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Thread's opinion of science fantasy?

>>13666625
Chronicles of Amber is based, but the only science fantasy I've read.

Don't post. Let the thread die.

Need something to do on a long plane ride. Please recommend
>1: reread Urth of the New Sun
>2: start Fall of Hyperion
>3: start Too Like the Lightning

>>13666691
Flip a coin between 2 and 3

>>13666691
If you recently read Hyperion I'd say read Fall. Otherwise, flip a coin between 1, 2 and 3.

Need something to do on a long plane ride. Please recommend
>1: reread throne of glass series
>2: look at pictures of Sarah J. Maas's feet
>3: continue writing my fanfic where Drizzt is a strong agender drow that fights the CIS menace

sanderfag a hack

>>13666762
red rising

What are the essential fantasy short story collections?

>>13666830
/sffg/ - Complete Works

>>13666830
>>13666802

>>13666762
2 for sure

>>13666743
Weird coins you got, man

How is the cosplayer in the last thread called? I must know

>>13666622
>What are you reading?
Currently reading The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt. The prologue where the two friends speculate about alternate histories is pretty thought provoking. I’m too early into the rest of the book to say if it’s good or not.

>>13666958
No you don't. This is /sffg, not /cgl.

Any other introductory chinkshit that's any good besides cradle? I tried a few but most were boring or stupid. At least cradle had nice characters.

>>13666972
You are right. Just read a little Discworld and now I am not horny anymore.

Need new books to read.

>>13666905
Heads, tails, edge.

>>13667013
You really need to have sex.

>>13667013
You may want to try the demon accords. And since you don't mind forever unfinished series (contractor), you might also want to check the road to magic, by some russian dude.

>>13666973
Same here.
I blew through Cradle recently because it was fun, started looking at other chinkshit and only found very low quality stuff.

>>13667074
>demon accords
It's already there on the list. I read all except the new book with the worst girl who betrayed everyone. Fuck caoco

>road to magic,
Is that book even in English?

>>13667150
>Is that book even in English?
The first one is. I read it before I knew there were more and they weren't translated. It's surprising how many people have read it despite that.

Swing Shift, by the way, is much better than the rest of the trash arand writes. You may try that, if you haven't yet. Rise of the shadow rogue is another degenerate trash that I liked. Stay away from his other book, though.

Babel 17 is very gay. What a terrible choice for a book of the month.

How are antiquarian fantasy books, like McDonald and Baum? I remember reading the blazing world and finding it compelling

>>13667224
Its the faggot lover anon who rigged the votes. He wants us to read anything Samuel Delaney

>>13667181
>Rise of the shadow rogue
im surprised by how much i enjoyed that. and i agree with you mike truks other books are shit.
book 2 of shadow rogue was released last week its pretty good too.

Any good bikini fantasy?

>read a book a month or so ago
>enjoyed it, but several random and bizarre instances of cussing dragged it down a bit
>find out just now by reading an interview with the author those random moments of cussing were inserted by an angry copy editor who was getting fired
Interdasting.

>>13667302
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42742145-the-daily-struggles-of-an-immortal

>>13667391
Name of book?

It isn't even funny anymore

>>13667409
>tony stank
What do you mean it isn't funny? It absolutely is!

>>13667409
Was that made by a Chinese robot?

>>13667409
Is amazon, dare I say it, the steam of books?

>>13667405
Red Sonja - The Ring of Ikribu

>>13667409
If it’s not funny then why am I laughing?

>>13667409
>Science engineering

>>13667409
>On one fateful night, When Tony was going home. Moreover, that was when he meets his fateful encounter

>>13667224
>>13667290
Is it gay gay? Like actual homosexuals?

>>13667564
Everything I read from Delaney was gay, dhalgren, hogg, etc. I'm sure babel is too.

>>13667302
Spongebob.

>>13667302
Voyage to Arcturus, strangely.

>>13667302
See
>>13667440

>>13666625
>>13666647
Based. Pic related by same author is also very good.

I'm reading rules free vrmmo, my dick is so hard from all this rape. Shit, it just doesn't go down anymore.

>>13667145
I guess we're doomed to wait until halloween. It's too bad, I really liked cradle's dynamic and the other chinkshit I tried just couldn't compare.

To exemplify, I just dropped one where none of the characters had any distinct personality traits. The narration dallied too much on irrelevant shit, like this one time the main character was traveling and needed to buy a sword, the narrator described the interior of the store to the last detail, commenting on how many swords there were and the good and bad points of each one, and in the end the main character just picked one and went away. This book was A Thousand Li. Then there was this other book, Darkening Skies, in which the characters were a bit more alive but had one fatal flaw: the main character was a fucking pacifist prophecised to die in the end, to which he agreeded.

>>13667799
>vrmmo

>>13667824
More fun than some of the traditional publishing I read recently.

>>13667762
Zelazny I feel doesn't get enough credit. I mean he's well known and widely read but he's so fucking great.

I wish there more books about dragon conquerors, It scratches a itch I never knew I had.

>>13667914
>eric vall
Is this that guy who got banned, that Earl guy's dummy account? This vall guy is shitting out books.

>>13668039
No there’s lots of people who do this. I just read Edmund Hughes stuff, since his smut is decent and he releases a new book every month. Plus he doesn’t tell neverending stories.

>>13668039
If not Vall, then Logan Jacobs.

I don't think I've read anything by any of these two that was any good. Vall writes some of the most bland stuff out there. And jacobs isn't far behind. At least MSE wrote some (few) good stuff.

>>13668057
>Edmund Hughes
I like his stuff. But for some reason I almost never finish his series. I think they may just not be exciting enough. I started all of them, but haven't finished any, usually I stop at the last book. It may just be me and my incapacity to finish stuff, though.

>>13668174
His endings aren’t particularly exciting. What he’s good at is the setup. But Arcane Dropout is pretty good so far. I enjoyed book 3, even if it ends on a cliffhanger.

>tfw no qt ghost gf

I'm new to the tread and was wondering if there was a quicker way to search through the books beside just downloading them all and going through after.

>>13668225
You want to search for a word? You'd have to download the entire book. If you want a preview, you can use amazon's.

>>13668225
What the hell are you even asking for?

>>13668225
Google books

>>13667885
The problem with >vrmmos, besides of course taking most of the conflict out of the books (hahaha how are mmos dangerous nigga just log off hahaha nigga just walk away), is that they are usually litrpg and instead of moving forward with a plot (if there's any), they get lost on levels and skills that are never used or mentioned again, etc. It's just not worth going through all the trash to find a hidden gem (if such a thing even exists).

>>13668272
It's filled with raping and cannibalism, it's entertaining.

>>13668500
But I don't understand why it has to be a game. There's rape and cannibalism in the real world as well. There can be rape an cannibalism in a fantasy world. In fact, the story could remain the same even if the author didn't place it in a game. Why did he do it then? Obvious: it's a cheap device he used to more easily drawn in the reader and create a connection to his characters, as well as put in the possibility of using stupid pop-culture references so he can have the reddit audience. It's cheap, it does not add anything of value, and it removes all the weight from any conflicts.

>keep reading about books to download
>keep downloading the books form any suggested author
>end up having no time to read in between shitposts

>>13668527
Agreed. Every vr mmo would be done better if it was straight isekai shit. The numbers don’t mean anything anyways.
There are better ways to do power levels than level scaling.

>>13668546
>isekai
NO! YOU FUCKING FAGGOT! NO! THAT'S NOT IT AT ALL!

You are changing six of one for half a dozen of the other! That's EXACTLY the same thing! A cheap device to drawn in the reader instead of actually having to write a story and a character and an excuse to use stupid pop-culture references (and in this case is even worse, because he looks like a jackass talking stupid jokes to himself). And levels and power levels are just an easy way for the author to skip character development.

Now tell me your address so I can go hit you on the face.

>>13668544
get off the internet, faggot

>>13667409
Please do not shill your ironic works here.

>>13668612
Sounds like your real problem is references and not the actual system or execution. Do you think they won’t make reddit references if it’s a set world?

>sitting on my bed when I realized I could be writing my novel right now
>immediately get a panic attack

>>13667409
>written by: Author-san XD

>>13668546
>There are better ways to do power levels than level scaling
like what?

>>13667409
>Isekai Futanari Monster Girls Part 1: A New life at world where Futa monster girls live! But there something going on in this world than Tony realise. (Vol 1)

Longest title?

>>13667409
actually tempted to order the paperback

>>13668951
Wuxia model

>>13669055
it's the same shit, it even has the numbers attached in most of them.
level 1 - 10 = qi formation rank 1-x, level 11 - 20 = foundation realm rank 1-x, and so on.

>>13669131
No it’s not, because they don’t have the pointless interruption every time they rank up from 3 to 4. It focuses more on milestones which makes for a cleaner reading experience.

Can you impregnate a ghost?

>>13669245
depends on the setting, but generally speaking no. The only real maybes are banshees, yuki onna and night hags who are kind of a grey area between ghost and fey (and demons in the case of night hags). Of those, the only ones with named offspring are night hags, but their potential children (incubi, succubi and cambions) all seem contingent on a fiendish nature.

That said, there are a few sorta cases. impregnating someone possessed by a ghost, pregnant women who were murdered horrifically and bound to the mortal plane, or girls who were just 14 when their parents built a very strange machine

>>13669245
>>13669428

>>13669428
>or girls who were just 14 when their parents built a very strange machine
ayyyyyyyyy

>>13669508
I don't get it.

>>13669428
Book I glanced through had the gimmick of the mc impregnating anything, even undead zombies.

>>13668925
>tried forcing myself to write
>Immediately had such an explosive burst of anxiety that I had to click away.

I need help bros

>>13669538
https://youtu.be/2djx83-4XNQ

also

>Book I glanced through had the gimmick of the mc impregnating anything, even undead zombies.

nani the fuck?

What's the book where it's a convex world where you can only face forward and if you rotate, your mass increases and kills you? Been trying to remember what it was called for weeks now.

>>13669773
Flatland

christ, I have absolutely hated six of the last seven books I bought. Can someone please tell me something that might be good. Don't give me dinosaur shit

>>13669881
Fire and Sword by Dylan Doose.

god this is all so pointless and depressing. We're just wasting our lives. Every second we're slightly closer to death. I'm a third of the way through my life and it's only going faster

>>13669957
That's wrong. For all you know you're 99% through your life.

>>13669881
>don't recommend me stuff that's actually good
lol zoomers.

>>13669815
Sorry that's not it, thanks though

>>13669556
>Made the mistake of reading some stuff I wrote when I was younger
>Displays sense of fun and enthusiasm for writing I haven't had in years
Why do I do this to myself

any writers here? try writing some short using this

>>13670304
The worst thing is my imagination never died. Over time I got enough experience that when I competed with myself, it was against a man and not a child. I couldn't handle it when I started losing

>>13666775
be a bit more on time please. first reply or nothing.

>>13667409
i want to read ot for the main character name alone.
>TONY STANK

>TONY
>STANK

>>13667181
I read the whole series in shitty automatic translation without knowing there was legit translation of first book.

>>13670325
I like it, I'll try to make a short story for you anon.

>>13670911
yay goodluck

>>13669773
Maybe something by Greg Egan? I've only read half a book of his, but he does some weird physics.

>>13666622
So I always see A fire upon the deep in these top lists but never A deepness in the sky. which is a far superior book. does anyone know if this is just because people have not really read much of his stuff or is it just because he wrote a fire first?

>>13671262
Yes.

>>13667762
>>13666647
God damn I wish I had found this at 13.

>>13667409
I think it's officially the first time it's ever been funny.

>>13670325
I'll give it a shot.

>"chinkshit novel by..."
>fast food restaurant
>deathblade
>he-man
>turtle me
>McDonald's
>thunder God
>mad snail
Why do insectoids do this? (They are all real btw)

>>13671747
You're confused by the use of pen names?

>>13671747
Dragon Treasure
Virlyce
Rabbit one
Goblin101

Just got this from EBay, anons. What should I expect?

>>13671911
Manly men doing manly things.

>>13671923
Exactly what I wanted

>>13671747
Because they have to use pen names to hide from the CCP.

What western book/series has cute girls doing cute things? Are there ANY western moe novels?

>>13672230

>>13672133
Well, that's one good thing communism does.

>>13671130
Is Tides of Numenera worth a shit?

>>13672230
mother fucker it's a book, just imagine them being cute girls

>>13672369
I was drunk and tried it a couple of months ago. I really enjoyed the writing, which is a good thing because apparently there's not much to the game besides.

>>13672503
this is a very bad answer and i feel dumberer for reading it

That raging autist was right about Miles Cameron. The guy's a fucking faggot.

>>13672610
this is a very bad reply and i feel dumberer for reading it

>>13672610
Based /v/ poster, shitting up other boards for free

>>13672503
This could be used with anything and everything and makes no sense.
>"I don't like the character"
lol just pretend you do
>"I don't like the ending"
lol just make up ur own
>"I want to read about cute girls."
lol just read anything but pretend they're cute

>>13672741
Autistic questions get terse answers

>>13672741
That works perfectly brainlet

>>13672741
Is this the end of book? Even the end to story telling in general? Everything is now top quality, and about little girls, to me.

>>13672749
Yes, but it is called writing a book, not reading

>>13672717
Don’t post about yourself, it’s embarrassing.

>>13671911
>>13671923
>>13672069
>female author
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>13673783
Male authors are just as bad these days.

>>13673806
Except the book is apparently nothing like its cover; which probably isn't the author's fault since they rarely get a say in such things. It's a good rule of thumb in general though to not expect any testosterone-fueled heroic fantasy from a female writer.

>>13673841
>testosterone-fueled heroic fantasy
dead genre

>>13674080
Nah. It's just on the fringes which I'm fine with since it keeps the bugmen and their femishit masters away.

I'm looking for great fantasy short story collections, any ideas?

>>13674151
Multiple authors or one author?

>>13672717
Based

>>13672717
Has there ever been a single civilisation until now to ever incorporate women into their armies?
Why are hema larper authors like this guy so adamant that it's possible in their medieval societies? I think it is because they want their wives to play with their toys.

>>13674339
Not him, but Im looking for collections of several authors

Any comfy fantasy? I've got some free time ahead of me but I won't have any internet access. I wanted something that's a few books long to pass the time. I just finished cradle and now I'm feeling bad because it's exactly the kind of mindless fun I would want to have.

>>13674560
>I think it is because they want their wives to play with their toys.
Possibly. I just think it's all the propaganda that's been going on since the 60s. Some people just can't see through it.

>>13674608
>Any comfy fantasy?

>>13674608
Chronicles of Amber

Anything with a sympathetic, relatable antagonist?

>>13674560
There was that one female samurai that may have existed? I'm not sure. But something like all those female USSR snipers turned out to be complete propaganda bullshit.

>>13674920
How about an antagonist who doesn't give a fuck.

>>13674948
Go ahead.

>>13674975
Coldfire Trilogy for something good.

I have tonnes of bad ones though.

>>13674981
>Coldfire Trilogy
I actually have these on kindle. It's got somethiing to do with vampires, right? Might be wrong, but, well, still gonna check them out.
>bad ones
I'm curious now. Name some of the "best".

>>13675013
The only ones I can remember are shitty litprg like books. The guy is Every.Villain.Is.Lemons and does what he wants. It was a nice change from goodie goodie books.

>>13675037
Nah, I haven't despaired enough for litrpg.
Thanks for the Coldfire, though. Could've forgotten about it for a few more months otherwise.

What are you faglets reading?
Is anyone getting burnt out on books?

>>13675484
Been reading select stories from pic related.

As The Stars Allow

"In this retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ, the original fantasy is shown to be the result of a virtual reality experiment gone wrong. Though still a poignant fable, this story has the bite of future science."

Universal Book Link (fear not):
https://books2read.com/b/mBPL0D

>>13675484
Also reading this, but kinda stalled out on it halfway through. Not that it's bad, but I wish the protag was a bit more of a bad ass considering he's a half viking/half Japanese samurai wandering through a historical Europe full of monsters and sorcerers.

>>13675578
Oz fag anon. Fug off.

>>13672503
I actually read all my fantasy books in anime format.

Don't tell anyone.

Not him.

>>13674608

>>13675587

>>13675587
>>13675857
Is there any connection between the two except for the cover art?

>>13675917
No.

>>13675722
that one's not me. I was emailing my DM when that was posted

>>13675484
A guy I know wants me to read the first book in a series called Blood on the Stars, so I am. No thoughts yet except for this line that bothered my 'tism:
>And everywhere, the nascent nations are at war, struggling for worlds, power, tech…pushing ever closer back to the brink.

>>13675805
I don't understand why people make recommendation charts with shit like that in it. Do you seriously think people need to be recommended books that old? Are there people who actually don't know what they are? Are there people asking for recommendations that haven't read, or at least heard of those books?
It's like recommending water to someone who's thirsty. No shit, I totally never would have thought of that without your stupid chart. It's like recommending people to read Lord of the Rings as if there's even a remote possibility they haven't already.

I just finished with the first three Black Company books. Audiobooks, though. Very good stuff. Any other Military Fantasy to be recommended?

>>13675953
That's some corny-sounding grimdark line

>>13676019
>OLD = BAD
>NEW = GOOD

>>13676114
It's got nothing to do with quality. It's about wasting time making a recommendation chart composed entirely of things literally everyone, and their parents too, and their grandparents most likely, has already read. It completely defeats the purpose of a recommendation chart. You aren't actually recommending anything, you're just jerking your ego off because you read some classics.

Opinions on Star Trek? I'm nearly finished with generation one and intend to carry on to generation two and then stop.

>>13676126
I don't think it's useless considering English isn't my first language. I've read one sixth of those at best.

>>13676114
>old = good
>new = bad

>>13671262
the dogs were the worst part of the first one, so when I heard that the next book was all about the dogs I lost interest

Based and Conanpilled

>>13676019
>>I'm thirsty anons
>gib water
>>how DARE u

I finished Lord of Light today after starting it on Saturday. Holy shit was that a good one; I regret not reading it while it was the monthly.

I wrote something today /sffg/. It wasn't very good and it was half my word goal, but I solved a problem in it really cleverly and created a mythological parallel so I think it counts for something

I shaved my asshole yesterday, /lit/. Please recognize how awesome I am.

>>13676733
How was it? I've never shaved there before, just used depilatory cream

>>13676733
cry more incel bitchboy.

Just read ZeroS by Peter Watts. I'm not positive what his logic was for starving, naked, unarmed children to be able to take down a team of futuristic supersoldiers barehanded just because they're, like, REALLY, REALLY smart. Pretty sure being smarter than a bear won't help you any if you're in the process of getting mauled