/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.12479993]

Downloading epubs but reading none of them edition

Monthly Reading for January: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

Fantasy:
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General
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Flowchart:
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Science Fiction:
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General:
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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Previously:
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[Anonymous No.12480014]

First for you should read all of this before you can judge books.

[Anonymous No.12480029]

It's better than Mistborn, that's all I have to say.

[Anonymous No.12480030]

Download: https://www22.zippyshare.com/v/XtU613eb/file.html

[Anonymous No.12480049]

Bumping >>12479848

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9l2yCH5wBk

What's modern scifi's take on who will dominate the space/earth in the next 100 years?

Pics related: geopolitical shift in 2050/2030. 2030 is only 11 years from now.

[Anonymous No.12480062]

>>12480049
I think >>>/pol/ would know.

[Anonymous No.12480066]

>>12480062
I want to understand the scifi's take, without /pol/ shenanigans.

[Anonymous No.12480091]

>>12480049
the aliens will find and invade us soon and will be our overlord, we will be a part of a galactic empire

[Anonymous No.12480122]

>>12480091
>tfw a qt alien gf will use magic advanced technology to fix my boner and give me large amounts of stamina

[Anonymous No.12480132]

>>12480122
>not upgrading your penis to resemble a 8 headed hydra so you can satisfy your qt alien gf

[Anonymous No.12480162]

>>12480091
It would be more likely that a meteor hits and destroys all humanity than an intelligent alien visiting earth and overlording over us. Even more likely is a super disaster like super volcano/solar radiation/etc wiping out the civilization. Even more so is the chance of us dying due to global warming due to ecological collapse.

[Anonymous No.12480165]

>>12480162
but thats no fun

[Anonymous No.12480166]

Favorite Elric story?

[Anonymous No.12480220]

What are some other existential sci-fi?

[Anonymous No.12480545]

>>12480014
ftfy

[Anonymous No.12480557]

>>12480545
lmao

[Anonymous No.12480562]

>>12480545
alright ill bite, do you have to know about some rome history first to enjoy masters of rome?

[Anonymous No.12480822]

>>12480562
Nah, the series does a good job explaining things.

[Anonymous No.12480856]

>>12480166
Blood of elves

[Anonymous No.12480866]

>>12480049
>What's modern scifi's take on who will dominate the space/earth in the next 100 years?
They don't know, but it will be queer latinx black trans*women of size doing it, whatever it is.

[Anonymous No.12480873]

>>12480545
This is a horrible list.

[Anonymous No.12480929]

>>12480029
What's it about? Also what's with the GRRM titles

[Anonymous No.12480939]

>>12480220
Solaris

[Anonymous No.12481054]

>reading a book from the early 90s
>think the text is hard to comprehend intentionally
>turns out the author just isn't good at writing

[Anonymous No.12481064]

>>12481054
what book?

[Anonymous No.12481075]

>>12481064
In the Eye of Heaven, I just checked and it's actually a mid 2000s release so I can't even give it the leeway for being 20+ years old that I was going to.

[Anonymous No.12481078]

Is the Witcher series actually good or is it just meme'ing because the games got huge?

[Anonymous No.12481089]

>>12481078
The latter

[Anonymous No.12481091]

>>12481078
Short Stories are good, the actual novels are kinda eh

[Anonymous No.12481113]

>>12481078
It's okay, Brenna is probably the best battle I've read in fantasy though.

[Anonymous No.12481120]

>>12481091
I still like that part of Last wish where he's just cussing at the monster

[Anonymous No.12481156]

>>12481078
It has the same problem as Wheel of Time in that its side characters are infinitely more interesting than the main ones.

[Anonymous No.12481227]

Any good book out there with a teenaged girl protagonist as good as my waifu Taylor from worm? I want a protagonist with a "voice" as distinct as hers.

[Anonymous No.12481240]

>>12481078
England translation, not so good, not so much character or soul but you can read and think and feel like a Polish, it all depends on the mind

[Anonymous No.12481265]

>>12480029
I want Mommy Maas to sit on my face

[Anonymous No.12481455]

Monthly reading poll where?

[Anonymous No.12481493]

>>12481455
we gonna read a Throne of glAss fanfic

[Anonymous No.12481502]

>>12481078
the short stories are alright. all in all though the games are actually better at storytelling than the books. the author is a major autist and salty about the games success. he didnt have anything to do with the games though.
when cd project approached him they offered him a royalty deal. he refused and sold the witcher license for like 2000 bucks to them.
now that it made billions of dollars he became maximum salt. tried to sue cd project multiple times and damands backpay of royalties multiple times a year or so. its quite hillarious.
every time there is an even with him talking about the books theres people asking him about the game he then spergs out and tells people that he didnt have anything to do with the game and most leave at that point. its really hilarious.

[Anonymous No.12481544]

>The Tower is a pestle grinding upon the mortar of the earth. It pulverizes bones, fortunes, kings, love, youth, and beauty. That is its purpose—to crush.
>So, no, I will not retract my one-star review of Café Sotto’s shortbread. I’m sorry the baker is despondent to the point of suicide, but at least he knows now how I felt after eating his wretched biscuits.
>—Oren Robinson of the Daily Reverie

It's out! The Hod King (The Books of Babel #3)
So far it's everything I've wanted from another entry in this delightful series. It is a joy to let all these wonderful characters take me away into Josiah Bancroft's imaginative tower that so voraciously grinds away the lives of all that step inside.
Anyone else reading this? The audiobook narrator fits perfectly.

[Anonymous No.12481564]

>>12480866
That's too bad. The only scifi that seems to take it into account (by accident or bias) is one seen in the Cowboy Bebop anime, given the Chinese dominated economy. Even that very lightly touches on it and the earth is mostly irrelevant at that point. Seems like most scifi-writers in the west don't want to imagine what the geopolitical ramifications of the near-future is going to be like given the implications.

[Anonymous No.12481605]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

[Anonymous No.12481659]

>>12480029
>>12480014
>>12480545

Can you please stop with shilling Maas, Masters of Rome, and that god-fucking-awful list?

[Anonymous No.12481722]

>>12481227
Orphans of Chaos

[Anonymous No.12481743]

>>12481605
Is it an ironic anthology?

[Anonymous No.12481755]

>>12481743
you tell me
>The days of unified culture and singular Great Kingdoms are over. In their place, bold new visions are redefining the world of fantasy. Eight authors tackle stories with a focus on diversity, finding heroism outside the familiar boundaries of farmhands and prince's castles.
Including original fiction from Nicolas Wilson, Carole McDonnell, Michelle Browne, Mags Carr, William Lenoire, Rachel Savage, Kirstin Pullioff, and Gail Villanueva, this collection goes where GRR Martin and Terry Brooks couldn't.

[Anonymous No.12481759]

>>12481722
Are the bad reviews because of the apparent bdsm or it's just bad? I really don't like the mary sue-ish feeling of the description.

Also, Taylor felt a bit like a sub now that i thought about it lol.

[Anonymous No.12481762]

Books about fantasy or scifi sports?

Maybe other forms of entertainment?

[Anonymous No.12481767]

>>12481762
something something Terry Pratchett

[Anonymous No.12481769]

>>12481759
The reviews come from the author not depicting women like lefties want them to be depicted. It's good.

[Anonymous No.12481777]

>>12481240
Your English is horrible.

[Anonymous No.12481780]

>>12481769
What does that mean? If it's weird /pol/ shit it's as bad as sjw shit for me.

[Anonymous No.12481786]

>>12481777
Wow rude.

[Anonymous No.12481798]

>>12481777
Let’s see your Polish

[Anonymous No.12481808]

>>12481798
Why would anyone want to learn the tongue of some Slavic shithole?

[Anonymous No.12481824]

>>12481769
Really didn't like the setting.

[Anonymous No.12481826]

>>12481762
The Player of Games by Banks, though the sport is a sci-fi super-chess monstrosity.

[Anonymous No.12481832]

>>12481798
zkwzkwyzkzzzwkyz wkyzyzcky zywkckzyyzwa

[Anonymous No.12481841]

Book of the Ancestor series by Lawrence sucks, right?

[Anonymous No.12481854]

>>12481832
zykwcsza kyskscwlielasa? whzkyazylak kielzzlywizz za tak.

>zywkckzyyzwa
kek

[Anonymous No.12481880]

>>12481759
Stop talking about Taylor that way or else

[Anonymous No.12481886]

>>12481659
Hey faggot. My chart has good sff books that I got from sffg on it. I'm not memeing like the rome and maas shill.

[Anonymous No.12481898]

Is The Poppy War SJW fiction? It mentions a dark skinned girl being discriminated for her color and gender, so I guess it is.

[Anonymous No.12481902]

>>12481762
The Hunger Games

[Anonymous No.12481908]

>>12481886
Makes it more embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.12481911]

>>12481898
The protagonist is based and genocide pilled.

[Anonymous No.12481917]

>>12481898
>R.F. Kuang
>R.F.
These fucking female authors and the initials shenanigans I fucking swear

[Anonymous No.12481938]

>>12481880
You can tell beneath all that self-righteousness and control freakness in the bed she's all about getting wrecked and degeneracy.

[Anonymous No.12481947]

Tell me about Rivers of London. Is it good?

[Anonymous No.12481991]

>>12481947
If you want a Dresden Files stand in, it works for a few books until it shits the bed.

[Anonymous No.12482022]

>>12481938
No, her sexuality would end up being super vanilla. The thing she wants the most is someone who loves and trusts her. You're projecting your own desires onto Taylor.

[Anonymous No.12482056]

>>12482022
True, i was just kidding.

[Anonymous No.12482065]

>>12481898
The author is probably unironically tired of their asian parents calling black people subhumans and being afraid of them like they're rabid beasts every single minute of the waking hour. I can sympathise.

[Anonymous No.12482094]

>>12481917
>implying you would have even been able to tell that this was a female if she used her asian name and dressed like a man
Unbased

[Anonymous No.12482098]

>>12481898
> Is The Poppy War SJW fiction? ... I guess it is.
You would guess wrong. The blurb is to fool you along with the typical mc goes to magic school storyline at the start. So when the story really starts the flip is even more brutal. She's a beast.

[Anonymous No.12482100]

>>12482094
I know she is a female author because there is a female protagonists that's being discriminated. It's modern fantasy, it's either a female author or a sòy boy. The initials are just the tip of the iceberg.

[Anonymous No.12482123]

>>12482100
Wrong, since the Broken Earth is about sword fighting, this book is clearly about dinosaurs from the triassic period by your incredible onions google skills.

[Anonymous No.12482142]

>>12482123
>bringing up N. K. Jemisin
Yeah I'm done with you.

[Anonymous No.12482150]

>>12482142
I'm "bringing up" NK Jemisin am I? Oh well, maybe it's normal for people such as you to have a memory the span of a goldfish.

[Anonymous No.12482158]

>>12482065
Do you think, as a black man, I can find a qt asian girl to love and cuddle with?

[Anonymous No.12482160]

>>12482150
I'm not that guy though

[Anonymous No.12482167]

>>12482160
>tulpa's are real
Based retard

[Anonymous No.12482178]

>men
>women
>they're different

[Anonymous No.12482180]

>>12482167
Follow the conversation link you retard, I replied to the person who asked about the poppy war with my complain about female authors and initials. I never posted about trannys and sword fights. Jesus christ you're an idiot
>inb4 I was only acting retarded
Well done.

[Anonymous No.12482309]

So is the Poppy War good or what

[Anonymous No.12482335]

>>12482309
dunno

[Anonymous No.12482362]

If the Mule was so lonely, why didn't he just post a dating profile?

>Dear women of the Galaxy,

>it's me, the most powerful man who ever lived. I'm looking for romance, companionship, and who knows - maybe even true love?
>I like long walks on the beach and playing the visi-sonor. Here's my photo: mule_on_vacation.jpg.
>I can read your mind, so if you have ulterior motives, don't waste your time.

>Yours,
>The Mule

I know he's not a catch, and it would be scary to date someone who can control minds, but surely at least one woman out of 250 quintillion would be interested.
He's literally one of the only powerful characters in fiction who doesn't have the Swineherd problem - if he's wondering whether someone truly loves him for who he is, he can just find out.

[Anonymous No.12482432]

>>12482309
One of the better books I read last year. It's as if Harry Potter was crossed with Wuxia and The Killing Fields.

[Anonymous No.12482532]

>>12482362
The real Mule was the friends we made along the way.

I also think the fact that he was a renegade from Gaia and the existence of the second Foundation meant that those were greater priorities.

[Anonymous No.12482899]

>>12481841
Nah it's fun

[Anonymous No.12482903]

>>12481898
If anything Poppy War's problem is it goes too dark too fast

[Anonymous No.12482904]

>>12481544
I'm reading it now, quite good (as the last two were).

[Anonymous No.12483062]

>>12481841
The first one is good, the second one blows.

[Anonymous No.12483081]

>>12481564
Yep. At best, we get a far future where everything has worked itself out in favor of the author's unexamined biases. For the most part though, they just don't think about it.

There was a copypasta a few months ago about Cixin Liu and The Death of the West going around that sums up the problem in meme form pretty well.

[Anonymous No.12483085]

>>12481755
I haven't heard of a single one of those people.

[Anonymous No.12483090]

>>12481762
The Glass Bead Game

[Anonymous No.12483119]

>>12483090
>The Glass Bead Game
Why does this sound like something you would watch, on a site that ends with hub, rather than read...

[Anonymous No.12483246]

Best bang for my buck? I have 2 Audible credits.

No space shit, I'd rather have something like Blindsight on Earth or Rainbow's End. Also fantasy wise anything as degenerate as Everyone Loves Large Chests would be great.

[Anonymous No.12483320]

>>12482158
korea has some black celebrity, you can try there friend

[Anonymous No.12483470]

Even though I'm a boy I'd end up in the womens council if I was born in the Wheel of Time setting.

[Anonymous No.12483479]

>>12483470
>a boy
>on sffg
Ssuuuuuure

[Anonymous No.12483736]

>>12483246
>Best bang for my buck? I have 2 Audible credits.
Spend it on something that isn't available in epub form, on the audiobook bay, mobilism, the pirate bay, bibliotik, redacted.ch or MAM. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.12483740]

>>12483736
*pirateable in an ebook form

[Anonymous No.12483825]

Is it a bad idea to add characters whose main purpose in the story is to die to show off how dangerous the setting is?

I don't want to be too edgy or grimdark, but I am trying to do a deconstruction

[Anonymous No.12483859]

>>12483825
It would be more effective to kill off someone that explicitly has another purpose. Especially an unfulfilled one. A setting won't seem dangerous if mister dispensable dies.

[Anonymous No.12483864]

>>12483736
Ugh I know, that's the problem. It's hard enough finding a good fuggin book

[Anonymous No.12483894]

What are some books that will spank me for being a wilful girl and make an honest woman out of me?

[Anonymous No.12483912]

>>12483864
try out fata morgna by steven r boyett.
i enjoyed the audiobook version immensely.
its a one-off but the story is really great in my opinion.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Fata-Morgana-Audiobook/B01N5V9HD6

[Anonymous No.12483929]

anyone here read this? the reviews are good but im in doubt

[Anonymous No.12483933]

>>12483894
the holy bible

[Anonymous No.12483938]

>>12483933
Is that sci fi or fantasy?

[Anonymous No.12483943]

>>12483938
no

[Anonymous No.12483967]

I just want some serious/horror sci-fi. I'm tired of boomer what-if scenarios and Hunger Games rip-offs.

[Anonymous No.12483973]

>>12483085
The decline of SF magazines has resulted in a odd split between short form authors and novelists. Basically nowadays only big nerds read short fiction.

[Anonymous No.12483983]

>>12483973
>Basically nowadays only big nerds read short fiction.
That's sad. I really like the short story format since it keeps things tight. You get a really nice little morsel of ideas that doesn't get bloated by chaff.

[Anonymous No.12483988]

>>12483929
Pros:
>Nice plot
>The loli is cute
>Victor is cute

Cons:
>World feels a bit small
>It's cape-y and obviously people wield super powers
>some of the sentences could use some more prose

Sequel's alright too but it could have been better if a section of the screentime had not been taken by a yandere woman. Don't read the fucking Shades of Magic series by the same author if you end up liking this book, that's written like bad Fire Emblem fanfiction (one of the characters was good in that one but trapped in a shit series).

[Anonymous No.12483992]

>>12483988
>someone is cute
thats enough for me to read it

[Anonymous No.12484003]

>>12480014
tfw I read Legend and it started off decent, but holy fuck the dialogue was terrible

[Anonymous No.12484010]

>>12483943
Then why did you bring it up in sffg?

[Anonymous No.12484021]

>>12484010
The bible is fantasy. I read about 70% of the way through it as a kid before I DNF'd it and while there are some good stories in it, the majority is shit and most fanfictions of it are better than the original.

[Anonymous No.12484022]

>>12481780
Yeah it's "weird /pol/ shit". John C. Wright is a fedorable fellow who was a outspoken r/athiest type before he got brain damage from a seizure and hallucinated the holy trinity appearing to him and so on, which caused him turn into a papist but didn't change his behavior at all.

I've noticed that lately his fanboys have started only mentioning the names of his books instead of the author name, presumably in an attempt to avoid people jumping in to warn readers away. But in short there are better science fiction authors out there, there are better conservative science fiction authors out there, and there are better christian science fiction authors out there.

[Anonymous No.12484043]

>>12484021
what you think the bible is gonna be about: that story where David wins the hand of King Saul's daughter by cutting off 200 foreskins

what the bible is actually about: "And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;"

[Anonymous No.12484063]

>>12484043
>what the bible is actually about: "And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;"
The original: loads and loads and loads of characters

[Anonymous No.12484213]

are there any scifi with military academy where the student uses mech to hunt down creatures around the planet
i know some chinkshit that have this but it's bad

[Anonymous No.12484241]

>>12484213
You mean that isn't the anime Evangelion?

[Anonymous No.12484244]

God the bible fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.12484246]

>>12484241
That's not even close.

[Anonymous No.12484252]

>>12484244
Well, what's the best/most entertaining holy text for a contemporary religion?

[Anonymous No.12484255]

>>12484252
Dianetics ain't bad
Anything by Nick Land

[Anonymous No.12484261]

>>12484246
You have to have the luck of a god to get an exact plot match on anything, let alone a plot match that is good.

[Anonymous No.12484282]

>>12484261
Yes, but like, this is so fucking far off it doesn't even work as a joke. Anon is describing war theme pulp with mech, evangelion is neither pulp nor war nor anythibg remotely like that, there's only the mech part. If someone was doing an unflattering description of passion of the christ, that'd be a more apt zinger for your comment.

[Anonymous No.12484396]

>>12479797
Anon, you posted the wall of text less than a dozen times. The only ones who remember are you, me, and Hieronymus Kek over there.

[Anonymous No.12484561]

>>12483894
Masters of Rome.

[Anonymous No.12484574]

go fuck yourselves

[Anonymous No.12484610]

>>12484574
How do you feel about fucking yourself?

[Anonymous No.12484632]

Book of the New Sun really was great, I never would've believed

[Anonymous No.12484646]

>>12484561
I already read that. But I guess I can see that, I'm kinda like the younger julia.

[Anonymous No.12484663]

>>12484022
>brain damage from a seizure
That's actually what I it felt like reading through his books.
Is it true?

That said, I still really really liked the setting during the middle part of Count to a Billion
and the series as a whole.
Even if the ending (last 5 pages) was a total stinker

[Anonymous No.12484671]

>>12484646
The younger Julia didn't exactly become an honest woman.

[Anonymous No.12484837]

>>12484632
oh yeah. you gotta read the dying earth if you havent now

[Anonymous No.12484883]

>>12483736
>redacted.ch
Is this for P R I V A T E books? Never heard about it. Only bib and the rat.

[Anonymous No.12484967]

>>12481886

If someone asks for a rec and one of your books fits, suggest it. But fuck off with your spam, nobody gives a shit about your list unless they asked for it.
And so help me God if you samefag to ask for your list I am finding the author of your favorite unfinished trilogy and introducing them to Rothfuss and GRRM.

[Anonymous No.12485010]

>>12481227
She's trash tho

[Anonymous No.12485016]

>>12484967
Why would I samefag?
I've been here 6 years, someone eventually asks for something, and one of the myriad charts that I made over the years usually suffices.
i just wanted to try the "first for" post. Never did it, and I'm sure you did it before, I'm also sure you posted a "Sanderson a hack" over your use of the general.

[Anonymous No.12485081]

>>12484883

Redacted.ch as well as the former tracker what.cd are music trackers and people like to upload audiobooks to earn buffer, I'm not sure if audible trial abuse was patched though. As well as having lots of music they function as a screening site to check for good private tracker users. If you reach a specified user class (Elite) you can see a secret invite forum that tells you how to request a bib invite and there are a lot of trackers there that are more desirable for a lot of people than bib and require more so people upload like crazy and the crazier people will buy to fill requests as well as perhaps be tempted to abuse returns. I'd check here before declaring an audiobook a lost cause although I don't think many private tracker users have a functional interest in audiobooks as anything other than a buffer source. This is also the place to get stuff like books bought for you if you have loads of buffer... I usually put 2 GB per 1 USD and have never not gotten something bought for me... But upload is hard to earn and most new books get bought/borrowed and uploaded eventually without requests so patience is a virtue.

[Anonymous No.12485141]

>>12485081
I think I will stick with the rat. Everything I want in audiobook form is there. And the way I have my new arrivals filtered, I get more books like the ones I want. I only want audiobooks. Don't care about movies or music. I can just hit and run a public for that, or hit up youtube and convert to a 320kbps mp3.

[Anonymous No.12485569]

How many pages do you need to read before you can fairly drop a novel

[Anonymous No.12485607]

>>12485569
When you're bored of it. Sometimes after 5, sometimes after 150.

[Anonymous No.12485663]

It's ridiculous how much of an improvement he made on his first trilogy by just making the main character a barely competent coward.

More fantasy writers should use cowardly mcs, they're always fun

[Anonymous No.12485732]

every thread i made is so fucking slow

[Anonymous No.12485798]

>>12485010
I will fight you.

[Anonymous No.12485837]

>>12485607
This. I used to feel like I had to finish everything I picked up, but eventually I just stopped forcing myself and now I enjoy reading a lot more.

[Anonymous No.12485840]

>>12485663
>More fantasy writers should use cowardly mcs, they're always fun
Have you tried anime?

[Anonymous No.12485849]

>>12485663
The quote from Jalan at the very start of book 1 says it best:
>I'm a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.

And he sticks to that for most of the series. He basically stumbles into heroics while drunk or trying to run and hide.

[Anonymous No.12485877]

>>12483988
>some of the sentences could use some more prose
Reading this lets me know you don't actually know any of the words your using. It's nonsense. It's like saying "these trees could use some more forest."

[Anonymous No.12485885]

>>12482432
I sensed a blatant political message and stayed clear, is it not that ham-handed? The setting and premise sounded interesting til I detected a whiff of dogma.

[Anonymous No.12485892]

>>12483894
Wheel of Time. It does such a good job of being a bloated, bland epic fantasy story people either don't notice or completely forget all the spankings.

[Anonymous No.12485899]

>>12485885
damn you're telling me that a book based on the Second Sino-Japanese War had political undertones?

[Anonymous No.12485908]

>>12485899
Historical undertones are fine, I'm obviously talking about modern ones.

[Anonymous No.12485925]

>>12485569
I was about to drop the Divine Dungeon around 100 pages in. The beginning was kinda slow and frontloaded with magical science and dungeon building tutorials, but that was all worth it in the end and I'm now at book 4 and having a blast.

[Anonymous No.12485945]

>>12483825
>but I am trying to do a deconstruction
You should probably read more and learn more about writing before you embarrass yourself. In the first place "deconstruction" is not actually a genre of literature, it's a school of literary critique. People horribly misuse this term to talk about books that reject or reverse genre cliches, but a new author thinking they're oh-so-original by rejecting the cliches of whatever genre is ironically a cliche unto itself.

Starting your novel from a meta commentary perspective is also a mistake. If you don't focus on the plot and characters they are going to be dull and lifeless and nobody will like your story no matter how edgy and subversive you try to make it.

[Anonymous No.12485965]

>>12485945
Oh yeah, thinking that readers won't be able to tell a character is totally superfluous and meant to be killed off shows you have contempt for your audience, which never ends well for any author.

[Anonymous No.12485984]

>>12481156
>wheel of time
>more interesting side characters than main ones
Like who? Random Aes Sedai #344? Gawyn the Eternally Butthurt? Watching Faile's pointless Aiel camp adventures?

Name one character more compelling than Rand, Mat, or Perrin.

[Anonymous No.12486042]

>>12485984
Siuan, Taim, Loghain, Alanna, Morgase, Pedron Niall, Thom, that Pirate and his seanchan gf, Bornhald.

[Anonymous No.12486046]

Am currently reading the very first "The Year's Best Science Fiction" anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois

>tfw the next short story is by "a promising new author"
>tfw you read that he is working on his first novel
>tfw it's Dan Simmons

[Anonymous No.12486071]

Tell me about the Murderbot series. Good?

[Anonymous No.12486098]

>>12485984
Galad

[Anonymous No.12486134]

>>12483090
>>12483119
Sounds like a stand alone novel related to the Stormlight Archive series LOL

[Anonymous No.12486162]

>>12485663
>>12485849
So it's like Flashman except it's set in a fantasy world?

[Anonymous No.12486219]

>>12486071
>female author
>Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning novella series
It's shit

[Anonymous No.12486237]

>>12484663
>Didn't like the ending to Count to a Trillion

You wot? I thought the ending was great, although it was very poor planning on Wright's part to have the Cardinal pop out of nowhere with zero foreshadowing.

[Anonymous No.12486262]

>>12484671
So you see why I need more books of the sort

[Anonymous No.12486375]

>>12484213
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

[Anonymous No.12486534]

Any cyberpunk that focuses on a couple that's completely somber throughout like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDAyofcCLg

[Anonymous No.12486560]

Any new novel that's worth reading? I've the old stuff that /tg/ recommends...

[Anonymous No.12486589]

>>12486560
>New
>Worth reading

[Anonymous No.12486598]

>>12486560
I really liked A Conspiracy of Truths

[Anonymous No.12486658]

I want a world with many mysteries that slowly unravel over the course of the story. What can you recommend for this?

[Anonymous No.12486666]

>>12486658
w o r m

[deleted No.12486668]

>>12486589
Yeah, my thoughts exactly but you never know what an autist might discover.

[Anonymous No.12486714]

>>12485663
The Red Queen Trilogy was worse than Broken Empire.
Stop shilling this shit.

[Anonymous No.12486716]

>>12486560
Look no further.

[Anonymous No.12486758]

>>12486716
Elric's daughters so cute.

[Anonymous No.12486804]

With the Elric books, whats a good reading order? Publications date or chronological order?

[Anonymous No.12486821]

>>12486716
This the high school board now or wut

[Anonymous No.12486841]

>>12486821
what's the matter, don't like pulp?

[Anonymous No.12486842]

>>12485877

[Anonymous No.12486863]

What are some authors or books that have prose in the middle of the spectrum? As in, not as purple or verbose as Vance or Peake, but also not as bare bones or childish as Sanderson.

[Anonymous No.12486879]

>>12486560
What do you like dnd games? Play books?
Elves midgets and orcs in your books?

Peep>>12480014 and see if you like anything.

[Anonymous No.12487013]

How is Lions of Al-Rassan compared to Tigana? For me, I'm finding to Tigana to be just a bit too slow, I was wondering whether Lions was also just plain better.

[Anonymous No.12487024]

As a beginner, would you guys recommend reading Wheel of Time or Mistborn first? excuse my ignorance, I'm completely new to this

[Anonymous No.12487039]

>>12487024
Neither. Pick something shorter to start with.

[Anonymous No.12487042]

>>12487013
If you want fast pacing he isn't for you.

[Anonymous No.12487043]

>>12487024
Neither, and I bet you're baiting.

[Anonymous No.12487048]

>>12486714
Fuck off retard

[Anonymous No.12487055]

>>12486560
The Unholy Consult

seriously niggas need to start picking up Scott Bakker, probably the most darkly enticing fantasy series I've ever read

[Anonymous No.12487059]

>>12487024
Wheel of Time, Sanderson is dogshit. But as Sanderson finished Wheel of Time I'd say neither and go for Masters of Rome instead.

[Anonymous No.12487072]

>>12487059
Fuck off you twat with your trolling.

[Anonymous No.12487080]

>>12487039
anything specific in mind?

[Anonymous No.12487084]

Does anyone else think Steven Erikson is shite?

I swear he's revered across the board, but I couldn't make it past House of Chains.

Memories of Ice and Deadhouse Gates were halfway decent, but certainly not worth the universal praise their getting. His prose is so off-putting for me, and I can't believe a single one of his characters.

Am I missing something?

[Anonymous No.12487114]

>>12487080
> Beginner series or books.
Hmm. Let me think ...

Belgariad
Dragonflight
Jonathan Strange
Magician
Prince of Thorns
The Rook
Storm Front
Earthsea

[Anonymous No.12487152]

>>12487048
Not my fault you like shit characters and shit books.
Take your shit tastes elsewhere. We don't need you polluting the bookfeed tube with your shitty recommendations.
Broken Empire was shit, Red Queen was shit, Red Ancestor was shit. Take your Lawrence worshiping ass to rebbit.

[Anonymous No.12487164]

>>12487084
>Am I missing something?
Yes, a vasectomy.

[Anonymous No.12487171]

>>12487055
Mr Newfag. Bakker wasa staple for this general years ago. It was Bakker's work which inspired the GRI approval Stamp.

[Anonymous No.12487189]

>>12487164
b-but his prose is so drab and unengaging, anon

I can never get a feel for what his characters are actually like either

[Anonymous No.12487227]

>>12487171
Oooh, I missed the party.

Dude's my favourite fantasy author, hands down. Had to reread the last two thirds of TUC about four times just to take it all in, can't say any books done that to me before.

Do we know of any Bakker-tier fantasy works, around here? It's hard to find something that beautiful and dark

[Anonymous No.12487320]

>>12487227
Here. Enjoy a Spurdo.

[Anonymous No.12487321]

Love how masters of rome is our new book for the posters who read about 5 books a year and call everything else shit

[Anonymous No.12487362]

>>12487024
Wheel of Time is really ambitious for a first series if you're new to fantasy. Just be prepared that it's very long and even people who like the series a lot admit that it's full of bloat and drags at points.

As for Sanderson, he's not bad, exactly, but he's not really good either.You read a Sanderson novel and it's basically like "that sure was an epic fantasy series I just read" and it all sort of blends together into a gray blur in your memory except for the 2 or 3 really good parts that were clearly his inspiration for writing it in the first place.

If you're picking these series it sounds like you want to get into something really long and involved, and preferably complete (so no A Song of Ice and Fire). If you want epic fantasy at a more manageable length and scale, I recommend Shadowmarch by Tad Williams. It's a 4 book series and has far more personality than anything Sanderson writes.

[Anonymous No.12487381]

>>12487189
Read poetry if you care about the musicality of words on a page, or hell read any literary fiction and you'll get at the very least people trying to be clever even if they just make asses out of themselves most of the time imo. People don't read fantasy for prose artistry, they read it for the fantasy. That's why it's genre fiction. If you're not interested in the genre then get out of it.

[Anonymous No.12487384]

>>12487227
nothings really as based as bakker. Did you think UHC was sort of dissapointing as I did? mostly the ending just wasnt as satisfying as I'd have liked.

[Anonymous No.12487401]

>>12487321
You mean reread the same 4 books a year and try one new book and call it shit.

[Anonymous No.12487407]

>>12487072
Everything I said was honest and true.

[Anonymous No.12487410]

anyone know if another prince of nothing book is ever coming out?

[Anonymous No.12487440]

>>12487384
Honestly, considering how dark and twisted the series is as a whole, I couldn't imagine a finer ending.

Did it leave me with the biggest literary blue balls of all time? Yes. Yes it did. It was ingenious though, that feeling of devastation it left me with for hours afterwards was unlike anything I've felt from reading any other novel.

Overall 11/10 would read again

[Anonymous No.12487449]

>>12487410
Bakker's working on at least two more books, last I heard. It's to be called the No-God series.

Can't fokking wait

[Anonymous No.12487500]

>>12487381
B-But fantasy can be beautifully written

Have you read Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series? Written proof right there that a book can be a piece of genre fiction and artistically written.

Something can be genre fiction and not read like arse, anon

[Anonymous No.12487510]

>>12487500
God, stop your fucking stutterposting and your retarded spacing.

[Anonymous No.12487531]

>>12487510
N-No

You can leave if you don't like it.........

[Anonymous No.12487555]

>>12487531
th-that ain't me :^O

[Anonymous No.12487568]

>>12487500
Erickson's prose is not "arse", it's standard for the genre, in fact I would even say slightly above average given his diction and creative descriptions, on occasion.. If you find Erickson's prose unreadable then you probably don't read very much epic fantasy (or genre fiction in general), because on the whole most authors are even more bland than he is.

And I will say again: you should just quit reading genre fiction if you care that much about prose. Personally I find people who obsess over prose to be dull, unable to see the forest for the trees half the time. Prose is simply the medium in which fantasy authors craft a story, it's like the paint on the canvas. When I look at a painting I'd rather discuss the composition, not the brush strokes or what the paint is made of. I'm not an artist, I don't give a shit what techniques were used.

[Anonymous No.12487586]

>>12487568
That's an incredibly bad analogy. A story written with bad prose is more akin to a picture drawn by a 6 year old. Funny to laugh at, but nothing more.

[Anonymous No.12487637]

>that scene in book 1 part 2 when he leaps off the half alighted bridge and flies above the parshnedi by sucking in storm energy from their gems
fucking yelled like I was there myself

[Anonymous No.12487640]

>>12487586
This is another trait of people who obsess over prose: they cling to irrelevant aspects of my posts to avoid addressing the central point. There's a wide wide world of literature out there with an emphasis on rhetoric and diction, you should go read it since you obviously care more about that then characters, setting, or plot.

[Anonymous No.12487660]

How's Le Guin? I picked up a lesser known work of her's for .50 cents yesterday.

[Anonymous No.12487668]

>>12487660
Check out >>12486842

[Anonymous No.12487669]

>>12487640
It's not irrelevant at all. What you're trying to argue has nothing to do with genre. There's good and bad writing in it. There's also good and bad writing outside of it. As per usual, the good is rarer than the bad.
>care more about that then characters, setting, or plot.
What if... careful, sit down before reading the next one, it will probably be a huge revelation to you... you care about all of these, as well as the writing? And, here's an even bigger shocking truth... they're all related. You can't have "good" characters or "plot" without the writing to deliver it. They cease being good if the execution is bad.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe No.12487711]

>>12487660
Always excellent storytelling. Donno about this title

[Anonymous No.12487781]

>>12486804
>chronological order?
Yes

[Anonymous No.12487785]

>>12487024
Stormlight Archive.

[Anonymous No.12487812]

>>12487024
Dragonlance

[Anonymous No.12487833]

>>12481078
They're enjoyable. Just don't expect anything mindblowing, the guy wrote the books for alcohol money.

[Anonymous No.12487853]

>>12487660
She's great, less absolute classics in the second half of her career but still very good

[Anonymous No.12487872]

>>12481078
They're total fun, get reading cunt.

[Anonymous No.12487981]

>>12487833
Wtf i love the witcher now?!

[Anonymous No.12488000]

>>12487833
is that why he turned down the royalties from the games? Because the money would only fuel his alcoholism further? What a man.

[Anonymous No.12488015]

>>12486071
It's great.

[Anonymous No.12488019]

>mfw Shardblades are real

[Anonymous No.12488028]

>>12488000
He didn't think the game would be successful, he'd licensed his work for something else before can get next to nothing, so he took a one off payment instead of a percentage of profits.

[Anonymous No.12488067]

>>12488028
That's what you get for not believing in yourself.

[Anonymous No.12488146]

>>12488019
Shit like this makes me relieved I never enlisted.

Okay so the basic story on the Air Force Anime Swords is that back in the day when a officer retired, if he was particularly liked by the enlisted under his command they'd get together and give him a gift that essentially means "134th Tanker Squadron didn't hate your guts" which would occasionally be a sword. The military being the military, some officers who didn't get a sword got mad about this, and as a result the Air Force made it a official "thing" where the 15 most senior NCOs vote on who gets a sword this year and it's really now just yet another unearned award that senior officers get. The 7 most recent awards have been to 4-star generals who were wildly unpopular.

[Anonymous No.12488172]

>>12480014

what an absolutely fucking awful list

[Anonymous No.12488176]

what do I read after Wolfe

[Anonymous No.12488194]

>>12488146
Ive heard its now a tongue in cheak fuck you to the biggest asshole senior officers, with the size and level of weeaboo in the sword design being an indicator of how much the underlings despise them.

[Anonymous No.12488206]

alright sffg Ive got three books on my to read shelf, what should I read first
>The Windup Girl
>Ada or Ardor
>Cloud Atlas

[Anonymous No.12488215]

>>12488176
More Wolfe. Delany, LeGuin, Borges, GGK.

[Anonymous No.12488234]

>>12488206
cloud atlas

[Anonymous No.12488274]

>>12488194
how long until someone makes a prop Shardblade? That would be the ultimate 'fuck you'.

[Anonymous No.12488296]

>>12485877
>"these trees could use some more forest."
Which precisely underlies what I am trying say? At least I'm not conflating 'your' with 'you're'.

[Anonymous No.12488355]

>>12483988
Fucking /v/irgins, weaboos and manchildren in general ruining everything.

Your post reads like infantile nonsense. Please read more until you improve your taste or, much better (because I honestly don't care what you read in genre fiction) figure out how to express yourself without speaking like a 11 year old.

[Anonymous No.12488378]

>>12488355
>Fucking /v/irgins, weaboos and manchildren in general ruining everything.
YOUR post reads like infantile nonsense.
It should be:
Fucking /v/irgins, weaboos and manchildren in general ARE ruining everything.

[Anonymous No.12488401]

>>12488146
Thats some cool mythology though.

[Anonymous No.12488456]

>>12488378
If you must insist on grammar, I need you to grow up 5 or 6 years.

I was referring to the substance and the structure of his take. Why the fuck do you so blissfully ignore the "cute loli", "videogame fan fiction", or the fact he meant to say he would've liked like if the author was more explicit, less consciously brief, less straight 'bare bones' prose even (or something along these lines); he chose to say "it needs more prose" which is semantically embarrassing. Plus, he ventured no examples when the vagueness of "needs more prose" would be self evident to a non manchild.

[Anonymous No.12488519]

>>12488456
Anon, consider the fact not everyone is a great American like yourself. You clearly understand what he meant, no need to do the tired semantics argument.

[Anonymous No.12488520]

>>12488456
If you are criticising someone else's choice of vocabulary as 'infantile', I would highly suggest checking your own post for infantility in the incipient condition. In the future, I would expect you to do so from the first instantiation, rather than engaging in a rather postmortem phenomena colloquially referred to as 'damage control' and from within a Sino-Japanese basket weaving fora.

[Anonymous No.12488632]

Now that the fog of sequedipalian loquaciousness has refused to clear, what are your favoured instances of overly purple verbosity (that is, with the texture and the shape and the morality of that which is ranging from the vaguely aquamarine blue to the indigo to the subterranean supratentorial shades of ultra ultra violet which is carcinogenic and which is also invisible to the naked eye until it induces said carcinogenic properties in the form of squamous cell carcinoma within its monumental deathly and yet peristaltic convulsions) thus releasing the prose from its confined vessel into the paragon of virtue and in extremis the nonparalla-lelelelelelelelelel-d exemplar paradigm of quintessent and distilled refined earthly readings.

[Anonymous No.12488664]

>web novel author finally flips the table and directly spews sjw nonsense about demon lives matter

And closed instantly

[Anonymous No.12488695]

>>12488664
>demon lives matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU_wH9DTv8

[Anonymous No.12488699]

>>12488664
>reading web novels
Ohnononononono

[Anonymous No.12488971]

I envy shitty fantasy writers even more than decent fantasy writers. Imagine having enough confidence in your imagination to write whatever you want.

>>12488664
do the demons actually kill anyone?

[Anonymous No.12489090]

Im tryna read some juicy scifi after a joyce binge, i got a copy of dune and foundation trilogy on my shelf, which should go at first?

[Anonymous No.12489097]

>>12489090
The answer is always Foundation

[Anonymous No.12489204]

>>12489090
Dune

[Anonymous No.12489314]

I'm reading The Bonehunters and could someone answer a few questions for me please? It's been a couple years since I've read Memories of Ice so I don't remember much.
>Why did Cotillion possess Apsalar?
>How did Karsa reject getting Crippled God'd yet still use the big-deal sword and all?
>Why is he carrying around Hound heads?
>How did Cotillion and Shadowthrone Ascend?
>Why was Sha'ik and the Apocalypse a big deal?

[Anonymous No.12489510]

>>12488664
One of these days I'm gonna get around to writing my "Fuck niggers and poor people" fantasy novel just to tip the scales a little bit.

[Anonymous No.12489546]

>>12489314
Cause it got more not good the farther the series went on.

[Anonymous No.12489552]

well, I finally managed to write more than 500 words in a sitting.

Too bad they're so awful it's a little embarrassing. Good thing I'm probably going to re-write this if and when I make it to the end.

>>12489510
were you always like that, or did it happen gradually

[Anonymous No.12489582]

Is it too generic for the mc to have a star-shaped scar?

[Anonymous No.12489616]

>>12489582
Is the mc a my little pony?

[Anonymous No.12489649]

>>12489616
one of my original ideas for the story was that as a boy he caught a shooting star and rather than getting magical powers (at least initially), it burned his fucking arm off.

[Anonymous No.12489668]

>>12489552
It happened gradually; because, unfortunately, I had a misfortune hitherto unknown to the average leftist suburbanite, and that was actually being raised near niggers. First it was small things like niggers stealing my scissors in school even though they had my name on it, or a nigger in the public pool trying to steal my bracelet after it fell in the water which also had my name on it, but then it built into things like niggers hollering at each other for no good reason, getting into fights in my general vicinity, and stealing anything that wasn't nailed down even if it had my name on it. As you grow older, as human beings tend to do, you begin to notice the differences between how they act, but most people, and me being no exception, were raised to mentally block out the idea that it could just stem from the fact that niggers are niggers. Every day there would be some news or other about some innocent bystander being savagely robbed, raped, or murdered, and with almost unerring certainty would the perpetrator be revealed to be some black youth. Still that was not enough and it was not until I was eighteen years old, working a temp job to help pay for my college did it really click. All the niggers niggering, blasting their nigger beats during lunch time, hollering at each other in nigger speak, and generally making my life living hell even when none of it was directed at me. Finally, when one nigger tried to introduce me to a prostitute and another ex-drug-dealer nigger got in a fight with the foreman over not getting paid for the 20 minute ride to the site, did I suddenly realize that I really hated niggers.

[Anonymous No.12489685]

>>12489582
You're going to be hounded by people asking if it's a Jojo reference, but by all means.

[Anonymous No.12489688]

>>12489090
They're both good, so whatever you feel like. I will say that Dune is a much denser book, and written later. Make of that what you will.

[Anonymous No.12489693]

>>12489685
That's a birthmark. Totally different.

[Anonymous No.12489699]

>>12489649
yes but burn scars are not star shaped

[Anonymous No.12489715]

>>12489685
my previous MC had her toes bitten off by an all-consuming sphere and at one point fell through the bottom of a train. Also a story I dropped featured a british vampire living in egypt.

I not only accept the comparison, I welcome it.

>>12489699
it's called magic kid, look it up

[Anonymous No.12489743]

>>12489715
star shaped scars are not cool

[Anonymous No.12489759]

>>12489743
tapir shaped scars are cool though

[Anonymous No.12489791]

>>12489759
Tapir shaped stars are scary

[Anonymous No.12489811]

why am I trying to write a series if I don't even know where I'm supposed to be going with it and can cram all the plot twists into the first book?

>>12488206
the windup girl

>>12488215
does borges actually have any writing that's remotely interesting? I tried reading him once and he was just describing an e/lit/ist being incredibly dull, conceited and pedantic is such excruciating detail that he perfectly captured the boredom by forcing it on the reader

[Anonymous No.12489826]

>>12489811
You shouldn't make it a series.

[Anonymous No.12489842]

>>12489826
honestly anon, I know you're right but I don't want to admit it to myself

[Anonymous No.12489933]

Multiple pov never improves a story.
If one characters pov can't carry your narrative, just don't write.

[Anonymous No.12490004]

How many pounds of fire would it take to melt a sword?

[Anonymous No.12490032]

>>12490004
Google steel melting point
http://www.blksmth.com/heat_colors.htm
http://rebuildingcivilization.com/content/how-hot-can-you-get-coal-fired-forge

[Anonymous No.12490042]

>>12490032
I need a poundage of fire, not degrees of heat

[Anonymous No.12490065]

>>12490042
>pounds of fire
Are you dumb? Fire doesn't have mass in that sense.
You want pounds of wood? charcoal? mineral coal? propane? is there a forge involved? what's the insulation like.
Just figure out the specifics and do some math, dude.

[Anonymous No.12490077]

>>12490065
Pounds of fire. Would a wizard be able to throw a fireball heavy enough to melt a sword? How far? It's a simple question sis, idk what you're going on about

[Anonymous No.12490136]

>>12489933
Thanks for the professional advice, shitlord.

[Anonymous No.12490139]

>>12490077
>sis
gaysnotallowed.jpg

[Anonymous No.12490150]

>>12490139
>men
>on sffg
Hi newfag, fuck off

[Anonymous No.12490153]

>>12490139
We're all lolis

[Anonymous No.12490183]

>>12490150
I read Sanderson.

[Anonymous No.12490185]

Any fantasy that will convince me suicide is a good idea?

[Anonymous No.12490195]

>>12490183
Come back when you've published something sanderson reads

[Anonymous No.12490200]

>>12490185
Is the Twilight series fantasy? That's enough to drive most to suicide

[Anonymous No.12490205]

>>12490185
Anything by dead failed writer. It literally worked for him.

[Anonymous No.12490207]

>2019
>Fforde is still writing two more books before Shades of Grey 2
Ffuck

[Anonymous No.12490217]

>>12490077
What do you mean heavy? How the fuck would I know when flames have no weight.
In real life physics, a propane flame the size of your finger could melt a bar of steel faster than a fire made of burning wood as tall as a tree.
In fantasy, a strong wizard would throw a fireball /powerful/ enough (of some color, the size of whatever, etc) to melt /steel/. Jack Vance would use a laser disguised as sharp needle of fire or some strong light.

The closest retarded bullshit I read somewhere was of a magician counting "pounds of stress" upon his "mental conditioning skill" to manipulate the "elements" (this is The Name of the Wind btw and you had to "know" the element).
At any rate, you should drop whatever it is you're writing if you plan to include the expression "pounds of magic fire" or the unit "pounds" in relation to "fire" or provide.

[Anonymous No.12490225]

>>12490217
You're stupid.
Like you are legit about a full acre of retard

[Anonymous No.12490254]

>>12490225
Okay, buddy.

[Anonymous No.12490268]

>>12490254
Fantasy is at its best when out takes human made abstracts that don't have a direct natural link in reality and gives out one. Who the fuck cares that this can't be measured in pounds, it's it that hard to stretch your imagination a bit for a humble shit post? Are you an engineer?

[Anonymous No.12490306]

>>12490185
Masters of Rome, the only honourable thing a man can do when it becomes clear he is a failure to his father is suicide.

[Anonymous No.12490322]

>>12490268
>Pounds of fire, heavy enough, how far, melt a sword
The whole point of a fireball is that it's just magic. Made up things. Magic has no rules.
You're telling me I'm the autistic engineer when you're literally asking for constraints to make your shitty super power believable.
>muh imagination
I was just trying to point out the obvious of why "a fireball of x pounds" just sounds retarded in the setting of a fantasy story, you asswipe. You could literally write "Gandalf threw a ball of 50 pounds of pure fire" and why should it make sense.
In The Red Knight a super powerful wizard adopted the form of a giant ent like creature and threw a fireball like 20 meters in diameter a few miles away, hot enough to melt iron iirc.

[Anonymous No.12490323]

>>12490306
Men can't read.
The few exceptions exclusively read nonfiction

[Anonymous No.12490358]

Reading pic related. It's a collection of short stories, with this book being slightly more moralistic then some of his other works. Still, highly enjoyable tales, the once I've read so far!

[Anonymous No.12490493]

I enjoyed the wizard knight a lot, and gene wolfe feels very unique among fantasy authors. I like how he's telling a story about one person and the people around him, rather than jacking himself off using world building.

[Anonymous No.12490649]

>>12490323
Hello alpha male
go suck a dick or two

[Anonymous No.12490659]

just finished Divine Dungeon Book 4.
What. the. Fuck.
I was kinda hoping Xenocide's plan was to pull a Dr. Manhattan/Ozymandias to "end all wars", but he really just wanted to crash the moon on the planet?
Also, is this fucking author really going into the direction that I think he is, i.e. this magic fantasy world is actually our earth but pre-calamity that erased all magic? Or is our world the world inside Cal's soul?
Also wtf is an Acme?
I really, I mean REALLY loved the book 3 ending twist, but this was mostly just kinda weird.

[Anonymous No.12490768]

>>12490659
That's what you get for reading a book that's got the word Dungeon in it LOL

[Anonymous No.12490779]

>>12490659
Our world being inside Cal would be my guess.

> wtf is an Acme?
It's a real word meaning the something is the best it can be.

> just kinda weird.
I felt the series got kind of weird, and not in a good way, with the whole Cal / Time Travel plot hax. It's been like too odd ever since.

[Anonymous No.12490886]

>>12490779
>Time Travel plot hax
Not him but, that was predictable as fuck though, the moment we had two protagonists pov I assumed they were the same person.

[Anonymous No.12490934]

>>12490779
>>12490886
I just really loved the way we got to see the prologue from a different view. idk if he had it planned all along or just left it vague intentionally, but I just love time shit like that. Like remember how in Steins;Gate, the last episode was also the first episode. Love shit like that.
And the way the series uses a more esoteric approach to stats and levels is nice too. Kinda worried how fast Dale is levelling up though. Everyone is always like "oh in 30 years you'll reach rank this and that, and then he just does it in a week. Sure he's technically a gem humunculus thing, but still.

The worst part of the 4th book was the Arrow to the Knee reference.

[Anonymous No.12490936]

>>12490768
>protagonist is a dungeon
>it has dungeon in the title
[You have achieved a minor insight. INT +3]

[Anonymous No.12491052]

>>12490649
I'm not an alpha male as proven by me being on sffg, I am a stay at home wife

[Anonymous No.12491060]

>>12491052
>I am a stay at home wife
you mean you're unemployed

[Anonymous No.12491078]

>>12491060
>Wanting women to work
Begone

[Anonymous No.12491092]

>>12479993
Hey /sffg/, what are some good novels about a technological singularity?

[Anonymous No.12491103]

>>12491092
It's not good, but there's Accelerando by Stross

[Anonymous No.12491105]

Alright, whose turn is it to make a new thread? Get on it slave.

[Anonymous No.12491188]

>>12491105
Don't bait me or I'll make a Masters of Rome edition general. You've been warned...

[Anonymous No.12491208]

>>12491188
i might as well make this

[Anonymous No.12491214]

>>12491213
>>12491213