/lit/ - Literature

First for Frank Herbert

First for pedo slop
First for chinkslop
First for web/litrpg slop
First for cuck slop
First for fmc slop

>>22888503
Fine, I lied last thread to the anon who told me to start Dune next. I read lord of light instead. I will make amends and read dune now.

(it doesn't even count, lord of light is only 300 pages.)

>>22888503
based worm firster

If anyone needs a cheap editor, let me know. I'm waiting for my previous client to submit our new manuscript to Amazon

Well I picked up that David Gemmell book (White Wolf) and also Earthsea from the charity book store

>>22887780
there are 4 books and no, the only thing that's exaggerated is that eragon doesn't actually show roran his bruised dick, just his bruised inner thighs which he says "goes all the way up"
>>22888503
fucking based
>>22888562
fucking based
but if you don't like dune fucking cringe

This year I made a list of Books I've read and most are even relevant to this thread.

Best Books I've read
>Warwolf
>Monster Hunter Guardian
>Monster Hunter Bloodlines
I've read all the MHI Books in like a week, which was nice. Wasn't this exited about anything in a long time. Even though the Momoires books aren't as good as Larry Correias books.

Biggest Letdowns were
>Things have gotten worse since we last spoke by Eric LaRocca
I bought it because the Cover looked good and it was a bit hyped. The writing itself was very enjoyable but the story just fizzled out and it's neither disturbing nor shocking. I won't buy anything from that author again.
>Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
I've wanted to read Blood Meridian but didn't got into it too well so I thought this short book might help me to get into McCarthy. Waste of time it was. It's a bit like August Underground but for 1970 sensibilities. Would have been better off if I just forced myself through Blood Meridian

Biggest Surprise
>The Haar by David Sodergren
I expected "The Thing" in Scotland but what I got was the sheer Terror of being old. I liked it so much that I bought the "The Navajo Nightmare" right after which I also enjoed but it made me respect the Author a whole lot less.
>Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
I had this book lying around for over 10 years now, the first time I read it I stopped somewhere in the middle before it gets "dark" and thought it was a book about teenagers for teenagers. So imagine my shock when I actually finished it this time. For reasons I don't understand the "snuff movie" and the "bathroom" scene actually had an emotional impact on me. I don't know why this book hit me that hard but I will read more of Ellis work in 2024.


post your lists too.

>>22888786
I posted mine last thread but it's pretty barebones lol.

Top 5 of the year for me:
>Dark Age
>Golden Son
Red Rising Saga as a whole was an absolute gem, some of the most enjoyable scifi I've read recently
>Deadhouse Gates
Best I've seen of Malazan yet, I thought House of Chains would take its spot but the ending ruined that
>Dune
Enough said lol
>Ghost Brigades
Just an all around solid military scifi with a very cool idea about the consciousness of a fugitive being used as a base for a soldier in hopes of finding out crucial info said fugitive would only know

Biggest letdown:
>Name of the Wind
All the praise I've seen for KKC online probably led me to expect more than Mr. Piggy is capable of. This is probably one of the biggest wastes of time when it comes to what I've read this year.

Hidden Gem:
>Cyberpunk 2077: No coincidences
Although this isn't a perfect book as someone who adores the game it's such an excellent tie in novel. Highly recommend checking out to anyone who also enjoyed the game and Edgerunners wasn't enough spinoff goodness for you.

>>22888786
>I've wanted to read Blood Meridian but didn't got into it too well so I thought this short book might help me to get into McCarthy.
Read No Country for Old Men instead. The Border Trilogy is also better.

>>22888815
Oh yes one addendum, stuff I've read before like ASOIAF, HP, Witcher novellas etc weren't eligible for my top 5 list. If not then GRRM would take most of the spots on the list lol.

Any books with homosexual romance?

I've been reading the three body problem and I really hate Cheng Xin, because it's a character who feels no guilt or shame for the atrocities that she is responsible for.
Does this character get better or does she keep being thrust into positions of power by suicidal humans so she can accurately genocide the earth?

Is it also true that the author has a vendetta against asian women? somehow he's portrayed asian women as malicious devils.

>>22888712
i wanna read the earthsea books because ursula k le guin makes /sff/ seethe so i wager there must be something good about them

>>22888815
>>Dark Age
what book is this. if i search on google i just get articles about the dark ages obviously

>>22888923
nevermind. i found it

>>22888914
Do it. You'll quickly realize how boring they are and then you can move on to actual good writers.

>>22888914
I've heard varying opinions on Earthsea here. Some say she's the only good woman writer so I'm willing to believe. If she isn't, then meh I'll just give it to my daughter and move on.

>>22888914
they just hate earthsea because the mc has olive skin, if he was white bakkerfag would be posting "first for LeGuin"

>>22888786
Best:
>True names
>A Fire upon the deep
These two books cemented Vernor Vinge as one of my favorite authors, I actually decided to read him based on a suggestion an anon made on /lit/. Thanks anon.
>Roadside picnic
A great other side of the stalker universe, it shows a different but similar world the ones I'm familiar with from the metro and stalker games. Really loved it.

Letdowns:
>Metamorphosis
He's a roach omggg so wacky, read a summary or watch a video on it. Skip this trash.
>Ubik
PKD blows up any cool ideas he has if he writes for long enough.
>Lord of light
Not what I was expecting, bit of a wasted universe.
>Art of seduction
I've never read j Greene before this, he's overblown and a bit cringe but not horrible, it's more an exploration of literature and historical figures than some super secret guide to sex xd

Surprise:
>Thin air
I thought it'd be cringe at first, but I really liked it.
>Akira
Lots of stuff is missing from the movie, glad I've taken the time to read the Manga.

frank Herbert is a bad writer but dune is a good book.
the rest are bad tho

>>22889048
>bit of a wasted universe.
go back to the worldbuilding general, this is the LITERATURE board

pics like OP can really take me back for just a second to how I felt at 15 booting up Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale some other CRPG

It's weird that the imagination and sense of wonder is still alive in me somewhere. I remember being captivated by every random fantasy book cover.

I read 4000 pages this year on my Ereader but it only translates to 3000 pages on physical

>>22889050
Hmm I wonder why

>>22889083
That's like 10 books if we're being generous. Those are rookie numbers.

Who here likes Heinlein?

>>22889027
>bakker out of nowhere
Seethe

>>22889211
his books gave me my first boners when i was a wee lad, the book Rolling Stones gave me a fetish for readhead GILFS

>>22888786
This year I read:
>The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
It was great, small collection but lots of gems I'd never read like the title story and The Temple. And got to read Shadow over Innsmouth again. Lovecraft rules.
>Berserk The Flame Dragon Knight
The writing or translating in this is stiff as a board but the story is more Berserk and it lives up, loved it.
>Berserk
Yes this year I read all 42 Miura volumes. I went going in already knowing Berserk rocks, I'd seen the anime, but I was still completely unprepared for just how much the manga fucking rocks. Iconic for a reason.
>Fools Errand, Golden Fool, Fools Fate
It was a true pleasure to get back to Fitz.
>Valdor Birth of the Imperium
I enjoy Unification Era 40k lore and this was a nice helping of it. Not much to write home about.
>Bless Me Ultima
Lovely little story about a kid in New Mexico torn between his indigenous heritage and his catholic heritage.
>Passage to Dawn
I been having way more fun with Drizzt than I evert expected to but this may be where the train finally runs out of steam for me.
>Last Days
Friend recommended this lil slice of horror to me like it would blow my mind and it didn't but it was a good bit of fun
>Journey of the Mind
Solid little book on the development of the mind. Gets a bit woo at the end but it was very good.
>The Second Apocalypse
The constant Bakker posting on here, which was much more constant at the start of the year, got me curious enough to try this out. I expected to hate it but I ended up marathoners the whole thing and now it's one of my all time faves. Bakker really is king.
>Unfinished Tales by Tolkein
Exquisite. Shame how much is pure Christopher Tolkein autism over minor lore points instead of letting his dads writing speak for itself, but truly there is no besting JRR.
>Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Lame. It's cult classic status must be a result of the times cause there's very little here. Not without amusement but just so standard
>Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas
Fantastic book. Recommend to all. Especially you chuds.
>The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn
Reading these for the sake of my dad who loves them. I have to admit it's starting to get a little bit good, Dad always claims it only *really* starts at book 5, but if you have to get 3000 pages in before it starts to get good that means it's not good imo.
>Gladiator
Super fun lil golden age sci fi novel. The first superhero story and it's an existential nightmare. Loved it.
>The Bible
Been reading this in bits for like five years finally finished at the start of this one. It sucked. The wisdom books are great. Ecclesiastes, Job, Genesis, thems are all timers. But man the rest blew. Even the Gospels I found pretty lame and schizophrenic which was a lot down. But now I've done it.

>>22889048
how to read as fast as you

>>22889063
This is /sffg/ thoughbeit

>Achamian = Guts
>Esmenet = Casca
>Kellhus = Griffith
Why the hell didn't I realize this before?

>>22889385
Great Ordeal = Failed
Cnaiur = Thughhunter Conan
Why the hell didn't I realize this before?

>>22889392
>Great Ordeal = Failed
Lies

>>22888465
>Reading Vurt
>Going to my parents for Xmas
>Going to crash on their couch
My mom wanted to see what I was reading and now they are all telling me I need to see a psychologist immediately, they're concerned

What other books give off this vibe?

>>22889048
Real talk, the author of roadside picnic must follow STALKER mods. How many copies will True Stalker sell? 5,000? I bought mine.

>>22889421
>they are all telling me I need to see a psychologist immediately, they're concerned
Tell them to fuck off

this book feels like gene wolfe just thought of a bunch of cool scenes, thematic elements, and environmental imagery, and stitched them together hoping readers would find what the plot is. i don't think he had an idea for the book beyond "i think these scenes are just really cool and atmospheric."

>>22889502
What else do you expect from a stemtard?

/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.

/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.

>>22889502
Uh oh...

>>22889541
>Reverend Insanity = Literally about an a-moral bugman killing/consooming/cultivating
>Lord of The Mysteries = Hard to into asian steampunk with potion based class acquisition, achievement and crafting progression with un-lockable magical items and sekret tarot organizations because it wasn't already confusing enough.
>Neuromancer = Decent cyberspunk i'm putting together a team novel
>Hyperion = Interplanetary high tech trooning
>The Prince of Nothing = Bakker is for fags and fags are for Bakker. simple as
>The Wandering Inn = Stay at home moms power fantasy with a main character whos most prominent power is complaining while being a pacifist.
>Between Two Fires = Heaven Vs hell but in medievil FRANCE!
>Mother of Learning = Time loop and like all of the subgenre goes literally nowhere over and over again, has a decent magic system that some find mediocre and a main characters sister that is annoying as fuck.
>Cradle = Every second novel is a dud in the series with a birdbath of a main character. Only decent thing is the fights that get stale real quick because it does not take long to realize they are all ill conceived magical games of uno.
>I Shall Seal the Heavens = Proto xianxia at its worst, MC gets kidnapped into strong but lowly down on its luck sect. Queue haughty young masters, saving face and swilling ginseng infused tiger penis soup by the gallon.
>A Song of Ice and Fire = Fantastical medieval degeneracy where the characters who should live die and the characters who should die live. Also author is too busy getting fat and old to finish the series.
>The Poppy War = Fem-C gets accepted to 20th century china-esque martial academy and gets looked down upon while struggling to overcome amidst pseudo researched equally vintage china political bullshit.

>>22889546
>Azarinth Healer = Starts good but fizzles hard midway. Author also makes the main character a low key lesbian because they clearly have no idea hat to do with their love life.
>Primal Hunter = MC+background is so impossibly nonsensical that he's not even cannon in his own setting.
>He Who Fights with Monsters = every character that isn't the MC is just there to be amazed at how smart Jason is while he tells them shit they already know before reminding them (incorrectly i might add) that 'Oh you have no idea".
>Dungeon Crawler Carl = The MC's sidekick (A cat named 'Princess Donut') is so much smarter than Carl (the MC) that every scene the two are in is eye-gougingly painful. This would not be so much of a problem if such scenes did not constitute the majority of the series.
>System Universe = After the initial premise is established it turns into how to pander to followers at a snails pace AKA; 'Filler McFiller Face - The Excessively Extended Sleep Inducing Saga'.
>Dissonance = MC gets god fucked more then once as he goes about becoming a man/bear/goat/pig/axolotl hybrid who also has many super sekret identities.
>Defiance of the Fall = Brain dead MC with very-much-just-barely opposed kingdom building with a wafer thin cultivation system
>Iron Prince = edgy school setting with even edgier MC who has lightning powers and no discernible challenges what so ever.

Based apefag fighting a useless yet laudable fight

>>22889591
>>22889603
Thank you Gorilla-san

I want a book about gods, incest, knights, cute girls, unexplained magic, monsters, schools, and hell toss in something about the environment.

Why hasn't anyone written something like this?

>>22889652
American Gods has most of that.

>>22889652
My diary desu

>>22889309
I only recently started reading, before that chart I'd had only read like AP lit books (Wuthering heights, gatsby, scarlet letter) and some Gothic literature for a class (I wanted to meet goth girls in college, I didn't meet any).

I work normal hours and normal days, I read on my one hour lunch break and atleast an hour or two when I get home. On weekends I can read for 3-6 hours straight.

I also listen to the audio book at my reading speed (1.5-1.7x) in place of reading or at the same time. This helps me keep making progress. Oh and I take Ritalin for sleepiness.

A 600 page berserk volume I can finish in 1-1.5hrs, I read lord of light (300pgs) in 3 days (I only read like 60 pages the first day).

I am a bit of a zoomer content addict so I always have podcasts, videos etc playing 24/7 in my life, only recently I've replaced some of it with books. My job also requires excellent reading comprehension (material scientist).

Oh also I only rent my books from the library, I have 12 checked out currently. When people request holds on the books I have, I can't renew them so I HAVE to read them ASAP. Kind of helps with motivation, to know someone is stealing the book from me soon and I haven't read it.

Anyways take Ritalin or something.

>>22889717
>When people request holds on the books I have, I can't renew them so I HAVE to read them ASAP.
what does that mean. i'm a thirdie esl and there's no libraries here

>>22889550
i think i understand why people get so worked about this book. you really have to convince yourself that it was worth reading after you've finished it. that said, there's enough loosely connected themes that you can kind of imagine a coherent plot.
the main issue i had with it was that severian being a torturer was not compelling. i got vibes of the black company from the book of the new sun, but the whole "go around executing people" just didn't feel as cool as "go around fighting wars for people."

>>22889765
It means what you probably think it means. He checks out books and then people request that the library holds them when they are returned, so that they may check them out before they are checked out by others. In this situation usually you are not allowed to renew your time checking out the book, in order to make things fair for others who wish to read the book as well.
Also not that anon but I have found some books to be easier to read in audiobook format while doing other monotonous tasks like exercise cooking or work.

>>22889502
>when you grow up and realize that plot is for children

This trilogy details the emergence of Anasûrimbor Kellhus, a brilliant monastic warrior, as he takes control of a holy war and the hearts and minds of its leaders. Kellhus exhibits incredible powers of prediction and persuasion, which are derived from deep knowledge of rationality, cognitive biases, and causality, as discovered by the Dûnyain, a secret monastic sect. As Kellhus goes from military leader to divine prophet, Drusas Achamian, the sorcerer who mentored Kellhus, comes to realize that his student may well be the harbinger of the Second Apocalypse.

This is just the plot of Dune.

Apparently they've started up the comic run for the Wheel of Time again after roughly a 10 year hiatus. I guess the dogshit amazon adaptation did have a silver lining.

any good fantasy about evil women?

>>22888815
>>22888815
red rising is kino, i hope the TV adaptation Pierce has been working on behind the scenes isn't shit since he's insisting on live action. I truly believe animation is the best way for a solid adaption

>>22889928
It'll be shit and filled with fags and blacks especially the love interest who is guaranteed to be black.

>>22889923
Seconded

>>22888914
I liked the books, but began to tire of it by the third.

>>22889717
You don't want to meet goth girls. They are broken

>>22889945
Nah I doubt they'll race swap horsefucker tho less important side characters I'm certain will be DEI'd

>>22889955
>goth girls
and it's a coin flip if they'll be your best lay yet or total dead fish where you gotta do all the work

>>22889964
Nope. Check out the percy jackson show. It's the same idea.

>>22889976
Yeah but Riordan is a massive woke pandering faggot tho, Pierce was recently getting heat from retards for recommending Henry Kissinger's books and that's based on if he did imply Mr Based warmonger is evil.

>>22889988
Shit I had a stroke typing that last part
>and that's based, even if he did imply...

>>22889988
That hardly matters. Hollywood does what it likes

>>22889502
Wait until you find out that's only half of the story.

>>22889892
Yeah, that's fair. There are a lot of similarities.

>>22888465
Currently reading River of Gods. Cyberpunk in India is interesting but can't help imagining those AI shit memes.

Yay or nay?

Reading Way of Choices after Reverend Insanity is like night and day.

>>22888465
Are the Witcher books any good? I just finished playing Witcher 3, and now I feel sad and empty as there's nothing left to do with my virtual friends I got so attached to.

>>22890194
>the aspect emperor
>the god emperor
Honestly I wasn't going to read Bakker because of the gay anal rape scene that always gets cherrypicked but if he's ripping off Dune then it's probably good.

>>22888465
Golden Son, Red Rising Saga #2 - Pierce Brown (2015)

Golden Son is better in every way than Red Rising, which is what everyone has told me. Brown has clearly improved and learned a lot. This time it's space opera and while it doesn't focus on being military science fiction, it's certainly present. One of the biggest differences is how much more expansive it is and how much it's willing to do. I wasn't able to take the first book seriously, and I still can't with this one, but I can appreciate what it's doing. This is exceedingly commercial genre fiction done well. It knows what it is, focuses on that, and doesn't pretend otherwise.

Darrow remains insufferable, though I have to wonder how much that's because it's in first person. I get the feeling that for many others what I find insufferable may be relatable or even appealing. My main problem is that he's a character rather than a person. What I mean by that is that he's whatever the current scene requires him to be regardless of any other consideration. The same goes for every other aspect of the novel, but the weaknesses in characterization are the most readily apparent and the hardest to overlook for me. This book is among those that has that greatest gap between what I think about the protagonist and the book overall. Several other characters are better, but it wouldn't be the same story if Darrow weren't the protagonist.

This is a strange book in that it feels entirely crafted to reader considerations, yet still works well. It's not organic at all in the way it plays with reader expectations, however it does know what those expectations are and what to do with them. It's all very calculated in its craft. I don't know how sustainable that is, as with anything that relies upon novelty, but it suffices in the short term. The question Brown seems to ask himself for every scene is "What would make this most entertaining for the reader?". So, if you're reading this for anything other than base entertainment, I think you're doing it wrong. That puts a hard cap on how highly I can think of it, but I consider that entirely separate from enjoyment, and not at all relevant for most.

Despite almost everything I saw about this book being much better, I still had considerable doubt, but I was wrong. Even so, I'm keeping my expectations in check. However, as I've written before, I'm not concerned with novelty most times. If someone writes a formula that I enjoy, I don't care if they do it over and over again, as long as I'm still enjoying it. That's not something I would want everyone else to do, but it's what I do. As I wrote, I can't take this book seriously, though I can appreciate it. I don't find it meaningful, but not everything has to be. Sometimes fun things are simply fun and don't need to be anything more than that. At the end I realized that I had laughed enough in joy and was amused enough by its ridiculousness to give it a 4 rather than a 3.5 rounded up.

Rating: 4/5

>>22890284
They are okay. They do tell the same story though.

>>22890284
Yes they are good.

Go read the first one and see, I don't have a taste for fantasy really but I love the games and really liked the first book.

It even made me laugh (the part where Gerald reads a letter).

The only weird part was reading Geralt do his own shit and not what I wanted (serious).

>>22890284
probably bait for the schizo copypasta but yes they are, start with The Last Wish short story collection

>>>22890296 >>22890298 >>22890329
Thanks. I actually found The Last Wish and Blood of Elves on my bookshelf. I must have bought them a lifetime ago when I played the first Witcher game and felt the same way. Never read them, though, for some reason.

Hey fellas, my workplace gave me a 100 dollarydoos giftcard, I'm thinking of spending it on books. Suggestions?

>>22890363
get an ereader and pirate to your heart's content

>>22888786
2023 in Reading (Prose)
110 read
70 novels
26 novellas
8 standalone short fiction
4 anthologies
1 collection
1 nonfiction

~41,189 pages read
Novels published in Current Year: 33
Books rated 5 stars: 11
Shortest Book 28 pages
Longest Book 1,116 pages
Average book length in 2023 374 pages
Most Shelved 1,048,961 people also shelved
Least Shelved 41 people also shelved
My average rating for 2023 3.4
Highest Rated on Goodreads 4.72
Lowest Rated on Goodreads 3.11

Current Year 5 Stars
Blade of Dream (Kithamar, #2)
A Harvest of Ash and Blood
Generation Ship
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

Previous Years 5 Stars
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
Electric Forest
A Year in the Linear City
The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

>>22890288
I'm on the last book and so far there have been maybe two gay rape scenes in the entire series that have any detail at all and even those barely go into detail beyond the screencap.
Kellhus is basically "what if Paul was a sociopath" and the group he's from are absolutely inspired by Bene Gesserit.

i'm not sure if i like the powder mage trilogy. my interest has started to wane by the third book. the whole concept of the steampunk/victorian era magic world just doesn't instill a sense of wonder. the military campaign in the second book was probably the highlight of the trilogy for me.

>>22890377
>Kellhus is basically "what if Paul was a sociopath"
And that's basically Leto II, except not really since he cannot exactly be judged like a human what with all the ancestors inside is awareness and all.

>>22890288
the sex scenes in the trilogy aren't that egregious. is it smut? maybe. the books are still fun.

>>22890289
Morning Star is a step down from Golden Son imo but so far the sequel series has been Brown at his best

>>22890284
The short story collections are the best. I read through them last year and I give them a solid 6/10.

>>22890466
I've seen mixed opinions here and in the group. Though a lot of the negativity seems to have been silly stuff or complaints on why it didn't end at being 3 books total. It's to been seen how it goes. I'll probably get Red God when it becomes available on NetGalley however many months before its publication date. I'll have to see when exactly they'd prefer I post about it at the time. There probably isn't all that much reason to post it right away. This of course assumes that I keep enjoying it long enough to get there. We'll see. I'll be reading Morning Star next. I don't know when I'll be continuing the series after that. There's so much else to read.

>>22889892
oh my god.
i read this blurb like a decade ago when i was a failed normie teenager and couldn't remember the name of the book it was referring to and felt really frustrated about it cause the plot sounded interesting and wanted to ask /sff/ if they knew it but couldn't phrase my recollection correctly

and now i finally know which book it is

holy mother of serendipity

>>22890525
The answer was always right in front of you... all you had to do was google bakker and click on wikipedia.

>>22890525
Hilarious

>>22890525
Destiny chose you to ascend to the mantle of Bakkerfag, wear it with pride Anon.

>>22890235
>tfw not a single yay or nay

>>22890388
>the military campaign in the second book was probably the highlight of the trilogy
you're not wrong

read a thousand names for gun fantasy kino but not the rest of the series because it's extreme shit

>>22890638
>Should I read trite written by hacks
gee bill you tell me

>>22890650
So that's a yay.

>>22889048
>Next question: what insect? Commentators say cockroach, which of course does not make sense. A cockroach is an insect that is flat in shape with large legs, and Gregor is anything but flat: he is convex on both sides, belly and back, and his legs are small. He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.) Further, he has strong mandibles. He uses these organs to turn the key in a lock while standing erect on his hind legs, on his third pair of legs (a strong little pair), and this gives us the length of his body, which is about three feet long. In the course of the story he gets gradually accustomed to using his new appendages—his feet, his feelers. This brown, convex, dog-sized beetle is very broad. I should imagine him to look like this:

In the original German text the old charwoman calls him Mistkäfer, a "dung beetle." It is obvious that the good woman is adding the epithet only to be friendly. He is not, technically, a dung beetle. He is merely a big beetle. (I must add that neither Gregor nor Kafka saw that beetle any too clearly.)

>>22889717
can you become addicted to ritalin

>>22890525
Hey there newfag

>>22889919
where did they leave off?

>>22889919
also what even is that panel? the breaking of the world? i don't recall zombies being mentioned anywhere

>>22890740
>>22890745
It ended on the Eye of the World, it also did the New Spring prequel as well. It's showing the prologue with Bors at the darkfriend meeting, this is when he receives instructions from ishamael

>>22890371
>110 read
i kneel. my record is 42
same question >>22889309

>>22890371
>70 novels read
>33 publishedthis year
So that's how.

>>22890838
My reading speed depends on what I'm reading. I don't try to read fast. I have a lot of time and I spend a lot of time. I don't see any book reader any faster than is enjoyable and understandable. Sometimes I'll stop entirely and think over what I've reading. It's not unusual for me to spend many hours reading, or even the entire day at times. Quantity isn't really something to be socially proud of usually for entertainment. It just means you aren't doing other things that are generally more valued or may not be giving it much attention.

I'm reading mother of learning and there's no way the author isn't from the Balkans, anyone know where from specifically?

>>22891093
> I don't see any book reader any faster than is enjoyable and understandable.
Oops, I don't see any reason to read any faster

>>22890371
Do you count short story collections as each individual story or one book for the entire 'volume'?
>tfw ~25 books less this year than the past 3 or 4 years

>>22891109
It's what it says in the breakdown. It depends on how it's published. That's why I have the 8, because they were each published on Amazon separately. That's a special circumstance though. At the opposite end is the Big Book of Cyberpunk, which has over 100 stories, that I all wrote about, counted only as 1. That's one of the reasons Goodreads page count estimate is included.

How do I avoid wasting my time reading inane fanfiction hackery in 2024?

>>22891134
By not reading fanfiction at all or tapering off until it's nothing. How you do that is like combatting any other addiction or undesirable behavior

>>22890684
It's a stimulant, so yes. It's not as recreational as Adderall, and only slightly more recreational than modafinil. I would never seriously suggest doing a drug to read more.
>>22889955
I want to meet goth girls while I still have time to have almost meaningless relationships. I don't want to have goth girl regret when I am married.

TWI bros
How do we feel about V9's finale
I feel like the double finale with the Solstice in Liscor and then the whole pirate thing kinda soured the whole thing for me
Also, as much as I like Rabbit, that whole part of the plot really didn't land for me at all
Also Bethal is alive, bless

>>22891234
What's TWI

>>22891300
Shit

>Murtagh’s lip curled, and he felt an urge to throw a boot at the man. Not only were the verses badly composed and badly sung—no bard would have dared sing so off-key at court for fear of being beaten—but they were wrong.
“He would have lost if not for me,” Murtagh muttered, thinking of Eragon. And yet, aside from those who had been present in Galbatorix’s throne room at the end, no one knew and no one cared. He and Thorn had quit the capital following the king’s death, preferring to remove themselves from civilization rather than contend with the hostility of an ignorant public.
>It had been the right choice. Murtagh still believed that. But it meant they lost the opportunity to defend themselves in the court of popular opinion. And if Eragon or Nasuada or the elves’ queen, Arya, had spoken in defense of him or Thorn, to explain the role they had played in killing Galbatorix and Shruikan, word of it had yet to reach Murtagh.
>The fact sat badly with him. Perhaps the truth needed more time to spread among the common folk. Or perhaps Eragon, Nasuada, and Arya were content to let the world think the worst of him, to use him as a convenient scapegoat, a monster in the dark that might focus people’s fears and leave the three of them free to govern as they pleased. The thought made his stomach twist.
>Either way, as far as most folk were concerned, Eragon was the greatest hero who had ever lived, and none could stand before him.
>Murtagh snorted softly. Hardly. But there was no fighting a song or story once it became popular. So often the truth bent to what felt right. At least the troubadour hadn’t bothered to describe Eragon’s supposed triumph over Murtagh and Thorn. At that, Murtagh really did think he would have thrown his boot.

>>22891300
fantasy story for moms written by an AGP

any books with trans protagonists?

>>22891440
anything written after 2015

>>22888465
Why are CF betrayal revenge arcs so kino?

why all the hate for the prince of nothing trilogy? can some people just not enjoy things for what they are?

>>22891479
The first three books are good but it drops off in quality afterward that.

What's post-2010 Western sf/f like?

>>22891318
is paolini gay? i think i only read eragon and eldest, and it definitely seemed pretty gay at parts, enough to where i thought the author was possibly gay.

Rand al'Thor

>>22891506
He has a nerd wife and two daughters

>>22891530
So did bruce jenner

>>22891504
Clearly you're new or haven't being paying attention here.

>>22891504
the expanse has been (or will be) incredibly influential in the world of hard sci-fi. it does a great job of depicting "realistic" space future.

>>22891696
I don't disagree that it'll be influential, but any sort of realism gets thrown out in the last few books, especially the last one. There's a new series coming out next year.

>>22890640
Thousand names is awful. It's Powder mage except the author obsesses over his teenage lesbian mary sue and her relationship drama with her girlfriend for the entire series while everything remotely interesting gets pushed into the background in favor of more cringe teenage lesbian drama.

>>22892076
The Thousand Names is the name of the first book, which is good. The rest of the series is awful, yes.

Why don't you read more indie authors?

>>22892260
I read fanfic. How's that suit you?

>>22892260
>roastie on the cover
>female mc
>feminist/gay/tranny author
That's why

>>22892076
in the first book, the author decides to make charlemund (the head priest) an amazing swordsman out of nowhere. i'm actually okay with a few instances of the plot dictating events, but this was not foreshadowed at all and felt sloppy.

>>22890235
I have read the first novel, it was good if you like/want an "exploring quest" trope.

>>22888465

Im trying to find this site that had a bunch of in depth fantasy book reviews but I completely forgot what it was called

>>22892505
fantasticfiction.com ?

>>22889717
>Gothic literature for a class (I wanted to meet goth girls in college, I didn't meet any).
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

>>22892515

nope, sadly
I remember the background of the site was sepia-ish color

>>22890174
It's not even half. It's 1/6 of the story.
>>22890284
I've only read the Last Wish before the Witcher 3 came out. The games were better, but then again, I read it in English, and not in Polish, so I guess much of the essence was lost in translation.

>>22892260
>Booktubers
Cringe, post some real indie kino at least

Finished First Law. Pretty good over all, very fun. Could have perhaps cut some of the fantasy sex scenes from book 2.
Are the stand alone novels and the second trilogy any good?

>>22892806
stand alones are good

>>22891096
Croatia

what is a hack writer?

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Great post anons, very original but just started three body problem and i'm wondering when does it gets good? are the witcher books any good? Only played Witcher 3 and the netflix's series. Just started Eye of the World when does WoT gets good?? Any books like dark souls/berserk/Bloodborne??? Any books like FF/Dragon Quest/Tales of..??!! Any books with N'Wahs?Kvothe is a cuck, will slob Martin ever finish winds of winter??? Abercrombie is Reddit-tier?? Are the dune sequels worth it or should i stop with god emperor of dunc? Should i read the Hyperion sequel???? Did severian fucked his grandma? Is severian a clone? Any books with chinks? Any books like fallout/metro? Any books where the mc gets cucked? Any books where the mc Doesn't get cucked?? Stormlight book 5 when? Will kaladin fuck the fairy?? is the Eisenhorn trilogy a good place to start with W40k??? Or should i watch 4hours YouTube vid about le EPIC lore??? Any books with young petite women? Any books with old thick women? Any books with MANLY men like David Gemmell? Soulcatcher or Lady who is the better waifu? When does malazan gets good?? I didn't finish highschool so i can´t understand Malazan?!?! Any books with chinks??!! When does ASOIAF gets good??!? When does Farseer gets good?? When does lightbringer gets good?? When does codex alera gets good??? When does Lord of The Isles gets good?? Dunsany is king or bakker?? Any books with incest?

>>22892944
I recommend Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun and it's sequels.
May you find Christ! Gloria in excelsis Deo

>>22892959
>May you find Christ
May you find your sky daddy too!
Best of luck, anon

I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE I HATE SERWE

Oh boy bakkerfag is having his classic holidays meltdown.

This general is so dead, what was the last time a relevant sff book actually came out? Totally finished genre/movement.

>>22893040
For me, its Shadow Sect arc

>>22892998
When doesn't he have a meltdown? Literally the definition of barely-functioning autism without self-awareness. I don't say that as an insult; merely an observation.

>>22893039
>This general is so dead,
It's the holidays, anon.
>>22893067
He's been going at it for 5 years maybe more i genuinely can't comprehend how someone can be so obsessed with one (1) series, not even bakker gives a fuck about the series anymore that's why he dropped it and became a dad, bakkerfag should try to follow his example.

>>22892838
jk rowling

>>22892505
https://greatsfandf.com/index.php

>>22892838
A hack is a workhorse. A hack writer is a professional writer who puts word on paper to eat. Often they produce poor quality works, but not necessarily. Lots of great novelists were hacks. Shakespeare was a hack; the guy wrote a play a year while also managing a theater and acting.

Did anyone buy it?

>>22893283
>Shakespeare was a hack; the guy wrote a play a year while also managing a theater and acting
that's because it was a group of people writing the plays :)

>>22888914
What happens with Earthsea is that less developed readers like the YA books and then get really annoyed when they get challenged a bit by Tenar's pov

>>22888465
>Aliens attack
>Humanity defeats their flotilla in a fair fight using nuclear weapons, mostly a colossal war in the skies and years of battles against alien landings across the planet
>Humanity defeats their flotilla in a fair fight using nuclear weapons, mostly a colossal war in the skies and years of battles against alien landings across the planet
>No gay shit story twists like the War of the Worlds, just war
>Humanity lost billions of dead, many territories are now devastated, but now we’ve stolen some alien technology lol
No books with a story like that?

>>22890284
It's pretty much the generic opinion but I think the short stories are good (with some being really good) and then the novels are pretty boring.
>>22891504
>What's post-2010 Western sf/f like?
I read loads of new releases a few years ago and there was so many books themed around revolutions but almost all of them did the american liberal thing of just going from bad ruler to good instead of examining the overthrow of monarchy or anything like that.
IMO it's probably a follow on from Hunger Games and the like dominating YA where they have the similar plots of revolution. I generally avoid epic fantasy so I might've missed trends there. Also tumblr and self-pub are clear influences that you can see filtering through to the published world, lots of published fic is practically ripping off stuff from those spheres.
Scifi had quite a lot of books about 'shit jobs', I don't like Becky Chambers but she really exemplified the trend. Also a lot of atrocious Elon Musk references lol (Melinda Snodgrass is the only author I recall who was smart enough to use him negatively)

>>22893267
This one!

Thanks anon

>>22892944
Consider yourself filtered and hidden. You've over used it. Goodbye.

>>22893393
Lost Fleet series?

>>22892944
Why are you asking for books with incest? That's so weird lol

>>22893446
Lol I'm asking for a friend.

>>22892366
That's exactly what I want.

>>22892806
Only read The Heroes standalone and it was pretty good

>>22893441
Step into busy traffic, Bakkerfag. Multiple cars to ensure the deed is done.

>>22893393
every BAEN book since 1991

>>22893567
The eternal seethe towards Bakker will never not be funny

Currently reading pic related. A bit weird but I like it.

>>22889603
>>22889591
I would love to see some lit suggestions from gorilla-san!

>>22893654
My New year's eve wish is that bakkerfag will finally read another book.

>>22893692
>he reads one of the other endlessly-discussed novels
Could you imagine?

>>22893692
Absolutely rent free.

Bakker is still king. Show me a better modern fantasy series. You can't

>>22893689

echopraxia is better

>>22893773
it's a blue board so scatposting isn't really appreciated

>>22893567
I have never read Bakker. Please check into in-patient care.

>>22893773
This is better, bow down to Lord Kearney

>>22893788
Thats your loss

>>22893692
My new years wish is that people read Lafferty

Found out that I'm going to be going through a rough situation for the foreseeable future. I'm in the mood for a very long, expansive book series that I can immerse myself into the world of. I don't care too much about tone, whether it's light or dark, so long as the world is very well-thought out and has lots of history, and the characters are well-written and easy to get attached to. Am leaning toward Fantasy, but am willing to give a Sci-fi series a shot.

>>22893801
Isn't he out of print? I would like to read it eventually but I have like 60 things on my list.

Bakkerfag likes Bakker
Reverand Insanity fag likes RI
Anti-review fag likes Dunsany
What is the relationshit between ritualposter and obscure series?
Hard mode: The answer cannot be autism.

>>22893812
I'm going to do easy mode and say autism anyway

>>22893827
Autism isn't a real thing.

>>22893777
Nice digits. I intend to read that too.

>>22893442
check it, don’t get
>>22893651
Can you name the best?

>>22893796
oh shit each book is relatively short too! brb getting these now thanks nigga

I'm going to try and finish at least 50 books this coming year.

k-kino..

>>22893834
Then how come I have it?

>>22893966
You don't have it because there is no such thing.

>>22893979
I'm a anomaly then

>>22893988
More like a homomaly.

>>22893988
No, you really aren't. You really don't have autism because autism doesn't exist.

>>22893999
You'll never take my autism away from me

>>22893809
I'll check him out. Give a rec.
My top series are Malazan, Solar Cycle, Wizard Knight, Second Apocalypse, and Thomas Covenant.

>>22894004
I can't take something you've never had.

>>22894026
It was always with me, since the day I was born, passed down from father to son, from there on the powers where always with me

>>22894007
>Thomas Covenant.
The redemption of bakkerfag

>>22889892
Bakker freely admits much of Second Apocalypse is just Dune + Tolkein + Iron Men and Saints.
But it's not where you take it from, it's where you take it to. Hundreds of people have written Dune knockoffs and Tolkein knockoffs and frequently even merge them (Aiel from WoT, faceless men in asoiaf, etc).
But imo only Bakker has used them to craft something that reaches the same level Tolkein and Herbert reached.
It's not popular right now because of its difficulty and its prolific rape but I feel confident in years to come Second Apocalypse will be considered a classic. Like Moby Dick.

>>22891318
>“He would have lost if not for me,” Murtagh muttered, thinking of Eragon. And yet, aside from those who had been present in Galbatorix’s throne room at the end, no one knew and no one cared. He and Thorn had quit the capital following the king’s death, preferring to remove themselves from civilization rather than contend with the hostility of an ignorant public.
Eragon actually was literally fucking god and jesus and could have taken the throne and told the public whatever he wanted and they would have believed it. He was just "fated" to leave the land because Paolini was too retarded to clean up magical radiation on Vroengard with the name of names, and he wanted to rip off the elves leaving for the grey havens. Nasuada was also in love with Murtagh and would have made sure the truth was known. This is the dumbest, most contrived conflict imaginable. I don't think I could get through this book without much difficulty because it seems as though Paolini has forgotten the story he wrote. There is absolutely no way the new rulers concerned with justice and the truth would have let people believe Murtagh didn't play a pivotal role in overthrowing the previous tyrant.

>the thread went 7 minutes without a mention
>better reply to a 22 hour old post!!

>>22893962
Is this Bakker? Reads like shit

>>22893810
Hobbit, LotR, Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales by Tolkein (wish there was a name for these four books and just these four)
Elderlings by Robin Hobb
Second Apocalypse by Bakker
Drizzt by RA Salvatore
Song of Ice and Fire by GRRM

>>22894222
Kino list

>>22892806
>the second trilogy any good?
i wasnt too keen on it
you can can really see how the fantasy industry has changed for the worse when comparing the first and second trilogy

>>22894185
That's interesting. I will read them but I'm a bit put off by all the made up shit. Elvish in LOTR sounds natural and Dune just takes from Arabic shit so the words sound natural, but some of the names I've seen in Bakker are ludicrous.

>>22894211
Dubs of incel failure constantly refreshing the page to seethe and mald in real time instead of adding anything substantive award

>>22894007
for RA Lafferty I've only read Fourth Mansions, so start there I guess

Any fantasy novels that share pic related's tone?

Picked this up for a dollar from a “book cooperative” with an entire section dedicated to “awesome trans stories.” There was a cute Asian girl pursuing the 1 dollar book section very close to me that I almost talked to but didnt.

>>22894484
CUT YOUR NAILS, PIG!

>>22894412
also this but for termina

>>22894484
Thankfully you spared her from your autism, no poor woman deserves that. Solid book series, book 2 in particular is excellent.

>>22894412
Raped for no reason by anything? Probably the newfag spammer's favorite series.

>>22893796
will check it out

>>22894412
rape and trannies?

>>22894412
Unironically? Sword of truth

>>22894645
>‘First of all, I don’t write fantasy. I write stories that have important human themes. They have elements of romance, history, adventure, mystery and philosophy. Most fantasy is one-dimensional. It’s either about magic or a world-building. I don’t do either.’

>>22894645
>>22894671
>Goodkind had no trouble selling his first book to a publisher. "I'm sort of the exception that proves the rule," he says. "I wanted to be represented by the best agent in the country and I wrote him a letter. He asked to see the book and he liked it. He showed it to a number of publishers. Three of them had an auction. Ten weeks after I'd written 'The End' it sold for a record price ($275,000),"[2] the most money ever paid for a fantasy novel by a first time author.[3]

How'd he do it bros?

>>22892944
If you want incest, read Bakker.

>>22893777
yes but only within the context of having read Blindsight.

>>22894484
River of Gods has trans stuff in it. He even creates new pronounces (yt)

>>22894708
scalzi is an agp who wears dresses

>>22894626
More interested in the utterly hopeless and extremely hostile setting, the esoteric pantheon of "gods" that, at their most friendly, are ambivalent toward humanity, and the willingness to be grotesquely violent.

>>22894757
not written by Scalzi, Ian McDonald

>>22894764
another g-dcuck

>>22894484
is this actually any good?
seeing those excerpts from that kaiju book he wrote really put me off touching anything hes done

>>22894412
Bakker The King, the lord of Tekne, the lord of Bashrags, the lord of the Black Sperm.
Fnd the Aspect-Emperor series maybe is closer to Fear & Hunger, than the first series.

>>22894855
Scalzi is a reddit writer but one of the better ones

>>22894938
lol no.

>>22895013
Name 3 of his books you have read.

>>22894791
What the fuck are you on about?

Does Way of Choices get better or worse when Chen Changshen and Xu Yourong finally meet?

>>22895037
It's all so tiring
>____fags
>____cucks
>____sissies
>____chuds
>____niggers
I don't know what the fuck anyone is talking about, why there is a certain like or dislike on something on one board and frankly I don't care, I'll like and do as I please

>>22895126
Lurk more, chudsissy.

>>22888465
They used this book to make some dumb meme about sex work being real work, incels

>>22894764
Malazan fits the bill I would say

>>22894484
>>22894855
I didn't think it was great. the overall "idea" of the book (old people getting young bodies to fight) wasn't that neat ; the characters were dumb ; the battles were lame.

>>22895150
Can you say why?

>>22894692
>>22894671
chad energy. He is a based retard like how Kanye got so far for being so mediocre

>>22888465
Happy new year you filthy literary animals.

>>22895384
a toast! to /sffg/! literally the main reason I still come to 4chan and I'm 32 years old

Can I get a standalone recc? Don’t care if it’s scifi or fantasy.

Where do you guys buy your books? I have a kindle but not really a fan of reading in it for some reason. Even though pirating books is nice. Libraries are full of homeless people jacking off. Should I just buy new paperbacks on Amazon or is it worth trying to buy used? Seems with shipping costs is it even worth buying used?

>>22895452
thriftbooks

>>22895447
Stars My Destination

>>22895476
I’ve read that one actually. Enjoyed it quite a bit

>>22895447
The Mask of the Sorcerer, The Deep, Engine Summer

>>22895483
>The Mask of the Sorcerer
This appears to be a series?

What’s the author of the deep?

Thanks.

>>22895447
the demolished man
in other worlds

>>22895447
The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter

>>22895501
it's not a series. There are short stoires added to it later but it's a standalone by Darrell Schweitzer. The deep is by John Crowley

the broken empire trilogy was significantly better than i was expecting. super edgy, super dark, yet filled with adventure in a medieval post-apocalyptic future. recommended to anyone looking for a fun series to read.

>>22895527
>google this person
>redirected to Cameron Reed
>Reed's first novel (published under her deadname, Raphael Carter[1]) is the postcyberpunk The Fortunate Fall (1996).
oh

>>22895536
I like how the titles go up the monarch hierarchy

>>22895542
Not him but the first matrix was good. Then they went trans eventually. Doesn’t necessarily mean anything regarding the pre-trans works.

>>22895556
it means that autistic tech guys who like cyber punk and anime go trans

I’ve read Ubik, Game players of titan, scanner darkly. I already bought man in the high tower. Now I read it’s not good. Should I still read it or is just not AS good as the rest of dicks work and I still should give it a shot.

Regardless which should I read after since I know high tower isn’t too relevant for the “best reading order” for PKD

standalone chart when

>>22895533
checked. Darrell Schweitzer was selling new and used books at a con maybe 5 years ago - I asked him if he had Lord of Light by Zelanzy and instead he said I should buy a copy of pic related. I didn't know who the hell he was but I bought it and he signed it. I still need to read it. but I do see Mask of the Sorcerer getting mentioned here a lot

>>22895581
Man in the High Tower is pretty good, but yes, it's no UBIK or Scanner Darkly. anyway go read Do Androids Dream or head straight to VALIS next

>>22895452
I haven't bought a book in decades

>>22895600
When you make it

>>22895273
The first scene in chapter 1 of the first book involves two gods slaughtering a village with their demonic minions.

anyone ever read riftwar cycle? it's a pretty big series and wondered whether anyone liked it if they read it

Has anyone attempted to write a book?

>>22895651
no one, not ever

>>22895446
/lit/ /ck/ and /tv/ are the only reason i come here anymore. I look at other boards but they just fill me with more loathing for my fellow man.
>any recommendations for this feel?

>>22895611
Yeah but you can’t tell how far you are. Why don’t they use actually page numbers. And it’s not as motivating to see a black screen walking by as it is a book with a cover with a bookmark in it. Kindle is nice at night though with the backlight.

>>22895956
An e-reader with a light is the readfag cultivator's cheat item.

>>22895452
I write my own books to read.

Is goblin emperor good or is it Reddit tier

>>22895956
I have page counts that are pretty accurate to whatever publisher version the ebook is that I put on my kindle

>>22895969
>goblin emperor
>Interracial fantasy political thriller written by a female under a pseudonym.
Hard pass.

>>22888465
I just finished reading an inheritance of magic by Benedict Jacka, which is the 1st book in his new series. I enjoyed it a lot more than I enjoyed the first book in the Alex Veras series which is a good sign since I enjoyed the Veras series quite a bit. The magic system(Drucraft) was pretty interesting in my opinion and I enjoyed the fact that the setting is featuring a British magical aristocracy versus magical mega corpo's kind of theme. 8/10 would suggest reading if you've got nothing better to do.

For my first day of 2024 i have
Deleted all my videogames (both PC and mobile).
Got rid of all my junk food. Threw the soda down the drain and give away most of my alcohol (just enough to cook).
The idea is to run 3km and read at least 15-20 pages everyday. That makes it 2 books and 90km per month. 24 books and 1080 km in one year which actually sounds amazing.
I also unsuscribed from the all the gaming and booktube creators. I just watched them too much. Since i'm no longer looking to improve i don't have to keep watching any vidya related channels.
Do you have any suggestions for the 24 books I will read this year?

>>22896137
based
>unsuscribed
actually cringe, that means you subscribed and logged in to whatever it is you're talking about

>>22896137
delete your tripcode too, faggot

>2023
>another year of "breeze through 40 books of chink shit in a week but struggle to finish one book of critically acclaimed western fantasy."
I might have shit taste, bros.

>>22896172
Western fantasy that gets critical acclaim is bad by definition.

>>22895013
Redshirts and Old Man's War are fun reads if you can get over the redditisms

>>22896137
Reverend Insanity

>>22895447
The Death of Grass by John Christopher

>>22896172
>tranime
Of course you do.

>>22896172
read mao ni

>>22889591
>main characters sister that is annoying as fuck
Do they bang?

>>22890288
>the gay anal rape scene that always gets cherrypicked
Which of the gay anal rape scenes? Because there are quite a few

>>22890377
>are absolutely inspired by Bene Gesserit.
By Nietzsche's Ubermenschen.

>>22895452
library genesis

>>22895545
Gee I wonder if the protagonist of the story succeeds in the first two books

>>22891506
It's unintentionally gay due to Paolini's autism

>>22888465

question for the new year: why in the fuck is there so little quality smut in science fiction and fantasy?

you can tell a good story while titilating the reader, comics have done it, movies too and even video games
so where are all the good books?
are we doomed to rely on fanfiction sites to get our kicks?

>>22896473
Because in my opinion science fiction is written by nerds who want to explore their ideas of the future, sex and smut is the last thing they want to think about

>>22896502
That's not how it works in real life. Most scifi is just shitty drama with tons of relationships and sex but set in scifi setting

>>22896326
She's like 9 years old. Weirdo

>>22896272
anime website

>>22896272
newfag post, probably bakkerfag's unrelenting spam

>>22895651
Why write when everything that should be written has already been written?

Bakker's work is better adapted in animated style than live action play.

Reading The Colour of Magic. It's alright, will proobably finished by tomorrow as the first book I've read since 2011.

>>22895533
>>22895601
speaking of schweitzer, I read pic related as the last book of 2023.
recommended if you like Mask and have nothing else to read.
it was written over a decade earlier, is shorter, and isn't as well developed or polished, but that dreamy dark fantasy is still right there

>>22897039
This one's my favourite book by Pratchett.

Just had this idea for a story, and I need to know if it's been done before:
>starts out as a sort of medieval low-fantasy story
>in the big tweest it's revealed that they're actually on a giant colony ship headed for a distant star system, with its creators having decided that keeping the colonists in a permanent medieval society would help with having them endure the multi-generation journey
>main conflict ensues because the ship's automated maintenance systems have begun to break down

>>22897111
sounds like this https://store.steampowered.com/app/648410/Colony_Ship_A_PostEarth_Role_Playing_Game/

>>22897111
sounds neat but how the fuck would they even begin to understand how to work with the ship? they have no understanding of math or orbital physics whatsoever

>>22897111
Mixing fantasy with scifi never ends well. The moment you reveal that it is actually a scifi ship all the fantasy elements will fall apart, readers who invested in fantasy story will hate you for it. It's fine for a standalone book/story.

>>22896723
>>22896756
/lit/ board. Go back.

>>22897111
Brian Aldiss already ended the generational ship subgenre with Non-Stop (1958) anything after that is just beating a dead horse

>>22897216
>Brian Aldiss already ended the generational ship subgenre with Non-Stop (1958)
Is that book worth reading, by the way?

>>22897183
Yeah, go back to whichever tranny-spamming social-aggregate your newfag ass came from, tranny-spammer.

>>22897266
Based. Fuck tr/a/nnies.

>>22897247
Not him but I would definitely recommend it. It's a quick read too which is nice

>>22889305
>I was still completely unprepared for just how much the manga fucking rocks.
How so?
>>22889305
>Iconic for a reason.
What do you mean by "ironic?"

>>22889591
>>The Poppy War = Fem-C gets accepted to 20th century china-esque martial academy and gets looked down upon while struggling to overcome amidst pseudo researched equally vintage china political bullshit.
Literally the plot of Mulan. Why do people read R. F. Kuang and her shite drivel again?

>>22889305
>I was still completely unprepared for just how much the manga fucking rocks.
How so? I don't read manga.

>>22890388
I've heard the second trilogy is much better.

>>22892288
You'll never be a real woman.

>>22892806
>Could have perhaps cut some of the fantasy sex scenes from book 2.
imagine being this mentally weak.

>>22894938
All reddit writers are terrible.

>>22892806
The battle scenes are good and the characters are fun but the series is so bloated, the plot goes nowhere. Abercrombie could have made The First Law a standalone novel if he cut out the padding.

>>22890371
>Current Year 5 Stars
>These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
>Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Queer, LGBT
lol

Dune sucks

>>22897383
but lady jessica is hot af, that orgy scene where she gets gangbanged by fremen was kino

>>22897111
kind of the secret of plot The Deep by John Crowley, but it's not as obvious and more esoteric.

>>22897319
Interesting. I'm definitely a man though.

>>22890371
Here's some other stats that may not be quite right that I didn't think of at the time and are based on a glance and only look at the novels.

70 novels
46 authors
35 male
11 female
3 non-white (2 Chinese, 1 Indian)
3 LGBT authors
Mostly all Americans with some British

Translated Authors
2 Chinese
1 German

Two Oldest Books: 1888,1956

>>22896508
out of 10! (?)

>>22896473
Why do you want smut and romance in sci fi? Fuck off. You're the reason for >>22896506 when it should really be >>22896502

>”Kellhus rounded his eyes the way he knew Inrau would. “Any betrayal,” he said.”
I’m supposed to believe that he can now do this even though he has never seen Inrau¿ give me a fucking break

>>22897330
added to my to read list

Looking for recommendations of science fiction short stories.

>>22897640
neutron star collection by larry niven

>>22896137
That's cool, I won't even clown you for a goal of only 15 pages a day (should be atleast 100).

You need to tell us your interests, books you like, movies or Games even if you want recommendations.

>>22897111
Reminds me somewhat of 'A maze of death' by PKD. I won't spoil it.

>>22897694
>at least 100 pages per day
>36,500 pages per year
>121 300 page novels per year
That's too much to expect from anyone for reading isn't their primary activity. I suppose speedreading and having audiobooks going in the background would help the numbers a lot.

>>22897111
You shouldn't be asking if it has been done before, you should be asking if it has been done well before.

>>22897111
There's many books that have done this. For most ideas that's the case.

>>22897715
100 pages would only be like an hour or two, I guess if he's doing it everyday it'd be a lot.

I'm looking at a rough goal of 50-90 novels this year. I was >>22889048 so atleast 50 should be doable. That will clear out my 'for later' shelf on good reads and my library app.

>>22897640
Vernor Vinge short story collection, burning chrome William Gibson, any of the PKD short story collections (just read them all.)
>>22897650
I am still 50/50 on Larry Niven post reading Ringworld and the Mote In God's eye. Do you like his short stories better than his novels? Any themes he focuses on?

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>>22897754
what now?

>>22893284
I clicked on it, at least.
The synopsis did not sound interesting.

>>22897749
>Do you like his short stories better than his novels? Any themes he focuses on?
yes, cause the ringworld and fleet of worlds series have a lot of faults but his short story collections are mostly fun one off stories
> Any themes he focuses on?
neutron star and crashlander are mostly space exploration and adventure; the long arm of gil hamilton takes place in a near future earth where organ transplantation is perfect and some people are now stealing body parts to sell in the black market and deals with some of the consequences of this; tales of known space has both space exploration and some social themes like people medicating madness (mostly the former, though)

if you want a light read with some nice world building i'd definitely recommend them

>>22894237
A lot of Bakker names are inspired by ancient Mesopotamian names which do look pretty ludicrous to us. I think it works for making the really old things seem really old, more recent people and places are much more familiar sounding.
>>22897307
For one thing I was unprepared for how good the characters are. Farnese and Serpico are wonderful characters. Plus the scale of the adventure and how the world changes over the course of the series really took me by surprise.