I don't know who some tranny is so what?

>>13545685
>>13545723
I googled it, it's some "fix your cunny or die" shit. And it's David Duchovny (who- oh it's the guy who never fucks Scully) in a wig.
Why do you think it's important that I recognize a dude in a wig?

>>13545701
>>13545723
You two should be friends.

>>13545745
>you don't watch tv?
>what a loser
>be friends with this androgyny anon

>>13545792
It's just bantz.
So what if you're a shut-in that somehow missed not one but two extremely popular series.
If you are going to get that booty blasted let's just drop it.
Geez.

>>13544758

Illuminatus!

>>13545816
>So what if you somehow missed not one but two extremely popular series.
I never watched GoT, I never watch Twin Peaks, I will not watch any netflix /amazon live action book adaptations.
How does that make you feel?

>>13545869
>How does that make you feel?
I don't know.
Like wanting to avoid you maybe?

>>13545891
>Like wanting to avoid you maybe?
Good. Stay out of my sffg
Go back to /tv/ and talk about your tele-trannies and Fbi agents

>>13545966
You wouldn't say that to my face punk.

>>13545557
i have serious doubts about his writing ability but we'll see

>>13545966
You have perfectly captured the bitterness and that empty felling of superiority of yet another whiny zoomer.
You don't mind if I use this? I'll credit you as that loner in the corner at parties.

>>13546001
Look buddy, I might be a zoomer but I fuck teenage pussy on the regular... Can you say the same old man?

>>13545969
I would actually, your are probably a abatap supporter and like cunny.

>>13546017
No you wouldn't. You're a pasty nerd and I'm a red blooded Texan. Always carrying. Come at me bro and I cap your ass.

>>13542262
That would be a spoiler

>>13546014
Keep slaying that puss champ.

>>13546064
please fren just recommend me a series

>>13546070
Boy do I have a series for you.
There's also going to be a TV show.

>>13546085
i just finished the wheel of time series so this looks like it might be the next one i pick up

thanks!

>>13546094
Don't read those, do Malazan instead.

>>13546094
I am glad I could help.
Also don't listen to >>13546102, Malazan is for old farts.

>>13546070
Try the barrow

>>13546051
>implying I don't want to die and you won't just be helping me
address?

What are some good fantasy books about Pirates?

>>13539413
White people are the new orcs

>>13546138
>The barrow
>Series
Try again

>>13546337
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini. It’s not high lit, but it’s a really entertaining read. Sabatini was wildly popular in the 1910’s/1920’s but has pretty much been forgotten nowadays.

>>13546337
Everything by Salgari, z. B. the black corsair.

>>13545488
This general is usually pretty chill about that.

>>13539413
>TIME TRAVEL EDITION
Read Dragonlance Legends thank

Have you read Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis saga? What did you think of the Oankali? I thought they were among the most contemptible, insidiously evil aliens I've ever come across, and they don't even seem to realise it.

>>13546567
READ MORE THAN WAR OF THE TWINS

>>13544758
Many PKD works. My first Dick was VALIS and boy oh boy

I had heard that this was boring but it's actually pretty good! Light reading while still able to get across a serious and sometimes facetious feeling. Who else /Norse mythology/ here?

>>13546668
Fucking Gaiman worms himself into anything.

>>13546397
>>13546468
Thanks

>tfw birdboi is probably on his fourth or fifth novel by now and you haven't written a page in months

/sffg/, how long before this need to be something I'm not passes and I'm able to just live happily as a programmer with no goals or ambitions?

>>13546918
nothing more pathetic than a delusional write fag whinging, stfu.

>>13544192
>when you skip leg-day

>>13544758
>pick any work
by PKD

>>13546668
if you like that, read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. Mostly Greek with a touch of Norse at the end.

>>13542262
Read bakker

>>13546936
Kek based

>>13546641
They're an allegory for whites.

>>13546672
I am certain gaiman sold his soul to the paper mache satan

>>13546918
write nigger
write
the bottom boundary for words per day when actively writing is 400 words

Deathworlders is cool and good

>>13547399
You can tell it's about colonialism just from the blurb.

>>13546382
It's a series although the other two books aren't out yet

>>13546641
>>13547399
>muh evil whites
>female black writer
Inevitable in retrospect

>>13547432
Agreed. I think people just get stuck on writing the best shit ever from the get-go when in fact you'll probably drop anything from a third to half of what you wrote while going through various drafts. This is normal and expected. So just write, write and write. You'll edit it later.

>any book dealing with post colonialism, racism or power struggles
>inevitable crying about muh whites bad occur
You retards lack any resemblance of nuance, I can't wait for the first idiot to claim that Fifth Head of Cerberus is a leftist manifesto.

>>13547556
>It's a series although the other two books aren't out yet
But will it come out though? Last I remember the author has a problem with his publisher.

>>13547652
What kind of problem?

>>13547667
https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/128908-mark-smylies-new-book-postponed-indefinitely-wtf/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/23158317-black-heart/questions

His last news was in 2015 saying it's been postponed, I frankly don't have much hope.

There we go with the fantasy again.

>>13547740
Is that just a random I-patched-together-some-sci-fi-y-armor-and-weapon cosplay or does that belong to some book/movie/series/video-game/anime/manga/comic?

>>13546085
i hate female protaganists. sometime there is too much of a focus on romance

>>13545619
>Can't get into genuinely original, trippy scifantasy with laconic, yet beautiful prose
Explain why you're such a pleb
>>13545585
Shit, based, based
>>13545891
God, I want to teach her my secret penis no jutsu technique

>>13542477
Because the novels are better, and there are a lot more of them. Plus, how else am I supposed to know that when D walks into a town even the young boys and old men get hard?

Did anyone read the Spook's Apprentice when they were younger?
It was my first encounter with ntr.

>>13545585
>Malazan
The most based book series ever conceived by mankind.
Literally everything about it is totally and utterly based.

>>13544564
Do the lizard people have tits? This is important.

>>13547990
I don't remember ntr. I only read it up to book 5 though. Who was ntr'd?

>>13548150
The mc was in the last book.
Some old wizard somehow convinces the girl to run away with him. Made me seethe pretty hard as a kid.

>>13547682
too bad , i really liked the first book

>>13547599
>, I can't wait for the first idiot to claim that Fifth Head of Cerberus is a leftist manifesto.
They already say it's about whites invading, and an abbo sneaking into their camp.

>>13547930
>Memory sorrow thorn
>based
>tad Williams
>based
I will never listen to anything you have to say amberfag

>>13543866
Shinsekai Yori was an actual novel, not a light novel, and it's very good. There is a good fan translation at http://shinsekai.cadet-nine.org/

Hey guys, convince me to get a ereader with backlight. What you suggest? Not oasis or that 1k Chinese boox

>>13547599
All colonialism is terrible, Arabs and the Chinese did it too.

>>13548478
>t-those guys did it too

Filthy low brain peasant scum.
Read some modern nobility books(read urban)

>>13548520
Go throw acid in someone's face, Mohammed.

>>13548865
anon, im curious. were you always like this, or did it happen more recently?

>>13548520
Way to miss my point fuckface.

Is this any good? All the top reviews are seething women so it must be doing something right.

>>13549151
Wahmen hate it because of all the rape, and the females in the book having to depend on a strong man to save them, and not being able to do shit all without one(a man).
There were some low parts, but I enjoyed it at the end. I even reread it(read over 2k books and never reread any of them).

>>13549151
>bloated grimderp
>ever good
Just because it makes the bitches seethe doesn't mean it's good. They seethe at everything.

Actually writing a story with time travel trope.
I researched the stuff and watched Steins Gate only to finally do it my way.
In my story, time-traveling is possible but really hard and kept in control by fate, paradoxes are denied (you can't get real far in the past to ask your father not to give birth to you, buzzing sounds will alter what your father heard and the future may or may not be changed but you will be born anyway) and only a few characters can time-travel. (There's no time machine and this is high-level fantasy stuff)

Is this trope good enough?

>>13549151

One nation has instituted wife beatings as a civic duty, when travelling they instead are supposed to fuck whores violently, then beat the shit out of them. This is a major plot point.

>>13549259
Based

>>13549259
Hahaha wtf man.

>>13549241
>Steins Gate

Garbage

>>13546337
Does it have to be fantasy? A great historical fiction book about pirates (with a few tiny fantastical/spiritual elements) is "Wyvern" by A. A. Attanasio. Outstanding book, one of my favourite historical fiction novels.

>>13546337
Pirate Freedom

I recently finished this book. I was a little hesistant because of muh feminism, but it's actually a wonderful book and I am glad I read it. Le Guin is a great author. What did you think of this book?

I found some old SF books from my dad's collection (RIP). Mostly Asimov and Brussolo

>>13549415
Shit. I posted it by mistake. Wanted to ask. Should I start with Foundation or Dune?

>>13549385

Le Guin, Andre Norton, James Tiptree, and CJ Cherryh are examples of how sad it is that the modern feminist wave has destroyed the viewing of female authors. The Left Hand of Darkness, and the Dispossessed, to focus on le Guin, are really thoughtful uses of the fantastic to examine real life. However, there is never a sacrifice of writing or plot to appeal to wokeness.

On a personal note, this had a lot more weeb shit in it than I thought it would.

>>13549421

Both are really great, and you should read both. They're classics. I enjoyed both very much. Foundation is shorter, so you could start with that to get in the sci-fi mood before tackling the slightly heavier Dune.

>>13549421
Foundation is trash, read Dune.

>>13549259
Seems a bit over the top

THREAD WHORE!

>>13549451
Thanks, I'll start with it.

>>13549458
Not sure but is this bait?

>>13549151
Just skimming through Brent Week's books on goodreads, I think the top review for every single one of them is a seething roastie.
/ourguy/

>>13542477
>>13543308
That's my fetish

>>13549322
Based Attanasioposter

THREAD AHOY

>>13549630
>>13549630
>>13549630
>>13549630
>>13549630

>>13539693
who is this? why does he hate wizards?

>>13549282
The books are full of stuff like that. The first one has a character who gets sodomized so hard and so frequently as a child that he becomes gay, which is again a major plot point.

>>13549666
I think he's either Jack Vance or Phillip Jose Farmer.

>>13549716

And don't forget how the city is crowded with lines of whores going to their brothels. Like the national industry is whoring

>>13548381
>T. Hasn't even read it
Why do you insist on getting btfo every thread? Like, just go outside. Talk to some girls and try to get laid or something (hint: avoid saying the word "grimderp"). I'm starting to worry about you. I'm not Amberfag, I'm prose snob anon

>>13549716
>has a character who gets sodomized so hard and so frequently as a child that he becomes gay
That's how it usually happens. Ask most fags, they were molested by dads / uncles / next door neighbor when young. At least that is how it happened to most of the fags I've seen. I work at a local radio station and the shit I read people reveal.

>>13549506
It's not. If you're new to SF then Foundation is fine, otherwise just skip it cause you'll be disappointed by it.

>>13549241
Sounds like garbage. Sorry.