/lit/ - Literature

Fang Yuan: "The road to immortality is paved by benefits."

Why not a science fiction fantasy related image?

What’s some fantasy that has realistic economic systems and autistic detail about political systems that isn’t GRRM?

>>18171249
Based

Brandon...

>>18171246
Jericho was awful, but Undying was a masterpiece. I played that game before I read any of his books, so I went and read his books expecting something like Undying.. I think that was one of the worst cases of hoodwinking I've ever experienced.

>TFW no fantasy novels with strong female warrior antagonist who would dom you in bed.
Why are western fantasy novels so shit compared to eastern Fantasy novels?

>>18171283
>Jericho was awful
I guess I really am the only one who liked it. Liked the characters and the premise of the team against paranormal threats even if it isn't particularly unique, but maybe it's mostly nostalgia since I played it a long time ago.

>>18171261
Baru Cormorant

There is more sci-fi that has that than fantasy though.

>>18171360
I did like the setting and the premise. I think it just had the misfortune of being made during the console shooter boom. Did you find if any of his books were like Jericho, even if it wasn't a direct adaption of any of them?

>>18171379
>Did you find if any of his books were like Jericho, even if it wasn't a direct adaption of any of them?
Nope, I admit I didn't look too hard either, but it's mostly reminiscent of wh40k Inquisitorial stuff (which I enjoy) but nothing where it's more rooted in the "contemporary world", not sure how to describe it but I guess Jericho is urban fantasy? I've read some Inquisition supplements and wiki entries for Vampire the Masquerade too and it somewhat helped me scratch that itch.

Finally finished Shadow Rising and now onto the Fires of Heaven. All I have to say that the ending for book 4 surprised me

>>18171379
Shit, I just now realized I misunderstood your question sorry, but I just didn't look to much into him because the rest of his stuff didn't look too appealing to me, he's sort of a Stephen King I think

Is World of Cultivation any good?

Is there any good story about vampires that came out in the last 20 years? Everywhere I look it's just female romance shit.

>>18171619
Probably? I haven't read it but it has good reviews.
Personally I just check here https://www.novelupdates.com/series-ranking/?rank=popular&org=495&rl=0
And work my way down from what seems interesting. Some can be entertaining despite not being less than 4* (I'll recommend Against the Gods to everyone just for the current arc).

>>18171724
blindsight and echopraxia ;)

>>18171742
Against the Gods is pretty great, BUT I would recommend anyone looking to start a webnovel to only read those that are Completed. Nothing is more frustrating than getting invested into a world and storyline only for there to be no conclusion.

Warlock of the Magus World is one I would highly recommend. AND it is completed.

>>18171724
The Lesser Dead
by Christopher Buehlman

>>18171724
Book of the Short Sun :^)

read swordheart by t kingfisher started same interesting and unorthodox, then turned into someones slow roleplay heavy dnd game full of simping

>>18172343
>Book of the Short Sun
that was more than 20 years ago.

>>18172358
Only a few months more. Also the vampires are cool

Is the entire Wheel of Time series just them visiting a bunch of inns?

>>18172502
Fantasy Michelin Guide

>>18171240
>WWOYM has a cool scifi OP
>/sffg/ has some horrifically translated gook picture-book

>>18172502
Truly the best fantasy series ever made.

>>18172555
>Nice trips
I swear dude they get to Caemlyn after visiting every inn in every town they've gone to and where do they go... straight to an inn. And he feels the need to describe each tavern and innkeeper like I care.

>>18164161
Read the first book but I wasn't very impressed sadly. Thanks anyhow.
>>18172502
They eventually start visiting palaces too.

>>18172502
Only the first book, which is the weakest one by far.

>>18172628
"Now that we have visited all the peasant eateries, we have been invited to a more luxurious eating experierence"

Can we post actual Science fiction and Fantasy images so the thread creators have an idea?

>>18172855
he just wants to "own" threads, he probably doesn't even post in here unless he gets (you)'d

>>18172855
I will never understand a purist mindset and their continual need to be reductive, Lovecraftian horror is fantasy, a subgenre of it, but fantasy nonetheless. I think its time you get with the times, anon.

>>18171240
Oh look he did it again. Yet another anime hololive picture vagely related to fantasy.

I thought /lit/ was about actual literature and not children’s picture books.

>>18172908
Lovecraft here is completely fine, horror for the most part is speculative fiction. I have no idea what anime has to do with it.

I thought these people have their own containment board.

The board topic is also lazy, you probably just pick one of anime girl pics and think how it could relate to fiction in any way.

>>18172967
Holy shit I actually went to google what hololive is. OP is literally watching people holo cosplay as some anime girl who plays Call of Cthulhu videogame or some shit.

OP do you actually read books?

>>18172967
>Lovecraft here is completely fine, horror for the most part is speculative fiction.
Then you should have no complaint about the OP
>I have no idea what anime has to do with it.
It's an illustration made in the Eastern style which features Lovecraftian elements, and is as relevant as a Western one. The only thing that triggers your inner Redditor is the fact that the picture is made in an "anime" style, which doesn't matter because it is still relevant to the topic of /sffg/.

>>18172908
Pretty shameful that so many people here are trying to silence discussion on things they don’t believe to fit their narrow definition of science fiction or fantasy. I just want to discuss Xianzia and litrpg

>>18172998
Do you actually watch shit like this https://youtu.be/q4xp4XvxAfY
And then return here with a sffg thread topic?
Jesus Christ

>>18173009
Probably because this is a lit board not an anime board. Anime is shit for emotionally stunted teens.

>>18173030
>Xianxia: Chinese fantasy influenced by Chinese mythology, Taoism, Buddhism, Chinese martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese folk religion and other traditional Chinese elements.

>LitRpg: is a literary genre combining the conventions of computer RPGs with science-fiction and fantasy novels.
Yeah, you can fuck off, those two genres can be talk and discuss here.

>>18173066
Chinkshit

>>18173066
NOOOOO BRADU EASTERN FANTASY IS JUST AS GOOD AS WESTERN BOOKS

>>18171261
You might like "The Flying Sorcerers" by David Gerrold and Larry Niven. Technically it is scifi but it deals a lot with magic and sorcery, and it is mostly about a system of economy that develops in a primitive alien society as a result of an unfortunate incident. Great read and very entertaining.

>>18173066
You can talk about xianxia just fine at least even if some autists don't like it. It IS fantasy and where it comes from doesn't matter.

>>18173066
Fuck off with your cringe and autistic fringe genre. No one wants to talk to you about litRBGs or whatever the fuck they are seems gay to me

>>18173066
Shhhh, you're triggering the Bakkerfags who hate anime and think this general is one of their subreddit where only their terrible faggy books written by a canuck leftist can be discussed

Is he the GOAT sci-fi writer?

>>18173143
No he's triggering people who have taste

>It doesn't matter if this board is for books, 4chan is an anime website, that means I'm going to make threads with anime OPs

>But I don't watch anime

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>>18171337
>posting manga on literature board
read something that's not a light novel for a change, please
also reminder that light novel is a misnomer, the correct term is pulp fiction because that is essentially what this type of fiction is, just instead of 50s pin-up girls on the cover you have anime whores

>That doesn't matter. If they're on 4chan they'll just have to learn to like anime. And they will learn to like it

>or they can go back

>I'm going to make the next thread

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>>18173247
Imagine being this mad you start spamming Marvel capeshit in a fit of söyfilled rage

>>18171240
Just finished the forever war
Loved it

>>18173257
>manga and anime somehow not for soys
Man, weebs have their brain completely fried. They consume the Japanese equivalent of American media which means they consume the Japanese equivalent of American propaganda but they somehow still think Japan is better despite pulling the exact same shit, doesn't do it which is a blatant lie to keep their worldview in check that Japan is always "special" or they just flat out don't realize it because the dogma that Japan is "cool and different" was so effectively planted in their brain via the same Japanese propaganda that they now defend.
And then they'll cry about China making anime and South Korea stealing Japan's spotlight with Kpop.

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B A S E D
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/csg/ chinkshit general

who is the omniman of fantasy?

Books for this feel? I've read the Hyperion Cantos, Altered Carbon and the Forever War which are the first that come to mind for me.

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>>18172998
There is a place for you and that is /a/ or /co/
/lit/ rules say that lit is for literature, specifically books, not cartoons or comic books.

>>18173257
that show was animated in korea just like your shonen and harem garbage

>we will never have space operas like this ever again.
What’s the point? I’m depressed thinking about it.

>>18172908
All of these op pictures are hololive related realize the op hasn't put a single manga/lightnovel character that doesnt involve hololive.

>>18172502
no, but kind of.

they visit a bunch of inns and then shit happens and then they visit a bunch of inns and then more shit happens and then the world ends/begins

it's complicated

>>18173639
I am pretty sure OP doesnt work a job. He watches hololive all day and manages to always come to these threads to defend his degeneracy doesnt matter is it morning or evening. He also scouts other threads of /lit/ and he has also ruined /wg/

Fuck E William Brown

So I finished the first Elric of Melnibone book and it was quite enjoyable, although I moved on to Fortress of the Pearl (opting for a chronological reading) and I find myself struggling to pay attention. It's my first real sword and sorcery series and so far FotP seems to just be a little dull despite the frequent bloodletting. Is this just the nature of S&S books? Should I be reassessing my expectations?

>Breathe, girl...!

>>18173784
Finally some quality posting

>>18173794
this thread is dogshit without bakker's incandescent brilliance

>>18173291
Notice that weebs can never refute this and their brain just short-circuits when you let them peak behind the curtain

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>>18173835
yes... yes... let the bakkerposting flow through you. i can feeeel your hatred.

HOW.
I HATE.
THIS THREAD.

Any novels, particularly web novels and self-publish novels, that has one continuous multi-generation protagonist?

Like for, example, the Mc from the first novel has a son that’s the MC of the second novel.

>two based bakkerposters surveying the animetranny chinkshit hordes before we bring death swirling down upon them in minecraft

>>18173848
stop trying to derail the thread, phoneposter and animeposter

>>18173848
>particularly web novels
Why do you want to read something written by a Japanese high schooler that was machine translated most likely?

>>18173864
You do know there’s western web novels, right?

I need me some fantasy/sci fi with goblins and gremlins...

>>18173875
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/4293/the-iron-teeth-a-goblins-tale

>>18173875
Anyone else feeling these posts are pure spam. I've been seeing too many similar posts.
>Random image with phone poster image name
>Is there fantasy/scifi with X

>>18173879
>RR
I’ve tried so many times to like the stuff on here but I can’t. Publishing industry may be a lot of things but at least it’s a retard filter. I’ll check this out though.

>>18173866
you know that i know that that's not what you are talking about when you post animepicture which is also fetish bait, right?

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>>18173848
Fuck off with your /a/. This is so much like the spam post I was talking about in >>18173888

>>18173889
I think the problem is trying to find the hidden gems that are hiden. I found Mother of Learning by chance and I’m currently engrossed in it. Hope I helped you.

>imagine fucking an elf and she lays you an egg

>>18173920
stop posting degenerate shit
look at the fucking book description and the author https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19276376.Marvin_Whiteknight

>>18173937
Have a little self awareness. This is a degenerative website by default.

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>>18173920
why do you shitpost your own thread? I have my eye on the poster count

Any good morally grey fantasy stories? I heard eragon was one, but are there any others?

>>18173953
Now you changed your IP? Stop your anime shit

>>18173946
It’s not my fucking thread, O little Anon. I read capital L Literature like Pound and Joyce, but it’s exhausting... I’ve been bingeing Berserk for half a week to sate my power fantasies because I’ve become emasculated by University and need to feel like a real man. Honestly haven’t read much SFF at all since highschool when I loved Pratchett.

>>18173963
So normal books are exhausting to you and you binge manga? Imagine my shock
https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Over-an-Anime-Addiction

>>18173977
My supervisor makes me read an ungodly amount of pozzed Marxist swill. I don’t think you’d want to. My program is in Literature but he’s making me read stuff that has nothing to do with that.

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>>18173944
Wanna respond to this >>18173291 ?

>>18174004
Oh no you poor soul are in a university and you have to do stuff you would not like to do? You can skip the university, change program or do something else but PLEASE can you not post manga/anime/other similar degenerate stuff here in /sffg/?

>>18173953
A song of ice and fire, but that’s low-Fantasy, so I don’t know if you will like that.

>>18174015
I think Japan is an unironically terrible place and I don’t support the upcoming war with China or Russia for that matter. I just like the aesthetics of Berserk.

>>18174033
Why are you trying to emulate conversations? Literally just a bunch of (You)s.

>>18174018
But the onus is on YOU to show manga and anime is degenerate when you read fucking Bakker (an autistic dude who makes edgy teen tropes) and Wolfe (who did sexual fan service and edgy sadistic teen tropes) who are the cream of the crop of a degenerate kitsch of low cultural schlock.

>>18174058

This was already posted >>18173291

>>18174077
>diverts from my point that SFF is already low and vulgar culture
Nice.

>>18174077
Why do you keep quoting your own terrible post attention whore anon? Nobody responded to it because of second-hand embarrassment at your brainlet attempt at argumentation.

>>18174096
I didn't make the post. It was made by someone else very based.

You can't respond to it because it would reveal your disgusting anime addiction.

Go back to /a/ or /co/ to post comic books.

>>18174123
This is like someone with Down’s syndrome thinking they’re better than someone with progeria. SFF is as fruitless and schlocky as comics or manga.

So is this just one anon derailing the thread? I’m not following what’s happening.

>>18174096
I referenced my own post exactly one time, those were other posters but of course animelowlives like you think that anything that challenges their retarted worldview is some kind of conspiracy.
Do you get paid by the Japanese government to shill for anime and manga which is their only relevant cultural export nowadays? No? You do it FOR FREE.
You simp for a country of bugmen who consider you below them because you aren't from their inbred island and their biggest cultural export is pedophile inspired comics. Even kids anime in the 80s had hentai and lolicon crossovers. You simp for a country of degenerates.

>>18174157
>retarted
Are you ESL or white trash?

>>18174156
Fuck off with your anime fetish bait image. This is at maximum two anime posters in total. One is a chinkshit loving degenerate and the other is OP that will always post anime pics and he will also pretend to be a new poster with posts but of course you know this because I am talking about you

>>18174179
I genuinely think you need help, anon. Why don’t you get off the internet and go outside. This is bad for your mental health.

>>18174179
Make that three... together animeanons?

>>18174156
>posts picture of generic anime whore #1000000 on literature board
>claims someone else is derailing

>>18174176
I am ESL because unlike you anime-obsessed burger I speak several languages and my literature degree focuses on spanish lit

>>18174195
>Spanish lit
Literally nothing of value there. Do it in English next time and focus on the Modernists. Even Nicanor Parra translated his poems into English because he knew it was more based.
>t. Monoglot chad

>>18174194
Four
>>18174195
>spanish lit
Every time it's some kind of spic trying to be more Hitlerian than a German with some moral grandstanding

You try and teach weebs that they are no better than Westerners who fall for American propaganda when they fall for Japanese propaganda and their brain shortciruits and they have exactly nothing to refute your point but just continue posting more generic anime whores

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>>18174207
Make it five.

pls rec me some sffs with dog companions

>>18174207
Not four or three. Just you and the chinkshit guy. You need to change IPs more

>>18174221
I Am Legend

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>>18174221
Fuck off OP

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>>18174221
Why do you samefag this hard?

>>18174225
anime no bueno, ayayay taco burrito

Anybody read this? I've read a lot of Wolfe and was thinking about checking out this series.

>>18174221
A Boy and His Dog or The Shadow of The Torturer

>>18174147
I agree

Let the anime posters post if they read SFF, or even if they don't, you can just ignore them

>>18174234
Literal schizo. Even if you watched the poster count it went to 46 when he posted.

Take. Your. Meds.

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>>18174207
I am not a spic, I am Italian living in Italy you absolute lowlives. But sure, studying international literature is so worthless. Obviously studying acclaimed and indie phantastic Spanish literature is less fruitful than reading generic harem isekais written by nip high schoolers with too much time through shitty machine translations.
Reading LoGH will NEVER make you an intellectual if you are this close minded and also this much of a braindead, brainwashed coomer who violently rejects the opportunity to look behind the curtain of propaganda and realize he has been the victim of Japanese propaganda.

>>18174248
Dog you're in the SSFG, what are you doing? You have a literature degree and speak several languages and you are probably arguing with children, what brought you to this thread in the first place?

>>18174248
>studying foreign literature instead of his own
You've obviously fallen for spic degeneracy, open your eyes my tawny friend

>>18174248
>indie phantastic Spanish literature
Sounds fucking dreadful. I hope you’re not paying money for that.
>Italian
That’s not so bad. Do you know the Bookchemist personally?

I’m gonna make /wsffg/ when I get out from gym. I’m not gonna watch this shit show. If the anime fags don’t go to their containment boards, this shall be their containment thread

>>18174276
He’s likely too retarded to read his own Italian literature like Dante, Pentrarca, Ariosto, etc., which is really sad

>>18173619
did you like the books? did you watch the show too?

>>18174326
Only read the first three. And I was thinking of watching the show, but the old anime is super long and I don’t know if I will have time to watch it.

>>18174339
it's not a race, take it easy. watch the two movies first and you can skip the first two or three episodes

>posting capeshit to own the animefags
oh dear

What is the most NTR/Cuckold heavy fantasy series?

>>18174363
Any book written by Bakker.

>I wonder if the translation of pic related has progressed

https://www.moutons-electriques.fr/english-1

>First chapters available in English translation

Fuck

>>18174363
Kingkiller Chronicles

>>18174363
Warded man

>>18174363
Your diary desu

>>18174297
aye

>>18174394
cant believe its nearing on 10 years since the last book

Is there a trashy self-published fantasy novel for men, like pic-related, but with a comfy monogamous romance instead of harem and explicit sex scenes?

>>18174412
Rothfuss got high off of all the praise he got from the first book and rushed to release the second one to keep the hype-train going, and when it turned out to be shit and people started to realize that he wasn't literary fantasy god they made him out to be, he got depressed and decided to focus on other things instead of releasing the third book, which is why he gets pissed off and WingsOfRedemption'd anybody who mentioned the third book on his twitch streams

>>18174427
No

>>18174427
No, next question

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>>18174443
Hold on, now. That was a bit hasty. Are we SURE there isn't one?

>>18174448
>Are we SURE there isn't one?
Yes

>>18173963
read bakker

>>18174297
Based. The recent assault by transgendered animeniggers has turned our once glorious thread into an absolutely degraded shithole. The cancer must be excised.

>>18174459
https://en-gb.bakker.com/blogs/indoor-plants/playing-with-greenery-in-smaller-spaces-at-home

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for. Do you have any other suggestions about gardening in a small apartment? I live in a zone 8b area and have a big southern facing window so I get a lot of sun (when it's not overcast)

>>18174467
where the fuck did all this Bakker fan art come from? Do we have some artfags here who are also /Bakkerbros/???

>>18174478
did you miss the Great Bakker Ordeal of December-February, anon? How glorious it was.... before the vile hordes of shrieking animetrannies overran the citadels of the few and the proud, drowning us in their chinkshit, salty tears, and literary butchery.

>>18174492
Truth shines!

I just finished the first part of the Foundation trilogy. It's interesting for historical reasons, but I didn't love it. Too unfocused, the narrative jumps all over the place every few chapters and the characters are hardly introduced.
Is it worth sticking with it and finishing the thing?

>>18174677
Sure, unless you have something better you want to read

>>18174684
next up would be Dune or Hyperion. Trying to power through sci-fi classics

>>18174677
Shit is way outdated so it's not required imo. More politics than sci-fi

>>18174700
Haven't read Hyperion, read Dune twice though. Have you read anything from Wolfe or Le Guin? They get away from some of the bad habits that bog down other SF writers

>>18174736
No I haven't. I am trying to get into SF by reading these classics. My only introduction to the genre were Star Wars EU books when I was a kid. hence me trying to read some more sophisticated books within the genre

>>18174748
Try Bakker. If you don’t get filtered then you are probably ready for anything.

>>18174677
The series is actually a collection of short stories collected into a trilogy. No wonder you thought it was unfocused, going into it without knowing about it.
>and the characters are hardly introduced.
That's Asimov for you. Characters isn't his focus, society is. Most his stories are like "how would a society like this work" or "what would this society react to this..." He does have some character focused stories, but most of them are like that.
>Is it worth sticking with it and finishing the thing?
If you want to. Perhaps now that you know what to expect you may enjoy it better. The next book is just two short stories. The later one, The Mule, is one of my favorites tbqh.

>>18174700
>Trying to power through sci-fi classics
That's several tens of books.

>>18174748
Then I'd read Phillip K Dick, Gene Wolfe, or Le Guin. You might not like it, but I'd say these are the best bridges between "serious" lit and SciFi. Still enmeshed in the schlock, but manages to break the mold sometimes

Haven't read Bakker, but I'm very tempted to say I'll never read it because all the posters I've seen are dicks

>>18174748
Why start with them though? You can choose from Wells, Burroughs, Larry Niven, Karl Chapek, Bradbury, Zelazny, Lem, C S Lewis, and that's just the ones I remembered off the top of my head. Find the authors you like more and use that as a gateway.

>>18174849
I had the ones I listed lying around at home, so I figured why not. They seem to be popular and well-received.

>>18174867
Well, yeah. But Dune and Foundation are not exactly easy reads.

>>18174882
that's fine, they don't have to be. I'll stick with it after seeing this post >>18174771

thanks everyone for commenting, I'll keep notes of your responses and suggestions.

>>18173754
>the first Elric of Melnibone
which one? pic related is the first I read but I just read a couple stories and noticed the timeline is mixed and researched the chronology

>(opting for a chronological reading)
which one?
https://disparatedan.github.io/listicles/ElricKindleReadingGuide.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9#Internal_chronology
I'm doing a mix of these.

> I find myself struggling to pay attention. It's my first real sword and sorcery series and so far FotP seems to just be a little dull despite the frequent bloodletting.

Strange, I find them exciting yet short. Got hooked on since the first thing I read.

> Is this just the nature of S&S books? Should I be reassessing my expectations?
This is my first one (isn't it technically "dark fantasy"?) So I can't answer, but I can say it's related to pulp-fiction so you have that.

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New /wsffg/ general >>18175146

>>18174882
Dune felt easy to read. Especially when you're recommending Wolfe instead.

>>18171249
I got to the point where he went to northern plains and it's just dragging, the whold san sha mountain I to probably fast forward 1/3 of it. Now because he moved to a different area his cultivation was restricted by a level, what the fuck random shit is this?

>>18175489
thats what you get for reading chinkshit

>>18174427
Yeah, but you got to search for it.

>>18175519
there is no sjw crap, I don't think there was even a single sex scene, chickshit is superior to western trash where the whole story is based around women and sex scenes.

>>18175581
kys chang

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>>18175802
This picture always reminds me of the guy who seethed over Hugo awards a year or so back. I miss the little fag.

>>18174221
death gate cycle
>>18174297
wow COOL then we can have TWO threads where nobody talks about books!! don't forget to make the thread on >>>/trash/ so the rest of your newfag herd can be corralled over into the correct containment board

>>18175155
Serious question;
Why doesn't someone just make a /Light Novel General/?
Wouldn't that be better, rather than having all these other threads getting infected and then having 20 of the same 'no fun allowed' generals?

>>18176150
They get talked about in /a/ from what I've seen.

>>18176150
Why do we need 'light novel' general when a typical 'light novel' meets /sffg/ requirements and often exceeds them, while typical western sjw trash is allowed on /lit/ and not even banned on sight?

>>18176212
becuase any depictions of chinese cartoons hurt my feelings amd I can't enjoy my latte in peace with my fellow western fantasy appreciators

>>18176245
>>>/wsffg/

>>18176401
It is funny how they shit up this General and try to play the victim.

>>18176150
We don’t need a new General just because some anti-anime fags get their panties tied in some knot

>>18171249
Is this story actually good? I keep seeing it being shilled here and I want to read it. Or is it just one big meme?

>>18176557
typical chinese xanxia hero story, but writing is very good

>>18176681
Where can I read it? Or what’s it name?

>>18176782
https://novelfull.com/reverend-insanity/chapter-1.html
Or download
https://ebookfree.me/download-ebook/reverend-insanity.html

>>18176814
Thanks. I’ll give it a read when I get home.

>>18171240
Yo, I asked this in its own thread, but since this is more active: do you guys know of any maybe lesser-known fantasy with unique, interesting settings? Something less derivative.

>>18176858
City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch. Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council. Fafhrd and Gray Mouser

Need help with suggestions. I feel like I've read all the most popular series and can't find anything to hook me anymore. I just don't feel anything with that oomph that makes you keep reading

What I enjoyed: stormlight, WoT, realm of elderlings, kingkiller, books of babel, that one series with the guy who calls wolf's or something about drum beats and fire princess that gets a burned face, lightbringer, cradle, a song of fire and ice

What I dropped: riyria, king of thorns (dropped after 2nd book), first law (dropped after second book), codex alexia (after like 3rd book), Thomas covenant (halfway through book one, not sure if I want to continue), malazan (dropped after book 3, I honestly want to continue reading, but I've forgotten so much but still remember most the main events so it'll be a torture rereading it while knowing what's going to happen)

>>18177086
Is there anything in particular you want so we can narrow down our suggestions?

>>18173151
the most prescient, methinks

>>18177098
Well I suppose I enjoy character driven stories, similar to my enjoy list I guess? I also liked the enders saga, read them all except the side stories of bean. Emotional Rollercoaster are nice too, if a book can make me cry manly tears that's a plus.

>>18177086
Powder mage
Fire and sword
Tractors blade
A cavern of black ice
Psalms of isaak
Herald of the storm
Child of fire
The devil you know by mike Carey

>>18177128
Traitor’s blade*

>>18177128
I've seen powder mage recommended a lot, but people said the third book is weak, so I never started it. Like Anthony Ryan's ravens shadow series and lightbringer series the last book kinda killed it.
Might not be as bad as I think though

>>18173449
tfw you just wanted a rec and the thread was taken over by shitposting

>>18177180
It’s not a terrible ending, it just has too many threads to tie up so it feels rushed. There’s worse endings out there.

>>18177198
I may give it a go, it's been a while since I've felt the rush of marathoning a good series. Perhaps this will scratch that itch

>>18171543
You're just about to enter the doldrums.

>>18173009
Oh go and light yourself on fire, ya martyr.

>>18174176
Don't do this here.

>>18177086
Bernhard Hennen's The Elves is absolute kino

>>18174221
March Upcountry featuring dogzard.

>>18177416
I hope your not lying. I've been dissappinted too many times now

>>18174677
>unfocused, the narrative jumps all over the place every few chapters and the characters are hardly introduced.
This is its greatest strength. The next two are more focused narrative but I think you've been filtered.

>>18171249
>>18176814
Started reading it and so far, I’m liking it. Thanks for the recommendation. Going to be a long read.

>>18171261
Spice and wolf.

>>18171619
Yes I liked it and finished it
It’s not a long story

>>18173066
Kowtow three times and cut off your hands and I’ll spare your nine generations, ant

>>18176557
I didn’t like it, dropped it a couple chapters in

>>18177779
What didn’t you like about it? Still trying to get into xianxia and I want to know if there’s some pitfalls.

>>18177819
Check out Dragon Heart series. It is written by a russian and is more "western". Also it is considered litrpg but after reading it I can say it definitely falls under wuxia category. If you want to get into wuxia/xanxia it is a good start, Reverend insanity is also good but it is much harded and darker series.

>>18177861
Will do, but I really don’t care about the western label. Don’t know why you had to put emphasis on that.

>>18177819
Just didn’t seem to hit the spot
Demon dao shit

I liked library of heavens path, it’s a comedy and finished
I like A Record of a Mortals Journey to immortlity, not finished yet but it’s 2 chaps a day, and 2160 already translated, so it’ll be done soon
I liked Seized by the System, comedy salted fish protag
I liked Seeking the Flying Sword Path
I like Cultivation Chat Group
I really liked World’s Best Martial Artist but the translation stopped like 500 chapters in so that sucks
You got the staples like Renegade Immortal or Desolate Era, Martial World, Perfect World, Immortal Mortal, Battle Through the Heavens, A Will Eternal, etc

You can’t go by rating of stories on sites like novelupdates because for some insane reason there are animals who rate everything gay, female protag, or harem high as fuck

>>18177940
>>18177762
>>18177861
how do these compare to cradle (the only one ive read of this genre)?

>>18177940
>You can’t go by rating of stories on sites like novelupdates because for some insane reason there are animals who rate everything gay, female protag, or harem high as fuck
Jesus Christ, I thought this shit would filter them out, but it appears not.

>>18177984
I didn’t even read the most recent cradle book and feel very little interest in continuing it
Part of that is the delay between books though

>>18178010
what xianxia series do you think its universally accepted as one of the best?

>>18178020
Depends what you want out of a story, do you want comedy? Light hearted ness? Tragedy? Modern day ? Gamelit shit? Etc

>>18178030
Not that anon, but you are the expert here.

>>18178030
i assumed xianxia was all cultivation type of novels. i dont know how good comedy in xian xia would be, but seems like it wouldnt be that good. i guess something with action or leveling, fantasy, probably not comedy.

Kallor is kind of a bad ass, ngl

Just started Ringworld and it’s surprisingly fun. I thought it was going to be autistic like Clarke or Asimov but it reminds me of Culture series—or is it the other way around?

>>18173230
>also reminder that light novel is a misnomer, the correct term is pulp fiction because that is essentially what this type of fiction is, just instead of 50s pin-up girls on the cover you have anime whores
Sothe kind of novels that make up fantasy and science fiction.

/sffg/, what can you recommend that's surreal and comedic? Preferably raunchy as well, but not something that treats strangeness with a sense of revulsion

>>18173066
Xianxia is fine, litrpg is pathetic and boring but it's still theoretically literature. Manga pages or God forbid eceleb whores are NOT literature. We have boards for both (/a/ and /vt/ respectively), fuck off there if you want to discuss that.

>>18178182
Knock yourself out.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/surreal-humour

>>18178091
>assblasted for all eternity by the gods
>badass
I'm only on book 9 but I doubt Kallor is going to become suddenly more palatable or interesting in the final arc.

>>18178125
>reminds me of Culture series
How so? Is Ringworld even post scarcity?

>>18178401
Yes

>>18177861
There’s a lot of bad reviews, should I be worried.

>>18172502
the inns are unironically the best part.

>>18172502
I didn’t even there was a plot until the final book.

>>18174427
Go search this shit on Amazon. Just bought me a couple of trashy superhero harems and shit.

>>18174244
I've only read the first one and it was pretty good. I feel like you'd get a lot more out of it if you're intimately familiar with Greek mythology and history, which I'm not.

>>18178182
I wish I could find more like John Dies at the End, or that David Wong would make writing his fulltime job

New Eastern SFF thread
>>18179134

>>18174244
>The Shadow of The Torturer
a bit disingenuous, unless it comes back in the 5th book?

>>18174299
>He’s likely too retarded to read his own Italian literature like Dante, Pentrarca, Ariosto, etc., which is really sad
Not sure whether you're aware or not, but I get the impression from your post that you're a bit retarded. You're like the guys who say "I'm a jazz connoisseur, miles davis..., the list could go on"
The dude is studying Spanish lit in Italy, he's above you probably, that's it, no need to flex.

>>18174427
would you ever show that cover to anyone irl?

>>18174677
>Foundation trilogy
I've only read two so far but it's pretty neat for a light read isn't it? I think the guy was only 21 and he wrote it, too, so keep that in mind if that helps.

>>18179173
>Italy
I go to a top 1% institution as an English lit PhD, studying actual literature, not some indie “phantasy” written by an Iberian.

>>18179177
>flexing again

>>18179185
You’re the one sucking his dick because he’s an anti-Japanese schizo. Have some reflection.

>>18179194
?
I love isekai anime and I read light novels too, I'm only helping you have some reflection, ironically...

>>18179177
Feel bad for your uni

>>18179222
>I love isekai anime
cringe
>and I read light novels too
giga cringe

Reminder that this is the real thread and not that Eastern vs Western garbage.

>>18179140
No, I’ll rather discuss eastern fantasy and science fiction novels here.

>>18179227
I feel bad that no one will ever remember you for anything, especially nothing literary, because you’re such a loser you couldn’t get into a top institution.

>>18179140
Nope /sffg/ is the universal thread for fantasy of all kind, it's only you poltards who blew a gasket over eastern works being discussed here. You should also ask for genetic testing before posting in /wsffg/ by the way, there's at least one (1) non-white Italian in there.

>>18171249
Finished book 5, won't start book 6 since it isn't finished and don't want to be left hanging before the grand finale.
I'm impressed with his world building and cultivation mechanics it's well thought out and never feels too bullshit. If I had to nitpick one tiny thing it would be the constant repeats of information, he could tone that down a bit.

The interactions between Red Lotus and Duke Long + the backstories that relate to them is easily my favorite part of the novel.

>>18179414
I always wondered why they try to be reductive when it comes fantasy and science fiction.

>>18179444
Book 6 is very fun even if it's not completed. The author has said he wants to finish it, but who can know for certain? He's writing other stories now, and it's going to be difficult for him to continue. RI has basically been purged off the Chinese internet because the author parodied certain Chinese leaders and Fang Yuan's own morality, or lack of.

In book 6 there are a lot of other great backstories as well. I'm certain you'd love them.

I've always found Thieving Heaven to be very interesting, and more of his backstory comes forth in book 6.

As for Duke Long? One cannot help but feel both sympathy and rage at his conduct. What he did to Dragonkin... At the same time he kept true to his beliefs in Heavenly Court.

>>18179532
You could never unterstand why they have a purist mindset.

>>18179736
I don't want to understand, I just find their purist mindset to be counter-productive and idiotic.

>>18178589
No, it is pretty good, read it

>>18179736
>purist
you mean autistic

Literally just finished Andy Weir's new book Project Hail Mary. Good. Very much in the style of The Martian.

>>18178125
Be wary of the sequels unless you're into giantess fucking.

>>18179177
They'll kick you out if they find you here.

>>18179816
Same thing at this point.

>>18179177
>I go to a top 1% institution as an English lit PhD

Post thesis title.

>>18178087
>i dont know how good comedy in xian xia would be, but seems like it wouldnt be that good.
>he doesn't know
To be fair you can only really enjoy A Will Eternal if you've read a few novels and get how the author plays with the tropes, but it's really one of the best stories I've read.

Like the other guy said, you can go with the staples : Renegade Immortal, I shall seal the heavens, Desolate Era, Martial World...Coiling Dragon is the novel that made xianxia popular in the west some years ago if you're interested but I didn't like it that much.
They're all finished and have proved their worth overtime. They're also all what you'd expect from cultivation novels, without any big twist on the formula. Don't just pick some random shit from Webnovel.
When you feel like you want something more lighthearted I recommend A Will Eternal.

>>18179821
Would you recommend it?

>>18178188
/thread

>>18179372
anon...
I have bad news for you...

>>18178188
Litrpg can be good. Check out The Legendary Mechanic and get back to me.

>>18180024
They won't listen, they're set in their ways.

>>18180024
>The Legendary Mechanic
Han Xiao, one of 《Galaxy》's greatest mechanics, is thrown back in time a whole year before the public beta opens as an NPC in the game. Not only is he an NPC, however, but he also keeps with him his cheat-like player status screen.

>>18180108
Sounds pretty based.

>>18180108
How is he the legendary mechanic when he's merely cheating in an mmo?

>>18180094
>>18180024
I've checked out way too many 'good' litrpg. You fucks have no taste. Still, since I'm crazy enough to still come here I'll probably try this one too.

>>18180149
Anon, stop asking too many questions.

>>18180169
I just want to read stories that are fun and light-hearted.

>>18179972
Has there ever been western Xianxia web novels?

>>18180204
Several western forums have tried to varying degrees. But they’re awful.

>>18174208
stfu tranny

>>18180225
What? They interject some politically correct mindset?

>>18180249
Just ignore them.

>>18179821
Never read Martian, is it good or overhyped.

>>18180276
Not that anon, but I've read it.

The book moves at a good pace, and has the standard riveting appeal of man against nature, and lost in the wild themes.

However, Andy Weir's bad science become a sever distraction all through the book. Space establishments filled to 1 atmosphere with nitrogen in there, 28,000kph vs 720kph turbulence comparisons missing the 1% atmosphere, Potatoes in space (really?!!), microwaving food that already got freeze-dried, statements like figuring out longitude requires precise time. Then the RTG is in the trailer, and yet he's fine after the roll-over, and for that matter, at one point the RTG keeps up with just the rover with some insulation ripped up, but at another point the RTG covers the rover, the trailer, and the really-awful bedroom tent! I think I am really glad the movie-makers ripped out a lot of it. There is perhaps a reason good authors (like Isaac Asimov) hand-wave over parts of science when they know the science is sketch; this author on the other hand goes on to blunder through precise descriptions which detract from the story. And therefore, compared to the movie, what is "additional" in the book is really all bad.

I will say however, that it is a fast paced read - a good airplane novel.

>>18180288
So it’s another author trying to do hard science when he should be doing soft science instead? Scientists should really start writing more scifi novels.

>>18180169
>I've checked out way too many 'good' litrpg
What are there names? So I can read them myself.

>>18171337
Did Dragon ball multiverse web novel get an update?

>>18173232
>>18173238
>>18173247
You're a sad little man.

>>18180365
Anon, this is just getting pathetic as this point.

>>18180372
Do you get paid to post Holoshit across 4chan, or are you just one of those autists who needs to force the shit you like into every conversation?

>>18180225
>But they’re awful.
Yeah, no shit, I expect their stories to have a western point of view and not eastern.

>>18180250
You can't polish a turd.

>>18180382
you can and it's probably beautiful in the end

>>18180382
Why the hate for Xianxia? It's a fun read.

>>18180389
Name a few, not that anon, but I want to read some.

>>18180389
Is English your second language or something?

>>18180396
>He should strive for perfect grammar.

>>18180391
It hardly qualifies as literature and is exactly the kind of trash that makes sci-fi and fantasy look bad. Genre fiction of any kind is cancerous.

>>18173257
>>18173488
>Marvel capeshit
>there is a place for you
It’s fantasy!
>>18180365
Where’s the lie?

>>18180402
Whom are you quoting?

>>18180421
Back to /jp/.

>>18180429
What does that have to do with my post?

>>18180407
Anon, sci-fi and fantasy are supposed to be read for fun, they aren't literature and everyone in the literature looks down of them.

>>18180432
You know why.

>>18180438
>sci-fi and fantasy are supposed to be read for fun
Says who?

>>18180445
Everyone. Holy shit are you dense?

New thread

>>18180454

>>18180438
>they aren't literature and everyone in the literature looks down of them.
kek

>>18180438
correct
makes me think about people who claim that hentai is art, or video games are sports, lmao

>>18180408
>Where’s the lie?
>>18180456

>>18172502
You forgot the braid tugging, skirt smoothing, and ear boxing.

>>18180276
Both.

>>18180169
>I've checked out way too many 'good' litrpg.
Which ones?

>>18180500
These threads are dead, at this point it's just schizos replying to each other so that they can get to bump limit and rush to make a new thread.
Conversations shouldn't just stop the moment a new thread is made.