/lit/ - Literature

first for sanderhack a fag, there's no difference between Tor publishing and Qidian webnovels, and Sarah is fat.
>>13941894
Yeah, it was the best book of the last 3~ years IMO. I shilled it a little a while before. The setting was not really the point but I suppose the parallel of the empire's downfall is fitting.
>>13941719
Birdboi was active on discord last time I checked. I also think I know his reddit account.
>>13942518
Crowley is based and exactly what you are looking for (though not really a clear-cut allegory).
>>13939713
The story and the setting are still much better than most fantasy being released today. I feel entertained while reading it, and whatever smut he puts in is just an added bonus.

>>13943226
This picture has already been used for the OP.
I don't like this picture.

>>13943257
>and Sarah is fat
How dare you?!

So what are you plebs reading that does not include fantasy shit?

>>13943257
Did you really wait until a new thread to post this so everyone would see it?

>>13943263
It hasn't been.
>>/lit/image/mohre5q3bX6dW4TcTqcaWQ
Show me otherwise.

>>13943277
When I finished typing it, a new thread was already up
>>13943268
She weighs more than her makeup

>>13943226

My god (heh), how I hate this stupid gay godform avatar image shit. My hatred of this kind of iconography is not merely related to this "modern alien" sort of treatment; it extends in all directions, and especially to the classical Christian forms, of which pic related is an example. Nor would I excuse the iconoclasts: Islam is also false, and should also be destroyed. Fuck the Holy Spirit, Fuck the Holy Spirit, Fuck the Holy Spirit. Fuck Allah, Fuck Mohammed, fuck the dead kike on a stick. Fuck Buddha, Fuck Ahura-Mazda, fuck Shiva, fuck Joseph Smith, fuck that cool Naruto picture which shows a braindead genital Godform floating through the sky (Vulpes something or other), Fuck every human being who ever imagines a god, would that I could murder every single one of your for your stupidity so that there only exist a world of chinese bugmen and white men, with a few other whites. And then we would finally have a world worth living in.

Also fuck Canticle for Lebowitz.

>>13943274
I don't read

>>13943274
Reading a napolean biography that is quite interesting

>>13931714
Turns out someone made a new thread hours earlier before this one.
I didn't see it though and apparently no one posted in it.

>>13943277
>It hasn't been.
Yes it was.

>Show me otherwise.
I really can't be bothered. I was just stating it, not attacking you personally.

>>13943282
>She weighs more than her makeup
Don't we all?

>>13943285
>I don't read
Pleb.

>>13943289
I am also reading mostly non-fiction these past few weeks. I was in need of QUALITY.

>>13943309
>>13943274
Your taste in images continues to deteriorate.

sanderfag a hack

>>13943415
I am not really into fantasy but it seems that most, if not all, of the authors in door stopper fantasy genre (with hojillion installments) are really bad.

>>13943421
Taste in fiction is subjective for most people. People dislike authors like Sanderson not because he is that bad but because his writing is formulaic. Fiction is basically like television or cinema now as far as big "AAA" authors and publishers go. Its the same thing over and over with a new coat of paint. Obviously not all people fall under this category but many, including Sanderson, do. Many people turned to self published works or just lesser know or as big authors to find something they like to read. Many people also curse the success authors like Sanderson have because it means that its okay to write like him. Authors and publishers chase the money. As and independent reader, voting with your wallet does not work because the masses are gonna buy what they are told to buy. It always has been this way and it will continue to be this way too. Similarly people curse Martin for poisoning Fantasy with specific writing style and story directions. Surprisingly Sci-fi does not seem to be troubled as much. Probably because it does not have as big of a market share as fantasy does in comparison. Certain high profile authors excluded of course.

>>13943448
Sci-fi is not troubled as much because the brainlet scifi "nerds" have been contained by a number of shitty tv series/movies such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and similar.
Meanwhile the normalfags who like fantasy are actually reading. Martin, Sanderson, Tolkien, etc.

>>13943464
What would the opposite of that be reading in Fantasy?

>>13943472
A number of possibilities:
1) The old good fag: Peake, Dunsany, MacDonal, etc.
2) The unapologetic smut reader: Daniel Black, Randi Darren, MSE, etc.
3) The fag who reads only self-published stuff: Will Wight, Nelson Cherreta, etc.
4) The guy who reads standard fantasy, but actually has something in his skull: K.J Parker, Miles Cameron, etc.

>>13943528
Chartanon pls

What a fucking stupid thread already. Fuck underage and FUCK newfags. What are you reading, anons?

I am readying Software by Rudy Rucker. I am as yet undecided on reading the rest of the tetrad.

Guy who has been keeping /sffg/ alive for years. Do you think this is worth it? It is nice having a place where we are undoubtedly the only people discussing a certain book, or discussing it without any filters. but look at the trade-off.

>>13943589
It isn't worth it.

>>13943464
>Sci-fi is not troubled as much because the brainlet scifi "nerds" have been contained by a number of shitty tv series/movies such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and similar.
Might as well call it reading fantasy still. Most of the hit TV shows are space opera/fantasy with such a thin veneer of scientific jargon the paint is starting to peel off.
Fucking Americans reading and watching absolute dog shit. And Chinks are somehow even worse. We need a superpower with appreciation for proper literature.

>>13943589
>What are you reading, anons?
Azure DevOps documentation while trying to cram Grafana somewhere in there.
And while I am not working, I am reading Shadows Over Baker Street on my phone while commuting, like a complete pleb.
It's an anthology of Sherlock Holmes/Mythos mash-up stories and the quality goes from OK to meh. Gayman Neil actually has an interesting story there.

>>13943589
I'm reading Fall of Light by Erikson for the second time now, first time was about 3 years ago, I guess it has some good things and some bad things.
Not sure what to read next, was thinking of reading some more books by Zelazny since I really liked Amber, any recommendations? Lord of Light?

>>13943226
>ocd autistic puts 3 links and one previous thread
I wonder what will happen when mega is down, or people don't want to use it....

>>13943277
>It hasn't been
When I was a thread slave slave I used it a few times. See the 4chan numbering of the pic? I had it named "god are you there" or some such, and used it some religious sffg edition.

Posting on time for once.

>>13943290
He didn't post the link, the stupid fagget.
And the op looks better than this current shit.

>>13943595
>armour covering the diaphragm and shoulders but not the left and right breast, the two most likely places to get stabbed on your upper torso
NEXT!

>>13943534
Not me, I never read, nor will I ever read mse, i loathe Miles Cameron, and never got the kj Parker book I wanted to try. I also never liked peake, and didn't try those other 2 dinosaurs.

>>13943972
>i loathe Miles Cameron
I bet you're guy who is constantly mad about the Red Knight not raping Amicia aren't you, or just the general lack of rape.

>>13943972
K.J.Parker is great. Though I'm less of a fan of his more recent standalone novels his previous trilogies are god-tier.

>>13943595
Hard scifi is what killed the scifi genre faggot. Only autistic STEM professionals throw hissy fits when a writer doesn't write scifi with actually within bounds scientific theory. And they don't have the buying power of the masses.
What you cunts don't seem to understand is that the technology was written in a book, and somebody made it a reality, not the other way round.

>>13943993
>Hard scifi is what killed the scifi genre
Totally agree, the golden age was a disaster and modern autists are even worse
>you cunts don't seem to understand
The majority of people here probably agree with you
You are taking what the anon said out of context. I am not sure what he meant, but he didn't say he was angry at scientification being wrong. I interpreted it as him saying what I think myself: attempts at scientificism are wrong in the first place.

>>13943589
>Guy who has been keeping /sffg/ alive for years. Do you think this is worth it? It is nice having a place where we are undoubtedly the only people discussing a certain book, or discussing it without any filters. but look at the trade-off.
I don't know. The reason I stopped religiously making new threads and keeping the archive in order was because I cared, but recently I don't really care anymore. A lot of the people who used to actually read something so you could argue about it have left. We just have memers who don't read and post the same shit over and over again, or ask leading questions about a book so they can pretend that they read it.

I knew I always shit on the dinos for reading just old books, but at least they read "new" things to bring to the general. Not the same shit ad nauseam.

>>13943958
>but not the left and right breast, the two most likely places to get stabbed on your upper torso
But how will the boys notice her breasts?

>>13943958
Don't be such a redditor.
It's unbecoming for a man.

>>13943993
Hard scifi is the genre butt pirate. If I want to read about FTL space ships powered by unicorn farts, I'll let you know.

>>13944020
To quote one great man, with an even greater hair:
WRONG.

>>13943988
I'm the lack of GRI Miles Cameron hater, along with the dual faith system. There are a few other Miles Cameron haters in here.

Science fiction is literally an oxymoron.
You are a bona fide retard if you put down a scifi book because it doesn't have enough '''''''science''''''' for you.

>>13944027
Huh?

>>13944278
Why does she look younger than she did 30 years ago?

>>13943268
Anons saw pics of her pregnant, and right after birth, and started the Sarah J Fatass meme.

>>13943421
Then why are you here?

>then follow young Mat whenever he calls, to dance with Jak o’ the Shadows.
this is fucking great. Rand and Mat is my only salvation to this shitfest of book filled with bitches

>>13944027
I too wish 4chan weren't a fucking joke anymore and I wish any remotely tolerable civil forum existed.

>>13944281
Advances in makeup.

I'm searching through the mega but there are too many. Is there any rec for technology against magic novels?

is Inherit The Stars worth reading? i hear the series jumps off a cliff after a couple books, but Hyperion does the same thing and i liked the first book anyhow.

>>13944623
Did you read other Simmons' ? I started Ilium/Olympos years ago and don't remember where I left off pretty sure the last passage I read was a woman killing Caliban in an orbital station or something, do you know in which book this happens?

>>13944368
It's a pretty good meme. It rhymes and all.
If you are going to write that kind of trash, the least you can do is be easy on the eyes. Not like Brandon or Patrick.

>>13944387
To make fun of you.

>witnesses her entire family being killed in a train crash and isn't allowed to follow them into heaven because shes a slut
Kids books used to brutal

>>13943528
The only thing in Miles Cameron's skull will be my cock

>>13945058
>>13943988
>>13944051
There's rape in Cold Iron though.

>>13943284
Stfu, you schizo /pol/tard.

>>13944051
>I'm the lack of GRI Miles Cameron hater
You're on /li/, can't you make an effort ffs?

Okay fellas. Here are the current backlog-y contents of my Kindle:
>Shade's First Rule (litRPG shit, I'm one chapter in)
>Sailing to Byzantium
>Blindsight (the reread urge is STRONG)
>Coiling Dragon Book 5 (~50% through)
>Reborn: Apocalypse (some litRPG shit)
>Desolate Era (52%)
>Diaspora (not sure I'm in the mindset reading something with that stature atm)
>Confessions of a Crap Artist
>The Galactic Mage
>We Can Build You (17%, only PKD story I didn't care for, should delete)
>Dr. Futurity
>Another Fine Myth
>Winemaker of the North (probably litRPG shit)
>Star Maker
>This Immortal
>Ascension (some part 1of4 I downloaded off a /sffg/ rec, Idk what it is)
>some other misc stuff
what do I read
this doesn't count my amazon wishlist I use for even more potential backloggery
FUCK

>>13945373
He certainly raped my will to live with such a shit book

>>13945397
You make an effort

Imagine if all the Miles Cameron haters are in fact Miles Cameron marketing his book with a big brain strategy

>>13945421
Actually imagine if I was Miles Cameron revealing my master plan as joke so no one suspects that it is, in fact, true.

>>13945421
It's working, i just downloaded Tyrant

>>13945444
His historical fiction is decent, if still littered with mummy issues.

>>13945026
>makes Tolkien and JK Rowling seethe
Based

>>13945415
Punctuation isn't an option.

>>13945403
So let's do an impromptu triage anon.Let's get the best bang for your buck.
>Shade's First Rule
>Reborn: Apocalypse
>Winemaker of the North
litRPG can safely be ignored on account of general abysmal quality.

>Coiling Dragon Book
>Desolate Era
Same as above for chinkshit.

>Another Fine Myth
More by the numbers fantasy and who needs that.

I would also skip all the PKD sprinkled in that list of yours, on account of my own preferences.
Also Blindsight. If you want something along those lines I would recommend Being No One by Thomas Metzinger.

>Diaspora
>The Galactic Mage
>Star Maker
>This Immortal
>and all that other crap
These all sound rather unappealing and/or boring, not to mention dated (as in the case of Egan's stuff).
Which really leaves you with one option:
"And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium."

To wit, your list is awash in a sea of poo, to quote Johnny Knoxville.
Get some standards you disgusting weeb.

>>13943226
>tfw being a webnovel fag guarantees you'll never actually finish anything.

>>13943268
Fatter jennifer lawrence is probably a nice person but that bench seat of glass posting anon has made me hate her.

>>13945494
>Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Based

>>13945403
What does the D mean, cosmerefag?

>>13945548
Don't let yourself be influenced by the losers posting here anon.
There's some autist on /v that is 24/7, day in, day out, shitting on Cyberpunk 2077, so much so, he's getting banned on sight but that did not stop me from pre-ordering the game.
Losers are to be made fun of, not listened to.

>>13945575
You sound gay as fuck mate

>>13945606
Okay, I am making fun of you now.

>>13945574
Nobody knows, it's a middle name that plot centric characters of one piece all share.

>>13945611
You're not doing a very good job gayboi

>>13945629
You're doing a splendid one yourself so why try.

>>13945434
You're a fag regardless of who you are

>make a scene where these male channelers slaughtering everyone like a blender
>suddenly, next noo, they are as meek as sheep
what the fuck is this bullshit
Dumai's well was so good but what the fuck is this?

>>13945748
Jordan was a cuck and the series is cuck propaganda

>>13945622
I know the celestial dragons fear the D, and luffy had D in his name, but I haven't read one poop in a year plus, so I thought Buggy was gonna spill.

>>13944027
>keeping the archive in order
What does that even mean?

>>13945748
I am just skimming most of the parts. Most of the dialogues are so full exclamation marks and women being cunts while the men are so gentle as fucking and saintly compared to them.

>>13945574
It means "The"

>>13945796
its still unknown, but I think there's a good chance it stands for Devil given that the main villains call themselves "celestials" and that devil fruits are central to the plot

really, a more important question is what the straw hat's purpose is, and why Im has that huge one

>>13943589
I've gotten around to reading Way of Kings. It's not that bad, but it's not always the most intriguing.

I'm probably going to move onto Awake in the Night Land after this is done.

who's the Xana of /sffg/?

Let's all form a pact to never post in this thread again in solidarity with the forgotten ideals of the past.

>>13946311

i hole hardedly recommmend eragorn to any one looking for a tolken-esk fantasy series

Man I can't find any modern fantasy with some grand sense of adventure and satisfying story arc for the protagonist. Everyone wants to be either overcomplicated with attempts at fantasy politics and intrigue ore just over the top grimderp
like that Abercrombie guy were everything HAS to be depressing because "this isn't your grandma's fantasy!" or some shit like that.

>>13946463
Unironically young adult fantasy. Just start on amazon and use the "customers that viewed this" section to search

>>13944623
I really like book 2 of Hyperion. Have about an hour left of book 3. I liked the beginning, the middle was a giant slog when you are just following around Endymion and the girl, and the end is shaping up. Definitely less enjoyable because of the journey than the first two books.

EMPEROR, WE'RE COMING FOR YOU!!!!!!!!

>>13945574
I WISH I FUCKING KNEW
It's probably related to the name of the D. Kingdom, if not the very same but I'm not sure of why the name itself would still be too revealing to tell.

>>13946003
Imu.

>>13946463
this >>13946488
Beside the prose itself being far simpler and less researched, in terms of what they do the best of yaf ins't that inferior to its more "adult" counterpart.

>>13946463
read Eragon

>>13943274
>>13943589
I'm reading pic related, definitely GRI approved

What do you guys think of a fantasy book that is just under 70,000 words? I feel like it's maybe a bit short, but is there really anything bad in being concise? No need to add some filler to make it longer, I think.

>>13946796
it depends how you feel about it anon. Read the story for yourself. If segments of the story flow by too quickly, you can add filler. If they don't, shave stuff down. Do what feels right

>>13946796
Well, it really depends of what the author is going for no? Word count is pretty irrelevant as long as the author can convey whatever it is he want to convey efficiently in those words.

>>13946796
Well, it really depends of what the author is going for no? Word count is pretty irrelevant as long as the author can convey whatever it is he wants to convey efficiently in those words.

>>13945839
The previous threads. You could go to any thread and have the chronological thread before and after listed. Not so now.

>>13946850
>>13946840
Yeah, I've personally never thought less of a book or story for it being shorter, it just leaves me wanting more sometimes. I'm asking because I am writing one myself, and want to know what other readers think. There have been a lot of cool shorter stories, and I think bringing a halt to a story can be somewhat jarring and annoying for a reader, and often times it is for me. Side stories can be cool, too, though.

>D is a symbol for the half-moon, not a letter
>Usopp will feed Black Kabuto a Devil Fruit
>Zoro is literally half-asleep
>Dragon will be the one to topple WG (Imu), not Luffy, through the insane amount of Inherited Will (Imu is Dragon's endgame, deal with it)
>Devil Fruits originated from the Shandoran forest
>Monster Point is an Awakened Zoan form
>Usopp may die
>Blackbeard is a type of 'fake' D.
>Dragon has the strongest CoC of anyone currently living
>Crocodile was a Revolutionary
>Zoro can only Asura thanks to his cursed sword
>Rayleigh was the strongest swordsman before Mihawk
>Yoru itself is just a hilt and the blade is pure haki

>>13946886
the fuck?

>>13946884
Just use Warosu
If someone is only looking once a month or less they probably only care about the most recent thread anyway

>>13946914
Look buddy, my minor OCD demanded it, okay?
I had to do it.

>>13946951
That's entirely understandable.

Will Lindon be fucked by Northstrider in Wintersteel?

>>13946886
>crocodile was a woman

>>13946966
They’re gonna go on a cute dinner date and eat dragons together.

>>13947015
>>13946966
Northstrider has hunger madra too... so...
He will give Lindon a monarch level hunger madra for his arm

>>13947038
No way fag, he'd explode. An Overlord or maybe Sage level arm, sure. Maaaaybe possible Herald under some bizaare circumstance.

>>13946966
Northstrider is no homo
Lindon on the other hand...

>>13946463
Underrated books

>>13947154
give me a summary

>>13947154
>women can join the special forces

>>13947240
Why is that /lit/ of all of board has /a/ grammar, /v/ argumentation skills and /pol/ content? I'm starting to regret coming here.

>>13947252
Fuck off then.

>>13947266
Deep.

>>13945403
Please respond.

I read a few more chapters into Shade's First Rule. Typical power-fantasy: MC is punished by a corrupt Priest who reincarnates him not as an intended Mage but as a lower-class Worker, all for the sins of his parents with the benefit of meeting the goddess Uru in between reincarnation transition and receiving the all-mysterious ~Hidden Class~. I'm all for power-fantasy fuck-the-system wank but I feel it'll take a while to get to it. Almost an entire chapter between MC and the nurse who helped rez him had too many ROSY CHEEKS from both ends.

>>13946985
The more I read this shit, the more I'm willing to believe it is true.

>>13947050
Can you list the power levels?
Aren't sage and monarchs the same thing?

>>13947252
>Why does a rather slow board have overlap from the most active boards?

>>13947420
Copper -> Iron -> Jade -> Low/High/True Gold -> Under/Overlord -> Archlord (or secret sidequest into Sage) -> Herald -> Monarch

>>13947367
Imma try that Shade's First Rule when it's out on audio.

>>13947468
So an Archlord is a sage?
So why do they refer to Mercy's Mom as a Sage one time, then a Monarch?

>>13946966
Northstrider will bash his face in because Lindon looks like he wants to fight.

>>13947492
Yes, a Sage is a special Archlord.
Show me the exact quote.

>>13947529
Different anon

>trying to find a quote in a physical book
Good luck

>trying to find a quote in an audio book
HA HA, yeah, no.

>trying to find a quote in an ebook
Extremely easy

Seems that a lot of anons listen to audiobooks for this sort of thing.

>>13943274
Against Democracy
Been reading quite a bit of libertarian authors for some reason.

>>13947562
>he doesn't do have physicals, audibles, and digitals of every book he reads
absolute pleb

/sffg/, I need to write but my body is rejecting it. What doeth I

I love Neal Asher's stuff so god damn much.
It's totally fucking retarded fun.

>>13947586
Based. How do you like it?
This is on my reading list. I strongly recommend reading Bryan Caplan's books : The Myth of the Rational Voter and The Case Against Education.

Hoppe's book Democracy the God that Failed is also good, but I think it's a little overhyped despite being a fan.

>>13945403
>Kindle

>>13947741
1 hour later. still not writing.

why is this shit so hard?

>>13948105
Because of your personal circumstances

I don't want to write, I just like world building. I won't ever share it like some DnD faggotry though.
Is that autistic?

>>13948436
Seems more like schizoid to me.

>>13947765
Fuck the prador.
>tfw no qt AI gf that runs high level emotional emulation to love
Why live?

>>13946463
read Majipoor

I like Bakker, but he needs a stronger editor. His books should be roughly half their length. The Great Ordeal was especially terrible about this with the section with the Quya.

>>13948717
Apparently, boys, we have someone who doesn't believe in the captain, and our slog of slogs.

What book should I check out if I liked Ender's Game?

What's Euron's role in TWOW? Is he just going to nerf the Reach's population and farming capacity before getting taken out by Aegon or is he up to more magical shit?

>>13948846
that shit is never coming out dude, also fuck Urine

>>13948873
I reckon we're getting TWOW in 2020/2021 because the fat man isn't working on anything else now the show's finally over but a Dream of Spring will stay as a dream

>>13948918
>isn't working on anything else
Clearly you don't know his actual schedule as he's said he's working on a ton of different stuff and always will be.

>>13948918
*releases another Fire and Blood*
nothing personnel, kid

https://player.fm/series/series-2418654
I'm trying to listen to this podcast about Red Mars, and this dude just said he would unironically cast Idris Elba as Frank Chalmers in order to increase diversity. Fucking humanities PhDs. The worst part is, I feel like I have to keep watching, because these numbnuts somehow managed to get an interview with the author. Why is life like this.

>Asha'man, kill
Damn, I hope there are more like this. This has been a tiring read. Please tell me more of this instead of Nynaeve cursing, Elayne nagging, and Egwene being always right.

I just want more Punished Rand or Trickster Mat.

>>13943947
Good job bookanon

>>13949132
>this dude just said he would cast POC actor as MC in order to increase diversity.

These people are everywhere, provided they too are not black/brown then it's just them trying to boast and impress upon others how progressive they are.

>>13945026
Wait what

>>13948918
>teleports behind you and release another 5 Wildcards anthologies

>>13946463
Tell me more, anon.

>>13947492
Mom is a monarch. It's the aunt who is a sage. They are always revered to as such.
Maybe you mixed up on some occasion? The edgy striper names sure make it a little hard.

>>13943226
im by no means a real scifi lover, but here's my short story idea (maybe there are existing texts with this scenario?)
humans are punished for rebellion, a spieceswide crime or whatever, and exiled onto the most hostile forgotten planet to meet their death. a demostrative execution goes perfectly, reminding other serfs for centuries, until one day humans come back as colonisers.
might have a good touch of humor ("our prison was so small and worthless every civil conflict failed in its embryo phase"), but mostly an ode to human revengeful viability

>>13946084
Lorelei

Currently reading "cities in flight", "Earthman, Come Home" is a long piece of shit. Any of the other books is good, or I will waste my life with them?

sometimes i go on reddit r/fantasy and other fantasy book subreddits purposely just to find opinions that i find exceptionally egregious simply because I know it will annoy me... yes i am ashamed you don't have to laugh at me...

>>13949266
Nah you're fucked

>>13949266
Anon....I...I'm sorry.

You will only get more Egwene being right and everyone wrong

>>13949672
It's not her aunt, it's her niece. And the uncle Herald is her brother.
Also the mix ups were in the previous books, not this recent one.

>>13949859
A planet called treason mixed with two other books I can't recall.

>>13946463
>tfw into grimderp fantasy and despise classical adventure fantasy
I'm not ashamed

>>13950088
That kid looks like a school shooter

>>13950088
>>13950099

>>13950099
They call him Bobo and he's finnish. No idea how old he's supposed to be these days, but he loves ham, kebab and pineapple pizza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYsOwfjc6aQ

>>13944596
Anyone?

>>13950055
What are you queers talking about? Better not be anime.

>>13947515
Or because, you know, he wants Dross for himself after spending an eternity trying to make one only for lindon to end up with it.

>>13950365
Cradle. It's mostly anime. The only missing ingredient is harem. Soon, though.

>>13950422
Mercy will never, EVER be part of the harem.

>>13950459
Then there will be no harem at all. Except if you count the blood clone as her own separate person, but I don't.

Why do you think that, though? I too doubt there will be a harem. Wight just doesn't have enough balls to do it. The fandom is almost entirely composed of normalfags that would screech at it.

>>13950365
Lurk more, newfag.

>>13950422
Dross cannot be removed from Lindon.

>>13950571
Not from lindon alive. Maybe from his corpse. Of course, Wight could always bullshit some solution that made sure lindon kept living afterwards, but I doubt it.

>>13950459
>>13950476
tfw the greatest fantasy series of all time will never be perfected because the writer is too much of a pussy to do a harem

>>13950571
>newfag
I've been here since july

>>13950422
I just bought it on a whim. You better not let me down.

>>13950749
I've been here since 2010

>Rand's epiphany above dragonmount
From all the shitness this is. This was worth it.
But anyone who rereads this is retarded.
who would go through all of the suffering of reading this again.

Well William D Arand new harem shit is out today.
I wanted kobold pussy getting stuffed and breed.
Fuck Arand. I wanted to abstain from breeding (and sex in general), but reading about that short stack taking all that dick makes me want to go and continuously breed a midget.

Is this how Japan gets their abstainers to multiple? Pump out a bunch of fetish porn that makes you want to breed?

Anyone read rules free vrmmo?
I have a book idea. The protagonist in that series is an incubus who could impregnate any female species with one load if he so chooses. What if I have my book be about a guy who traveled to Japan and was possessed by an incubus, because he was born with a weak spirit the incubus was easily able to take root. The book will be about this outsider charming and impregnating every female he could lay his eyes on. Even 50 something old women one month away feom menopause. He will single handedly double Japan's population count.

I'll be honest, I had given up hope that good fantasy was still being written. A friend of mine convinced me to try Stormlight Archives, and I wanted to see what /lit/ thought of it, before jumping in. I see that people here don't like Sanderson or his work, and I read the reasons why.

Are there any fantasy novels that you lot can recommend? Preferably ones that were written more "recently"?

>>13943226
Is there a date for the release of Winds of Winter yet?

>>13950970
Chronicles of Amber

>>13950581
Yeah, the main character will be killed off in Book 7 of 12.

>>13950749
>>13950871
Both of you are newfags and should an hero.

Reposting this because it got good convo last time.

>>13951007
Reminds me of Malazan

>>13950993
2 years after GURM dies Sanderson will finish it

>>13950952
>vrmmo
Yes. I've seen it mentioned here a few times. About your idea, read the warlock series by Rosier. His excuse to go out impregnating females is better than yours, but he chickens out and doesn't go as far as he could have. Warning though, Rosier has terrible grammar.

>>13950970
I can give you my V2 chart if you want ... Really need to work on v3. A lot of shit in that has to be taken out because the author shit the ned later on.

>>13951004
Here as in lit.. I was on 4chen since 2008.
It's aaawwwright though.

>>13950999
if I liked amber, what should i read next from Zelazny?

>>13951199
Amber again

>>13951214
if I already re-read it once this year, what should I read next?

>>13950905
To be honest. You can skimmed the whole series and STILL feel beautiful when Rand's goes Jesus Reborn

>>13950002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rageaholic

>>13951074
>I realized my taste was actually bad
Congrats on being self-aware

>>13951387
>you must like and stay one way for all of existence
>being human isn't evolving and bettering oneself
>read and like the same shit till you die

>>13950970
This post again.....

>>13950993
Well, originally it was by the end of 2015. So....

>>13951074
I certainly wouldn't mind seeing your V2 Chart if you don't mind. Are there any particular spots where your taste has changed? I'm surprised to see SA book 2 on there, considering the previous posts in the thread. Is it one that's aged poorly?

>>13950999
Not finding a great synopsis, but considering your other reply, it sounds like you really do highly recommend it. I'll give it a shot.

>>13950993
Well Worldcon is only about half a year away and this spring he told the world to lock him up if he's not done by then.

>>13951219
Amber again

>>13951637
of course, it'll take the whole world to move that fat fuck to a cell

>>13949266
>Damn, I hope there are more like this
There isn't, everything after book 6 gets worse an worse

How do you live with yourself knowing you slept on the defining fantasy book of its generation?

Sanderson fags please kill yourself before replying.

>>13951199
>>13951219
Jack of Shadows
Changeling
Dilvish the Damned

>>13951804
So how is Will Pancho better?
Sell it to me anon.

>>13951663
I'm not ready for another reread man, maybe in a couple of months, but I saw that there were some Amber short stories somewhere. Are they good?

>>13951830
If you truly like Sanderson and you’re not just baiting, then I’ll be honest with you and just say skip this. You won’t like it. Totally not for you.

But if I’m going full shill, I’d describe this as a fantasy Blood Meridian. A sincere treatise on violence, isolation, masculinity and mental illness as filtered through the fantasy genre. Is it saying anything people outside the genre haven’t said before? Probably not. But for a genre that thinks Abercrombie and Mark Lawrence have something profound to say about violence, it’s nothing short of groundbreaking.

>>13951832
The ones written after he died? Haven't read them but I haven't heard anything good about them.
If your talking about the other 5 books with his son as the protagonist. They're good but not as good as the books of Corwin.

>>13951859
No I do not like Sanderson in particular and fantasy in general but I like to keep an open mind.

>A sincere treatise on violence, isolation, masculinity and mental illness as filtered through the fantasy genre.
You are coming on way too strong man. But then again this is actually being called "grimdark".
You know what? I am going to read it and then most likely make fun of you.
Thanks for the rec.

>>13951804
Revenge kino

>>13951874
oh, I didn't know they were written after he died. I read the Merlin ones each time I was doing the Amber re-read, they did seem a bit worse off than the first 5, but the magic part was pretty cool.

>>13951912
>asks me to sell him on it
>explain why I like it and what I think sets it apart in 4 sentences
>hey man you’re coming on too strong
Would you prefer some mealy mouthed, weak ass explanation? I dunno man, it’s kinda good, you might think it’s okay or something, but you know, maybe not. There’s magic and stuff. If you like (insert shitty popular thing) you’ll probably like it.

Go fuck yourself.

>>13951927
This guy fucks

>>13951912
>lewdposter is a tsundere

>>13943284
Fuck, I can smell your Dorito stained fingers from here.

What are some books

>>13952854
Grim Company has aliens that genocide the elves
That's a spoiler by the way

>>13951944
>Go fuck yourself.
Oh come on nigga, don't be like that. Fantasy Blood Meridian? Chances are it's going to rather disappointing, as most fantasy is.
But I am going to pick it up not on account of it's quality (or lack thereof) but because you took the time and effort to recommend it. Obviously you feel strongly about this novel and I gotta respect that.

>>13951987
Don't be such a weeb, you're a grown man.

>>13952854
I still don't get all this negativity towards elves.

>>13952986
Around elves
watch yourselves

>>13952964
Anata wa sugoi baka desu ne

>>13952989
Oh yes you might be sexually accosted and we can't have that.

>>13952994
I bet you rec Throne of Glass to unsuspecting anons.

>>13952964
Fair enough. I did come off as a bit of a sensitive sissy.

>>13951592
That was just a suggestion chart. This is the V2 of modern fantasy I was talking about. It has been a few years since this was updated, and a lot of stuff needs to be changed / added.

>>13953013
Nah, you just cared. I'll take that kind of recommendation over raving reviews on Amazon or Goodreads.

>>13953016
Anyone who reccomends Trudi Canavan hasn't read Trudi Canavan.

>>13951912
>lip implants
>breasts implants
>hip implants
>possible ass implants
I guess as a fag that likes hard scifi, you would give your cummies to a female that had been butchered and put back together with science.

>>13953004
Does that chink ouch sneaky's back pussy?

>>13953016
No love for K. J. Parker?

>>13952996
>>13952986
Not even attractive. Also stop posting 3dpd pic.

>>13953062
Her new stuff is shit. I tried book one of that millennial series shit and it was horrible. Too YA, but black magician and age of five was good gri approved

>>13953086
the faggot doesn't put out books that people actually want to read in audiobook form.

I want to write a novel but all my novel ideas are fantasy. Should I just become an hero?

>>13953215
Write and make money or nothing other than the knowledge that you've written a book.

>>13943289
Andrew Roberts?

>>13944034
Part of the problem with hard sci fi is that it's dominated by jingoistic military worshippers who have some incredibly fucking weird social attitudes. idk how can anyone can read John Ringo or David Weber's recent stuff and not think those guys are psychotic out of touch dickheads.

>>13951859
>fantasy Blood Meridian.
so it's a continuous stream of thoughts that are like shit?

>>13953500
elaborate

>>13953541
https://www.baen.com/caliphate.html

https://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3751991

>>13953546
The middle link was lulzy, thanks

>>13952964
Masters of Rome chad

>>13953532
Wow, big guy. That contrarian opinion makes you interesting.

>>13951199

>>13946463
Try this. It’s dark but not grimdark. Certainly falls in epic

>>13951804
I can’t read a book with swords like that

>>13953829
>literally judging a book by the cover

>>13950914
His swing shift book was the worst one of his I read. I think he is running out of ideas to put males into a harem. I mean he had that protagonist fucking animals and zombies last time.

>>13953153
Audiobooks aren't "reading".

>>13953791
>doors of his face, lamps of his mouth, fire of my loins

>>13953911
Someone is reading it to me, like comfy campfire stories back in the old country.

>>13953932
Being nostalgic for something you never experienced is very silly.

>>13953938
Very little of what we do isn't 'silly'.

What are you fags reading?

>>13953850
I judge every fantasy book by its cover and first sentence

>>13952854
>What are some books
About hating elves? Try Michael-Scott Earle's Destroyer. I think it's his most /sffg/-compatible work and it definitely scratches that elf-genocide itch.

/sffg/, I don't consider myself religious in any way, but today I received a sign from a higher power.

After almost a year of bitching about how I'm not writing anything and trying and failing to find a solution that worked, my therapist advised me to ask two of my friends, a fellow YA author and an aspiring cartoonist, to get together after work and start a writing group.

we had our first meeting today /sffg/, and while things went off the rails, we had the kind of once-in-a-lifetime chance encounter that convinced me we're going to succeed. 10 minutes before we were due to start, 30 feet from our meeting location at barnes and noble, we were interrupted by a book signing by Rebecca Sugar

afterwards I came home, and I immediately beat my word goal.

>>13954239
Assassin's apprentice at the moment. It's leagues better than the liveship crap, but it doesn't feel like anything special.

>>13953911
anon, drop the distain. We're on an anime tiddy image board. There's no room for pretension here

>>13954239
Shade's First Rule - ~20% through, probably going to keep going until something happens.
Reborn: Apocalypse - ~15%, too long for a first book with its current pacing. Standard litRPG where MC goes back in time, keeping his memories, to ideally fix things. The writing is tolerable but it is very much an RPG in text form.

How do I find an agent for my fantasyish book? Assume for the sake of discussion that I do somehow drag my ass into actually completing it.

>>13954350
Guide to Literary Agents 2019
Writer's Market 2019
Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2019

and similar

>>13953615
I just like my fucking periods and commas.

>>13954286
It's not reading. It's listening. I don't have anything against it.

>>13945403
>all those percents
Why are you reading so many at the same time?

>>13943226
Every time the brothers tease Croacker with the Lady I laugh my ass off.
>Arent you glad your waifu turned out to be real, huh croacker?

Cheeky cunts.

Almost didn't read this because I didn't like the author's first book but I'm a sucker for nautical fantasy and I'm glad I did.

It absolutely engrossed me from start to finish so even though most of the story beats were incredibly obvious (the biggest problem with the author's first novel) it didn't take me out of the book at all.

>>13954310
>Reborn: Apocalypse - ~15%, too long for a first book with its current pacing. Standard litRPG where MC goes back in time, keeping his memories, to ideally fix things. The writing is tolerable but it is very much an RPG in text form.
>to ideally fix things
So a litrpg version of Daniel Black? Is there magical engineering so far?

>>13951859
Lawrence doesnt say shit about violence

>>13954372
Only 3 with percents.
The first two are extremely lengthy, and the last one has been on my Kindle for months. I'll delete it.

>>13943899
Sounds like a threat to me

Not bait I legit am new to scifi:

Are there so many women scifi authors winning awards because of muh quotas? Or, are there just more women writing scifi or something

>>13954462
If you mean the Hugos, it's entirely fan voting. $50 membership required to vote.

>>13954383
I think that was the point.

>>13954286
Congrats Flavorful Cooking Anon,

>>13954462
there's way more women both writing and reading than men, most awards look like a pretty accurate representation of the gender balance of genre fiction.
That doesn't mean they're not picking weak books because they fit some ideal (lady astronauts sucked and won the hugo) but claiming quotas/political voting doesn't really reflect the situation.

>>13954491
where do you get those stats

just found this from quick google

>>13954491
Women have a different perspective so a lot of it may seem novel and better, as opposed to constant retreads of the same material from men. Same for fiction from minority groups.

>>13954491
https://pudding.cool/2017/06/best-sellers/

>>13954239
taking a break from sff, and reading about a real life degenerate.

>>13954524
The funny thing about this is that it shows that women mostly only write in what will sell the best and make them the most money whereas men voluntarily consign themselves to that which that doesn't sell well and makes even less money.

>>13954538
In other words, in terms of practicality, pragmatism, and rationality, women writers are far superior.

>>13953910
>I mean he had that protagonist fucking animals and zombies last time.
Monster girls are good, fuck you. I want a cute goatgirl wife.

>>13954552
It's a gateway to bestiality.

I just found out that wen spencer has a patreon. Does every author have a patreon these days?
What about butcher, Sanderson and hobb?

>>13954583
Top tier authors don't need extra income from doing the stuff a patreon would include.

>>13954559
>he doesn't want to give mares cummies like Mr Hands.

>>13954589
A lot of these self pubbed authors are making 3k extra a month on patreon.

>>13954543
>writing is a pragmatic choice of labor for financial gain.
LOL

>>13954621
It's relative.

>>13954610
Examples

Also, that would draw away money from the authors doing this and would be seen as unfair, amog

>>13954646
I forgot to turn off autopost and mistyped.
Doesn't really matter though.

This series is basically definitive proof that conservatives are incapable of writing fantasy novels.

>>13954858
>reading authors that have the name terry

>>13954858
I've never liked terry goodkind much

>>13954858
Nah, it's just definitive proof that you don't like an overt and blatant conservative agenda. Certainly a lot of other people like them. I don't personally like them.

>read wandering inn
>author masturbates over her perfect chess players and mma fighter. Every. Single. Chance. She. Gets.

I continue to be unable to stop looking at stuff.
Too much effort to mention it all.

What I Looked At Today

>>13943268 Throne of Glass - Sara J. Maas
Got around to looking at this after all the meme'ing. Will not read.

>>13946789 Incest And The Medieval Imagination - Elizabeth Archibald
It seems entirely boring and very informative.

>>13951804 The Burning Isle - Will Panzo
May read.

>>13954258 Destroyer - Michael-Scott Earle
Didn't interest me at all.

>>13954380 The Bone Ships - RJ Barker
Probably not. I think I may have a bias against anything nautical.

>>13953804 The Shadow of What Was Lost - James Islington
It would seem that this is a derivative work that I'm unable to read. Mostly because it seems derivative of Wheel of Time and when I tried to read that well over a decade ago, probably close to two decades ago, I read only a little bit and knew that I would never read any more of it. How do I do know that it's deritivative of WoT then? I don't. It just really seems like it is.

Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
Probably not, but I understand why others would like it. Wiki says it may eventually be a movie. May watch that.

The Black Tides of Heaven - J.Y. Yang
I didn't like the writing style.

Gamechanger - L.X. Beckett
Seems like it would be annoying and interesting, but I think the annoyance would win out. I'll have to think it over, but likely won't read it.

The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi
I didn't look at this today. I almost want to read it, but not quite. I don't know why.

>>13947948
>>13947586
May eventually get around to looking at these. Already been meaning to for some of them. It just hasn't happened.

and various other not SFF related books

My "backlog" of books I've looked at a little bit and maybe will read in the future will probably remain in the several 100s forever.


What I Read Today

The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid - Walter Jon Williams
Meh. Mostly because it was mostly set-up and quickly dismissed with what the title name. Would have been ok if I liked the set-up.

Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang
I've never liked a rotational sleep society story and this isn't an exception.
I realize it's intended to be allegorical about injustice,inequality, and heroic parental sacrifice, which I can appreciate, but it just didn't work for me. Certain people will find themselves quite upset about the subplot.

Gunpowder God - H. Beam Piper
This is a Paratime story. I like them. Eventually I'll read all of them. Involves transdimensional travel. This one is particular is a "modern day man (1964) is transported to alternate Earth of much less technology and uses his skills to do well." It's not really isekai because the alternate Earth advanced race has a machine that lets them travel to any other Earth at will and exploit them for resources.

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>>13947765
>>13914768
Watchcrab - Neal Asher
I haven't read any of his novels yet. I have looked at them briefly and they seem worthwhile though.

>>13954559
It’s literally no different than his cat girls and dragon girls from wild wastes.

>>13955055
I forgot to mention that I was a different anon.

is armored saint sjw bullshit?

>>13955060
Also, I was half-joking.
I have looked at Wild Wastes though and posted about what I thought about it.

>>13955066
Yes

>>13955076
sick

>>13955066
I don't know. When I looked at it, it seemed like it might be alright, but "sjw bullshit" doesn't matter to me.

>>13955082
weak. it should, because it rules. i was getting so fed up with SF before i came across books with well-written lesbians

Why do some people really get off on the whole catgir, wolfgirl and foxgirl thing. I've literally never understood what extra appeal they have compared to a normal female human character.

>>13944027
You guys went overboard with those stupid fantasy authors and the memes. Turned me off for two years. Fuck, reddit and tumblr were far better sources of good new sci-fi.

It took leaving to realize just how frozen this place has become.

>>13955105
I'm unclear about what you've typed.
I can't tell if you've misunderstood me and I've misunderstood you.
To rephrase: I'm indifferent about sjw stuff.

Are you the "social justice paladin" and/or the anon who was posting gideon the ninth?

>>13955110
It's just a little bit of taboo/transgression to spice stuff up. Pic related.

>>13955119
Why did you come back and when will you be leaving?

>>13955129
>Why did you come back
to call you a cracker

cracker!

>>13955110
Well you see, with monster girls, the monster is on the outside.

>>13955131
I can't help but be disappointed at your meme response, even though I really shouldn't be,

>>13955137
>meme response
When is the last time someone called you a cracker? I mean really, here I go trying to extend a tennis racket to you honkies and this is what I get.

>>13955148
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chappelle%27s_Show

>We travelled all the way back through time... to call yuh a cracker.

>>13955122
no. but it's coming up on my list. but i heard all the lesbians in it get killed, which sounds bummer


im currently reading animorphs because i saw tweets about the author having a transgender daughter, and i had a dream i found a boxset of it. But i was wondering if people had any other suggestions because it turns out reading ya sucks. so far i've read leckie and le guin, but butler literally didn't have any gays

>>13955152
Quoting television isn't a meme answer, however...

>when will you be leaving?
That's got a lot of wear on it. I wouldn't drive my family on it.

pic unrelated

>>13955033
Gamechanger - L.X. Beckett is another case of my trying to read a novel from an author who had a short story I liked. In this case, "Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling" from the July/August 2018 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It's even in the same universe. I don't know what it is, but it happens a lot that I don't like the novels of short fiction writers I like. Maybe I just have entirely different standards and that messes it up. Or maybe I was just wrong in the first place.

>>13955169
I recently read and liked this short story and features a lesbian romance. A Season of Broken Dolls - Caitlin R. Kiernan
>>13914768

>>13954476
Yeah but its not his focus and never was, he writes mostly about morality with Jorg. With Jalan the focus is more on violence but at its core it what it means fight.

Why are all Black Company covers just so damn generic.

New thread
>>13955200
>>13955200
>>13955200

>>13955169
You could always just read anthologies such as:
Best Lesbian Romance [year]
Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica
Best Lesbian Erotica [year]

I haven't read the above.
I don't remember if anything would interest you from the two Alien Sex anthologies that I read. Though, they would be more properly called Alienated Sex. Also more about relationships than actual sex.

I've read a fair bit of LGBT fiction that I've liked or thought was okay, though not intentionally. The titles don't really come to mind though. I really ought to have categorized stuff better.


Looking through my calibre library of stuff accumulated, I see Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction. Might talk about stuff you'd be interested in that.

>>13955201
I was going to make one within a few hours, but you doing so is entirely fine with me. Seems you decided not to change much about it.

>>13955207
>Seems you decided not to change much about it
Mostly because I'm in a hurry. And I posted because we've had some problems with the thread dying lately. I'd probably make some changes if I had the time but I'm not interested in participating in some OP war so I only added the previous threads because I sometimes use that particular feature.

>>13955215
>some problems with the thread dying
If you mean how sometimes I wouldn't post a new thread until after it was archived, that was intentional.

>sometimes use that particular feature.
Just use warosu

>>13953804
Not that anon. But I'm giving this a shot. It was spammed enough times to get my attention. Turns spam works.

>>13946463
Unironically Red queen war

>>13955228
Doesn't look it's been spammed to me and seems almost every single post about it has been negative. If you really like Wheel of Time, then maybe.

>>13955220
>Just use warosu
I'm not interested in either visiting another website or clicking 10 times just to visit threads that are still in the 4chan archive.

>>13955241
Well I didn't know what the book was just yesterday. And now I've witnessed it from 3 separate sources. So that's spam enough for me.
I'm not saying it like I'm annoyed. Just being cheeky, anon.

>>13955261
3 separate sources? As in 2 sources other than 4chan?

>>13955273
I don't know. I thought I saw it here twice, and then once elsewhere. But maybe I just checked this thread twice without realizing.
Well, way to suck the fun out of that one, anon.

>>13948846
>What's Euron's role in TWOW?
Nobody knows, especially not GRRM.
You realize the dude just makes shit up as he goes along?
He has no actual plan for the series, which is why his trilogy is now at least 7 books long.

>>13948918
>I reckon we're getting TWOW in 2020/2021
Unlikely, but even if that should happen I guarantee you that he will again be unable to pull anything together and it will just be another book that puts the series no closer to a finish than the first one.

>>13955201
Yet this thread remains