/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.10819793]

Magical Rivers Edition
>list sff books with magical or unexplained water ways
>what was the last magical water creature you read about?

FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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Previous Threads:
>>10806311
>>10794874
>>10778690
>>10769663

[Anonymous No.10819807]

>>10819793
>the Lord of Water spoke

[Anonymous No.10819856]

dume

[Anonymous No.10819885]

sanderfag a hack

[Anonymous No.10819915]

>>10819793

>>10819700
>how did you know she tortured prisoner?

because seviarian remembers about how her and her friends would sneak into the prison through the secret door and whip the prisoners with electric whips for fun

he also mentions later about how hes come to realize that thecla was a crude petty and stupid women (aka she was a women)

[Anonymous No.10819967]

Daily reminder to not start the last day, it's not enjoyable!

Downloads: http://b-ok.org/s/?q=Childhood%27s+End

[Anonymous No.10819994]

Sixth for Webnovels are novels too

[Anonymous No.10820008]

Brainlet woman pleonasm here, do we ever see Baldanders again after he hulk-jumps into lake Diuturna at the end of Sword of the Lictor?
I'm at my third readthrough and though I missed a lot the first time and filled the blanks during the second one, I still can't find anything about Baldanders.
To my excuse, I intentionally left the end of Claw of the Conciliator (Why didn't I remember so many things happened?) and Citadel of the Autarch behind to read just those 2 again a few more times.
All in all I think the books make good in explaining pretty much anything.

[Anonymous No.10820010]

Philip K Dick is my waifu desu

[Anonymous No.10820050]

>>10819915
>he also mentions later about how hes come to realize that thecla was a crude petty and stupid women (aka she was a women)
pleonasm

[Anonymous No.10820158]

>>10820008
We don't hear anything about Baldanders after the lake that I know of, but my theory is that he aims to become like Abaia, a huge underwater sea monster with massive influence on what happens on land.

However the last time I expressed this opinion on /sffg/ someone called me a brainlet

[Anonymous No.10820159]

>>10820050
>>10820008
>pleonasm
That's redundant.

[Anonymous No.10820187]

>>10820159
Your post is needlessly redundant my dude.

[Anonymous No.10820205]

14th for severian & his travels

[Anonymous No.10820251]

Someone post the dune chart please

[Anonymous No.10820257]

>>10820251
I mean Hyperion, oops

[Anonymous No.10820297]

>>10819915
Not the guy you were responding to, but I thought you were referring to the phantom thing that appeared in the prison while everyone was sleeping, terrorized everyone, and shot Jonas. I don't remember anything about Thecla whipping the prisoners, although it has been a while since I read it.

[Anonymous No.10820301]

Has anyone heard of any news about Glen Cook finally finishing this series. I really liked it.

[Anonymous No.10820324]

I love you pleonasm anon

[Anonymous No.10820347]

Is the Sprawl series as good as people have hyped them up to be?

[Anonymous No.10820368]

>>10820301
It's very unlikely there will be a 5th book. IIRC in a interview he said it got canceled while he was writing the third book, hence the very rapid end to the series in the 4th book. Sadly humanity just wasn't ready for 1300s gunpowder crusades fantasy series set in the Mediterranean.

There's gonna be a new Black Company book in September though, takes place between the first two books.

>>10820347
I like Neuromancer more now that I'm an adult.

His Blue Ant series is pretty good BTW. It's essentially a series of psuedo-cyberpunk technothrillers about washed up punk rockers and advertising gurus working for a Belgian advertising exec hunting the latest cool thing. It shouldn't work, but it does and it's good.

[Anonymous No.10820508]

>>10820297
the whole reason he knows there is a secret door is because thecla and the rest of the court whores used to use it to whip the prisoners for fun and he has theclas memories remember?

again, he also points out later in the story that in reality thecla was cruel and stupid and not the idealized image he made of her

>thecla on the left

[Anonymous No.10820606]

>Cynical enough to not enjoy 99% of genre fiction, and constantly criticize everything
>Not talented enough to write anything of my own

[Anonymous No.10820613]

Enjoyed this quite a tad.

[Anonymous No.10820748]

>>10820008
what the fuck are those things in pic related?

[Anonymous No.10820849]

>>10820613
>annna
>female writer writing about killing
I bet at the end there is a love triangle.

[Anonymous No.10820947]

>>10820613
Saw that on the new arrivals shelf at the local library, looked interesting but didn't get it because I've got a bunch of other stuff to read.

>>10820849
who hurt you?

[Anonymous No.10820958]

>>10820947
People aren't hurt any more in most families, they're not cared enough about for parents to bother to hurt them

[Anonymous No.10820964]

>>10820958
Being raised by an absent single mom will also cause that sort of resentment, to be fair.

[Anonymous No.10821002]

>ill get back to writing fantasy
>some day

[Anonymous No.10821091]

How can I get through a clark a smith story without cringing?

[Anonymous No.10821182]

>The No-God will start several weeks after the events of The Unholy Consult and is expected to span at least two books, although Bakker has acknowledged it may expand to three volumes. No publication date is set for the first book, although Bakker has already begun work on it.

I am moist with anticipation.

[Anonymous No.10821187]

>>10820347
It's great if you love cyberpunk. Neuromancer started up a lot of the themes of the whole genre.

[Anonymous No.10821217]

>>10820613
Looks interesting, I'll see if a local bookstore has it.

[Anonymous No.10821220]

>>10821182
>start several weeks
I expected a bigger jump. The remnants of the Ordeal will still be far North at that point.

Also Bakkerfags: Is Shauriatas still alive? Did he assimilate the Dunyain that attempted to subvert the Consult? Is it all a mega-ruse?

[Anonymous No.10821286]

>>10819967
>grimly prophetic tale

what?

[Anonymous No.10821310]

>>10821286
You don't remember when we were all subsumed into the Overmind?

[Anonymous No.10821338]

A jade tube? When Song Shuhang saw the object, he blurted out the name of an object in his mind, "Technique Transmitting Jade Slip?"

It was also called a Heritage Jade Slip, a Skill Inheriting Jade Slip, or something like that.

This was one of the must-haves for heroes in Xianxia novels. By placing it onto one’s head, the techniques and other stuff recorded in it would be imprinted onto one’s mind! Even a fool could remember a whole technique with it!

"You're thinking too much..." Medicine Master shrugged his shoulders. "A Technique Transmitting Jade Slip is precious, even priceless. It will only be used to record the most precious techniques that couldn’t be recorded with words. It’s not worth it to record common Foundation Establishment techniques like these with a Technique Transmitting Jade Slip."

Only the most precious techniques containing the laws of heaven and earth and the principles of the Great Way, which couldn’t be recorded with words, and would be erased by the power of heaven and earth even if they were recorded with words forcefully, would need to be recorded with something as precious as ‘Technique Transmitting Jade Slip’.

"Then what's this?" Song Shuhang asked.

"It's just an ordinary USB flash drive. To be honest, mortal technology is getting more and more advanced, and many of the things they have invented are also very handy for cultivators. A small USB flash drive can contain the contents that used to fill a whole scripture library, and you can even add videos into it. It is really convenient." Calmly, Medicine Master shattered the fantasies of Song Shuhang once again.

[Anonymous No.10821464]

>>10821220
>mega ruse

Shauriatas was definitely killed offscreen. The mutilated dunyain had no reason to lie to Kellhus once he saw through the hologram.

[Anonymous No.10821490]

I buy a lot of cheap SF because of the cover art. I just bought this cause it was $1 and I actually laughed out loud in the store when I saw it. I have no idea if it's actually the finest novel of alien invasion ever written, but it probably is.

[Anonymous No.10821497]

>bakkerfags convince me to read their meme series
>massive fucking buildup over seven (7) books
>war of all wars, battle of all battles
>shaeonanra jobs
>kellhus jobs
>aurang jobs
>aurax jobs
>cnaiur jobs
>sorweel jobs
>the fucking devil himself jobs twice
>esmenet still alive and still a nagging bitch

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.10821535]

>>10819793
>main character's superpower is to shoot TWO bullets

holy...

[Anonymous No.10821556]

>>10821535
That's being a bit disingenuous. Powder mages can also
>adjust the path of bullets
>use gunpowder as cocaine to see further, be more focused, etc
>blow up gunpowder from a distance or make gunpowder not go off

[Anonymous No.10821605]

>>10821490
It unironically is. It's a great and fun read. You will learn to fear those chubby elephants, belive me.

[Anonymous No.10821722]

>>10821464
They do if they're not Dunyain at all, but Shauriatas wearing Dunyain bodies.

[Anonymous No.10821724]

>>10821497
The antagonists were the only thing that really interested me about those books because of how truly evil and unholy they came across when compared to villains from other epic fantasies. But then you find out the boring fucking Dûnyain have been in control for years before the second series even begins and what a kick in the chicklets that was. I mean I get it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

[Anonymous No.10821730]

>>10821497
Shae is still alive. He took over the Dunyain. Pay attention to the dream with him and Nau-Cayuti, then notice how the Dunyain speak when Kellhus meets them. constantly finishing each others sentences in sequence. As if one soul was moving between them.
Kellhus' jobbing has been built up since the first series.
Aurang was a bit disappointing, I admit.
Aurax was interesting and I suspect he's actually been like that a long time. Might be there's a reason he so rarely left the Ark.
Cnaiur didn't job, he became the fucking God of Hate.
Sorweel was the biggest let down of the series so far.
Esmi is fine now.

[Anonymous No.10821735]

>>10821724
Dunyain are hideously evil.

[Anonymous No.10821738]

>>10821735
They're dull as dishwater.

[Anonymous No.10821744]

>>10821738
Well they don't have to be. Bakker just hasn't fleshed them out very well. I don't think they're actually in charge anyway. See: >>10821722
>>10821730

[Anonymous No.10821747]

Bakkerfaggotry So is Ajokli still stomping around aimlessly in the ancient North as an incarnate God? That seems kind of awkward.

[Anonymous No.10821759]

Was it ever explained why the muslim wizards sorcery was "pure" or whatever? And if it was explained was it explained why that mattered?

[Anonymous No.10821770]

>>10821759
It's not pure, it just doesn't look different from regular reality. Kellhus offered an explanation but like anything Kellhus says, take it with a grain of salt. Supposedly their sorcery runs on pure passion and somehow the sentiment masks the fact that their products are artificial. Nonetheless chorae still counteract them and kill Cishaurim, and they may well still go to hell.

[Anonymous No.10821792]

Just went through my BD wishlist and the total amount is 600 euros. I'm still going to get it all in one swoop though.

[Anonymous No.10821801]

>>10821770
It'd be a nice surprise if the reason why the demon-gods send people to hell for using sorcery was because their souls can use that sorcery in the afterlife to potentially fight the demon-gods

[Anonymous No.10821804]

>>10821730
>Cnaiur didn't job, he became the fucking God of Hate.
Which chapter is this? In the last book, right?

[Anonymous No.10821870]

[Anonymous No.10821873]

>>10820613
Look at that, it's actually possible to have a good cover on a contemporary fantasy book.

[Anonymous No.10821900]

>>10821873
>court of broken knives

this may literally be the least original title of a fantasy novel i've ever seen. i think all three of those words have shown up on multiple recent titles.

[Anonymous No.10821911]

>>10821730
>Shae is still alive. He took over the Dunyain. Pay attention to the dream with him and Nau-Cayuti, then notice how the Dunyain speak when Kellhus meets them. constantly finishing each others sentences in sequence. As if one soul was moving between them.

>>10821722
>They do if they're not Dunyain at all, but Shauriatas wearing Dunyain bodies.

[Anonymous No.10821949]

>>10821900
Yeah, I wasn't really talking about the name as much as the art.

[Anonymous No.10822030]

>>10820010
be my gf please

[Anonymous No.10822132]

>>10820947
>who hurt you?
Why do females and pussy whipped cucks like to ask that question anytime it looks like a guy has something negative to say about a woman. It's like they want me to worship females or some shit.
I'm not looking to procreate, so I don't put women on a fucking pedestal.

[Anonymous No.10822172]

is gyoll a magical river?

[Anonymous No.10822189]

>>10822172
No.

In fact there is no magic in the Book of the New Sun

[Anonymous No.10822200]

>>10821900
>>court of broken knives
>court
of
>broken empire series
>book of knives

[Anonymous No.10822295]

>reading Gibson
>story starts in the middle of character doing some weird high-tech shit with no explanation of what it is
>one sentence namedrops references to surrealist art, sewer engineering, neuroscience and street food
>1 of the above is a fictional neologism while the other 3 actually exist IRL
>you can't tell which is which

I love this guy but I wish I was less of a brainlet to be able to actually read more than 1 page an hour of his work.

[Anonymous No.10822381]

Do you guys think that outer lit actually enjoys reading pretentious Russian babbling #5? You think deep down they actually like "muh classics", or are just stuck on the stage where reading is a status symbol?

[Anonymous No.10822441]

>Read original prince of nothing trilogy
>Decide to read the wiki for the rest
When the fuck did this turn from philosophical fantasy to sci-fi rapealien fuckfest. "Progenitors"? Seriously?

[Anonymous No.10822506]

Worth reading, /sffg/?

[Anonymous No.10822517]

>>10822506
no

[Anonymous No.10822522]

>>10822506
yes

[Anonymous No.10822572]

>>10822506

Fuck yes.

Started reading the earthsea series by Ursula Guin... and yea, why the love for this series again? It feels like it lacks dialogue, and character building. The only person I feel like the main character has developed a worthy relationship with is hos friend Vetch.

[Anonymous No.10822593]

>>10822572
Maybe because you're reading a book by someone who contributed to the reason why that comic exists.

[Anonymous No.10822603]

OP I would strongly recommend Mythago Wood

[Anonymous No.10822641]

were there any gay/lesbian/trans people at all in the Kingkiller Chronicle so far?
find it weird that there aren't with how much of a raging sjw he is.

[Anonymous No.10822732]

>>10822522
>>10822572
>>>reddit

[Anonymous No.10822744]

>>10822732
there's a bunch of people here who read sanderson, my man. this place was pretty much /sandg/ when Oathbringer came out.

[Anonymous No.10822748]

>>10822744
What's wrong with him as an author?

[Anonymous No.10822759]

>>10822748
some people call him 'popcorn fantasy'. there's not some giant flaw or fetish he has in particular like some other authors, they just feel that he's pedestrian. he has good ideas and can execute them consistently, though.

[Anonymous No.10822786]

>>10822381
I frequent both outer /lit/ and /sffg/ and I can honestly say that I enjoy pretentious Russian babbling. Of course there's loads of shitty classics (and books in general) shilled on /lit/ but isn't the same true for this thread?

>>10822506
No.

[Anonymous No.10822820]

>>10822572
>2018
>"assume my gender" jokes

libtards trolled XD

[Anonymous No.10822868]

>>10822132
Who hurt you?

[Anonymous No.10822913]

Didn't get a response last thread but I'll try again, whats a good followup read after Lyonesse if I really liked Glyneth?

[Anonymous No.10823013]

Has anyone read Jin Yongs 'Legend of the Condor'? Thinking of picking it up.

[Anonymous No.10823106]

>>10822913
Library at mount char

[Anonymous No.10823250]

>>10820158
>but my theory is that he aims to become like Abaia, a huge underwater sea monster with massive influence on what happens on land.

I thought this was implied by the fact that he is "constantly growing", also iirc there's more than just one giant down there which furthermore implied to me that maybe they all made themselves as Baldanders did

[Anonymous No.10823272]

>>10821091

Have you tried not being retarded?

[Anonymous No.10823277]

will publishers be more willing to publish my fantasy book if I make the MC a female?

[Anonymous No.10823300]

>>10823277
you can always self-publish through amazon.
its apparently lucrative enough to warrant making it a full time job for "indie" authors.

[Anonymous No.10823303]

>>10822381

As an English major, no most of what /lit/ considers literary fiction is not even enjoyable. Some is, mostly pre-20th century, because thats when authors began basically just jerking themselves off over how cool and edgy they were. Of course before the 20th century there wasn't really a hard line between "literary" and "genre" fiction, so that might also explain why the former took such a nose-dive

[Anonymous No.10823322]

>>10823303
most pre-20th century literature is awful, they stretch a 200 page novel into 600

[Anonymous No.10823326]

>>10822572

The womameme meme is not actually a meme, anon. You should have listened

[Anonymous No.10823337]

>>10823322

What did you think I was talking about, Jane Austin? Pre-20th means everything between Homer and 1900 AD

[Anonymous No.10823365]

>>10823277
Male MCs still sell better. Publishers are still more interested in what will sell. You still have better odds if your MC is a white dude.

Let's be honest, you have the best odds these days if you're publishing gritty fantasy with at least half a dozen viewpoints,
so mix it up a bit.

[Anonymous No.10823378]

>>10823322
Checked, but what the fuck?! Why are you on this board with a ridiculous take like that??? You're really going to group all pre-20th century literature together like that? Are you fourteen years old or something?

>>10823303
No one cares what your fucking college major is, retard. It doesn't make your shitty opinion any more relevant.

[Anonymous No.10823421]

>>10823300
One post a couple threads ago said you get paid (at KU), half a cent per page. That's slavery. 300p = 1.5$ per person. You need 1000 readers/month to be able to make a living.

[Anonymous No.10823500]

>>10823421
you can decide if you want your book on KU or not.
apparntly though even though the rates seem low. it seems to generate a comfortable revenue overall.

[chop No.10823586]

>>10819915
Following Youtube on Twitter seems really strange to me.
But then, subscribing to someone because of the colour of their skin does too. Guess I'm just old fashioned.

[Anonymous No.10823645]

>>10821804
>Which chapter is this? In the last book, right?
Yes. Cnaiur ascends into Ajokli incarnate and tries to kill Kellhus, who he assumes is the No-God. Unfortunately despite being aware of the No-God's existence, Ajokli is still blind to it and can't actually fight it, so Cnaiur-Ajokli just kind of wanders around calling for Kellhus' blood but not doing anything

[Anonymous No.10823649]

>>10821911
He's the cheater of death. It's his thing.

[Anonymous No.10823654]

>>10822132
Worshiping women and despising women seem to be two different reactions to the same thing in my experience.

[Anonymous No.10823661]

>>10822381
It's the Emperor's New Clothes in most cases I think.

>>10822441
It was always like that, pay attention.

>>10822572
I dunno, there were some good lines in there.
>What good is power if you're too wise to use it?

[Anonymous No.10823668]

Is it just me or are women more interesting to write as MCs than men?

[Anonymous No.10823673]

>>10823378
>No one cares what your fucking college major is
It's my dream that one day all English majors will be put up against the wall, so I care.

[Anonymous No.10823794]

>>10820748
I don't know but the style appears to be what you'd see in BotNS.

[Anonymous No.10823929]

Out of curiosity, I'm going to make my way through the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide's "Appendix N," which includes a selection of fantasy that Gygax considered to have had the greatest influence on D&D and how it developed.

http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/ADnD_reading_list.htm

First up is Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson.

What am I in for with this one?

[Anonymous No.10823936]

>>10823668
They are if you can write them well.

[Anonymous No.10823963]

>>10823936
I mean the actual process of writing them is more fun than writing men, not that they're necessarily more interesting characters from a reader's perspective. Is it just me?

[Anonymous No.10823968]

>>10823963

maybe youre suffering from gender dysphoria

[Anonymous No.10823978]

>>10823963
No, it's actually a real neat excercise since you're writing a character with a different kind of mind and can do a lot more with them than with men, who are more often than not, restricted to certain roles or variations of the same tune.

[Anonymous No.10823986]

>>10822603
>forgot i was shilled into reading this years ago by sffg
I'm now getting flashbacks. Fucking philosophy fags.

[Anonymous No.10823994]

>>10823968
Nah I like being a guy.

>>10823978
Maybe that's it. Maybe it just forces me to stretch, making it more interesting.

[Anonymous No.10823995]

>>10822641
Hey literal faggot. No one cares that you weren't catered to in a book >>>/lgbt/
Gtf outta here

[Anonymous No.10824020]

what's Kellius's tax policy like?

[Anonymous No.10824022]

Can someone explain to me why I want to breed older women? When older women are bred by young studs in sff books I go diamond.

[Anonymous No.10824024]

>Control dinosaurs. Tame women. Rule the world. Victor Shelby ends each day wondering when his life is going to get better. His parents are dead, he struggles to pay rent, and his boss at the animal control shelter has him cleaning cages instead of working in the field. His dream of helping animals seems destined to end in a mop bucket. Then Victor is abducted by aliens and deposited on a prehistoric world filled with hungry dinosaurs and beautiful alien women. He doesn’t know why he is here or what his purpose is, but he finds himself fighting for survival. Most men would have been lizard kibble in a few moments, but Victor’s natural ability to empathize with animals has grown stronger, and he finds himself able to control the most docile of the terrible lizards. Victor will have to use his taming powers to provide food, water, and shelter for the three women that he has sworn to protect. Success means they get to live another day, failure means a horrible death in the jaws of Earth’s most deadly predators. Disclaimer: This book has ravaging dinosaurs, a lot of cursing, extreme violence, and a harem of exotic alien women. The novel is not meant for people under the age of 18.

Has anyone read this? It sounds retarded from the description, but that has me intrigued. $22 for a paperback seems like a bit much though.

[Anonymous No.10824026]

What's the sci-fi/fantasy equivalent?

[Anonymous No.10824035]

>>10824020
I think he mostly just assimilated existing tax policies in any given part of his empire with minor adjustments.

[Anonymous No.10824039]

>>10824022
Mommy issues. I kept waiting for Kelmomas to rape Esmenet myself but it never happened.

[Anonymous No.10824041]

>>10824022
You probably have mommy issues like I do.

[Anonymous No.10824050]

>>10824024
>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
>alien abduction dinosaur smut

[Anonymous No.10824052]

>>10824024
Does he fuck the dinos? It does say ravaging dinos.

[Anonymous No.10824057]

>>10824022
I don't know about you anon, but my years on 4chan has turned me into a super pervert. I would fuck your pic related, hell, I would fuck almost anything.

[Anonymous No.10824073]

>>10820606
fantasy with all the worldbuilding, magic systems and good story/characters is extremly hard to write or takes very long at least

[Anonymous No.10824099]

>>10820606
You don't have to be a master chef to know when food tastes like shit.

[Anonymous No.10824108]

>>10824052
I hope so.

[Anonymous No.10824123]

>>10824024
I just realized why the paperback is so expensive. It is 790 pages long.

[Anonymous No.10824137]

>>10824123
Is that Cheetara from the Thundercats reboot?

[Anonymous No.10824143]

>>10824024
>>10824123
The covers look like my kind of pulp. The description sounds really dumb.

On that note, anybody have any good stories with "jungle princess" type characters (read: women who survive in the jungle and are badass and possibly end up in a romantic relationship with the male lead)?

[Anonymous No.10824164]

>>10824137
Yes but with less clothes.

[Anonymous No.10824184]

>>10819793
Fevre Dream takes place on a river mostly. And it's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.10824194]

>>10824024
>>10824123
The cover art is pretty great for a self published work.

[Anonymous No.10824211]

>>10824035
surely with his advanced intellect he could have made the Earwa Bank of England or some shit

[Anonymous No.10824217]

I started reading Too Like the Lightning. This is really fucking good, holy shit.

[Anonymous No.10824226]

>>10824211
He didn't care about ruling for a prolonged period. the Three Seas were just a tool to launch the assault on Golgotterath.

[Anonymous No.10824245]

any of the 30k horus herpes books any good or just derp marines being stoic 24/7?

[Anonymous No.10824263]

>>10820849
No, there's a massive orgy of death.

[Anonymous No.10824278]

>>10824217
no book with that bad of a title can be that good.
can it?

[Anonymous No.10824309]

>>10824278
It's about a person who committed an as-yet unspecified crime and has been sentenced to travel the world doing good for others, who meets a little boy that can make anything pretend into the real thing, and is helping hide him. When first we meet the boy, a plastic soldier he brought to life was killed by the cat.
He talks to a sensayer, a kind of philosopher-priest who helps other people figure out what they believe, about whether it would be right to make a potion that could bring him back to life.
Despite the absurdity of the premise, it's convincing. It's also all written like it was written during the Enlightenment, because the narrator, the criminal mentioned earlier,
believes that it's the best language with which to tell the story as it takes place in a time when,
much like that one, people are on the edges of their seats, optimistic about the ways the world might change.

[Anonymous No.10824363]

>>10824245
They're alright, a bit too overdramatic and you end up hating everyone, specially the Emperor. I like "present" 40k stuff better personally.

[Anonymous No.10824473]

>>10820347
Only read Neuromancer but yeah it's fucking great

[Anonymous No.10824478]

>>10824143
Dejah Thoris from John Carter of Mars?

>>10824278
It's a quote from Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.10824513]

>>10824478
Shakespeare was a bad writer

[Anonymous No.10824521]

>>10824513
knave

[Anonymous No.10824575]

>>10824521
>>10824513
Shakespeare was a plagiarist.

[Anonymous No.10824599]

>>10824575
He should have plagiarized a good writer.

[Anonymous No.10824693]

>>10824575
All the best authors are plagiarists.

[Anonymous No.10824934]

I could barely stay awake while watching Blade Runner. Does 'Electric Sheep' drag on in similar ways? Obviously the movie had beautiful cinematography so it could sort of get away with it, not sure the book would be able to.

[Anonymous No.10825378]

>>10821338
Why did someone post a random piece of a chinese novel without naming it, or being asked for it, or anything? Just why? It's not even good shitposting, it didn't get replies before me. Can anyone help, I'm actually baffled.

[Anonymous No.10825475]

>>10824024
>>10824123
>>10824194
Some threads back there was an anon talking about making a recommendation image for harem books. Did he finish it?

[delet No.10825482]

>>10825378
eastern mystics don't follow logical flow like they're supposed to anon, just take it as it is and move on

[Anonymous No.10825486]

Any litRPG where the main character becomes a sexy girl and hates it? Asking for a friend.

[Anonymous No.10825527]

>Rothfuss is STREAMING SHITTY INDIE GAMES ON TWITCH instead of finishing his book

what a guy
but impeach Trump huh

[Anonymous No.10825535]

>>10825527
stop being so triggered, kid.

[Anonymous No.10825539]

>>10825535
followers only chat with 300 viewers lol
what a faggot

[Anonymous No.10825628]

>>10825486
After five minutes on Google I've got your answer.
https://www.amazon.com.br/Fantasy-Swap-Online-Swapped-Adventure-ebook/dp/B077BPCNN6
Powergamer guy gets trapped in a character made to use the pleasure part of the VR game and has to fuck her way out of trouble. Apparently three books.
Tell your friend.

[Anonymous No.10825638]

>>10824026
Heinlein

[Anonymous No.10825646]

>>10819793
There are no good scifi writers until Herbert, Dick, LeGuin, etc. Asimov, Clarke, Vance and Heinlein are pioneers of the genre but their writing survived due to its influence on the genre, not its inherent quality. Discuss.

[Anonymous No.10825676]

>>10825646
And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have conclusive proof of why mothers should be allowed to abort retarded babies. Look at it, imagine what the poor lady had to suffer bringing up this bundle of stupidity and drool. Don't feel pity for him, for it's too dumb to understand us humans, but pity the mother, who certainly didn't want to raise this autistic faggoty bastard.

[Anonymous No.10825677]

>>10825676

[Anonymous No.10825700]

>>10825475
im that anon.
still working on that actually.
its a lot more work than youd think. im reading so much stuff you wouldnt even know existed.
you can leave me recommendations at: [e-mail]
however chances are what ever you recommend ive already read.
it is really a lot of work. currently im reading subjugation for the list its a series with 7 fucking books that each are over 1k pages.
its gonna be a while before that list is out anon.

[Anonymous No.10825707]

>>10825475
BotNS covers that too. Sev was a fucking playa, or at least that's what he says.

[Anonymous No.10825708]

>>10825628
Reading the description makes it sound like he's gonna stop hating it very fast but thanks I'll tell my friend to check it out.

[Anonymous No.10825712]

>>10825646
Correct.

[Anonymous No.10825736]

>>10825676
Honestly anon, he's right. It's pretty obvious Asimov made up the world of Foundation as he went along. The universe itself is pretty inconsistent and shoddy, but interesting. Heinlein was very hit and miss and Clarke had sparks of absolute brilliance but his characters are kind of bland and uninteresting. There just aren't any memorable characters in the genre until Johnny Rico and Canticle for Leibowitz.

[Anonymous No.10825848]

>>10821873
> Look at that, it's actually possible to have a good cover on a contemporary fantasy book.

[Anonymous No.10825852]

>>10825848

[Anonymous No.10825860]

>>10825527
>this is something bad
>this is worth mentioning in this thread
>muh trump
Stop obsessing over Rothfuss you idiot.

[Anonymous No.10825861]

>>10825646
>Asimov
Correct.
>Clarke
Wrong.
>Vance
Wrong.
>Heinlein
Correct in some cases.

[Anonymous No.10825873]

>>10825852

[Anonymous No.10825885]

>>10825873
I can't tell what half of these are but holy shit, gorgeous.

[Anonymous No.10825889]

>>10824217
I'm considering reading that but there's certain elements that come across as pandering to SJWs. How is it in that regard?

[Anonymous No.10825907]

>>10825889
Don't bother reading anything other than infographs.

[Anonymous No.10826011]

>>10825889
>there's certain elements that come across as pandering to SJWs. How is it in that regard?
If anything it leans more towards the opposite.

[Anonymous No.10826026]

I just read Iron Gold because I remember the red rising being decent enough. iron gold was complete garbage though, I forced myself to finish it just so I can feel justified in calling it absolute trash.
What was /lit/'s overall reception of the book when it first came out?

[Anonymous No.10826039]

>>10825885
https://imgur.com/KiTLEhP

[Anonymous No.10826044]

>>10825861
Assplain.

[Anonymous No.10826054]

>>10825646
I kind of agree with this... it takes too much to write genuinely great sci-fi. There are authors who are absolutely amazing in some aspects and completely fail in others, but none who can master it all.

[Anonymous No.10826115]

>>10825889
1. Depends on whether by SJWs you mean "has 'progressive' social views" or "has 'progressive' social views and just can't let people enjoy things"

2. The author came across as genuine rather than pandering.

3. So far there's a bit of stuff about gender but it's handled in a way I find kind of interesting (i.e., in the future everyone is referred to as "they" but the narrator uses "he" and "she" because the sexes of those involved is relevant to the story, even though he knows his 24th-century audience might be scandalized and not be able to resist imagining everyone fucking because he keeps referring to their sex characteristics by his use of pronouns)

[Anonymous No.10826152]

>>10824024
> Has anyone read this?
I have.

> $22 for a paperback seems like a bit much though.
Why the fuck would you consider paying that for a paperboack? It's only a few bucks as an ebook or free on Kindle Unlimited.

I've been on a litrpg binge and there is a lot of this kind of pulp-smut in the genre.

Honestly it's better than it comes across from the description. Of course it's not going to win any feminism awards but it actually has pretty decent levelling and building mechanics, and what sex it does have is surprisingly kept to a minimum.

[Anonymous No.10826166]

>>10826152
>video game mechanics
Even /a/ hates this shit

[Anonymous No.10826177]

>>10826152
>pretty decent leveling and building mechanics

[Anonymous No.10826183]

>>10826152
Stick to playing games son

>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.10826262]

>>10825889
>that butthurt goodreads reviewer who called the author a Trumptard

[Anonymous No.10826283]

>>10826152
What's the point of "litRPG?" Why not just go play a video game and then come back and read a book when you're in the mood to read a book?

[Anonymous No.10826410]

>>10826152
>has pretty decent levelling and building mechanics
And there goes all the interest I had in it. Thanks for saving me the money.

[Anonymous No.10826411]

>>10824024
The first half is pretty bad, but it does get better. And despite what >>10826152 makes it look like, it's not really heavy on game mechanics, I myself hate it, but you'll have to read through it in the first book until the author stops writing about it (I think he wanted in on the litRPG train but realized it sucks midway). I actually stopped reading it midway the first time because the MC was such a retard, and the game mechanics made me instadrop it when they showed up. Then I realized I had nothing better to do than write a bad review when I finished it and kept going. The second and third books are much better overall.

[Anonymous No.10826438]

>>10825700
Where's the partial?

[Anonymous No.10826508]

What are the best stories by Clark Ashton Smith?
Got the Emperor of dreams now and want to make sure I don't miss the gems in this book.

[Anonymous No.10826532]

>>10826411
Will you just fuck off already?

[Anonymous No.10826546]

Someone please recommend me a good sci-fi or fantasy series of ~1500 pages total (3-4 books).

I want a decently fast read (no prose that requires a decent adult reader to stop and process a sentence) with good characterization and a decent amount of action.

[Anonymous No.10826552]

>>10826546
Library at mount char

[Anonymous No.10826559]

>>10826532
Will you?

[thiskillsthedarkelf No.10826568]

>>10824024
Fuck you, that sounds amazing.

Although 40 years ago he would be blowing the dinosaurs away with a space cannon and ignoring his harams nonsense.

[Anonymous No.10826578]

>>10824123
>It is 790 pages long.
It's probably the formatting. Since most of his readers are from Kindle Unlimited, and thus he gets paid by pages read, he makes some very big line spacing and whatever else he can to make it fill pages.

[Anonymous No.10826608]

>>10826568
Too bad it's "litrpg" stuff with literal MMO stats and skill trees and such described in-universe.

[Anonymous No.10826631]

>>10826608
>skill trees and such described in-universe.
There' no skill trees, actually. And the MMO stats are more like a description of the characters than a point system where they grind and choose where to put it. I agree it's completely retarded, though, and it would have been a better book without it.

[Anonymous No.10826649]

Finally got my copies of the Aspect-Emperor books. Folks seem to be torn on The Unholy Consult. Looking forward to it reading everything, the first trilogy really really grew on me.

[Anonymous No.10826691]

>>10826546
The First Law

[Anonymous No.10826724]

>>10826578
they don't have rules against this shit?

[Anonymous No.10826780]

I'm thinking of trying to make a living by churning out pulp novels and supplement that by teaching a couple classes per semester as an associate professor.

[Anonymous No.10826802]

>>10826780
Nice blog post. Keep us updated.

[Anonymous No.10826878]

>>10826802
Will do.

(I'll probably just start an actual blog, honestly. I just wanted to share.)

[Anonymous No.10826941]

>>10824024
Sounds like your average isekai

[Anonymous No.10827037]

>>10821870
scraped blog of Rothfuss since time of his second book

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=22105910768089026524
here is 70 pages of his blog
70 pages unfiltered
merged.txt - those 70 pages
filtered.txt - somewhat filtered out words he did not write
removed_stuff.txt - stuff i filtered out

total words unfiltered: 510150 words
total words unfiltered: 501577 words

Name of wind word count: 243,020 words
Wise Man's Fear word count: 302,865 words

he almost wrote to his blog more than to his 2 books, probably more if you add his twitter stuff

[Anonymous No.10827061]

So fellow Bakkerfags, what is his problem?

[Anonymous No.10827067]

>>10820251
>>10820257
What kind of chart would that be?

[Anonymous No.10827101]

>>10819793
>A Game of Thrones
>epic fantasy

[Anonymous No.10827130]

>>10827101
>a princess who controls dragons tries to take her kingdom back while to the north, the sworn protectors of the realm do battle with frozen giants for the fate of humanity in a sprawling series with over a dozen different viewpoints
>not epic fantasy
wat

[Anonymous No.10827145]

>>10820251
Just search 'How to read Dune'.

[Anonymous No.10827191]

>>10827067
E-z:
>read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, expect a kinda disappointing ending
>forget Endymion exists, purge those that recommend Endymion and burn all tomes wherever and whenever you find them

[Anonymous No.10827192]

I need sci-fi or fantasy about a group of damaged people trying to make their way through a life that's not always fair, sometimes helping each other and sometimes hurting each other as they do their best to get by. Ideally with sword fights and/or explosions, and also really sad parts and really happy and heartwarming parts.

I've already read the Magicians trilogy, and Vurt.

And to that one anon, I'm sorry you didn't care for Vurt. Not every book is going to appeal to everybody.

[Anonymous No.10827201]

>>10826011
>>10826115
>>10826262
Maybe I'll check it out then.

[Anonymous No.10827202]

>>10827192
Man in the High Castle. Or Ubik if plunging into the depths of existential dread doesn't bother you.

[Anonymous No.10827223]

>>10827192
You can always read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

[Anonymous No.10827254]

>>10826283
> What's the point of "litRPG?"
There's a paying audience for it. All the kids brought up on /v/idya and /a/nime for starters.

>>10826411
> And despite what >>10826152 (You) makes it look like, it's not really heavy on game mechanics
Yeah I guess the way I wrote that did give the wrong impression. I meant that the author actually bothers to go into a surprising amount of technical engineering details about all the base building. Lets be honest it's not a good book by any measure but compared to many of other smutrpgs I've read it's better than quite a lot of them.

[Anonymous No.10827334]

https://www.amazon.com/Harbinger-Storm-Obsidian-Blood-2/dp/1625672497/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

What the fuck is going on with these reviews?
The first book has 36 reviews. Why does the second have 9062?

[Anonymous No.10827502]

Conan vs. both Fafhrd and the Mouser.

Who wins?

[Anonymous No.10827511]

>>10827334
Looks like something broke. The "Get this book" link on the first book goes to a broken page while the one for the sequel goes to a separate listing for the one you posted.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0857660764/

You'll also note that the author bio is about some Rabbi named Jonathan Cahn and the reviews have nothing to do with the book, for example:
>Thought Provoking
>ByFaithful Servanton March 7, 2018
>Although this was an enjoyable read, I believe its greater mission is a call to action. As believers we must recognize the urgency of spreading God's word to a dying world. This book challenges the modern day complacency of the church and congregations across the globe and reminds us that we cannot afford to be silent.

>Let Him Who Has Ears Hear.....
>ByVivian Wallace Allenon March 5, 2018
>This was another fascinating book by Mr. Cahn. As a Christian, I of course agree with the message. I pray that non-Christians will read it with an open mind - your eternity depends on it.

So basically it seems that a bunch of reviews for some doomsday novel series for Christians got added to her novel.

[Anonymous No.10827518]

>>10827334
RUSSIANS

>>10827502
It's up to the writer.

[Anonymous No.10827519]

>>10827511
>The "Get this book" link on the first book

clarification, the link on the goodreads page.

[Anonymous No.10827528]

i eh wrote a gay fantasy story and it's on the top 100 in the free novella category so uh <3 neat

https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Bent-Light-Lamere-ebook/dp/B079Z3VT2W/

[Anonymous No.10827541]

>>10824022
Is there leaked porn of authors? I could do with seeing some of the authors I hate getting reamed liked stuck piggies.

[Anonymous No.10827554]

>>10825873
Fucking Russians. I got memed into reading some shit books because the covers looked so good when posted on sffg.

[Anonymous No.10827572]

>>10827192

I've been mulling over whether or not I should share this but fuck it. It's literally what you asked.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tN6g1hdiHl0BYGk5hQjtfyZwK1SnPNM7qsDLexIBDIQ/

I wrote it last year. Thought it was complete garbage when I finished it but a few thousand people liked it so I don't know what to make of it now. Maybe you'll enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.10827630]

>>10827192
Library at mount char

[Anonymous No.10827722]

(NB: this image is sort of a spoiler for the end of the End of Eternity, although maybe not really)

Wow, I didn't know novels used to have bombastic proto-trailer advertisements like this. Haven't seen anything like it before. Got any other examples?

[Anonymous No.10827723]

>>10827528
>how we bent the shit coming out my ass after a hard dicking
fuck off >>>/lgbt/

[Anonymous No.10827731]

>>10827722
Here's one more I found:

[Anonymous No.10827755]

>>10827723

does it frighten you

[Anonymous No.10827770]

>>10826152
Does the protagonist do magic?

[Anonymous No.10827801]

>>10827722
>>10827731
where are these from?

[Anonymous No.10827808]

>>10825860
>muh trump

Rothfuss literally swore an oath not to write a single page until Drumpf was imbleached. Confirmed not getting third book before 2024 at the absolute earliest

[Anonymous No.10827835]

>>10826115
>in the future everyone is referred to as "they"

power-dropped

[Anonymous No.10827847]

>>10826546
Takeshi Kovacs trilogy

[Anonymous No.10827873]

>>10827808
he's not going to survive mueller's investigation, my man, let alone 2020.

[Anonymous No.10827877]

>>10827801
found it here:
https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1957-ad-science-fiction-book-club-garden-city-ny-end-eternity-isaac-asimov-art-206452-ysfc2-021

[Anonymous No.10827880]

>>10825736
>worldbuilding
>memorable characters
Smells like a fantasy reader.

[Anonymous No.10827892]

>>10825646
Those are all good authors anon...
I don't understand your distinction.

[Anonymous No.10827901]

>>10827191
Endymion and Rise of Endymion wrap up the Hyperion Cantos nicely though.

I would read the four novels as a 2×2 series: start with Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, wait a few months to a year, then continue with Endymion and Rise of Endymion.

Feel free to stop with Endymion if you can't stand protagonist Raul, but judge for yourself; the latter books are pretty good, and the whole is a strong tetralogy (or dilogy if you see the Cantos as a 2×2 series).

[Anonymous No.10827931]

>>10827755
Homophobia is a misused word. It's like blacks using the N word to empower themselves. Faggots feel that because people "fear" them, that they are powerful.
Phobia is the fear of something. I'm not afraid of no battyman.
If anything I'm homoabhoric. Fear and dislike are two different things.

[Anonymous No.10827948]

>>10827931
>homoabhoric
hmm

[Anonymous No.10827969]

Anyone read 'The Sparrow' by Mary Doria Russell? Thinking of doing that one next.

[Anonymous No.10827986]

>>10827948
I just made that up just now.. I was looking for the greek word for hate (I forgot what it was), seeing as phobos or phobic is the greek word for fear, but I couldn't find anything. So I used abhor
>that feel when nothing is new under the sun
>everything you think of was thought of by someone else
feels bad

[Anonymous No.10828002]

>>10827931
>>10827986
>I think language should be used literally and 100% consistently every time because I am retarded

What do you think about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophobia

[Anonymous No.10828014]

Just ignore the faggot. Attention is what he wants.

[Anonymous No.10828020]

>>10827130
It's as far from epic fantasy as you can get.

[Anonymous No.10828025]

>>10828002
Why are you trying so hard to defend your battyboy ways? If you like your shit packed in tight, and wrote a book about it that is your problem. Just don't spread share it with is.
I told you the correct place to go and promote your faggot book >>>/lgbt/ no one here is interested. We want milfs, mommies, lolis, sisters, waifus, hell even lesbian, but we don't want no shit packers.

[Anonymous No.10828032]

>>10828025
Why are you avoiding the question?

[Anonymous No.10828038]

>>10828025
they deleted it, because it's a literature book and it's on the bestseller list, and it's a post that belongs here on /lit/

[Anonymous No.10828045]

>>10827061
nothing. he did nothing wrong except fail

[Anonymous No.10828117]

>>10828038
Then go on lit.
Does the anal seepage from his ass have magical powers or something?
When his bf fucks his ass is a portal opened to another world?
Does his bf have to fist him to gain access to the space-time sub dimension they use as a weapons cache?
Did he ream his bf so hard that he bent his dick and gained magical power?
Does the bf's semen mixing with his bf feces make a fetus?
Is there anything sff related?
Take it to outer lit.

[Anonymous No.10828123]

I'm not a femishit soyboy, but it'd be nice if writers could more often use settings/trappings other than ancient/medieval Europe for their fantasies without going all political about it.

[Anonymous No.10828132]

Any book recommendations for someone who likes the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, where the sci-fi aspect takes a backseat to a more military/police-focused plot?

[Anonymous No.10828133]

>>10826152
>I've been on a litrpg binge and there is a lot of this kind of pulp-smut in the genre.
What have you read that you would recommend?
Daniel Black
Super Sales
Wild Wastes
Confessions of a D List Villain
Are already done. Since I was shilled them last year I can't stop reading litrpg. How does the tamer hold up to the above listed? Is it something like Wild Wastes?
I need more (((good))) litrpgs to read my dudes.

[Anonymous No.10828136]

time to filter lit-rpg, later you dumb mmo nerds

[Anonymous No.10828137]

>>10828132
The third book in the Galaxy's Edge series, but you should really read the first two books first.

[Anonymous No.10828145]

>>10828123
litrpgs the new pulp
Most [the good ones] don't have sjw shit. The ones that do are to be avoided at all cost, as they usually go full on retarded with the anime fight sequences, moeing and power ups.

[Anonymous No.10828151]

>>10828136
I already filtered botns, three body problems, too like lightning and all their variants already. You late to the party.

[Anonymous No.10828168]

>>10828117
They don't have sex within the narrative. It's PG-13

Their sexes are never identified, only their genders.

[Anonymous No.10828215]

>>10828145
what are the good ones?

[Anonymous No.10828231]

>>10828168
>Their sexes are never identified, only their genders.
???
M&M I don't understand this. If it's m&m romance it's two bros packing each other's shit in tight, I don't see what you are saying. For someone to be gay they have to perform sexual acts or make sexual advances to the same sex. The only difference between gays and straights is that one group fucks the opposite sex and the other fucks the same.

[Anonymous No.10828256]

>>10828168
>Their sexes are never identified, only their genders.
Please leave.

[Anonymous No.10828305]

>>10828145
>litrpgs the new pulp

ah yes I recall the part where Doc Savage spends several pages verbally outlining his character sheet and then spends the rest of the book farming dire rats in a basement.

LitRPG is shit from a butt written by TVTropes and reddit.

[Anonymous No.10828312]

>>10828305
>tfw picked up a copy of Doc Savage the other day

[Anonymous No.10828427]

>>10826608
>>10826631
I dnno why people do all that shit today
It's fucking awful

[Anonymous No.10828447]

>>10828305
HOW MUCH XP DO I NEED TO GET TO LEVEL 2 IN ASS WIPING SO I CAN WIPE MY OWN ASS?
Truly compelling narratives

[Anonymous No.10828524]

>>10827511
ah thanks

[Anonymous No.10828548]

>>10827192
>a group of damaged people
>a life that's not always fair
>sometimes hurting each other
>really sad parts

Farseer Trilogy by Hobb, you're going to love it

[Anonymous No.10828584]

>>10828548
>Hobb, you're going to love it
I already do>>10824022

[Anonymous No.10828598]

>>10827808
>Rothfuss literally swore an oath not to write a single page until Drumpf was imbleached
Wtf I love Trump now

However, I don't see how this makes you any less of an idiot for obsessing over some fatass.

[Anonymous No.10828612]

>>10828145
>litrpgs the new pulp
Meaning what, only nerds will enjoy it for the next 60 years?

[Anonymous No.10828772]

>>10828584
hoo boy

[Anonymous No.10828787]

Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy. Why is this so acclaimed?

[Anonymous No.10828805]

>>10828787
Because 15 year old girls, former 15 year old girls and also because of the movies.

[Anonymous No.10828811]

>>10828787
what's this image supposed to be?

[Anonymous No.10828853]

>>10828787
So the white woman is only useful for relieving one's self of pent up juices? Good to know.

[Anonymous No.10828885]

>>10828811
I assume it's supposed to show how self righteous millennials are living in luxury because of all the third world slave labor while they cry about how oppressed they are as americans. But someone slapped a meme on it.

[Anonymous No.10828976]

>>10824934
The book doesn't drag at all, it is much better paced than the film.

[Anonymous No.10828984]

>>10828612
But pulp was the Dan Brown/Clive Cussler easy reading airport novels of their day. They were mainly targeted at teenagers and working adults, priced cheaply and using salacious covers to move as many copies as possible, since authors were paid a couple pennies per book sold at most. Gradually the industry morphed into the modern mass market paperback formats since publishers realized people would pay more for full size books instead of novellas.

[Anonymous No.10829036]

>>10828811
The original intent is how self-righteous white liberals are complicit in systems of oppression usually in the form of exploitation, but in this case it got turned into an ancap meme where all of those things are legal

[Anonymous No.10829063]

>>10829036
>che guevara shirt
>liberal
>the absolute state of american political terms

[Anonymous No.10829139]

>>10826649
Christ Bakker, wash your hair.

[Anonymous No.10829142]

>>10827061
he got too big for his britches and started believing his own propaganda. Also he went insane. Although that may have been an asset in his trips to the Outside.

[Anonymous No.10829149]

I really liked Litany of the Long Sun, and am excited for Epiphany, even though I read that the third book kind of breaks down. Is Short Sun worth the time investment too? Because it looks like there hasn't been a new edition since the 90s, I don't even think Orb publishes them.

[Anonymous No.10829159]

>>10828787
It was read largely by people that had never read a book in their free time before.

[Anonymous No.10829164]

>>10829063
Yeah the language is totally different here and it gets very confusing if you try to look at things in a broader historical context. If you're not American just substitute "Liberal" for "socialist" in modern politics.

[Anonymous No.10829181]

Just finished The forever war, it was okay/10

Sad space feels.

[Anonymous No.10829199]

>>10819793
these threads are absolute garbage. stop polluting other threads with links to it in the name of 'tidiness.'

[Anonymous No.10829208]

>>10820158
whoever called you a brainlet is an idiot
baldanders wanted to be the new sun but failing that became an archon instead

[Anonymous No.10829218]

>>10829199
>stop polluting other threads with links to it in the name of 'tidiness.'
Are you high anon?
Maybe you meant to post in vg or pol?

[Anonymous No.10829249]

>>10828133
>I need more (((good))) litrpgs to read my dudes.
litRPG sucks and you probably won't like it if what you want is anything like the list you posted. Tamer has been discussed in this thread already, so just read that to see if you are interested. I liked Heartgem Homestead, a solid story with plot and character progression.

[Anonymous No.10829334]

hear me out on this

>isekkai following two main characters who end up in a world at war along with a number of others
>the first is kind of an asshole who just wants to go home but is prophesied to kill the gods and bring about the end of the world
>the second is a dork with a magnetic personality who wants to stay and fulfill the role of the hero who ends the war
>however, as the plot progresses it becomes clear that most of the "monsters" the second guy is shamelessly slaying are more or less war refugees and indentured soldiers who are only trying to survive a war they wanted no part it
>meanwhile, the first guy – while an asshole – can't even boil a lobster without feeling like a monster, and the gods he's prophecied to kill are lovecraftian abominations who have already destroyed the world multiple times out of sheer pettiness

[Anonymous No.10829348]

>>10829334
What the fuck even is this absolute garbage can of a post? What fucking happened to /lit/?

[Anonymous No.10829387]

>>10829348
right, like all these posts are so great

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[Anonymous No.10829412]

>>10822506
dont, i hate sandersons writing. its smarmy and has its head up its ass.

[Anonymous No.10829470]

Have you ever had a crush on an /sff/ character, anons?

[Anonymous No.10829474]

>>10829470
Jirel of Joiry. r8 my taste

[Anonymous No.10829482]

>>10829470
Yes but I won't tell you which ones because people should be ashamed of this kind of thing.

[Anonymous No.10829498]

>>10829482
>people should be ashamed of this kind of thing.
Why? There's a VAST difference between becoming immersed enough in a story to feel affection for a character and going full "I won't date real people" and reaching waifu-tier madness with it.

[Anonymous No.10829513]

>>10829498
Maybe but it's the first step along the way.

Asha from ASOIAF, Serwa from Aspect Emperor, Yennefer from the Witcher. I guess I have a thing for pale small dominant women.

[Anonymous No.10829522]

>>10829063
Nice try, yuroshit.

[Anonymous No.10829552]

>>10829513
Nothing wrong with that.

Same except I'm not quite as picky about them being small and pale. Though I definitely get the appeal.

I like noble (in the sense of honorable and good; I don't care about their social status)
warrior women. Brienne of Tarth is the one I like from ASOIAF. I can't think of any others from SFF literature.

[Anonymous No.10829562]

>>10829552
It's not a requirement for me, I just noticed a pattern when I posted it. Brienne is actually a top tier pick despite being hideous. Would make a good wife.Very loyal, kind, hard working, brave. Probably a good mother. Just turn off the lights when you fuck. She's in great shape too, probably an awesome lay.

[Anonymous No.10829583]

>>10829562
>Just turn off the lights when you fuck.
Sometimes if you love someone, you find them beautiful even if they aren't conventionally pretty.

Honestly, though, I kind of wish the "holy warrior woman" thing was done more.

And I mean like women in shining armor swinging a magic sword in the name of justice and the God of the Sun to protect a bunch of orphans or something, not like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuAvRCSWu8I

[Anonymous No.10829598]

>>10829583
>Sometimes if you love someone, you find them beautiful even if they aren't conventionally pretty.
Yeah that's true, and she has some conventionally attractive features. Her eyes are supposed to be stunning. Plus I imagine she's got nice thighs.

Gotta keep in mind the expectations of her society. They're probably not used to a /fit/ woman, so she's maybe not quite as ugly as advertised.

>And I mean like women in shining armor swinging a magic sword in the name of justice and the God of the Sun to protect a bunch of orphans or something, not like this:
Yeah I get you. The Joan of Arc archetype is pretty cool. and sexy.

[Anonymous No.10829693]

best westeros waifu was Lady Webber

[Anonymous No.10829716]

Space is not a fun setting

>Mars colony
>Tech back on earth has only advanced a decade
>2074

Most Scifi authors don't even try to predict future tech right?

[Anonymous No.10829738]

Is there a /sffg/ discord? /lit/ discord?

[Anonymous No.10829747]

>>10829716
>Space is not a fun setting
Of course not. there's almost nothing in it.

[Anonymous No.10829750]

>miraculously the world doesn’t plunge into another dark ages. Instead people pulled together race, color and creed took a back seat, survival of the human race was more important.

whats up with liberal white authors living in white areas preaching about the world

[Anonymous No.10829758]

>>10829747
Yeah but it's more than that, a space faring humanity won't even be human. How much tech do we need to get something like that to happen and how will it change us as a civilization and species? That rarely gets addressed, the scifi genre has been defined by jetsonian ideas of the future and have stuck as tropes.

[Anonymous No.10829764]

>>10829758
Too many bioluddites tbqh.

[Anonymous No.10829782]

>>10829758
being able to plug electronics directly into the CNS will change plenty

[Anonymous No.10829808]

>>10829782
>being able to plug electronics directly into the CNS will change plenty

CNS? I don't know what any of that means.

>>10829764
Yup, lots of people clinging to the same old shit. I liked the future Blindsight painted, some people are just not compatible with it.

I feel like the future is full of WTF. And most authors are too afraid to explore the implications of cutting edge tech.

[Anonymous No.10829822]

>>10829808
blindsight had fucking vampires in space, are you joking, goddamn brainlets talking about the future

[Anonymous No.10829830]

>>10829822
Did you even read it?

[Anonymous No.10829837]

>>10829830
literally vampires
Who are autistic
and the aliens are autistic too
and they kill all the humans

[Anonymous No.10829844]

>>10829837
I don't think literally means what you think it means. Or autistic.

>and they kill all the humans
Maybe?

[Anonymous No.10829847]

>>10829822
The vampire thing was a little silly, but it worked for the points it was trying to get across. Think about the rest of the shit, people not having sex, checking out early for heaven, human hybrid autismos. Sounds realistic for 2070s

[Anonymous No.10829889]

new
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[Anonymous No.10829906]

>>10829693
finally someone with good taste around here

[Anonymous No.10830038]

>>10828137
Seems to be quite a few Galaxy Edge books. Are they all pretty good? Some to avoid?

[Anonymous No.10830397]

>>10827722
Check out McLuhan's Mechanical Bride. There are some examples there

[Anonymous No.10831072]

>>10827192
Library at mount char