/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.11464580]

No Bloat 300 pages or less Edition
>last sub-300 page novel you read?
>how was it?
>recommend some no bloat sff books

FANTASY
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Previous Threads:
>>11451220
>>11442076
>>11434797
>>11420685

[thiskillsthedarkelf No.11464593]

>>11464580
Do web novels count?

Zero bloat or predictable three act plot structure.

>recommend some no bloat sff books
Ditto.

[Anonymous No.11464602]

>>11464593
Is it 300 pages or less? Or 2.4k chapters?

[Anonymous No.11464616]

Who the fuck tricked me into reading Neuromancer?

[Anonymous No.11464630]

FUCK FEMALE PROTAGONISTS

[Anonymous No.11464633]

>>11464616
Is it that bad? I got it as well but I haven't started it yet

[Anonymous No.11464638]

>>11464630
fuck em right in the pusy xd

[thiskillsthedarkelf No.11464642]

>>11464602
>2.4k chapters

I wish, it's on 385 and the translators on vacation in Vietnam trying to smash jungle puss.

[Anonymous No.11464659]

I'm back!
>intend to read the monthly book while on vacation
>pick a download on random
>suddenly in a hurry to leave, no time to check if book looks good on e-reader
>open up book
>font size 4, can't change it without making the book inconvenient to read
Fugg

Downloads: https://b-ok.xyz/s/?q=the+stars+my+destination

[Anonymous No.11464665]

Just finished Monkey or Journey to the west.
So if you like chink web novels or anything of that sorts that has some eastern mythology in it. This seems like a must read, since you will get allot more of the references there. I can see it has a great influence on all Chinese stuff( i have read littel but still)
I you are not you can tell its old and its mostly stores you can tell with you bros around the campfire. It gets a little tedious to get true in one go.
Overall worth a read.

[Anonymous No.11464678]

This read like some of the most pretentious shit ever but I enjoyed it. What's /lit/'s opinion on it now?

[Anonymous No.11464705]

i liked the movie, is the 2nd book good or nah
i really enjoy the world

[Anonymous No.11464728]

>>11464580
>>last sub-300 page novel you read?
>>how was it?
Witchmark 272p.
It was just meh overall.
I was looking to read some books about wizards and only after committing to reading it I found out how homosexual this book is, though the romance was rather tastefully done. So looking from the GRI angle the book is totally gay, with only a dash of implied rape and some weird sub-dom magical slavery kept in the family. The magic and the setting in this book was alright. But the main plot mystery, the Really Bad Guys and their diabolical plan with their half-baked greater good justification, and the climactic confrontation at the end was a little stupid if you ask me.

>>11464678
So far so good but it requires an effort to get going.

>>11464705
The second book does take place on another planet, but it's still the same shitty cyber-dystopia, and I think it's good. Also, there are some important differences in how the adaptation handled the Envoy Core and Quellcrist Falconer.

[Anonymous No.11464729]

>>11464616
What didn't you like?

[Anonymous No.11464848]

Best girl coming through

[Anonymous No.11464872]

>>11464478
What makes you say it's dated as if that's an issue?

[Anonymous No.11464958]

any sff that will help ease my depression?

[Anonymous No.11464964]

>>11464958

[Anonymous No.11464992]

>>11464958
Try starting with Guards! Guards!
Maybe even Nation by the same author.

[Anonymous No.11465023]

>>11464616
I started reading it recently but wasn't really feeling it.
I just thought it was funny that the genre basically hasn't changed a single bit since then.

[Anonymous No.11465064]

>>11464593
>Web novels
>Zero bloat

Hahaha.

[Anonymous No.11465115]

>>11464728
>I was looking to read some books about wizards
Daniel Black series

[Anonymous No.11465122]

>>11464872
Because it's shit.

[Anonymous No.11465129]

>>11465122
What's dated about it? I don't really buy into the whole "muh evolution", "muh men of righteous rule", or even "muh technology is evil and makes mankind weaker" memes, but I still like the setting and aesthetic

[Anonymous No.11465341]

>>11464616
I like Neuromancer

[Anonymous No.11465352]

>>11464633
It's not bad. The language is really hard to get a hold of, and usually a slower or second reading is recommended.

[Anonymous No.11465365]

>>11464665
Abridged version or the full one?

[Anonymous No.11465379]

>>11465122
>I have proper arguments to back me up
>It's shit

[Anonymous No.11465408]

>>11464848
That’s not Min

[Anonymous No.11465439]

>>11464705
All 3 are breddy good

[Anonymous No.11465464]

>>11464705
The first one was good, but the Netflix show was a bit of a let down. The second one is different, it's less of a detective story and has more aliens, but still worth a read if you liked the first one.

[Anonymous No.11465624]

>>11465365
Arthur Waley abridged version apparently. Its mussing some episodes by the looks of it. But hay better than noting.

[Anonymous No.11465693]

Are there any good sff reviewers on youtube or am I stuck with searching databases reading S.T Joshis fellating their favorite authors?

[Anonymous No.11465740]

>>11464992
I just finished Pyramids and am starting on it, pretty excited because they're getting better with each book

[Anonymous No.11465746]

Odd question but are there any "original English Light Novels"? I was just reminded of the attempts in the 90s and 00s by English manga publishers to market western-authored manga series and was wondering if similar stuff had cropped up.

All the stuff like YA authors (eg the eternally shilled Mass) and the Super Sales and Michael Scott Earle stuff seems to fill a similar pulp format but aren't exactly hitting the same "anime style" that you'd expect from a LN.

(I suppose the No Game No Life author technically counts as "western" since he's Japanese-Brazilian.)

[Anonymous No.11465760]

>>11465746
Unless you want to count those shitty anime wannabe stories on websites like Wattpad, then there's no market for western produced ones.

[Anonymous No.11465790]

>>11465129
I would also like to hear this.
Have we moved to another generation of Mentats in the meantime?

[Anonymous No.11465803]

>>11465790
Damn that pretty HQ for an old pic. I thought they were grainy? I didn't know it had such definition. You can see her blouse.

[Anonymous No.11465871]

>>11465408
Min more like Man haha

[Thiskillsthedarkelf No.11465879]

>>11465746
Check out royal road for that, I recommend everybody loves big chests and iron goblin.

>tfw still haven't started writing your webnovel masterpiece.

There does seem to be a huge market for western isekai though, gene wolfs wizard knight was truly ahead of its time.

[Anonymous No.11465885]

>>11465803
>old
>1983
here's a photo from 1855

[Anonymous No.11465985]

>>11465760
Nah obviously not, those are just glorified fanfiction. But still I'm surprised there hasn't been an attempt to do so, if only to provide a secondary source of material at lower cost than licensing Japanese stuff.

>>11465879
I don't really consider web novels to count since they're largely long-term serializations that end when the author gets bored with it. Now if the author is doing rewrites and republishing it as a book, like what happens with some WNs like I'm a Spider, then maybe yeah that would count.

[Anonymous No.11466043]

I'm about to read the Drizzt novels what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.11466054]

>>11464678
This series contained some of the saddest moments and funniest moments I've ever read in a fantasy series. There's just so much stuff that feels like filler that I can't reread it lightly, cause a lot of the books drag.

[Anonymous No.11466145]

Any fantasy novel where an absolute normal Protagonist is going on an adventure to defeat seemingly overpowered enemies? No chosen one, no magic abilities. He is just using his wits and hard fucking work?

[Anonymous No.11466154]

>>11466145
That's not very realistic, now is it?

[Anonymous No.11466162]

>>11464580
The Real Story: A Gap Into Knowledge
>it was shit, felt like reading someone's fetish fanfiction

[Anonymous No.11466166]

>>11466145
There's probably some "rational" fiction story where the protagonist might as well be a nasa supercomputer in human form.

[Anonymous No.11466170]

>>11464580
>Sub 300
The Transmission of Timothy Archer
It was a ride, I relate with their downward spiral and Angel's coping.
I recommend the other VALIS books, or any PKD that's under 300 pages.

[Anonymous No.11466188]

>>11466145
The Vorkosigan Saga, the main character is a cripple due to his mother being exposed to a chemical weapons attack. As such he needs to win through smarts instead of kicking the door in (which would shatter his legs) guns blazing.

Quite possibly it has the best character writing I've seen in a space opera series.

[Anonymous No.11466195]

Just finished this
really? you're just going to end it on the war being for fucking nothing? Also state enforced homosexuality became a thing?

[Anonymous No.11466202]

>>11466145
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.11466250]

>>11466188
would you consider the decisions applicable to ground/sky/navy based combat as well? I need to read more smart fiction but my work doesn't feature space combat.

[Anonymous No.11466265]

Should I?

[Anonymous No.11466302]

>>11466265
honestly one of the worst books I've ever read in my life, absolutely incoherent rambling and the worst MC ever written

[Anonymous No.11466336]

>>11466265
I really enjoyed it. The friendship between Jal and Snorri is hilarious.

[Anonymous No.11466367]

>>11466250
It doesn't really feature much direct combat because he ends up in command/spy/diplomat roles. Think more like diplomatic intrigues and "outwitting the terrorists who abducted him" stuff.

[Anonymous No.11466368]

>>11464580
>last sub-300 book
childhood's end. it was really good. i was surprised honestly, what an ending.

[Anonymous No.11466388]

>>11466302
>>11466336
I just wanna read something short, fast-paced and easy. Never tried Lawrence before, heard Prince of Fool's better than Prince of Thorns.

[Anonymous No.11466403]

>>11466265
Based on Prince/King of Thorns: fuck no. I still have Emperor of Thorns to read and I've been putting it off because everyone on "booktube" (yeah, i know) says King of Thorns is such an improvement and honestly it was equally shit like the first book. Mark Lawrence IS a meme who occasionally has good lines or interesting concepts that turn out half as interesting as they could have been.

[Anonymous No.11466425]

>>11466195
It's a vietnam allegory, the author is an army vet.

[Anonymous No.11466433]

>>11466425
And the "your grandpa's vision of the hellish future where the UN World Government makes everybody be a gay mulatto" thing is largely because overpopulation was a huge bugaboo in the 70s.

[Anonymous No.11466443]

>>11466195
Don't be a reactionary
It was a good book

[Anonymous No.11466463]

>>11466388
If you want something fairly lighthearted and fun that you can be finished with in a day or 2 then try Prince of Fools. If you enjoy it you can continue with the rest of the series if not you can quit and still be happy.

[Anonymous No.11466470]

>>11466367
That's fine (might even be ideal).

[Anonymous No.11466490]

>>11466403
If I ever become a published author and post a selfie this cringey, I hope I would still have some real friends who wouldn't hesitate to tell me "Delete this."

[Anonymous No.11466525]

>>11466463
More like in a week, really. I'm a slow reader.
But I guess that'll do.

[Anonymous No.11466529]

>>11466490
You should one-up the fuck with a bigger knife. If we all continue the trend eventually you'll flip to the last page of a book and be greeted by a nerd posing with his estoc.
>>11466463
Fools is lighthearted? I assumed it was more of the same

Here's another Meme Lawrence related

[Anonymous No.11466595]

>>11466195
> Also state enforced homosexuality became a thing?
yeah and then it wasn't. What's your problem with that?

[Anonymous No.11466674]

>>11466388
Prince of Fools definitely is that. Had a blast reading it, main character/narrator is pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.11466693]

Has anyone here ever read any of the Vampire Earth books? I picked a few up on a whim and it's become something of a guilty pleasure.

[Anonymous No.11466707]

>>11466188
>female author
not sure if want

[Anonymous No.11466733]

Recc me something similar to (or better than) the Lyonesse trilogy.

[Anonymous No.11466741]

>>11466043
Good ya books. Drizzt is always out numbered 50+ to 1. He always pulls through. As the books go on he fights hordes of over 1000 and he still wins. Gets boring after a while.

[Anonymous No.11466747]

>>11466433
He wasn't far off though was he?

[Anonymous No.11466766]

>>11465885
There are phones that can't take pictures in such detail. What happened?

[Anonymous No.11466866]

>>11466747
Faggot right wingers fuck off

[Anonymous No.11466874]

>>11466866
wannabe satan still mad the tide is turning

[Anonymous No.11466894]

>>11464678
Hive mind trash for the contrarian

[Anonymous No.11466931]

I was going to read this until I saw what the author looked like

[Anonymous No.11466932]

>>11466425
The casualty rate in vietnam wasn't THAT drastic
>>11466443
It was, but i just feel let down by the fact that 1000 years went by only for the payoff to be mediocre. it's as if you did an obstacle course for a grand prize of $10,000 dollars but the show was cancelled and you didn't get the money, just some cake that you don't even like the flavor of
>>11466595
it's sureal

[Anonymous No.11466950]

>>11466932
>it's sureal
and how do you think the author felt coming back from vietnam and seeing how the culture had changed?

[Anonymous No.11466958]

>>11466931
you’re a child

[Anonymous No.11466960]

Has anyone read this? Came up on a list of epic fantasy I was browsing

[Anonymous No.11466966]

>>11466950
at least he understood a bit of what was going on in real life
The book is basically if shakespeare was dropped into 2018 in the middle of a pride parade.

[Anonymous No.11466984]

>>11466958
And you’re fat

[Anonymous No.11466988]

Anything like The Forever War that isn't Starship Troopers?

[Anonymous No.11466990]

>>11466988
armor

[Anonymous No.11467054]

>>11466990
Danke, what about Old Man's War?

[Anonymous No.11467058]

>>11467054
If you enjoy soi authors, sure

[Anonymous No.11467077]

>>11467054
generally speaking only book 1 and 3 are any good.
you can skip 2 and 4.
they are alright but all the other works of that author are trash. and he is the essence of nu-male.

[Anonymous No.11467145]

>>11466766
Jews, that's what happened.

[Anonymous No.11467159]

>>11466741
Yeah I figured as much, but my and my friends have gotten into D&D over the last year and I want to know more about Forgotten Realms as a setting so I can make it come to life more for my players. A coworker of mine that is a DM veteran said he'd read a lot of the FR books and specifically mentioned Drizzt so I figured that was a good starting place. Barnes & Noble has them in these combo volumes with 3 books combined for only $20 so I figured why not.

[Anonymous No.11467182]

>>11466931
I picked this up on a wim because i remembered seeing it in a shitty chart. Haven't read it yet. When i saw the author i audibly groaned about my impulsive purchase. What have i gotten myself into?

[Anonymous No.11467215]

>>11467159
Yea I was in grade 8-10 when I read them. Also dragonlance. 3 books for 20 bucks is allright. Better then watching the shit box.

[Anonymous No.11467287]

>>11464580
Any opinions on Wolfe’s Latro in the Mist? Looks really interesting but it’s hard to come by/ very expensive by where I live

[Anonymous No.11467326]

>>11467182
>It's a female author hides that fact with her initials on the book cover
every time

[Anonymous No.11467366]

>>11467326
does that even work?
every time i see names like that i don't even consider reading it

[Anonymous No.11467380]

>>11467366
its the exact reason why its done.
theres a bias in fantasy against female writers because the overwhelming majority is male and often self insert to immerse themselves in the book. which is harder if you know that the protagonists are female or the book is written by a female. thus the initials. they get away with it more often than not too if the main character is male. though the writing gives them away almost instantly.

[Anonymous No.11467413]

>>11467326
Yup. I don't mean to perpetuate /pol/shit but when I saw she was a woman AND "person of colour" I immediately assumed it would be injected with all the usual buzzword bullshit. How on the mark am I?
>>11467366
It worked on me because I'm not an avid reader. I only learned of their abhorrent tactics after falling said bait. A rookie mistake that I do not intend to repeat.
>>11467380
>the writing gives them away almost instantly.
Despite all the expected weeping, I suspect this is the real reason for the male audience's "oppressive" preference. You just know, even when they disguise their work by avoiding abs and love triangles. Every girl is a man until she hears her triggertopic stumble out on the discussion table.

If you lot have any good female writer recs I'd be down to try and change my mind, but much like the hook-nosed pirates, i approach the handiwork of women with great caution.

[Anonymous No.11467439]

Juat finished Flow My Tears by PKD, going to read Radio Free Albemuth next.
I feel like FMTTPS will need a reread, it wasn't the usual PKD scifi but his usual tropes did appear in subtle ways I'm sure I'll appreciate more next time.

[Anonymous No.11467450]

>>11467413
>If you lot have any good female writer recs I'd be down to try and change my mind, but much like the hook-nosed pirates, i approach the handiwork of women with great caution.
good old ursula is the only one that comes to mind.
its not really a thing for men to be able to enjoy womens writing. fiction writing would be a much simpler affair if everyone would just recognize that men like to read things by men and women like to read things by women and men.
its just how it is. there isnt anything wrong with it really. the only issue arises from soiboys and angry feminists that cry UNFAIR because of a precieved lack of imbalance in representation. said repesentation isnt even intentional. reading is driven by the consumer. clearly everyone that actively reads is okey with the situation.

[Anonymous No.11467498]

is torch against the night any good?

[Anonymous No.11467655]

>>11467413
>If you lot have any good female writer
Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion is good.

[Anonymous No.11467676]

>>11466766
Here’s a camera from the 1850s. The front of the camera is basically the size of the film. Film was grainier then of course (and the lenses not as sharp) but they had plenty of film surface area to capture with. People still use large format film cameras today.

[Anonymous No.11467683]

>>11467676

[Anonymous No.11467755]

>>11464848
>Best girl coming through
Fishguts!

[Anonymous No.11467813]

>>11467380
That sounds pretty retarded. Some of the male fantasy characters I've best identified with were written by women and 90% of male fantasy characters written by men are also garbage anyway.

[Anonymous No.11467871]

>>11467813
How is Throne of Glass anyway?

[Anonymous No.11467878]

>>11467813
>Some of the male fantasy characters I've best identified with were written by women
Name them

[Anonymous No.11467884]

>>11467182
decent magic system, post apoc world

every character, EVERY protag character is some SJW thing, main dude is a flaming homo, woman's big first true love is a poly relationship with a bisexual brown guy with dreads whose also boning the homo guy, major protag ends up being a Tranny complete with hormone pills

that book was a fucking slog to get through

[Anonymous No.11467894]

>>11467813
>That sounds pretty retarded
Doesn't change reality. Fact is the majority of men and women read fantasy by men and like it.

[Anonymous No.11467944]

>>11467884
oh no...
Goddamn buy 3 get 1 free
I'm weak before such sails. Guess I'll add it to my "learn how NOT to write" collection with Meme Lawrence and Sandman

[Anonymous No.11467979]

I don't know why I decided to keep going after Xenocide.

[Anonymous No.11468004]

>>11467979
I didn't even make it past the piggies, too much Jane Goodall

[Anonymous No.11468021]

Anyone got some good, lighthearted scifi? Any sub genre, just need a break from cosmic horror...

[Anonymous No.11468044]

can someone explain the ending of Lilith to a brainlet
he still sleep or he awake? why did the angels steal the children

[Anonymous No.11468074]

>>11466043
The Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile and Sojourn) is good. After that it the quality drops like a rock in my opinion. I wasn't a fan of books 4-10 and dropped the series entirely after 10, so maybe it gets better after that.

[Anonymous No.11468075]

>>11468004
But piggies was the best book!

[Anonymous No.11468088]

Is prose a meme?

[Anonymous No.11468102]

>>11468088
define "prose" in this context

[Anonymous No.11468117]

>>11468102
no specific context. prose in general.

[Anonymous No.11468129]

>>11467944
after reading it I find it impossible to call guys like Sanderson and Sullivan SJW pushers

[Anonymous No.11468139]

>>11468129
Gotta love a good silver lining
>>11468088
No (pic for u)

[Anonymous No.11468173]

Has anyone here read The Land Across by Gene Wolfe and enlighten me what was everything about?

[Anonymous No.11468219]

>>11468088
No. It's not essential, but that doesn't make it a meme.

[Anonymous No.11468230]

>>11464580
>open catalog
>it's fucking barney
>sffg
It makes sense that stunted mental individuals such as yourselves, who enjoy genre fiction would relate to and emotionally bond with a children's character. When will you shameful personages grow up and read proper works?

[Anonymous No.11468241]

>>11468230
I don't care about what some old fart has to say about life. I'm living it right now. I can figure it out myself.

[Anonymous No.11468323]

>>11468241
t. child

[Anonymous No.11468400]

>>11468323

[Anonymous No.11468415]

>>11468230
thank you for explaining the joke

[Anonymous No.11468433]

>>11468230
I didnt even notice that I was too distracted by the pretty colors and the no shit sherlock

[Anonymous No.11468454]

since we are on the topic of dindusaurs, i have a question regarding the Dinosaur Lords series by Victor Mulan: is it an alien seed world? i see no other reason for his autistic disclaimer at the start.
I'm not worried about spoilers, i bought it hoping to datamine it for dino world building.

[Anonymous No.11468589]

Has there been any shittube "critic" that actually made something good in the medium they're criticizing?

[Anonymous No.11468614]

>>11467944
Anon didn't even mention the lovingly detailed homosex scenes full of greasy erect members dueling for position.

[Anonymous No.11468683]

>>11468614
fucking hell what have i done giving money to this filth. I don't even have a problem with gay characters but i know it won't be handled tastefully and they will be diversity quota. this is what i get for not reading a bit before buying, another rookie mistake

[Anonymous No.11468710]

>>11468683
kek, yeah. I don't even like straight done in that much detail for something that isn't erotica.
The quota was so hilariously real. At the end of book one I was chuckling to myself thinking she totally forgot lesbians and there would be hell to pay.
Enter book two. Starts with a quick aside to introduce a "btw I'm lesbo" throwaway char.

[Anonymous No.11468730]

>>11468683
>I don't even have a problem with gay characters

absolutely disgusting
what would Jesus think

[Anonymous No.11468735]

i tried reading a collection of gene wolfe's fantasy stories and didn't really like most of them. i don't know, i think the dude is too meta for me, too clever. like there isn't enough heart there. i agree that as a prose stylist he is above average. maybe i'd like his novels more?

[Anonymous No.11468790]

>>11468683
>I don't even have a problem with gay characters
why are you here? this is not a degenerate board

[Anonymous No.11468805]

What was the name of that scifi series that was all about a race of like centaur-aliens with 20+ different sexes that all have different combinations of breeding with each other

[Anonymous No.11468840]

>>11468805
tumblr the series

[Anonymous No.11468850]

>>11468790
I didn't say i particularly liked them. I like characters, not representations. If there are too many gays I'm not a fan of that unless its about societal decay, but there are gay people in our modern day so the occasional degenerate or would-never-know-it gay is expected, i just don't want to see their activities unfold over text anymore than i do with most straight sex scenes.

[Anonymous No.11468931]

>>11468730
>>11468790
Ebin

[Anonymous No.11469645]

>nothing for 4 hours
it's not like you guys are reading non stop

[Anonymous No.11469667]

>>11469645
what are you reading anon?

[Anonymous No.11469675]

>>11469667
just started book 2 of galactic mage

[Anonymous No.11469696]

What is a website I can host my stories (fantasy, sci-fi, intentionally a clusterfuck of every genre of genre fiction) where there is also a hope that somebody discovers them occasionally?

I was thinking about DeviantArt or fanfiction but much less the latter because it features exclusively original characters

[Anonymous No.11469712]

>>11469696
If you really want people to read them make accounts everywhere and push it hard.

[Anonymous No.11469719]

>>11469712
I don't want them to be very well read I want a website with a function that allows users to find random stories, mine included

[Anonymous No.11469740]

>>11469696
royalroadl is the one i know and use

[Anonymous No.11469886]

I don't know if this is the right thread and I'm not sure if the PJO (Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods) are YA, can I talk about it?

[Anonymous No.11469904]

>>11469886
yes you can but people might shit on you

[Anonymous No.11469907]

>>11469886
they're shit but go ahead, not much discussion is going on anyway

[Anonymous No.11469930]

>>11468415
What joke? OP's pic was for the dinosaurs.
They read nothing but old books and say anything new is trash. That pic was made to mock them, look at the books barney has in his hands.

[Anonymous No.11469931]

>>11469904
>>11469907
Well okay, I see a number of people praise Percy but I think he's a person who got everything handed on a silver platter
>when he was 12 he killed the minotaur which was a beast that terrorized an entire kingdom so much the king had to order the construction of the labyrinth just to contain it
>in a short time Percy beat the children of Ares who were born to use weapons and fight
>he could control water and do tons of shit because he is the son of Poseidon, basically a special snowflake. Noted that none of Poseidon's children in myth actually had hydrokinesis.
>he could beat Ares, even Diomedes had to be guided by Athena to harm him. Later he beat Hades who had to run away and bet on his mercy.
>he beat Luke who was the best swordsman in 300 years (I think) after a short time of training
Right in vol 1 Percy was almost a borderline Gary Stu if the gods didn't treat him like shit. I can barely understand why he is a good character. He pretty much pulled out powers whenever it's convenient and all we got is "Well because he is the son of Poseidon so he gets all the powerset of Poseidon." which doesn't make any sense. Heracles for example is the greatest hero of Greek but he never shot lightning or flew.

[Anonymous No.11469935]

>>11469931
He's a YA protagonist. This isn't revolutionary thinking, anon.

[Anonymous No.11469953]

>>11468790
>this is not a degenerate board
>go into lit
>almost all "classics" and "greeks" have buggering, incest, pedophilia, rape, cuckolding, bestiality performed on both male and female, boys and girl
>lit isn't degenerate
You got to be an insurgent that doesn't even read pretending like you belong here.

[Anonymous No.11469957]

>>11469719
Wattpad. Amazon unlimited.

[Anonymous No.11469961]

>>11469953
your dumb

[Anonymous No.11469979]

>>11469931
Percy was a demigod, and if you read out the series you would see that zeus, Poseidon and Hades' seeds are super potent. They were banned from pregging mortal women because their offspring are usually too powerful.

I read this series when younger and it was a great way to absorb greek mythology. I wanted a Gods amongst us fix and this was perfect.
The series sadly is for young adults, I don't know how much you would enjoy them if you are a jaded adult. I dropped Riordan a few years ago when made a character gay for Percy. The author is just a sjw pandering mess now. I suggest you read the five Percy Jackson books and end it there.

[Anonymous No.11469989]

>>11469961
>your
Yep. I was right. An unintelligent insurgent trying to annex us. fuck off back to pol

[Anonymous No.11469999]

>>11469979
Not really, the gods said that they gave their children gifts because they liked them. Leo for example had pyrokinesis because his dad-god liked his mother a lot. Same goes to Percy and Jason. Also it really bothers me that both Jason and Thalia could shoot lightning when Zeus was the biggest guy who feared his children would usurp him like Kronos.
Nico is an okay character until he became ultra retarded. Gay is okay in my book because ancient Greeks were a bunch of degenerates.

[Anonymous No.11470068]

>Web novel author just decides to change peoples/places names

[Anonymous No.11470071]

>>11464705
First one is good, next two are mediocre at best.
Black Man is my favourite Morgan book. I would give that a go.

[Anonymous No.11470251]

>>11464638
Based pusy poster.

[Anonymous No.11470338]

Just finished reading pic related, think I'll have to go back for a second read but it's good shit.

[thiskillsthedarkelf No.11470343]

>>11469696
Royal road and a free website with wordpress.

>>11465064
Well, comparatively anyway.

[Anonymous No.11470353]

>>11466931
Excellent. Racists don’t deserve good literature.

[Anonymous No.11470363]

>>11467979
I kinda agree, it really started moving away from the psychological "making a kid kill an entire species that he learned to love and care for, after putting him in a constant fight or flight situation where he had to kill people for years," to "if I have enough brain power I can transport the essence of my soul outside the universe" and in doing so lost the subplot that made it interesting.

[Anonymous No.11470379]

>>11470353
t. brainlet

[Anonymous No.11470443]

>>11470363
>>11467979
I personally just felt like his weird mormon thing coming through. They discover the existence of soul particles and go on an introspective out-of-space journey that splits him into 3 copies of his soul, and also a guy gets healed by imaginary space, and they use the trees to think, and then the bitch is shitty and irrational and claims to have been raped except no she's just a bitch for no reason and we have to accept that sometimes, and it's just so ugh what the fuck is even going on.

[Anonymous No.11470453]

>>11470068
Which one?

[Anonymous No.11470469]

Can someone recommend a fantasy series/book with a strong female protagonist that is at times put in compromised positions/ forced to wear revealing clothing etc?

[Anonymous No.11470512]

>>11468805
Sounds like Titan?

[Anonymous No.11470515]

>>11464593
web novels you say?

[Anonymous No.11470518]

>>11466265
>thumbnail reads like Prince of Poops

XDDDDDDDDD

[Anonymous No.11470527]

>>11470469
Play Shantae and the Pirate's Curse.

[Anonymous No.11470547]

>>11470515
After reading all of Wildbow's shit and the first two books of Practical Guide to Evil I need a break from webshit. These fucks need to learn how to pace their stories.

[Anonymous No.11470554]

>>11470515
is unsong any good? what is it about

[Anonymous No.11470567]

>>11470547
>Literally nothing happening
>Then fight
>And another
>Then another
>Hold on, before we conclude this fight we need to have interlude chapters from characters not even related to this conflict
>Make sure to have the protagonist describe their thought process for paragraphs on end

[Anonymous No.11470591]

>almost over 50 pages wasted on protag and girl romancing together
why do author do this

[Anonymous No.11470618]

>>11470591
Appealing to women so they also buy the book

[Anonymous No.11470651]

>>11470554
After a spaceship crashes into the sky, it turns out that kabbalistic Judaism is literally true.
Angels and demons appear and take part in human politics.
Names of God that let you perform miracles are bruteforced in sweatshops and protected by copyright.
Everything is based on secret recurring patterns - the royal road to wisdom is detecting similarities between rock songs, Biblical history and West Coast geography. For this reason the book has some VERY impressively advanced puns and easter eggs.
Many of the supernatural characters are humorous and parodic, but the Devil is 100% evil in a 100% serious manner. His goal is literally just torturing people in hell in all the most horrible ways.
The author uses the book to discuss the problem of evil from a Singerian consequentialist point of view. At the end he gives an arguably convincing solution.

[Anonymous No.11470664]

>>11466433
>overpopulation was a huge bugaboo in the 70s
And they were perfectly right, but nowadays political correctness keeps us from talking about it, because it is an African and Muslim issue.

[Anonymous No.11470667]

>>11470469
Why do people like this tranny model? Why is it posted so much in 4chan? Is 4chan full of literal faggots?

[Anonymous No.11470679]

>>11470515

[Anonymous No.11470701]

>>11466988
>Anything like The Forever War that isn't Starship Troopers?
Try the "Dread Empire's Fall" trilogy by Walter Jon Williams. It's really good. Or the very first book in David Webers Honor Harrington series (Basilisk Station). Quality steadily declines after the first one though.

[Anonymous No.11470723]

>>11468021
>some good, lighthearted scifi?
Try the "Miles Vorkosigan" series by Lois McMaster-Bujold. Starts with "Shards of Honor", with Miles's parents meeting. Absolutely brilliant series of books. Miles Vorkosigan is one of the best MCs ever.

[Anonymous No.11470802]

>>11467498
bump

[Anonymous No.11470840]

Ever since I finished Revelation Space series every other book seems not good enough. Recommend some hard, bleak, without good and evil shit, sci-fy books good anons.

[Anonymous No.11470859]

Been reading Mistborn : Secret History after Bands of Mourning, and I can't help but think that the plot would've been vastly more interesting if we really followed the Lord Ruler, not Kelsier.

[Anonymous No.11470930]

>>11470527
>Play shantae
Can't find anything about that. Link?
>Pirates curse
May be promising, thanks

>>11470667
Hi re*dit

[Anonymous No.11470934]

>>11470840
Some of Iain M. Bank's books certainly qualify. While the "Culture" may appear to be the standardgood guys they are really not. If you have never read the Culture books I would recommend starting the series with "Inversions", because it is written from the perspective of the "other" side. If you dont know about the "Culture" and its goals is is a really unique reading experience that you cant have again if you start with any other book from the series. If you want to start with the beginning read "Consider Phlebas" or "Player of Games".

Some of Bank's sci fi books that do not take place in the "Culture" universe are also pretty grim and bleak at times, like "Against a Dark Background" or "The Algebraist".

[Anonymous No.11470947]

>>11470930
You're not funny.

[Anonymous No.11471030]

>>11464659
>this entire book
YOOOOOO What an absolute fucking ride

[Anonymous No.11471128]

>>11470469
Bump

[Anonymous No.11471137]

>>11471030
what book

[Anonymous No.11471139]

Would there be a military presence on Mars?

I'm writing a short story that centers around a man who helped lay the Fiber cables that connects two Martian colonies together being send out after one goes dark after a chemical explosion.

If there is only 1000ish people on Mars spread over 3 small colonies, would there be a military presence realistically?

[Anonymous No.11471165]

>>11471139
You'd still have at the very least basic law enforcement i.e. cops

[Anonymous No.11471186]

>>11470667
Everyone on 4chan is a literal faggot. Including you.

[Anonymous No.11471232]

>>11471165
Im thinking something similar to Antarctica bases but slightly larger. The largest base, dubbed "Armstrong City" is about 500 people, while the smallest base dubbed "Amundsen Spearhead" is only 20.

It takes place on a slightly terraformed Martian Northpole, where advanced chemical reactions are slowly melting the ice.

[Anonymous No.11471239]

>>11471139
Who sent the colonies? Are Russia/US/China at peace back on Earth? How much political tension is there? Depending on who's president or whatever, they could be worried about invasion and have some military on Mars.

>>11471186
Not me, I'm a lesbian in a man's body who used to be an attack helicopter.

[Anonymous No.11471252]

>>11471232
>Antarctica bases
There are cops at the south pole???

[Anonymous No.11471275]

>>11471239
The original colonists where sent by private companies sponsored by the US government however after the Mars Treaty of 2031 Mars is considered unowned similar to how Antarctica is today.

However there is a small Chinese colony of 10 or 20 people in the South Pole, but it's not part of the story.

[Anonymous No.11471446]

Would this accreditation count as copyright infringement?

>To Beatrice. Im sorry for mistaking your sugar bowl for an ash tray, I had no idea Splenda could be so flammable

[Anonymous No.11471461]

>>11471139
At such a small population there wouldn’t be a reason for an actual military (unless aliens have been confirmed), though chances are a number of the colonists would have military backgrounds. Most likely airforce, or now I guess space force is an option too

[Anonymous No.11471465]

>Lets just check out if this trash series I was reading years ago ever got a new book
>No
Did everyone forget how to write? Did GRRM start a trend or some shit?

[Anonymous No.11471495]

>>11467413
If you enjoy Science Fiction, Crossfire by Nancy Kress isn't bad. The follow up is, though, not by the usual reasons.

[Anonymous No.11471507]

>>11467413
Cherryh of course.

[Anonymous No.11471540]

>>11470934
Culture is opera tho, not hard sf

>>11470840
Red Mars (etc) by Kim Stanley Robinson maybe

[Anonymous No.11471543]

>“Me neither,” Shallan said. “I think hanging people is a poor choice of professions for an executioner. Better to be the guy with an axe.”
>“You see,” she said, “with the axe, it’s easier to get ahead…”

How does he keep getting away with it?

[Anonymous No.11471562]

>>11470840
Blindsight/Echopraxia is (mostly) hard and bleak. So bleak in fact that I have no idea how Watts can wrap things up in the third and final book he's going to be writing in the next few years.

[Anonymous No.11471566]

>>11466733
What did you like about Lyonesse? Style, setting, "attitude", what?

[Anonymous No.11471571]

>>11466766
The short answer is that phone cameras have tiny apertures.>>11466932

[Anonymous No.11471588]

>>11470664
Birth control and economic growth have slashed population growth in the developing world, but that doesn't fit the Internet Research Agency narrative.

[Anonymous No.11471589]

>>11466932
>The casualty rate in vietnam wasn't THAT drastic
Be careful about casualty rates across "the army" or "the military". Cooks on a FOB might have a yearly casualty rate of .1%. Infantrymen might have a yearly casualty rate of 25% or worse in elite or unlucky units. Vietnam was characterized by fewer men in heavier contact than WW2. If you read carefully, you'll notice how huge the military establishment in Forever War is compared to the number of soldiers actually on the ground fighting. The is a correct portrayal of a modern military.

>>11466966
>at least he understood a bit of what was going on in real life.
It didn't start out completely insane though, just enough to alienate him. Then things continued to diverge.

>The book is basically if shakespeare was dropped into 2018 in the middle of a pride parade.

Substantially less time elapsed between Shakespeare and 2018 than between Mandella's first mission and state enforced homosexuality. You're making the author's point for him.

[Anonymous No.11471590]

>>11466990
I kept getting told that Armor was about "the human costs of war" but the main thing that set it apart from ST and Forever War (the other milSF books you Need To Read) were the kickass action scenes. Forever War did the human side of war, trauma, and alienation way better than Armor.

[Anonymous No.11471601]

>>11467413
The Fifth Season isn't bad. If you want to give a black lady author a chance I'd recommend her over the ridiculously overhyped Octavia Butler.

Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a lot of good stuff before she discovered feminist theory, after which her writing went down the shitter (seriously).

I don't like C.J. Cherryh, but others do and the things I don't like about her aren't faults on her part so much as my own preferences.

Tanith Lee is underrated and was incredibly prolific. I'm sure there are some bad books in her catalogue but I can vouch for Night's Master.

[Anonymous No.11471612]

>>11469696
I once wrote a short story on my wordpress blog. Five people have read it, with three "likes".

[Anonymous No.11471623]

>>11471601
>The Fifth Season isn't bad.
Sorry, just choked on a walnut.
Please continue.

[Anonymous No.11471642]

>>11471588
>Birth control and economic growth have slashed population growth in the developing world
Population increases by 1 million people in Africa ... every week. Africa is expected to have 2 billion people in 2050, 500 million of those in Nigeria alone.

[Anonymous No.11471649]

>>11469696
There's fictionpress, which is fanfiction.net's version of itself for original fiction.

Only problem is... With fanfiction.net, you occasionally get good writers who write there, because they can't actually publish their work. With fictionpress, near as I can tell most of the good authors go and try to actually publish their work instead of putting it there.

[Anonymous No.11471666]

>>11471642
>Population increases by 1 million people in Africa ... every week.

A interesting statement considering worldwide population growth is 200,000 a day. The annual worldwide population growth is 1%, in 1960 it was 2%.

>Africa is expected to have 2 billion people in 2050

you forget to note that Africa's current population is 1.2 billion

>but that doesn't fit the Internet Research Agency narrative.

[Anonymous No.11471852]

>>11464580
reposting from my thread:
Is there a good fantasy book with a female lead? Battle scenes would be cool. But the story just shouldnt feel like written from a teenager girl or written for teenager girls (the last book I read that was like that, was magonia, it was not bad).

So please just a good book you can enjoy while you are in your mid twenties.

[Anonymous No.11471856]

>>11471852
Pic related
Throne of glass

[Anonymous No.11471921]

Any new fantasy series worth getting? Dinosaurs need not reply.

[Anonymous No.11471926]

>>11471856

[Anonymous No.11471942]

>>11471856
Thanks, would be cool if there are more recommendations. Bonus points for knights or witches

[Anonymous No.11471946]

is this a good standalone book or do i need to read the whole saga?

[Anonymous No.11472025]

>>11471852
Deed of Paksenarrion. Young woman runs away from home to join a mercenary company and eventually becomes a paladin.

[Anonymous No.11472033]

>>11470934
>>11471540
>>11471461
sadly I read them all
Can a man read all great works in every genre? Cause i seem to have made it, and now I am miserable. I should probably start writing

[Anonymous No.11472044]

>>11471921
Pls respond.

[Anonymous No.11472096]

>>11472044
You're the only non-dinosaur here, so you're shit out of luck

[Anonymous No.11472180]

>>11471543
>shallan

[Anonymous No.11472188]

>>11464580

Restricted Fantasies. Saw it on FB, collection of hard sci-fi short stories themed around virtual reality and the simulation hypothesis. Kind of a Black Mirror tone.

Star Maker - old Olaf Stapledon sci-fi book that ranges over huge time period and doesn't really follow story structure. Out there but interesting. Lots of weird alien species and social commentary.

Everything else recent was bloated.

[Anonymous No.11472204]

>>11471921
Daniel Black
Super sales on Super heroes

[Anonymous No.11472216]

>>11471461
The main character is former military he fought in the Alaskan War for Independence in 2034. After Alaska lost the war he got a working on Artic fiber systems and eventually got a job on Mars and his family moved there. Most people are doctors and scientists.

Of those people very few are allowed outside of the "safe" zone and those that are allowed are normally former military with survival training.

[Anonymous No.11472219]

>>11471921
>>11472044
What's your cutoff date for newness?

[Anonymous No.11472238]

>>11471921
There's this one book that blew me out of the water. Straight fantasy, great lore, autistic made up language and names... I went straight to give it a review, but seems like the author took it out of amazon (or amazon removed it themselves). I may be the only person in the world right now who read the guy's book. It's too bad, because it's great. And it seems the sequel was already out too, but when I finished the first book it was too late, I doubt a single person on the planet downloaded it. I wonder what happened. I would email the guy, but he is literally who with a fake name and no author page on any website.

Is there a way of ripping off a book from kindle's app?

[Anonymous No.11472256]

>done with The Stars, My Destination has this been monthly book twice in a row or is it taking an overly long time for people to pick up or what, I feel like I was late in reading it and maybe my time sense is all fucked up
>okay let's see what else to choose
>start Emerilia
>author can't even write a basic fucking ellipsis (two periods instead of three)
>book is like 8 hours long for a fucking volume 1 isekai trash
>start reading High-Rise instead

[Anonymous No.11472257]

>>11472238
how about you tell us what's the fucking book buddy?

[Anonymous No.11472289]

>>11472257
What does it matter? It doesn't exist outside my phone anyways. Maybe if one day it goes back into amazon I'll come back and shill it here. I'm afraid the author's given up and it will be lost forever, which would be very strange, since I can tell he must've worked hard on it: it's two whole books! It must be like 900 pages of completely autistic fantasy writing!(but I can't really tell since I read it on my phone). And they guy made about 6 bucks from it, 2 from me and 4 from the other 2 guys who downloaded it from kindle unlimited. It's sad.

Anyway, it's a book about elves, and I could spoil here, but it has to do with the history of the species and the world. It's a journey book, an elf in a quest against the evil dude while having to take shit from a thot.

[Anonymous No.11472302]

>>11472289
You're an idiot

[Anonymous No.11472317]

>>11472302
You opened my eyes.

It's this book. You can tell it existed by searching on google and opening the cached page.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40622780-elf

[Anonymous No.11472350]

>>11472317
Google

Download Elf immemorial paidshit

first link, you're welcome

[Anonymous No.11472361]

>>11472350
lol these pirates are really efficient huh. Unfortunately I've already read the first book and the same method seems not to work for the second one. You should read it though, if you like fantasy.

[Anonymous No.11472502]

>>11471946
bls anybody

[Anonymous No.11472542]

>>11471946
From what I remember, basically the series is a bunch of random adventures then a big ending in book 5

[Anonymous No.11472564]

>>11472542
so im ok if i just want to read the first one, yes?

[Anonymous No.11472585]

>>11467884
This can’t be real

[Anonymous No.11472587]

What's /sffg/'s general consensus on the Stormlight Archive?

[Anonymous No.11472595]

>>11472587
Literally anime. No good POV (although some anons like Dalinar). Passable world-building.

[Anonymous No.11472597]

>>11468850
Being gay ruins any character in a book

[Anonymous No.11472601]

>>11472587
I want a chapter where Shallan shits in shardplate and Lift sniffs the shit to fuel her awesomeness.

[Anonymous No.11472607]

>>11470353
Describe what was particularly good with it

[Anonymous No.11472627]

>>11472564
Yeah, there’s no cliffhanger ending or anything for book 1.

>>11472597
There’s nothing wrong and everything right with lesbians.

[Anonymous No.11472637]

>>11467413
I read this a long time ago but would say she’s good.

[Anonymous No.11472658]

>>11471921

[Anonymous No.11472660]

>>11472587
First two books were good. Dropped it halfway through the third it was so bad

[Anonymous No.11472662]

>>11472627
You’ve been (((conditioned))) into liking lesbians. Stop watching porn

[Anonymous No.11472695]

>>11467884
So she ended up writing exactly as I thought she would based on her appearance

[Anonymous No.11472732]

I was about to start reading Earthsea but when I was looking up stuff about it I came across an article written by the author about how the miniseries sucked because it put white people in prominent roles and that white people had the privilege to not have to care about that stuff. Also she said that she was overjoyed when minorities would tell her that they loved her books because the heroes were just like them. Is this just some SJW trash?

[Anonymous No.11472741]

What's some good retro scifi?

[Anonymous No.11472751]

>>11472741
that game is sick bro i never beat it tho one day ima cop it off gog and go all the way

[Anonymous No.11472761]

>>11472732
the books are good, unless you're a thin skinned baby.

[Anonymous No.11472763]

>>11472751
Its free senpai go play it

[Anonymous No.11472771]

>>11471852
I don’t think these are what you’re looking for but
The Onion Girl by de Lint
The Night Circus by Morgenstern
Pollen by Noon (2nd book but they’re stand alones)
Wicked by Maguire
War for the Oaks by Bull

Sorry but my fantasy novel with Tarot magic and an all girl squad isn’t ready yet

[Anonymous No.11472772]

>>11472763
wuuut? for real? how about part 1 savage empires or whatever? i never even played that but the like lost world king solomons mines kind of setting seems p rad

i have to admit tho i hate playing games that dont have achievements now im such a steam cuck all the best classic games dont have achievements but then im like how will my one friend on steam no i got that on character to max level without acheivements bro?

[Anonymous No.11472777]

>>11472771
>The Onion Girl by de Lint

oh man this morning i was masturbating to a porn called onion booty something holy shit i had to jump up and find a place to nut it was so hot

[Anonymous No.11472786]

>>11472732
Wizard of Earthsea is classic. The characters are mostly brown seafarers, I feel like she might have gotten her inspiration from Polynesians.

[Anonymous No.11472791]

>>11472585
oh it's real, and it's even worse in the book

[Anonymous No.11472805]

>>11468614
I've tried to forget them

seriously the magic is kinda cool in that it almost solely deals with extinction level geological events but fuck is it overshadowed by the author's personal agenda

[Anonymous No.11472815]

>>11468790
there's a strong difference between a character who happens to be a fag, and a character whose only defining feature is that he's a fag

[Anonymous No.11472817]

>>11472732
le guin is one of the best sff writers.

[Anonymous No.11472824]

>>11472732
The characters in Earthsea are all basically Polynesians. Le Guin wrote a bunch of good stuff, including Earthsea, then read some feminist/critical theory tripe and became completely pozzed. Not incidentally, the quality of her writing went off a cliff.

tldr Earthsea is good and LeGuin wrote it before she became a crazy old bat.

[Anonymous No.11472827]

>>11472817
LeGuin is fine till she goes off the rails

[Anonymous No.11472832]

>>11472827
what works do you consider off the rails?

[Anonymous No.11472839]

>>11469886
you can and I liked the first and Egyptian series and part of the Roman crossover, but fuck Riordin for going full SJW in his later books, Percy's barely an afterthought in the big finale to the Greek and Roman series in favor of making sure a background character like Nico's gayness is given an entire chapter's worth of conclusion. And the Norse ones making sure to devote a ton of material to a gender fluid character and never letting you forget that the character is totally gender fluid? I've completely dropped him at this point.

[Anonymous No.11472864]

>>11468173
I am still working on my writeup. In general, the bad phonetic Greek the guys say to Grafton is basically Sorry - rise again! - the lights they carry on the train are like psychopomp lights, and reappear at the end with the treasure. There are two legends that are easy to gloss over - one involves the hand and spirits - using it will bind someone to serve those spirits, while the story of Peterke's grandfather and the little spirit that no one else could see REALLY resonates with the dictator no one but Grafton can see at times. The story is all about possession.

[Anonymous No.11472869]

>>11472587
Liked the second half of book one and appreciated the first half more when I was done. I liked all of book two. Book three was really long and pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.11472875]

Tell me about Rithmatist.

[Anonymous No.11472887]

>>11468173
possession of the country, of a wife, by spirits, through magic, etc. I am still sorting it out but I highly doubt that the bishop was the undead dragon - when Grafton goes to Vlad's house Martya notes that he has been acting like an ass all day - possession again. The reason everyone's faces are so similar might involve the dolls - are spirits being given new bodies throughout? Grafton seems to be related to the chewed up graphite pencil he finds in the house (Grafote! says one of the guys, meaning sign this). the girl with the red pen is his editor (editors are hell, he says) who might have some influence over what he knows, as his notes dictate his personality and he seems to fall asleep everytime someone leaves the room. The interviewers say he talks like a child. something is up with him - he has a vision that he will die in the country, but he leaves at the end.

[Anonymous No.11472889]

>>11468173
so possession, possible scripting of his personality, the murder of the archbishop who might have stood against the undead dragon ... and his conclusion TOTALLY SPOUTS THE RHETORIC OF THE LEGION OF LIGHT. what? clone factories or dolls, given the prominence of the bees in his entrance to the house ...

[Anonymous No.11472895]

>>11464616
I don't even remember what it was about

[Anonymous No.11472912]

>>11466766
old cameras are technologically superior and provide higher quality photographs is what happened

[Anonymous No.11472914]

I got a $5 promo credit from google play for an ebook expiring soon. Someone recommend something good.

[Anonymous No.11472917]

>>11472502
Moorcock is shit

[Anonymous No.11472927]

>>11472658
This book turns to shit in book 2. Avoid like the plague.

[Anonymous No.11472944]

>>11467215
I got my start in science fiction and fantasy with dragonlance books

[Anonymous No.11472953]

>>11472917
which absolute moron makes fake charts like these in his spare time?

[Anonymous No.11472955]

>>11472839
Me too. Dropped him at Nico and the first Norse book. Couldn't even enjoy it because it was so filled with sjw pandering.
He will write a Hindu and Chinese next.
He did Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Norse. Next is Hindu and Chinese.

[Anonymous No.11472964]

>>11472953
Don't worry bout memeanon

[Anonymous No.11472970]

>>11471571
Why not make wide aperture cameras for phones then?

[Anonymous No.11472976]

>>11471571
poxy third-world sensors vs huge medium format film (equivalent of dozens to hundreds of megapixels)

[Anonymous No.11472978]

Holy shit this series was fantastic!
Since when are the chinese the torchbearers for great sci-fi? Any other chinese authors I missed out on or is this just the beginning?

[Anonymous No.11472980]

>>11472953
>fake charts
Keep telling yourself that so you can sleep at night, but all those books were shit. I bet you're a redshitor since you like those shit.

[Anonymous No.11472982]

>>11472944
nice walkie talkie

[Anonymous No.11472985]

>>11472982
thanks I use it to keep in touch with mom

[Anonymous No.11472988]

>>11472978
Ney ching chong. You can't fool us. We know you are filthy Chinese shilling for the glorious army of china. You egress has been halted.

[Anonymous No.11472992]

>>11472985
Are you in the basement while she is upstairs?

[Anonymous No.11472995]

>>11472976
>>11472970
Sensors is correct, not apertures. A good sensor would make the phone cost several hundreds of dollars more and people don't actually care about image quality because if they did, theyd buy a real camera so they could use good lenses

[Anonymous No.11473428]

>>11472927
No the 2nd book was even better. Can’t wait for the third.

[Anonymous No.11473544]

>>11472662
Stop being a fucking faggot, people are allowed to like what they like

[Anonymous No.11473564]

>>11473544
You did not just say that

[Anonymous No.11473578]

>Arbitrary modern liberal white American morals about age of consent applied to alien/medieval worlds

fucking writers

[Anonymous No.11473645]

>>11473578
Remember, if she's 17 you're a pedophile, mate

[Anonymous No.11473760]

>>11473645
legal age in most western countries is 14 dude.

[Anonymous No.11473827]

>>11471543
AWESOMENESS

I wanted to die every time the scene cut to Lift in the final act of Oathbringer

[Anonymous No.11473831]

>>11473760
more like 16, I think 14 is only like Brazil and Hungary.

[Anonymous No.11473874]

>>11473564
No, he typed it

[Anonymous No.11473894]

>>11466403
I can applaud Mark Lawrence for doing the contest for self-published stuff since it seems like nobody else is bothering to sift through it and find the stuff that's actually good.

[Anonymous No.11473904]

Michael Scott-Earle and J.A. Cipriano apparently just got banned from Amazon for using clickfarms.

[Anonymous No.11473925]

>>11473904
whoops

[Anonymous No.11474024]

>>11472587
Pretty good, but apparently not for everyone.

[Anonymous No.11474037]

>>11472587
Something exciting happen every 500 pages. Other than that, very boring.

[Anonymous No.11474040]

>>11473904
Literally who?

[Anonymous No.11474079]

>>11474040
Michael Scott-Earle does Mens Adventure styled scifi stuff and J.A. Cipriano is a litRPG author. Both of them are fairly popular: Earle is still ranked 5th on the "most popular authors" page (since the audiobooks are still listed for some reason) while Brandon Sanderson is 22nd.

[Anonymous No.11474085]

>>11473904
i can kinda understand why they would think that about cipriano but michael scott-earle is incredibly popular. i dont think he needs it. i mean hes been features on the nyt bestseller list several times and tops the amazon charts with pretty much every book. maybe hes too popular? cant say much for cipriano as i dont read his books.

[Anonymous No.11474093]

>>11474079
>Earle is still ranked 5th on the "most popular authors" page (since the audiobooks are still listed for some reason) while Brandon Sanderson is 22nd
Sounds like a popular guy. Bummer to be caught manipulating stuff lmao

[Anonymous No.11474094]

>>11473904
>Michael Scott-Earle and J.A. Cipriano apparently just got banned from Amazon for using clickfarms.
that kinda makes me sad. dont care about ja cipriano but i really like tamer and star justice from micheal scott-earle. its great stuff in my opinion. really like the survival aspect of tamer. star justice is kinda weird. at this point im not sure if im reading it for the entertainment or just because i wanna know whats happening next.
theyll probably go to patreon.

[Anonymous No.11474106]

>>11473904
>Michael Scott-Earle and J.A. Cipriano apparently just got banned from Amazon for using clickfarms.
apparently its some sort of trolling tactic. happened to several romance authors earlier this year. people would hire clickfarm which only cost a buck or so for several thousands of clicks and sic them onto whomever they dont like. the takedown from amazons side is completely automated investigation only happens after the author petitions for it. which apparently michael scott-earle is currently doing. on the upside pretty much all of the romance authors that have been hit by this have had their accounts and books restored previously. it does take some time though. the investigation seems to take 2-3 weeks. which can really eat into the bottom-line of an indie author. probably not an issue for MSE but j.a. cipriano is not gonna have a nice time.

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[Anonymous No.11474972]

>>11464616
Try re-readingi t but whenever there is Space Rasta dialogue you read it out loud in your best space-patois.

[Anonymous No.11474974]

>>11464580
How did Robert Anton Wilson get away with writing the same book 4 times?
>Illuminatus Trilogy
>Prometheus Rising
>Cosmic Trigger
>Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy