/lit/ - Literature

>>9099898
>reading
Earthsea, just because it's some comfy archetypal fantasy (LeGuin does that well)
Caliban's War because I saw the first season of the Expanse and thought it had some interesting universe concepts (but the dialogue's a bit meh)
>read
Just finished Wheel of Osheim. Disappointed at anti-climax ending and unresolved issues, villains that went nowhere, etc.
>taboo
I read the Black Company, pretty gritty but couldn't get past the writing style. Did not finish.

>>9099898
>The most taboo book
I read the first two books of the Doctrine of Labyrinths or some shit and it somehow managed to be more incestuous than The Irregular at Magic High School (you know that anime where the sister wants to fuck the brother? Yeah, that incest but ga/y/) and had the most amount of gay and rape I had ever seen in a book.

Wasn't that great to be absolutely honest.

The current series I'm reading is very tame in comparison.

>>9095074
This book is super comfy anon.

>>9099944
*super comfy insofar

Threadly Reminder
Ruthfuss a shit, Sanderson is anime

Well it's almost Valentine's day. What are the best romantic sci-fi and fantasy novels? Twilight series?

What's some top Urban Fantasy kino?

>>9100004
Tigana.

Just finished Foundation by Isaac Asimov. I highly highly recommend. You get to follow the fall of Space Rome and people trying to create the Second Space Rome.

>>9100223
Just started this as well due to the recommendations in the last thread. Did go through the series or do you plan to?

>>9100004
The Black Jewels Trilogy

>>9099957
>Ruthfuss a shit

I tried getting into Kingkiller Chronicles since I always hear about it, and it was fucking horrible.

Kvothe is shit and that literal whore that he obsesses over despite being some sort of natural sex god is even worse. What do people see in this series?

With Eddison do I start with his trilogy or The Worm Ouroborous?

Also thoughts on the Dragonmaster series by Chris Bunch? Seems like a better version of Eragon.

>>9100456

One thing that pissed me off about The Name of the Wind was that Kvothe obsessed over the most boring girl imaginable while every other girl, especially Fela, who showed the slightest interest in him were marginally better and more interesting.

Name me one fantasy series where the main character chooses an interesting love interest? You can't.

>>9100456
denna's a virgin

>>9100638
What quality copy of his books?

>>9100347
I plan on going through with the rest of it but not right away. I'm taking a break to read something else and then will return to the Foundation series so I don't get Foundation fatigue. How are you liking it so far?

I don't think I've ever regretted reading a book more. It started off half-decent so I was hopeful that it would pick up later on because there were some interesting things to the world, but almost nothing happened the entire fucking book it was like a giant fucking introduction chapter and the interesting part where the guy goes out on an adventure and discovers the power of the wards is literally left out, there's a time skip and the dude just turns up being the edgiest and overpowered character to ever be written into existence while the chick spends half the book just deciding who she loses her virginity to. The two main characters turned into the biggest mary sue and marty stu types ever with literally zero flaws, I mean the whole thing about how the demons are so strong even armies can't beat them and they can only be warded off goes to the shitter when the MC starts murdering them alone with bare hands by the dozens.

Someone please recommend me a good fantasy novel to read, something light, with good writing and story. I enjoy Gaiman, Pratchett and Tolkien. And I don't want to read a "wannabe lotr" ebin series of a hundred books, I just want one really good work of literature that's also fantasy.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29743933-they-mostly-come-out-at-night

This books looks really interesting but I can't find a download for it. Damn. I guess because it's fairly new and unknown.

hey you, scifi guys!

Is Dhalgren good?

>>9099898
I've just started The Vorrh, is it any good?

>>9101095
I can't find a download for Senlin Ascends.

>>9101488
That's just your bad, it exists. Don't bother with it though, I tried reading it and it sucks dick.

>>9101495
Which site, master? I've looked several times already. I'm interested in the premise.

Hey can we talk about science fiction instead of generic genre fiction about elves this thread?

>>9101663
Lord of Light is one of the best science fiction books I've ever read. If you haven't read it, you have to get it right fucking now, you're missing out.

Just started pic related. Pretty great

>>9101663
Reading pic related. Basically about attempting to guide evolution from the beginning. Good bit of religious imagery. Prose is kinda heavy. I'm sure /pol/ would love the emphasis on creating a matriarchal society where foolish males know their place.

>>9099898
>What are you reading?
I'm two hundred pages into Gateway by Frederik Pohl. The way it combines space exploration with psychological examination was unexpected, but it makes for compelling read so far, with more characterisation and human interest than something like Rendezvous With Rama (another alien object in space story.) The way that horrific and intriguing details appear obliquely in passing reminds me of Roadside Picnic. So, I'm keen to read to the end of this one.

Is Pohl's Man Plus also good?

looking to get into The Redwall series. should i go with chronological order or order of release?

>>9102066
yes

>>9099898
>what book did you read in 2017 that dealt with taboo subjects?
The Great Ordeal by Bakker.
>what books are you going to read in 2017 that deal with taboo subjects.
The Unholy Consult by Bakker.
Can't wait to be with my husbando Shaeönanra, who literally did nothing wrong.

>>9100722
>Has pretty much a sugar daddy that beats her
>Constant admirers/dates
>Kinda strings kvothe along

I mean, kvothe is a shitty character. Self insert mary sue but she's not exactly any better


I remember reading these series when I was younger, and getting pissed off at Denna's and Kvothe's relationship by how stupid it was.

>>9102066
Mein nigger.

Redwall series is pretty comfy. Enjoy.

>>9101663
I'm reading Vacuum Flowers, which I'm pretty sure is going to end up being a better version of When Gravity Fails, but I'm getting distracted by other things so it might be a week or two until I finish it.

What do you prefere, large scale battles, small fights among few men or single duels?

>>9102066
>walk into barnes and noble
>want to go get a redwall book
>its in the fucking kids section
>theres a whole bunch of small children and their moms
>everyone lookin at me
>sweating profusely
>cant find it
>employee comes up
>"can i help you"
>jump and freak the fuck out
>run out of the store full speed
i havent done this but this is why i have yet to get these books. i cant bring myself to just walk into that section goddammit. i feel like everyones lookin at me like "what the fuck is he doing in here? what a weirdo"

>>9102214
Nobody gives a flying fuck. They will assume you're getting it for your child/sibling depending on your age.

>>9102214
Just think to yourself you're buying the series for for a niece or nephew you dolt. Or better yet

Invest in a kindle or nook and get the entire series and others for free.

>>9102214
autism

>>9099898
>Taboo edition
hhhmmmgh

>>9101071

But it was explained how he got so powerful

>>9101528
>>9101495
>>9101488
Myanonamouse for all of these: myanonamouse.net

You must sit a short interview for an invite and they interview twice daily.

Contains Senlinx2 + Night
https://transfer.sh/lajjO/reading.zip 14 days

>>9101095
Forgot to quote
>>9102480

>>9102066
see>>9100423

>>9102593
whats it say, archives are fucked up for me so thats why i asked again here.

>>9102648
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/4chan-x/ohnjgmpcibpbafdlkimncjhflgedgpam

>>9102648
go with the chronological order

>>9102707
>chrome
I've got it already but it still 403'd

>>9102710
Thanks

>>9102716
These are my settings.
You can change which archive set you use.

>>9102089
Okay, I keep seeing Bakker being mentioned here quite a bit. Should I honestly look into it or is it just rape memes and mommy incest?

>>9102718
aw neat, i didnt know you could do that.

do you guys use ebooks? if so where do you get them?

>>9102747
Libgen, BookZZ

>>9102747
Piratebay, gen.lib.rus.ec, bookzz

>>9102747
MAM, Bibliotik, Mobilism, libgen, Irchighway #ebooks, Undernet #books, TPB in the order of ease of use.

The new music trackers (PasstheHeadphones and Apollo) are excellent places to get books bought and uploaded for you if you are willing wait for a long interview (I didn't need to sit one to get in) and have plenty of spare upload to burn.

MAM interview is much shorter and should only take about 13 minutes.

/sffg/ should I even bother trying to publish something? I know I'm never going to be a respected and beloved author, I can't even finish most short stories for fuck's sakes. as long as it's just a fantasy I can't get let down by reality. besides, I'm making good money as a programmer

>>9102878
Anon, look at the trash that gets through every day. I do it every time I get discouraged. We're gonna make it.

>>9102894
I don't just want to to have readers. I want to have fans. I want people who read my writing and were actually inspired by it. I want people drawing fan art and getting in shipping wars.

>>9102909

So you want a cult?

>>9102909
here's what I do.
I date some, and usually university girls, 19 to 23 therebaouts. What I do to check wether they are proper material? I do have some standards, so they should be reading for fun, so I can talk to them - about reading. ( but also theatre or movies or television ).

The most important lithmustest I let them pass though is this: I provide them with my google drive archive of my ( for 10 years work in progress ) scifi epos, and I casually ask them if they'd like to read through that, maybe comment on it.

Those who read through everything, and let comments drop every other page, or correct spelling throughout the whole thing?

Proper Dating Material.

It's really satisfactory to watch them read through your stuff and comment on it. I had a handful who got through everything ( literally 3.000 full pages ), and who really enjoyed speculating plot and intrigue with me.

This is what you should do.

:)

Have fun!

>>9103086
If you're asking someone you're dating for feedback all you're going to get is good, good.

Family members and online readers are going to offer more constructive criticism if you actually want to improve and not just praise.

>Readan
Hyperion for the first time
It's pretty good so far. Just got the part with the crucifix parasites in the labyrinth. Shit's wild.

https://www.debt.org/tax/type/

>>9102393
Leave him be anon. He is that autistic anon that skips pages then comes in here to rant about shit that was explained thoroughly in the book.

>>9099898
>Taboo Edition
Don't mind if I do!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CHDTRU6
http://archive.is/iK3Lv

>>9102480
I fucking hate faggots like you. You are the type of idiots that got what.cd taken down. You advertise PRIVATE trackers on social media and let in normies.

I hope you get a bullet.

>>9103142
Wait till you get to the poet dude. That shit is too funny, too bad we won't ever get to see John Hurt play the part.

>>9102894
This desu - if Piers bloody Anthony can be a success there's no reason you can't.

>>9103176
Only a retarded ledditor would frogpost and retardedly forget that you're on 4chan.

The more people uploading shit the better.

>>9103174
>taboo

>mumbles
>grunts
>fucks his sister
>butchers some fag
>wears a top hat

We /bigguy/ now

>>9099919
My gripe with most scifi and fantasy is the dialogue and the kind of prude attitude towards sex.

>>9102929
Who doesn't?

>>9103186
Pepe was started on 4chan, you redshitor. If I use him so what? All those cunts will do is try to hit and run, and then go tell it to their grandmother.

Fucking normies like yourself trying to fit in on the internet and making a hash of it.

Plz an hero.

>>9103251
>Pepe was started on 4chan
A year ago and now the only shitters spamming those retarded images now are ledditors and dumblr users because the association with those shitholes are truly disgusting.

>Plz
And the retarded newfag makes itself known.

>>9103251
>and then go tell it to their grandmother
What did he mean by this?

>>9103251
>>9103259
You 2 should be put to the sword.

>>9103264
Everything in the post means that it is the retard came from /ptg/ aka r/trackers which is a cancerous reddit shithole and all the users there are completely incapable of functioning normally and can only think in terms of muh sekrit club and trying to getting each other banned.

This one is probably the shitter that listens to audiobooks and Rothfuss all day.

>>9102929
No, I want adoring fans and people who are inspired by my books to write their own

It's unsurprising, however that these kinds of truly cancerous selfish reddit retards try so hard to sabotage everyone else's reading habits the same way they try to get other people banned, dox users, post eceleb bullshit and steal other people's passwords amongst other things:

>That's just your bad, it exists.
Muh sekrit site that no one else can hear about.

>Don't bother with it though, I tried reading it
Look at me I'm a complete attentionwhore who downloaded it but I'm not going to share it with the person who asked for it.

>it sucks dick
My three word egotistical opinion on its quality, I'm not even going to discuss why it's bad or how it's good because all that matters is the fact that I can attentionwhore that I have a sekrit club I'm part of and you're not.

Give me good /sffg/-related Youtube channels. Audiobooks. Lectures. Discussions.

My job is too easy, and I have access to the internet. I need something to burn my time.

>>9103331
>i can't use the internet to search for something
>everything must be handed to me because I am special
>i am better than you, therefore look for something i want
Go fuck yourself

>>9103375
You meant that you were the one who so desperately needed spoonfeeding right? Because 99% of the documents on /ptg/ explaining all the pathways to get into your precious 'secret' trackers were written by me.

So you take that absolutely retarded selfish attitude of yours and shove it back up your reddit ass where it belongs.

>>9102796
How do I get a Bibliotik account?

>>9103349
Here's some stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvcKB9vQO0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUo1OlnOH-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuUkLbOAWcU
https://youtu.be/cZkqMo8U7KM?list=PLmkBRqy8hlPJcugtHKIEK7RKrGA-VIoYP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqawD93UUcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqHJYz8NXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnl6jxaLIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNsDXeHUkLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU-9yFjSKYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ZDBOc2tX8&list=PLH3mK1NZn9QqOSj3ObrP3xL8tEJQ12-vL

>>9103405
They used to recruit from What.cd (music tracker, which suggests that Bibliotik would later resume recruitment at PasstheHeadphones the sucessor after that site was taken down) but apparently they've stopped recruiting right now to prevent all the people who hate books but are willing to upload to get into sites that they do want.

Back on what.cd the requirements were interview on What.cd (long arduous process especially if you aren't a music fan, 3 attempts) → reach power user class (25 GB upload, 5 uploads the upload can be books), waith 6 months, acquire an elibrary like overdrive because the recruiter asks for one (they now accept elibraries that aren't overdrive but this wasn't the case) → get a Bibliotik account

However on the other hand Bibliotik has less material than either MAM, libgen, TPB, etc so chances are if it's not on the other sites I've listed it's not anywhere.

But if you want a /sffg/ book that's not on any site post it in this thread and I'll look for it for you on Bibliotik.

>>9103424
>this wasn't the case
This wasn't always the case

>>9103424
And MAM? Their signup link is broken

>>9103441
They regularly interview. at the times described on: https://www.myanonamouse.net/inviteapp.php

Interviews are very easy as the interviewer will essentially go over the rules with you and how to torrent and whatnot.

Most MAM books are available on Mobilism and the rest of the sites. However, the odd book that you can't find anywhere but can find on that website does pop up like the three books in this thread and people seem to upload pre-release ARCs (these are technically forbidden) but I downloaded one.

MAM is also about five thousand times easier than Bibliotik because private trackers require the user to maintain a ratio but MAM ratio can be bought with bonus points gained from seeding and you don't need to actually upload data for points.

MAM is better for lots of fiction and Bibliotik is better for textbooks and non fiction especially the ones that people rip off their academic subscriptions,

I'm about halfway through Tigana and man that's some good shit.

>>9102909
>I want people drawing fan art and getting in shipping wars.
Are there catgirls? Catgirls accrete fanart.

>>9101922
Okay, so it was a christian allegorical. The dedication to C. S. Lewis really should have tipped me off there. Fairly enjoyable. Would recommend to those who enjoy that sort of thing.

>>9103499
Tigana is great.

>>9103386
You should screenshot your mouse info so the mods can ip ban you.

I hope you get v&'d

>>9103206
I'd put up a download link but no one seems to have pirated it yet.

>>9103634
>He says this as he gives his IP to 4chan a website known for hosting terrorists, massmurderers and pedophiles to the 4chan moderators and gives the court bulletproof evidence for a lawsuit against him telling the police that he had an account on what.cd, uses social media, has Senlin Ascends in his browser history and posts on /ptg/ and meanwhile we know that he has an myanonamouse account because he just told everyone
>He also is busy telling people to commit suicide or to get themselves killed which is terribly suspicious
There is a difference between hoping that someone else will get v&'d and actively trying to get v&'d anon.

>>9103634
I'll also remind you, dear anon, that earlier in the day I posted that you tried to 'get other people banned, dox users, post eceleb bullshit and steal other people's passwords'. Unfortunately it seems that this list is incomplete and that I should also add 'telling people to kill themselves and get arrested by the FBI' to the end.

According to a recent interview with Garry Kasparov, the reason there's been such a glut of dystopia-themed novels over the past couple of years is that unlike Russians, Americans are ill-equipped to deal with propaganda and misinformation and are seeking a way to cope and come to terms with this new, terrifying reality.

>>9103176
wtf I love Stevian now

>>9102480
uh, thanks.

>>9103859
My opinion on Senlin is that the worldbuilding is great but it's a bit let down by the characterisation or not so much the characterisation but the plot. Prose is pretty great however.

Night is also one of the books that I thought had looked interesting but I've never seen it mentioned here.

What was the best decade in science fiction and why?

>What are you reading?
Old Man's War
>What did you recently read?
Starship Troopers
>Taboo
Can't remember the title but it was some fantasy novel involving twincest, a love triangle where all three have sex with each other at different points, and something about dragon prophecies. It was pretty boring desu.

Just finished this gem
I've also read the first Mistborn Trilogy
What should I move on to next? Elantris/Emperor's Soul, Secret History or Ally of Law?

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

>>9104301
Do not read Secret History before the other currently released Mistborn books.
And instead of Elantris I implore you to consider first picking up the Stormlight books, as they are better in my humble opinion. Even though I enjoyed Elantris.
Read Emperor's Soul whenever you want something shorter, it is a standalone story.

>>9104462
so should I start Stormlight or the second Mistborn set? or does the order not matter

>>9104472
They are not interconnected, and you've already met for example Hoid in the first Mistborn trilogy and in Warbreaker, there really aren't any more minor characters you have to meet. Though some aspects of the world of the Cosmere are better explained in Stormlight, but added more abruptly in the later Mistborn books.
So I would recommend Stormlight, unless of course you would want to go for the more light-hearted tone of the second set of Mistborn books.
Bear in mind that Stormlight 1 is 1007 pages in length, book 2 is 1088. while the remaining Mistborn books are 1319 in total.

>>9103769
>implying I ever went to this ptg
>implying I ever tried to steal ppl's password, dox ppl, etc
>implying you aren't the cancer that is bringing down private trackers.
I bet you are that cunt that posts books he pirated to twitter, then links it here.
Just end it.

This cover looks pretty cool. I haven't read an untested book with only 100 ratings before but I might try this. I hope I don't get burned

Wish me luck guys

>>9103872
It's definitely not the 1980s, on the basis that I have enjoyed hardly anything from that decade.

>>9103843
I wish more Soviet SF would be translated - or even just more Strugatsky Brothers books republished.

Most of the well known 20thC dystopian novels are not American, but British (BNW, 1984) so you may have something. But there is a large vein of pessimistic SF going back to PKD at least. It was the American golden age stuff that was more optimistic.

where do I go with "cyberpunk" after Neuromancer? I hear mostly negative things about the genre as a whole, but I figured I'd ask the experts.

>>9105864
at least read its two followup novels. then try Snow Crash, and if you dig that, more from Stephenson.

to be honest that's all the cyberpunk proper i've read, but of course the works of PKD and William Burroughs' Nova Trilogy are great proto-cyberpunk if you're not yet familiar with them. i've also heard good things about Mirrorshades and the works of John Shirley, Richard K. Morgan, and George Alec Effinger.

>>9105889
nope, not familiar with any of that. thanks!

hi fantasy guys, can any of you help me? I'm trying to remember a book I read back in 2013/2014; it was a trash fantasy novel, first in a trilogy, and it started off with a Monk who beats ass with his bare hands. Then he had to heal himself with like, universe energy or something. A lot of the book is missing in my mind, but then at the end he steals some kind of magical/enchanted sword and kills the big bad.

What was his tax policy?

This book won a lot of awards when it came out in 1977 (Hugo, Nebula, Locus) and it still holds up well IMO. It combines a narrative of space exploration and relic hunting with a series of psychological explorations, years later, during the narrator's therapy.

There is lot of psychology and character study in this book, a lot more than I expected, with a protag full of guilt, repressed memories, sexual hangups and mother issues. The way these are unraveled by the therapist, while details are gradually and obliquely revealed in the space exploration narrative, is the most interesting thing about the book.

Also, I thought all of the randomly inserted media (work rosters, contracts, mission reports, classifieds, technical notices, memos) worked well as a device, giving a fuller sense of the spaceport and the life within it.

Anyone else think the appendices in Lord of the Rings are kind of boring? I love the main narrative, but I just can't seem to get into the lore setup. Does this mean I wouldn't care for the Silmarillion?

>>9105864
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling

Burning Chrome by William Gibson and Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling (these are collections of short stories)

If you're interested in graphic novels check out Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis.

>>9105621
>This cover looks pretty cool
>judging a book by it's cover
I hope you get burned.
You are the type of person that calls Night Angel "edgy" because of the person in a cloak on the cover. Yet you are willing to read this with such a cliche edgy vampire/were-animal name.

>>9106576
Well Night Angel is edgy and bad. Not exactly the best example to drive a point with.

Are there any Star Wars book series that are good?

>>9105178
>being so butthurt that someone posted a book someone else requested that you didn't post because you are an egotistical retard
>thinking that twitter is 4chan
Are you dyslexic?

Malazan vs Dune

Which has a better civilization?

>>9105178
>I bet you are that cunt that posts books he pirated to twitter, then links it here.
You don't need to bet retard. Why don't you try exercising your much vaunted search engine skills on something and find out for yourself if I did?

Twitter is a public and I think that even someone with a mental health disorder is capable of searching for one URL.

>>9106576
t. 'don't reuploaaadddddd my books retard'

>>9106576
t. don't upload my books retard

>>9106589
Well the Thrawn one is super fun insofar with small but effective plot twists.

Karrde reminds me of Komme Medean from Dagger and Coin and Pellaeon is fairly down to earth.

The issue with the Thrawn trilogy is that it plays it too safe with the movie characters and the original characters like C'baoth, Karrde, Thrawn, Pellaeon and Mara are significantly more interesting than them to read as a result. The best Star Wars books are probably books inspired by Star Wars but don't cite it as an inspiration or are essentially published fanfiction with all the references changed, but what these books would be I wouldn't know.

As for the best Star Wars-like book, that's the Foundation trilogy hands down and the Mule is amazing.

I don't know where eveyone is getting these scifi mind powers from though, Gundam has its Newtype powers, Star Wars has its Force powers, the Second Foundation and the Mule have their mind powers, Code Geass has the Geass and Hyperion has trips through the Void Which Binds.

>>9106589
X-wing series was fun, particularly the ones by Aaron Allston.

>>9106589
>Star Wars book series that are good
Hard Contact
The Han Solo Trilogy is a lot of fun

>>9106589
I enjoyed Black Fleet Crisis

>>9103872
1956-1965
Solaris
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Aniara
PKD and Asimov were active
Dune right at the end there.

>>9106601
Prince of nothing

I'm about 10 pages into Anathem by Neal Stephenson and I'm really struggling.

Any tips?

>>9102730
It is excellent. Check it out. The rape, incest stuff is very minor.

Just finished The Vagrant and absolutely loved it. Anybody else? Also what's the deal with the sequel, apparently it's out in the U.K. But not for a few months internationally?

Just finished the latest book in the traitor son cycle, what series are similar?

>>9101396
It reads like abstract art but the ideas are neato

>>9107331
Long War series by Christian Cameron
The same author but using a different pen name. It's more historical fiction but reads very similar to Traitor Son.

>>9107268
How about read the fucking book? Are you 8 or something?

>>9107331
Rrrreeeeeee?

Holy shit this genuinely was the most exciting book I've read in a long, long time

I need more stuff like this, any suggestions?

>>9106519
The Silmarillion is my favorite thing by Tolkien, I've read it close to 10 times. Easily one of the best things ever written. I also like The Hobbit more than tlotr.

The thing with The Silmarillion is, you'll either love it or hate it. Never met someone who read the whole thing and was like "it was alright"

Hey guys rwading judging eye.
akka just porked a girl that calls him her father.. does this turn out to be true later?
Does it make me a bad person that I got a boner from her talking about servicing plenty of dicks?

>>9106519
Lotr ks boring shit. The only good book was the Hobbit. Tolkien a shit.

>>9107509
Can I call you brother?

>>9099898
Just finished Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy and it was pretty good.
Now I'm thinking of diving into the Black Company, though I've seen a lot of scathing comments about it.

>>9107514
Yes Kevin, it does.

Have you guys done a 'top 100 scifi books' like mainstream /lit/? or is it just those pics in the OP

>>9107549
Jani/mod-kun can you delete those /a/ threads in the catalog?

>>9107557
Just outer lit. We too busy reading / life-ing to make top 100. Also who is going to put the hours into making one?
Making a chart isn't as easy as it looks.

>>9107548
If you liked the first law you should probably check out the standalone books. Heroes and Best Served Cold are both good.

Listen up faggots, I am going off-the-grid for an entire month in the next few days. I am planning on reading a big ass fantasy saga, but I need it to be worth it.

Which saga should I read? I have heard about Dune, Malazan book of the fallen, Discworld, Sanderson stuff.

If you were going to do it, what would you read?

Black Company is pretty great. There's a real sense of dread through the whole book. It's one of the only fantasy books I've read where, when magic really comes into play, it's a real "Oh shit, they're boned" moment.

>>9107645

What are you in the mood for? Discworld is a comedy series and pretty easy reading, Dune and Malazan are a lot denser.

I have never been able to stomach Sanderson so no help there.

>>9107645
have you read lord of the rings or book of the new sun yet? other than that dune or malazan should be fine.

>>9107662
>What are you in the mood for?

Rich lore, believable (as opposed to anime-tier) characters, not as idealistic as LotR, not as cynical and vain as ASoIaF.

I know it's pretty cheeky but if there's anywhere on the internet where people could pinpoint a recommendation, it's 4chan.

>>9107671

Probably Sanderson, then. Dune has some great lore in it, but Malazan is pretty dark. I usually reccomend The First Law by Abercrombie but you don't want cynical, right?

>>9107603
what constitutes lifeing ? I just sit in my apartment all the time when I'm not at work

What does sffg think of Philip Pullman announcing a sequel to the His Dark Materials trilogy?

>>9107699
I think he's a greedy kike fag who needs to make quick buck off his already established trilogy because he lacks the energy and creativity to build a new story from scratch.

Does anyone have any relatively obscure older fantasy or mythological stories (i.e. 1900-ish or earlier) they would recommend?

>>9103415
This is gold, Jerry! GOLD!

Years ago I read the Foundation series by Asimov. I've also read the Robots series by him. Is there anything else I can read that will give me the same kinds of themes, writing, and feelings? I absolutely loved the series.

>>9103415
>The Children of Hurin
>Narrated by Sir Christopher Lee
>mfw

>You know a book sucks when normie girls race to review it while laden in exotic makeup.

>>9107645
I already told you. Malazan book of the fallen, and Glen Cook's Black Company

>>9107681
Lifeing is being a wage slave. NEETS don't have a life. They can read all day, ppl like you, me, some others in this thread (i know there are neets in here) have to live life first, then read second.

>>9107509
>I need more stuff like this
Gundam Origin (Anime) - scifi/revenge. The first four episodes detail the beginning stages of Char Aznable's revenge plot against the ruling Zabi class. Char is a bit more sociopathic than Darrow and nips love the blond haired character revenging himself on the elites for wrongs such as dead waifus and dead family members.

Darrow's pretty much a Char clone except a bit more boring and the author relies on the interesting setting. plot twists and prose to make it tick. A lot of the more recent inferior scifi animes have similar plots for example Aldnoah.zero's plot is quite identical to Golden Son too. Blonde haired Slaine Troyard (a Char clone) is lowly and is considered by the Martians to be inferior and he gets adopted by the Olympus Knight Saazbaum who is in charge of territory and has resource and influence who is responsible for the attempted assassination of his waifu. After his waifu is put into a coma, Slaine aligns himself with the ruler of Mars and kills his adoptive father suceeding him as Olympic Knight. After defeating two of the Knights who really hates him, he directs the invasion of Earth himself, his waifu wakes up and rejects him and then he ends up in prison for life. Too bad this anime (Aldnoah.zero) was only well written in the first three episodes and the writer switched to someone who could only write filler.

Traitor Baru Comorant (Book) - magic lite fantasy/revenge. Female protag, very /u/. It's a fairly good dystopian although I enjoyed 1984 more.

Hamlet (play) - revenge/supernatural. Too bad this is a play and also very short, someone should write a fanfiction that novelises it properly.

The Count of Monte Cristo is also a pretty good revenge story but does not count as /sffg/.

Actually good scifi space operas but not revenge based:
>Hyperion Cantos. If Endymion has one good redeeming factor it's De Soya who is a fantastic captain and great character in an otherwise shit novel. The first two Hyperion books are god tier but not very space-y.
>Foundation Trilogy
This shit is engaging and fucking fantastic in the number of plot twists.

Give me death or give me more /sffg/ book revenge stories I'd say but unfortunately they're aren't many and in my opinion Golden Son was the only good book out of the three. Impactful books are few and far inbetween which is terribly annoying as there are so many animes (ranging from good to abyssmal) on the subject whilst westerners are stuck on shallow and terrible tropes like Hunger Games.

Will house of chains get any better?
It's just some barbarians so far

>>9108355
Mate, Karsa Orlong is my favorite character. He grows so much over the series, You will witness.

Also it introduces another of the greatest characters in the series: Trull Sengar.

>>9108367

Sorry for my post in that case

TUC excerpt when

>>9103185
For the past couple of weeks I've been looking for that book at all the local used bookstores to make good fun, but the thought of a qt hipster half-price-books cashier staring me down is really making me reconsider. Maybe I should just buy it online desu

>>9107715
It sounds like you would like Lord Dunsany. He wrote, who wrote in the early 1900s in an archaic style that used the King James Bible diction. His stories are about invented gods, and Greek inspired fables. Start with The Gods Of Pegana, which is public domain.

>>9107557
Making a top 10/20 would be more realistic. Also, something like an author poll has been done before. In the end, the same names will pop up as anywhere else; Asimov, PKD, Heinlein.

What I would like to see is more charts/lists for specific subgenres and themes of SF: hard SF, military SF, post-apoc, cyberpunk, bio-punk, space opera, humorous, etc. Ideally these would display book art in a visually pleasing way along with have a short summary of themes content, with some judgement.

>>9108599
>top 10 and 20
Will always lead to the same lists with the same authors.

It's like going to a fantasy forum, asking for novels and people will still tell you about aSoIaF and WoT or Tolkien.
Each and every fucking time, those comments don't help because everybody has already heard of it, or has already read it.

It's what will happen with a top 10/20 list.
Maybe on /lit/ you'll get a much different list than /r/fantasy or a generic subforum, but it's really an exception.

If you want to find new stuff, (almost) no top 10/20 list will ever help you unless you're a 100% layman.
You basically need a top 75/100 if you want it to differentiate from other lists.

>>9108658
Make a top list of books only with <10000 votes on goodreads. Problem solved

>>9108667
I agree, in that case with an extra restriction.
A top 10/20 would make perfect sense.

>>9107477
What did he mean by this?

So far I've read (in order)
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>UBIK
>The Man In the High Castle
>A Scanner Darkly
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>currently reading Dr. Bloodmoney
What book by PKD should I read next?

>>9108775
Reading books by the same author is cancerous.

You already know that you like their writing style so read something new and then move back when you run out of books.

>>9108783
No fuck you

>>9108789
Discovering as many good books as I can in life is my goal in life.

>>9099898
>reading
Dance of Swords. I was afraid that the Witcher series would be terrible because of the games and the translation, but it's pretty fun. The characters have a good sense of humour and there are some pulpy elements and casual sexism which make it good to read, but there are also moments of character depth and moral/philosophical issues which are explored. Would recommend to anyone who isn't too into "muh real literature".

>read
Goldenhand. Worst book out of all 5 by far, was going alright for the first half but totally collapsed halfway through.

>taboo
Nothing really. Honestly the Witcher series deals with the most taboos out of anything I've read recently due to the constant references to rape, incest, adultery, sexual prolificacy, etc.

>>9107645
Personally, I find Sanderson to be shit. I never understood why he's so highly rated in the fantasy community. The man has good ideas, but it goes to shit fast. His idea of a character being witty is hard to read.

As for Discworld, I only really liked one of the story arcs. The one with Sam Vimes that starts with Guards! Guards!.

>>9108783
This is such a bizarre opinion to have. Thank you for it. But respectfully, get fucked.

>>9108793
This is an odd line of logic.

>read an author
>wow, he's good
>now that I know he's good, I'll disregard the rest of his body of work in my search for 'good books'
>and if that means that by ignoring his other good books, I end up reading three or four trash books before finding another good author, well, so be it.

>>9108355
>Will house of chains get any better?
Yes. All books are worth getting through.

>>9108793
you don't like reading

>>9108667
>>9108681

>>9108958
Or lower than an x amount of ratings.

As long as it rules out the books that always get mentioned.

I don't look at a top 10/20 lists to see Malazan/GoT/WoT/Tolkien/Mistborn in a different order.
I want to see different novels.

>>9108958
Yes Kevin everyone can sort goodreads by themselves. Too bad most of those are bad and wouldn't make it into a top list and thus are unfortunately irrelevant to the discussion.

>tfw gonna read Anita Blake series
What am I in for?

>>9108806
>dance of swords

Obviously I meant Sword of Destiny.

What's the best book to start with philip k. dick?

>>9109162
A Scanner Darkly

>>9109162
Read UBIK, honey.

>>9108972
Jani-kun... d-do you like me or something? A-are you a gril? Can we hold hands?

>>9109015
What you get is one of the first "modern" types of Urban Fantasy. She raises the dead, kills the dead, gets caught up in shit. If you listen to the audiobooks you get a voodoo-like soundtrack and gunshot effects when she raises the dead. This was before Graphic audio, and it's what kept me coming back to the books.

Whatever you do stop at Obsidian Butterfly no matter what. It does not get better. Her husband irl was leaving her and the story took a dive. Anita became a cock hungry Goddess™®© who "literally" can't survive without dick. (Basically a sex vampire).

My advice to wanna be authors is to not get married. Authors like LK Hamilton, Scott Lynch, etc, writing and work ethics took nose dives after their spouses dumped them. Their release dates kept being pushed back, and their characters became punching bags.

>>9109234
>never get married
>have no actual social experience and my characters are autismo maximo

>>9109353
I'd read that

>>9109353
Sounds relatable.
I'd probably love it.

>>9109353
I'd take that over politically correct, "diverse" characters.

I read The Pre-Persons by Philip K Dick, his 25-page short story from 1974. It depicts a future where twelve year old boys can be packed into white vans and then legally aborted if they don't know algebra. PKD is criticising what he sees as the arbitrary thinking behind allowing abortions (allowing them on the spurious basis of when the soul enters the body). It's an enjoyably heavy handed story.

Why are most fantasy novels set at a time when the world has already passed its prime?
As in the age of myth and legends has passed and most mythical creatures, if there are any, are the last of their kind and most villains are small with petty ambitions.

>>9108556
>he didn't get an ARC

Lmaoing @ ur life

Were the scramblers - the aliens?
Or was it the Rorschach itself is an alien?

That bee hive comment was cofucsing, which one is the bee and which one is the hive?

And what the fuck happened in the very end?
What was running Vamp's dead body?

Lilith's Brood

Quick! post your top five favourite SFF authors. I'll start:
>1) Philip K. Dick
>2) J. R. R. Tolkien
>3) Harlan Ellison
>4) Arthur C. Clarke
>5) Brian Jacques
Now you.

>>9110027
>Tolkien
>Science Fiction Farce author
What the fuck?

>>9110027
1. Lean Gene the Mean Meme Wolfe
2. Jack Vance
3. Cordwainer Smith
4. Peter Hamilton
5. Tie for Vernor Vinge and Ken Liu

>>9109895
>Were the scramblers - the aliens?
>Or was it the Rorschach itself is an alien?
>That bee hive comment was cofucsing, which one is the bee and which one is the hive?

Open to interpretation/doesn't really matter.

>And what the fuck happened in the very end?

Rorschah implanted a new personality in Susan (the gang of four) making her take over the ship

>What was running Vamp's dead body?

Theseus


Also read Echopraxia.

>>9110054
"SFF" stands for "science fiction AND FANTASY" you fucking mong

>>9110061
Never fucking reply to me again unless you're contributing to the thread.

>>9110027
1. C. J. Cherryh
2. Robert Heinlein
3. J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Neil Stephenson
5. Raymond E. Feist

>>9110077
Go fuck yourself.

>>9110159
Eat shit, pleb.

>>9110184
Go back to sucking Philip K.'s dick, faggot.

>>9110184
Suck my Philip K. DICK, faggot.

>>9110212
>>9110227
>If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

>>9110241
:^)

What's the hardest hard sci-fi?

Any other books written like scientific/expedition reports?

>>9099898
More post-apocalyptic books like The Maze Runner?

>>9099944
>I read the first two books of the Doctrine of Labyrinths or some shit
>more incestuous than The Irregular at Magic High School (you know that anime where the sister wants to fuck the brother?
>Yeah, that incest but ga/y/)
>and had the most amount of gay and rape I had ever seen in a book.

Jesus I need to read that shit.

>nobody reading the Culture series

feels bad man. Utopian grittiness will never exist.

I'm majorly disappointed in this recommendation, interesting concept but let down by the authors complete lack of talent.

Any Fantasy where the protagonist is in love with his horse?

>>9110731
>Reading bitter Scottish tears and inconsistent quality the series

>>9108895

When will Kruppe and co return

>>9099944
>and had the most amount of gay and rape I had ever seen in a book.
You've clearly haven't read Steel Remains.

>>9110804
>I'm majorly disappointed in this recommendation
I told you time and time again stay away from those Authors. But does anyone listen? No. You just want to be contrary and read the shit books.

>>9110901
We don't listen to you because your advice is terrible :3

>>9110866
I can't remember if he really shows up before book 8 again. But he's got a fairly big presence in book 8. But you'll manage through books 5 and 7 at least, because they have Tehol and Bugg.

Any cyberpunk books out there that also mix in fantasy elements?

Basically looking for a book kind of like Shadowrun.

>>9110638
>More post-apocalyptic books

>>9110915
Read all these books then.

>>9110638

Broken Empire series

>>9110027
>tolkien
>arthur c clarke
>douglas adams
>brian jacques
>

I feel like I should dislike Robert Howard and his Conan (a complete Mary Sue) but The Tower Of The Elephant is an enjoyable short story. Judging by this, Howard is a very visual writer and an unabashed entertainer, somebody who can cram many exotic scenes and weird + violent twists into few pages. Maybe it helps that I don't read a lot of fantasy so the cliches don't bother me (I'm more a SF reader.)

Does anyone have any comments on the house of blades (traveler's gate trilogy) apart for it's anime? Doesn't say much since there's good and bad anime.

Like is it paced well, does the story make any sense, does it go to shit after the 1st book like a lot of these lesser known trilogies do?

>>9111271
Read and find out.
Shill anon sold me on it, and now I must shill it to others.

From the limited anime I saw, I say it's bleach naruto and one piece squeezed together, but written for an adult audience... can't remember if there was gri, but there was gore.

>ereader is splicing bits of words into other words

Hello anons. /tg/ visiting and this seemed the most appropriate place to ask

I have completed a number of writing projects and there are some clearly identifiable themes across all of my work.

My fantasy work is generally an alt history setting which I've developed over the years to pure autistic intricacy which also retains a very strong sense of humour. I don't want to drop great reams of prose on you but it departs from our world in the early Renaissance.

My science fiction has a golden age Sci fi vibe which I haven't seen in anything published in years. I like exploring strange new world's and find modern science fiction too concerned with inverted navel gazing.

My questions for you, oh worthy /lit/erati are as follows:

>do either of these spark your interest?
> do people still read stuff like this?
>are you aware of authors doing similar things that I may not be?
Finally as everything these days seems to need a genre or pigeonhole, >what on earth do I call these?

>>9111475
Also sorry for sitting up an interesting thread with my irrelevance

Just finished reading Sanderson's Shadows of Self. I'm a massive fan of his work, and I plan to tank through his Stormlight Archive books once I completely catch up with the Mistborn series. Wax and Wayne are freaking hilarious and efficient characters.

His writing style is also quite inspiring to me as someone who wishes to be an author. What would be some authors who share a similar writing style to Sanderson's?

>>9110027
1. Tolkien
2. Peter S. Beagle
3. Gene Wolfe
4. Terry Pratchett
5. China Mieville

>>9110826
Bitter Scottish tears make for fine spirit though.

>>9099898
>Just got Elric in the mail
>barely getting into Moorcock

What should I expect? Is it all as good as I think it'll be? Are there any writers that are similar, that I should consider?

>>9109564
Creating an extensive history and mythos is how you give a setting depth and make the world feel "lived in". Maybe even generate a sense of wonder at all this grand shit that makes people want to know more. It's not really any different from real life legends and myths, which are always set in a previous age full of miracles, gods walking the earth, and heroes that are larger than life. Greeks had such a tradition, so did many Mesopotamian cultures. Even the Norse. To an extent the Bible works the same way.

>>9111509
I don't know about writing style, but powder mage and that dragon blood book guy used Sanderson's mechanics.

>>9111201
Several are on my must read list, yes.

>>9111475
>My questions for you, oh worthy /lit/erati
Afraid you've come to the wrong place. This general is just filth and Kevin.
>do either of these spark your interest?
Yes. Alt history and SciFi exploration are both interesting.
> do people still read stuff like this?
I dunno. Ask Kevin?
>are you aware of authors doing similar things that I may not be?
I think alt history is still fairly common. Neil Stephenson, S. M. Stirling, and Connie Willis come to mind.
>what on earth do I call these?
Retrofuturism? :3

>>9111270
You should read Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

>>9109398
Recommend me some books with politically correct, diverse characters.

>>9111956

>>9111956

Everything that's come out in the last 20 years

>>9111982
Any top picks among them?

>>9112001

If you want full on progressivism, Age of Myth

/sffg/ I'm trapped in a vicious cycle. I feel so anxious because I have so much to do so I avoid writing and. edit instead. then I get even more anxious that nothing's getting done

When I do force myself to write, it looks awful, so I want to change it

>>9112066
This isn't a writing workshop thread.

>>9112079
oh right, I forgot, this is sanderson general. my bad

>>9112066
>>9112088
Fuck off.

>>9111912
Jani-kun, I am glad that you don't see me as filth.

What are you currently reading?

>>9112066
>>9112088

>>9112088
Your post is not even remotely related to the thread's topic, there are threads on this board for writing advice go ask them.

>>9104349
>Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

They grow up.

Nynaeve is the best girl in WOT

>>9112100
It's not supposed to be a compliment :3

>>9110027
Unordered:
T Pratchett
B Sanderson
A Reynolds
G Wolfe
C Mieville

>>9111607
Interesting.
You make an excellent point.
Are there any other notable works aside from Silmarillion that start right at the beginning?

>>9110027
Asimov
Asimov
Asimov
Asimov
Lawrence Miles

>>9104349
He did lead a campaign to subjugate the Eastern Human and the Haradrim.

He probably killed some Orcs too. Orcs are, however, pretty unorganized without Sauron and also fights with each other a lot.

>>9104349
How did Aragorn's shit smell like? What was he wearing on this 144th birthday? What side of the bed does he sleep on with his wife? What did he eat for dinner last night?

>>9112323
We should be friends. The janitor and the voice of sffg.

>Daydreaming over the years lead me to making a giant fantasy world in my head
>Real crazy shit
>Shit loads of characters
>Long history quite detailed

but

>Can't write
>Can never write a book about my lovely world

>>9113111
>my head
>my lovely world

>>9113203

Yeah I feel fondness towards it, I've only been living in it for a decade

Anyone else here play Dwarf Fortress to live out their fantasies in a fantasy land?

>>9113313

I'm not creative enough, I keep making the most unfun fort that won't fall and I end up having no FUN

>>9113333

quads

>>9113048
>Lawrence Miles
Superior taste desu

>>9113317
You need to dive deep and quick and play with lava and minecart shotguns and kill elves.

>>9113203
Is this image from a porn comic, it looks enticing?

>>9113333
I thought moot put code in place to stop your post prediction scripts from working before he left?

>>9113388
It's loli stiner.. with THICC thighs... my property.

>>9113101
Sure, I'd like to be friends with everyone that's stuck here. We number no janitors though you paranoid ponyman.

>>9113617
Then why did you delete the post last thread when I said you gave yourself away?

>>9110866
Book 8, maybe 10 tho I'm only 200 pages in. It'll probably just be a short wrap up or something. Orb Sceptre Throne takes place in Darujhistan, mind you.
Not gonna lie, book 5 is difficult to get through with the Edur and book 7 is somewhat similar, but fuck me they're worth it.

Whenever i visit the bookshop I rearrange shelves to put my personal favourites cover up, not spine. Also I move some real favourites to promotional areas or even closer to the window

Anyone else?

>>9113668
I do that too. But then I work in a bookshop so that's sort of my job.

>>9113655
I don't know why that was deleted. I'm not the only one that's been kevinposting. You make yourself such an easy target.

>>9113678
>You make yourself such an easy target.
>he's onto me

>>9113203
Any fantasy novels with a stirnerist little girl protagonist?

>>9113716
You've been reading Aspect Emperor for an awfully long time Kevin, what's up with that? Weren't you the #1 GRI fan?

>>9113719
>birth of a new meme through rough consensual sex in the missionary position
Little girls going around claiming things? Other than hentai /doujin try Black Jewels Trilogy.
she claimed Satan for herself

Just finished this.
I wasn't ready for so many mind fucks, especially at the ending.
The last pages were weird though. I think simmons fuck up there.

I hope the sequel is good as this one.

>>9113487
>loli
Looks old enough for me.

>>9113730
I do batch updates. Probably finished 5 books since then. Too lazy to update goodreads with my shitty "review".

Try http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/64226861-vince to see if he updated yet

>>9113738
>spoiler
sold.

>>9113752
It's not how you imagine. she wanted a dad. Lol, imagine the Lord of the damned as your papa. It is filled with GRI though, and is outer lit approved. Seeing as they suggested it to me years ago.

>>9113749
If you're so certain he's your plutonium pal, you should send him a friend request :3

I read in the Guardian that scientists are two years away from resurrecting the wooly mammoth, through a process of injecting splicing surviving DNA into Asian elephants. This reminded me of the megafauna found in Gene Wolfe's BOTNS.

Our post-apocalyptic/dying earth would now conceivably contain giant hairy elephant/mammoth hybrids, perhaps along with smilodons and whatever else passes the fancy of our current generation of egg-heads, depending on what they find encased in the ice of arctic circle.

We live in science fiction.

Just finished Red Rising, and it was pretty damn great. 8/10 trilogy.
Anyone else here read it?
Ending spoiler: I just have to vent some frustration with the ending though. Mustang, a character I was not a huge fan of to begin with, really soured the ending for me. It was obvious the author was going for a 'Happy ever after'-ending.
The author just throws in the whole 'Oh and you had a child this whole time and I didn't tell you because I was testing you'-bullshit and then doesn't go into what feelings and then glosses over the MC's reaction to it. All we get is 'How could I be mad at her?'.
I mean fucking really? I get that you just found out you have a child and you love your girl and all, but surely there is some hint of pain at not having been trusted by your loved one? Some sense of betrayal, however little, about how he could have died without ever finding out that he had a son? I'm not saying he should be pissed off, but at least a little irritated, perhaps not right away, but surely after he has had time to process the fact that he has a child.
Forgiveness feels so unsatisfactory if we don't at least get to hear part of his thought process.

Rant over.
Fantastic trilogy though, even if there were some pretty glaring plot holes at times. Loved the whole 'Romans in space'-theme.

>>9113891
>We live in science fiction.
Haven't we always?

>>9100638
Start with Ouroboros. All of his books are absolute god-tier unheard-of ultimate-patrician stuff

Who the fuck has "Moorcock" as a last name?
What the fuck?
If I ever knew someone with that name I'd probably die of exhaustion because I couldn't stop the banter.

>>9114113
are you 12?

>>9114158
No, just an infantile mind.
How else would I read and enjoy genre fiction?

>>9112980
Nothing really comes to mind, because the Silmarillion isn't really a "novel" in that sense. It's more of a compendium of lore written in a biblical style. It tells the "story" of middle earth itself, a record of the world, the "gods", and the elves, and the great and terrible deeds done in those times.

>>9114250
Yeah, I've read Kalevala and like that, it feels like the national epic of Middle-Earth.
I first read Silmarillion when I was about 12 and absolutely hated it but then about 10 years after that I really liked it, though not in the traditional novel sense.

>>9113921
They did say it was mainly because they needed him to be a war machine not second guess himself and think like a father, so it wasn't just testing him. Don't think the situation called for getting mad given the circumstances, especially since he was already kind of a shell of a man when they got him back after a long ass period of constant torture.

Also what plot holes did you notice? Not saying it's flawless, just curious, I wasn't looking for them specifically and don't remember anything major.

>>9114314
I remember scratching my head over a couple of smaller things in the first book, but I can't recall what they actually were. Pretty minor stuff.

But the big one was the hidden rebel city, whatever it was called. The Jackal had spies in his medium-sized fleet, but not in a hidden city with millions of people? Not a single infiltrator to tell him where millions of people were running off to? You know he would blast that place to pieces just to spite Darrow if he knew, or at least let Darrow know he knew, just to scare him.

>>9113788
Naw he is too pussy to own up that he read it and posts on sffg.

He made a bunch of smokescreen books(Monk, etc) to hide all our sffg meme core books that he read.

>>9114365
That's because it's me you meme loving tardo :3

>>9114357
The fleets position was never a secret though even at the end it turned out they got captured on purpose and probably knew that the Jackal was waiting all along, maybe leaked that they were coming to Luna. But I do agree it's pretty unlikely that many people go undetected, even with Mars having billions and billions on it. Think the city was mainly a refuge so people probably weren't allowed to leave as they liked so it's kind a stretch but not totally impossible.

>>9114462
It wasn't really about the position of the fleet, but about what they say as he's called away from the wedding. The Jackal asks something along the lines of "Is the wedding going alright?" And Darrow mentions in his inner dialogue that he's not surprised Jackal has spies in his fleet.

Do you happen to have any other suggestions for sci-fi similar to this that you enjoyed?
Highly character driven and not entirely focused on space and space battles, I mean.

>>9114404
How you doing Vince? :^)

>tfw someone shilled me Red Rising and I in turn shilled it to others
>tfw people liked it and might start to listen to my recs, now that they see I'm not a troll
feels good

>>9114510
I've been reading a lot of sci-fi lately, and with Red Rising done I'm starting to run out.
Give me some of those recs!

>>9114526
It's Chartanon talking I rec every thread.

>>9114505
Okay. Reading about tentacles today. :^)

>>9102214
This kind of paranoid thinking has paralyzed my life. Don't let it control you anon.

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>>9114491
Not really, I mostly read fantasy not sci-fi, got memed into reading it by this thread.

Neuromancer is shiiiiiiit.

>>9110027
Hard to say to be honest, because almost all authors I like have at least a couple of books I really don't like. And those who don't usually haven't published enough to be on a top list.
>1) Isaac Asimov
>2) Joe Abercrombie
>3) Alastair Reynolds
>4) C J Cherryh
>5) Brandon Sanderson

Maybe

NEW THREAD

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>>9114575
Rude. And with no suggestions to boot.

>>9111190
>>9111250
Thank you very much