/lit/ - Literature

>>18106200
Why no related to topic picture?

>>18106200
what the fuck is wrong with her hat?

>>18106200
>Most..... memorable.....

I donated thirty smackeroos to Amelia this morning, any good sci-fi about time travel?

>>18106291
I would recommend the Book of the New Sun, The Time Machine, The Canticles of Saint Lebowitz, Oryx and Crake, Twelve Monkeys, Mugen Colours Phantom World, the streams of Coco Chn, A Confederate Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Book of Merlin, The Three Body Paradox, the Triumph of the Will, Code Geass Rerouch of the Rebellion and The Erl King.

>>18106200
I hate to ask this question but: how do you keep track of your world-building and characters for larger novels? I'm working on a thing right now, and I'm wondering if there's something more efficient than just taking notes.

Has any teamate here read the Amtrak Wars series? I've heard it's kino AHGGGHGGHHHHHLLLL.

>>18106303
I really only have five characters that mater, Inaeye Inannis, Amelia Watson, Calliope Moron, Nakadashi Kiara and Gawr "a" Gura. Occassionally I include other characters like Pekopekopekora, Fubuki! and Hoeshiknow Mariine deeeeeessuuuuuuuuu in my /sffg/ project.

>>18106291
>any good sci-fi about time travel?
Try your hand on this list?

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/science-fiction-time-travel

What science fiction and fantasy books do you think that the Holomyth (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsx4Hqa-1ORjQTh9TYDhww https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyl1z3jo3XHR1riLFKG5UAghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_qhgtOy0dy1Agp8vkySQghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoSrY_IQQVpmIRZ9Xf-y93ghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UChgTyjG-pdNvxxhdsXfHQ5Q)) girls read?

>>18106325
probably whatever their agents tell them to read

Is there any fantasy literature, preferably good stuff and not aesthetically sterile and thematically stillborn Western "literature," that resembles the track "Red" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AuQZrUHjhg from Calliope Mori's "Your Mori" EP?

>>18106328
Why are you seething so hard when the rest of us are discussing sciencefiction and fantasy? It's really kind of pathetic when you think about it. But hey, whatever helps you cope with your lonelyness.

>>18106324
Big Ups, get this chad an akasupa.
Haven't read Outlander and the TV series is for Western whores who want to be raped, I only watch pure maidens with 2D souls like Amelia Watson, Calliope Mori and Gawr Gura from Hololive's Holomyth.
I'll start with the rest of them, thanks dude!

Is Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu worth reading, or will it only exasperate my loneliness?

Any fantasy about witches who cast spells?

>>18106245
Keep seething tumblrtranny, the picture is on topic.

Can anyone recommend any science fiction or fantasy with a joyous, carefree, innocent but still a little bratty and lewd feeling like Gura's streams?

Reposting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5WIG1onKSk

I wonder if the reason I've used up all my creativity is I'm not reading anything new for ideas. I'm just re-reading shit because almost everything sucks

>>18106373
You need a new General for Scifi, Fantasy, Mystery, Horror, and Animé.

Or you need to find some new on topic pictures

>tranny
Poltardation goes in >>>/pol/ fool

>>18106528
Cope and seefe and dialate western tranny.

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>>18106380
spamming slash flooding
do the needful, anons

>>18106518
read outside the genre

>>18106549
You do realise that announcing a report is against the rules Bakkertard? We're trying to stay on topic and you come here and try and derail every thread because anime triggers the little tumblr baby.

>>18106518
Western fantasy is creatively dead and pozzed to shit and back with a side of homosex anal AIDs. IF you want something new, try Japanese fantasy, unlike cucked Western shit like Lovecraft Country it's respectful to Western Culture, history and its great artists. The soul of man resides in the East.

What is even going on in this thread? Fantasy general or V-tuber general?

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>>18106518
No, China is where the soul of creativity is today.

>>18106579
>people are asking for spectutalive fiction recommendations
>IS tHiS oFFtOpIC??!!1
Stop seething.

>>18106535
This is an animé thread, purple-top. Don’t kid yer self

>>18106586
>This is an animé thread
Yes, so why are you complaining about on topic OP pictures?

>>18106583
Name one decent Chinese spectulative fiction novel, short story, manga or novella from this year.
Here's mine. Read it.

>>18106605
What’s it about?

>>18106739
It's an existential widescreen yuri baroque proletariat hard sci-fi idol story reminiscent of the work of Gene Wolfe.

>>18106747
Poor design

>>18106764
Post a single good Western novel from the last three years.

>>18106747
Do you know where I can get it.

>>18106605
>Last and First Idol, explores the nature of pop idols in extremis, in which one young woman’s desire to be an idol, and another young woman’s desire to see her achieve that, drives her them reshape reality to achieve their ends. The end of the world and the destruction of humanity is nothing more than another idol activity.
How is this spectulative fiction?

>>18106358
I really enjoy it.

But I do find that I have to be in the 'right mood'.

Late at night, with everyone else asleep, is usually the perfect time.

>>18106300
Are any of those books any good? Or are they just memed here for no reason like baker posting?

>>18106363
Any modern fantasy book.

>>18106884
Japan.

>>18106200
>It's another tranime OP

>>18106913
Better than any Western trash in the last thirty years.

>>18107029
I'm not denying it, I just want to know what makes it spectulative fiction, since I like those type of stories.

>>18107024
>other thread gets deleted
>gratuitous holospam stays up
Based ani-jani.

>>18107034
It speculates baka.

>>18106988
>Are any of those books any good?
Yes.

>>18107014
Name five.

Onto the second book of Stormlight Archives and... wow, Sanderson is really not good at writing epic highlights/climaxes.
Comparing him to Robert Jordan (as he literally finished Jordan's series), Jordan was just so much better at these insanely hype story moments all throughout Wheel of Time. Stormlight Archives, however, doesn't have those moments (so far). Every time the story ramps up to this epic climax, I feel nothing. Sanderson isn't good at it.

Sure, Sanderson is great at character banter, humour not spending 50 paragraphs describing the local grass, but not great at those huge climaxes.

Anybody else feel this way? Or do I just need to keep reading?

>>18107059
>Sure, Sanderson is great at character banter
Sanderson's characters are bland plot plodding automatons. If you want to see what a personality looks like I recommend reading some decent literature like a transcript of Gawr Gura's recent playthrough of Capcom's Devil May Cry 5.

>>18107059
Might be you, I feel like Sanderson have the best "epic" moments towards the end of his books. But then again, I only read the mistborn trilogy and way of kings

>>18107059
Bran the Man Sander Sans (Undertale) is a hack. I recommend broadening your literary horizons with something more advanced, like a cereal box.

>>18107045
My Little Pony

>>18107091
>My Little Pony
In many ways the proto-Hololive.

>>18107098
>Spammed everywhere
>Tryhard attempt at being cute
>Generally pisses off everyone who's not into it
Holy shit it is

>>18107119
Keep seething brony.

Any decent semi-recent military sci fi books of note. And I mean primarily human on human conflict.

I was going to ask for war stories involving mecha but I doubt there's been any good titles with mechs prominently featured recently. I'll settle for space warfare or laser guns or whatever.

>>18107164
Human Moments in World War Three.
Under Siege by GRRM.
Starship Troopers by Issac Assimov.
I, Robot.
Seven American Nights.
The Forever War.
The Authority.
Ready Player One.
The Tower of the Elephant.
Turn A Gundum.
Creeping Death from Neptune.
Kagrenac's Tools by Gilvas Barelo
The Arcturian Heresy by Zurin Arctus.
FOE: Murky Number Seven.

bump

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The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World that vtuber simp shit is ``anime''

>>18107290
Why are you constantly complaining about on topic anime images in the OP?

>>18107296
have sex incel

I am looking for something where a completely normal, boring, non-magical person is pulled into a fantastical adventure where they feel completely powerless to make any difference.
Can anyone recommend me something?

Already read [pic related].

>>18107300
Keep on seething, this is an anime website.

>>18107326
vtubers are not anime

>>18107059
>wow, Sanderson is really not good at writing epic highlights/climaxes.Comparing him to Robert Jordan (as he literally finished Jordan's series), Jordan was just so much better at these insanely hype story moments all throughout Wheel of Time

wut. Jordan's climaxes are horrid. The "epic" idea is there and there's some excitement because of that but they're all hilariously rushed, usually spring up from nowhere with little build up and sometimes even against main story thrust of the book. They're an asspull galore with a failure to utilize magic system in interesting way and Team Rocket as, roadblocks to bop at the end of each book. The forsaken are basically strangers to the cast so there's little of personal conflict between the two and story fails to 1) even make relevant most of the cast during the climaxes 2) couple these with some sort of character issues/development. Even the epilogues are comically bad as narrator has to take the reins and quickly sum up in a page what should have been a wind down of 20. Say what you will about Sanderson but he's eons above Jordhack.

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>>18107312
Here you go friend
>That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2: Part II KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world! Movie: Legend of Crimson That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation The Boy and the Beast Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part II Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2 Youjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil Movie The Rising of the Shield Hero Overlord III No Game No Life KonoSuba – God's blessing on this wonderful world! 2 Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Overlord Ascendance of a Bookworm Youjo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil Log Horizon Overlord II GATE (2016) KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world! 2 OVA KonoSuba – God's blessing on this wonderful world! GATE Overlord: The Undead King Log Horizon 2 Overlord: The Dark Hero Ascendance of a Bookworm OVA That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime OVA My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! So I'm a Spider, So What? Xie Wang Zhui Qi Zhi Yishi Qingcheng KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world! OVA Kyo Kara Maoh! 3rd Series The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

>>18107328
vtubers are indistinguishable from anime and on topic, seeing you complain about them all the time is really annoying and kinda sad

first bakkerposting, now this shit. what's next

>>18107361
anime has always been welcome here, this an an anime website

Reposting...

There is literally not a single good reason as to why my Space Fantasy story cannot have Lightsabers as a prominent weapon.

I don't care if people think I'm ripping off Jedi. Lucas shouldn't get to keep such an awesome idea to himself because he first put it on screen.

All I need is a name for them, and no Lazer Sword will not suffice.

>>18107388
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HIAbc0cqx0

Uh, since the other /sffg/ thread disappeared, I guess I'll repost. Reading through book 4 of Wheel of Time, so far the Sea People are pretty interesting and I like where Egwene and the Wise Ones are going. Only 300 pages into the book though.

>>18107346
I don't know what any of that means, anon.

I've assembled all 9 special books, all 7 faces in the ring, AUTIST AUTHOR, OBLITERATE

>>18107439
It's all good fiction where a completely normal, boring, non-magical person is pulled into a fantastical adventure where they feel completely powerless to make any difference.

>>18107447
You have no power here Baka bakker spammer.

>>18107447
The only thing holding me back from buying Bakker is those stupid fucking ring covers.

Why would a publisher do this?
Was the old artwork used illegally or something?

Why all the anime inspired posts and all the anime recommendations in this thread? Is this some massive meme war I'm missing?

>>18107483
/lit/ has always been an anime board on an anime website. stop being a little bitch about it.

>>18107483
Basically.
Non-Anime Autists got mad that the OP had some anime girl in it, so they kept shitting up the threads complaining.
Then the anime autists thought they were trolling the non-anime autists by constantly posting about anime.
Now we have tonnes of anime threads on /lit/, all complaining about anime on /lit/.
Both sides are retarded, and should've just ignored the fucking OP image, because no one looks at it anyway. We just need to wait it out until the next FoTM meme.

>>18107500
Why the massive reaction? I'm just asking why these threads have suddenly became so anime heavy so recently.

>>18107473
>Why would a publisher do this?
Western publishers are obligated to make their products as ugly as possible. You should look at some Japanese Light Novel designs and illustrations to see what Western sci-fi and fantasy could look like if the West still had a modicum of self-respect.

>>18107510
Is Vampire Hunter D considered a 'light novel'?

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>>18107508
stop making up imaginary enemies to fight. there's only one or two autists who try and ruin everything by stealing OPs and posting stupid "non-anime" editions stop giving them attention.

>>18107501
You left out the part where the anti-anime autist made a duplicate thread.

>>18107517
Alright then?

So this is what you genre fiction fags are up to these days, huh?

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>>18107517
ywnbaw

>>18107520
And here is >>18107541
Hi honey, seethe for the camera!

>>18107531
You know this is an image board, right? Sometimes I don't have the right reply image for the thread or don't have one at all. What's the problem with sticking anime pictures on the posts on an anime website?

>>18107515
Had to google that one, but yes!

>>18107508
>I'm just asking why these threads have suddenly became so anime heavy so recently.
autism, what else. dude felt called out so he started spamming

>>18107589
Anime website "trad" tranny.

>>18107565
>that actual preprogrammed response towards any sort of adversity
What the fuck is wrong with you?

at least post good vtubers rather than american whores

>>18107565
nobody cares about your "reason" for spamming. deep down you know you're trying to cover for your mental issues by carving out a personality on an anonymous image board. people have been doing this shit for almost two decades on this site now

>>18107593
...the twitter and discord using 20 year old who joined 4chan during the 2016 election and has a VERY bad chronic masturbation problem says

>>18107614
>and has a VERY bad chronic masturbation problem
What would count as 'VERY bad'?

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>>18107614
What the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you here on an anime website if you hate anime so damn much that you can't stop spamming about how much you don't like anime. Stop samefagging, if you hate the general so much then just leave.

>>18107312
Alice and wonderland, a Connecticut yankee in king Arthur's court, 12 kingdoms, now and then here and there

>>18107510
Meh there's a lot of repetitive light novel covers that put sex appeal over good design.

Bump.

>>18107693
Stop bumping the thread when its not in danger of archived.

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>>18107725
Why do you pull a completely unrelated image. The style anime is drawn is fine it's when you have another generic sexy anime girl taking over the cover is the problem.

>>18107760
>The style anime is drawn is fine it's when you have another generic sexy anime girl taking over the cover is the problem.
I'm not seeing a problem here. Anime makes everything better, Western "artists" should take a leave from their book and make something that doesn't leave you wanting to claw your eyes out.

>>18107760
modern animefags are brain fried, entirely interchangeable copies of the same twitter account they all idolize

>>18107783
>modern animefags are brain fried, entirely interchangeable copies of the same twitter account they all idolize
t.sjw nutjob

>>18107772
>Anime makes everything better,
I and the majority of Western people find anime as a style unsetteling. Its unnatural and mixes the childlike and the adult together in a sort of Afrikanized abstraction. Its like looking at fetish images from some jungle temple. Not pretty at all.

>>18107725
The two styles are almost exactly the same, just godawful abstractions of the human form, both images are equally grotesk, neither are cute.

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>>18107839
>I and the majority of Western people find anime as a style unsetteling.
You're a cuck then. Get your brain checked for worms.

>>18107510
>Western publishers are obligated to make their products as ugly as possible.
The kind of art they use in American roleplaying games or French comics is clearly superior to anything Japan produces. I mean anyone who has googled the art of James Gurney or Moebius cant claim nip art is beautiful.

>>18107772
When everyone aims to draw the same sex appeal cover they become horribly generic. Covers should do more than titillate the viewer.

>>18107847
Anime is seriously grotesk.

>>18107857
I thought that was Ina from the thumbnail, is it worth reading?

To the three other people ITT who read books: Where do you go to discuss? Any altchans that have an active literature discussion?

>>18107942
If you don't mind harems then yes.

>>18107942
>is {light novel} worth reading
no

>>18108067
Let's start a discussion here what was your recent read? mine was roadside picknick.

>>18108127
Yes

>>18108067
Nowhere.

I wish I had friends that liked books

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>>18108067
>Where do you go to discuss?
there's nowhere else. Reddit is really slow and needs a large amount of people to keep a community discussion going, Discord is faster but is absolute cancer. Maybe Goodreads, but there's already a /sffg/ group there. Unless we wanna move to somewhere that's absolutely dead, like the fuckin TV Tropes Literature forum or something, there's nowhere else to go

>>18108129
I'm halfway through Gideon the IXth. I know. The "hecking wholesome lesbian necromancerinos" image the publishers and reviewers were pushing was not nearly as big of a focus as you'd think. I'm about halfway through and it's a straightforward science fantasy story focusing on interhouse politics and a race between the houses to be the first noble born to ascend to "not-lichdom." Enjoyable light reading. Which is what I come to sff stories for personally. If you're one of those posters that consider Bakker or whoever to be a philosophical titan of thought and come here to be intellectually enriched I'd give it a pass.

>>18107772
>Posts western style inspired piece
I see your shaking hands, bug-eye poster

>>18108297
>lesbian necromancerino
Was the relationship done well? I haven't read any of Bakker nor plan to. Politics between houses are fun. I'm guessing theres a decaying empire plot wise.

>>18108129
I'm finishing Mageborn: Line of Illiniel right now as well as reading Iron Prince and some xianxia. I'll read Soulship #4 next.
>>18108275
I've a buddy who comes to me for book recs but he's the only friend I have that reads anything I do.
>>18108293
Goodreads group is dead and nobody talks there. Discord, as you said, is cancer and of course normalfag central. Reddit is its own bootlicking cancer. Sadness.

Patrick rothfuss here, preorder my next book now at your door in 2035

>>18108393
>Was the relationship done well?
Too early in the story to say. It's starting out as an antagonistic pairing of a stuck up protégé necromancer noble daughter and her buffoonish but tenacious bodyguard working together. My guess is they'll slowly come around to begrudging respect for each other that turns into romance. The interhouse politics are also just getting started, a challenge to a duel here, formal dinner invitations that might serve to poison the guests there. The basics. The Empire is presided over by an Immortal God Emperor who has been gone for thousands of years and the houses are competing to become regent of the empire for the next several centuries/millennia.

>>18108465
I have a question for you, mr Rothfuss

why are you so gay

>>18108473
LSD I took in college in 1995 while writing Name of the wind

>>18108466
>The interhouse politics are also just getting started, a challenge to a duel here,
I'm guessing they use magic/necromancy to carry these actions out

>>18108568
The necromancers do. The cavaliers (bodyguards) use swords and the like where necromancy is unavailable/undesirable.

>>18106274
So death denies you your lesson.

Which makes more sense for a universal translator: A device worn by the speaker that translates outgoing speech into a 'common tongue' or a device worn by the listener that translates any incoming speech into their language?

>>18106569
you aren't bright
he was encouraging people to report you, not announcing his report

This is what happens when retards defend off topic cancer. It takes over and shits everything up.

>>18108742
Listener for sure

what are some good Casanova main characters?

>>18108129
Out of the silent planet. Got recommended to me by an anon here and I liked it. Not sure if I’ll read the sequels anytime soon but I would reccomemd if your looking for a chill sci-fi book.

>>18107059
>Struggles to contain awesomeness

Fuck E William Brown
Fuck Pay Walls
Fuck Pay Piggies

>>18109007
kellhus

>>18109231
>pay piggies
The term is 'whale', Brown-spamming fanboy.

>>18109390
Whale is a mobage term, /v/igger. When you're sending money to some whore just to exist you're a paypig.

>>18107059
wait until you get to third book's ending battle climax. It was worse than capeshit with cool one liners back to back for every character and light hearted quips just after someone escapes near death like its a joke. Not to mention horrible pacing with pov jumping characters totally unrelated in the middle of the action. It was pure shit.

Okay Mother of Learning faggot, you got me to read it, and it's okay.

blindsight was pretty nice
needs recommendations

>>18110159
Echopraxia, The Second Apocalypse series.

>>18110159
Children of Time

Damn I missed posting a link to the ultimate colossal scince fiction and fantasy collection torrent at the beginning of this thread. Here it is anyway:

>>>/t/1023504

Can we perhaps make it a default thing that goes into each post of a new thread? Like the recommendation list or the archive link?

>>18106373
Animetrannies always ruin generals. Go and dilate.

The Demolished Man or The Stars My Destination? Both very cool New Wave sci-fi but I think I lean more towards The Demolished Man for all the psychological/Freudian elements.

>>18108129
halfway through malazan, having a blast with it

God dammit. Why is milf pussey so good?
I had a hard on through this entire book.

>>18111600
Why is everyone so fucking thick in this series?

>>18107388
just come up with a name that describes what they do in the sense of a tool, "burner" or something
even better if they're literally adapted tools rather than purpose-built weapons

Anime niggers:
Seethe
Cope
And most importantly; rope

>>18106200
Am I the only one who dislikes hard magic systems like the one found in Sanderson's books?
All of these inane names, convulted rules, and infodumps about how it works, simply bog the story. When I read a story, I don't care about the metamagics behind the fireball the wizard threw; I simply care about the impact of the fight the wizard had on the story.
Unfortunately, most writers nowadays, seem to be more obsessed with writing about magic rather than a good story.
Pic related (from Stormlight Archive) is a great example of why I fucking hate hard magic

>>18112027
>Not including video games, video games general, pokemon, cosplay &EGL, and oekaki

How do I meet friends who have a common interest in books? These threads don't really satisfy me, it's very surface level discussion with a lot of memery thrown around... and I want a real friend who I can talk about a lot of subjects with, not *just* books.

>>18112582
Sanderson and his imitators are written for people who think of settings in terms of systems to be manipulated and solved. They're the inevitable end product of generations raised on fantasy as an end to RPG mechanics. It's a very un-"literary" approach to storytelling and it misses the point of why a lot of people enjoy these stories, but at this point I think it's clear that the subgenre has consistent appeal to a certain demographic. It's pointless to try and tell and tell somebody they're wrong to enjoy something, especially when they mainly enjoy it because it does something fairly unique.

>>18112582
My problem with Sanderson's magic systems isn't the deep delve into the metamagic but because his systems are way too simple. It doesn't feel like magic, but instead superpowers.

>>18111955
>even better if they're literally adapted tools

Wtf does that mean?

>>18112968
If it's something that typically has a work function but is being instead used as a weapon (retard?).

Say your space book has dudes using cutting torches to mine space rocks or whatever, and that cutting torch is commonly used by your space criminals to fight with.

>>18107483
it's just one uber autist spamming the thread. no jannies post in sffg so he hasn't been banned yet.

>>18108742
Why not both? If you want a translator to be "universal" and not "every supported language" it'd probably need to translate the 'meaning' of what's said into something universal. The listener's translator would only have to translate the 'meaning' back into whatever language they need. This way each wearer's translator would only really have to know their language and the universal one, not EVERY language.

>>18112643
Fortnite is my favourite anime

>female antagonist is tsundere for the protagonist
Is there anything like that? I even accept trashy self published shit (as long as it's not those harem or litrpg's ones)

>>18106586
really cool fucking picture

>>18106605
finally someone posts this. i loved it, really unsettling and weird, but i'll remember the first story a long time.

>>18106884
mIRC

>>18110249
>Children of Time
one of the best things i've ever read

>>18112582
>>18112741
interesting. i've never read sanderson aside from a short story, but yes, it's annoying to have characters "exploit" magics in the similar books i've read. it just doesn't work that way.

>>18113732
i fucking wish

>>18107541
Only one out of all those fucking posts is off-topic enough to be deleted? Where are the fucking mods?

>>18113867
but the post you quoted is the one that should be deleted, senpai
autistic screeching can only be fun for so long before it ruins threads

>>18113867
Anime website

>>18113732
-Lyonesse (Tatzel)
-Mask of the Sorcerer (the bird sorcerer)
-The Last Wish (Yen)
-Artemis Fowl, kind of (Holly)
-Will Save the Galaxy for Food, kind of

>>18113891
Book board

>>18113906
>-Lyonesse (Tatzel)
I fucking love the Dying Earth trilogy, from the same author. But never tried reading this one because I've read there are many King Arthur references, and I don't know shit about Arthurian tales other than there was a sword in the lake? Or was it stuck in a stone?

>-Mask of the Sorcerer (the bird sorcerer)
Gene Wolfe apparently gave this a good review. But something tells me there's barely any tsunderism in it. Could be the fact that the girl you cited ("the bird sorcerer") doesn't even have an actual name? Will read it just because it sounds intresting tho.

>-The Last Wish (Yen)
read it. Tbh, I wouldn't call Yen tsundere, I'd call Geralt a cúck instead.

>-Artemis Fowl, kind of (Holly)
only read the first book when I was a teen, and there's no romance there. I've heard in the later books Holly kisses Fowl at some point but they have their memory erased? Sounds like quite the blue balls.

>>18106373
anime belongs to >>>/a/ or >>>/trash/

>>18113995
Lyonesse draws from Arthurian tradition but you don't need to be familiar to get much out of it. Tatzel and Aillas are a fun pair but their segment is a small part of the entire trilogy. Admittedly I can't recall if Tatzel is a proper tsundere or if she just both likes and resents him

>>18107312
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

>>18113891
>vtubers
>anime
Pick one you ironic weeb tranny. Get the FUCK off my website.

>>18113867
Mods are appalling newfags either way. There is no consistent meaningful quality control across the website.

>the absolute seethe and false flag spamming of anti-anime fags itt
At this point I have to wonder why do they even come to an anime website if they can't stand anime, it's fucking masochistic and bizarre.

>>18110137
Beware of Chicken is way better (though still unfinished).

Any good base building stories beside Fimbulwinter?

>>18114846
Vtumor isn't anime. I will make it clear to you: your shit is annoying even to anime fans such as myself. Fuck off.

>only upload of Corefire I can find has shitty formatting
lame

>>18106200
>pop into charity shop on a whim because tonnes of books in window
>tfw entire game of thrones collection
>also the first 7 wheel of time books
>"5 books for £1"
>theres no way this is going to work, they will be more expensive
>tfw end up walking out the store with both collections for £2.50
this is one of the best days ive ever had lads

>>18107388
Sunblade?

Dunno

>>18107413
Book 4's pretty good, desu. Especially Perrin's and Mat's storylines

>>18108129
I just read Domination of the Drakka, I enjoyed it because it sated my hunger for conquering and enslaving lesser races. I just wish there was a scifi like this. It annoys me that authors are constantly banging their drum about breaking the right wing scifi tropes, since the books they're "deconstructing" don't seem to exist.

>>18115027
>two shits series for 2.50£
good job i guess? it'll take up the dust and be annoying to move, and only filthy casuals will gawk over it

>>18115027
>go into charity shop
>don't find anything I want

>>18115027
>only bought a handful of physical books last year/early this year to support an author I liked even though I'm fairly certain the series is dead
>one is still in the amazon wrap for months because I have zero room and haven't moved to a better place yet

>>18115027
i want to apologize for my previous post. if these books bring joy to you, then it's a dick move of me to spoil that.
enjoy your books senpai

>>18115027
Are Charity Shops open again in the UK?
Last time I went all they had was FoTM shit like Twillight, 50 Shades, and Geri Halliwell's autobiography x50

I recently read Alpha Protocol by Duncan M. Hamilton.
I picked this up expecting a schlocky MilSF series, and sort of got that, but also got a pretty decent first contact story which was a lot less schlocky than anything kindle unlimited offers has any right to be.
To start off, it actually has characterization. The main character in particular is a pretty interesting contrast, in that he's significantly over-educated for his posting, yet at the same time he's completely out of his depth. He is an Officer on his second posting, which is out in the proverbial boonies due to getting caught up in the bad end of politics on his first. Most of the plot is him trying to navigate his way through complex situations where his extensive education isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
The climax was a bit too cheesey for my taste, but not enough to detract significantly from what came before that, all in all, it was way better than I expected and I was disappointed to find out that there's no second book published yet. This is a pretty solid entry into modern sci-fi.

Why does everyone in this thread read YA and literally whos?

>>18115801
>and literally whos?
Because I've either read or tried to read everything by Whos. There's really not much quality SFFG content to read.

>>18115844
There is, you just don't know it because you get your book recommendations from other retards on the asshole of the internet.

>>18115847
Recommend a good book that does not get recommended in here

>>18115847
I have, and It's not even possible to get recommendations here to begin with. If you ask for recommendations here you'll get recommended stuff like Asimov or Lord of the Rings. Quality aside, that's a bit like recommending that somebody breathe or drink water, completely meaningless. Unless you'd like to prove me wrong and recommend something.

Is Murderbot really worth the extortionate price tag for print copies? I want to read it and don't like ebooks but holy shit $17 a piece for a series of novellas

>>18112582
Sanderson went way too hard with his magic in the last Stormlight book. Sure watching Navani channel her inner Mengele was hilarious, but the whole book serves literally no other purpose outside of it. You could cut 700 pages out and still keep the main story bits intact

>>18115863
>>18115866
read bakker

>>18115906
I have and it's shit.

>>18115866
Fuck off to reading your chinkshit then, animetranny.

>>18115925
I don't read chinkshit. In fact I think people who write chinkshit and litrpg's should be set on fire (and I've posted this multiple times before).

>>18115866
>>18115863
Points of Departure by Pat Murphy
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
Crystal Society by Max Harms
Culture series by Iain M Banks
Anything by John Varley. Steel Beach, Millennium, Ophiuchus Hotline, Gaea Trilogy.
Semiosis by Sue Burke
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Eden by Stanislaw Lem
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

>>18115956
Read pretty much all of that, and dropped the rest. And half of it is literally whos anyway which just goes to prove my point.

>>18115965
Well, if you've read everything there is to be read, time to start writing–write the kind of stuff you'd want to read, anon.

Also, out of everything you've read, what are the top three you would recommend?

>>18115980
Recommend to who? Just listing a bunch of things is retarded, it's why these threads are useless for recommendations. I recommend things to people based on what I know they like or things I think they will find interesting.

>>18115965
>asks for books that haven't been recommended here
>gets some
>"literally who"?

>>18114476
>Isekai
>First thing the MC does is rape women

You would think this would be mentioned more often in these threads, right?

>>18115993
I really like sword and sorcery, and non-medieval settings

>>18116020
I haven't really read much Sword and Sorcery aside from the stuff that everyone has read, but the Kormak Saga by William King is pretty good. It's mostly short stories, so quality varies a bit. The first one, Guardian of the Dawn, is pretty great though.
As far as non-medieval fantasy settings go you'd probably want to look at the Gunpowder fantasy subgenre, so Powder Mage would be a pretty good entry point.
Another would be the William King Gotrek and Felix novels. Despite the fact that they're EU material for the Warhammer Tabletop game, they're actually pretty good. Granted, it takes a bit for King to hit his stride given he's working with characters he didn't create, but once he gets going they're a great ride. Sadly, being EU material, other authors take over eventually and their stories aren't as good.
The Book of Swords series by Fred Saberhagen kind of qualifies? The immediate setting IS medieval, but the world isn't.
Another standout is the Draconis Memoria series by Anthony Ryan, with its quasi Age of Exploration setting.
Then you could try the Pillars of Reality series by Jack Campbell. I found it readable, but kind of dull and the prose (or lack thereof) just made it boring to read. Though I did like Campbells earlier sci-fi stuff so maybe it's just the content that bored me.

There's really not enough in either of those genres to recommend something that isn't talked about regularly but is also good, though. There's plenty of gunpowder fantasy series but most of them are awful. I don't know why the entire genre has been taken over by people like Django Wexler who just use it as a vehicle for asinine lesbian erotica.
As for S&S it's in the same boat but more so, there's plenty of it being put out but most of it is anime. Some of it like Rage of Dragons by Evan Winters is entertaining enough, but it's still anime. I think part of it simply comes down to what made older S&S so good was a result of the publication model, forcing the authors to write a specific way, which isn't replicated in long form novels.

Ok you guys were right holy shit i can't go on with this bullshit anymore. I'm finishing wheel of time with summaries, NOTHING OF NOTE HAPPENS IN THE ENTIRETY OF BOOK 8. Which would be fine in of itself if reading it wasn't a soul crushing experience, how did Jordan manage to fuck up this badly? in book one even when nothing was happening you had fun learning more about the world, heck even the chapters describing the village and the festival were fun. It's not like the guy
is unable to write, he seems to purposefully writing in a way to suck out the joy of anyone trying to read.
I was glazed trough half of the book because he goes on and on saying the exact same thing in the exact same way.
Fuck this series.

>>18116349
Is book 8 the one where a really fun Mat chapter ends on a cliffhanger and then you're forced to go through like 12-15 chained interchanging Egwene - Elayne chapters?

>>18116359
>where a really fun Mat chapter ends
Yeah no fun math chapters at all, none.
>12-15 chained interchanging Egwene - Elayne chapters?
The whole book is that with some Perry being a huge weaklings and assinine faile politics in between.
You barely even see rand.

>>18116349
>how did Jordan manage to fuck up this badly?
Book 8 is what he was writing when he found out he was terminally ill. 9 and 10 are also pretty bad and significant portions of them were dictated to an assistant from his deathbed. Mat's arc carries the last books that Jordan wrote, and honestly I think it's worth reading the entire series just for the Tylin chapters.

>>18116394
Oh man wait until you get to the asinine Elayne or Egwene politics

>>18116397
>honestly I think it's worth reading the entire series just for the Tylin chapters.
I can see why you would think that but, as much as I like their interactions, I don't like her and mat enough to thread trough this.

>>18116349
>>18116394
Would you still recommend starting the series or do you regret wasting your time with it? Desperatly looking for something new, posted a few days ago about having finished the Dark Tower series recently and havent started reading anything new yet

>>18116413
Like I said, thank you but no thank you, I'm going to read the summaries just to get some closure. I wouldn't be pissed if the books were shit at the begging, but unfortunately I got invested in them.

>>18116432
>Would you still recommend starting the series or do you regret wasting your time with it?
I would recommend you read the first 3 books and then drop it, you get a decent enough ending. Only continue if you haven't got literally anything else to read, the books up until 5 are decent but they only set up more and more things with barely any pay off. Book 6 is only good for the ending and book 7 is just a of a chore to get trough, but book 8 is barely readable and form what people tell me book 9 is just as bad if not worse.

>>18116480
>I would recommend you read the first 3 books and then drop it, you get a decent enough ending
Thank you, I guess I will do just that

Did the same with the Dark Tower series, read book 1-4 and then read up the rest with summaries now

I dont know if someone remembers my post or the answers to it, but holy fuck, people here were not kidding. It gets atrociously bad, glad I didnt force myself through it. The very ending itself isnt even that bad I guess, I could have enjoyed that, but everything leading up to it from book 5 onwards seems like one big pile of crap

>>18116432
diff anon here, there is no series i regret wasting my time with except wheel of time. it's the only thing i'd legitimately go back and un-read if i could.

>>18116480
>>18116429
>>18116349
>>18116394
You could just read the summaries for the bad books and then go on to actually reading the good ones.

When did the Lit-RPG Genre start/become so popular?

>>18116625
Japan, and if you are reading translated Japanese novels you should unironically

>>18116636
UNIRONICALLY WHAT?

>>18116709
the whole thing

>>18116625
>>18116636
>>18116713
Am I having an aneurysm?

>>18115551
yes, they are.
most of them are inundated with old cookbooks, autobiographies and random tat.
if your lucky you'll get a few beat up copies of classic novels you've already read.
but occasionally you can score big so its always worth a five minute look.

>>18116732
Yes. You've been in a coma for the past month. Wake up.

Ok reading the summaries i don't regret skipping the books. I hate how so much good content was sprinkled across a bunch of nothingness. I would like to get the full story but, for example, one chapters summary is just "eleyne convinces aviehnda to wear silk to meet the seafolk", how in hell that warrants a whole chapter i will never know.

Dare I ask... Is Wheel of Time... xianxia?

>>18115999
read the comment chain

>>18116010
It's very boring.

>>18116994
this

>setting with magic and dragons and ghosts
>people dont think gods are real
why is this so common? even in big stuff like GoT people arent entirely convinced

>>18117073
Tangible vs intangible

>>18117073
being an atheists is the new norm and if you believe good you can't get in the cool kids club.

Just read this. It was pretty comfy scifi progression novel. Better than Unsouled but not great overall. It has a lot of fights that i found boring. However I liked the setting and the story a lot!

>>18117146
I'm sure you did, Bryce.

What's the age range on this thing?

>>18117146
I'm 92% through this and found it overall average. It has effort put in, no doubt, but there are numerous instances where a lack of an editor is clear, formulaic repetitive character interactions, and it drones on and on. Gonna be bummed if the book really ends with Rei vs. that faggot

>>18117073
>magic ghost dragons are just flying over you ready to burn you and fuck you in the ass
>pray to the gods for salvation
>nothing happens

>>18117172
Would hiring an editor help self-publish books.

>>18117183
It would help in almost every case. The problem is it costs a lot, and as a new author you have to make limited choices on what you spend money on.

>>18115730
Seems like neither MAM, libgen or novanon have it yet. I have found it on mobilism though, one guy had it. Holy shit those OCH sites and their methods like uploadrar get dodgier and dodgier every year.

>>18117172
I agree with you 100%. I also found unreasonable anachronisms (such as a macarena reference out of the blue) and a few typos. I still liked it even though it's not a masterpiece. I hope the next book tell us more about the alien enemy race.

>>18116397
>and significant portions of them were dictated to an assistant from his deathbed
now thats dedication, someone should explain to GRRM how that works

>>18117228
Just dl it from #bookz. Git gud kid.

>>18116994
>>18117039
Is it really?
The goodreads reviews seem to suggest that it's pretty fun, in a misanthropic anti-hero sort of way.

>>18117073
>setting where dragons are tangible as grass
>people don't think this unseen thing is real
It makes perfect sense. Dragons are extraordinary to you because they're fake. If you lived in a world with dragons, they'd be scary as shit but they'd still be within the realm of "a real thing that can exist."

Unless the gods are out there granting miracles or walking the earth, what reason do you have to believe in that?

>>18117260
If you were an edgy teenager.

>>18113906
*anime book board

>>18117213
Aren't there websites for editors for hire for reasonable prices? Like Fiverr?

>>18117422
That question give the answer. Yes but You are gambling with the odds against you when you hire them.

>>18117317
I grabbed a fair chunk of the books off my grandad

>>18117073
>apples exist!
>therefore any imaginable fruit must exist!

>>18116020
Fortress Unvanquishable by Lord Dunsany; Zothique and Hyperborea series by Clark Ashton Smith; Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian.

>>18117688
>Zothique
Given that Clark Ashton Smith’s ‘Zothique’ stories were a clear influence on Jack Vance’s ‘Dying Earth’ series, it seems a little churlish that Vance once referred to Smith as a ‘very bad’ writer. Vance was quite right, of course (perhaps he was tired of comparisons being made): Smith’s writing is a triumph of style over substance, and his capacity for characterisation is limited. And yet his style is so outrageously ornate that it often transcends what it is describing, and characterisation is hardly essential to his project – indeed, it would detract from it. Human beings are just details in the tapestry.

It’s interesting to compare Smith and Vance: both affected an elaborate, colourful and deliberately archaic style, but Vance leavened his style with humour, narrative drive, humanity and a lightness of touch even at his most outrageous. For Smith, language was an end in itself. His orientalist fantasias are almost like pornography, in that they exist only to create an effect. Only in the pulps could Smith’s peculiar genius have flourished, freed from the constraints of ‘seriousness’, allowed to take any path it chose – as long as there was a ‘pay-off’...

>>18117800
New rec! Thank you!

Anyone wolfechads help me out here? In previous /lit/ threads people have always said that the claw's power was somehow the result of severian being able to wind back time to restore people or things to life, but reading this it seems to me the result of severian literally becoming the new sun, which somehow grants him the power to perform miracles. So are all the resurrections performed in the first 4 books the act of the future-sun severian traveling through time and resurrecting/helping his earlier self?

>>18117688
I've already read REH's Conan stories (most of them anyways), but I've been conflicted about CA Smith. I know him, Howard, and Lovecraft are the 'big-three' in early (non-English) fantasy and that they all influenced each other

Smith also doesn't have any cheap reprints currently available; most of Lovecraft's stories can be found in those Penguin paperbacks, and Howard's Conan stories have been reprinted by Del Ray, but for Smith all I can find are a single volume with some assorted stories and poetry, and some shitty reprints that are $15 a piece

>>18117855
>but for Smith all I can find are a single volume with some assorted stories and poetry, and some shitty reprints that are $15 a piece
get that

>>18117855
This is the biggest drawback with Smith. I had to pay a dumb amount to get a copy of one of his Zothique Ballantine publications and it's paper quality is pretty poor. That aside though I've thoroughly enjoyed every story in it so far.

>>18117869
which one? I don't want to pay $15 for an cheap oversized 300pg book. Pic rel is the assorted prose and poetry collection, and the cheapest I can find it is about $10 online. I also know that Penguins are usually pretty good quality so I'm going to think about picking this one up

>>18117885
Yeah, I've seen the books that collect all the stories from each cycle into one omnibus; those would be very nice to have but they're all very expensive.

>>18117927
>Pic rel is the assorted prose and poetry collection
That one.

>>18117268
>Unless the gods are out there granting miracles or walking the earth, what reason do you have to believe in that?
The Bible, being religious, or just personal preference.

>>18117169
Isn't that YA? I'll still read it, along with the Manga since it adds to the story.

>>18106200
Decided to buy a bunch of self-publish Science fiction and Fantasy novels. Pic related is my first, its a a sci-fi historical thriller. What am I in for?

>>18116349
told ya
>>18116432
I bolted out at book 8 too and I'd really advise against picking it up. The one good thing Jordan was good at was stringing the reader along with promises of things to come. And failing to deliver.

>>18116625
What is Lit-RPG genre?

>>18117842
The claw gets its power through time travel in that it is circular. It has power because it touched his blood, and his blood is holy, but his blood was only able to become holy because the claw enabled his journey. We see the entirety of Severain's existence as the New Sun. It doesn't last all that long, and he only meets himself as Apu Punchau. You can either go down the rabbit hole of splitting the timeline and trying to figure out which Briahs are referenced in the story - I think there are at least three, or something - or accept it for what Wolfe probably meant you to take it for, which is "God did it."

>>18117243
Dude was a total Chad. Rand's autistic refusal to hurt women that everyone complains about came from him gunning down a woman in vietnam. Unlike fantasy writers today he actually had some substantive experiences in his life to draw on.

>Some of it. I suppose, actually, that particular thing came from the only time I was really shaken in combat in shooting at somebody, or shooting AT somebody. I had to, uh, I was shooting back at some people on a sampan and a woman came out and pulled up an AK-47, and I didn't hesitate about shooting her. But that stuck with me. I was raised in a very old-fashioned sort of way. You don't hurt women—you don't DO that. That's the one thing that stuck with me for a long, long time.

>>18116625
Started to take off in America in 2015-16 or so. In Russia, five years earlier.

>>18118374
Thanks for the reply. One more thing. What happened the moment severian fell inside sidero and the autarch says to "find another"? I'm on my second read and I still don't understand what happens there. It seems he dies and resurrects himself, but by what means?

>>18118205
>I bolted out at book 8 too and I'd really advise against picking it up
Hmm, maybe I really should let it be then. Pic related says 1-4, but if 3 has somewhat of an ending as >>18116480 said I dont want to stop mid-story, again
Anything else you could recommend? I am considering Rothfuss, Bakker, Erikson or Donaldson from that list atm, someone also recommended me the Stormlight series last time
I really have a hard time choosing something after that Dark Tower journey, I really would like to thoroughly enjoy something again now

>>18118162
I got to wonder if they turn up a profit for those? It seems like a good way to make money.

>>18118673
>It seems like a good way to make money.
I know a few speculative science web serials that earn a pretty decent amount of cash. But then again, they're a niche to begin with, so fans would do their utmost to keep them going.

>>18117317
>>18117260
He's a good guy, he thought it was a dream and was kinda overwhelmed by getting his penis back, I also don't think the girl fought back too hard, who wouldn't want to fuck the hero of the Land. He then blames himself for that for the rest of the series.

>>18118738
>I also don't think the girl fought back too hard, who wouldn't want to fuck the hero of the Land.
Nigga, the woman was traumatized and even decades later, copes with the rape by living in some delusion that she and the hero were some couple.

anyone here read this series? It's pretty good

>>18118392
Sounds like a pathetic beta, a Chad wouldn't care.

>>18118746
They probably would be if he took it slower. Seriously though the 'rape' boils down to her being a prude and wanting to take it slower and him having none of that in the heat of the moment.

Demonheart by JJ Egosi is my fav series right now.

>>18118782
Why? I thought it was pretty meh.

>>18118755
Read the older one with male protagonist, it's entertaining enough.

>>18118738
Guy constantly fucks up. I wouldn’t even call him a hero. Just one in name only.

>>18118805
I had to look it up to refresh my memory, it's been years.
Series is called Sector General, first novel is Hospital Station by James White. I found it pretty imaginative and entertaining at the time, though I'm not sure how well it holds up.

>>18118819
Yeah but it was before that. She was wet for him, if he didn't force himself on her she would've spread her legs for him of her own free will.

>>18118839
Sounds like rape apologia. Doesn’t change the fact he was forceful, anon.

Does that book really start with the protagonist getting his penis back?

>>18118873
Yeah, he has leprosy or something.

In one of my grad classes, we had to read a biography about a guy who had some of his vision restored after going blind at 3. There is a detailed scene where he visually scans his wife's full anatomy the first night they fuck after he gets his sight back and all the girls in the class FREAKED

>>18118873
I think the story starts with him being shun or something, but what this anon says is true, >>18118878 the MC has leprosy and was overwhelmed in feeling something again.

>>18118871
I veered off topic. He raped someone in what he fought was a dream. At that point it's not a crime but some innocent fantasy.

>>18118498
The autarch's lineage demands that it pass itself on, remember? It's telling him that he needs to find someone else to take the alzabo and eat his brain because he knows he's about to die. I don't remember if the autarchy continues to live within him after that resurrection.

>>18118904
>At that point it's not a crime but some innocent fantasy.
>Innocent Fantasy
Did we really read the same story? That woman’s life was destroyed and not to mention the stigma the daughter faced.

>>18118888
What class was this? Shit sounds wild to be true.

>>18118873
It starts really great, the long descriptions of his illness were really something. After getting transported to another world, getting cured and then the rape it goes to shit. He keeps blaming himself, wallowing in sorrow and denying reality (his coping mechanism is pretending that it's all a dream, even weeks later and denying the existence of the Land). He's really reactive and weak willed.
Dropped it without finishing the first book so maybe it gets better, but it was so fucking dull.

>>18118913
Adv. Sensation and Perception
>tfw we spent half the semester on vision alone

>>18118923
>Dropped it without finishing the first book so maybe it gets better, but it was so fucking dull.
It doesn’t. That much, I can assure you.

>>18118906
Also IIRC he's possibly resurrected by the angel/ship/ship's captain/furball, that time. But it might also be the claw, or it might be the Hierodules. It might be that Sev is incapable of dying because he's one of the images they project, like when they conjured Malrubius and Triskele.

>>18118909
I mean from his point of view before he found out it wasn't a dream.q

>>18118927
Sounds wild as fuck. Was it great?

>>18118940
That doesn’t make it any better, anon.

New thread
>>18118952

>>18118943
It was a fun class, sure.
>learning about hearing
>textbook has a two-paragraph tl;dr at the end of the chapter

>>18118948
How so? You seriously think rape fantasy isn't any better than actually harming someone?

There are two new threads you dumb negroes.

>>18119067
I’m already on this one >>18118953

>>18116981
Your comment is not relevant.