/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.22868629]

Christmas Edition... Ho Ho Ho!...

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[Anonymous No.22868633]

merry jizzmas kek get it?

[Anonymous No.22868642]

>>22868629
>aislop op
i wish that all of your family members get raped by a vicious pack of niggers

[Anonymous No.22868648]

>>22868642
>artcel detected
Chill man.. I was looking for a nice Christmas + /sffg/ themed art drawn by human, the few pics found were all garbage desu

[Anonymous No.22868651]

Brittany!

[Anonymous No.22868686]

>>22868651
I know she's a normie clickbait type channel, but how the fuck does she read 15-20 books per month? I think even if I was a NEET I wouldn't read that many.

[Anonymous No.22868700]

>>22868686
she woman
that means audiobooks during breakfast, house chores and while taking a nap

[Anonymous No.22868711]

>>22868700
I listen to audiobooks while doing jobs around the house.

[Anonymous No.22869076]

I think the world in three body is weird, do the chinese really hate themselves so much that they've be the ones to ruin the human race

[Anonymous No.22869087]

>>22863624
Gibson is a cunt but I wouldn't call him a hack
My main objection is that his dweeb MCs shouldn't be getting laid as easily as they do, but I guess 1980's main characters couldn't get away with being incels

[Anonymous No.22869101]

Any good stuff with gothic feel that isn't about vampires? Or just something with a character like picrel, either as the main character or with moderate screentime

>>22868629
>aislop op
Kys

[Anonymous No.22869104]

I've been kicking around an idea in my head about a story where we see the aftermath of the good guys vanquishing the evil empire and what would happen to those evil people who lived there.

Can you guys recommend me any stories with a similar premise?

[Anonymous No.22869124]

>>22869104
Not a book, but season 2 of the rage of bahamut anime is about a faggy king oprressing demons after conquering them using stolen divine weapons. The show is written by a woman so you can guess how it ended up. Hint: lots of cringy "muh racism", and an eye rolling romance no one cares about

[Anonymous No.22869138]

>>22869104
look what happened to the south americans, that's what happens to them

[Anonymous No.22869255]

>>22869101
her face looks like ailsop

[Anonymous No.22869335]

I got The Books of Earthsea for Christmas. What now?

[Anonymous No.22869419]

>>22869101
Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton

[Anonymous No.22869434]

>>22869419
>Imagine earthy Tolkienesque characters in a setting full of cemeteries, graverobbers, necromancers, corpse-eaters--even a huge labyrinthine necropolis. Imagine mephitic gardens where the sarcophage, selenotrope, and necrophilium bloom. Then throw in star-crossed lovers, crazed zealots, stalwart heroes, bloodthirsty renegade armies, hideous monsters, and likeable misfits.
Nice one

[Anonymous No.22869436]

>>22868629
Speaking of Chrismas Edition's
Listened to this audio book
A Frost Of Fear And Fortitude, written by A.P Beswick
https://youtu.be/UUf0yUf1Rlo?si=IEHQTvqWpYIHY8sv
The gimmick of the series/setting is dark fantasy re-imaginings of classic tales and legedes.
This one being very clearly inspired by mixing The Witcher with the story of Santa.
It's decent and not very long.

[Anonymous No.22869445]

>>22868629
wtf who is he where is he going

[Anonymous No.22869454]

>>22869101
I mean there are basically all of the gothic classics from the Victorian period that aren't about vampires.

The Fall of the House of Usher
The Signal-Man
The Shadow in the Corner
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Willows

Try some of those.
They are all good and all quite gothic.

[Anonymous No.22869467]

LFM - Raid on Barnes and Noble need 1 dps 1 healer

NO GIRLS ALLOWED

[Anonymous No.22869519]

>>22868629
>worldbuilding
Why would I divulge in "worldbuilding" when there is already a world with everything I need for sorrow and horror and glee and wonder in it? Why do contemporary people insist on "building a world" for a story that they have not written, will not write, and (if they do) will be secondary to this imagined world that is not any good?

[Anonymous No.22869536]

>anon is arguing with his imaginary friends again

[Anonymous No.22869538]

>>22869519
I think one of the reasons for worldbuilding is that story can emerge from it.

[Anonymous No.22869566]

This was the most anticipated book in 2023

[Anonymous No.22869584]

>>22869566

[Anonymous No.22869594]

>>22869566
>>22869584
so obviously written by a w*man

[Anonymous No.22869604]

>>22869566
By whom?

[Anonymous No.22869610]

>>22869566
>>22869584
Not terrible though not exactly a great start to a book.

[Anonymous No.22869615]

>>22869610
It began as a Star Wars fanfic.

[Anonymous No.22869623]

>>22869615
I hate high fantasy

[Anonymous No.22869626]

>>22869566
>most anticipated
>Only a few thousand ratings and not rated well
The actual most (among women) may have been Iron Flame with its 100s of thousands of rating that released about the same time. I don't what kind of delusional propaganda you're pushing.

[Anonymous No.22869629]

>>22869335
read them and report back on your findings

[Anonymous No.22869639]

>>22869623
I get the feeling that it would be far easier to list out what you don't hate.

[Anonymous No.22869646]

Best fantasy series with vixens?

[Anonymous No.22869679]

is it true the fleeing terrans of mar sara got away because a virgin space marine decided to use the psi emitter again to distract the zerg

[Anonymous No.22869737]

>>22869566
>her
Stopped reading there. Another story about roastie. Trash.

[Anonymous No.22869738]

>>22869737
You wouldn't read a story having a male MC either

[Anonymous No.22869742]

>>22869737
mommy issues

[Anonymous No.22869847]

>>22869738
I would read a story with a male MC, but 3 body problem is an exception even though there's a wom*n MC she's just responsible for fucking everything up so that's cool

[Anonymous No.22869881]

>>22869738
I would as long as it is not smut/harem/coomer/romance story

[Anonymous No.22870010]

>>22869639
By the same token, it would be far easier to list bad books rather than good ones.
Nigger.

[Anonymous No.22870040]

>>22869519
You need an imagination to get it, sorry that you are deficient.

[Anonymous No.22870370]

>>22869519
>divulge
Indulge.

[Anonymous No.22870449]

is Chrysalis kino or not?

[Anonymous No.22870502]

>>22868629
I started reading the Canticle for Leibowitz for Christmas break. It's good. Apparently it is a series? Are the rest good?

[Anonymous No.22870511]

>>22870370
If someone is indulging in writing a book, and they are expected to worldbuild, then they have to divulge in the worldbuilding.

[Anonymous No.22870515]

>>22870040
"Worldbuilding" is just a poor and pale imitation of anything in our world, blended into a horrid new form (if at all).

[Anonymous No.22870525]

>>22870515
our world is boring and evil

[Anonymous No.22870544]

Just started the third book lads.
Book one was meh 5/10
Book two was good 7/10

[Anonymous No.22870546]

>>22870544
Have fun.

[Anonymous No.22870570]

>>22870515
Yeah you already explaiend how you have no imagination. It's very sad, but go in peace, leave us to our pale imitations that you don't even want to understand.

[Anonymous No.22870577]

>>22870544
WoT only really starts with book 2. If you enjoyed The Great Hunt you'll probably enjoy the next few books.

[Anonymous No.22870581]

>>22870544
>>22870546
>>22870577
Great posts anons. :)

[Anonymous No.22870582]

>>22870511
Just admit you made a typo, dude, don't try to gaslight people into thinking divulge has some obscure meaning.

[Anonymous No.22870587]

>>22870581
/sffg/ not engaging in vitriolic hatred of a book, random anon, author, concept or genre? what general am I in?

[Anonymous No.22870590]

>>22870587
it's christmas alright

[Anonymous No.22870594]

>>22870587
The same /sffg/ where normalfags discuss the same books every thread.

[Anonymous No.22870634]

>>22870594
As opposed to you, who discusses nothing and just shitposts constantly.

[Anonymous No.22870643]

>>22870634
Totally.

[Anonymous No.22870663]

>>22868629
Current Sci fi reading list:

Cluster series
Culture series
Foundation series
Lewis’ Space Triology
Diaspora
Children of Time
Dragon’s Egg
Lord of Light
Riverwold
Mother of Demons
Amygdalatropolis
Dhalgren
Tau Zero
River of Gods
The Dervish House
Necroville
Embassytown
Dawn (Butler)
Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness

Any similar recs would be good, I got these all from Goodreads so that might not be the best place

[Anonymous No.22870699]

>>22870663
>Children of Time
I'm not into that sort of scifi at all, but found it oddly compelling. The human parts were kind of dumb and gay and I wanted to read about the spiders instead, though

[Anonymous No.22870705]

>>22870663

It is a pretty good idea to treat any rec from goodreads as an anti-rec.

[Anonymous No.22870733]

Any fantasy book with a protagonist that is some kind of Godfather?

[Anonymous No.22870837]

I'm reading Neuromancer right meow and I think I'm retarded. It's like the author wrote the book with him being the only intended reader. It feels like I'm in fever dream. The dialogue between characters is so raw, written as it were actually happening and not is it were to be read. I really am enjoying it even though I have to backtrack often to try and fully understand a scene. Also, I would like to fuck Molly.

[Anonymous No.22870871]

Sex with Tattersail!

[Anonymous No.22870882]

Have a bit of a question anons. I have an old Nelson Doubleday version of Elric Saga 1 and have been considering the newer release mainly because of the "Fortress Of The Pearl" story that takes place between "Elric Of Melnibone" and "Sailor On The Seas Of Fate"

Is it worth getting for that story alone or should I just keep my old book?

[Anonymous No.22870916]

>>22870837
The whole trilogy is about AI gods written by a guy who didn't understand computers. Incidentally Count Zero is the best of the three because it's got the least matrixshit

[Anonymous No.22870991]

yo niggas have any of you read this?

[Anonymous No.22871030]

>>22870582
Divulge means to make bare what was once concealed:
>Divulge was borrowed into Middle English in the 15th century from Latin divulgare, a word that combines the prefix dis-, meaning "apart" or "in different directions," with vulgare, meaning "to make known." Vulgare, in turn, derives from the Latin noun vulgus, meaning "mob" or "common people."

[Anonymous No.22871043]

>>22871030
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.22871052]

Decided to reread And When They Appear tonight. Easily Wolfe's best Christmas story, but boy what a downer. Bleak as fuck but with a glimmer of hope at the very end, just how I like it.

[Anonymous No.22871208]

>>22871043
I do not need to tell you. You know I quote from the notebooks of Da Vinci, the screeds of Rabelais, the litanies of Sade. If you quote anything, it is what I have already recited.

[Anonymous No.22871681]

[Anonymous No.22871685]

New Years Resolution: Begin my RI journey.

[Anonymous No.22871690]

>>22871685
What's RI

[Anonymous No.22871708]

>>22871690
Reverend Insanity.

[Anonymous No.22871718]

>>22871690
Retard Incest

[Anonymous No.22871721]

I don't want to start a new thread for a one-off question and this seems like the least unrelated place to ask. There's a story I remember from a mythology, but can't for the life of me remember which one and who it was about. The premise was that a god plucked his own eye and turned it into a man, who then travelled around the world to gather wisdom from all the lands. I first thought it was Horus, but apparently Eye of Wadjet is something else. Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.22871722]

>>22871208
But you wrote "divulge in" when you clearly meant "indulge in". Drop the shovel and stop digging.

[Anonymous No.22871725]

>>22871721
Eye-plucking is something Odin does but I don't remember the eye turning into a man. He does it in exchange for wisdom.

[Anonymous No.22871734]

I somehow pushed through TTH and I think I'm done with Malazan. Contrary to what you will read on the web, the series goes down the shitter halfway through. After Midnight Tides 90% of the content is pointless overly descriptive filler, and with each subsequent book it gets only worse and worse. Basically, it becomes your standard run-of-the-mill fantasy dreck (like most other series mentioned here). A shame because books 2-5 are pretty great.

[Anonymous No.22871742]

>>22871721
>>22871725
Yeah and Odin sends his ravens across midgard to gather knowledge for him

[Anonymous No.22871803]

/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.

[Anonymous No.22871819]

/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.

[Anonymous No.22871830]

where has review anon gone?

[Anonymous No.22871840]

>>22871830
He is currently undergoing gender reassignment therapy.

[Anonymous No.22871870]

Any fun wuxia where the protag is more of a caretaker or a supporting character?

[Anonymous No.22871886]

Any good classic/gold/silver age science fiction books on struggling with humanity or nihilism and purposelessness?

[Anonymous No.22872122]

>Credit
>Cycle

Why the fuck are people still doing this?

[Anonymous No.22872153]

>>22870544
Great Hunt is one of my favorites, behind Shadow Rising and Knife of Dreams.
t. currently reading series for the first time, halfway through Gathering Storm

[Anonymous No.22872250]

>>22871886
Dying Inside by Silverberg
Replay by Grimwood

[Anonymous No.22872275]

What do you guys think about this series? For me, it's one of favorite, top tier fantasy imo

[Anonymous No.22872276]

>>22871870
>wuxia
?

[Anonymous No.22872303]

>>22872276
Lurk a lot more.

[Anonymous No.22872308]

>>22872276
Chinese fantasy, aka get bullied by a baddie, sit in a cave for a few hundred years and exterminate the baddie's whole family tree

[Anonymous No.22872329]

>>22872308
That's xianxia, wuxia is more mortal martial arts. Like Kung Fu movies.

[Anonymous No.22872336]

I'm full speed ahead on my second to final draft of my ya romantasy. I've been procrastinating for an embarrassing amount of time, but I promised my grandmother I would get it done for her. I have to complete it before she dies, I don't care if it's shit.

[Anonymous No.22872356]

>10 chapters in
Man this has been a fucking slog. Vasher and Nightblood seem pretty cool though.

[Anonymous No.22872387]

>>22872336
What fucking garbage is that?

[Anonymous No.22872399]

>>22872329
>Wuxiaworld
>site name has wuxia in it
>flagships were ISSTH and Coiling Dragon
I was raised in misinformation, and you can't teach an old dog a new trick

[Anonymous No.22872404]

>>22872336
>I luxuriated in a nexus of coziness

[Anonymous No.22872423]

Any of you guys know any fantasy books with a reincarnation romance?

[Anonymous No.22872496]

>>22872336
are you straight

[Anonymous No.22872497]

>>22872336
>cu-huddled
what?

[Anonymous No.22872515]

>>22871803
>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.
>The Wandering Inn = Stay at home moms power fantasy with a main character whos most prominent power is complaining while being a pacivist.
>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 if average magic system 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 caracters 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.

[Anonymous No.22872527]

>>22871819

>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 isnt 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.

[Anonymous No.22872538]

>>22869101
>>22869335
>>22870544
>>22870663
>>22870837
>>22871681
>>22871803
>>22871819
>>22871886
>>22872515
>>22872527
Great posts 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?

[Anonymous No.22872550]

>>22872538
>just started three body problem and i'm wondering when does it gets good? are the witcher books any good
Has anyone actually answered this question?
Everyone online seems to discuss the political aspect of it which is odd for a scifi novel but never mention the prose or the story.

[Anonymous No.22872582]

>>22872515
>>22872527
stop posting that indecent monkey

[Anonymous No.22872583]

>>22872404
that's nice tho

[Anonymous No.22872688]

>>22872497
It's a callback to a previous chapter
>>22872496
It's dual pov so he checks her out and admires how hot/beautiful she is. Yes I am straight.
>>22872583
Thanks

[Anonymous No.22872701]

>>22870663
The Time Machine
The Time Ships
End of Eternity
Solaris
Babel 17

[Anonymous No.22872712]

>>22870837
You're not alone, fever dream is a great way to describe the prose.
Enjoy the ride.
>>22871886
Gladiator

[Anonymous No.22872755]

>>22870544
Trash.

[Anonymous No.22872757]

>>22870837
Read Faulkner next.

[Anonymous No.22872765]

What happened to him?

[Anonymous No.22872795]

>>22872688
Are you a coomer?

[Anonymous No.22872812]

>>22872688
>Yes I am straight.
i always wondered how the straights wrote female pov's when the female character was feeling lusty. as a gay i liked your description but i thought it was too much at times like she just wanted to devour him again

[Anonymous No.22872821]

>>22872795
No I just like writing romance
>>22872812
They both 18 and don't have sex. They cuddle up for the night in that scene. The romance is pretty chaste. They mostly kiss/hold hands, that sort of stuff. She spends most of the work berating him and talking about how much she hates him, so it's to show she's coming around on liking him.

[Anonymous No.22872836]

>>22872821
Friendzoned porn?

[Anonymous No.22872911]

>>22872836
It's friend to lovers, yes

[Anonymous No.22872973]

Brando Sando just finished the first draft of Stormlight 5
Kneel before the TRUE king of /sffg/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9UjiywCFA

[Anonymous No.22872975]

>>22870991
Yes

[Anonymous No.22873000]

>>22872275
Anyone?

[Anonymous No.22873009]

>>22873000
haven't read it. what's it about (no spoilers)

[Anonymous No.22873040]

Any of yall reading Forgotten Ruin? I just finished it and I liked it a lot.

[Anonymous No.22873050]

>>22872821
>The romance is pretty chaste. They mostly kiss/hold hands, that sort of stuff. She spends most of the work berating him and talking about how much she hates him, so it's to show she's coming around on liking him.
Why not just skip that shitty trope? Have them fuck each other once or twice randomly and by that time they already fell in love with other and don't have to act like 5 year olds?

[Anonymous No.22873060]

>>22873050
I like ya. They're 18 and I don't write sex. The whole story is about them being insecure/awkward around each other and gradually overcoming said insecurities.

[Anonymous No.22873065]

>>22870544
I'm in the same boat. I have to say this is the first in the series where I feel any embers of real interest beginning to burn, tho usually those are quickly drenched when the characters continue being thicker than castle walls, but for the first time I'm beginning to believe people might be right and this might actually get good.

[Anonymous No.22873072]

>>22872765
Kids and arthritis.
He'll be back though. He's got plenty of time.

[Anonymous No.22873076]

For me it's Jester of Apocalypse.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62411/the-jester-of-apocalypse
To take a gamble at reading a random rr, I lucked out!

[Anonymous No.22873080]

>>22873000
Sounds interesting, just bought the first volume

[Anonymous No.22873131]

>>22871886
The Star My Destination
Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss
Ring Around the Sun
>>22872275
>>22873000
it's been on my TBR pile for ages, all i know it's considered one of the better low fantasy series and that it has werewolves
>>22872423
Deverry

[Anonymous No.22873141]

No-God when

[Anonymous No.22873153]

>>22873060
>They're 18
good to see mutt cultural conventions still exist in a fantasy world

[Anonymous No.22873179]

>>22873153
They have to be old enough so they're experienced enough to fight bad guys while also being inexperienced when it comes to romance/the opposite sex. Plus it's my story and I'll do what I want with it.

[Anonymous No.22873208]

>>22873179
>Plus it's my story and I'll do what I want with it.
cope. you posted here so you could get feedback but since it enchanted no one now you act like you don't care what others think

[Anonymous No.22873211]

why are euroids so obsessed with raping children?

[Anonymous No.22873227]

>>22873060
>The whole story is about them being insecure/awkward around each other and gradually overcoming said insecurities.
So basically there is no story there.

[Anonymous No.22873231]

>>22873208
I'm fine with criticism when it's presented in good faith and meant to be constructive

[Anonymous No.22873252]

>>22873227
You can't judge woman stories by the same standards as normal stories.

[Anonymous No.22873258]

>>22873065
Yeah the mystery is definitely there. As far as dark lords go Ba'alzamon is pretty interesting too. I like to get lost in long adventures like this.

[Anonymous No.22873271]

>>22872538
(You)

Happy now? Did you get your dopamine hit?

[Anonymous No.22873319]

>>22873211
Because they're all muslim now.

[Anonymous No.22873324]

>>22873040
Did you read it because I'm the anon who introduced this series to the general?

[Anonymous No.22873326]

>>22873211
Japs too. It runs deep.
>男女が、いったん深い仲になると、女は男の行動にあれこれ口出しするようになり、逢っていても楽しくなくなるので、男のほうも今までのイメージとは違うような気がしてきて、甘い気持ちが冷めていく。
>女のほうも、そんな男の態度を愚痴ることが多くなり、初めのころは想像もしなかった別れ話や離婚沙汰が当然のように出てくるものだ。でも、若紫はそんな心配はない。まだ男女の仲を知らない、うぶな少女だから、まったくかわいい生きた人形なのだ。
>Once a man and a woman get to know each other deeply, the woman begins to interfere with the man's behavior, and they no longer enjoy seeing each other, so the man begins to feel that he is not what he used to be, and his sweet feelings cool down.
>The woman often complains about the man's attitude, and naturally there will be talk of separation or divorce, which was unimaginable in the beginning. But Wakamurasaki has no such worries. She is an innocent little girl who has yet to experience the intimacy of a man and a woman, and is therefore an absolutely adorable living doll.

[Anonymous No.22873416]

>>22873324
Oh, I only pop in here irregularly. I ran into it because I'd listened to the Savage Wars trilogy (I think it's a trilogy) and was looking at what else the authors did, and when I saw, "Ranger company isekai," I was hooked immediately.

[Anonymous No.22873430]

Complete newfag here with a craving for dark/high fantasy. Any good recommendations? Have only seen the LOTR trilogy (the films) and want to read something that feels similar.

[Anonymous No.22873438]

>>22873430
I haven't read it myself, but I've heard good things about The Black Company.

[Anonymous No.22873443]

>>22873430
It gets memed on here a lot, but the Stormlight Archive series is unironically pretty good.

[Anonymous No.22873458]

>>22873430
Of course you should read Reverend Insanity.

[Anonymous No.22873469]

>>22873430
Shadowmarch - Tad Williams

[Anonymous No.22873481]

>>22873438
This is /lit/ we prefer The White Company.

[Anonymous No.22873522]

>>22873438
>>22873443
>>22873458
>>22873469
Thank you anons

[Anonymous No.22873523]

>>22873430
read the books then

[Anonymous No.22873535]

>>22868629
>Jane finally runs away from the Factory in her awesome strategic magic bomber dragon
>... to have slice of life in a school, have sex and have two of her friends die
> she then goes to college... to have more sex and have two friends die
This was fucking awful, I dropped out when she was collecting semen to use in alchemical experiments. Genuinely awful book, complete and utter waste of a somewhat interesting setting and premise

[Anonymous No.22873546]

>>22870663
>Culture series
>Riverwold
>Dhalgren
These are incredibly gay and bad, and you'll hate yourself for wasting time on them. I know I did

[Anonymous No.22873592]

>>22869646
>look her up
>practically no scenes with black men
into the trash

[Anonymous No.22873619]

>>22873443
>Stormlight Archive series is unironically pretty good.
are you fucking kidding me? How can anyone recommend that pile of shit after the rhythm of war, even book 3 is not as good as the first two, but the last one is vomit inducing

[Anonymous No.22873623]

>>22873522
Read LOTR if you haven't already, it's a different experience to the films.
Wheel of Time gets compared to LOTR, I don't see it personally.
Stormlight is mediocre, Reverend Insanity is recced just to troll.

[Anonymous No.22873641]

Mfw Navani chapter

Stormlight archive is okay. The first book can be a bit difficult because alien world and you have no idea wtf is going on. I enjoy Kaladin and Shallan stories. Dalinar too. Everything else feels like filler to me.

[Anonymous No.22873648]

>>22873443
>recommending an unfinished series
Retard

[Anonymous No.22873655]

>>22873641
>I enjoy Shallan stories.
Your opinion is worthless.

[Anonymous No.22873659]

>>22873641
I never read past the second prologue and I never will

[Anonymous No.22873676]

>>22873655
What's your problem with Shallan?

[Anonymous No.22873737]

>>22873676
She is, and may Allah forgive me for saying these words, a woman.

[Anonymous No.22873738]

>>22873416
I'm the only other anon then that has read this series. And even though I did A LOT of skimming I too enjoyed it and look forward to future sequels. There's a spinoff if you didn't know about the Sgt. Thor character going off on his own and having Sword & Sorcery adventures apparently.

[Anonymous No.22873758]

>>22873641
>Navani chapter
whats the matter anon, you don't like reading about FUCKING FABRIALS THAT NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT. STOP EXPLAINING HOW THEY WORK, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR IMAGINARY ENGINEERING BRANDON

[Anonymous No.22873827]

>>22873535
The whole book is basically one long Fuck You to fantasy readers. Which is why i like it and enjoy recommending it

[Anonymous No.22873858]

>>22868642
Next time you make the thread weirdo.
>>22870837
Try listening to the audiobook some, it really flowed nicely that way.
>>22872538
Let's leave this in 2023.

I am halfway through 'Thin Air' by Richard K Morgan. I've never read him before. The beginning was a bit confusing, lots of new terms and stuff, I felt like I should have read a book or two before this in the universe to catch up but eventually it gets explained piece by piece in a pretty natural way.

The combat is actually pretty cool (I still don't care about combat).

The sex scenes are pretty dang good, a nice treat about halfway in the book there's been two in the last 100 pages.

The world building is nice, I like all the characters and the environment. It's a GOOD cyberpunk world. Really feels like it's taking itself serious as a novel in that way.

Also it gives me halo vibes with master chief cause the MC, Veil, has an AI in his head and is augmented up the wazoo. So um, yeah he's fucking sick.

[Anonymous No.22873940]

>>22870544
I just finished book 5, i have no clue how the hell did he manage to write 9 more books when it feels like everything could be finished in 2 books at most. Worst part is, now i have to wait, since the old editions are all sold out in my country and the new editions are coming out slow as fuck.

[Anonymous No.22873968]

Books I got for Christmas:

Will of the Many
the Lies of Locke Lammora
Book 2 of the second apocalypse (didn’t love book one till the last 1/3)
The darkness before them

Which one should I read first

[Anonymous No.22873978]

>>22873430
>Dark
Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. Sequels are hit or miss. The Covenant of Steel is decent.
>High for newfag
Eragon and/or The Hobbit, all of LOTR, Silmarillion, Legendarium

[Anonymous No.22874103]

What's the novel about a man I think it's either sci fi or a mix with fantasy, a man travels and basically talks with a lot of people, that's the entire book, talking.

[Anonymous No.22874108]

>>22874103
Another Dream of Tomorrow's Edge by William Saroyan

[Anonymous No.22874111]

>>22874108
Fuck off

[Anonymous No.22874224]

>>22874103
You just described every book of the scifi New Wave.

[Anonymous No.22874226]

>>22874224
It was about an immortal, many faces or I dont know. Cover was a guy on a cape with a sword

[Anonymous No.22874230]

>>22869646
Vicki Chase is the superior Chase, plus she's a Latina
Any books with a latina as the love interest?

[Anonymous No.22874250]

>>22874226
The book of the new sun?

[Anonymous No.22874251]

>>22874226
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
This Immortal by Zelazny
The traveller in Black
Dhalgren
Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
If i remember any others i will post them, but is a very common trope in scifi so it's kinda hard to narrow it down.

[Anonymous No.22874255]

>>22874250
Yep, this one, thanks

[Anonymous No.22874301]

Lies of Locke Lamora or Will of the Many

Which one am I reading first

[Anonymous No.22874321]

>>22874301
>James Islington was born and raised in southern Victoria, Australia. His influences growing up were the stories of Raymond E. Feist and Robert Jordan, but it wasn't until later, when he read Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series - followed soon after by Patrick Rothfuss' Name of the Wind - that he was finally inspired to sit down and write something of his own. He now lives with his wife and two children on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

Read Locke Lamora

[Anonymous No.22874338]

>>22872582
Apologies. I'm just doing my best to placate Bakker posters.

[Anonymous No.22874417]

I've decided to check out this, from the same author of I Shall Seal the Heavens, and it's just better in so many ways. I guess the translator makes all the difference.

[Anonymous No.22874442]

>>22873641
>Stormlight archive is okay

[Anonymous No.22874467]

>>22873430
The Second Apocalypse.

[Anonymous No.22874476]

Why, yes, I do find my books by searching tvtropes. How did you guess?

[Anonymous No.22874501]

>>22874476
How do you resist the urge of clicking on the spoilers?

[Anonymous No.22874519]

>>22874501
spoilers make you stronger

[Anonymous No.22874533]

>>22874417
You didn't post an image, you Donkey

[Anonymous No.22874539]

>>22874501
If spoilers ruin a book, its not a good book

[Anonymous No.22874581]

>>22874539
Spoilers could still ruin an experience a story is now no longer able to provide, regardless of quality.

[Anonymous No.22874666]

>>22873430
To me the best of the best are, in chronological order:
Conan by Robert E Howard
Tolkein obviously (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion)
The Broken Sword
Swords Trilogy (Corum by Moorcock)
Fafhrd and Grey Mouser
Berserk
Assassins Apprentice
Song of Ice and Fire
The Second Apocalypse
Dark Star

[Anonymous No.22874684]

>>22874581
Go back retard

[Anonymous No.22874686]

>>22874666
>Berserk
Haha

[Anonymous No.22874701]

>>22874666
>Song of Ice and Fire
>The Second Apocalypse
Haha

[Anonymous No.22874742]

>accidental spoilers
newfag behaviour
>intentional spoilers
just banter innit

[Anonymous No.22874785]

Great Ordeal? Failed.

[Anonymous No.22874787]

NOOOO YOU FUCKING CHUD YOU JUST RUINED THE ASOECT EMPEROR FOR ME NOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.22874796]

>Great Ordeal? Failed.

[Anonymous No.22874800]

>Great Ordeal? Failed.

[Anonymous No.22874809]

>>22874686
>>22874701
Contrarian morons

[Anonymous No.22874811]

>>22874809
slop lover

[Anonymous No.22874828]

>>22874666
>Dark Star
i can't find this one

[Anonymous No.22874862]

>>22874828
Black Leopard Red Wolf

[Anonymous No.22874864]

>>22874862
NTA but what did you think of it? I saw a random interview clip of GRRM and the author of that book the other day

[Anonymous No.22874890]

>>22874864
I thought it was great.
Putting it in best of the best might be a little undeserved, I have yet to read Moon Witch but if it delivers and he pulls of a good conclusion with the third book it'll deserve it, but it's the best fantasy newer than Bakker I could think of.
The first quarter or so about Trackers childhood in swamp slums is so alien and impenetrable I almost put it down, but as he becomes a teenager it starts to click into place and once the adventure started it becomes a hell of a ride with a ton of variety and originality. Writing is great. And it's surprisingly pulp. Like all the best fantasy it's sort of like the author put everything he loves into one big blender, high culture and low. The Spider-Man homage was especially goofy and delightful.

[Anonymous No.22874897]

>>22874862
>fantasy novel by Jamaican writer
>novel draws on African history and mythology
lol no thank you

[Anonymous No.22875004]

>>22874251
It was book of the new sun but
Any of this as a rec? I'm curious now

[Anonymous No.22875006]

>>22874897
nta, but learning about different cultures and mythologies is important.

[Anonymous No.22875059]

>>22874897
fuck you racist

[Anonymous No.22875243]

For me? It's R. Scott Bakker. The KING of fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22875443]

>>22869255
That's Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, you Cretin.

[Anonymous No.22875445]

>>22875059
Nigger

[Anonymous No.22875528]

Unfriendly reminder that Bakker is not interested in writing fantasy anymore and The No-God is never coming out. EVER.

[Anonymous No.22875531]

>>22875059
Lol

[Anonymous No.22875550]

>>22875528
You lie! WHY DO YOU LIE?!

[Anonymous No.22875565]

I'm up to 4.3 in Ward, and frankly I'm just not as invested in the story as compared to Worm. How long does it take to pick up? Or is it just generally not as good?

[Anonymous No.22875566]

Kellhus's 300iq giga-manipulation is getting a bit tiresome
t. Reading warrior prophet

[Anonymous No.22875573]

>>22870663
>Foundation series
Read the robot stuff as well. The Empire trilogy might also be good, haven't read it myself.

[Anonymous No.22875576]

>>22875566
If you're already tired of it, he only intensifies in his autism.

[Anonymous No.22875583]

>>22873858
In that case you'll definitely like Black Man (Thirteen) as well.

[Anonymous No.22875590]

>>22874442
Sometimes people enjoy different things friend.

[Anonymous No.22875625]

>>22872329
They're the same thing, the difference is more in their protagonist.
Xianxia translates to "Immortal Hero(es)" in english, the defining factor of Xianxia is specifically that the protagonist is seeking advancement at least in part to become Immortal. This is why Xianxia protagonists are usually amoral at best, because Immortality is inherently wrong in most eastern philosophy and religion. It's not evil so much, but rather it's like alcoholism or being a coomer, it's self destructive, and failing to curtail the desire will block you from achieving Enlightenment and until you accept death you will forever be trapped in the cycle of Samsara.

Wuxia is more like Heroic fantasy, it's the same stuff, but defined more by a protagonist with noble goals who isn't seeking to become an immortal demigod, he might seek advancement, even advancement to a higher plane, but the goal is not to defeat death and defy the heavens, although that may happen as a consequence. In short, the Xianxia protagonist is the villain of the Wuxia protagonists story.
Xianxia and Wuxia aren't really separate genres, they're descriptions of the content, in the same way dark fantasy, high fantasy, and heroic fantasy are all fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22875692]

>>22875625
That sounds more like a personal opinion than an accurate description of those genres.

[Anonymous No.22875721]

>>22875590
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItNFP7icUw
just let people enjoy things!!

[Anonymous No.22875728]

>>22875625
>>22875692
Xianxia is basically power fantasy, usually a lot more fantastical than other eastern genres. The plots are usually one note, and unless you are the kind of autist who gets excited by ideas like "battling using universes" it gets tiring once you have read a few stories of the genre. Characters are basically mortals ascending to godhood through cultivation after a point.

Wuxia is the tradional fantasy of china, much more varied in themes and characters, with a much bigger audience than the autistic reader base of xianxia. Books in this genre are generally more down to earth and involve character drama more than just muh power, despite the focus on martial arts at times borderline magic

t. East Asian who read chinese literature growing up

[Anonymous No.22875730]

>>22875728
kek I read some MTL samples of garbage xianxia books on amazon with 0 reviews one time. I was amazed at the shittiness. I thought 50 shades of grey was bad.

[Anonymous No.22875741]

[Anonymous No.22875746]

this thread needs to be split into
/fg/ fantasy general for respectable posters
/sfg/ Sci fi general for the nerds
Then an irrelevant containment thread for the faggots above who discuss nothing but their autistic chink rpg slop

[Anonymous No.22875752]

>>22875746
The other day I was thinking that there should be a split thread from /wg/ to discuss how to write anime and LitRPG garbage. Unfortunately a thread like that is doomed to fail because none of them can write for shit, so they would just come back eventually.

[Anonymous No.22875757]

>>22875752
You'll just cause another shitstorm like you did then, since most of the posters there are autistic 17 year olds writing litrpg slop

[Anonymous No.22875758]

>>22875757
Yeah autistic anime addicts kept replying to me because they're extremely insecure and retarded. Pretty sure one of them reported me and a janny deleted precisely one of my posts because I used the word nigger but I wasn't banned, so I know it was a seething janny who faps to anime shit. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.22875761]

>>22875758
Seems to me that the kind of person who would apply to be an unpaid internet janitor would, almost necessarily, be the kind of person who writes barely disguised fanfiction of their favourite anime in the most repulsive cringe weeb-English prose imaginable.

[Anonymous No.22875767]

>>22875761
It was pretty bad >>22871906

[Anonymous No.22875770]

>>22875767
I'm aware, I was also one of the posters mocking that diseased soul

[Anonymous No.22875773]

>>22875767
>the guy is called "gorgonzola"
holy fucking kek, this must be a joke

[Anonymous No.22875776]

>>22875773
>That's a cheese's name.

>If you are not aware, a lot of authors, especially Japanese ones, just pick a random fucking naming convention but stick to it.

Unfortunately I don't think so.

[Anonymous No.22875787]

>>22875746
Wasn't that the point of the World Building General?
I thought all the chinese posters would migrate there eventually but hasn't happened yet.

[Anonymous No.22875789]

>>22872538
>YouTube content
Are his novels any good?

[Anonymous No.22875794]

>>22875789
I've read Way of Edan, it's alright. Nothing offensively bad in it, some surprisingly brutal violence, a bland protagonist who's special through no merit of his own, dwarves are cool bros. Religion is bad because... it makes people do bad things!

[Anonymous No.22875924]

Just caught up with this
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28806/the-flower-that-bloomed-nowhere
I would recommend it. Though be warned that it takes a long ass time to get going and the "murder mystery" the book is supposedly about isn't entirely solved, even though it is (it's very complicated), even at the latest chapter though I feel like I've got a handle on the big picture now
There's a lot useless dialogue and unappealing elements especially in the beginning, the author should really tidy it up, but it's well worth it if you're into mystery and figuring shit out, and you'll need to do that with basically everything in this novel (or just enjoy the ride), the setting, plot, characters, the MC especially. At first I hated her and how weak she seemed but now she has to be one of my favourite things about the whole book and what she's going and has gone through is a large part of if it

[Anonymous No.22876018]

>stormlight 5 is finished
Say what you want about the quality of his writing but at least he fucking delivers. What excuses do rothfuss and martin have?
>nooo u don't get it our work is LITERARY
Kek in the MUD

[Anonymous No.22876030]

>>22875565
If you're reading Ward hoping it becomes Worm 2 you're going to be disappointed. They're very different.
But also maybe towards the end of part 5 when the raid on Rain's cult starts.

[Anonymous No.22876082]

>>22875924
>her
Stopped reading there.prvhy

[Anonymous No.22876087]

>>22876018
Excuse? Rothfuss just released his ENTIRELY NEW NOVELLA!

[Anonymous No.22876089]

>>22874581
Your favourite book is fucking garbage.

[Anonymous No.22876111]

>>22874864
>>22875006
What the fuck does nta mean

[Anonymous No.22876122]

>>22876111
Not
That
Anon

[Anonymous No.22876141]

Onto the next book in this pagan shit series

[Anonymous No.22876195]

>>22876082
I always see this posted here but what's wrong with female MC? I don't see a problem as long as it's not a romance novel

[Anonymous No.22876215]

>>22876195
They are fine as long as there is absolutely no sex/romance or any kind of close male/female relationship throughout the story

[Anonymous No.22876249]

>>22876111
Hi newfren

[Anonymous No.22876251]

how come chinese media is so popular in the /sff/ milieu? i feel like this is the only area of western culture where china has managed to make inroads

[Anonymous No.22876252]

>>22876087
My favorite part about Piggy's "new" novella is that it's something he already wrote but expanded with more alphabet soup pandering

[Anonymous No.22876264]

>>22868642
bet he reads litrpgs and chinese shit

[Anonymous No.22876265]

>>22876251
what? they're leading the gacha game industry. 1 or 2 genshin clones coming out this year I think. I'd hardly call a few autists on some obscure 4chan board a cultural inroad.

[Anonymous No.22876282]

>>22876251
Mexican facebook is filled to the brim with chinese webnovel memes. I'd assume some of it leaked here because of how vague can the term "fantasy" be perceived by those subhumans.

[Anonymous No.22876299]

>>22876251
It's not.
There are maybe 3-4 popular webnovels from China

[Anonymous No.22876307]

>>22876282
wtf? i'm mexican and never heard of anyone reading chinese novels

[Anonymous No.22876313]

>>22876307
You have to go back.

[Anonymous No.22876319]

>>22876313
you first

[Anonymous No.22876368]

>>22876252
It'll bide his fans over for another decade

[Anonymous No.22876397]

>>22875746
>respectable posters
>BAWWWWWWWWWW STOP CRITICIZING <popular entry> BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Anonymous No.22876503]

I like and read litrpgs

[Anonymous No.22876560]

>>22876503
You should kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.22876562]

>>22876397
What do you mean? popular titles are criticized all the time.
What it means is that the same criticism should not be raised over and over again for at any mention of the title.

[Anonymous No.22876564]

>>22876251
You could simply search for the various relevant articles. The Chinese government funds science fiction for several reasons. More Chinese SF is translated into English than any other language other than Japanese, depending on how inclusive you're feeling about manga and light novels being SF. You may want to look up the term "soft power". Books are by no means the only influence China has culturally, but how much they have really varies by person. I could explain at length, but to what purpose? Try looking up a few things yourself.

[Anonymous No.22876577]

>>22876564
Can you provide some examples of Chinese SF other than 3 body problem?

[Anonymous No.22876585]

>>22876564
>The Chinese government funds science fiction for several reasons.
proof?

[Anonymous No.22876595]

>>22876562
>popular titles are criticized all the time
and normalfags act shocked and appalled, and instantly go through the beginner's guide to internet retorts on 4chan (for dummies) checklist in defense

[Anonymous No.22876640]

>>22876577
>>/lit/thread/20305374#p20306208
I've written and posted about some of these here.

>>22876585
search for it and you'll see a ton. What do you want for proof?

[Anonymous No.22876643]

>>22876585
There is no source because it doesn't exist. It is like blaming the URSS for the widespread use of the term Robot or the popularity of Roadside Picnic.
It's just rethoric to micdrop the biggest discovery of his life: that American fantasy is just as bad as chinese fantasy and therefore we should all read korean litrpgs and japanese webnovels.

[Anonymous No.22876769]

>>22876640
I looked some of them up
...women writers, dramas, female protags. I get the feeling they are all garbage.

[Anonymous No.22876787]

>>22876769
I never said anything about their quality, only that they exist.

[Anonymous No.22876808]

>>22871830
They all left because this thread is dog shit and no one here can have a discussion above a primary school level

[Anonymous No.22876845]

>>22876769
>muh womyn
what an interesting opinion

[Anonymous No.22876857]

>>22876845
Kys coomer

[Anonymous No.22876858]

i read Alice in Wonderland, and it was pretty nice but i was expecting a bit more considering how famous it is. the last third of so i liked a lot, very entertaining and funny

do kids like it better? maybe i don't find it funny because i'm big, but i imagine for most kids the wordplay and weird scenes might cause much bigger effect. i plan on gifting it to my niece when she is a bit bigger

[Anonymous No.22876863]

>>22871830
Which one? If you mean me, using the SFFG tripcode, then I have took a while off, longer than I posted that I would. Various matters came up after my planned videogame playing time. I started reading again yesterday. I'll have something to post before the end of the year. As I noted in a previous post I'll be focusing on completing series next year.

If you mean the others who have posted about what they've written about, then circumstances vary from what I can tell from their Goodreads activity.

[Anonymous No.22876875]

>>22876863
I am a trans woman btw

[Anonymous No.22876903]

>>22876875
One of the books I tried reading before I settled on the one I'm currently reading had a transwoman protagonist. It was cyberpunk, which is nice, but it was far too fanfictional and leaned too much on pop culture references, so it didn't work out.

[Anonymous No.22876941]

>>22876857
wrong. coomers are misogynists until proven otherwise

[Anonymous No.22876945]

>>22876858
>because i'm big
how big we talkin'

[Anonymous No.22876949]

>>22876941
You are not a coomer? What are you then?

[Anonymous No.22876982]

>>22876949
i am greek

[Anonymous No.22876984]

i am trans

[Anonymous No.22877027]

>>22876251

Nothing discussed in this general is representative of the actual fantasy/scifi community or readership. It's bots yelling at gig workers.

[Anonymous No.22877029]

I am Autistic

[Anonymous No.22877033]

>>22877027
The normalfags defending their favorite bestselling author is wholly believable.

[Anonymous No.22877086]

I am Bakker.

[Anonymous No.22877113]

>>22877027
Yeah, if you want some place representative of the current majority of the readership you have to go to TikTok.

[Anonymous No.22877131]

>>22876982
I am so sorry

[Anonymous No.22877154]

>>22876564
>Try looking up a few things yourself.
idk how :/

[Anonymous No.22877192]

>>22877086
Mr R. Scott: no god when

[Anonymous No.22877199]

>>22876564
Is it really an influence when no one is buying it?
I could publish something bad and pay thousands to produce an influx of awards and critical acclaim to trick masses into thinking I made a masterpiece. But at the end of the day when the checks run out, the discussion around it may die due the inherent lack of quality and context.
Just look at that chick that won three Nebula awards in a row.

[Anonymous No.22877226]

Thoughts on Children of time?

[Anonymous No.22877269]

>>22877226
great post anon, very original. but

[Anonymous No.22877275]

>>22872515
>Hyperion
Is that referencing the ousters?
They weren't eunuchs

[Anonymous No.22877282]

>>22877226
>female mc
>majority female cast
>nominated for several sjw awards, won a hugo
>author is a sjw slav communist

[Anonymous No.22877316]

>>22877226
decent but i wanted to scream half of the time. every time when someone who has power and is in command tries to command that commander becomes a retarded and just a bad person. this means that that "author" never commanded anyone or took any position of responsibility. he is a person that constantly complains about his manger in work and everything has happened in spite of mangers. Basically I am saying that author was and or is bullied by someone in position of power

[Anonymous No.22877326]

>>22877199
>check the recent nebula awards
>jemisin is in there

civilization has fallen. It's over.

[Anonymous No.22877332]

>>22877269
But what? Say It faggot. Finish the sentence.

>>22877282
I thought it was about intelligent spiders and shit???
But yeah, fuck Slavs desu.

[Anonymous No.22877334]

>>22877199
No, it wouldn't be, and I never said it. I said it depends on the individual. Maybe someone is influenced by reading the short fiction that Clarkesworld published. Certainly a lot were influenced by Obama's endorsement of Three Body Problem, which has both a Chinese and Netflix adaptation. There's the game Genshin Impact, though I don't how much that influences thought about China. Tencent has a lot of influence, if only through their games such as Fortnite and League of Legends. Their near majority ownership of Epic influences a lot considering how popular Unreal Engine is. But again, I can't say how much that influences. Chinese movies are doing better, and not just the ones from Hong Kong. There's Chinese anime, though I don't think there's been anything notable yet. Manhua has been going on longer. Chinese TV not so much. Then there's TikTok. Chinese retailers such as Shein and Temu have been trying to gain a foothold, but don't seem to have been successful.

As for SF specifically, you can find official statements of government funding in the 13th and 14th 5 year plans as well as the Beijing Science Initiative. Though the overall purpose of it is to inspire people to have technological breakthroughs by providing education in many cases. It's very practical. Obviously the webnovels aren't like this and don't receive funding.

I think you want to be arguing against someone I'm not. I'm not arguing about how influential it is overall. All I'm saying is that it exists and it isn't nothing.

As a note, I assume you mean Jemisin, which was three Hugos. Obviously that only has any influence among those who feel the awards ought to be an influence.

[Anonymous No.22877336]

>>22877316
>this means that that "author" never commanded anyone or took any position of responsibility. he is a person that constantly complains about his manger in work and everything has happened in spite of mangers. Basically I am saying that author was and or is bullied by someone in position of power
>>22877282
>author is a sjw slav communist

[Anonymous No.22877351]

>>22877326
This shouldn't be a surprise. It's been shown that the Hugo and Nebula have had almost identical longlists, nominees, and winners for a long time now. That only makes since though since it's the same people for both.

[Anonymous No.22877546]

post em
>LAST READ
The Unholy Consult
I see people complain about the ending, but I thought it was perfect.
>CURRENT READ
The Romance of the Rose. Very strange book.
>NEXT READ
eiher Burning Chrome or The Crossing by McCarthy

[Anonymous No.22877616]

Library at Mount Char

[Anonymous No.22877687]

is an awful book.

[Anonymous No.22877695]

Anyone know an ebook of Discworld that conveys the footnotes well?

[Anonymous No.22877721]

>>22877546
The Crossing is absolutely incredible but may break you. Burning Chrome is lightweight YA stuff by comparison.

[Anonymous No.22877726]

>>22876251
>how come chinese media is so popular in the /sff/ milieu
I don't think it is, I think it's a small group of people who spam it constantly. These threads don't have that many people in them, and most of the unique IPs here only post once or twice, so the vast majority of posts come from a fairly small group of people.

If you've been on this site awhile you start to realize how a single autistic person can come to dominate a community of a few hundred people simply through determined anonymous spamming and shitposting. They create the illusion of consensus, so that everybody eventually just tolerates it. This works on boards like /lit/ which have crappy / no moderation.

[Anonymous No.22877750]

>>22876087
>Entirely
Partly
>new
Refurbished
>Novella
Over-written short story.

[Anonymous No.22877754]

>>22877546
Last read:
Growth of the Soil by Knut
Current:
Canticle for Leibowitz, by Miller >>22870502
Future:
Essays by Montaigne

[Anonymous No.22877764]

>>22875746
I'd rather just ban people who do nothing but post litRPG shit. You can hardly even call it literature. I'm pretty sure fanfiction isn't allowed on this board so I don't see why this shit should be, it's essentially at the same tier of writing.

[Anonymous No.22877772]

>>22873469
Ayy somebody else recommending Shadowmarch. I feel validated after recommending it in these threads for the last decade.

[Anonymous No.22877802]

>>22877199
>Just look at that chick that won three Nebula awards in a row.
she's not discussed because we're on a fascist white supremacist website

[Anonymous No.22877815]

>>22877334
shein is extremely successful
>As for SF specifically, you can find official statements of government funding in the 13th and 14th 5 year plans as well as the Beijing Science Initiative.
are you chinese? pls link

[Anonymous No.22877818]

>>22877546
>current
Seapower States by Andrew Lambert

>next
Probably some fiction, I reckon I should finally read Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.22877824]

>>22877546
>LAST READ
The Desert Spear, by Peter V Brett. Pretty decent, but the plot seems to be going in a weird direction from what I expected. Going to pick up book 3 eventually, but I've got a few books to read first.
>CURRENT READ
I picked up the Arcanum Unbounded anthology by Brandon Sanderson which contains several of his shorter Cosmere works in a single volume. Specifically I'm reading Hope of Elantris and will follow that up with the Emperor's Soul, both of which are follow ups to his original Elantris novel.
>NEXT READ
Age of the Five trilogy by Trudi Canavan. I love Canavan's Black Magician trilogy to death, but nothing else she's written has come close to being as good, in my opinion. I'm still hoping to find something else by her that has a similar spark to it.

[Anonymous No.22877884]

>>22877113
yeah ngl if i want recommendations I'd much rather come here than tiktok

[Anonymous No.22877906]

>>22877884
All you're going to get from Tiktok is fantasy flavored smut like Fourth Wing or whatever SJM regurgitated series is FOTM since that's all that gets circlejerked over here, worse than bugman RI shilling or Bakkerfagism.

[Anonymous No.22878025]

What is the greatest /lit/-RPG? Hands down the best. Not even arguable.

[Anonymous No.22878073]

>>22878025
There isn't one. Every book is subjective.
Some faggot might say Dungeon Carl, but that series is shit, and Carl is just a carpet for the cat to shine.

[Anonymous No.22878076]

>>22878073
Your copypaste gorillaAI ritualposts are worse than the debris from an abortion.

[Anonymous No.22878087]

>>22878076
>ask a question
>gets an answer from a actual person
>doesn't like answer
>Your copypaste gorillaAI ritualposts are worse than the debris from an abortion
Just neck yourself fagget

[Anonymous No.22878091]

>>22878087
Not everyone on 4chan is the same person, retard. The anon who replied to you isn't me. He's right, though.

[Anonymous No.22878102]

>>22878073
what is your obsession with this cat, dude?

[Anonymous No.22878108]

>>22878087
>neck yourself
Return to whichever social-aggregate you came from, 14-25yo newfag.

[Anonymous No.22878186]

>>22878025
Calamitous Bob is probably the most consistent one but that's the classic case of someone writing a fantasy story and sticking some stats in so they can use the popular genre tag.
Otherwise dcc, wandering inn and super supportive are the only ones that really maintain any quality.
Jackal among snakes is good but I think videogame isekai should be classified as a different genre and Elydes was okay but I stopped because I was up to pace and its still too early to judge it really.
>>22878087
you gave a complete non-answer as an excuse to post the image.

[Anonymous No.22878209]

>>22878102
cats = 4chan
dogs = reddit

[Anonymous No.22878230]

>>22878209
>r/dogs
2 million suscribers
>r/cats
5 million suscribers

This stat speaks volumes

[Anonymous No.22878283]

>actually replying to the bait
newfaggots really do, evidently.

[Anonymous No.22878296]

new
>>22878295
>>22878295
>>22878295
>>22878295

[Anonymous No.22878585]

>>22878025
What is the greatest sub 90 IQ african nigger monkey living in the dirt and eating roadkill?

[Anonymous No.22878885]

>>22877086
Is love the answer?

[Anonymous No.22879007]

>>22877726
Go to redit if you want moderation you fucking retard