/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.11162145]

Plug and Play Book Edition.
>what was the last sff audiobook you listened to?
>do you prefer audiobooks to digital?
>recommend a good sff audiobook that isn't well known

FANTASY
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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[Anonymous No.11162176]

>>11149298
I don't think you understand how Amazon changed the book game. Years ago (when Rothfuss released) you had to depend on publishers to get new stuff.

Rothfuss, Sanderson and Lawrence were a breath of fresh air. They were writing things for a modern audience, no dated shitty books about old shitty cliches.

The gatekeepers are no longer relevant. A lot of selfpublished authors are better than the publishers versions. You just have to look.

[Anonymous No.11162224]

>>11162145
2nd for Sanderfag a hack

[Anonymous No.11162230]

Anything about space colonizatios?

I've read only the "Mars Trilogy" by Stanley Robinson.

Thank you.

[Anonymous No.11162234]

>>11162224
fuck you im sanderfag a hack guy.
dont steal my shtick.

[Anonymous No.11162241]

>>11162145
narnia, the silver chair
qts at work gave me odd looks for listening to a book
ill try asoiaf cause they're all normies

[Anonymous No.11162248]

If you read in English, make sure your version is the 2011 translation.
Download: https://share.soupwhale.com/bibliotik/files/Solaris%20-%20Stanislaw%20Lem/

[Anonymous No.11162249]

>>11162234
Sanderfag a hack poster a hagfack

[Anonymous No.11162251]

>>11162145
>tfw have never listened to an SF&F audiobook

[Anonymous No.11162260]

>>11162241
You're just paranoid

[Anonymous No.11162295]

>what was the last sff audiobook you listened to?
Black Ops by Craig Alanson

>do you prefer audiobooks to digital?
Real books > Audio > Digital

>recommend a good sff audiobook that isn't well known
The Expeditionary Force series is ok, I guess. I thought it was good at the start when it was just humans going to fight aliens, but then things got a little strange. It's become my equivalent of Star Wars -- Cheap, easy, enjoyable but hardly something you think about afterwards. It filled the time when stuck in traffic, or walking the dog.

[Anonymous No.11162336]

>author wastes no effort trying to describe key characters' appearances
I hate this. How am I supposed to know which character I should hate if I don't even know their skin color?
>character appears
>"he was a tall man"
>books later he is one of the most important character and all you know about him is he is a tall male
Books are intrinsically imaginative media, how am I supposed to enjoy this if I have nothing to work with?

[Anonymous No.11162343]

>>11161913
Why?

[Anonymous No.11162344]

>>11162336
reed better books

[Anonymous No.11162362]

>>11162199
book 3 of the book of the long sun isn't boring really, it has some nice world building and the concepts which made the previous books interesting are out in full force but without spoiling anything, lets just say there's a massive 'pause' which really put me off

anyway i've almost finished a rendevous with rama which is pretty interesting so far. The thing that I like the most is the exploration aspect and the world clarke has built with the celestial colonies of mercury, mars and the moon

can someone tell me where to go next with clarke and if all his stories are set in the same world WITHOUT SPOILERS as you guys tend to drop spoilers without thinking about it. I really how in the book Heremians (people on mercury) have managed to 'tame' mercury and have realised it has near unlimited resources and can use the sun as unlimited energy whereas mars is just the new world: planet edition. Cool as h*ck

[Anonymous No.11162367]

>that motivation zerchi was giving joshua
i almost teared up, that was great
started off real slow & I wondered where the science fiction was but the jumps in time made it goat; also those throwbacks
is converting to catholicism worth it?

[Anonymous No.11162376]

>>11162367
only if you go russian orthodox because it's effay

[Anonymous No.11162435]

>>11162230
If you want something completely insane, Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright. Colonization doesn't really get underway until book 4, though.

The Demon Princes by Jack Vance if you're not interested in the nuts and bolts.

The Seedling Stars, James Blish

2312, Kim Stanley Robinson

Venus of Dreams, Pamela Sargent (I haven't read this)

[Anonymous No.11162443]

>>11162362
Clarke's stories are certainly not set in the same world. He actually even said that the Space Odyssey books aren't set in the same world as each other.

Fountains of Paradise is Clarke's best book.

[Anonymous No.11162453]

>>11162362
>>11162199

[Anonymous No.11162479]

>>11162453
Someone needs to explain this pic to me

[Anonymous No.11162484]

>>11162230
I liked the first book of Crossfire (despite being written by a woman, Nancy Kress). Unfortunately, like other libertarian books, the second book turns into a dystopian political book, keep to the first.

[Anonymous No.11162490]

>>11162443

>Fountains of Paradise is Clarke's best book.

Maybe, but who gives a shit about a space elevator? I've had that book for like a decade and I've never been able to get over how bored I am by the premise.

[Anonymous No.11162495]

Just went through the entire Expanse series and am looking for more along those lines. Anyone have any recommendations? The more books in the series the better.

[Anonymous No.11162524]

>>11162479
Many of Wolfes works deal with Catholicism, I guess it gets a little to heavy handed in Book of the Long Sun. No idea about the frog or lightsabers in the ceiling.

[Anonymous No.11162535]

>>11162495
>The more books in the series the better.
The most you can hope for is finding some pulp military sci-fi. Unfortunately, I don't know of any along the lines of The Expanse, but there are a lot of milsf out there so there's bound to be one. I'd go to amazon and browse the "customers also bought" until I found one that seems like it doesn't suck too much and read the preview.

Start here and look for books with spaceships and explosions on them
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/158591011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_digital-text_3_4

[Anonymous No.11162541]

>>11162524
It's Pepe, the lightsabers and the weird table that confuse me

[Anonymous No.11162543]

Why aren't you reading queer black speculative fiction /sffg/?
https://www.tor.com/2018/05/16/quiltbag-speculative-classics-sea-swallow-me-and-other-stories-by-craig-laurance-gidney/

[Anonymous No.11162556]

>>11162490
If you find space elevators unbearably boring you should probably just avoid Clarke.

[Anonymous No.11162559]

>>11162336
>Books are intrinsically imaginative media, how am I supposed to enjoy this if I have nothing to work with?
Use your imagination retard.

[Anonymous No.11162572]

>>11162559
>Use your imagination retard.
I'll just imagine the whole story then, why waste time reading amirite?

[Anonymous No.11162605]

>>11162572
I'll help you out. This "tall man" had a luscious pelt of tawny fur with cream highlights. He walked with a slight stoop, as though used to much lower ceilings. Boom.

[Anonymous No.11162615]

>>11162556

I liked Rendezvous with Rama, I liked Childhood's End, I liked 2001, I liked Songs of Distant Earth, but those all have stuff a lot more exotic than a terrestrial engineering project.

[Anonymous No.11162618]

>>11162572
Come on oooolllleeee, we know why you have a problem, you said it yourself.
>How am I supposed to know which character I should hate if I don't even know their skin color?

[Anonymous No.11162622]

>>11162541
Ya gotta think like a memer. Lightsabers are just the artsy lighting in the random background he chose. Same with the table, he needed one to place the book on. The symbology is effectuated entirely through the Wolfeian figure using a mallet to pound the crucifix into his book.

[Anonymous No.11162623]

Age of Myth and Age of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan.

[Anonymous No.11162683]

>>11162443
ok well just finished a rendezvous with rama, pretty neat book but a bit lackluster
was all about the concept and nothing else. best bit was the whole UN thing they had going on with colonised planets, should I read the rama series or is it shit?

if not, what are sci-fi classics should I check out? i've read none of them

[Anonymous No.11162708]

>>11162683
>should I read the rama series or is it shit?

It's shit. Clarke didn't even write any of the sequels, if you can call them that. He basically just whored his name out.

[Anonymous No.11162768]

>>11162683

[Anonymous No.11162868]

>>11162543
>Bogi Takács is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person (e/em/eir/emself or singular they pronouns) currently living in the US with eir family and a congregation of books. Bogi writes, reviews and edits speculative fiction, and is currently a finalist for the Hugo, Lambda and Locus awards. You can find em at Bogi Reads the World, and on Twitter and Patreon as @bogiperson.

[Anonymous No.11162886]

I posted last thread but got no answer, does anyone have the PKD recommended reading chart?

[Anonymous No.11162903]

>>11162886
Just read everything, it's worth it

[Anonymous No.11162915]

what was the last sff audiobook you listened to
Shadow of the tourcherer, enjoyed it, even tho I found it boring at times.
I prefer audio books, because I have a mild dislecsya and sometimes have to reread passages. And I can listen at work when I'm walking araund.
Currently listening to popular books and classics so nothing pops up as obscure.

[Anonymous No.11162945]

>>11162484
I was going to check her out but couldn't make out her political orientation. Is she a right or left libertarian?

[Anonymous No.11162949]

What fantasy novels are essential classics?

[Anonymous No.11163055]

>>11162949
Start with lists in OP

[Anonymous No.11163078]

>>11162915
Currently listening to Three Body Problem
I listen to a lot of audiobooks because I drive most of the day for work so I have a lot of time to listen
It allows me to blow through books while making money

[Anonymous No.11163199]

To the lad asking what the underlying idea in Echopraxia was, I think it was trying to discuss determinism. Or rather, the idea that there's always something else with a greater level of control over situations than you currently have (which is a sort of pseudo-deterministic view of things). Each character/faction thought they had things under control but were always proved wrong in the end. Bruks, the Bichamerals, Moore, that pilot woman, Valerie etc. all think they've got a handle on things and one by one they're proved wrong and pay the price, up until right at the end with Valerie and Bruks/Portia where Valerie is over confident in her ability to control things and Portia kills her.

In the end Rorschach is the one really in control, but given that he isn't 'conscious' in our sense of the word you can look at him as the embodiment of the deterministic will of the universe. Hell, if Watts wasn't such a reddit-tier atheist you could even interpret Rorschach as analogous to the will of God - being able to manipulate events completely despite no physical presence (other side of the solar system).

[Anonymous No.11163307]

>>11162145
>what was the last sff audiobook you listened to?
some russian pseudo lit-rpg isekai shit and super sale on super heroes 2

>do you prefer audiobooks to digital?
if the narrator is good yes, otherwise no

>recommend a good sff audiobook that isn't well known

Get Well Soon
History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
By: Jennifer Wright

this audio book is not sff but will be interesting to sff audience and the narrator is fitting the book

[Anonymous No.11163325]

Oh boy, it's a "Author decides their 1k tome needs an interlude in the middle of the plot progressing to focus on a character who won't be relevant for 3 more books doing nothing but thinking about where they live in a thinly veiled way to spend 50 pages exposition dumping this location that won't be relevant for 5 more books" episode.

[Anonymous No.11163335]

>>11163325
Name 6 times this has happened

[Anonymous No.11163369]

>>11163335
Wheel of time

[Anonymous No.11163377]

>>11163335

[Anonymous No.11163381]

>>11163369
>>11163377
Fagerhack is cheating

[Anonymous No.11163384]

>>11162559
>be autistic and/or add
>skip boring descriptions when reading
>focus only on dialogue
I just make up people based on how they talk.

[Anonymous No.11163396]

>>11162768
where do I start with lovecraft? I have all his stuff I think as this is what I got for xmas a couple years
ago
haven't touched it yet because cthullu maymays put me off kek

[Anonymous No.11163407]

>>11163199
thanks for all the spoilers dickhead
you do realise that most of us skim the thread and end up remembering details about books we haven't read yet? now i'm never going to read blindsight or echopraxia as you just ruined them for me you fucking cunt

[Anonymous No.11163412]

>>11163396
From what he first wrote to what he last wrote, Niggerman.

[Anonymous No.11163432]

>>11162683
If you read Rendezvous, you've read all that's good about that series.

It set up a lot of really good possibilities but the follow-ups were absolutely botched and not worth reading at all. You're not missing anything.

[Anonymous No.11163437]

>>11163384
I read all the dialogue outloud, half in the voice of Top Cat and half in the voice of Johnny Bravo. For narration I go with The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld

[Anonymous No.11163466]

>>11162623
Too bad he shit the bed with this new series and his pandering.

[Anonymous No.11163481]

>>11163412
kkkkkkkk
>>11163432
yeah seems like it'd be easy to write a grand geopolitical series with the groundwork he laid, I wonder why he didn't do it

[Anonymous No.11163489]

>>11163481
Scooba diving is better than writing

[Anonymous No.11163495]

>>11163489
This wholly depends on whether or not you're currently underwater.

[Anonymous No.11163505]

>>11163495
what a shit thing to post
did you honestly think that was funny or clever?

[Anonymous No.11163508]

>>11163481
I think he just liked what he'd done and wanted to leave the ending open.

"The Ramans do everything in threes" was a pretty cool ending and it gave me chills the first time I read it, but I think the mystery is more enjoyable than any possible answers.

[Anonymous No.11163683]

>>11162295
>Black Ops by Craig Alanson
Mason?

[Anonymous No.11163695]

Best book about A.I or pseudo-humans that isn’t Do Androids?

[Anonymous No.11163699]

>>11162543
>>11162868

Xe/xir/thon are the only patrician pronouns

[Anonymous No.11163702]

I'm still waiting for a fantasy where the love interest turns out to be a cunt and the MC and antagonist fall in love instead. Bonus points if they get a happy ending together. But I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist, so I'll just have to write one myself.

[Anonymous No.11163713]

>>11163702
0/10
also BOTNS kinda does that

[Anonymous No.11163715]

>>11163702
what about one where the protagonist gets cucked by the antagonist and kills himself

[Anonymous No.11163720]

>>11162605

His right eye had a tendency to wander southward, drawing attention to his hare-lip, a patchy mustache serving more to frame than to conceal it.

[Anonymous No.11163747]

>>11163396

Depends, this >>11163412 is good if you just want to experience the writer, if you want your Cthulhu/mythos meme expectations to be met then you might start out with the novellas, and if you want them to be contradicted then you could start with the dream cycle/Randolph Carter stories

[Anonymous No.11163772]

Jack Vance > Gene Wolfe > Tolkien

[Anonymous No.11163779]

>>11162768
What would potentially be unenjoyable about Red Mars?

[Anonymous No.11163783]

>>11163715
I don't read cuckshit.

[Anonymous No.11163849]

>>11163772
wew

[Anonymous No.11163868]

I read this story a few years back but I can't remember the title or the author, although I'm fairly sure the author is well-known. Does anyone know the title or the author? I remember it being a great read.

From what I remember of the plot, a woman and her son (male clone?) are on a spaceship with a semi evil ai of some kind, tasked with creating a wormhole or something similar to allow travel for other ships. They come across a signal that they discover to be from a giant forcefield like sentient being, that encourages them to move the wormhole away from it so it doesn't die. The woman is given hope for the future by the sentient life, but the movement of the wormhole causes the death of another sentient forcefield, causing the woman to become even more disillusioned than she started.

I've been searching for this for a month and I'm no closer than when I started

[Anonymous No.11163920]

>>11163868
The Island by Peter Watts
The Freeze-Frame Revolution is coming next month set in the same world.

[Anonymous No.11163925]

About half way through Solaris
WTF nigger just leave who cares who believes you back home. You obviously already know it will fuck you up why stay?

[Anonymous No.11163978]

>yfw five minutes of singing over acoustic guitar has better characters, arcs, world building, plot, tone and emotion than 99% of scifi "authors" can put together in 300-900 pages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34fSnJNP-4

[Anonymous No.11163997]

Which one should I read?

A Voyage To Arcturus
Dhalgren
Imajica

[Anonymous No.11164002]

>>11163997
Dhalgren all the way, loved that shit - highly underrated

[Anonymous No.11164044]

>>11163997
A Voyage To Arcturus
Unless you're some kind of degenerate.

[Anonymous No.11164050]

>>11163997
A voyage to arcturus is kinda badly written but has some of the most interesting ideas and setting I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.11164250]

>>11162768
>blindsight

[Anonymous No.11164253]

Why the fuck did you guys make me read Count to A Trillion? It's shit. The protag is a fucking redneck afforded high intelligence, all the other 'posthumans' so to speak, seem retarded. Just what the fuck.

[Anonymous No.11164319]

cease you're anti-white bigotry

[Anonymous No.11164359]

>>11162623
Those poor poor souls that will be fooled by this good cover. Wasn't the tattoo girl super tanned, though?

[Anonymous No.11164366]

>>11162945
No idea. Probably right, but there isn't much gay or gender politics to make much difference in the book.

[Anonymous No.11164373]

>>11164366
Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.11164510]

>>11163978
It's pretty good. Apparently Filk music is an interesting genre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSGuPGRKUDI

Going on a binge again after the last time someone posted it here in what seems little over a year ago, I can't seem to re-find a nice melancholy song. It was about a crew who embarked on a slower-than-light ship only to arrive at the destination already colonized with FTL ships, with them left aimless, unnecessary and cut off from this future society. Something along the lines of that old cliche.

[Anonymous No.11164545]

>>11164510
Oh, found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA1sA5MD8J0

[Anonymous No.11164584]

Guys I'm looking for a scifi space book about demons, or aliens that resemble demons. Kinda like Doom. Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.11164598]

>>11162230
Aurora by the same author. I liked it much better than the Mars trilogy.

[Anonymous No.11164599]

>>11164584
I have a good recc for you but it's a spoiler
If you want the recc then click the spoiler for it but be warned, knowing the supernatural elements are aliens might ruin the book a bit for you
book of the new sun

[Anonymous No.11164602]

>>11164584
Childhood's End.

[Anonymous No.11164644]

>>11164598
It's not a book about space colonization though. it's about how living on a generation ship sucks. And the book was lacking, for me personally, on the actual colonization part.

>>11162230
By this metric I could recommend Chasm City or the Poseidon's Children trilogy (the second one has generation ships, there's colonization in the trilogy, but a lot of it is our solar system in the first book.)

[Anonymous No.11164661]

Pls rec some audio accessible cyberpunk

[Anonymous No.11164662]

>>11162435
>The Demon Princes by Jack Vance
this sounds pretty cool but I haven't read any vance, should I start with this?

[Anonymous No.11164664]

>>11164661
gibson.

[Anonymous No.11164746]

recommend me something that isn't:
>BotNS
>Library at Mount Char
>Sarah J Maas
>Exoblindophraxsight

[Anonymous No.11164748]

How long do I have to read something for before I drop it?

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT. 11th grade writing right here.

[Anonymous No.11164797]

>>11163997
>Dhalgren
>Imajica
How gay are you? Serious question, no memeing.

[Anonymous No.11164803]

>>11164746
the fifth head of cerberus

[Anonymous No.11164808]

>>11164746
Senlin Ascends

[Anonymous No.11164809]

>>11164250
The blindsight anon never officially thanked me for this.

[Anonymous No.11164866]

>>11164644
I just wanted the story of the people who remained on the Mars analogue
I found myself siding with the stayers even though the book was clearly on the leavers' side

[Anonymous No.11164879]

Currently on The Three Body Problem
i absolutely LOVE when fiction departs wildly from any expectations
Seriously, the direction the book has gone in blows my mind, and I only have a bit left
I'd love some recommendations about what to read next that will go off on a wild streak

[Anonymous No.11164881]

>>11164748

Why? I like that book.

[Anonymous No.11164892]

I know this question will be annoying but i've been desperate for the past three days, what's a fantasy book that has a comfy adventure and similar feel to lord of the rings.
At this point i'm willing to re-read the series again for the 7th time...

[Anonymous No.11164902]

>>11164881
I like it too but the writing style can be abrasive
It's not high literature, it's pop sci-fi without any real novel concepts
I enjoyed reading it but I wouldn't consider it to be a well written book

[Anonymous No.11164970]

>>11164892
lotr is shit though.
Ask one of our resident dinosaurs and the will probably give you a fossil turd that is similar.

[Anonymous No.11165037]

>>11164879
Read the rest of the series.

[Anonymous No.11165086]

>>11164879
Avoid using spoilers when not giving spoilers, it makes people think that you'll be giving spoilers, making them not read some of your post, which I imagine is not what you want or why would you write it?

[Anonymous No.11165205]

>>11165086
It is a spoiler though knowing that the book goes off the rails lessens the enjoyment of it since you know it's coming

[Anonymous No.11165232]

>>11164746
Throw out half a dozen books you liked and I bet people could give you a rec

[Anonymous No.11165309]

>>11162683
The rest of the books do expand the world building and what was up with the ship. But it's all bogged down by shitty family and relationship drama.

>>11162615
There's lots of interludes in Fountains of Paradise, it's not just fully focused on the engineering or anything.

[Anonymous No.11165315]

>>11164746
BAKKER

[Anonymous No.11165331]

>>11162230
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, although kind of obliquely

[Anonymous No.11165363]

>>11163307
>some russian pseudo lit-rpg isekai shit
post it

[Anonymous No.11165372]

>read book/web novels
>enjoy it
>look up authors other books
>discover author is a woman

Does this happen to anyone else ??

[Anonymous No.11165388]

>>11165372
All of the female authors I've read have very obviously female names, so can't say I have.

[Anonymous No.11165427]

>>11165372
I usually check the author's gender when they have a suspicious name (like sam or charlie) or just a couple of letters (N.K. Jemisin). It's like they KNOW I won't read them if I see a female name in the cover (they're right).

[Anonymous No.11165495]

What is this fucking meme of female authors, I don't have any problem with them

[Anonymous No.11165522]

>>11165495
That's because you're a gril

[Anonymous No.11165526]

>>11165495
It's mainly one autist with a huge chip on his shoulder and a couple others encouraged by his constant shitposting.

[Anonymous No.11165527]

>>11165522
Incorrect

[Anonymous No.11165533]

>>11165527
you just don't know it yet

[Anonymous No.11165544]

>>11162230
War dogs by Greg bear. His books never get shilled here for some reason

[Anonymous No.11165552]

guys i need your help, i had bookmarked a site where you could download audiobooks for free but i lost everything with the format. can you help me ?
do you know any site that allow the user to download audiobooks for free? not the amateur or classic stuff but new audiobooks

[Anonymous No.11165570]

>>11165552
http://audiobookabb.co/

[Anonymous No.11165599]

>>11164250
Tbis cover is infinitely more interesting than the shitty book

[Anonymous No.11165606]

>>11165526
You're right it has nothing to do with modern sci fi sucking every female author's dick no matter how talentless she is. You do you buddy

[Anonymous No.11165621]

>>11163715
>Rothfuss

[Anonymous No.11165625]

>>11165621
Jokes on you because both the protagonist and antagonist are self inserts for fatty

[Anonymous No.11165631]

>>11165606
This. Ancillary Justice won a Hugo Award, let that sink in. Current fantasy and sci fi women authors are a meme (with maybe one or two exceptions)

[Anonymous No.11165632]

>>11165606
Keep nursing that burning resentment of half the world's population buddy, I'm sure it'll do you tons of good in life.

[Anonymous No.11165638]

>>11165631
Yeah bro, winning a highly politicized award despite glaring mediocrity is a right reserved exclusively for MEN.

[Anonymous No.11165644]

equality between MEN not wuh-MEN

[Anonymous No.11165645]

>>11165638
Now I know you're a woman. Sarah? Sarah J Maas?

[Anonymous No.11165649]

>>11165632
>>11165638
>When you have such seething asshurt you need to defend your life choices to two different people in the span of 2 minutes
Tell me how you're right and we're wrong again?

[Anonymous No.11165656]

Holy FUCK SHUT UP

[Anonymous No.11165663]

>>11165631
You're not wrong but please stop reminding me this book exists. Most old women authors tend to be less full of their own shit. Margaret Atwood's books that aren't the handmaid's meme actually pretty good even if I do disag with her politically

[Anonymous No.11165670]

>>11165570
i love you anons <3

[Anonymous No.11165676]

>>11165663
>Most old women authors tend to be less full of their own shit
I agree, Ursula Le Guin is great and I enjoyed Octavia Butler too. Current female authors bother me though.

[Anonymous No.11165826]

>>11165649
So you're the one who constantly posts about much he despises women, yet it's me who is butthurt? How does that work in your head exactly?

[Anonymous No.11166005]

>>11164892
The Belgariad is comfy.

[Anonymous No.11166084]

Are you allowed to read a book with a female protag, if that female protag is totally asexual, and is a monster or AI ?

[Anonymous No.11166093]

>>11166084
not even then

[Anonymous No.11166154]

>>11165826
Nothing works in his head

>>11165676
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein one of the cornerstontes of scifi?

[Anonymous No.11166286]

anything grimdark fantasy came out this year?

[Anonymous No.11166311]

>>11163199

This is the best fan-theory I've seen that actually explains it.

I liked Watt's metaphor of the ship being a brain, while the different factions are different neurons. Neurons can exert control over one another but they may not individually understand the bigger picture.

Either way I still have no idea what the fuck that book was on about, but considering the author experiments with psychedelic substances it may be attributed to the ineffable.

[Anonymous No.11166317]

>>11163396

Read into Mountains of Madness, if you like it lurk moar.

[Anonymous No.11166332]

>>11164662

Start with Cugel's Saga

[Anonymous No.11166337]

>>11165826
It's cute how you imply I'm the only person on this general who hates pretentious women who can't write. Shoo pseud shoo

[Anonymous No.11166342]

>>11166317
You don't start with that one, you end it with that.

[Anonymous No.11166344]

>>11166154
Frankenstein can barely be considered "soft" scifi. I like how you felt the need to interject and insert your worthless opinion as the adults were speaking about relevant topics, it's as though you're a child and you want attention from your parents who are your betters in every facet. Please continue telling me how my head doesn't work so you can further get btfo

[Anonymous No.11166345]

>>11164746
Who the fuck unironically recommended you SJM? A teenage girl?

[Anonymous No.11166351]

>>11166342

True, but i worry for the novice that starts with charles dexter (the most boring hp lovecraft this is fact)

[Anonymous No.11166439]

>>11166351
I think you mean Herbert West: Reanimator

[Anonymous No.11166447]

>>11165631
>Ancillary Justice
Unironically better than Redshirts, that won the year before (and was written by a male). The Hugos suck in general, it's not simply a female problem.

[Anonymous No.11166455]

>>11166345
>unironically
Someone is spamming one of her series, probably ironically because I've seldom seen anyone do a worse job of shilling something.

[Anonymous No.11166457]

>>11165631
> Ancillary Justice won a Hugo Award
It deserved to because it was by far the best book that year.

[Anonymous No.11166470]

>>11166457
I personally think The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Gaiman is better, but you're more or less right. I can't come up with any clearly superiour book released that year.

[Anonymous No.11166923]

>>11164584
The Ninety Trillion Fausts.

[Anonymous No.11166929]

>>11164892
>LotR
>comfy adventure
Maybe you should read it again but slow enough to comprehend it this time.

[Anonymous No.11166933]

>>11165663
I disagree, the first time Le Guin smelled menopause her writing went down the toilet and never recovered.

[Anonymous No.11166936]

>>11166084
You're taking this the wrong direction.

[Anonymous No.11166961]

>>11165427
Hey

[Anonymous No.11166985]

book of the _new sun

[Anonymous No.11167047]

>>11165570
It's fags like you posting on failbook that made torrentz shut down.

[Anonymous No.11167052]

>>11166337
The womenmeme anon hates all women writers. Not just pretentious ones.

[Anonymous No.11167065]

>>11166286
www.grimdarkmagazine.com

[Anonymous No.11167101]

>>11165363
https://mybook.ru/author/yurij-moskalenko/malysh-guri-kniga-pervaya-tam-gde-nas-ne-zhdut/
Maлыш Гypи. Книгa пepвaя. Taм, гдe нac нe ждyт…
Юpий Mocкaлeнкo

found this book while scraping Rutracker audio book section for something to listen to , it had big number of leechers so i tried it.
Story:
basically drunk 50 year old war pensioner from Vladivostok drunkenly crashes plane and is isekai`d to body of 12 year old boy in dark fantasy world.
Story is not goo but not the worst i read. Narrator is 10/10 thou

[Anonymous No.11167167]

>>11167101
Probably a stupid question, but is it all narrated in Russian?

[Anonymous No.11167198]

>>11167167
yes

[Anonymous No.11167212]

What did i think of this book?

[Anonymous No.11167217]

So at what point will Lanfear tie Rand down and ride him raw?

[Anonymous No.11167223]

>>11167212
Never heard of it, you did not like it and the writer is a hack and probably a pen name for J.K Rowling.

[Anonymous No.11167227]

>>11167217
Semirhage is the real BDSM Forsaken.

[Anonymous No.11167307]

>Sev returns to earth as a Christ/Jack Sparrow mashup
Urth of the New Sun is weird

[Anonymous No.11167320]

>>11163683
The dubs mason...

[Anonymous No.11167398]

>>11167212
Terribly seventies

[Anonymous No.11167435]

>>11167101
Does Ru tracker have English audiobooks?

[Anonymous No.11167440]

>>11163683
No.

[Anonymous No.11167468]

>>11167101
>comes to ENGLISH imageboard
>everyone is speaking ENGLISH
>recommends RUSSIAN audiobook
>they believe their logic is sound

[Anonymous No.11167493]

>>11164809
You mean the guy who spammed the front cover and '...wow' for like a month?

[Anonymous No.11167519]

>>11166929
How is it not a comfy adventure?
Everything about it is distilled comyfness

[Anonymous No.11167523]

>>11162145
Anyone read the new Neal Asher? Is it gud?

[Anonymous No.11167554]

>>11167468
He was asked to post it

[Anonymous No.11167572]

>>11167519
You're probably thinking of the movies, with the gentle flute music and Gimli and the hobbits being comic relief and pipeweed being marijuana and Gollum being cute instead of a baby-eating hobo. The book is woven tightly with the dread of Sauron, the feeling of impending evil, the futility of the effort. It's comfy for a couple of chapters, then the ringwraiths show up.

[Anonymous No.11167593]

>>11167307
It has a godly ending, both in quality and theme

[Anonymous No.11167607]

>>11166933
Back it up

[Anonymous No.11167617]

>>11167523
asher is on my backlog. how is he? i wanna start with the engineer stuff.

[Anonymous No.11167619]

>>11166447
>Redshirts, that won the year before (and was written by a male)
I consider Scalzi a numale, not a male.

[Anonymous No.11167625]

>>11166961
Hello!

[Anonymous No.11167629]

>>11167212
You were disappointed by the poorly executed premise.

[Anonymous No.11167632]

>>11167619
There's nothing to consider about it.

[Anonymous No.11167635]

>women writers

[Anonymous No.11167639]

>>11167607
The Telling is all the evidence I need, big boy.

[Anonymous No.11167641]

>>11164879
Yeah some turns these books take are wild, and quite refreshing. If anything, these books are a journey.

[Anonymous No.11167659]

>>11166929

Not him but Im rereading it for the fourth time and I consider it comfy. Admittedly froodoo's quest is pretty harrowing but my own sense of nostalgia papers over that.

[Anonymous No.11167669]

>>11167468
I don't recommend it in any way, it is a bad litrpg isekai book there are much better litrpg isekai books it's only redeeming quality is its naratror
>>11167435
Better use audiobook bay
abbaudiobook.com

[Anonymous No.11167677]

>>11162343
Because she has an adverse reaction to her first period and thinks it will affect her goals.

Books called The Poppy War, it's super weird because it starts off seeming like a normal fantasy but by the end is almost exclusively about genocides.

It's not an explicit 1:1 relationship but it's clearly based largely around the china and japan fighting in ww2.

[Anonymous No.11167678]

>>11167669
>abbaudiobook.com
>check out some recent sci fi titles
>The Nuclear Druid Extinction Protocol, Book 2
My sides hurt

[Anonymous No.11167679]

any recommendations for chinkshit? I really liked warlock of the magus world and need something else that's free and has 1000 chapters. Yes i know i have shit taste.

[Anonymous No.11167682]

>>11165631
Ancillary Justice is a really good book, wtf are you going on about. It's the sequels that are weak

[Anonymous No.11167686]

>>11167682
"No!"

[Anonymous No.11167694]

>>11167682

I've never read it but the title annoys me

[Anonymous No.11167740]

God I need a new kindle... 1gb is too fucking small. I hope the next gen isn't too expensive.

[Anonymous No.11167742]

>>11167679
lol, this jew came out of the womb po-faced

[Anonymous No.11167754]

>>11167740
How quickly do you fucking read lad? I'm sure you can cycle books out once you've read them. They're a few hundred kilobytes to a few megabytes, a whole gig is way more than you need.

[Anonymous No.11167773]

>>11167740
Dude just delete books you can't read 1000 in a year anyway

[Anonymous No.11167779]

>>11167754
>>11167773
I like to save the books I enjoyed so I can read them again yearly. I have 400 hundred books saved and the last time I updated it said I was running out of space so I deleted some. I'd be happy with 8 gb. 1gb sounds like a lot if you delete books, but then again you could do that if it had 120 mb too.

[Anonymous No.11167787]

>>11167754
Just use Calibre to mange your library. You can add & remove any book you want from the device without having to manually delete shit to save space.

[Anonymous No.11167789]

>>11167779
Why not just store the ones you have read on your computer and keep the ones you're currently reading on your kindle? Must cheaper and easier than buying a whole new one.

[Anonymous No.11167800]

>>11167779
Just save them on your pc or redownload them again?

My calibre folder is almost exactly a gig, I keep books there rather than on the device

[Anonymous No.11167802]

>>11163466
>>11164359
What's wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.11167805]

>>11167619
Well, in that case you can't really complain about males not winning the Hugos since only numales write SFF nowadays (until someone chose to publish me, that is).

[Anonymous No.11167821]

>>11167800
I'm always paranoid the hdd will fail, I dunno, I just like having all my fav books in the device, mostly because I travel a lot. I had a kindle keyboard, now a paperwhite 2 (the light was needed) and I'm waiting for the next gen. Its not like I buy EVERY kindle.

[Anonymous No.11167827]

>>11167805
Fair enough.

[Anonymous No.11167944]

>>11167593
The ending is the only part that approached the quality of BotNS

[Anonymous No.11167998]

>>11167944
that bad huh?

[Anonymous No.11168026]

Should I read the first three Barsoom novels?

[Anonymous No.11168052]

>>11168026
No, just the middle one

[Anonymous No.11168098]

>>11167802
Jesus. Just put that cat out of it's misery. Why are humans such sluts for misery porn?
Do you get off on making that poor cat suffer through life?

Read the riyria revelations, then read book one of the Myth series. You will see the problem.

[Anonymous No.11168177]

>>11167523
wait... jain tech is lose again? Or is this a prequel?

[Anonymous No.11168185]

Got a reply from a publisher that wasn't a straight up rejection. They want to 'have a talk about the possible future of your book'...

holy shit lads

[Anonymous No.11168194]

>>11168185
I seriously hope that you'll dedicate the work to /sffg/.

[Anonymous No.11168205]

>>11168194
There's no way they'd let me do that. Though maybe I could say I want to dedicate it to my Norwegian friend Eseffef Gee or something.

[Anonymous No.11168225]

>>11168205
It's your shit, why can't you dedicate it to who you want?

[Anonymous No.11168243]

>>11168205
dedicate it to the people that hide inside caves with the only good taste on mongolian basketweaving forums.
authors dedicate shit to forums all the time.

[Anonymous No.11168248]

>>11165372
No. I can detect the authors sex by how they write male characters. Female authors always write some gay ass faggot.
I actually tested that by reading a bunch of books without looking at the authors name.

[Anonymous No.11168249]

>>11168194
You just lost my money by not having a spine.

[Anonymous No.11168259]

>>11168052
Thanks for that great answer.

[Anonymous No.11168277]

Rank your top 5 /sff/ writers currently living
>Susanna Clarke (new book WHEN?)
>China Mieville
>Stephen Baxter
>Jasper Fforde
>Peter S. Beagle
And honorable mention to Robert Silverberg for still producing an occasional story at 83

[Anonymous No.11168284]

>>11168277
1. Will Wight
2. -
3. -
4. -
5. Brandon Sanderson

[Anonymous No.11168287]

>>11168277
> Greg Egan
> Guy Gavriel Kay
> Ian McDonald
> Neal Stephenson
> Dan Simmons

[Anonymous No.11168300]

>>11168277
>Guy Gavriel Kay
>everyone else
>Sanderfag

[Anonymous No.11168306]

>>11168277
1: Gene Wolfe
2: John Crowley
3: Susanna Clarke (new book never because of some chronic illness)
4: Ada Palmer
5: Liu Cixin

[Anonymous No.11168356]

>>11168277
Kim Stanley Robinson
All others are irrelevant

[Anonymous No.11168373]

>>11168205
dedicate it to anon and his fellow anonymous
'I don't know if you're really out there but if you are, I hope you stay here'

[Anonymous No.11168418]

So I read the first Coldfire book (Black Sun Rising) and while I found the setting and magic to be really interesting the story itself didn't seem to live up to the potential of that base. Are the following books the same or does it only get better?

[Anonymous No.11168537]

>>11168277
Jesus Christ get better taste you disgusting pleb

[Anonymous No.11168554]

>>11163396
Lovecraft had no system for his stories, just start with his oldest works and go from there.
Also don't forget his letters.

[Anonymous No.11168645]

>Book is literally about how "goblins" (black people) are morally superior to the racist "elves" (white people)

And of course it's written by a woman

[Anonymous No.11168674]

>>11168185
E William Brown... is that you?

[Anonymous No.11168677]

>>11168645
Amazing these days how you can tell a person's political views instantly just from looking at them.

[Anonymous No.11168684]

>>11168677
that face looks like she has downsyndrome

[Anonymous No.11168687]

>>11168677
She look like a goblin lmao

[Anonymous No.11168708]

>>11168677
Not always, if it's a dude with a huge beard it could go either way

[Anonymous No.11168714]

>>11168645
>Book is literally about how "goblins" (black people) are morally superior to the racist "elves" (white people)
wow that's literally never been done before

[Anonymous No.11168732]

>>11168708
if they look like that and have a leather jacket and are about 50 they're always a trot

it's a golden rule for sff writers

[Anonymous No.11168738]

who is the undisputed queen of /sffg/?

[Anonymous No.11168747]

>>11168738
Me desu

[Anonymous No.11168751]

How's Robinsons Mars trilogy? I want a good colonization story but I'd like a few opinions but I get 3 700 page books.

[Anonymous No.11168769]

>>11168738
Cherryh

[Anonymous No.11168771]

>>11168738
N. K. Jemisin

[Anonymous No.11168775]

>>11168738

[Anonymous No.11168779]

>>11162949
A Wizard of Earthsea

Read it

[Anonymous No.11168782]

>>11167740
Buy a real ereader with an sd slot then.

[Anonymous No.11168789]

>>11168708
Nope. You can still tell by their general facial expressions. If they look like they're holding a Nintendo switch you know exactly how their politics align

[Anonymous No.11168794]

>>11168738
Women are useless so nobody. Even men make better women than women do

[Anonymous No.11168795]

>>11167740
onyx e-ink readers are like a hundred bucks, have wifi to link up to your library and accept sd cards.

[Anonymous No.11168797]

>>11168751
Biggest complaint is that it's "dry". If you want a serious colonization story it's probably the best out there.

[Anonymous No.11168804]

>>11168674
If he is, we are waiting for the fourth daniel black book you slow fuck

[Anonymous No.11168808]

>>11163396
Start with The Shadow Over Innsmouth

[Anonymous No.11168834]

>>11168738
Ada Palmer, Susanna Clarke, C.L. Moore or Diana Wynne Jones.

[Anonymous No.11168838]

>>11163396
>>11168808
Start with a couple of the early short stories and finish with The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

[Anonymous No.11168844]

>>11168797
I'll be alright with dry so i'll pick it up, thanks.

[Anonymous No.11168848]

Thanks OP, I'm going to read The Buried Giant sure. I'm not sure how I did not know about it.

[Anonymous No.11168866]

>her long locks, dark and coarse and perfectly straight
>locks
>straight
Am I a brainlet or are locks not supposed to be perfectly straight?

[Anonymous No.11168886]

>>11163396
It's a cliché recommendation, but just read The Call of Cthulhu; it's by no means his best work, but it will give you an idea of what you're up for.

By the way, in my opinion his best works are (starting from the ones I like better):

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

At the Mountains of Madness

The Shadow over Innsmouth

that one set in Australia whose name I can't remember

The Whisperer in Darkness

The Color out of Space

The Dunwich Horror

I'm probably forgetting some that are also worth reading.

[Anonymous No.11168894]

>>11168775
SUPER SALES BOOK 3 AUDIOBOOK WHEN?
WILD WASTES 3 AUDIOBOOK WHEN?
DANIEL BLACK 4 AUDIOBOOK WHEN?

¿
W H E N?
H
E
N
?

[Anonymous No.11168902]

>>11168894
you are why we cant have nice things

[Anonymous No.11168906]

>>11168848
>I'm going to read The Buried Giant
fuck off

[Anonymous No.11168908]

>>11168866
I think that's just the connotation

[Anonymous No.11168945]

>>11168902
fuck off.
Those books are fun.

[Anonymous No.11168954]

>>11168945
exactly. but your constant shitposting about them when you know exactly when those books are coming out just grates on everyones nervers and causes the entire general to dislike conversation about them because whenever someone mentions them they think of faggots like you.

[Anonymous No.11168959]

>>11168894
more like where to find the super sales ebooks to download
not every1 is a friggin loser who listens to audiobooks

[Anonymous No.11168960]

Which one would be better for society
>Mankind gets controlled by a benevolent hivemind entity with an IQ of 455 and an omnipresent consciousness for the next 20 years
or
>Everyone and their genetic successors have their IQ potential increased by 20 points
?

[Anonymous No.11168961]

>>11168954
This.
Could't have put it more perfectly.

[Anonymous No.11168974]

>>11168906
Not him, but I enjoyed the BG, older protagonists are something you rarely see and it's a nice change of pace from Heroic Orphan Boy #612

[Anonymous No.11169040]

What does /lit think about permutation city, just started reading it and I'm not too hooked. Page 70

[Anonymous No.11169050]

>>11168954
I know when the ebooks are coming out.
I DON"T KNOW WHEN THE AUDIOBOOK ARE COMING.
The ebooks are coming in fall. WHEN IS THE AUDIO?

read before you post

[Anonymous No.11169056]

>>11168959
>thread topic is audiobooks
>comes in general to call the thread inhabitants "losers"

[Anonymous No.11169145]

>>11169050
always 3 months after the book releases.

[Anonymous No.11169152]

>>11169040
pages dont mean jack shit. a book labled as 400 pages is just 240~ on a larger screen.

[Anonymous No.11169177]

>>11169056
Real books > E-book on E-reader >>> E-book on computer >>>>>>>>> Audiobooks

[Anonymous No.11169181]

>>11169040
>>>/lit/
Ask them

[Anonymous No.11169184]

>>11169145
So 2019?
FUGGG
I was planning to an hero by December.

[Anonymous No.11169192]

>>11169184
nothing stopping you from becoming an hero right now. do it. you know you want to get to gensyoko.

[Anonymous No.11169194]

>>11169177

[Anonymous No.11169210]

>>11169192
>gensyoko
u wot m8?
What the fuck is that?

>nothing stopping you from becoming an hero right now.
That is true. If you are a tomgirl and throw up your boipussy to me, and let me breed you deep, I might an hero afterwards.

[Anonymous No.11169225]

holy f*ck the fifth head of Cerberus is good
>tfw book of the short sun is expensive as fuck
fuck paying £15 for a book desu

[Anonymous No.11169231]

>>11169225
>15 bucks is a lot
>the books i buy are regularly in the 50s.

[Anonymous No.11169243]

>>11169231
I spend ridiculous amounts of money on my clothes but I can't bring myself to spend more than a fiver on a book

[Anonymous No.11169257]

Anyone here feel like Ray Bradbury is an overbearing moralist?

[Anonymous No.11169275]

>>11169257
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffukken moralfags

[Anonymous No.11169279]

>>11168751
It's great if you want hard colonization, though I've only read the first book
I haven't read the others yet, I started Green Mars but didn't get sucked in immediately so when family matters distracted me, I didn't go back after I had time to spare again
I'll go back to it after I finish the Three Body Problem trilogy

[Anonymous No.11169287]

>>11168960
Hivemind, desu
Individuality is fun but it's shit for society or advancement

[Anonymous No.11169291]

>>11169225
>£15 is a lot
Maybe you should get a job

[Anonymous No.11169297]

>>11169291
i'm just a stingy cunt when it comes to spending money on anything other than clothes

[Anonymous No.11169306]

>>11169291
I don't generally pay more than $1 for books.

[Anonymous No.11169323]

>>11168738
jk Rowling

[Anonymous No.11169343]

>>11169040
I thought the three Egan books I read generally declined in publication date order, and generally required a big wallow in exposition up front for it to pay off. Quarantine was a smash, Permutation City ended up being worth it and Distress never quite broke eve.

[Anonymous No.11169366]

>>11169297
>not investing as much money as possible into his reading habit
>anything other than clothes
>>>/fa/

[Anonymous No.11169412]

I wish fantasy writers would stop putting race mixing into their stories

[Anonymous No.11169419]

>>11169366
i'm too handsome to not dress well

[Anonymous No.11169515]

>>11169419
>>>/hm/

>>11169412
>>>/pol/ Back to your thread. >>11169077

[Anonymous No.11169601]

>>11169515
Are you saying fantasy authors should inject race mixing into their stories? How do you feel the story benefits from this tactic?

[Anonymous No.11169613]

>>11169601
I love me some women.
If I want to fuck catgirls, aliens, wolfgirls, or nature spirits that is my business.

[Anonymous No.11169623]

So when is the next story due for that dryad farming smut book

[Anonymous No.11169638]

>>11169623
>dryad farming smut book
2-3 months.

[Anonymous No.11169678]

New Thread
>>11169506
>>11169506
>>11169506

[Anonymous No.11170139]

What do you think of him?

[Anonymous No.11170220]

>>11165372
how does that matter if that is a good book?