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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General Anonymous Thu Mar 28 12:53:14 2019 No.12840324 [Reply] [Original]

Unpopular Opinions Edition
>Post 'em, you edgelords.

Monthly Reading for March: The Black Company by Glen Cook

Fantasy:
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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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>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 12:56:43 2019 No.12840343 Lady a shit

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 12:58:02 2019 No.12840347 File: 219 KB, 500x800, monthly reading.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Approx. two threads left.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:00:22 2019 No.12840358 >>12840324 >Unpopular Opinions Edition The third (and best) Harry Potter is a 7/10 book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:06:45 2019 No.12840384 >>12840324 Mommyfags are based

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:14:24 2019 No.12840406

>And I'd like to head off any bad-faith arguments of "innocent until proven guilty" but[sic] pointing out that that is the standard for criminal prosecution, not the standard for airing grievances in a public forum.

Fuck whoever made me aware of this reddit #metoo train wreck in the other thread, I can't stop reading it. I wonder how long until the few sane people calling out the mentally ill mods get banned.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:14:37 2019 No.12840408 >>12840343 >imagine being this retarded

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:15:35 2019 No.12840415 milfpoosey

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:19:06 2019 No.12840428 >>12840384 Having a fetish that makes you attracted to someone in the same mold as the only member of the opposite sex that interacts with you on a regular basis and only because she has to does not make you based anon, it makes you a sad individual.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:20:31 2019 No.12840430 >>12840406 Eh, they locked the thread hours ago. People were just calling them out politely and they still couldn't take it, the snowflakes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:21:16 2019 No.12840434 >>12840408 Lady doesn’t have to lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:23:54 2019 No.12840443 >>12840406 >>12840430 What happened

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:29:33 2019 No.12840470

>>12840443
Some author got accused of being an evil rapist and the mods immediately banned him and came out with gems like

>We try really really hard to be unbiased as moderators, but that doesn't make us the Neutral Planet from Futurama. Sometimes there is a right and a wrong side in life, and in this case, the right and wrong side are blindingly obvious.

Then shortly later it got proven to be complete bullshit, now they're trying to pretend nothing happened.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:39:14 2019 No.12840507 >>12840470 >but that doesn't make us the Neutral Planet from Futurama What is it with these fucks and unnecessary pop culture references?

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:45:15 2019 No.12840535
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>>12840443
Some mad bastard started a smear campaign against Ed McDonald, author of Blackwing(great book btw). He did it by creating a fuck ton of accounts over the course of an year pretending to women that were harassed by Ed Mcdonald, the full works gave the accounts families and everything and then reached out to sjw fantasy bloggers posing as victims. Of course these bloggers ate up everything up and wrote blogs smearing Ed and decrying the presence of "rabid sexism" in fantasy circles. The reddit mods also banned the author from their fantasy subreddit citing the "evidence" even though he didn't do shit on the site itself.

Finally after a lot of digging people started realizing that it was a targeted smear campaign and all the accounts making allegations were fake accounts.

So, the Reddit mods and the sjw bloggers are in full damage control, back pedal mode right now. They're even playing the victim now *because* they were "manipulated" by this evil person and none of it is their fault.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:49:07 2019 No.12840549 >>12840535 not long till the 3rd book at least. fist two were the best fantasy I read last year.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:49:47 2019 No.12840552 >>12840507 Kek muh references

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:55:28 2019 No.12840577
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>>12840535
He himself basically apologized even though is life was about to be ruined by an online lynch mob driven by that shit #metoo movement. He gets no sympathy from me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 13:58:53 2019 No.12840591 >>12840535 >>12840577 Faggot sounds like he deserved it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:00:18 2019 No.12840597 File: 326 KB, 1400x2100, 81SvMH1jFIL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12840324 Is Glen Cook’s post-apocalyptic naval warfare book gud?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:01:34 2019 No.12840599 >>12840348 why are you hating on Daniel Black?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:04:18 2019 No.12840607 >>12840311 >I would rather pirate hookers and buy books, though Spoken like a true degenerate. hentai is where it's at. female:cervix

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:09:23 2019 No.12840633 File: 75 KB, 395x512, A012181-01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12840577 Final proof that the Campbells did nothing wrong

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:13:35 2019 No.12840650 >>12840535 What's it about? >>12840599 Nothing against the book itself, just the posters who complain when women have bigger roles than in borderline porn, makes it harder to identify the actually woke books to avoid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:17:33 2019 No.12840667 >>12840650 Post-apocalyptic horror with gods and magic. Don't be put off by the grimdark tag, it doesn't have any of the usual bad grim dark tropes like shock value sequences and edgy characters.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:20:08 2019 No.12840679 >>12840650 Holding the maringot line against unholy abominations and eldritch powers creating them after about 100 years of a state of total war.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:21:40 2019 No.12840686 >>12840667 Anthony Ryan Okaying it makes me weary.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:27:45 2019 No.12840701 what if GRRM and From Software teamed up on a game? would it be good?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:33:47 2019 No.12840731 >>12840701 It would mean he has more things to help him procrastinate instead of writing his last two books.

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:34:12 2019 No.12840734

>>12840701
No, sounds retarded.
But I bet if From Software and CD Projekt Red teamed up they could potentially make the greatest game of all time. Imagine Witcher with the combat mechanics of the Souls games instead of the hack and slash bullshit in the originals.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:47:17 2019 No.12840804 >>12840701 >>12840734 Old Bioware would have made the best Asoiaf game.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:48:39 2019 No.12840814 >>12840686 tbf to him he did write one REALLY good book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 14:52:49 2019 No.12840835 >>12840701 not really, the setting doesn't fit the mechanics.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 15:14:06 2019 No.12840929 >>12840814 You don't like Dragon Safari?

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:10:14 2019 No.12841162
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Just finished pic related and goddamn was that a ride, the language used made it even better. And everyone was incredibly trusting while simultaneously being incredibly deceptive.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:15:17 2019 No.12841188 Is mask of the template good/decent? Saw it posted in the last thread and I am curious.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:19:10 2019 No.12841206 >>12840577 What a pussy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:19:42 2019 No.12841209 >>12841188 I'd say that it is decently written monster girl smut.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:22:30 2019 No.12841220 >>12841209 >I'd say that it is decently written monster girl smut Decent by monster girl smut standards, or decent by genre fiction standards?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:26:27 2019 No.12841244 File: 27 KB, 313x500, 416JKdKVaSL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] thicc

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:27:03 2019 No.12841248 >>12841220 A little bit of column A and B has some pretty good lewd scenes and delves into some deeper themes that isn't dicking a minotaur into submission without being absolutely retarded about it.

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:28:48 2019 No.12841254
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>>12840324
The Crippled God was such a massive fucking underwhelming disappointment I regret finishing the series now HOLY SHIT WHAT A JOKE THAT ENDING WAS AND NOT EVEN RESOLVING A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS IT'S LIKE I READ THE HYPERION CANTOS ALL OVER AGAI

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:34:47 2019 No.12841287

>>12841254
Pretty much confirms everything I expected, I dropped the series in book 7 and later checked on some sub plot from an earlier book on the wiki and just saw it never gets mentioned again. That's when I knew I'll never be going back to this shit, nothing pisses me off more than set-up with no payoff, worst fucking sin when it comes to writing for me in any medium.

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:42:29 2019 No.12841325

>>12841162
Michael Shea wrote basically a fan-fiction sequel to Eyes of the Overworld that received Vance's stamp of approval. So if you want to read more Dying Earth stuff in the same universe you might give that a read (even though Vance ended up writing his own sequel later that of course completely ignored Shea's sequel).

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:43:45 2019 No.12841332 >>12840597 If it's his very first novel like it says on the cover there then probably not.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:46:41 2019 No.12841345 >>12841254 >>12841287 Tried to warn ya'll niggaz. There's no point in reading epic fantasy that goes past 3 books. 9 times out of 10 it becomes a bloated mess with a shit ending.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:48:13 2019 No.12841353 >>12841248 Are the sequels any good?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 16:57:13 2019 No.12841399 File: 58 KB, 960x753, 1532043597973.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12841254 I'm about to finish Deadhouse Gates and go onto Memories of Ice. At what book in the series does the disappointment begin?

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:01:00 2019 No.12841420

>>12841345
Wheel of time has the opposite problem though, where it introduced so many sub plots it takes 5 million pages to resolve them all, but at least it tries to. A hundred or so named aes sedai might have been a mistake, them and a bunch of other tertiary characters, they eat up way too much space in the middle books. But still prefer that to just dumping shit like malazan does.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:01:57 2019 No.12841426 File: 558 KB, 720x404, grrm.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12841345 >with a shit ending If only

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:11:26 2019 No.12841493 >>12841325 hmm thanks might give that a read. meanwhile im thinking of reading The Worm Ouroboros, is it good? i've only seen the cover, haven even read the description

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:13:10 2019 No.12841500

>>12841399
It's all downhill after Deadhouse Gates. But you might be tricked into thinking it's not because of all the shit Erikson throws at you. By the end though you realize all of that was a distraction to distract you from the fact Erikson didn't know what the hell he was doing.
>yfw in the very last book he's STILL introducing new, pointless characters

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:14:11 2019 No.12841505 >>12841493 Haven't read it, but I've only ever seen praise for it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:24:02 2019 No.12841553 >>12841399 The fucking last one because it doesn't resolve much of shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:32:10 2019 No.12841601 talk to me for a second about chapter length, what is short vs too long

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:42:18 2019 No.12841648

Only Sci-fi I've ever read was the first Dune book, though I might pick up The Book of New Sun sooner or later. But what I'm really curious about is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: How do I get into it (since it was apparently a radio drama first), is it worth it, and do I have to have general knowledge of Sci-fi stuff to really appreciate the satire? I love Terry Prachett to death so I can handle British humor.

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:42:28 2019 No.12841651

>>12841601
When I'm writing I just never think about it. To me, chapters are just more extreme scene changes and a means to encapsulate certain portions of the story. Sometimes they're 3k words long, sometimes they're 20k words long, it's just as long as it takes me to get to what I consider a good stopping point and resolve the main purpose of the chapter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 17:59:57 2019 No.12841745 >>12841648 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy isn't really "laugh-out-loud" in my opinion, but the humor the author went for can certainly be appreciated. I'd say it's worth a read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:01:16 2019 No.12841749 >>12841426 I want to shit on him but in his shoes I would just fuck around too

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:04:27 2019 No.12841773 >behind pace on goodreads for the first time all year >have absolutely nothing that's holding my attention :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:12:50 2019 No.12841814 Does anyone knows were I can get pdf of /sffg/ books for free?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:16:50 2019 No.12841828 >>12841814 i imagine plenty of people know

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:20:14 2019 No.12841844 god why even build up icarium since book fucking two only to give mappo a BAD END

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:29:47 2019 No.12841878 >>12841828 Can anyone tell?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:32:07 2019 No.12841891 >>12841878 I sent you a pm :3

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:41:24 2019 No.12841923 >>12841814 >what's sticky

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:51:48 2019 No.12841978 What's the 'monthly reading' for April gonna be?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:53:45 2019 No.12841986 File: 43 KB, 620x465, markusperssonnotchminecraft.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12841426 >ywn be a fat fuck that lives off of your single overrated work Why even live?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 18:58:21 2019 No.12842013 >It's a Perrin episode

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 19:15:34 2019 No.12842094 >>12841923 It isn't giving me the smut of dubious quality I am looking for.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 19:27:44 2019 No.12842153 >>12842013 >it’s a post the same thing in every thread episode without any meaningful contribution

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 20:03:19 2019 No.12842265 >>12842013 >it’s an egwene gets spanked until she cries episode

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 20:09:55 2019 No.12842280 >>12841651 duly noted, thanks

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 20:37:02 2019 No.12842389 File: 558 KB, 367x265, 1551906476154.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12842265

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 20:38:29 2019 No.12842394 >>12841773 >Tfw i'm 11 books ahead of schedule Now i can shitpost for a few days

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 21:57:07 2019 No.12842749 File: 1.36 MB, 2000x3000, 1545524271379.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Please gib books to add to my collection.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 22:08:27 2019 No.12842795 Might as well ask: does someone have a download link to cebelius stuff? I have looked it everywhere and haven’t found anything other than malware.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 22:22:49 2019 No.12842849 >>12841254 Nothing personnel, Crippled God.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 22:27:29 2019 No.12842862 >>12842749 does sffg make any books

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 22:36:05 2019 No.12842903 >>12841332 His actual first novel was a porno called "Swap Academy" IIRC.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 22:43:00 2019 No.12842930 >>12842862 I write books, but nothing I'd deem worth publishing. Too much pressure for quality, plus it's just a hobby and I already have a well paying job. Personally I prefer releasing works anonymously for the various fandoms around 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 23:02:43 2019 No.12843007 >>12841978 It's put to a vote at the end of the month.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 23:18:18 2019 No.12843084 >>12840929 Read only one book. Wasn't exactly bad but didn't interest me enough to read the sequels.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 28 23:23:46 2019 No.12843111 >>12842862 we should make one >a novel by /sffg/

Anonymous Thu Mar 28 23:33:47 2019 No.12843153

>>12842862
I wrote a single novel, never made an effort to publish it.

since then I've spent the past year and a half trying to write a second novel, but at this point I know in my heart that it's never going to happen. The plot I have took four years to take form and it's so horrible it makes me sick thinking about it. I can't bring myself to write it because of the shame and I can't bring myself to write something else because I've invested too much of myself into it that I can't take back. So now I sit here, poisoned by something that once brought me so much hope, praying that one morning I just won't wake up

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 00:35:24 2019 No.12843416 I am in the same discord as birdboi. I have a map of his setting. Anyone want me to post it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 00:41:21 2019 No.12843445 >>12843416 if he gives permission. it would be good to see at least one of us succeeding

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 00:43:24 2019 No.12843454 File: 1.20 MB, 4096x2160, Black_And_White.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12843445 I asked him. He said: >I post them publicly, it does not matter, it is your choice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 00:46:40 2019 No.12843465 >>12843416 The map that was one of the first things he posted about his story? Why are his fans such faggy attention whores when the guy himself just wants to write his autistic book series?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 00:59:57 2019 No.12843518 >>12840428 You only have one mother in your live. All other thots come and go.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 01:00:15 2019 No.12843521

>>12843465
I think people admire him because his fantasy world actually brings joy to his life that he'll willingly share with everyone. It doesn't fill him with bitterness, pain and longing for a horizon he can never cross, so he gets to be a vicarious stand-in for people who just want to pretend for a few minutes that their lives aren't all that bad

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 01:01:30 2019 No.12843527 >>12843454 Holy shit that is detailed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 01:09:14 2019 No.12843555 >>12843454 this is fucking with my head. I can recognize several landmarks but I can't form the bigger picture

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 01:15:25 2019 No.12843587 >>12843555 Two polar megacontinents m8

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 03:08:20 2019 No.12843970 File: 37 KB, 511x671, 1541534255154.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12840470 Fuck niggers Fuck jews Fuck trannies And FUCK JANNIES

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 03:15:03 2019 No.12843985 Who are the best short story writers in SF?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 03:51:44 2019 No.12844089 >>12843985 Grrm

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:01:46 2019 No.12844128 File: 50 KB, 406x595, Brown-600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12843985 Jack Vance, Fredric Brown and R. A. Lafferty are my personal favorites.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:05:55 2019 No.12844138 How do you people get your books? Do you buy them?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:10:00 2019 No.12844155 >>12844138 Ah...eeh, yeh, yeah we, uh , we buy them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:11:28 2019 No.12844163 >>12844155 I see, where do you "buy" them then? Asking for a friend

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:24:45 2019 No.12844193 >>12844138 For psychical books Half Price Books or bookfinder.com, Library Genesis for ebooks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:27:20 2019 No.12844197 >>12844163 mobilism library genesis soulseek

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:38:25 2019 No.12844239 https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/robert-a-heinlein-the-giant-of-sf-was-sexist-racist-and-certainly-no-stylist/amp/ Heinlein btfo

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:41:18 2019 No.12844244 >>12844193 >>12844197 >Library Genesis Danke very mucho

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:42:31 2019 No.12844249 After marathoning a bunch of older fantasy books and stories I'm finding it difficult to return to modern fantasy that insists on using first-person narration. Third-person narration is so much more superior it's not even funny.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:51:38 2019 No.12844275

>>12844138
I have these bookmarked, some dirt cheap finds are out there.

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/explore/category/science-fiction-books-fantasy-books-16421
https://www.thriftbooks.com/b/science-fiction-and-fantasy
https://wordery.com/science-fiction-fantasy

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:55:25 2019 No.12844287 What do u guys use for reading epubs?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 04:57:12 2019 No.12844292 >>12844287 this https://convertio.co/epub-pdf/

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 05:01:13 2019 No.12844303 >>12844287 calibre on pc, lithium on android.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 05:08:11 2019 No.12844321 >>12844303 Do you use a custom theme on calibre? If so, care to share?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 05:44:13 2019 No.12844438 >>12844138 I buy some, get some at the library and pirate some.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 05:55:26 2019 No.12844466
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>>12844321
Yeah I do use one. Makes the epub look like a real book.

CSS

body{
background-image:url('file:///yourfilelocation') !important;
background-size:1920px 1080px; /* Your resolution*/
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-attachment:fixed;
background-position:center;
}

p{
margin-bottom:0.5em !important; /* change this if you don't want a gap after each paragraph */
}

Background image: https://i.imgur.com/5x9wtZR.jpg

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 07:15:44 2019 No.12844693 >>12844138 I buy them. I can't stand reading off a screen; I need to hold a physical book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 08:20:15 2019 No.12844887 >>12844244 Why do I feel their servers are going to get a raid soon....

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 08:24:29 2019 No.12844902 >>12844887 doesnt matter. they make weekly backups with all the books that anyone can download. theres an entire website dedicated to archiving and backing up anything on libgen. also several copycats with the exact same content due to said backups.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 08:39:40 2019 No.12844947 File: 366 KB, 1024x768, 7566294FDFDE4207B0E3206FAFD6B28F.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ssrsly though, fuck jannies

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 08:52:56 2019 No.12844999 >>12844466 Is there a way to get an optimal layout on an ebook? I can't stand the weird pagination I always end up with so I turn to pdfs

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 08:57:50 2019 No.12845029 File: 97 KB, 1064x1064, baru2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What went wrong? When is the third one coming out?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 09:03:19 2019 No.12845048 >>12844999 Yeah. You can tweak it too look and act the way you want it to in the preferences. Not sure what you mean by "weird pagination" though, can you be more specific?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 10:51:57 2019 No.12845447 >>12842849 >we're gonna kill him >not gonna tell you why though roflmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 10:54:16 2019 No.12845454 File: 998 KB, 3298x1512, Dunsany.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where are you, anon?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 11:04:20 2019 No.12845496 >>12844947 Awww. Did your off-topic pol threads get deleted? Poor froggy. Are you.... ban evading atm?

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 11:06:08 2019 No.12845506

>>12845454
writers were a lot more interesting back then, like Dunsany was a Baron and a chess champion, Tolkien was in WWI (though that was horrific than interesting).
maybe I should join the army and go on a trip around the world before I start writing, and marry a duchess or some rich girl.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 11:30:41 2019 No.12845610 >>12844693 This, never read an e-book or audiobook in my life.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 11:37:56 2019 No.12845633

>>12844693
>>12845610
I used to think the same but buying a Kindle was the best purchase I've ever made. Get one with a high enough dpi and it looks just like normal text and it's so much more convenient. The backlight is perfect for night time reading.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 11:38:42 2019 No.12845639 How's the Vorrh trilogy?

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 11:46:18 2019 No.12845660

>>12845633
Not them, I have my own Kindle.
I thought one of the things that made e-ink better for reading was precisely that it isn't (or wasn't) backlit, so you're not stuck staring at a bright rectangle in a dark room. Did this change for any reason other than selling new models of Kindle?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 11:51:21 2019 No.12845676 >>12845660 The latest models have a light sensor to automatically adjust the back light so in the dark it dims itself. They can also be configured if you prefer a lighter or darker screen along with completely turning off the feature.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 12:14:45 2019 No.12845765 >>12845639 one of the characters is a short, hairy cyclops who was raised by robots powered by his semen. that's really all there is to say on that matter

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 12:19:00 2019 No.12845778 File: 32 KB, 324x499, 51phE+akyTL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 12:26:50 2019 No.12845797 It's not science fiction but i'm looking to read the Iliad, what is the best translated version?

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 12:30:47 2019 No.12845807

Guys what are some good fantasy (no sci-fi please) audiobooks?
I just finished the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and I loved it, the story, characters and world were wonderful and the narration was outstanding.
Sadly, the rest of her books are read by some woman whose voice I absolutely cannot stand, so I'm abandoning that series of audiobooks.

Can any of you please recommend good ones?
Some I've listened to:
Riyria Chronicles and Revelations
Kingkiller
Eli Monpress
Farseer Trilogy
Tolkien's stuff
Gentleman Bastards

Ps: i dislike GRRM and I tried Mistborn but it wasn't for me
I hope someone can help, thanks!

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 12:44:58 2019 No.12845857 >>12840324 BOTLS is misunderstood by people who wanted the same style as BOTNS. Both are great and should be read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:23:02 2019 No.12846038 >>12845778 I guess you didn't like Daniel Black either, or any book where the character is transported to another world and has to survive.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:24:06 2019 No.12846043 >>12845807 Library at Mount Char. Night Angel Trilogy Graphic Audio.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:34:14 2019 No.12846097 File: 101 KB, 1000x700, 1508255132712.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >urban fantasy

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:41:05 2019 No.12846130
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>>12845496
Jews niggers trannies and jannies can all be gassed, ofcourse. But daily reminder this entire site is a /pol/ site, like a neglected sewer that has flooded entire streets, alleys and ofcourse, the /lit/ cellar. Now you either learn to live with the shit or you can leave.

Birdboi a cute
Lady a shit
Soulcatcher a waifu

Sanderson a waifu

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:41:33 2019 No.12846133 File: 37 KB, 474x444, 1485699394459.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12846097 >rural fantasy

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:42:41 2019 No.12846138

>>12846130
>Jews niggers trannies and jannies can all be gassed, ofcourse. But daily reminder this entire site is a /pol/ site, like a neglected sewer that has flooded entire streets, alleys and ofcourse, the /lit/ cellar. Now you either learn to live with the shit or you can leave.
Sure.
>Birdboi a cute
Maybe.
>Lady a shit
Yes!
>Soulcatcher a waifu
YES!
>Sanderson a waifu
wat

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:44:43 2019 No.12846144 >>12846038 No, i love those kinds, that one is just shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:54:26 2019 No.12846192 >>12846038 >book where the character is transported to another world isekai is a pretty bad genre though

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:55:06 2019 No.12846195 Anons what should I read next >Riyria Chronicles >Kingkiller Chronicles >Powder Mage trilogy >Gentleman Bastards >Stormlight Archive

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:56:03 2019 No.12846201 >>12846195 >Kingkiller Chronicles Not that one

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 13:58:39 2019 No.12846209 >>12846201 What's wrong with it? I've heard pretty good things about it on reviews.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 14:06:00 2019 No.12846244 >>12846209 kkcor the riyria chronicles

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 14:08:36 2019 No.12846252 >>12846209 Do you enjoy when a protagonist falls in love with a literal whore and she cucks him for 2 books (the only two books the author wrote in years because he is a lazy fat fuck)? If you do, go right ahead.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 14:35:35 2019 No.12846357

>>12846209
Don't listen to incels like >>12846252 that think the love interest of the mc owes him anything just because he loves her.
They probably like to identify with the mc because he's a boywonder genius and they think they are as well and then get mad because the one girl the mc loves doesn't love him back. just like the relationship between them and their mothers

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 14:41:40 2019 No.12846385 >>12846357 t. literal cuck / woman

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 14:55:12 2019 No.12846457 >>12846357 >he's a boywonder genius This is what put me off the books. It was nauseating, and I couldn't even get as far as a love interest.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 14:56:14 2019 No.12846463 >>12846385 nah, just not a neet incel permavirgin. Women owe you nothing, especially not sex or love. >>12846457 Fair enough point desu, but if you can look past it it's an enjoyable read

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 14:57:29 2019 No.12846470 >>12843985 James Tiptree Jr.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:00:50 2019 No.12846492 >>12846463 >>12846357 Why do I feel you are from rebbit? The "incel" meme phrase doesn't help. Why are you pretending, trying to fit in? Just stop.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:02:22 2019 No.12846506 >>12846492 >Why are you pretending, trying to fit in? Just stop. I'm not, I'm not even a regular on /lit/. You're still an incel fag though

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:03:18 2019 No.12846508 >>12846463 >if you can look past it Why would I even want to look past "the main character is an insufferable cunt"? And the shit about him pining after some girl would no doubt make him even more so.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:04:08 2019 No.12846513 >>12846195 Hawkwood's Voyage

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:06:42 2019 No.12846520 >>12841254 RIP

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:07:29 2019 No.12846524

>>12846357
2nd book barely has Denna and it's still a steaming shit heap and the author is never finishing a 3rd because he's literally too busy blogging about Drumpf. It really shows that he spent a decade or something autistically going over the first one then ran out of any material.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:12:29 2019 No.12846538 >>12846195 >Powder Mage trilogy I vaguely heard of this. what's it like?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:14:49 2019 No.12846552 >>12846538 mages and guns

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:24:19 2019 No.12846604 >>12846552 Neat

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:25:33 2019 No.12846606 >>12846506 >I will call everyone who doesn't agree with me an incel >>>/r/ebbit

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:36:13 2019 No.12846682 >>12846606 Nah, only those that think women owe you sex. If denna is your only point of criticism, you're an incel. The book has plenty of other flaws that I agree with, crying about denna only shows you're a virgin all too obviously

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:36:44 2019 No.12846685

>read badly written science fiction book because it's at least somewhat entertaining
>it keeps getting worse with each book
>finish all four of them anyway because what the hell I came so far, might as well see how it ends
>Bioware color-coded ending button out of nowhere

AHAHAHAHA HOLY FUCK
I could have stopped any time and now I have only myself to blame.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:37:58 2019 No.12846692 Why are genre fiction originals so much worse than game universe adaptations (ie Warhammer, Diablo, etc)?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:40:25 2019 No.12846700 >>12846538 Boring.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:40:30 2019 No.12846701 >>12846682 >crying about denna only shows you're a virgin all too obviously And?

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:44:15 2019 No.12846713
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Why kill off the best character in the whole series (Trull) through some bullshit, have him do NOTHING with his Knight of Shadow status, and then have his built-up son do NOTHING as well
hmm
HMM
god i hate that i read the crippled god
why do nothing with icarias
why build up bugg to fucking the errant's shit up only to not happen
why reduce all of cutter x apsalar to three paragraphs
why do barely anything with curdle and telorast
why have draconus not even SEE korabas
FUCK

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:46:24 2019 No.12846724 >>12846682 >shaming people for not having sex uh, could you not please? This is a safe space.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:49:17 2019 No.12846735 >>12844197 Current best is: b-ok.org

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:50:47 2019 No.12846742 File: 69 KB, 490x424, 1342668608100.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12846682 >>12846506 >>12846463

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:54:31 2019 No.12846758 >>12846195 >Powder Mage trilogy this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 15:56:34 2019 No.12846767 File: 16 KB, 200x326, Swords_Against_Death.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Are the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories worth reading beyond the first two collections?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:05:02 2019 No.12846829 >>12843454 I have a hard time processing this image, what is wrong with it?

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:06:00 2019 No.12846835

>>12846692
I know the standards for genre fiction are low, but I'm not sure they're that low. Still, there are some obvious things that might help:
>IP holder has an interest in not just publishing shit in the hopes it might sell
>Existing world limits autistic world building exposition
>Static existing world limits power creep and super special chosen one saving the universe shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:09:41 2019 No.12846852 >>12846829 its hueg

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:25:37 2019 No.12846951 >>12846829 >browsing 4chen on a toaster / phone >>>/g/pcbg

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:28:19 2019 No.12846966
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>Read book because it came up in a previous thread
>Huehue, breddy good
>Look up author to see what else is there
>See bio on amazon
>See location
>Lives in my town
>....

g..g..guys, wat do?
Pic related

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:31:18 2019 No.12846985 >>12846966 Ask for date.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:35:09 2019 No.12847000 >>12846966 kiss

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:39:27 2019 No.12847022 >>12846985 >>12847000 I think I'd have to head over to fit to achieve twink mode first

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:53:45 2019 No.12847093 >>12846951 >>12846852 I mean like visually. I'm having a hard time mentally processing what this whole place looks like.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:54:16 2019 No.12847096 File: 243 KB, 1920x1080, a420a12cb9104d43aa52ada431dac2d0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] any book / short stories which have vivid depictions of space, like just some massively vertigo inducing mad shit?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:54:36 2019 No.12847099 File: 1.10 MB, 1526x2414, Wolfe-Wedding.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gene Wolfe on his wedding day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:56:26 2019 No.12847117 >>12847099 >he married his sister

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:58:20 2019 No.12847128 File: 107 KB, 184x375, Gene_Wolfe,_2005.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847099 what the fuck happened to him

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 16:59:41 2019 No.12847144 >>12847128 He was contractually obligated to take on the likeness of the Pringles mascot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:01:51 2019 No.12847156 >>12847128 Too many Pringles

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:02:35 2019 No.12847163 >>12847117 Is that why there are so many incestuous overtones in his novels?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:02:48 2019 No.12847164 >>12846767 From my understanding the later stories aren't anywhere near as good as the earlier stories.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:03:37 2019 No.12847168 >>12847128 Food, age, alcohol, and >>12847156

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:06:58 2019 No.12847178

>>12845506
>writers were a lot more interesting back then
kek reminds me of an article I read recently about how boring writers make boring stories which is so much of fantasy and sci-fi these days is dull, derivative shit: no interesting writers who lead interesting lives.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:08:24 2019 No.12847186 >>12846195 Something good so none of that garbage.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:10:48 2019 No.12847200 >>12846692 This might be the most zoomer thing ever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:13:47 2019 No.12847212 >>12847186 Recommend something then bro

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:22:28 2019 No.12847244 File: 25 KB, 220x364, 220px-The_Black_Company.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This was so fucking cringy and bad I couldn't even finish it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:38:25 2019 No.12847307 >>12847244 First book is fine, since Soulcatcherfu is there. Don't bother with the rest.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:40:55 2019 No.12847319 >>12847212 Since you only seem interested in modern epic fantasy I'd recommend Saga of the Forgotten Warrior by Barry Korea.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:48:42 2019 No.12847338 >>12847244 I hate the way he writes. I don't need or expect purple prose, but reading a book with an average sentence length of 7 words is simply too painful.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:53:07 2019 No.12847356 >>12847338 I haven't read any other Glen Cook books besides his Black Company stuff, but does he use the same (lack of) prose for all his novels?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:54:31 2019 No.12847366 >>12847338 >implying it's a bad thing I like how he doesn't even go into detail about storming that one fortress.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:56:13 2019 No.12847379 >>12847366 How is that a good thing?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:57:50 2019 No.12847383 >>12847338 It's the perfect book to shove into one of those speed reader apps and finish it in a matter of hours at 1000 wpm.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 17:58:35 2019 No.12847386 >>12847366 His writing has no color, no life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:00:43 2019 No.12847395 >>12847379 How is it a bad thing? When I read I didn't have much trouble with short sentences, seems to like a good fit for a physician/chronicler of a mercenary band. Though I have read translated version so there is that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:02:28 2019 No.12847404 >>12847379 >>12847386 How is it a bad thing? When I read it I didn't have much trouble with short sentences, seems like a good fit for a physician/chronicler of a mercenary band. Though I have read translation so there is that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:13:15 2019 No.12847456 >>12846538 middling. the magic power levels got way too out of control for my tastes, the baseline military becomes a bit of an afterthought. I really mostly just wanted fantasy sharpe.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:13:24 2019 No.12847458

>>12847404
It's lazy and dull. Yes you can spend too much time on details which is just as bad, but there is a happy middle-ground where you can write with sweeping broad-strokes while still giving enough details to color it perfectly. The second half of REH's Scarlet Citadel is a master class in that type of writing. He paints a very broad picture of what's happening, but still manages to give you enough details to explain what's happening while using amazing prose in an incredibly efficient yet entertaining way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:16:40 2019 No.12847473 File: 33 KB, 297x475, 44432221.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Underwhelming, to be honest. You guys finished reading it yet?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:16:42 2019 No.12847474 File: 387 KB, 370x459, 1538882442406.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847404 The world they inhabit doesn't seem alive, it's a cardboard cutout modern fantasy with no meaningful culture or history. It's honestly incredibly boring.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:17:49 2019 No.12847478 >>12847168 >alcohol I thought alcohol aging you was just a meme, doesn't it just make you a little red and puffy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:18:06 2019 No.12847479 >>12847474 It's not about the world desu, I didn't even care about that when I read it. I was interested in mercs and the Taken.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:18:28 2019 No.12847483 >>12847404 it isn't. the spare prose is why the whole thing works at all.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:19:46 2019 No.12847490 File: 43 KB, 326x499, past.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Should I?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:21:50 2019 No.12847503 >>12847479 None of ther mercs are interesting and I hate "mage" type characters, this just takes all the wonder and mystery out of magical systems.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:23:07 2019 No.12847508 File: 139 KB, 684x673, MICHAEL-WITH-FORMER-FRIEND-SHMULEY-BOTEACH-AND-HIS-CHILDREN-michael-jackson-34010228-684-673.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12846682 >incel Cringe

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:23:38 2019 No.12847512 >tfw imagine every main character in every novel I read as an anime protagonist

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:25:41 2019 No.12847527
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>>12843153
If it's really that bad then it's time to move on to something else. It's not going anywhere, itll still be there when you feel like coming back to it. You're not chained to it so dont use it as an excuse to procrastinate. If you want to write, then write. If you dont, dont. Its that simple. You have to make up your mind, and if you decide to write then you need to be writing SOMETHING. Build a universe, explore with bad poetry, do a stream of conciousness short about your average afternoon, write a short comedic story, write smut; it doesn't matter, just write something. Dont be so afraid of failure that you sit in angsting stasis. And never be afraid to re-write something, no matter how much work you've put into it. Fucking lace up them Nikes and Just fucking Do It. I believe in you anon. Have a neat picture and a great day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:25:42 2019 No.12847528 >>12847503 "Magical systems" to begin with are gay. Reading older fantasy makes me wish modern fantasy didn't go so fucking retarded with magic. They definitely sucked all the mystery and outright terror from magic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:25:46 2019 No.12847530 >>12847503 >magical systems Why do I feel that I'm replaying to a special kind of person... Anyway, you do you. I liked the first book, but magic fizzled out after book 4 or so for several reasons.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:25:46 2019 No.12847531 >>12847512 You are literally autistic. Although to be honest every character in my mind is an exaggerated dickensian caricature so ok.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:27:17 2019 No.12847544 >>12847512 it's not that bad anon, i imagine every male main character as me

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:27:25 2019 No.12847546 >>12844239 Starting 'Moon is a Harsh Mistress' this weekend off this rec.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:28:13 2019 No.12847552 >>12847528 Exactly what I was trying to say. Magic should be hidden, spectral and terrifying.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:29:57 2019 No.12847564 >>12847552 Agreed. This article explains it better than I could: https://emperorponders.blog/2019/03/21/your-magic-slinging-protag/

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:36:44 2019 No.12847603 >>12847527 >pitbull protectors Based.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:37:46 2019 No.12847607 >>12847546 It Ain't gonna grok itself is better. imho.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:56:09 2019 No.12847689 >>12847473 i liked it personally. book 3 had a severe lack of lilith. so im glad she gets some more time in this. wish the knight dude that was coming after alice would have gotten some screentime.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 18:58:53 2019 No.12847700

>>12847689
It felt like a break. There were like 3 chapters of waldo, the rest being melissa and lilith. It wasn't bad, it was just brief. Nothing much happened. It was like the book that will join the previous book to the next, instead of being a book by itself. And now we wait another 2 years.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:00:29 2019 No.12847705
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What are some good non-english fantasy that always misses the radar and people don't talk much about it, be it in discussions or charts? I just found out about Walter Moers today and I'm sure there's even more good stuff hiding behind the language barrier.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:01:44 2019 No.12847713 >>12847700 >And now we wait another 2 years. i dunno the last book was about 3 months or so ago. its decent for somene who does writing as a hobby. nelson chereta has a dayjob so 3 months for a full size novel is pretty good in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:03:52 2019 No.12847725 >>12847713 >i dunno the last book was about 3 months or so ago It was published in 2016.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:06:11 2019 No.12847740 File: 52 KB, 642x455, zbEETt5.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847725

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:06:37 2019 No.12847745 >>12847705 a metric shit-ton of magical realism books Frankenstein in Baghdad for Arabic science fiction/horror Three Body Problem and Cat Country for Chinese science fiction

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:10:08 2019 No.12847771 File: 218 KB, 846x574, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847740 Well, I don't know who to believe. Anyway, I think we will be waiting a long time until the next one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:13:23 2019 No.12847790 >>12847745 Three Body Problem is mentioned quite a lot, but I didn't know the other two. Thanks. If you can list some of the magical realism books you mentioned, I actually don't read a lot of it and my knowledge of them is less than basic.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:18:31 2019 No.12847819

>>12847790
>Spanish
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Like Water for Chocolate
Ficciones
>African
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
The Famished Road
Wizard of the Crow
>Japanese
Murakami books
Kobo Abe books
>Chinese
Mo Yan books
>English Language (not what you originally asked for, but I'll include them anyway)
Beloved
Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:19:14 2019 No.12847826 >birdboi is posting more maps again on discord AAAAHHHH

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:20:43 2019 No.12847832 >>12847826 what discord?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:20:55 2019 No.12847833 >>12847826 post them, come on

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:24:46 2019 No.12847854 >>12847833 >>12847826 This, you cocktease.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:36:09 2019 No.12847901 File: 1.46 MB, 4096x2160, Map.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847854 >>12847833 >>12847832

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:41:24 2019 No.12847921 File: 26 KB, 727x567, Habitats-of-wild-reindeer-on-Novaya-Zemlya-and-small-islands-in-the-Kara-Sea.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847901 Did he took some "inspiration" for that island northwest?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:49:32 2019 No.12847958 File: 292 KB, 1700x855, Map2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847901

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:52:36 2019 No.12847972 File: 1.32 MB, 4096x2160, Map_3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847921 Someone called him out of it the second he posted it and he already removed it. Birdboi is very easy to bully.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:54:03 2019 No.12847976 >>12847972 He should add some islands there though. And also, what discord?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 19:59:32 2019 No.12848007 >>12847972 /tg/ worldbuilding discords, he spams a couple of them with his stuff

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:11:52 2019 No.12848073 >>12847705 Metro 2033 is really good

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:19:07 2019 No.12848109
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>>12843153
>>12847527
I had the same problem for quite a while. Took me at least two and a half years of effort to finally break through. Pressing that submit button to put my writing online was one of the most difficult things I've ever done, and after I posted it I had to walk away from the computer and pace around my house in some kind of miniature psychotic episode before deciding to go to sleep and try to forget it ever happened. Checking my computer in the morning was also really fucking hard, but miraculously someone had left an extremely positive and poignant comment. I took a screenshot of it and look at it from time to time.

It helped that I had already scrapped three full-length novels before even thinking about posting something online, but that's the point. The important thing is you don't stop writing even if you hate it and every aspect of it makes you cringe. If you're not writing, you should at least be reading books with a critical eye. Jot down anything you find interesting, or copy any prose you find that perfectly describes something. Whenever I finish reading a book, I try to summarize the whole thing in my mind, following the entire journey from memory, which helps it stick in my mind.

I'm still extremely sensitive, and by no means think I have reached that apparently unattainable ideal of what my writing SHOULD look like that most perfectionists have, but it helps that I have a handful of fans who genuinely look forward to what I write, even if I don't think it's that great. Even if it's unattainable, what's important is I never stop trying to improve.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:20:21 2019 No.12848111 >>12848007 >worldbuilding Gross.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:21:43 2019 No.12848115 >>12848109 Pic related looks like Vanu from Planetside.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:21:53 2019 No.12848118 >>12840358 I liked the movie, but that might have been because of the director. is the book really that ok?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:32:20 2019 No.12848161 >>12848111 The fuck do you think Birdboi is doing?

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:36:17 2019 No.12848178

“But think,” said Orm slyly, “if you do not wed me I will not be christened, and then, if we may trust the priests, my soul is lost. You will answer heavily to your God for losing a human soul.” He whispered to Athelstane, “Also, I will burn down this house and throw you off the sea-cliffs.”
“Aye, daughter, we dare not lose a human soul,” said Athelstane very quickly.

Why is dinosaur fantasy humor so much more funny and infinitely less cringe than millennial fantasy "humor?"

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:40:52 2019 No.12848207 File: 92 KB, 1282x676, Map_4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12847972 According to birdboi: >I am not satisfied with this, but I think this may be the best I can do as I am. I am ashamed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:47:53 2019 No.12848232 >>12844239 I don't like him because he wrote political propaganda, not stories.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:53:17 2019 No.12848259 >>12848207 >I am ashamed. Jesus christ

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 20:59:30 2019 No.12848278 >>12848259 Well he is autistic and probably wants it to be perfect, something that's impossible to achieve.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:21:02 2019 No.12848369 File: 92 KB, 1282x676, Map_5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12848278 And he comes back 15 minutes later and posts a better version. What can't this autist do?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:38:05 2019 No.12848432 >>12847740 >>12847771 It was officially published last year. There was some shit and it was taken off Amazon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:40:25 2019 No.12848443 >>12846538 I loved it. Fuck all y'all.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:40:27 2019 No.12848444

After the first soft beard was on his cheeks, he got much heed from the elf women. Without awe of gods, and with few children, the elves knew not wedlock; but their nature was such that their women had more wish for lovemaking and their men less than among humans. Thus Skafloc found himself in great favour, and many a good time did he have.

Smashing that elf pussy like a champion.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:42:23 2019 No.12848454 >>12848444 Please stop with elves. Invent some new races and cultures for your hero to interact with.

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:42:56 2019 No.12848460

>>12848444
Sometimes when he was in company with other warriors, the sea maidens would rise from the foam, wringing out their long green hair as they came up on to the strand, and then there would be merriment. They were cool and wet to the touch and they smelled of kelp; afterward Skafloc would have a faint fishy taste on his lips; but he liked them well.

AND mermaid pussy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:44:41 2019 No.12848467 >>12848454 Shut up, nerd. This story was written in 1954 and portrays elves as the amoral shits they were in myth.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:45:38 2019 No.12848476 >>12848467 Stop misappropiating Icelandic culture.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 21:48:14 2019 No.12848487 File: 14 KB, 400x250, a-very-dapper-t-rex.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12848178 Idk, you tell me. >tips

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 22:12:37 2019 No.12848584 >>12848487 I'm sorry I triggered you, purple-haired one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 22:46:57 2019 No.12848669 File: 137 KB, 800x779, It's the current year.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12848584 But I don't nor did I ever dye my hair, anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 22:49:05 2019 No.12848678 >>12848669 Your hair is dyed purple on the inside.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 29 23:01:17 2019 No.12848714 >>12848678 That's not how hair follicles work anon....

Anonymous Fri Mar 29 23:58:51 2019 No.12848894

>>12846767

The third collection contains "lean times in lankhmar" and the fifth "collection" is a pretty good novel where rats attempt to conquer lankhmar. I dunno man. I liked all but the last two, which got weird, overly sexual, and pedoshitty. There's a story in Ice Magic where Fafhrd and Mouser are compelled to kill one another because a 13 year old girl appears and they fight over who gets to fuck her first.

All in all, I feel like the last two collections of stories are literally just shitposting in published short story form.

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 00:02:31 2019 No.12848912
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Anyone here reading pic related?

Why the fuck is the Laconian Empire so underwhelming?

>pissing off the other dimension beings pisses them off
>ok lets nuke them
>that went bad for us
>okay lets do it again

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 01:01:55 2019 No.12849108 >>12846692 Didn't know Dan Abnett posted here

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 01:14:58 2019 No.12849177 >>12846713 He only had 10,000 pages to settle things in a satisfying way.

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 01:38:21 2019 No.12849290

>>12849177
I may be misremembering since it's been years since I last read Crippled God, but my favorite part was at the end where a character was asking Cotillion what exactly just happened and why it happened and Cotillion was like, "lol 2deep4u." That's when I realized I had been shammed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 01:48:20 2019 No.12849328 >>12847096 >Short story The Lady Who Sailed The Soul by Cordwainer Smith >Books try the Eschaton books by John C. Wright (first book is Count to a Trillion)

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 02:24:10 2019 No.12849423

I think I just realized why my story is coming out so shitty /sffg/. All this time I was trying to create a story and have it mean something to me, when instead I should have been telling MY story. The MC is already a blatant self-insert, why should I bother coming up with interesting motivations for him when my own actually fall perfectly in line with the story I want to tell?

I feel liberated!

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 02:32:42 2019 No.12849437

oh, right. I should be on topic in addition to >>12849423

I'm reading Xenocide right now. It's weird and interestin seeing a society where mental illnesses are revered instead of stigmatized. I know in underdeveloped countries and ancient times schizophrenia was seen as being sensitive to the voice of the gods, but I never really thought about what impact that would have on society.

Maybe because our society is now sort of starting to revel in aspergers, we're going to see the same thing

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 03:02:35 2019 No.12849499 File: 60 KB, 333x500, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This trilogy was a bleedin' good read

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 03:24:16 2019 No.12849537 >>12849499 Careful /sffg/ doesn't like it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 04:39:07 2019 No.12849694 >>12849537 What does /sffg/ even like besides some feminist shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 04:53:11 2019 No.12849716 >>12849499 It's pretty infantile. Moving to downright children's books was the right decision for the author.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 05:02:15 2019 No.12849728 >>12849499 Dude subversion LOL

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 05:17:29 2019 No.12849753

>>12849728
One of the few praises I have for Prince of Nothing being grimderp is it hits you over the head right away with how awful the world and everyone in it is. None of that GOTTA SUBVERT DEM EXPECTATIONS bullshit: you find out IN THE PROLOGUE this is going to be edgy, nihilistic nonsense.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 06:25:01 2019 No.12849872 >its a fantasy author disparages noble cavalry episode

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 06:28:13 2019 No.12849877 >>12848207 That's a big ass Spain connected to a little ass spain

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 07:23:15 2019 No.12849974 >>12848912 i've only watched the tv series, am i going to be missing anything if i just continue reading at book 4?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 08:09:19 2019 No.12850059 File: 123 KB, 640x640, Autism Chart.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mapfags really need to gtfo. This isn't the geography board or the map general.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 08:32:34 2019 No.12850112 Use this to get free books. https://github.com/phracker/getxbook

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 08:53:06 2019 No.12850157 >>12848207 Birdboi a cute. I bet he got a big dick.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 08:55:23 2019 No.12850162 >>12849499 Its semi readable pulp with a few fun scenes

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 09:03:52 2019 No.12850180 >>12850112 am i reading this right? any book that has a preview on amazon can just be downloaded?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 09:04:50 2019 No.12850187 File: 8 KB, 645x773, feel.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no octopus gf

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 09:17:01 2019 No.12850212 >>12850112 >>12850180 check the issues it's no longer working

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 09:58:35 2019 No.12850343 >>12850212 >>12850180 You need a vpn to switch ips.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:02:05 2019 No.12850353 anything like "Who Goes There?" that /sffg/ has enjoyed?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:02:44 2019 No.12850356 >>12850112 >>12850180 >>12850212 >>12850343 https://njw.me.uk/getxbook/

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:03:18 2019 No.12850361

So I just started Chronicals of The Black Company, and I'll be getting my hands on the other 3 collections soon, but I'm curious, is it completed? I know a new book came out last year but since Cook is mid-70's I don't want to have him Croak while wrapping things up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:05:55 2019 No.12850368 >>12850361 it is yeah. the recent book fell between 1&2 in terms of continuity and also had a lot of material relating to older events re: the senjak family.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:07:21 2019 No.12850372 File: 32 KB, 332x499, 5132D7rHeiL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] any good? wouldn't mind some dune style house on house fuckery.

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:10:16 2019 No.12850377

i've been going through all the goodreads page of the fantasy books in my collection, none of them looks interesting to me, maybe only lightbringer
i read too much scifi this year so i want to read a fantasy
do you have any recs for an interesting fantasy book? also i dont like 'vague and rare magic' kind of book

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:14:44 2019 No.12850384

>>12850372
before that anon shows up again im going to do his job for him, this is his posts
>Empire of Silence is NOTW in space, check it out. And I mean they're 80% the same book with a different setting and different names, the author shamelessly ripped of NOTW, so if you wanted more of the same, this is it.
>That was probably me too, I shit on it because it's a blatant rip off of a bunch of different books, predominantly NoTW. The author literally lifted passages from NOTW.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:17:14 2019 No.12850391 >>12850384 the fuck, really? nevermind then.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:19:18 2019 No.12850399 >>12850368 Cool, so it'll just be like a bonus, essentially? I can dig it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:19:33 2019 No.12850402 >>12850391 you can check the one star goodreads review, someone posted the comparison between notw and this book's passages

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:25:15 2019 No.12850415 I want Lady to beat me up! Pow! Kapowie!

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:31:45 2019 No.12850430

>>12850384
Thank you.
>>12850372
Like the other anon said, it's Kingkiller Chronicle in space and although there's a bunch of things the writer lifted from Dune as well, house on house action is not one of them. The Vorkosigan Saga is another one he ripped off. It's 80% KKC and 20% the other two without a single original idea in the entire book. It's not just ideas either, the writer blatantly lifts entire passages from the aforementioned books.

Here's the 1 star review that other anon is talking about which sums the book up quite well.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2438706777?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 10:36:52 2019 No.12850445

>>12850377
>Lightbringer
Just no. Breeks is awful. I've tried his Night Angel books and it's the worst writing I've come across. I'd put hacks like Rothfuss 2 tiers above him in writing prowess, even amateurs who write web novels do a better job at writing power fantasies than he did in those books. Stay away.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 11:05:31 2019 No.12850561 >>12850445 I wish I could literally kill cunts like you who meme shit without reading. Kys and do me a favor. Fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 11:21:43 2019 No.12850609 >>12850445 >>12850561 you guys have any other suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 11:37:37 2019 No.12850669 >>12850609 If you want vidya tier structured and detailed magic just read sanderson.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 11:40:51 2019 No.12850675 >>12850384 >>12850430 Out of interest are there any other sci-fi series with decentralised feudal political systems at this kind of scale?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 11:49:35 2019 No.12850702 >>12850609 Prince of Nothing

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 11:54:12 2019 No.12850715 >>12846195 Gentleman Bastards.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 11:55:16 2019 No.12850717 File: 181 KB, 1280x868, https _blogs-images.forbes.com_olliebarder_files_2015_07_logh_announce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12850675

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:03:37 2019 No.12850761 >>12848912 I'm 150 pages in. Best part so far was realizing who Timothy on laconia was

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:07:01 2019 No.12850772

>>12850609
Ignore this >>12850669 stay the fuck away from Sanderson and also Breeks, their books are the ultimate newby traps filled with anime bullshit.

Try any of these:
Book of the New Sun
Dune
Blood Song(stop after book 1)
Tigana
Vorkosigan Saga
Rigante
Renegade(Spiral Wars)

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:19:06 2019 No.12850819 File: 1.80 MB, 2000x3000, Modern Fantasy Recs V2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12850377 >>12850609

Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:22:47 2019 No.12850836

>>12850772
>>12850669
>>12850702
>>12850445
Posts like these make me feel this general doesn't really read.
You post the same fucking books and authors ad nauseam. Don't you have anything else other than weeks, lynch, grrm, sanderson, conan, watts to suggest? The same fucking shit every fucking thread for literally fucking months.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:27:39 2019 No.12850849 >>12850836 >doesnt even post recs of his own What a faggot

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:29:13 2019 No.12850856 >>12850836 I don’t think you understand how shitty most fantasy books are

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:30:27 2019 No.12850863 File: 31 KB, 293x440, 119600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just finished this and honestly, i wasn't impressed. Does it get better? I found the language and writing to be very average and not very engaging.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 12:33:16 2019 No.12850871 >>12850863 Wouldn't know, dropped it. Wasnt impressed either.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 13:01:03 2019 No.12850956 >>12850863 I thought it was rather good but the whole conceit of using the same pronoun to describe all sexes became very annoying very fast which may be what you mean by not engaging. The other two good are worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 13:25:28 2019 No.12851040 File: 117 KB, 1024x749, spurdo Fug DDDD.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thread slave, arrange us new quarters, pronto.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 13:28:21 2019 No.12851051 >>12851040 fuck you and die >>12851046 >>12851046 >>12851046 >>12851046 >>12851046

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 16:19:21 2019 No.12851839 Has anyone read the novelized Planescape: Torment books? I know there are two, the one being about 500 pages long and the other around 2000. Should I read both or just go with the latter since I hear that it's the definitive one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 16:20:23 2019 No.12851844 >>12843985 Philip K. Dick.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 30 16:21:24 2019 No.12851849 >>12844887 Because even my college professors recommended it to me.

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