/lit/ - Literature

Is there any sci-fi with as cool and hopeful future like The Culture Series?

Wew lads
I worried for a sec there

>>22383658
The thought of making an evil woman cry in pleasure and bear children is insanely hot.

>>22383670
Books with this plot device?

>>22383662
You can make threads yourself you know. I made this thread on my phone while taking a shit at work.

Today I dropped the Knight and switched to the Prism Pentad.

>>22383658
I finished reading The lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, what an anticlimactic and unsatisfying ending that was, Rodrigo's family deserved him to live, and then half of the stuff happening in the epilogue really, really doesn't make any sense, like Alvar converting and being shown to believe in his new faith.
Ah well.
What should I choose to read next between Ready Player One, Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujould, and the screenplay to A modern ocean by Shane Carruth?

>>22383688
>OP shitposting
Business as usual then

>>22383658
Electric Forest - Tanith Lee (1979)

Magadala Cled, called Ugly by everyone she knows, is a twenty-six year old naturally born person who lives on planet Indigo. Seemingly literally everyone else was born through genetic engineering that selected for only the best examples of every trait. As to expected of a natural birth, she's considered deformed, hideous, and stunted. When others look upon her they're visibly unable to contain their revulsion. She doesn't let anyone know that this bothers her, but inside she intensely seethes and loathes everyone. Even if she could afford it, she knows that cosmetic surgery couldn't help her in any way. A life-changing opportunity comes her way when an ultrawealthy and extremely attractive young man offers her a new body. All she has to do is whatever he wants and she'll never have worry about anything again. Magadala is very suspicious and doesn't give in easily, but offer is so tempting, regardless of its cost.

Your enjoyment of Electric Forest probably will mostly depend on your perspective on and tolerance for the specific events of the story. I don't know how much you'd get from this if you approach it in an adversarial manner or believe it to be in bad taste. Magadala has understandably severe body image issues, low self-esteem, and a festering resentment for everything. She becomes part of a psychosexually domineering relationship, though she isn't submissive. Her situation is treated as a sort of voluntary horror that she endures because she believes the benefits to be worthwhile. I found its exploration of bodily autonomy, identity, and a host of other psychological issues to be enjoyably written. While there's a bit of flirting and sex, the primary focus of the plot is a mystery thriller. Magadala's new body was designed for a specific purpose, which she's not informed of, though it clearly involves social manipulation. The more involved she becomes, the more she realizes how little control she has over her life now.

There are several mentions of other literary works in the text that are used to describe what is being read. There's Frankenstein, Dracula, Pygmalion, Shakespeare, and others. It made me think of a few more as well. At first I thought it was a bit much, but given how it ends, their inclusion makes sense. I enjoyed this from the start until the end, and up until the epilogue this was a solid four stars. I found the epilogue to be hilarious because it reminded me of one of my all-time favorite movies. It was quite the unexpected experience and I found myself somewhat in disbelief that I wanted to give it five stars. I then looked at the reviews and many others had almost the exact opposite reaction to the ending, which is reasonable. I found it to be less reasonable though to include unmarked spoilers for the ending in a number of them, including the most liked. This book has greatly improved my opinion of Lee and eventually I'll have to read more from her.

Rating: 5/5

>>22384101
I came across this while looking at a /sffg/ member's profile and since he rated 5 stars I thought I'd give a chance since we have relatively similar tastes and have a considerable amount of overlap with what we've read. I probably wouldn't have any gotten around to reading it otherwise. I still have 3 days to fill of short fiction for the month. If there's anything else you want me to try of suitable length and it has its own entry, let me know. Technically this a novel since it's a bit more than 40k words, but whatever. Starting tomorrow and for the next six days I'll be posting the novelettes from the the Far Reaches, which is a commissioned collection by Amazon of individually released novelettes by popular SF authors. I don't know if the authors didn't care much, or what happened, but it was a disappointing affair like the previous similar collection I read from Amazon. Oh well. Yes, this is basically filler because reasons, etc.

>>22383659
if you find the Lotus-Eater society of the Culture "hopeful" you're NGMI

>>22384101
When I see a 5/5 score given by you, I have to add it to my to read list :-)

>>22383658
What are some novels with female therianthropy (were-creatures), i.e. human women that transform into animals or animals that transform into humans? I can find male werewolves or other beasts all day long but never the reverse

>>22384144
How has that worked out for you so far?

>>22384148
>sees Baldur's Gate 3 BEAR SEX and wants MORE, MORE, MORE!

Alright, I was premature in saying that The Mask of the Sorcerer didn't really have a plot. Once the kid gets to the capital and kills the king, things start to get moving narrative wise quite quickly. This book is seriously good.

>>22384101
>Tanith
>Magadala
>she
>planet Indigo.
>she's
>her
>She
>her
>inside she
>she
>she
>cosmetic surgery
>her
>her
>ultrawealthy and extremely attractive young
>her
>she
>she
>Magadala
>tempting
>Magadala
>body image issues
>low self-esteem
>She
>psychosexually domineering
>she
>submissive.
>Her
>she
>she
>bodily autonomy, identity
>other psychological issues
> flirting sex
>Magadala's
>she's
>she
>she
>she
>her
>favorite movies
>her.
The highlights of retarded book by some roastie, book about she (x100), magadla, planet indigo, extremely attractive, body issues, sexually domineering, submissive, issue flirting and couple more shes and hers etc. Highly recommended (5/5) by resident sffg libshit coomer trash.

>>22384308
But for real, why don't incels just have sex instead of making it everybody else's problem?

>>22383658
cyberpunk

>>22384308
fuck off

>>22384318
for real why do coomers and whiteknights exist? we should just throw them off high buildings.

>>22384326
Post wrist.

>>22383707
I love BotNS but I can't bring myself to enjoy the Knight/Wizard. Wolfe believably wrote an Arthurian fantasy from the perspective of an American kid, but it just isn't enjoyable.

>>22384337
Why?

>>22384308
I was thinking of also doing a meme post about how a blackpilled femcel had given up on looksmaxxing but then a sigma male offers to make her into a Stacy. It would've had various other silliness as well. The narrative doesn't really support it though that much. I have no doubt you'd have the same response regardless.

Did you also find this kinda boring? I read Beyond Redemption, which I found good early on, but which then got a bit repetitive, and I just felt like this sequel lost the charm.

>>22384354
I knew it.

>>22384209
I'm not interested in gay sex unlike you whose first thought when thinking "female werewolf" is "gay sex with bears"
you got something to confess?

>>22384318
Incels having sex wouldn't fix the modern fantasy problem, with books pandering to >women and >LGBT. Stuff like yuri is insanely popular even on webnovel websites like Royalroad.

>>22383707
>>22384353
what kind of pleb ass confession is this.

>>22384504
either post-ironic white american or sincere melanin-enhanced american

Recommendations if you actually have good taste:

-Calamitous Bob
-Pale
-12 Miles Below
-Journey of Black and Red
-Mushoku Tensei Light Novel

>>22384511
>>22384504
Your bots are posting on the wrong board btw

Recommendations if you have terrible taste:
-any chinkshit
-any litrpeepee shit
Recommendations if you have good taste:
-King Dunsany
-Prince Bakker

>>22384526
based and I would suck you offpilled

>>22384517
>-Mushoku Tensei Light Novel
kys fag

Recommendations if you like good male rape:
-Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy
-Bakker's Aspect Emperor quadrology

>>22384541
Thanks will check it out

Terrible thread, even by nu-sffg standards.

>>22384517
>>22384526
>good taste
>litrpg
>Asian light novel

>terrible taste
>anything Asian
>anything on royalroad

Much contradiction

>>22384353
Exactly. I started this right after BotSS and my standards were set too high. Wolfe clearly didn't write the Wizard Knight for Solar Cycle fans.
>>22384504
A Central European Catholic confession.

>>22384541
If I recall correctly, there are 3 scenes of males getting anally raped total, right?

>>22384597
Wizard Knight and Arthurian literature in general is already profoundly Catholic, so unless you're embarrassed of your faith, ignorant of your faith, or larping as your faith, you'll excuse me for not taking your word.

>>22384576
>>22384526
I think it's safe to say that human beings should avoid any authors with names like "Hong", or "Lao", or "Heavenly Dragon"

>>22384625
Why

>>22384650
because asiatics can't into literature

I liked Cradle

>>22384276
>spoiler
that whole chapter was so fucking kino
the duel with Moon and then ending with the skeletal hands mortal kombat tier fatality

what you guys think will be the impact that jap and chink novels popularization will have in the western fantasy works ?

>>22381743
As much as I like xianxia, litRPG and webnovels; a chapter should have no cliffhangers and should end or merge all subplots into main. Use 'subchapters' or 'today''s release' if you want that.

>>22384757
it'll eventually blow up as americans start chasing the trend for about 10 years and then it'll collapse catastrophically

>>22384757
About as much as anime has effected western animation. It will die a painful death while people in the know (LMS was 2007 for christ sakes) will continue to read asian novels. It is the gradual downfall of the west.

>>22384101
Based Tanith Lee enjoyer
>>22384308
Have sex.

>>22384795
>Have sex.
With a hag?! You must be out of your mind!

>>22384796
>With a hag?!
Oohh myyyy

>>22384101
>uggo fuggo becomes a slam pig
>sff
This was fairly common irl well before 1979.
What realm does she reach at the end of the first book? Foundation establishment? or Core formation?

>>22384804
What it this cuck shit? I always knew superheros comics were for fags but wow.

>>22384148
>>22384492
The Secret Texts Trilogy by Holly Lisle
>>22384796
>With a hag?!
Any books for that particular feel?

>>22384650
You know why, chuddie

>>22384812
Your dad isn't cucking you by fucking your mom dumbass.

>>22384101
>>22384806
>What realm does she reach at the end of the first book? Foundation establishment? or Core formation?
Spirit Forging desu

On a serious note, I find it somewhat sad that good female science-fiction writers tend to write typical female stories in futuristic settings. Like, those stories are still great, engaging and well-written...but they are ultimately unremarkable. Most likely my bias as a man, but I find stories about more abstract ideas, goals and important issues to be not just more interesting, but objectively more valuable and significant that endless exploration of human relationships.
I guess my female counterpart would find this foolish, seeing those as detatched from reality and ulitmately worthless.

As that one anon joked about cultivation, it reminds me of the only Cultivation written by a woman that I've seen: Street Cultivation. Not a great story, painfuly average at times and I'd rate it 5.5 - 6 out of 10. What matters is the message. The entire message behind the trillogy was focused on a man reaching for money and power to get a better life, crawling out of poverty, but in fact according to the story (not said directly) he should have focused on finding a good girl to settle with, not fighting it out with mad cultivators or doing things greater than life.

This reinterpretation of Xianxia and implict critic on the genre by the female author seemed very representative of female persepctive on values and what's worth doing in life.
I might have gotten somewhat cynical after reading almost 1000 fantasy stories, but I swear I can detect whether something was written by a man or a woman with strange precision, based only on the covabulary, topics tackled and the framing of them. Women just straight-up don't consider the same things valuable and I doubt a woman could be capable of writing a fantasy story in the same way a man does.

Sorry for a random monologue, I'm going for a 12h work shift tomorrow and needed to let it out of me while I can.

>>22384854
I tried reading both of Sarah Lin's stories, and the first book of each both just felt bland. Street Cultivation's protagonist is just so nothing, and the concept of this incredibly capitalistic version of cultivation is cool, but it ultimately means very little. Meanwhile, the other series, Soulhome or whatever, has, again, a neat concept it does very little with. Its protagonist is at least a character, he's just a very one-note one. I didn't really notice anything like what you thought was the message in either, so maybe I just don't read into these things that way, but hey. Honestly, they barely seemed to be 'about' anything.

>>22384854
>but in fact according to the story...
In many xianxia the main character wants to find a good girl to settle down with but in doing so they find that they need to destroy thousands of clans and become immortal. Then around spirit severing they realize that relations with women are just a distraction from greatness which is just standard Taoism/all religions.

>>22384881
Western cultivation stuff trends more towards "reaching the pinnacle alone sucks" I've found. Like you'll very often get into power of friendship sort of shit (which I can enjoy if it's handled well), whereas more Chinese stuff tends to prefer having isolated protagonists. Also, character dynamics are just more fun to read than a solo gigachad not talking to people, I find, so.

>>22384101
>>22384125
your """reviews""" are SHIT
fuck off

>>22384101
>>22384125
your """reviews""" are SHIT
fuck off

>>22384893
Yeah, I don't think I've seen a true longterm duo in chinese novels aside from ghost grandpas (and often they are ignored until the plot needs them) or love interests (or love interest ghost grandpas) which stay for an adventure or two but usually get outpaced (or in an obvious trope reversal outpace the protagonist)

>>22384893
>Western cultivation stuff trends more towards "reaching the pinnacle alone sucks" I've found. Like you'll very often get into power of friendship sort of shit (which I can enjoy if it's handled well), whereas more Chinese stuff tends to prefer having isolated protagonists. Also, character dynamics are just more fun to read than a solo gigachad not talking to people, I find, so.
One could see the opposition of social trends, fantasy writers on a given region write contrary to their societies. Socially atomized West prefers having relationships with other people, communal East focuses on individuality and eschewing others.

>>22384835
these are some serious implications

>>22384916
>>22384917
A double dose, for me? Save some for later, we're only halfway though the month. I hope you can keep up all the way through.

>>22384943
>Socially atomized West
The west any more socially atomized than places like china or japan

>prefers having relationships with other people
That is not going against social trends or ideal in the west
Isolation and individuality are very different things
>East focuses on individuality
Again, isolation and individuality are two very different things

>>22384938
I admittedly haven't touched many of them, but my understanding is that, at most, you'll get "solo hero with a support base". Rarely will there be anybody on par with the protagonist in any meaningful sense, nor will weaker characters really be keeping up with the protagonist, etc.

Xianxia
"The Lotus Sovereign"
A humble lotus farmer discovers a dormant lotus seed containing the spirit of a fallen sovereign. As he cultivates his spiritual energy, the seed blossoms, granting him incredible powers. With his newfound abilities he battles malevolent forces that seek to upset the cosmic balance.

LitRPG
"Empire of Dreams: Conquest of the Shattered Realms"
Payers enter the immersive VRMMORPG "Empire of Dreams." They must rebuild their own fallen empire, forge alliances, and wage wars against rival factions in a race to claim dominion. With each conquest, they gain power, recruit legendary heroes, and shape destiny.

Harem
"Arcane Bonds: Mystic Consorts"
Set in a magical academy, this story follows a gifted sorcerer who forms a mystical bond with a diverse group of magical maidens. They unravel ancient secrets, confront dark forces, and forge unbreakable bonds of love and loyalty.

Magical Engineering
"Arcane Innovators: Unleashing the Power of Magical Engineering"
Avena is a magical engineer prodigy who embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets of the encrypted blueprints found in the ancient ruins of Zevardia. From steam-powered golems to airships fueled by ethereal energies, this book showcases a diverse range of detailed diagrams, enchanted contraptions, and awe-inspiring inventions.

Kingdom Building
"The Architects of Dominion" follows Lyra, a young and resourceful architect who possesses a talent for architectural design that blends the intricacies of magic and innovation to create awe-inspiring structures. As her designs take shape, her kingdom becomes a symbol of hope and unity. The structures they build are not merely physical marvels but also serve as functional hubs for knowledge, trade, and diplomacy.

Dungeon Core
"The Heart of the Labyrinth" is set fantastical realm of Orinthia. At the center of this tale is the awakening of the sentient dungeon core, Delsar. With a strong desire to protect his newfound existence, he begins expanding his domain, crafting treacherous traps and monsters to thwart intruders.

Isekai
"Rebirth of a Hero: The Harland Saga"
Young college student Ethan Harland is reincarnated in the war-torn continent of Eldoria as its greatest hero. With the help of newfound allies, including an alluring yet demure elf named Elara and a gruff but loyal dwarf named Grimnor. He encounters powerful wizards, fearsome beasts, and treacherous villains.

Superheroes
"Extraordinary Times" begins with the Genesis Wave, that triggers a transformation in every human being, granting them a superpower.

The story revolves around four characters:

Emily Hartfield: A shy and introverted influencer with the power to mind control.

Marcus Stevens: A former army veteran able to summon military armaments.

Olivia Carter: A private investigator who acquires the power of problem-solving.

Malik Patel: A paraplegic anime fan who can form a Mecha around his body.

The titles and synopses are AI generated.

>>22385127
I kneel at foot of the master of meme genres. Please... Even though I am not worthy; teach me your ways!

>>22385103
I think yaoi cultivation novels are an exception to this rule.

>>22385127
I wonder how qidian is going to deal with ai. Don't they pay authors by character count?

>>22384893
asian fantasy goes too much into NPD territory for me to enjoy

>>22385201
NPD?

>>22385204
He is trying to say that he wants you to vote for biden and take your kids to drag events.

>>22385204
Narcissistic Personality Disorder

based

Who is the Fang Yuan of western fiction?
Fuck off bakkerfags

>>22385261
Mars Gravity

>>22385103
Slice of life cultivation like Cultivation Chat group doesn't do this.

>>22385368
That's very specifically non-typical though, isn't it?

>can't discuss books unless it's
>top 10 authors
>current year culture excrement
>xianxia
Feels bad man
Lin Ming just got back to his home planet on the run from Tian Mianzi, and is preparing to reenter the Abyss

>>22385487
>can't discuss books unless they are currently culturally relavant
Nobody is forcing you to read obscure shit like LOTR and GOT, watch the bingbingwahoo if you want to talk about them.
And this is a Xianxia+litRPG thread

Crossboarders like you are part of the problem. Don't @ me.

Would anyone recommend the works of Simon R Green? On the fence if I should read some of his stuff sooner or later

>>22385532
deathstalker was fun

Videogames are not books.

>>22384377
Flirtin' with disaster, ya'll damn sure know what I mean

>>22384757

>>22383658

What are some sffg books that deal a lot with the liminal boundary between humanity and technology, especially in terms of innocence being weaponized. I particularly like prose and general storytelling in the vein of Wildbow. Long, xenofictive, nobledark, pathological themes and focus. Picrel kind of scratches that itch but obviously it's limited by the medium. I've read the Forever War and pretty much any of the normie tier sci-fi/fantasy you can think of.

>>22385127
Cringe: The Post

>>22384757

Regardless of what people have been claiming for decades (centuries really) about the West being moribund, neither China nor Japan, even if you combine them, are capable of matching Western and especially American cultural exportation. Japan is much more of a rival than China but even they're trying to move forward by adopting more Western sensibilities and storytelling techniques. Even then there's a lot of concerns in the industry about the long term impact of their work culture and how profitable fanservice will be in the years to come. The West's cultural hegemony is secure for the next century or so at absolutely minimum, it'll just wax and wane like it always has.

>>22385504
>You must be 18 to post here.

Do you recommend reading Urth right after Citadel or should i take a few months to assimilate the events of the first books and try to figure things out by myself?

>>22385748
Are you willing to reread all of BotNS a second time before Urth? If yes, do that. If no, just move on to Urth.

>>22383658
the chapter in the Wheel of Time - The Gathering Storm with Min, Semirhage, and Rand makes me cry every time. best scene in the book except for the one when nynaeve brings Lan north

>>22385835
I love that scene too. It's heartbreaking. But I'm going to have to be basic and say veins of gold is the best scene in the book. It really fucking tugs at the heartstrings

Why even bother having your own opinions when this chad can just tell you the correct thoughts to have about a book.

AHHH I can't read anything written on royalroad within the past year because I'm scared of reading zogged AI text

>>22385835
>His breath caught, and he stretched out a hand, brushed a finger across the heavy gold signet ring on the cord. Across the crane in flight. How had she come by this? Under the Light, how? “I recognize it,” he told her, his voice suddenly hoarse.
>“My name is Nynaeve ti al’Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World’s End toward Tarwin’s Gap, toward Tarmon Gai’don. Will he ride alone?”
>He trembled. He did not know whether he was laughing or crying. Perhaps both. She was his wife? “I will send your message, my Lady, but it has nothing to do with me. I am a merchant. Malkier is dead. Dead, I tell you.”
>The heat in her eyes seemed to intensify, and she gripped her long, thick braid with one hand. “Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the hadori in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the ki’sain in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the ki’sain, Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the hadori. So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone?”
>He was laughing, shaking with it. And yet, he could feel tears rolling down his cheeks. It was madness! Complete madness! But he could not help himself. “He will not, my Lady. I cannot stand surety for anyone else, but I swear to you under the Light and by my hope of rebirth and salvation, he will not ride alone.”
>Well, Managan, Gorenellin,” he demanded, “do you still remember who you are? Do you remember your blood? Who rides with me for Tarwin’s Gap?”
>For a moment, he thought neither man would speak, but then Gorenellin was on his feet, tears glistening in his eyes. “The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai’don,” he said softly.
>“The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai’don!” Managan shouted, leaping up so fast he overturned his chair.
>Laughing, Aldragoran joined them, all three shouting at the top of their lungs. “The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai’don!”

>>22385785
Nice
No one has time to do a reread. Especially with Long and Short sun around the corner.

>>22385895
>being this mad about some random failed writer

>>22385924
KINO
this made me tear up ngl, last time I read this scene was in 2013

>>22385934
Who's mad here? I got into Wheel of Time (AKA best book series ever made) because of him. He's who I want to be when I grow up.

>>22385950
RIP

>>22385934
Failed? He's making bank. He did an entire video showing the costs and profit from his self-published books. They were successful enough that now he has a trad publisher his next books.

>>22386121
God, he's such a fucking chad. Tell me more about Berserk daddy

>just 4 chapters available
Do americans really

>>22386121
What a sellout!

>>22386153
Make homophobic statements? All the time.

Does the main character sperg out like a fucktard and cry like a pussy every book?
Holy fuck

>>22386283
yes

>>22386283
I couldn't even finish the first book. Once I got to the part where the wizard was just dumping exposition I just put the book down and haven't bothered to pick it back up in over a year.

>>22386338
>Once I got to the part where the wizard was just dumping exposition
buddy that happens like 4 times in the first book

What a slow day for Science Fiction and Fantasy!

>>22386283
Sperg out? Yes.
Cry? I don't think so but it's been a while since I've read it.
The series was kind of enjoyable because Terry becomes more deranged with his philosophy with each book.

>>22386381
Just chilling while reading comfy old school fantasy.

>>22384943
how do you write an ambitious high achieving protagonist who is in active romantic/sexual relationships at the same time? That is simply not possible.

is the Light Bringer series really that bad at the end ? I see a lot of bitching about the 4th and 5th books about some Christian stuff that happened etc.
I don't usually give a fuck about reddit atheist seething, unless the plot itself is a garbo asspull.

>>22385924
Laughter melded with tears, an alchemical fusion of sentiments that transcended mortal bounds, a cultivation breakthrough of emotions. It was insanity personified! Profound lunacy! Yet, resistance was futile. "He shall not venture alone, my Lady. Though I cannot vouch for others, my vow resonates, witnessed by the Celestial Realm and my aspiration for renewal and salvation. He shall not journey in solitude."

But as he tried to deepen his cultivation, to break through to the core realm, a shadowy figure emerged, an old senior from his sect, his aura oppressive and formidable, a guardian of the path he sought to tread. The old senior unleashed a barrage of attacks, each strike targeting his defensive formations. The formations, an intricate web of energy, quivered and strained under the assault.

"Now, Managan, Gorenellin," his decree resounded, each word like a strike of the divine gong, a resonating mantra in the cultivation world. "Does your true self endure? Does the blood of your lineage course through your meridians? Who shall tread the path at my side, uniting at Tarwin’s Chasm, a place of profound cultivation convergence?"

A suspended hush lingered, two souls standing on the cusp of revelation, like cultivators awaiting the opening of an ancient forbidden scripture. Then, Gorenellin surged forth, his eyes shimmering with tears, yet his spirit aflame, his qi and aura harmonizing. "The Golden Crane takes flight for Tarmon Gai’don," his voice intoned, a melody of fate resonating with the very rhythm of the universe.

"The Golden Crane takes flight for Tarmon Gai’don!" Managan's roar filled the air, his fervor toppling him from his seat, a tempestuous whirlwind of cultivation energy.

In harmonious crescendo, Aldragoran merged with their triumphant chorus, a trinity of souls harmonizing with the celestial currents, their cultivator's bond unbreakable. "The Golden Crane takes flight for Tarmon Gai’don!" Meanwhile, the battle raged on, the defensive formations quaking under the pressure of the old senior's relentless assault, each strike a test of Aldragoran's resilience and determination to ascend to the core cultivation realm.

>>22386394
>le wish fufilment is buying a vroomvroom-honkhonk
Pathetic.

>>22385708
you've read The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter, right?

>>22385261
Kellhus is nothing like Fang Yuan, infact he's almost a diametric opposite
>no worldy experience
>incredibly talented
>has a special bloodline
>emotionless and inhuman
The only overlap is that they're bother very good at reading and manipulating people and are both willing to go to extremes in order to accomplish their plans. Their end goals are also similar in nature, with Kellhus seeking the absolute, and Fang Yuan trying to become truly immortal, both of which involve achieving true philosophical freedom.
Fang Yuan is much more interesting and deep since his characterization isn't arbitrary like Kellhus'. Why is Kellhus a supergenius inhuman manipulator? Because he is, he was born that way. Why is Fang Yuan like he is? Because he started out as a normal man and lived an unnaturally long life full of tragedy and setbacks until he was gradually worn down and all that remained of him was his desire to be free.

>>22383658
Can anyone recommend some interesting and *well written* hard sci-fi? I enjoyed Peter Watts’ pros but have found writers like Alastair Reynolds unreadable. I really like his work on the tech, but when it comes to basic human relationships I feel like I’m reading fan fiction written by a 14 year old boy.

>>22386819
Based

>>22386831
this has a lot of reccs for exactly what you're looking for
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/l2qbqs/suggest_hard_sci_fi_with_a_literarypoetic_flair/

>>22386831
Iain Banks and William Gibson are both serious writers who happen to also write sci-fi.

>>22386952
Some decent recs here.
>>22386962
Serious writers, yes. But not exactly hard. I know I’m looking for the golden goose but goddamn it something has to be out there.

>>22384318
if incels could have sex they wouldn't be incels

>but like they totally could if they tried
This argument is belied by the fact that if some incel, like me, were to say
>I totally could have sex if I tried
you'd be the first to respond with
>lmao no nobody would ever sleep with you

Which is it? Pick one.

>>22386987
There's nothing involuntary about it, it's a conscious choice. The vast majority who use that label don't get sex because they are ugly, they don't get sex because they are obnoxious human beings that no one wants to be around.

>>>/v/

>>22387002
That is not voluntary

>>22384101
>A life-changing opportunity comes her way when an ultrawealthy and extremely attractive young man offers her a new body. All she has to do is whatever he wants and she'll never have worry about anything again.

Sounds like roastie shit desu.

>>22385895
Has he gone back to shilling for the show ahead of season 2 or did he finally sour on it?

>>22386381
>>22386783
>anon who presents no quality posts to the thread complains about the thread not moving as fast as possible 24/7
newfags every time

>get recommended Ave Xia Rem Y, literally self-described "A Very Cliche Xianxia Harem Story"
>there's barely any focus on cultivation or techniques
>mc repeatedly jumps realms offscreen without even the major realm breakthroughs getting any fanfare
>it's 90% in-sect faggot political drama
>there's a whole arc where it's just dealing with some dipshit nobody's roided heart devil and it has no consequences

I like the ghost snakes but come the fuck on man

>>22387350
also there's no fucking harem whatsoever
MC gets arranged-married as a child, his wife gets taken to an ice sect literally weeks after that, and then he has a girlfriend in the sect
I don't like haremshit but come on that's just false advertising

>>22387367
>I hate harems!
>intentionally reads story with harems in the title
>I was promised harems, which I hate, and didn't get one! This is the worst!
You do like it, you just won't admit it.

>>22387376
I said I DON'T LIKE harems, not that I hate them. I wouldn't read the story if I thought some core element (like a harem) would destroy my ability to enjoy it. The absence of a harem despite the story explicitly claiming there was one is just an annoyance ontop of my more significant issues.

Radio virus

I love harem, especially when the women are shy and cute
Reddit despises it with gusto though

>>22387408
I prefer it when the main love interest is slightly insane and so in love with the MC that she wants him to have a harem so she takes the initiative to make it happen by manipulating other women into falling for the MC

>>22387420
Name one

>>22387423
My dreams. I don't read haremlit.

Blindsight and Echopraxia questions: I just don't get how a shitty little chemical shuttle managed to pull Siri out of Big Ben's gravity well if it has 10x Jupiter's mass. It also just doesn't make sense how the Bicamerals managed to throw out the Crown of Thorns' whole drive when it accounted for 90% of the ship. How were they carrying enough materials or manpower to build an entirely new antimatter beam core drive while going to the sun?

>>22387437
You are asking the wrong questions

>>22387420
>>22387423
Mana Master kind of starts that way.

>>22387386
>I would prefer there not to be harem
>I am annoyed that there wasn't harem
You should've been pleased about the false advertising.

>>22387420
>she wants him to have a harem so she takes the initiative to make it happen by manipulating other women into falling for the MC
The Giselle Maxwell. Nice.

Reading about strong women in fantasy falling in love to Mr. Perfect (rapist possibly too) hurts my fragile ego.

>>22384757
we're already getting stuff influenced by them
Like that dogshit lattes book in the hugo noms, that's a western take on slice of life

And I may be wrong on this but I can't think of any examples of western slice of life fantasy before it became a big genre in japan

>>22384796
>With a hag?
why not? they are cool and you can talk about old books with them.

>>22383658
How It Unfolds, The Far Reaches - James S. A. Corey (2023)
Slow light allows for the duplication of matter over the vast distances of the galaxy, including of people. Thousands of colonies can be started from a single origin point. The baton race to ensure the eternal existence of humanity has begun. Survival is all that matters, regardless of the cost, or how it must be accomplished, or the living conditions there. Out of desperation eternal recurrence has been achieved, but how meaningful is it?

I have a lot of issues with this novelette, but none of them are major aside from being baffled that a certain decision is endlessly repeated when better options must have existed. It could be that I'm rating it as I am because of the author, but I hope not. I primarily see it as a metaphor and it's not one that I like. As with almost every other story in this collection I can only see the overarching theme as being about futility. Maybe others can see it differently, but I'm unable to. I consider this a fail considering who the authors are.

>>22387629
I think that latte book is less nip influence and more fanfic influence. Encouraged by booktok and booktube, more and more mainstream books are including fanfic tropes which include slice of life coffee shop nonsense.

>>22387669
nta
examples
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Alternate%20Universe%20-%20Coffee%20Shops%20*a*%20Caf%C3%A9s/works

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Coffee_Shop_AU

>>22387669
yeah but those came via influence from jap stuff too, there's in between steps but it's still ultimately their influence coming through

>>22386783
Just read a dinobook. no need to seethe, they are fun!

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1692283449572488.webm

Stop posting about hags.

>>22387553
that's because you are reading books written by roasties, read books written by housewives or cat ladies and the females mc will fall in love with the kind and sensitive male characters.
>>22387716
whhat's wrong with them?

>>22387715
Song name?

>>22384835
A man who lets any woman in his family fuck a man who isn't her first lawfully wedded husband is a cuck.

>>22387764
>>22387648
get these hags out of here! Disgusting

>>22387806
Too old

>>22387823
I agree

Bros
Is there a Gene Wolfe chart out there or do i have to make it myself?

>>22387888
You mean ranking Wolfe? Make one and watch everyone seethe. Though I doubt anyone here has read everything by Wolfe.

>>22383658
HALO OUTCASTS IS OUT! Who has the torrent for the audiobook?

>>22387911
No, not a ranking. A chart. Like a general guide or something.

>>22387922
probably in the mega you colossal newfag

>>22387924
Doesn't load up on my devices

>>22387957
disgusting

Is Mistborn era 2 worth reading? I hate the modern setting and guns in fantasy

>>22387970
Though I hate sanderson shit, modern fantasy can be kino. Earthbound is neat. What are some modern fantasy books that do that besides the Night Watch trilogy?

>>22387888

I read a bunch of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, and, while good, I wish the stories were longer and more complex. Any recommendations for writers with similar themes but different writing styles?

/SFFG/ Recommendations:

Read Reverend Insanity, Lord of The Mysteries, Neuromancer, Hyperion, The Prince of Nothing

Also read The Wandering Inn, Between Two Fires, Mother of Learning, Cradle, I Shall Seal the Heavens, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Poppy War.

>>22388003
Here.

>>22387957
>website doesn't load
Why? If you're on a phone it should still work. Try desktop mode or the app. If you're on a PC there shouldn't be any issue. What's the problem? There's also the wiki though as well.

/SFFG/ Recommendations: LITRPG Edition

Read Azarinth Healer, Primal Hunter, He Who Fights with Monsters, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Also read System Universe, Dissonance, Defiance of the Fall, Iron Prince.

>>22388003
The Broken Sword is 10/10

>>22387970
For you, no, it isn't.

anybody got examples of "reverse isekai"? stories where people from a fantasy realm or the distant past get transported to present-day earth?

This new cover is definitely the most representative of the content.

>>22388246
Mostly manga, light novels, tv series and movies. A few vikings and others come to mind. Most of what I can think is more just they get preserved for a long time.

>>22388274
yeah, I've already watched Encino Man, I don't really care to deal with Caveman Frozen in Ice stories like a Scooby Doo episode so much as I'd rather see a Roman Legionary time-traveled to a small American town or a fantasy wizard transported to modern day London where his magic powers no longer work or something of that nature

>>22388246
Enchanted

>>22388331
is this a novel or are you talking about the Disney movie? that is exactly the KIND of thing that I want, but I'm looking for books, not movies I already own on dvd

>>22387806
>get these hags out of here
>posts hag
What did he mean by this?

Is the "Iconoclasts" trilogy pozzed or is it readable?

>>22388320
Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!
The Devil Is A Part-Timer
GATE
Restaurant To Another World
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Plus-sized Elf

>>22388246
There isn't much because those who do it usually do urban fantasy instead. The western version would be more reverse portal fantasy. That could be covered even by superhero movies and similar. That's the problem with something mostly from a different culture.

>>22388399
these titles sound suspiciously slant-eyed

>>22388246
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card

>>22388439
>uses Japanese word that means "other world"
>refuses anything Japanese
Use English terms then

>>22388246
Early Urban fantasy (80s and 90s) had a lot of that, Serrated Edge, bedlam's bard etc.

>>22388320
Stirling's Nantucket trilogy does the reverse, the modern day island winds up in 1250 BC

Recently finished Neuromancer and loved the way the author describes events and people. Very poetic.
Any other sci fi novel with the same kind of love given in descriptions?

>>22388320
>Roman legionary transported to small American town
There is a Managua about a Roman architect who time travels to the future to steal ideas for his bath house.

>>22388502
There is also an anime.

>>22388448
isekai is shorter to type and faster to say than "portal fantasy"

>>22388466
>>22388443
thanks

Locke Lamora books 2 and 3 fell so hard in quality, sad.

>>22386831
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts

>>22388557
people don't really know about it because most of them are in urban fantasy but fantasy conman books almost always fall off hard the moment they have to follow up the first idea

What are some "so bad it's good" fantasy novels? Books that are stupid and ridiculous, but at the same time aren't boring.

>>22388579
Unironically "My House of Horrors"
It makes absolutely no sense but it's still fun. Too bad it gets repetitive and bad in the later half.

>>22388557
>>22388561
This is why trilogies are a meme and publishers pushing them are a crime against the art

>>22388579
Goodkind is hilarious
Not actually worth reading but about once a year I go over this post and chuckle
http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/08/goodkind-parodies.html

Here's the hero booting a child in the face

>Princess Violet glared at him. "My mother says that Confessor Kahlan will come back and that we'll have a surprise for her the next time she comes here. I just want you to know because my mother said you'll be dead by then. My mother says I get to decide what to do to her. First, I'm going to cut off her hair. " Her hands were in fists, her face red. "Then i'm going to let all the guards rape her, every one! Then I'm going to put her in the dungeon for a few years so they'll have someone to play with! Then when I get tired of hurting her, I'll have her head chopped off and put it on a pole where I can watch it rot!"
>Richard actually felt sorry for the little Princess. The sadness for her came over him in a wave. At that feeling, he was surprised to feel the thing in him that had come awake rise up.
>Princess Violet squeezed her eyes shut, stuck her tongue out far as she could.
>It was like a red flag.
>The strength of the awakened power exploded through him.
>He could feel her jaw shattter like a crystal goblet on a stone floor when his boot came up under it. The impact of the blow lifted the Princess into the air. Her own teeth severed her tongue before they, too, shattered. She landed on her back, a good distance away, trying to scream through the gushing blood.

And that's from the first book which is before the author went really off the rails

>>22388613
trilogies are great but you have to know how to write ENDINGS which is probably the single biggest hurdle writers face in general, and which modern writes of the past 20 years or so have not bothered to make any real attempts to pursue

>>22388618
>Princess
Stopped reading there.

>>22388621
Trilogies are great when things are meant to be a trilogy. Publishers push trilogies on authors because trilogies sell better even if the author's idea works best as a standalone title.

>>22388579
The book main power plot was shit, but I just couldn't put it down.

>>22388646
Is that a male or female on the cover?

>>22388705
Yes

>>22388708
I see.. it's tranny, I guess that also answers if the book is pozzed or not

>>22388579
Animorphs is a pretty batshit series that I still cannot believe was allowed in my school library.

>>22388618
That part is the only part of the first book I remember from reading it like 15 years ago.

>>22388705
It's a guy. The book kinda went anime with the whole devil mask and long hair shit like in those shit animes like bleach. Even with that, i still read it.

>If your female character is warm, comforting, has nothing important to say or do and no real agency, and you can easily stick your dick in her, you didn’t write a woman, you wrote a bowl of soup.
>this is exactly the type of girls I like in novels
B-Bros...

>>22388950
This is a science fiction and fantasy general.

>>22388950
why don't you stay on /a/ then?
average haremshit or romcom has them by the dozen

>>22388950
Who are you quoting?

Talos may be my fav botns character

>>22388970
Your mom

>>22388994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbZT8ussBnY

>>22388950
you don't like girls, you like food
chances are you're so fat you eat entire human females AS food

Is Dune redpilled

>>22389388
Is chudpilled

>>22386775
AIchads i kneel

>>22389388
thoroughly blackpilled

>>22384526
Truth really shines.

>>22389388
It dares to ask whether it's worse to be history's greatest tyrant or it's biggest coward and fraud, also a cute mom and son journey

>>22389535
>also a cute mom and son journey
The videogame has the canon ending

>>22387916
how many brave, independent jewish souls have been lost in recording this HOLOAUSCHCAUST?

>>22389630
ufunny jokes go
>>>/pol/

>>22389668
And trannies like you go to >>>/lgbt/

>>22389674
do you call everyone who doesn't laugh at your jokes trannies?

Should i read Dunsany

I'm trying to find something with hot females and good romance.

Also I just downloaded Vampire Hunter D, gonna try it out

>>22389721
Decent writer, important if you really care about the genre but overstated by that one poster who's doing the classic thing of constantly going on about one of the few books you've read.

>>22389757
forgot pic

>>22389707
He does. He does it multiple times per thread

>>22389773
tsmt

>>22388246
There was a really, really, really cringe Neanderthal comes to the modern world book by some leaf (googles, Robert J Sawyer). Total noble savage redux.

>>22387689
Hey, I read this book. It was pretty good

>>22389707
>>22389773
>>>/lgbt/ Return to your tranny lair, demons.

>>22389927
that's like the 5th time somebody suggested exactly what I said I didn't want - caveman frozen in ice stories SUCK ASS
I don't want that shit, where are stories about orcs and elves and kobolds getting sucked through a dimensional portal into Los Angeles? About angels and demons and gods being contained in human bodies and forced to live as 3-dimensional mortals? About Thomas Edison getting picked up by a Star Trek slingshot maneuver and deposited in Silicon Valley?

>>22386343
Well the first time then, cause I didn't get very far into the book.

>>22387970
I normally agree, but I liked era 2 more than era 1 largely because it has much more interesting characters.

Is it worth reading the 6 Dune novels?

>>22390404
those neandarthals weren't frozen in ice, they literally came through the space portal from another universe, they were infact more advanced than humans.
but in general sawyer is libshit cuck, his writing is absolute garbage

>>22390430
no
either read the first one and stop there, or read the whole fucking lot to the end including the books written by Frank Herbert's son after he died

>>22387976
Are these any good?
I like Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space series.
Younger I liked DragonLance.

>>22390489
I forgot I really like Ray Bradbury a lot. I was thinking maybe he was like Ray Bradbury.

>>22390404
I have a story in my head where portals to another world opened in America and US military decided to explore it only ending up getting shredded by demon witches with advanced magic abilities
demon witches instead started going to human world and at night randomly killing people, stealing and just experimenting with their abilities on living creatures while trying to learn all about the culture of USA
of course these demon witches have opposition in their own world as well with different factions at war with each other

>>22389388
>Kikes in space are best at life because of the holocuast test.
Yeah it's redpilled af

I just finished Mother of Learning and I really enjoyed it. I particularly liked how the main character, despite having his character flaws, was generally just kind of a level headed person who tried to think things out and not be retarded while also being neither comically evil nor an obnoxious justicefag. The author portrayed him as reasonably intelligent in a realistic sort of way without resorting to making him some 900iq genius chessmaster who might as well be bending fate or making all the other characters retarded just so that the mc can shine.

Also I like really long stories.

Does anyone have any recommendations for similar books, webnovels, etc.? Not really a fan of litrpgs as a concept but I'm willing to give most anything a chance.
inb4 your taste is shit and my recommendation is kys

>>22390612
Generally falls under 'rational fiction'

>>22388970
>Who are you quoting?
MenWritingWomen rant
>>22388950
Read haremshit for men written by women.

>>22389668
>>22389707
No, that anon is right. Anyone that seethes at a joke about kikes should fuck off to their containment boards. For you it would be >>>/lgbt/ or r*ddit.

>>22390612
Mol is garbage, if you enjoyed it tells us your a faggot

About to read The Judging Eye for the first time. What am I in for, Bakkerbros?

Any recs similar to Joe Abercrombie? Can be outside of sci-fi/fantasy, although I prefer those genres usually

>>22391191
KJ Parker, Adrian Selby

>see Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton rec'd in previous thread
>sounded interesting and dived in
>start the titular story (2nd after a decent enough short opener)
>MC of the story and a batshit insane bitch vandalize a mausoleum, empty out a freshly filled sarcophagus of its corpse, and then have sex in human flesh etc. putrefaction. ending with, I quote, "Her pretty bottom was smeared with my handprints in human decay, and as she padded across the room a crushed maggot dropped loose from one flexing cheek."
bro wtf?

but I do like the way he writes, I shall continue

Objective tier ranking

God Tier:
>Cassius au Bellona (whose honor still remains) doing his own thing.
>Lorne au Arcos, the Arcosian Knights, and his private army
>Appolonius au Valli-Rath the Minotaur and the Martian defectors

Great tier:
>Vulsung Fà, the Ascomanni of the Far Ink, and the Volk
>Diomedes au Ra and Rim Dominion
>The Reaper of Mars/Slave King, the Goblin, and the Free Legions

>Ok tier
>The Abomination/Jackal and the Bone Riders
>Athena and the Rim Rising
>The Martian Republic (and I guess parts of Earth too) - would be bad tier if not for Victra ("do not fear for me, pity them.")

Bad tier
>Atalantia au Grimmus, Atlas au Raa, and the Venusian / Mercurian Society
>Quicksilver and his Ancap fever dreams

Shit tier
>Harmony and the Red Hand
>The Vox Populi and the Lunese D*mocracy
>Lie-sander au L*ne, the shit stain brat, the Praetorians, and dumbasses who follow him

Any recommendations for series with a strong, independent female MC that occasionally needs to disguise herself in skimpy clothing?

>The ritualposter pulled back his cowl, revealing skin stretched like parchment over a skull. Like all Bakkerchuds, he had withered away to bone and organ, animated only by The Goad and grandpa's ashes. "CUNNY," he said out loud, to no one in particular.

>>22391011
Not laughing doesn't equal 'seething' you retard. This is why people hate you election tourists. You try to act the way you've always seen the news portray a 4chan user, but you fail because you're too passionate about the things you joke about. You're always the one everyone's laughing at in the thread, but you're too goddamn thick-headed to see it. Actually, considering /lit/'s probably the first board you've migrated to where oldfags still post regularly, you've just been surrounded by other election tourists since 2016. Go back to /v/. Go back to /a/. Go back to /h/. Finally, go back to /pol/.

Just started Malazan. What am i in for /sff/bros??

>>22391889
Election tourist is such a newfag saying it loses all meaning.

>>22391889
Please don't redirect newfags to /a/. He'll just come back and bitch more after whichever inevitable off-topic thread he makes, gets deleted within half an hour.

>>22390612
Lord of the Mysteries. There's no similarity between the two but Klein is an amazing character, cautiously navigating in a world with insanity and despair at every corner.

Say it

>>22391956
hack

>>22391956
le smiling crisps man

>>22391956
Who

>>22391956
>writes a story with a monstrously evil protagonist
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves while people scream and rage about it

elder troll

>>22383658
Void, The Far Reaches - Veronica Roth (2023)
Ace is a janitor on an interstellar passenger ship that experiences considerable time dilation. It's basically the only of its kind that will transport people and not exclusively cargo. Those who come aboard rarely are ever seen again and the crew have become entirely detached from time and to a lesser extent being able to relate to people. Ace generally stays apart from everyone, but now's time for her to play detective because a murder has been committed and she gets really into doing so. There's no one else who cares to do so, so why not?

I was surprised that I liked this novelette the most of this collection, but barely not enough to rate it higher. I wouldn't have expected that considering what else she's written, despite its popularity, isn't really my thing. The author that I do like didn't have good showings this time. I may only have this liked this one relatively the most because it's also the only story of this Amazon collection of notable writers that didn't feel futile.

>>22391291
Throne of Bones is like CAS with the edginess cranked up to 11, but it also has a wry and subtle sense of humor about itself.

>>22392003
Ywnbaw

>>22392089
Whew, that's reassuring. Thanks.

>>22391956
him sticking purely to genre fiction when he was clearly one of the most talented english language writers alive was probably not an admirable level of autism and was more likely fear that his christian themes wouldn't resonate in an environment where they couldn't be disguised

>>22392120
Peace is his best work though, which doesn't mold into any easily recognizable genre. After reading The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories I'm convinced he had an enduring love for genre and lowbrow fiction in general. That as well as his post Solar Cycle fiction being pastiches/love letters to various genres. (Wizard Knight, An Evil Guest) I believe Wolfe near exclusively wrote what he wanted to write, and didn't give a shit what anyone thought.

>>22392002
Wut?

>>22391890
You will either be grabbed by it and read it obsessively for the next month or else drop the first book after a few chapters.

>>22392176
"The Ziggurat" among others.

>>22392152
>The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
That one is how I imagine /sffg/'s childhood.

>>22391890
>>22392196

>>22392003
>her
Another pozzed current year story with roastie mc

>>22392206
Apologies, I'm not exclusively interested in men as you are.

>>22392243
You are a shitty coomer

>>22392266
All praise be to cooming.

>>22392202
>audiobook cuck
>hates book 2 which is the best book in the entire series
lol

>>22392266
You're retarded.

>>22392335
you are trash

Maybe ya'll can help me find a book I remember reading back when I was a teenager.
It had
>child abandoned in the forest
>tiny robots saved him
>giant river
>more robots
I feel like there was the word river in the title

>>22391956
I want to know how he was so talented. Did God write through his hand?

>>22392380
It would've been better to provide a rough year range than "when I was a teenager".

>>22392120
>was more likely fear that his christian themes wouldn't resonate in an environment where they couldn't be disguised
Dude, a good 50% of litfic is just variations on "what if... God?" / "what if... not God?". Him sticking to SFF is the best thing to ever happen to SFF.

>>22390612
Dear Spellbook is similar.

>>22392416
So I was a teen between 2002 and 2008
So late 90s early 00s for this book I think? I remember it looked pretty new

>>22391890
Layers of anthropological study. The comings and goings of multi-faceted characters.

>>22392380
Not ringing any bells, places like https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/724/Name-that-Book are usually good at helping with this

>litrpg
>litrpg but with female mc and yuri
>litrpg but xianxia
Royalroad hacks can't write anything else it seems. Mother of Learning author started a new novel but there's only 4 chapters :(

>>22392761
>Mother of Learning author started a new novel but there's only 4 chapters :(
great, another pozzed novel incoming

>>22390612
Blood Crest by Cauchy (Harry Potter fanfic but good, honest)

>>22391872
She's not the MC but Corporal Angua from Terry Pratchett's City Watch books often ends up in sexy situations "as a joke"

>>22392777
There's nothing pozzed in MoL

>>22392761
what's it about?

>>22392812
Magic but xianxia
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71045/zenith-of-sorcery

>>22392809
Female spiders

All who read LitRPG should be branded that others might know and avoid them.

>>22392867

>>22392818
read chapter 1, its so boring and uninteresting, protag seems to be the same loser from mol except this time he doesn't have to go through 5 millions of repeats to learn basic spell

>>22392152
peace was horror, horror is a genre, it's my favorite work of his but it was definitely genre. a lot of his short stories were clearly done for paychecks and were simply pandering to the readers of magazines, his love for craft only shines through consistently in his novels

>>22392956
>a lot of his short stories were clearly done for paychecks

He was an engineer with patents to his name.

I don't think he needed the money.

>>22392961
>why yes, people with patents to their name don't need the money
>Tesla had hundreds of patents and died broke because he didn't need the money

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is super underrated. I think people just check it out now for the Ice and Fire comparisons

>>22392761
>>litrpg but with female mc and yuri
Link?

>>22392867
>>22392876
based

>>22392003
your """reviews""" are SHIT
FUCK OFF

>>22391890
Malazanfags like to scare people away from it. It's not a damn James Joyce novel, or fucking William gaddis it's just that characters talk and think about the world they inhabit as if they actually live there, instead of explaining every little thing in their heads. The prose is digestible and well-written, the stakes are high, the atmosphere is wonderful, the characters are good, and weird fantasy shit happens frequently. You will get confused, but the mystery of the world is what makes it fun. Stay away from breakdowns of the series, even the "spoiler free" ones, because they'll just ruin the magic for you.

And by all means, don't be a binge reading consoomer retard, take breaks between books and read other shit if you feel yourself getting burnt out. It's okay if you forget a couple things. The books are huge, you can't be expected to remember all that shit even if you read them all consecutively. Enjoy them at your own pace.

>>22393000
It is very dated, in terms of the tropes and style it is written in. I read it nearly 20 years ago and it felt dated then, I can only imagine how young people now trying to read it feel, probably like it's prehistoric.

>>22393057
What's wrong with his face?

>>22393000
That's what I did and it disappointed the shit out of me. It is not like A Song of Ice and Fire in any substantive way, to the point that GRRM claiming it was a major inspiration feels like a lie.
I dropped it about halfway into book two, and I would probably give book one a 3/6.

>>22393076
>"You want me to Read Thomas Pynchon, Hemingway and Faulkner?"
>"Nah bro that's like dated, You feel me? I need something more buzzin ONG"

>>22393097
Same thing I want to know. I also wonder why he paints his nails. The colours are too bright to be goth.

>>22393116
I don't know what this post has to do with anything I said. MS&T isn't dated because it was written in the 1980s, it's dated because of its subject matter and the way it is told. There are plenty of books older than MS&T that I don't feel are nearly as dated.

>>22393034
You missed one.
>>22387668
You're slipping. Be more attentive.

>>22392797
Also seems dead, hasn't updated since september last year

>>22393057
Yea the way they talk about it is so fucking annoying. Reminds me of Dark Souls fags but for books

Anyone got recs for authors with weird prose?

>Tad the chad makes zoomers mad
>mogs the competition something bad

>>22393314
>yet he remains sad
>he longs for the children he never had

>>22393348
>easy there lad
>don't make me come over
>and make you call me dad

>>22393260
Unironically Kushiel's Dart. It's not weird as such but it is intentionally ornate and clearly meant to fit the tone of the story, which it does.

>>22393314
Tad "I don't need no editor" Williams. A man with the philosophy of why write a 100 words when 1000 will work just as well. He did write the best isekai though (Otherland) before zoomers even knew isekai existed.

>>22390404
You didn't ask for recommendations, fruitbowl, you asked if there were any examples.

>>22393314
Otherland good.
MST bad.

Well... still better than Battlefield Earth

>>22392202
>listening to Malazan
20 IQ nigger detected

>>22392089
where's the ratings you stopped the numbers or what

>>22393783
If there is no rating just assume it was a 3.5/5

>>22390612

Web series you should read:

-12 Miles Below (god tier)
-Pale
-Worm
- Calamitous Bob
-Journey of Black and Red

>>22392797

Harry Potter is usually the worst garbage fiction on the internet. Are there any actual decent series?

This was okay. Anyone else read it?

>>22393783
I don't know why you replied to that post, but I since I posted my thoughts about ratings recently I thought I'd go without the ratings for these novelettes since I'd usually put a word rather than a number for something this short. They're still rated on my Goodreads profile and I'll resume the ratings after I post all the novelettes in the Far Reaches Collection. After this is basically novellas for rest of the month.

Should I include individual stories to inflate my goodreads or keep them as collections/anthologies when applicable? This is a moral crisis.

>>22394070
if you care about recs stick to anthologies
anything with low reader numbers can permanently ruin them

>>22394070
Whatever makes you feel best.

>>22394070
I only mark omnibus editions as read on my goodreads. It decreases my actual number by three quarters but it feels so much better than just adding the titles individually.

just finished my latest project, if anyone needs a cheap editor hit me up. tell me you're from /lit/ so I can give you a discount

https://www.fiverr.com/matthewg42

>>22394131
>adding the titles individually
Lot of effort, that.

New thread:
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>>22394313
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>>22392802
Thanks for the recommend