/lit/ - Literature

Fuck genre fiction

>>18245298
>tfw when conquered thousands of planets with rapine and butchery
>tfw when crash landed on this shitty rock called eärwa
>tfw when your qt 3.14 cabin mates died in arkfall
>tfw have to get grafted
>tfw have to deal with this sorcery shit
>tfw still damned after all these years

i n i t i a t e
s e q u e n c e
r e s u m p t i o n

>>18245298
You're fucking stupid. Sffg on lit just means book sff. Limiting it to western genre fic is autism.

>>18245305
You need to calm down

>>18245298
>Wojack OP
You’re what’s wrong with /lit/.

>>18245298
Pretty cool pic

>>18245298
>Last thread didn't even reached 200 posts
>past threads are barely kept alive with bumpposts
So you're still intent in forcing this even though everyone can see its a failure?

Top 30 recommended authors and their works so far in /wsffg/ in descending order. In total 114 different authors have been recommended and I have logged 223 recommendations in total.

Gene Wolfe
>Book of the New Sun
>Fifth Head of the Cerberus
>Soldier of the Mist
R. Scott Bakker
>The Second Apocalypse
Glen Cook
>The Black Company
>The Dread Empire"
Frank Herbert
>Dune
David Eddings
>The Belgradiad
>Malloreon
>Elenium
Steven Erikson
>Malazan Book of the Fallen
Roger Zelazny
>The Chronicles of Amber
>Lord of Light
Patrick Rothfuss
>The Kingkiller Chronicles
J.R.R. Tolkien
David Gemmell
>Legend
>Wolf in Shadow
Andrzej Sapkowski
>The Witcher
Robert E. Howard
>Conan the Cimmerian
Joe Abercrombie
>The First Law
Isaac Asimov
>The Gods Themselves
Michael Moorcock
>Elric
Scott Lynch
>Gentlemen Bastard
>The Lies of Locke
Jack Vance
>Dying Earth
>Lyonesse Trilogy
Clark Ashton Smith
>Zothique
Robert Jordan
>The Wheel of Time (YA)
Ursula K. Le Guin
>The Left Hand of Darkness
William Hope Hodgson
>The Night Land
Fritz Leiber
>Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
>Ill Met in Lankhmar
Raymond E. Feist
>The Riftwar Cycle
>Krondor's sons
John Norman
>Tarnsman of Gor
Jim Butcher
>The Dresden Files
Brandon Sanderson
>Cosmere (YA)
Tad Williams
>Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Robert E. Heinlein
>Starship Troopers
>The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Alfred Bester
>The Stars my Destination
>The Demolished Man
Jorge Luis Borges
John Crowley
>Aegypt

>>18245341
>frogposting
Yup, no hope in saving you now.

Threadly reminder to read Bakker. Start with The Darkness That Comes Before. The Second Apocalypse series is part of the modern /wsffg/ canon. Not understanding Bakker memes renders you blind to most of the relevant discussion that goes on here.

>>18245351
Why not just change the name of the General to something about Bakker if that’s all you’re going to discuss.

>>18245325
It filtered itself to death. A better flag would just be sffg "actual lit edition".

>>18245357
We got /sffg/ for that.

>>18245351
Discussion is a generous word for it

>>18245351
>discuss
>genre fiction

>>18245392
Are you still in high school?

>why aren't you reading Bakker anon?

>>18245411
>3.5 billion women on Earth
>Bakkerposters can only convince a single solitary one to touch their shitty series

>>18245361
people there dont read, especially not actually good works

wsffg is a step in the right direction, but with its head severely deep in its ass, just like most wojak posting retards.

>>18245443
We need to bring back the monthly group read book to encourage people to actually read and discuss what they read

>>18245438
One nice girl in cute lingerie > 10k neurotic YA whales

>>18245443
>people there dont read
>especially not actually good works
So which is it? Do they read or do they not read?

>>18245464
Only reading good works is actually reading, reading being an attempt to actually absorb and understand the content.

>>18245464
They read, but they also want to discuss different books rather then have the same repetitive discussion like on /wsffg/.

>>18245448
Would you like a /wsffg/ reading group to Goodreads then?

>>18245341
Add wizard knight for Wolfe. It's his best work by far

>>18245525
im interested

>>18245310
Sorry

>>18245397
I am high, not in school

Absolutely fucking based thread.

Truth Shines!

What happened in the 60s?

Anyone know of a book where magic has a "scientific" background?
Mana as a limited resource, runes are like programming, stuff like that?

>>18246252
Sanderson has autistic magic systems which are basically fantasy science

>>18246178
Okay, I might do a /wsffg/ group to goodreads then later. I’ll poll which books people are interested in. I think it’s better to go for stand alone books first.

>>18246252
If magic were scientific then it wouldn't be magic. Electromagnetic waves, lasers, and so forth were essentially magic, until we inductively figured out approximately how to control them mechanically.

>>18246252
If I'm remembering correctly the magic system in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is real fuckin autistic

>>18246239
hippies

>>18246329
Good luck with that.

>>18245341
why is WoT YA?

>>18245411
>titty veins

>>18246704
How is it not?

Reading toll the hounds.

Karsa is the only thing keeping me awake.

>>18246699
Are you with me?

Fuck im not necrobumping this. Ill just raid Sffg until I like it

>>18246756
>MalazZzZzZ Book of the Snoozin

I got a surprisingly long way into this series before realizing that I didn't care what happened.

>>18246704
I like WoT but let's be honest, it's clearly YA. Nearly all the main characters are teenagers figuring out life. That's a YA premise.

These two men have never been seen in a room together. I can’t be the only one who thinks (((something))) is being hidden from us...

>>18245341
End of Eternity by Asimov.

>>18245411
>tfw no translucent norsirai tiddies to suckle while she reads to you about the machinations of the ikurei dynasty

>>18247809
>Translucent

Aren't those the addicts?

>>18248107
Nice necrobump, really contributes to this dead thread.

>Nice necrobump, really contributes to this dead thread.
What did she mean by this?

>>18248140
Nice necrobump, really contributes to this dead thread

>>18248140
I think he wants to talk about Locked Tomb.

>>18248146
Nice necrobump, really contributes to this dead thread.

>>18248178
Nice necrobump, really contributes to this dead thread.

>>18248181
Nice necrobump, really contributes to this dead thread.

>>18248186

>>18248195
Yes, I know. I made that post to derail /sffg/ in the hopes that /wsffg/ would succeed it. Why are you showing me this?

>>18248207
For the simple beauty of it

>>18245411
You how the fuck do you pronounce this nigga's name? Is it pronounced like: Baker, Bake-Are, Back-Are, Back-er?

>>18248309
Like baker

>>18245341
kek, have none of you faggots read Vernor Vinge's SF masterworks?

>>18248421
Please tell me more about his works, I have never heard of him before.

>>18248443

>>18248468
This entire thread is bait.

>>18248309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6QPGbfMS4

>>18248309
backer

I'm enjoying Hyperion so far

>>18249283
DUNE is better.

>>18248173
Locked Tomb is good and Harrow is a qt.

>>18249332
Harrow is an absolute bone gremlin psycho but I love her anyway.

>>18249363
>>18249332
>>18248173
Should I do this series as my next audiobook?

>>18245411
it was all fun and hilarious the first few times you tried to force feed bakker here, but you got to stop dude
you are just pushing people away from the stupid books, if they were truly as good as you make them out to be, people would talk about them organically

>>18249498
Does it trouble you?

>>18249474
I'd say yes. The novels aren't very long (for sff anyway) and there's only two of them. The second is definitely stronger than the first but both have an interesting setting and a sense of levity that was a nice change of pace from the grimdark rapefest that was Bakker I got memed into reading by this general.

>>18249474
I hear the audio book is done very well. I enjoyed the novels myself, although Muir definitely veers off into cringe occasionally, but overall the world-building is good and she has some pretty fun (and body-horrory) ideas in there. I'm a huge sucker for the Gormenghast meets crypt saints aesthetic though so I'm fully biased.

>>18245411
Indeed, my heart is gladdened!— as is my little brother.

>>18248173
>>18249332
>>18249363
>ywn have a hot tomboy skelly gf

>>18250134
Are you a chilled beauty unblemished by breath, though?

>>18245341

>>18247020
I'm indifferent.