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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:06:45 2018 No.11420685 [Reply] [Original]

Mature Women Edition
>last sff book you read with an older woman and younger male?
>how was it?
>what do you prefer in sff, supple older women or younger fawns?

FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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Previous Threads:
>>11412373
>>11399047
>>11388525
>>11377775

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:21:24 2018 No.11420750 File: 287 KB, 500x800, monthly reading.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 'Downloads: https://b-ok.xyz/s/?q=the+stars+my+destination

thiskillsthedarkelf Fri Jul 6 09:25:07 2018 No.11420755

>>11420685
This thread seems early and the subject is shit but alright.

There's a web novel I'm reading at the moment called spirit vessel that is just martial arts harem shit but the most recurring character is an older woman the mc has made out with.

It's alright.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:25:09 2018 No.11420756 I want to marry a 40 years younger version of Hobb

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:26:52 2018 No.11420763 >>11420755 >This thread seems early The old thread is at page 9 and not bumping, what are you talking about?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:29:13 2018 No.11420772 File: 1.83 MB, 360x240, 1529931697626.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Nyneave's temper faded as they walked on considering the foibles of the weaker sex - men of course.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:30:02 2018 No.11420778 >>11420755 dont you get tired reading mostly garbage all the time

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:40:48 2018 No.11420809 sanderfag a hack

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:45:59 2018 No.11420833

>>11420685
>last sff book you read with an older woman and younger male?
I don't think I've read any where this is given any kind of attention. I think there's a throwaway line in Armor about the MC boning some MILF, but that's it.

>how was it?
I would like to read more about younger men and older women. It is my fetish.

>what do you prefer in sff, supple older women or younger fawns?
Supple older women, 35 to 45.Give me them yummy mummies.

thiskillsthedarkelf Fri Jul 6 09:50:12 2018 No.11420853

>>11420763
Yeah you're right, didn't realize it was on page 9 already.

>>11420778
Eh, you can only re-read botns so many times anon. Nothing released in the west during the last five years has meant shit to me.

Emporer of solo play and reverend insanity are miles better than that throne of glass shit which gets spammed here and spirit vessel at least gives me a laugh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:53:46 2018 No.11420865 >>11420853 I wish I could understand the greatness of botns.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 09:54:39 2018 No.11420870 >>11420853 >spammed here it's only 1 person posting it

>>	thiskillsthedarkelf Fri Jul 6 09:59:09 2018 No.11420884 >>11420870 I've seen it show up multiple times in the same thread, although that anon tricked me into reading it so I might just be overly sensitive.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 10:10:32 2018 No.11420926 >>11420884 Because the same one (or two) people are shilling it multiple times in the same thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 10:11:53 2018 No.11420937 File: 1.04 MB, 4000x1933, viriconium-3-vols-m-john-harrison.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Once again asking: anyone here read Viriconium and willing to share their impressions about it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 10:38:29 2018 No.11421026 >>11420937 the cover looks pretty good, adding this to my list

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 10:42:13 2018 No.11421045
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Anyone else here find that the Corum saga is talked about far less often than it should be? I'd say I actually prefer the first three stories to a lot of the Elric stuff, but it seems that Elric is all a lot of people experience of Moorcock's writing

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 10:44:57 2018 No.11421057

>>11420937
The amount of shilling this series gets elsewhere is equal to the shilling of Book of the New Sun gets here. They're both pretentious projects with a gimmick to get them talked about. They're both good, but nowhere near as god-tier as those shilling them. I'd recommend both series, but don't go in expecting to be blown away.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:15:44 2018 No.11421174 I want to drown my sorrows away in science fantasy for the rest of my life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:22:10 2018 No.11421202 >>11421057 >nowhere near as god-tier as those shilling them. aw, thanks sweetiepocket :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:27:21 2018 No.11421223 >>11421202 >sweetiepocket Catfag are you going to try and force this meme now? Did you run out of catgirls to read? Did you read the new Wild Wastes?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:27:54 2018 No.11421225 File: 521 KB, 680x445, 1528759934408.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >it's a Severian ponders something chapter Stop it, I'm low iq. I don't understand what you're trying to understand.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:38:56 2018 No.11421260 >>11421223 >implying I've, uh. Never actually read botns or Wild Wastes. Maybe when all finished.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:39:08 2018 No.11421261 >>11420853 Open up the web archive and look up every pulp mag collection there ever was. It is full of classics of sci-fi and even has some pre-tolkien fantasy to be found if you look hard enough.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:42:13 2018 No.11421274 Reading BOTNS for the first time. Man, was I missing out by waiting.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 11:46:42 2018 No.11421288

>>11421223
>Did you run out of catgirls to read?
There are always the next two books in The Endurance Cycle or whatever the fuck that godawful series is called, but I'm not touching those. I prefer furries, anyways, but everyone's too pussy to write those in.

>>11421260
You should read BOTNS. If people tell you that it's not great, they're probably brainlets.

>>11421274
Enjoy it! One of the few good things I found through this general.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:00:11 2018 No.11421330 >>11421288 >>11421260 >trusting the opinion of people who use the word brainlet

thiskillsthedarkelf Fri Jul 6 12:04:30 2018 No.11421344
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For my web novel reading bros out there, would it be weird for a western author to use Chinese names and naming sense when writing wuxia?

>philip smith cultivating his gut cave

>>11420926
Probably.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:06:44 2018 No.11421351 >>11421330 >trusting the opinion of people who use the word sweetpocket

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:07:35 2018 No.11421353
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Has anyone ITT read pic related? I picked it up at the local thrift shop today after reading the back. I normally don't read anything written after 1950, but this one looked like a fun relaxing novel. I'm not expecting great prose, just some sci-fi noir.

>Problems arise when sudden influx of refugees worshiping a strange God begin to cause all sorts of problems

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:09:36 2018 No.11421360

>>11421344
It depends on setting and story. Are they in China? Or a chinese-esque fantasy setting? Does the story involve cultivation of inner strength or physical prowess? If you answered yes to any of these, using Chinese names is probably better than western names (assuming you do your research and use them properly)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:12:20 2018 No.11421369 >>11421344 not to me, but I'm a sinophile. I named my neopets and MMO characters after RoTK characters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:23:09 2018 No.11421414 >>11421353 >Problems arise when sudden influx of refugees worshiping a strange God begin to cause all sorts of problems so its a book about sweden and germany?

thiskillsthedarkelf Fri Jul 6 12:25:03 2018 No.11421421
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>>11421360
It's western setting but with cultivation, think arthurian but instead of a sword from a stone it's magical drugs and a breathing technique.

It's going to be hotfire garbage either way.

>>11421369
That's inspiring, anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:30:50 2018 No.11421440 File: 252 KB, 707x1000, 1530645166553.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11420833 >yummy mummies Wow you fetishists are creepy fuckers. >>11421353 Is that a praying mantis with jet-engines?

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:41:56 2018 No.11421486

>>11421414
>Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma. Based Nazi Jeff Vaughan, is employed by the spaceport authorities to monitor incoming craft for refugees from other worlds. When he discovers a sinister cult that worships an mysterious alien god, he's drawn into an deadly investigation. Not only must he attempt to solve the murders, but he has to save himself from the psychopath out to kill him.

Sounds like it anon.

>>11421440
IDK, haven't read it yet

>>11421421
I appreciate that desu. I like naming the girls Diaochan if it's not taken. Cao Cao is always taken :(

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:45:25 2018 No.11421498
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>>11421045
It's been forever since I read the Corum books but yeah they never get mentioned. I still prefer the Elric books but Corum is a sold series. I also liked the Hawkmoon books which are also never talked about.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:52:56 2018 No.11421518

>>11421414
>Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma. Based Nazi Jeff Vaughan, is employed by the spaceport authorities to monitor incoming craft for refugees from other worlds. When he discovers a sinister cult that worships an mysterious alien god, he's drawn into an deadly investigation. Not only must he attempt to solve the murders, but he has to save himself from the psychopath out to kill him.

Sounds like it anon.

>>11421440
Yes, flying towards a Minecraft beacon.

>>11421421
I appreciate that desu~

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:52:59 2018 No.11421519 File: 389 KB, 817x1208, CORUM1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11421045 It's a nice series but i never liked the sci fi elements. They felt lazy and out of place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 12:56:06 2018 No.11421528 File: 35 KB, 326x500, IMG_20180705_121823.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Post horrible artworks

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 13:05:37 2018 No.11421544 File: 32 KB, 257x400, High Castle 3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11421528 A S T H E T I C

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Anonymous Fri Jul 6 13:37:43 2018 No.11421641

Let me start off by saying, that there is an absolute ton of sexual violence in this book. Even to the point that I started skipping over sections were I felt it was just more of the same. That isn't the only sex in the book however, as there are times when Danica (who is really Danic a male warrior that is switched into a female elf) willingly has sexual relations with others. It also got tiring for these experiences and I would skip over some of these as well.
The problem was that the story overall had me pretty well hooked. Seeking revenge on the magician who did this (and the desire to get her original body back) leads her on a quest through the land where she encounters honorless caravan leaders, brutal nomads, desert peoples, and mages.
While the sex is plenty, character growth is not. It is almost at the very end of the book before we realize that reasons Danica does the things she does is her own fault and not the author's poor characterization.
I was getting really disappointed until that moment. I don't want to spoil the moment, and hopefully I haven't given anything away. I would recommend it if you are not offended by the very graphic sex descriptions, but it isn't anything ground breaking or must read. Just kind of middle of the road. That being said, I AM going to read the next book. It already has my attention.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 13:46:59 2018 No.11421677

A young, shy girl is gifted an item that transports her to the fantasy land of the gorgeous muscular men, where she becomes a drunkard nympho. That's the gist of it. Some parts of the adventure were interesting, but it was constantly interrupted by some of the most boring sex scenes I've read in my life. Girl enters a tavern, handsome guy sits on her table, they have sex. Seriously, this happens 5-6 times in the book. Given the skills, the tools and the chance for a fresh start, for adventure and exploration in a new world, our girl choose to drink and have sex with muscular men. The two things she could've done in her world just as easily.
A wasted opportunity, that pretty much sums this book up.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 13:59:44 2018 No.11421718 >>11421641 >>11421677 Literal what.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 14:00:55 2018 No.11421720 File: 23 KB, 258x400, 271575.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11421528

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 14:05:18 2018 No.11421739 >>11421718 He's posting bad reviews of good stories.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 14:28:04 2018 No.11421805 >>11420853 Read Too Like the Lightning

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 15:07:03 2018 No.11421948

Females getting into Fantasy were a mistake. Every other word that spews out of their mouth usually involves the term sexist, racist, misogynistic, racist, male power fantasy, cis white male, etc. I could go on and on abut these vile cunts are seeping into fantasy and it has to stop. I never give them shit for whatever badly written garbage they want to read, why are they giving me shit for reading a work that appeals to me?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 15:11:02 2018 No.11421973 >>11421948 Bad bait

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 15:12:36 2018 No.11421980 >>11421948 yikes

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 15:26:58 2018 No.11422030 >>11420937 I've read it. It's basically BOTNS's little brother who never lived up to the achievements of senpai. If BOTNS didn't exist it would get tons of attention; unfortunately Harrison got wolfecucked.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 16:34:03 2018 No.11422233 >>11420853 if you like chinkshit read warlock of the magus world and age of adepts. Its like reading pulp fiction written by someone with no concept of right and wrong.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 16:44:19 2018 No.11422269
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I've been posting on /lit/ for years and I've never even opened this general. I think of you as that weird clique in school that kept to themselves and nobody really bothered me. Even the bullies wouldn't go near them. You're like weird rat people that live in the sewers and everyone pretends they don't exist.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 16:50:01 2018 No.11422296 >>11422269 Don't you mean the Alphas that refused to associate with (You), the bullies, and got all the freaky bitches? Yeah, I think that's what you meant.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 16:50:05 2018 No.11422297
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>>11422269
i used to be a /lit/ elitist until I decided to go into stem instead of english and took the sff pill. Keep thinking youre intellectual for reading books with purple prose and a non-traditional structure though sweety.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 16:52:15 2018 No.11422308 >>11422269 >You're like weird rat people that live in the sewers and everyone pretends they don't exist. Man-thing speaks nonsense-nonsense.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 16:52:32 2018 No.11422312 >>11422269 >You're like weird rat people that live in the sewers and everyone pretends they don't exist. Welcome, we are quite content with this.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 17:00:51 2018 No.11422344

>>11422296
Sure. I never had a problem with you nerds. I used to laugh at people for watching Chinese cartoons, collecting Pokemon cards, or any of those fringe hobbies, but sci-fi... I don't know what it is about it. Perhaps they weren't an easy target, unlike goths - when you're a boy and wear lipstick in school, you're asking for it.

>>11422297
I guess my journey has been the opposite to yours: I actually fell for the STEM meme myself and ended up doing engineering at university. Now I'm rebelling by reading philosophy and shitting on science. Hopefully by the time I'm 30 I'll have a more moderate view.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 17:44:33 2018 No.11422533

It has been a while since I plowed through Howard's Conan and Wagner's Kane and I'm craving for more of the same without rereading it. Any recommendations?

Already read Moorcock, Elric was way too angsty and moody
Have already read Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 17:45:38 2018 No.11422545
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>>11422269
>You're like weird rat people that live in the sewers and everyone pretends they don't exist.
Shit nigga don't tell me no one reads shitty fantasy or sci-fi in the US of A?

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 17:47:47 2018 No.11422558

>>11422269
>You're like weird rat people that live in the sewers and everyone pretends they don't exist.
you realize everyone knows about the sewer jews in new york right?
its not exactly a secret. they extract the iron and copper in our excrements to mint shekels out of them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 17:48:16 2018 No.11422562 >>11422269 Nice of you to come by. Daily reminder that Gravity's Rainbow is sci-fi.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 17:56:15 2018 No.11422591 >>11422562 Gravity Rainbow is "speculative fiction", you pleb.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 18:01:55 2018 No.11422617 >>11422591 kys harlan

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 18:07:46 2018 No.11422653 >>11422591 >speculative fiction Hahahahahaha

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 18:08:26 2018 No.11422656 >>11422591 The only thing it speculates about is what the inside of your own ass looks like.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 18:08:36 2018 No.11422657 >>11422617 >>11422653 Don't make me slap you boy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 18:13:53 2018 No.11422690 >>11422656 Pls leave your gay fantasies at home anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 18:16:37 2018 No.11422700 >>11422690 ur mom gae

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 18:40:56 2018 No.11422779 File: 548 KB, 1365x2048, 1530738256688.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11422700 Translation pls.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:00:40 2018 No.11422851 >>11422779 The wording and content of your post leads me to believe that the woman who spawned you is a member of the Gaelic race.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:10:47 2018 No.11422906
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This is my first time here in /SFFG/ and it's the only time I have actually understood the humour/shitposts on this board. The philosophy threads undoubtedly contain a ton of shitposting, but it all goes over my head. Typically I come to /lit/ to actually read intelligent posts without getting to a /his/ level of eccentricity. But the shitposting in this thread is bredy gud. Going to make it a regular visit from now on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:11:50 2018 No.11422910 >>11422906 The best part is we read what we want. We don't read to try impress people and act superior.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:14:46 2018 No.11422922

>>11422779
bro that reminds me howard the duck had a real well produced soundtrack, who worked on that shit i bet they turned out famous, unfortunately since its fucking howard the duck its corny as hell, but u can sense the person had talent tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0oeY1KMY9U

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:16:00 2018 No.11422927

>>11422910
Oh, true. I don't read anything written before 1950, my favorite SF authors are Asimov Bradbury and Clarke. but that's because it's what I like.
I picked up my first 'modern' novel today in years! see >>11421353 Looking forward to a lite read ;)

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:27:31 2018 No.11422960
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>>11422851
>Gaelic
>race
You thought I was a member of the Caledonian mafia? Weird.

>>11422922
Howard the Duck was the freakiest, most unsettling shit I ever had the displeasure to watch. Even Frozen wasn't as bad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:37:11 2018 No.11422984 >>11422960 >freaky and unsettling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHx2nLFMAzE 30:00

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:39:48 2018 No.11422992 >>11422960 >freaky and unsettling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHx2nLFMAzE [Embed] 28:00

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:43:16 2018 No.11423005 >>11422657 No seriously, speculative fiction as a term is top pseud. It's for people who think themselves to high and mighty to admit that they're writing low fantasy or sci-fi.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:54:07 2018 No.11423048 File: 157 KB, 1195x897, 1447152297017.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11422992 Nigga I ain't clicking that shit. >>11423005 Maybe it's time to start reading those high and mighty instead of this trash.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:54:41 2018 No.11423050 Wheel of Time has not had nearly as much spanking in it as I was told.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:56:35 2018 No.11423057 >>11422591 H-Harlan? Aren't you supposed to be dead?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 19:58:14 2018 No.11423063 >>11422591 GR is just another historical fiction WW2 novel

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:00:29 2018 No.11423071 File: 50 KB, 474x770, fem_GS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11423057 I am not Harlan Ellison. I am the ghost of past good taste (not that you had any to begin with). >>11423063 Exactly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:28:43 2018 No.11423176 File: 18 KB, 250x250, year 4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anybody read this yet?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:31:00 2018 No.11423184 >>11423048 Most of my reading is actually not this trash but high and mighty.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:33:02 2018 No.11423192 >reading female authors My sides. I hope none of you actually do this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:47:18 2018 No.11423253 >>11423176 Trashiest of YA trash

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:50:20 2018 No.11423259 >>11423176 Is there any remotely decent superhero book that isn't Worm?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:52:14 2018 No.11423265 >>11423259 What is Worm? Soon I will be Invincible is a good superhero book

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 20:56:01 2018 No.11423275 >>11423259 >worm >decent

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:00:29 2018 No.11423289 File: 65 KB, 574x600, 1497327930718.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11423275 Yeah, I don't think it's decent. I think it's fucking great. It's the only superhero related thing I like despite all the flaws.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:05:09 2018 No.11423301 >>11423275 >implying worm isnt better than most sf/f books

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:10:46 2018 No.11423318

>>11423259
there arent any good hero novels but theres plenty villain/anti-hero ones that are good.
zorro
firestarter
super sales on super heroes
so not a hero
numbers
d-list supervillain
the shadow master
hard luck hank(technically)
dark tower (technically)
the fixer

cant think of more of the top of my head but im pretty sure i missed some

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:11:57 2018 No.11423321 >>11423259 windrunner is pretty good as far as hero premises go turns pretty anti-hero towards the middle though.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:33:09 2018 No.11423384

It's finally happening /sffg/. After 4 years of struggling the pieces for that stupid flavor story are finally falling into place. I almost have a plot for the first book!

>>11423318
>zorro on a list of superhero novels
brother...

>>11423301
it is, but that's not exactly high praise. 90% of everything is garbage. Worm could only barely be passing and it would still be better than most

>>11422269
nothing wrong with rat people anon. some of my best friends are rodent-americans

>>11423005
I haven't seen the term used in a pretentious context but I think it's useful to have on hand when you have a story that doesn't fit neatly into scifi or fantasy, and can't be brushed off as X with Y elements. Alternate history, steampunk, weird fiction and combinations thereof tend to need their grey-area taxon

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:52:13 2018 No.11423451

>>11423384
>Alternate history, steampunk, weird fiction and combinations thereof tend to need their grey-area taxon
All of those could easily be categorized as either fantasy, sci-fi or sci-fantasy. The only genre beneath speculative fiction that I feel does not fit in neither is magical realism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:53:14 2018 No.11423455 File: 240 KB, 1171x531, 1486771729502.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11422906 See if you can understand this meta meme.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:58:00 2018 No.11423472 >>11423451 >magical realism that's just fantasy with minimal fantasy elements >science fantasy okay, I'll give you that. Maybe instead speculative fiction should just be the umbrella term for scifi, fantasy, weird fiction and supernatural horror

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 21:59:59 2018 No.11423478 >>11423472 Horror falls under either sci-fi or fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 22:01:36 2018 No.11423486 >>11423478 horror is its own genre

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 22:04:08 2018 No.11423493 >>11423455 aspiring authors come to /lit/ and angrily beat up on /sffg/ and people with attractive ideas, while /sffg/ and good ideas are completely innocent? I don't know... Halp me

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 22:08:56 2018 No.11423507

>>11423472
>Maybe instead speculative fiction should just be the umbrella term for scifi, fantasy, weird fiction and supernatural horror
Basically genre fiction for people who are insulted by the term genre fiction. But I'll admit that not all SF&F qualify as genre fiction, so you're right and I have to admit that the term speculative fiction have a place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 22:11:39 2018 No.11423515 >>11423507 I thought genre fiction also included mysteries, thrillers, non-supernatural horror... basically all forms of fiction that are meant as a form of entertainment as opposed to a pathetic cry for attention

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 22:21:19 2018 No.11423542

>>11423515
The generally accepted definition is works written with the intention to fit a specific genre. Sanderson's fantasy books are a perfect example. The generally accepted /lit/ definition is either anything that's not non-fiction or anything you do not like.

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 22:40:39 2018 No.11423600

>>11421225
I just finished the first book of the series and I'm not sure about what the re-read will uncover for me that I haven't already gotten.

The best chapters for me were the jungle garden hut and the picking of the avern. I feel like if anything will be uncovered it will be some dramatic irony about the setting which you couldn't possibly know until you finish the series.

Surprised at how Wolfe cut the first book with so much left undeveloped. I'm hoping that they get into the prophecy that the priestesses were talking about more as well as the invasion to the north. The world feels so small yet infinitely complex.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 23:08:58 2018 No.11423693 >>11423600 The world will get bigger. And there's minor stuff in the first books that get more meaning as you read the later books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 23:15:05 2018 No.11423709 Can I have something where the yandere is the main focus?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 23:18:32 2018 No.11423718 >>11421677 >our girl choose to drink and have sex with muscular men. ogres and centaurs

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 6 23:19:55 2018 No.11423728 >>11423515 greenogrewithcamera.jpg Come on man, stop trying so hard to be a pleb.

thiskillsthedarkelf Fri Jul 6 23:53:13 2018 No.11423859
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>>11422233
I've read warlock of the magus world and it's all pretty standard chinese literature.

What a lot of people don't get is that china, as a country is EDGY as fuck. Great place to visit and live in but if you're poor it's pretty much a dystopian future.

>Female children are still regularly murdered despite ending the single child policy and are also sold in bulk by orphanages as "mystery meat."
>Because of chinas laws regarding motor accidents drivers will often "finish off" their victims after hitting a pedestrian.
>etc, because this isn't meant to be an anit china post

Anonymous Fri Jul 6 23:55:52 2018 No.11423866

>>11423859
Yea I watched some videos of these chinese towns where people were living in partially built concrete buildings
Nothing at all was maintained
They "worshipped" in a century old temple but it wasn't cleaned, never repainted, etc

Very different world to what we consider normal in the west.

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 00:11:55 2018 No.11423900

>>11423866
ADVChina?

It's true, the place is fucking crazy once you step outside the cities. The whole place feels like everyone is trying one-up the next guy or screw him out of his money. Everything is about appearance with substance being a distant second.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 00:16:18 2018 No.11423909 >>11423472 >Maybe instead speculative fiction should just be the umbrella term for scifi, fantasy, weird fiction and supernatural horror It is.

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 00:46:44 2018 No.11424025

>>11423909
I know it is. I probably should have typed "SHOULD" instead of "should" to emphasize the conclusiveness in the statement. Sorry for the miscommunication

>>11423728
I don't doubt that there are people who read the classics for fun, but I think a lot of them just just want to be able to say that they've read it.

Even that isn't really a problem – I read Journey To The West and The Arabian Nights for the same reason – but it's when people use it as a justification to belittle others that I draw the line.

Generally speaking, the classics tend to attract people who do just that because it's something that we see as both intelligent and cultured, but – unlike, say, particle physics – is something that anyone can understand given a relatively short time

>>11423709
I've heard good things about Let The Right One In

>>11423859
I guess crazy shit happens when you're trying to be soviet russia and victorian london at the same time

They're really growing so fast and I doubt they have the infrastructure or wealth distribution to support it. The sheer size of the country probably doesn't help.

>>	thiskillsthedarkelf Sat Jul 7 02:14:19 2018 No.11424263 >>11424025 It doesn't help that their economy is dependent upon manipulating their currency just to keep the money flowing in from western manufacturing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 02:42:55 2018 No.11424347 File: 126 KB, 300x450, surewinter-cover3-sm2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11420685 I started writing a litRPG and posting it online, but it's shit and I ran out of steam.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 02:46:43 2018 No.11424360 File: 797 KB, 1000x562, Stop picking my brain.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11423493 What about this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 02:55:27 2018 No.11424388 File: 433 KB, 1680x1260, 1481497095274.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11423493 Or?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 02:56:54 2018 No.11424396 File: 696 KB, 743x683, Rejected Authors.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11423493 ????

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 03:07:45 2018 No.11424418

>>11423859
And in about 10-15 years they're going to have to deal with something like 40 million men who'll never get married because of the gender gap caused by the One Child policy. If you're wealthy you can just buy a Russian woman but that's only going to be a option for a few people. I've also heard that apparently Chinese businessmen in Africa are sticking around and getting married instead of going back to China.

>>11424263
Manufacturing for the west you mean.

And yeah it's pretty amazing. You can get a container full of stuff shipped from China to pretty much any port in the world for under $500. I know somebody who runs a gun company and they bought a 40 foot container full of unfinished AR15 receivers from a Chinese foundry for several thousand dollars, but it was only like $25 per receiver in the end. We did strength tests on a couple of them and the aluminum quality was good, very close to what you'd expect from a Korean or western foundry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 04:48:46 2018 No.11424610 >>11420685 I thought the thumbnail was Rosanne Barr.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 08:01:27 2018 No.11425110 >>11423859 China is awesome. >Urbanites patrol rural areas in vans kidnapping children, they break their legs before selling them into slavery >The cults are absolutely insane and make Scientology look sane

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 08:03:26 2018 No.11425116 >>11425110 Don't forget the gangs of dancing grandmas.

>>	thiskillsthedarkelf Sat Jul 7 08:37:22 2018 No.11425208 >>11425110 >>11425116 How could I forget that. >>11424418 Yeah, manufacturing intended for the west. It's weird how hard boomers are letting them fuck the entire world.

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 08:55:47 2018 No.11425267

>>11423859
dont ever help anyone if you are in china.
if you help someone you are responsible for them by law. someone tripped and broke their hip?
you better nope the fuck a way as fast as you can or you get sidled with the responsibility to bring them to a hospital AND pay their fees.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 09:05:13 2018 No.11425307 China makes an interesting case study in how a dystopian government would actually work. Compare China to any YA Dystopia that came out when that was the fashion, like the Hunger Games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 09:48:34 2018 No.11425442 >>11424025 >Let The Right One In Thanks. I will put it into my backlog. Any other recommendation?

thiskillsthedarkelf Sat Jul 7 10:45:13 2018 No.11425631
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>tfw slow as fuck updates on Chinese web novels

>>11425267
Yeah quite a few people have given me similar advice, it's weird how the world can turn out like that. It's not like the chinese couldn't directly mirror the west right now if they wanted too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 11:12:13 2018 No.11425703 https://youtu.be/EmY_TRlO3MU?t=5 >First person point of view

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 11:35:52 2018 No.11425765 >>11425703 ?? You post to show us the token black guy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 11:37:59 2018 No.11425770 >>11425765 I I I

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 12:53:20 2018 No.11426021 >>11425442 not in terms of yandere. sorry.

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 13:06:09 2018 No.11426078

>>11424360
aspiring authors are doing brain surgery while sffg is shit posting and the mods doing nothing

>>11424388
no fucking clue
>>11424396
also no fucking clue.

Did you make these? they're pretty raw no offense. needs a PHD in Memetics to overwork them for you.. more pepe, less 'big brain nibba'

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 13:08:38 2018 No.11426089 >"Rationalist" calls a book bad because characters aren't computer programs that do the most logical and efficient thing possible

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 13:13:20 2018 No.11426120

>>11425703
of course the black kid is playing drums and bass.. also the 'supporting actor' in this ad next to the thing actually being sold in this American advert.

To all the chinaposters, I am a sinophile and I am reading RoTK right now. I just finished chapter 18, this shit is fucking amazing, I haven't been this addicted to a book since I was ~15 y.o reading Harry Potter volume 5. Anyone here read RoTK? Does it count as fantasy? There are sorcerers and shamans, military geniuses and tacticians, mandate of heaven follows a astrological-like system where earth supplants fire etc. Anyone, anyone?

Also for the China posters, I'm going to ask my kik language exchange group about the 'don't help anyone' thing to see if it's true. I'm sure they'll have some party-line counter-argument to why it's a good rule that the helper should have to pay the dudes medical bills.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 13:27:42 2018 No.11426181 What're your views on Urban Fantasy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 13:30:52 2018 No.11426189 >>11426181 trash. Unless its about someone independently discovering magic and then using it to conquer the non magic world. It's always super triggering how all the normies just somehow dont notice the magic shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 13:33:02 2018 No.11426199 >>11426181 not believeable in a modern setting

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 13:35:36 2018 No.11426211 I've finished Iron Dragon's Daughter, what are some similar books in tone? It was very depressive all around, Jane really spiralled downwards.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 15:28:39 2018 No.11426619 >>11426181 struggles finding a balance between urban and fantasy

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 15:29:30 2018 No.11426625
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Is there a sf or f series longer or equal to three novels that clearly has absolutely nothing unnecessary since the author spent at least 20 years devising the plot so that everything fits together perfectly from start to finish?

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 15:49:21 2018 No.11426707
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>>11420685
I started reading this. I haven't been an avid reader for a while. I'm making an effort to get back into it. I'm not too far into it but it's pretty good ready.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 15:57:06 2018 No.11426734 >>11426707 It hasn't even begun

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 16:35:42 2018 No.11426851 >>11426625 Does The Culture count?

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 16:43:23 2018 No.11426873

>friend of a friend recommends me some new science fiction stuff
>literally every single thing on the list is all about "what if they were women and they were battling gender stereotypes"

The year is 3000 fuck all, I don't want to even hear about this shit, let alone read about it. On a side note, my friends is thirsty as the Sahara if he's tolerating that kind of horseshit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 17:08:48 2018 No.11426953 >>11423176 listening to these books is like swimming in shit, its disgusting but warm

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 17:12:55 2018 No.11426972 File: 1.68 MB, 1920x1080, VCR Book.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11426078 Of course they are raw. It's homegrown memes, from a backwater general.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 17:19:17 2018 No.11426991 >>11426734 No spoilers but what do you mean? Goes deep?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 18:01:02 2018 No.11427132 >>11426991 I can't say anything without spoilers, but buckle the fuck up

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 18:34:02 2018 No.11427226 I there any book or new novel or whatever that is only about main characters traveling through world that doesn't have Tolkien races only and has decently built world?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 18:35:45 2018 No.11427232 >>11427226 Eye of the World, no dwarves or elves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 18:59:26 2018 No.11427324 File: 606 KB, 879x462, 1528485680561.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11427226

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:01:20 2018 No.11427331 >>11427226 Not a single one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:06:14 2018 No.11427336 >>11427226 every xianxia story

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:07:25 2018 No.11427337 >>11427226 unironically way of kings

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:10:00 2018 No.11427344 >>11427226 Daniel Abraham's Dagger and Coin stuff has a nicely different setup with 13 divergent branches of humanity, but is let down by the writing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:24:54 2018 No.11427380 >>11427226 The Crimson Queen doesn't have Tolkien races it's heavily influenced with chinese stuff

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:25:48 2018 No.11427385 >>11427226 Wheel of Time brah

Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:30:39 2018 No.11427392

>>11422269
Here in /sffg/ we refer to you guys as outer /lit/. Here we have an actual community where people share and talk about the books they read, whereas in outer /lit/ there's basically no real discussion and it's just pretentious reddit dipshits posturing for intellectual credibility.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 19:59:37 2018 No.11427459 File: 345 KB, 1600x1067, 1471968300267.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11422269 What >>11427392 said is true. We call you guys outer lit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 20:24:37 2018 No.11427533 File: 17 KB, 480x530, 1517767933188 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey guys I'm thinking of reading lotr. Is it good?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 20:35:47 2018 No.11427562 File: 46 KB, 736x544, Kangz_-_sheeeeit_pharaoh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11427324 GOD DAMNIT!! I wish I could shoop! this is too perfect.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 20:38:03 2018 No.11427568 >>11427533 Yes but it isn't fun to read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 20:58:12 2018 No.11427637 >>11427533 Dumbledore dies

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:03:32 2018 No.11427651 Be sure to temper your dao heart every day

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:07:07 2018 No.11427673 File: 100 KB, 879x544, 1531004366635.png.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11427324 >>11427562 over 9000 hours in mspaint

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:13:10 2018 No.11427709 >>11427651 My dragon age origins heart was broken when dragon age 2 came out. Sorry anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:14:46 2018 No.11427717 >>11427709 those games sucked

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:25:46 2018 No.11427748 File: 65 KB, 1412x274, kingkiller.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:34:11 2018 No.11427777 >>11427748 Unreadable

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:40:49 2018 No.11427796 >>11427748 I don't think "not enough craps" is real.. sodomy of young boys has been common throughout history & is the norm in muslim/african countries

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:42:24 2018 No.11427803 File: 36 KB, 292x234, John_C_Wright.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11427796 >implying Catholics and eastern orthodox don't exist

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 21:53:19 2018 No.11427836 >>11427803 Why people here make fun of this guy? Legitimaly curious since I don't know jack about him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 22:00:49 2018 No.11427857 >>11427836 well for one he looka like-a jew

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 22:15:02 2018 No.11427887 >>11427836 Read his blog

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 22:19:27 2018 No.11427902 >>11427887 I read authors books, not their blogs lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 22:21:52 2018 No.11427907 >>11427887 Can you give me the quick rundown?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 7 22:29:07 2018 No.11427928 >>11427907 He was literally le turbo fedora. Now he's le turbo fedora + catholicism.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 00:04:09 2018 No.11428186
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you have one(1) post to recc me a good chinkshit novel with 800+ translated chapters or this cat dies.

id prefer non cultivation ones, usually i enjoy the wizard ones more but ill take what I can get until next semester starts and i stop neeting. [\spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 00:12:09 2018 No.11428204 File: 34 KB, 341x604, 1530110793619.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11428186 the library at mount char

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 00:47:52 2018 No.11428317 >>11426189 Any examples of that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 00:52:32 2018 No.11428333 >>11428317 the conquering thing? no, which is unfortunate because I'd love to read it tbqh.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 00:55:41 2018 No.11428346 File: 1.74 MB, 294x232, 1526059835767.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11428333 Damn, I want something like The Magicians without the MC getting cucked all the time

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 00:58:47 2018 No.11428352 >>11428346 im reading that now. It would be so much better if the mc wasnt a self insert of the cringe author.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 00:59:15 2018 No.11428355 >>11428346 >MC conquers the normiesphere >pure angelic antagonist girl tries to stop him >gets corrupted and falls for the MC

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:05:56 2018 No.11428372

>>11426625
The first Amber series Roger Zelazny is pretty good. The second lost its way badly. I still liked it but I’m a fan and don’t recommend it.

Vurt, Pollem, and Nymphomation is a great trilogy. They’re related, in the same place, but not a continuing set of characters. Each book is self contained so there’s no fat that needs trimming

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:07:36 2018 No.11428374 >No urban fantasy with worldbuilding and magic like Pact minus the ridiculous amount of back to back fights while having more/better characterization

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:09:31 2018 No.11428377 File: 349 KB, 808x805, AAAAAAAAAH.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11428374 >its a wildbows flawed work is still the best in its genre episode the leaf needs to be stopped

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:21:52 2018 No.11428408 >>11428374 Mother of Learning is pretty good, but it’s just fantasy-fantasy, not urban-fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:25:08 2018 No.11428422 >>11426873 What books? I’m skeptical and think you might just be biased.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:32:12 2018 No.11428447 >>11428377 Not like there's that much competition in capeshit, urban fantasy, and biopunk to begin with.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:34:49 2018 No.11428453 >>11428422 Calculating Stars.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:35:08 2018 No.11428454 >>11427392 >/sffg/ >real discussion lmaoooo

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:41:42 2018 No.11428469 File: 28 KB, 211x346, 51agpNnumeL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11421528 This cover is the reason I no longer order shit from a bookstore. A fucking LEG.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:47:01 2018 No.11428486 >>11428186 library of heavens path emperors domination desolate era coiling dragon

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 01:53:41 2018 No.11428503 >>11421641 What book?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 02:01:48 2018 No.11428516 >>11427568 You need to ween yourself off Sanderson.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 02:43:48 2018 No.11428627 File: 10 KB, 183x275, TheNameoftheWind_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] does this get good? I'm 8 chapters in and I'm tired of the main character

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 02:49:32 2018 No.11428642 >>11428627 no it gets worse and the third book of the trilogy was never released, the author is a dedicated anti-trumping blogger, who does shit like go to con's

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 02:52:43 2018 No.11428650 >>11428627 No. It gets praise only because it is an adult themed replacement for Harry Potter

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 03:10:37 2018 No.11428681 Books are like 50 chapters Meanwhile webnovels are like 1000 Clearly webnovels are superior

>>	thiskillsthedarkelf Sun Jul 8 04:48:56 2018 No.11428857 File: 46 KB, 541x960, 1417273277188.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11428681 The waiting though. >tfw you start a new series thinking it updates 3 times a day >it's twice a week Fucking spirit vessel. Your sister.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 05:29:29 2018 No.11428928 Anyone got some good sci-fi music? Frank black wrote some great ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLiqF_cBJVA

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 06:12:18 2018 No.11429025 >>11428503 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21066573-the-elfmaid-s-curse

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 06:13:29 2018 No.11429029 >>11428928 synthwave tends to go for scifi, albeit mostly cyberpunk

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 06:19:26 2018 No.11429045 >>11425110 >The cults are absolutely insane and make Scientology look sane not to derail the thread or anything, but give a couple of examples to read up about

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 06:44:10 2018 No.11429100 >>11428627 it gets worse honestly

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 07:10:05 2018 No.11429139 >>11427226 Lies of Locke Lamora and its sequels. Every book is a different part of the world. It's not gonna be finished until 2050 though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 07:53:42 2018 No.11429208 >>11427392 >>11427459 Yes https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/8jlka1/what_is_outerlit/

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 08:11:47 2018 No.11429255

>>11428642
What does him hating trump have to do with anything? Trump supporters hate trump. You pollies feel 4chan is some sort of hivemind? People in 4chan hate trump. Stop behaving like some author hating trump means anything. If you said rothfuss is a gross procrastinator, and goes to as much events as possible to get out of writing, then fine. But why you fucking pol scum got to come pretending like the rest of 4chan likes you or agrees with you is beyond me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 08:13:15 2018 No.11429256 >>11428928 >>>/mu/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 08:16:30 2018 No.11429266 >>11429208 Why does redshit have 4chen stuff?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 08:27:13 2018 No.11429290 >>11429255 lurk more

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 11:40:27 2018 No.11429890 Just finished waldo rabbit 3. Wasn't as fun as the first two. Too much Melissa? Too much of one place? I don't know, but the hi-jinx misunderstandings were not as prevalent.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 12:30:05 2018 No.11430089 >>11429890 i think it was just enough melissa. alice got the short end of the stick in the book in my opinion. liked the bit about the dark elf abusing gronk. kinda wished it was a bit longer though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 12:47:11 2018 No.11430167 >>11429255 Because he’s literally said he won’t write another book while trump is in office because he’s too busy “resisting”?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 12:52:41 2018 No.11430206 >>11430167 #Resistance makes me want to kill all liberals t. Commie

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 12:57:47 2018 No.11430226

>>11421057
>New Sun

I just finished Shadow & Claw. Does Sword & Citadel get any better?

Shadow & Claw had so many unexplained things, that I felt reading a collection of Deus Ex Machina. Does Sword & Citadel explain anything or it will be going with things happening out of the blue and adding more confusion?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 13:57:38 2018 No.11430510 >>11426707 Not a spoiler, but please heed my words when I tell you that the sequels are much better translated with a much better protagonist, and I recommend you complete the trilogy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:01:50 2018 No.11430540 >>11430510 >It gets good 5 books in

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:04:26 2018 No.11430559 >>11420937 The first book of Virconium is worthwile [a lotr type tale of warfare between post-apocalyptic barbarians with ancient airships versus a sword-poet with an AI mechanical warbird and a dwarf in a mechsuit] The rest of the books are shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:04:43 2018 No.11430561 >>11430510 Luo Ji is based Post the fanart

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:08:14 2018 No.11430581 >>11430226 Half and half. You'll get more information, but you'll get more questions as well. There is meant to be confusion; that's why people like it. Gives the illusion of depth

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:15:14 2018 No.11430612
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Just finished reading The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson from 1969.
I'm going to spoil it like a fat kid at a candy store.

It's a scifi-horrorish new-agey semi-lovecraftian novel about a British lad who grows up to be a dilletantish amateur scientist and a friend of a rich toff. He develops psychic and intellectual abilities like longevity (his original goal) and eventually being able to see the distant past and psychic blasting. He uncovers the true history of mankind as a creation of the Great Old Ones. They're sleeping but can still affect things. Be vewy vewy careful.
In any case, the book sure takes its time getting to the the lovecraftian part, though. It also throws in various things like the Voynich Manuscript (decipherable through heightened abilities) being a commentary on the Necronomicon. And Sir Francis Bacon being the real Shakespeare. It even dabbles in poltergeist busting - it was bad vibes all along.

The author must be an insufferable prick.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:16:34 2018 No.11430619 >>11430612 Oh, and it name drops various philosophers and musicians like it was going out of style. I'm sure the author was very well read.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:31:48 2018 No.11430685

>>11430581
I don't mind questions, as long as they have an explanation. But the ending of both Shadow and Claw were so abrupt and unexpected/unexplained, that it is really annoying.

Will I ever know who is Dorcas, what was the flying burning city Severian saw with Dorcas, how Jonas reached earth, who is Dr. Talos, what are the golden man apes, wtf is going on with the civil war, who or what were the "witches" who resuscitated the city, how jonas ever escaped earth, what are those ciclopedyan monsters mentioned over and over, among other things? Or I will be wondering that my whole life?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 14:45:53 2018 No.11430752 File: 651 KB, 1363x2048, 7888544020_c0a027edd3_k.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11430685 >Or I will be wondering that my whole life? Whatever might be said about them, the BoTNS are not like Evangelion.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:00:04 2018 No.11430805 File: 111 KB, 874x600, laff.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11429025 >>11421739 >Elfmaid's Curse >good

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:00:29 2018 No.11430807 File: 41 KB, 338x499, 514TTxxYriL._SX336_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Michael "make important characters in one book so I can kill them off a few books later" Sullivan

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:05:37 2018 No.11430827 >>11430752 noice

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:14:07 2018 No.11430860 File: 778 KB, 1363x2048, 7836449338_3b28fd4eec_k.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11430827 Here's another, just to derail the discussion about yet another phonebook sized fantasy novel.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:14:52 2018 No.11430863 >>11430807 >book three of no thanks why can't authors write one-offs anymore?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:18:27 2018 No.11430879 >>11430863 Because it's far more profitable (and predictable) to do the book 9 of hojillion.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:20:07 2018 No.11430887 >>11430879 >it's far more profitable Is it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:22:48 2018 No.11430898 >>11430860 Yikes, how old is that slag? Must be pushing 30 at least.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:27:53 2018 No.11430916 >>11430863 >anymore it's almost like the genre was virtually started by Tolkien writing long multi book series all set in the same world

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:31:50 2018 No.11430936 File: 337 KB, 1296x1936, 4853596570_7005c6d106_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11430887 Yes. Think of it as a yet another profitable installment of a movie franchise. Solid, dependable, predictable. >>11430898 I have no idea.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 15:32:07 2018 No.11430938 >>11430898 >Slag If she is British, she's probably no more than 21.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:05:54 2018 No.11431071 >>11428928 Look up Access to Arasaka.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:14:13 2018 No.11431103 File: 68 KB, 320x320, 1501542884069.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11428627 >The Name of the Reddit You got duped boyo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:15:50 2018 No.11431109 >>11430916 The Trilogy meme was started by Tolkien. One-off fantasy books is pointless.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:20:26 2018 No.11431139
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is baru cormorant the best fantasy to come out in recent years? There are some very obvious lefty/anti imperialism vibes from it but it was honestly really good. Is this the future of fantasy, economics replacing magic?

Name ONE(1) fantasy book from the last few years that can compete

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:21:40 2018 No.11431150 >>11431139 this book looked bad so I didn't read it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:23:29 2018 No.11431163 >>11431139 I am currently slogging through and it's pretty meh.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:23:42 2018 No.11431168 >>11431150 it honestly sounds bad. Its about a women of color fighting against the evil white empire or whatever. I liked it alot though, it was much edgier than I expected. and thats a good thing

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:24:48 2018 No.11431172 >>11431163 rec something better than, im reading the magicians and I can't take how low t and annoying the protag is, even the interesting magic system and world just cant make up for it.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:27:37 2018 No.11431195
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>>11431139
In the real world, twenty-one-year-old library sciences student Tina Anderson is invisible and under-appreciated, but in the VR-game Forever Fantasy Online she's Roxxy—the respected leader and main tank of a top-tier raiding guild. Her brother, James Anderson, is a college drop-out struggling under debt, but in FFO he's famous—an explorer known all over the world for doing every quest and collecting the rarest items.

Both Tina and James need the game more than they'd like to admit, but their favorite escape turns into a trap when FFO becomes real. Suddenly, wounds aren’t virtual, the stupid monsters have turned cunning, NPCs start acting like actual people, and death might be forever.

In the real world, everyone said being good at video games was a waste of time. Now, separated across a much larger and more deadly world, their skill at FFO is the only thing keeping them alive. It’s going to take every bit of their expertise (and hoarded loot) to find each other and get back home, but as the harshness of their new reality sets in, Tina and James soon realize that being the best in the game might no longer be good enough.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:28:58 2018 No.11431202 >>11427344 What’s wrong with the writing? Then if you would give an example of a fantasy author who has good writing in your opinion

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:29:54 2018 No.11431210 >>11431195 wait shit lmao I just noticed this is by the same "author" as Nice Dragons Finish Last

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:30:20 2018 No.11431211 >>11431195 >an isekai These are almost always horrendously bad but if its written by someone with english as their first language at least the prose might be less bad. Ill probably pirate it. ty senpai

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:31:09 2018 No.11431215 >>11431195 >Western Isekai Please don't let this become the next big Hollywood thing.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:31:49 2018 No.11431219
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>>11431172
Uf, i haven't read any fantasy in years. I am not up to date to the newest and hottest writers.
How about the A Cavern of Black Ice by JV Jones?
I really enjoyed the book (and it's sequels), following the main protagonist being hammered (literally and figuratively) into a legend.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:33:32 2018 No.11431234 >>11431195 >WOW AND WHAT IF UHHHHH THIS CASUAL GRINDING MMO BECAME REAL XD t. female author who has never actually played an mmo

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:34:07 2018 No.11431239 >>11431195 >how to plagiarize RPO and manage to make it sound even worse

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:36:01 2018 No.11431252 File: 214 KB, 1000x1000, sample-a5091920354390381d487402dcd4aa9b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11431211 If only we could get Goblin Slayer by a competent western author.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:36:58 2018 No.11431258 >>11431252 There's nothing really wrong with the english translation. Unless you mean you want goblin slayer but without the harem elements, which might be nice I guess.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:39:45 2018 No.11431278 File: 26 KB, 214x317, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Seriously, what was his fucking problem?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:41:16 2018 No.11431288 >>11431278 I don't think he liked black people.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:43:24 2018 No.11431299 >>11431278 he wasn't appreciated enough during his time

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:43:30 2018 No.11431300 >>11430206 Under communism who gets the nice beach houses? Never had a Marxist who could answer that

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:45:02 2018 No.11431313
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>>11431195
When Rin aced the Keju, the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies, it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard, the most elite military school in Nikan, was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:45:57 2018 No.11431320

>>11430807
why did you read it? I gave book 1 a try because I loved ryiria. Book one was buggy, but I put that down to starting a new series.
Book two was shit in the highest degree. I don't care about sjw, but the author went full pandering mode. Everyone is represented. Even disabled-can-do's. Dropped the series at book 2 and you should have done the same.

I guess reading 800+ books makes one easily see bad books, or cliches.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:45:59 2018 No.11431321 >>11431278 Too redpilled. But Trump will make it all right.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:46:37 2018 No.11431327 >>11431313 this sounds awful. does it at least succeed as a power fantasy?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:48:17 2018 No.11431341 >>11431327 >Chink shit I doubt it.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:49:02 2018 No.11431347

>>11431327
According to one goodreads review:
I'm not going to lie, I struggled with this one. Right up to about 45% in I was wondering how the hell anyone was giving this 5 stars - not only was it not grimdark, it was borderline YA, and a rather blatant rip off of The Name of the Wind, including: super clever, good at EVERYTHING main character who gets a place at top university/college and proceeds to be trained/confused/challenged by quirky professor/lore master who is the only one who believes in/can do a specific type of magic etc etc. One of the first bits of magic he shows her is even how he can bend the air to his will. Hmmm. It's all school antics, with particular OTTness when one rude comment on the day of induction escalates a chance meeting into two characters becoming immediate mortal enemies. On top of that she nukes her womb because she has her first period- interesting choice for a female author perhaps, to make us useful only when we're neutered. I'm not entirely knocking this part of the book, it was the good bit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:50:47 2018 No.11431359 File: 158 KB, 1280x1280, 1456482162030.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11431347 that settles that then

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:52:29 2018 No.11431373 >>11431195 I already read one litrpg garbage and I won't waste my time with another.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 16:55:02 2018 No.11431388 File: 180 KB, 1050x1443, 710DIJbiIZL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Has anyone read pic related?

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 17:02:52 2018 No.11431429

>>11431320
mainly because I like seeing how the mythos in the Riyria books actually started

Also humans cunt punching a bunch of cunt elves will always be a guilty pleasure(and there's a LOT more of that in this book)

besides I've read enough fantasy including some of the absolute dregs of it to be able to get through it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 17:21:27 2018 No.11431548 >>11426625 I've heard that about Julian May and her Pliocene Exile Saga, Intervention, and the Galactic Milieu Trilogy, although I'm only 2 books into the first series.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 17:34:59 2018 No.11431637 I just finished reading "Foundation" and "Foundation and Empire" and it's honestly quite fascinating to see all this retro-futuristic idea of technology. It's kind of amusing how everything is "atomic", though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 17:41:21 2018 No.11431675 All you Daniel Black fags. https://williamscorner.blog/ Book for fall release is on track. So probably October release. Wonders of wonders he is getting a professional proofreader. Why can't more amazon authors do this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 17:45:00 2018 No.11431706 >>11431675 pretty much everyone has an editor and multiple proofreaders nowadays. doesnt mean theyre any good :^)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 18:33:51 2018 No.11432059 "professional editor" = ur mother hahaha

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 18:37:24 2018 No.11432081

>>11428928
Try sci-fi game soundtracks.
Endless Space/Legend soundtrack, Civilization Beyond Earth + Rising Tide expansion soundtrack, Offworld Trading Company, even Surviving Mars did interesting stuff with the soundtrack.
https://youtu.be/Prl6vr6SLZc?t=134

>>11431139
It was alright, I liked the world-building and the economy side, but the plot got a bit boring at times, the court intrigue and schemes were a bit bland for my tastes. But I'm looking forward to the sequel, the title seems interesting.
I think I enjoyed some other recent fantasy more. So subjectively I would say Senlin Ascends, or the Stormlight books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 18:52:13 2018 No.11432158 File: 76 KB, 497x646, 1530883587553.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11431288 Lol he does certainly make them the butt in several of the short stories.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 19:11:00 2018 No.11432261 >>11426625 Everything by Gene Wolfe is so tight that it will make your head spin. There isn't a page wasted in any series he writes, and you won't even be able to tell until you finish.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 19:16:24 2018 No.11432280 >>11427226 I feel silly suggesting BotNS when it is shilled so much in this general, but it's literally exactly what you are asking for.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 19:17:20 2018 No.11432285 >>11432280 Don't feel silly, I still haven't read it but every post reminds to do it one day.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 19:28:40 2018 No.11432350 File: 225 KB, 385x759, 1448798782326.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >fantasy book >there's no villain Dropped.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 19:57:58 2018 No.11432508 File: 99 KB, 1335x693, Homer_push_the_button_kill_everyone.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11430561 no

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 20:48:02 2018 No.11432734 >>11432350 >Fantasy book >promotes miscegenation >explicit racial differences/conflict but still goes "don't be racist towards those orcs"

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 20:49:05 2018 No.11432738 File: 28 KB, 526x300, ea poe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11431347 >On top of that she nukes her womb because she has her first period wut

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 20:50:54 2018 No.11432748 >read blurb on fantasy book >prophecy >unpronounceable names that look like something that would appear on screen from a baby randomly smashing its face onto a keyboard >only one man can save the entire universe from destruction

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 20:54:55 2018 No.11432760 >>11432748 I'd love to see a Swordsmen of Varnis style send up of the ol' "I don't play by the rules" grimderp fantasy hero. For anybody who hasn't read it, the classic: http://fanac.org/fanzines/Slant/Slant3-05.html

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:00:58 2018 No.11432778 File: 355 KB, 1208x1600, the-stars-my-destination-book-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11420750 my all time fave. here's the superior cover

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:02:28 2018 No.11432781 File: 3.92 MB, 4032x3024, 00D3AB10-2469-44CF-825F-B89A642D561B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gonna get some shit for this but what are some good fantasy books with female protagonists?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:18:37 2018 No.11432844 Just finished reading Frankenstein. I wasn't ready. Next should I read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or Red Mars?

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:27:30 2018 No.11432876

>>11432781
Deed of Paks, Feast of Souls, Kushiel's Dart and Merchant Princes

List starts with the most pure fantasy possible and moves away from that ending with a series that branches into a sort of scifi

I've aimed for largely single POV, however if you want multiple pov Jemisin's Broken Earth is very good

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:27:51 2018 No.11432880 >>11432781 ASOIAF count?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:29:21 2018 No.11432886 File: 36 KB, 384x384, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11432781 Black magician series I can't remember which I have read and which I haven't but all in all I enjoyed them at the time I read them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:33:08 2018 No.11432899 >>11432886 Black Magician was so much fun when I read it, the sequel trilogy is good too but there are more male povs. Age of Five is pretty fun as well and the mc is also female there. It's just a shame that I didn't like Thief's Magic at all

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:34:48 2018 No.11432909 >>11432781 baru cormorant, the mistress of empire series, worm if youre into capeshit

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:35:34 2018 No.11432912 >>11432876 >Kushiel's Dart >tfw randomly picked the imriel books up while on holiday and enjoyed them but didn't realise it was actually a sequel trilogy until after and now can't be bothered to go read the first books since I already know what happens

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:35:35 2018 No.11432913 >>11432899 I think I have read the 7 on the left and enjoyed them. I seem to remember theifs magic but I'm not sure I read it. The top right 3 don't seem familiar at all to me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:36:06 2018 No.11432919 >>11432886 >>11432876 Thanks a lot! Already started checking them out >>11432880 Read it but thanks still

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:36:14 2018 No.11432920 >>11432886 >>11432899 I remember hating the ending to the first trilogy, but I can't remember why.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:36:42 2018 No.11432922 >>11432886 >Black magician series i remember liking these when i was younger, I wonder if they hold up. tfw akarin will never fuck your bucci

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:37:18 2018 No.11432929 >>11432922 >akarin Who?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:38:24 2018 No.11432932 >>11432913 Yeah that's a different series, it starts with the protag becoming a sort of magic pope in a world where their gods deffo exist and then spirals from there

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:38:47 2018 No.11432934 >>11432929 wasnt that the head magician dudes name? Im sure im spelling it wrong

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:39:36 2018 No.11432935 >>11432909 Looks interesting too, thanks!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:39:49 2018 No.11432937 >>11432934 Sorry, it was an /a/ joke.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:41:04 2018 No.11432942 >>11432748 I refuse to read any fantasy book when the names all look like Mister Mxyzptlk....and that one I can pronounce

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:42:51 2018 No.11432947 LET ME FUCKING POST CAPTCHA

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:46:06 2018 No.11432959 File: 614 KB, 678x328, aj.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I remember this being shilled here a lot a year or so ago. Is it any good or is it typical female author type shit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:51:47 2018 No.11432997 >>11428186 The Way of Choices

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:53:37 2018 No.11433010

>>11432876
Can second the Deed of Paksenarrion. Good series about a woman becoming a mercenary and then becoming a paladin.

>>11432959
The first one is solid space opera stuff. The sequels, less so. The second is a Jane Austin style story about the zombie supersoldier protagonist drinking tea and then ruining a teenager's life, the second delivers more entertaining stuff but isn't as good as the first.

It's only "controversial" because the singular gender the author used was "she" and that made the weenies get mad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:55:24 2018 No.11433020 Shats and shardplate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:55:51 2018 No.11433026 File: 74 KB, 541x566, 1515.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How do you guys feel about the rest of /lit/ absolutely loathing you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 21:59:25 2018 No.11433051 File: 770 KB, 708x768, Trevor Goodchild 2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11433026 I cry myself to sleep over it every night.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:03:44 2018 No.11433082 I hate you captcha

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:04:38 2018 No.11433092 >>11433026 >caring what outer/lit/ thinks

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:05:29 2018 No.11433097 >>11433026 The same as the rest of /lit feels when they see their reflection in a window.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:07:44 2018 No.11433108 Any suggestions for books where a central theme is that living in the book's world is miserable and horrifying, and that the characters have no choice but to deal with it as best they can? Along the lines of The Night Land and The Road, I guess.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:20:30 2018 No.11433169 >>11433026 I care not for the opinions of men that see Hegel as anything other than a charlatan.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:23:35 2018 No.11433179 >>11432947 I've been having the same problem

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:24:12 2018 No.11433181 Why would I care what a bunch of fags who pretend to like books to appear smart on an imageboard think?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:27:08 2018 No.11433192 >>11422533 Gotrek and Felix, but mostly the stuff written by King.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:28:59 2018 No.11433201 >>11429139 That book sucked, desu.

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:33:12 2018 No.11433211

/sffg/, does this sound like it would be too cluttered?

>No Country For Old Men + Dune + FMA
>instead of stolen money it's stolen alien drugs
>the drug is an ancient grey goo that construct drugs inside the user's body
>the character who stole it is a mad scientist who thinks its a philosopher's stone that could be used to transmute biomass into petroleum

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:42:35 2018 No.11433239 >>11433026 I care not. i read what i want and enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:53:04 2018 No.11433262 >>11433026 Post in /lit/ about Shakespeare and you’ll get replies calling him a fraud and a hack. The entirety of 4chan is mad about everything. If you’d been more perceptive, you’d have seen the pattern already.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 22:59:08 2018 No.11433277 >>11433026 Couldn't give a fuck considering I don't come here for anything else /lit/ can fuck off with their pretention, I'm here to talk about sci-fi

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:12:18 2018 No.11433306 >>11433026 I don't really care what redditors think of me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:14:19 2018 No.11433313 >>11432886 I really enjoyed the original Black Magician trilogy, but not enjoying the sequel trilogy. I also couldn't get into the prequels.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:22:27 2018 No.11433347 >>11433026 /sffg/ is full of wonderful people and im glad i get to spend time with them. yes even the litrpg fags. atleast they dont pretend to be better than anyone else.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:24:29 2018 No.11433353 I think that duck has had plenty of attention at this point, lads

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:43:45 2018 No.11433405 >>11433353 The thing is we all want to share why we like it here. Each of us has our reasons

Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:49:58 2018 No.11433438

>>11433026
just looked at lit's main page and it was entirely recommendation and college threads lol
didn't even have people fighting over books they haven't read like usual

There's zero reason to discuss literature here given the tiny readership of each book but lit works well for sff because there's comparatively lots of readers who have each read comparatively quite a lot

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:51:09 2018 No.11433442 File: 49 KB, 427x300, 142112421.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what's the #1 fantasy book/series you've read that completely sucked you in and made you forget about real life?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:52:37 2018 No.11433445 >>11433442 honestly harry potter and lord of the rings when i was a kid. nowadays nothing really captures the same feeling. i might be too old for childlike wonder.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 8 23:55:19 2018 No.11433451 >>11433442 Exile and Nomad really drew me in. I guess I really felt like reading a spy book though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:13:25 2018 No.11433524 >>11433442 Amber series 1 by Roger Zelazny

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:20:19 2018 No.11433556 >>11433442 worm

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:24:10 2018 No.11433568 >>11432909 Sequel to Worm has a female protag as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:27:22 2018 No.11433588 >>11433568 shes beta though. Not even close to Taylor levels of based.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:33:04 2018 No.11433609 >>11433588 but she collapsed a man's jaw

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:35:41 2018 No.11433619 Maybe she'll transform into chad, we have to wait and see. probably not

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:37:46 2018 No.11433627 any recs for books where the MC is an officer on a spaceship (or a captain) no weber, please I know it's simpleminded but that's what I'm looking for right now

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 00:55:17 2018 No.11433693 >>11433627 Admiral by Sean Danker

Anonymous Mon Jul 9 01:15:59 2018 No.11433744

>>11433627
David Drake's RCN series is probably the best Age of Sail in Space one out there. It's shamelessly inspired by the Aubrey-Maturin series, and is about a brash young captain and his librarian/spy friend going on various wartime and peacetime adventures.

Vatta's War by Elizabeth Moon is good. Junior officer from a wealthy family gets drummed out of the service for causing a scandal, so her family gives her a old trading ship destined for the scrapyards to get her out of the spotlight, naturally she goes off on a side jaunt to make some extra money and things snowball.

Spiral Wars by Joel Shepherd is about the crew of a space battleship that mutinies after their captain is murdered by a conspiracy, they eventually get dragged into a even bigger conspiracy about berserker AIs that everybody thought were dead.

Angel in the Whirlwind by Christopher G. Nuttall was entertaining, though a bit formulaic. I disliked how the bad guys started off as religious fanatics but got downgraded into just being turbo-wahabbists in space.

The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell has good ship battles but everything else about the writing is pulp tier.

>>11433693
I just finished this one and I really enjoyed it, though it's more a mystery/space horror story than space captain stuff. Haven't read the sequels yet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 02:36:17 2018 No.11433967 >>11432778 That's actually a really nice cover. The title is beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 02:39:08 2018 No.11433977 >>11433026 I'm as much a part of outer/lit/ as of /sffg/ and I find it absolutely hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 02:40:09 2018 No.11433980 >>11433108 I Have No Mouth is an extreme case of this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 02:41:12 2018 No.11433982 >>11429139 >reading the sequels You're doing it wrong.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 02:45:36 2018 No.11433994 >>11433967 chaykin used to be great

Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:27:13 2018 No.11434060
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>tfw you will never be 6 million years old flying around the galaxy in a ship with god like technologies while banging your clone sister, cucking low tech civs and getting together every 200k years to shoot shit with your other clones about all the crazy shit you've seen

Damn this was fucking great, is there anything similar in scope to this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:30:21 2018 No.11434068 >>11434060 >hurr if you fly at 99% of lightspeed you can live forever ! stupid also >whoops we wiped out trillions of AI's >luckily they are so logical that they won't seek revenge

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:33:49 2018 No.11434075 >>11434068 It's flat out stated they have biological immortality, stay mad robonigger, I hope the house of moths launches a sun straight into your shitty "civilization"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:35:55 2018 No.11434081 File: 556 KB, 1655x1673, discworld ro3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11432781 Monstrous Regiment >>11433442 Pic related I guess. Or the Cosmere books for some slightly more exotic world building.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:36:28 2018 No.11434083 >>11434075 no they don't Which is why they spend most of their time at light speed

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:41:05 2018 No.11434099 >>11434083 They spend most of their time at light speed because they are constantly circumnavigating the galaxy and that is the speed limit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:43:02 2018 No.11434105 >>11434099 and because if they decided to spend the years the old fashioned way, they would all be dead of old age or insane

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:46:16 2018 No.11434118 >>11434105 The main character flat out says he has experienced tens of thousands of years of subjective time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:47:51 2018 No.11434124 >>11434118 vs a 200,000 year round trip around the galaxy Which they have done many times

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:53:09 2018 No.11434141 >>11434124 Yes, because they spend most of it in stasis/frozen at relativistic speeds. If they experienced tens of thousands of subjective years of time over 6 million years that means they are biologically immortal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 03:56:33 2018 No.11434157 >>11434141 immortality means forever not a couple thousand years + mechanical enhancements

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:13:55 2018 No.11434205 >>11434060 >tfw cant find the epub anywhere im too lazy to try irc can someone upload it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:18:34 2018 No.11434214 >>11434205 Audiobook is on pirate bay, read by John Lee too, who is fucking god tier. Reading is for fags anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:26:47 2018 No.11434234 >>11434205 >>11434214 found it, nvm

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:39:51 2018 No.11434262 >>11431195 I read a novel like this except it was a genderbender story with the main character getting turned into an elf slut who likes double lizard dick and fucking everything that breathes

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:43:25 2018 No.11434278 >>11434262 that's a doujin, not a "novel"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:43:33 2018 No.11434281 >>11433010 stormweenie here nobody actually cared

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:44:58 2018 No.11434285 >>11433442 dune

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:45:59 2018 No.11434286 >>11434285 Yeah Dune is dank as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:49:02 2018 No.11434297 What's that LN book that was talked about here months and months ago? One that some people here actually found good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:50:21 2018 No.11434301 >>11434278 what's a doujin

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 04:55:21 2018 No.11434326 >>11433442 Honestly? ASOIAF. I was 16 though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 07:12:54 2018 No.11434665 >>11434297 goblin slayer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 07:21:50 2018 No.11434699 >>11432886 Only read the black magician trilogy and age of 5 trilogy. All the other books are shit. t. Canavan shill who pushed her books in outer lit for years

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 07:29:58 2018 No.11434721 >>11434665 That wasn't it sadly, it had something to do with "magus"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 08:00:15 2018 No.11434800 New Thread >>11434797 >>11434797 >>11434797 >>11434797 >>11434797

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