/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy general

[Anonymous No.13529127]

Sword & Planet™ edition

>What are your top sword, planet and space opera books?
>How do you tackle magic in a book with science fiction elements?
>What are you currently reading?

Monthly Reading for July: The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Monthly Reading books: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15ZwgDZVXB-nLqjbgcqgntZDyTddd0eqP

Previously:
>>13511392
no more bloat

[Anonymous No.13529141]

When does this stops being a character-based drama and starts being a sci-fi novel?

[Anonymous No.13529144]

fuck fiction

[Anonymous No.13529153]

>>13529144
epic

[Anonymous No.13529157]

fuck fiction of the scientific variety

[Anonymous No.13529163]

What am I supposed when Tolkien starts listing off a bunch of names in a row? Should I stop and look them up or just stay confused?

[Anonymous No.13529165]

kino is back on the menu, boys

[Anonymous No.13529181]

>>13529127
WHO CARES ABOUT /SFFG/ SAD PANDA IS DYING,GO BACK UP YOUR SHIT

[Anonymous No.13529194]

Our topic today: does Jemisin deserve even more awards?

The answer is yes, but which ones does she deserve the most?

[Anonymous No.13529196]

>>13529165
Sorry wrong picture.

[Anonymous No.13529201]

>it's an Adare episode

[Anonymous No.13529265]

>>13529165
why is it a template?

[Anonymous No.13529292]

Currently reading Dune, it's pretty comfy. Especially with this weather. Are the sequels worth reading?

[Anonymous No.13529299]

>>13529265
It was just announced last week

[Anonymous No.13529302]

>>13529292

[Anonymous No.13529315]

>>13529292
Read up to book four. It's the best out of the lot.

Five and six are sort of okay, but they leave too much unanswered since Frank never got to finish everything up with book seven.

[Anonymous No.13529361]

sanderfag a hack

[Anonymous No.13529453]

What's your favorite Litrpg /sffg/. I need some recs.

[Anonymous No.13529454]

If one comes, kill one, if two come kill two

[Anonymous No.13529512]

>>13529453
>Litrpg
why would you want to torture yourself with endless descriptions of mmo grinding?

[Anonymous No.13529683]

>>13529315
>book 4
>the best
sure if you like to hear the philosophical musings of some ancient fat cunt for like 500 pages

[Anonymous No.13529693]

>>13529163
>should I try to understand what I am reading

[Anonymous No.13529882]

>>13529181
Wtf is sad Panda?

[Anonymous No.13529905]

>>13529265
Because he works for the publisher and cringe he's advertising here, but he fucked up. Probably a woman actually

[Anonymous No.13530071]

>>13529127
So the cuck and sorcery autistic retard is the one fucking with the OP on the regular. Way to out yourself. I know what to do when I see you posting off topic rule breaking shit about your nonexistent book.

[Anonymous No.13530147]

>>13530071
>that feel when you like sword & sorcery and sword & planet fiction but there is that one guy who ruins everything because he's an annoying cunt

[Anonymous No.13530167]

>>13529882
Hownuru

[Anonymous No.13530170]

>>13529127
>Previously:
>>13511392
Wrong thread, idiot.
>>13520485 is the last thread.

[Anonymous No.13530328]

Someone post that GRI chart again please?

[Anonymous No.13530331]

>>13529181
I'm getting all the milf, mature, old lady and granny I can. Cause yall sure as fjck don't give me recommendations.

[Anonymous No.13530334]

>>13530328

[Anonymous No.13530350]

>>13530167
That doesn't answer anything, the fuck is a hownuru?

[Anonymous No.13530365]

>>13530350
It's part of a lot of low-level website infrastructure. Lots of big name websites use it, like Reddit, Amazon, and Updog.

[Anonymous No.13530376]

>>13530350
It's probably a porn/hentai site

[Anonymous No.13530444]

>>13530334
Thanks a bunch

[Anonymous No.13530511]

>>13529144
I wish more fantasy just flat out included sex/porn scenes in detail.

[Anonymous No.13530515]

>>13530365
that sounds dumb

[Anonymous No.13530571]

>>13530511
I wish more fantasy just flat out avoided tedious romance subplots. If I wanted to read books for girls, I would.

[Anonymous No.13530577]

>>13530571
But I like romance...

[Anonymous No.13530584]

>>13529127
This is the closest I've gotten to Sword & Planet. I enjoyed it. Maybe you need the context of his other Culture series novels to fully appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.13530587]

>>13530365
Whats Updog?

[Anonymous No.13530616]

>>13530334
shouldn't Time Enough for Love be on that chart?

[Anonymous No.13530618]

>>13530577
Then read books for girls.

[Anonymous No.13530625]

>>13530618
Those focus just on romance.

[Anonymous No.13530642]

>>13529163
It's a narrative history book. Read the footnotes and direct yourself to appendices as necessary.
Even then, you won't fully understand. Once you finish LOTR, read the Silmarillion. Then read LOTR again. In that second reading, you will go from thinking LOTR is the best story ever told, to knowing that LOTR will always be the best story ever told.

[Anonymous No.13530654]

>>13529196
Compare it to John Carter.

[Anonymous No.13530657]

>>13529141
>take your right-wing bs back to Pohl

[Anonymous No.13530662]

>>13529683
SWEET
GENTLE
HUI

[Anonymous No.13530664]

>>13530616
Yea. And a few others like red lion black leopard. The chart hasn't been updated in a while.

[Anonymous No.13530666]

>>13530331
Based anon
>old lady and granny
FUCK I FORGOT ABOUT THOSE!!

[Anonymous No.13530667]

>>13530577
Did Martin the Warrior ever bang Rose?

[Anonymous No.13530676]

>>13530328
>>13530334
what does GRI stand for?

[Anonymous No.13530711]

>>13529683

I agree. God Emperor is, in my opinion, the weakest of the books other than chapterhouse.

[Anonymous No.13530737]

>>13530676
The seal of quality used for good books. Someone post the seal.

[Anonymous No.13530740]

>>13530676
Gore , rape , incest

[Anonymous No.13530850]

>reading the best of arthur c clarke
>it's actually not very good
is he poor man's asimov?

[Anonymous No.13530886]

>>13530071
Don't you have a chart to do or something? Fuck off my FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION thread you lazy cunt. Make the OP if you don't like it.
For the record, it's not the same person. I'm not the one talking about sword and sorcery. Never had.

[Anonymous No.13530909]

>>13530850
Clarke had some really neat scientific ideas but he wasn't a particularly great author.

[Anonymous No.13530930]

>>13530850
They are both shit authors, like every other golden age scifi author. Literally nothing of value besides scientific ramblings and speculations which aren't even accurate.
Read new wave like a real man

[Anonymous No.13531044]

>>13530886
>my

[Anonymous No.13531069]

>>13531044
fuck off my board you doomer subhuman sack of human waste

[Anonymous No.13531140]

>>13530676
>>13530740
Gay, Rape and Incest

[Anonymous No.13531154]

>>13531140
You just said the same word three times though

[Anonymous No.13531308]

Read Demons of Astlan which was just so-so time waste
Currently reading Spellmonger, which I actually like. i'm ½ of the 2nd book
Is there anything else of worth from the list?
I'd prefer to avoid horny harem stories

[Anonymous No.13531329]

>>13529144
>fuck fiction
The word you're looking for is erotica anon.

[Anonymous No.13531362]

[blog]
My intention was to go to the library today but I forgot. On the other hand I finished the monthly book well before the deadline.
[/blog]

[Anonymous No.13531584]

BASED

[Anonymous No.13531686]

>>13530909
You're kinda correct. Then again, he also didn't really commit to any epic works or anything like that so maybe he was aware of his limitations.

[Anonymous No.13531705]

>>13529127
>no more bloat
Fuck you, I like to re-read older threads.

DENIED.

[Anonymous No.13531776]

>It hadn’t been an easy thing, to entrust Jez with the ignition code to the Ketty Jay. The code was set during the manufacture of the aircraft, and because it relied on various complex mechanisms it couldn’t ever be changed without lengthy and expensive engineering procedures. Jez would forever have the power to activate and fly the Ketty Jay. Even now, Frey had to fight the suspicion that Jez might be creeping toward the cockpit, intending to punch in the numbers and run off with his aircraft before anyone could stop her.
>It’s done now, he thought. Live with it.
>It had been absolutely necessary for the completion of his plan that someone else fly the Ketty Jay. Jez had assured him she could, having grown up flying many types of aircraft. But he’d still found himself unable to give away the code at first. Like marriage, it felt like sacrificing too much of himself to a stranger.
HOLY SHIT THIS CHARACTER (Frey from Tales of Ketty Jay) IS EVEN MORE AUTISTIC THAN JOHANNES CABAL (from the Johannes Cabal the Necromancer books)

[Anonymous No.13531826]

>>13529683
Philosophical ramblings are the best part of Dune tho.

[Anonymous No.13531827]

How do I make a serial killer character sympathetic ?

[Anonymous No.13531833]

>>13531827
>How do I make fire cold?

[Anonymous No.13531843]

>>13531827

Enlightened but misguided
Basically you make Manson and make him attractive
or use the dexter method and make his victims of choice deplorable enough to justify murder
ideally do both

[Anonymous No.13531859]

>>13531827
The only way is to give him a good reason to kill. Honor and avenging the fallen is always sympathetic.
The main character of my novel practically caused the extinction of an entire race of people due to pride, sought to eradicate a whole specie due to vengeance and is now seeking redemption which will never be given to him. I firmly believe that some sins can never be forgiven. That alone could potentially cause some readers to sympathize with him even if they only feel sorry at his end

[Anonymous No.13531876]

>>13531827
Fictional characters are easier to love than actual people. Give them victims who are worse than they are, make them a Well Intentioned Extremist and give them adorable moments. Ensure they have waifuable/husbandoable qualities.

[Anonymous No.13531883]

>>13531827

Give him the superficialities of being nice without having any core morality. Have him open doors for women, have him always tip well, have him never curse or say a bad word about anybody. I like to think of the sympathetic criminal as a coat rack, they're empty morally but they have just enough externalities that we can hang our own self-perceptions onto them.

[Anonymous No.13531893]

>>13529453
Wandering Inn. It's the least litrpg'iest of all litrpg's though.

There's character levelling but it's purely a side quirk of the world rather than being the point of the story. At it's core it's a portal fantasy more than anything. Loved reading the story of a modern surgeon who somehow ends up on mediaeval fantasy battle field and tries to save everyone while Centaurs, Lizard people and, Headless armoured dudes try to kill each other.

[Anonymous No.13531935]

>>13531827
If it's a fantasy, make him kill people who sold their race to lesser and uglier race in some way

[Anonymous No.13532028]

>>13529302
Not even one of Brian Herbert's books is good?

[Anonymous No.13532030]

>>13530587
nm, you?

[Anonymous No.13532056]

>>13531833
cmon dude
>>13531843
Intredasting, thanks anon
>>13531859
His reason would be that a higher power (a god, or some kind of ethereal creature) tells him to kill selected persons who works for the evil powers/hellraiser types demons, but even he doesn't know if it's real or if he is just losing his mind
>>13531876
I like the term "well intentioned extremist", thanks for your advice anon-kun
>>13531883
But he's supposed to be the main character so I can't really make him empty, he would be boring
>>13531935
Hook nosed goblins ?


Also for those of you who played Hotline Miami 2, what did you think about pardo as a character ? Would a novel with a similar character interesting to read ?

[Anonymous No.13532095]

>>13531308
Are you a pure fantasy fag, or can you take both?
Starship's mage
City and the dungeon
Threadbare
Unsouled
We are legion
(If you can take satire, the blue mage raised. It's about a human raised to believe he is a dragon, and he just OP from being raised by the dragons)
the sort of dark mage (for more satire)
dr anarchy's rule for world domination

[Anonymous No.13532104]

>>13529127
>What are your top sword, planet and space opera books?
>How do you tackle magic in a book with science fiction elements?
The only fun one I can immediately think of is Deathstalker, which works because it's ripping off every major piece of scifi pop culture from the 70s through to the 90s all at once
Black Star Renegades and its sequel is the most recent thing I've read that fits this and I honestly can't remember too much beyond thinking that it wasn't that great and that the second book had a hilariously shit power of friendship ending

[Anonymous No.13532105]

>>13532095
>Starship's mage
>City and the dungeon
Will try
>Threadbare
>the sort of dark mage
>dr anarchy's rule for world domination
I don't like MC that are nonhuman and smaller or weaker than humans
>We are legion
>Unsouled
Will check
thanks

[Anonymous No.13532118]

>>13531776
>reading Chris Wooding
>he didn't listen
You will learn

[Anonymous No.13532125]

>>13531826
Her doujins are forever lost.

[Anonymous No.13532139]

>like 40 pages to go
>author suddenly remember he's supposed to be writing "grimdark"
>gives a character a noble redemption and then immediately kills them
>implies another character might turn evil
>makes a character suddenly heroic and against the protag
>has the protag suddenly start speaking like they know they're bad
lmao it was like he got told he hadn't made it dark enough and decided to shove it all in at the end

[Anonymous No.13532156]

>>13531893
Do you get sexual release from suggesting a shit book that outpages Malazan and is still growing?

[Anonymous No.13532180]

>>13532105
>I don't like MC that are nonhuman and smaller or weaker than humans
Threadbare is the only non human.

>Will check
>thanks
>I don't like MC that are nonhuman
I got some bad news for you about We are legion, but you should read it anyway.

[Anonymous No.13532192]

>>13532139
No one cares

[Anonymous No.13532201]

>>13532192
aye can't talk about anything that isn't 3 litrpg books because you'd have to actually read again to shitpost about it

[Anonymous No.13532212]

>>13531308
Wait, is the idea behind this chart that these are all people from /sffg/?

[Anonymous No.13532276]

>>13532139
Yeah that book was pretty disappointing

[Anonymous No.13532384]

>>13529194
The Grand Black Award for being a Black woman in writing.

[Anonymous No.13532400]

>>13532212
It's just two guys memeing their shitty litrpg smut garbage
It's written like shit and panders to cumbrain retards

[Anonymous No.13532429]

>>13530584
How do you have melee weapons in space?

The only series to successfully pull this off is Star Wars and that's because of The Force.

[Anonymous No.13532447]

>>13532212
All the self-published charts are those anons' respective personal charts; the vast overwhelming majority of Amazon chart contents are never discussed or mentioned much and the chart authors refuse to make it anything less than a donut steel.
Shit like this is why we have seven or so fucking charts normally in the OP.

[Anonymous No.13532455]

>>13531827
Give them a good reason to be killing.

[Anonymous No.13532475]

>>13532429
Melee does not require additional energy or material expenditure to kill. Laser and energy weapons are too taxing to manufacture en masse. Conventional projectile weapons use ammo.
Melee uses nothing but the physical shape of the wielded object.
In my novel only one character kills, and used melee because at the time he had to kill he had nothing else on him. Remember that to kill with a gun, you need to actually have the gun.

Granted, my novel is mostly philosophical.

[Anonymous No.13532530]

>>13530584
What a horrible cover.

[Anonymous No.13532554]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B01HWsilRqs
I love this stuff more than anything. Am i autistic?

[Anonymous No.13532555]

>>13529127
What are the best publications for these books? There's like a gorillion pubs for the classic shit out there and I know from past experience that a lot of them either cut things out or changes what happens. Rather not have to deal with that again when I try to look for something like a good complete set of Terry Pratchett's work (the ones that were tainted by his daughter)

[Anonymous No.13532560]

do you like light novels?

[Anonymous No.13532563]

>>13532118
I'm not that anon and can't figure out why it's bad

[Anonymous No.13532569]

>>13529181
Well it's gone. I can't get my milkie from sff books and my milkies from sadpanda is gone.

[Anonymous No.13532628]

>>13532560
not if they are literally translated.

[Anonymous No.13532655]

>>13529196
Ohh yis
is this really gonna come out now?

[Anonymous No.13532671]

>>13530642
Yeah, I mostly look stuff up but sometimes I want to avoid spoiling things. Favourite non-lotr story so far (as in not during the time of the fellowship) is probably Durin walking around naming things. The song during that chapter about him and Moria is also my favourite song so far.

[Anonymous No.13532678]

>>13532655
https://www.amazon.com/Conan-Living-Plague-John-Hocking/dp/178909285X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=conan+living+plague&qid=1564156256&s=books&sr=1-1

I snatched that picture from this Amazon page and now it's been removed. Weird. But yea it's coming out.

[Anonymous No.13532874]

>>13532125
wait what the fuck happened to sadpanda

[Anonymous No.13532883]

>>13532874
it died

[Anonymous No.13532889]

>>13532874
netherlands decided that drawings have rights

[Anonymous No.13532893]

>>13532883
oh god oh fuck
i don't use any other doujin sites

[Anonymous No.13532989]

>>13529453
>litrpg

Poor taste in webfiction. Try ratfic.

Worm, Pact, Twig, and (ongoing) Ward by Wildbow. Probably the most successful webfiction author, brings in >$5000/mo in Patreon and has maintained an audience for a decade.
Mother of Learning by nobody103. Ongoing, close to finishing.
Floornight and The Northern Caves by Nostalgebraist.
Unsong and the myriad of short stories by Scott Alexander.
Brazenautomaton’s Sailor Moon rewrite.
Alicorn’s Twilight rewrite, Luminosity.

Just to get you started.

[Anonymous No.13533042]

Don't see it in the OP, but where can I download /sffg/ books in English?

[Anonymous No.13533081]

>>13533042
mobilism

[Anonymous No.13533127]

>>13532989
>Wildbow
Hack writer. Power wank.

[Anonymous No.13533135]

Hello folks, just a friendly visitor from /co/... Had to tiptoe my way in here because I saw a lot of yikes-worthy stuff on the front page.

Anyway, no casting judgment! It's nice to see a science fiction thread in here, is all. I was wondering, have any of you read the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy by Cixin Liu? If so, what are your thoughts in this semi-official sequel by Baoshu? I'm currently reading it, it reads more or less similarly to Three-Body although it seems rather concerned in filling the "gaps" so far.

Also, now that I'm here, thoughts on Alastair Reynolds and Charles Sheffield? I finished "Revelation Space" and "The Ganymede Club" recently by both writers.

[Anonymous No.13533140]

Is there anything more embarrassing to read through then in depth descriptions of sex scenes?? Unless you're writing an erotica, just allude to it and move on. I don't need a two paragraph description about some guy trying and failing to stick his dick into something.

[Anonymous No.13533150]

Are there any good books set in the future focusing on the lives of a Luddite or just generally anti-tech society? Preferably with the main char being from said society

[Anonymous No.13533195]

>>13533140
No. You will read about her too right pussy and you will like it.

[Anonymous No.13533201]

>>13533135
>Alastair Reynolds
Good stuff.

[Anonymous No.13533299]

>>13533135
Alastair reynolds is pure kino, Chasm city works as a stand alone so read it

[Anonymous No.13533305]

>>13533135
gave up halfway through 3bp. it was both uninteresting and poorly translated imo. you could really feel the asian sentence structure permeate the translation

[Anonymous No.13533322]

>>13533299
>>13533201
That's funny because yeah, I'm in between Redemption of Time and Chasm City, so I appreciate the good feedback. I'm planning on reading the entire saga if possible, I found a good timeline that makes it easier to tackle: https://infinispace.net/2013/08/revelation-space-universe-chronology/

>>13533305
I can understand that. I did enjoy the concept of the Trisolarans and the way their culture clashed with humanity (you can even make some parallelisms with Silicon Valley and the Panopticon State with it), but I had trouble to follow the characters because of their names. It took me a long while to get through the first book, but the next ones were easier. I still have some strong opinions about the last one but that's another subject. Overall I'd recommend it, however.

[Anonymous No.13533366]

I just finished all of Andrew Rowe's books and I crave more. I sort of like LitRPGs, however not when they go overboard with the whole leveling-shtick like Chaos Seeds.

Is the HP RatFic book any good? Or is there something else I should throw myself at?

[Anonymous No.13533414]

>>13533322
The Revelation space saga is pretty gripping and the ending has epic proportions

[Anonymous No.13533431]

Anything good released in 2019? Fantasy of Sci-Fi, doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.13533534]

Where do you guys find pdfs or ebooks?

[Anonymous No.13533547]

>>13533431
idk
it probably ripped off lensmen though
or it ripped off something that ripped off lensmen
fucking lensmen

[Anonymous No.13533591]

>>13532560
I want to like em since they are from Japan. Most of them have enough world building for a light simple story, so it can either get my interest or bore me.

I haven't encountered a light novel with bulky world building yet.

[Anonymous No.13533601]

>>13533150
Eh. It's probably shit, but I've read through The Cell by Stephen King as a teenager. Haven't read it in ages.

[Anonymous No.13533636]

>>13533135
>Hello folks, just a friendly visitor from /co/... Had to tiptoe my way in here because I saw a lot of yikes-worthy stuff on the front page.
>/co/
How did reddit establish such a strong colony on 4chan?

[Anonymous No.13533641]

>>13533150
Fahrenheit 451 is basically just that in an abstract way.

[Anonymous No.13533651]

>>13533534
Libgen (library genesis)

[Anonymous No.13533683]

>>13532530
It doesn't do the novel justice. The novel is nowhere near as cheesy as its cover implies.

[Anonymous No.13533748]

You guys read any good sci-fi while I was gone?

[Anonymous No.13533771]

>>13533534
Aside from the ones mentioned, you could try aaaaarg.fail (that's five a's). But that's mostly for academic stuff, though you can still find some good literature in there.
It will require you to register, but it doesn't demand anything else (ratios, etc). I am not sure if it has open registration at the moment, however...

[Anonymous No.13533777]

>>13533748
Found a C.S. Friedman book at my thrift store. Might be good or weird, I dunno.

[Anonymous No.13533800]

Did somebody say... “Space Opera”?

[Anonymous No.13533807]

>>13533414
What other media has entities like Greenfly?

[Anonymous No.13533824]

>>13533777
>>51744039
>Celia S. Friedman is an American speculative fiction author. To date she has published thirteen novels, several short stories, and a sourcebook for White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game.

This could either turn OK or really, really bad.
Good luck anon!

[Anonymous No.13533909]

>>13533748
Trying to finish Foundation but it's one of the most tedious books I've ever read. I just want to finish it to tick it off my MUST-READ list. Can't say I enjoyed it. Just reached the Mule parts and it seems to get a bit more interesting, but not by much.
Is there a secret to enjoy Foundation?

[Anonymous No.13533915]

>>13533909
Be an insufferable fucking nerd and you'll love it.

[Anonymous No.13533950]

>>13533909
>Is there a secret to enjoy Foundation?
No. All sci-fi from the """"golden age"""" of sci-fi is overrated as fuck.

[Anonymous No.13533952]

>>13533909
>Is there a secret to enjoy Foundation?
No, why would you even ask that? Why force yourself to slog through Asimov's writing if you don't like it?

[Anonymous No.13533973]

Asimov was a hack and his work caused more harm than good to the modern perception of AI and robotics as a whole.

[Anonymous No.13533989]

>>13533973
>implying anybody knows who Asimov is

[Anonymous No.13533994]

>>13533973
>caused more harm than good to the modern perception of AI and robotics as a whole
You mean the AI's being written as homicidal maniacs or sappy hippies from the 70's onward since the authors don't even bother to read up on the wiki, let alone anything more in-depth and/or up to date?
That's got nothing to do with Asimov and thinly veiled detective mysteries in space.

[Anonymous No.13533997]

>>13533909
Drop Asimov, acquire Lem. Don't look back.

[Anonymous No.13534002]

>>13533994
Those too but I meant the "MUH LAWS" retardation

"MUH LAWS OF ROBETIC HURHURHUR"

[Anonymous No.13534014]

>>13534002
You do understand that he made those laws specifically fallible to allow for interesting plots right? They aren't even remotely close to being a set of realistic iron-clad rules for AI.

[Anonymous No.13534021]

>>13534002
Have you read I, Robot or is the movie your only experience with Asimov?

[Anonymous No.13534027]

>>13534002
So you didn't even read Asimov, I see.
The point of the laws was specifically to explore how they couldn't be practically applied, beyond some tenets that sounded good in practice. This is pretty basic stuff... No one is out there literally trying to code the Asimov laws into robots.

[Anonymous No.13534028]

>>13534002
You wouldn't really have a story without unchangeable "muh laws". If anyone can crack open that positron brain and reverse engineer it (as it should) you would be left without a hook for the detective mystery.

[Anonymous No.13534071]

>>13534027
>>13534014
I am fully aware he made those laws specifically to show they would not work, but that does not change the fact his creation of them caused more harm than good through retards misinterpreting the point of his stories the same way the brainlet masses do with every AI story:

"AI BAYD, MUH SKYNET"

[Anonymous No.13534088]

>>13529905
Please don’t get me fired. I really need this job. How do you delete posts.

[Anonymous No.13534093]

>>13531827
If he’s attractive then women will like him.

[Anonymous No.13534099]

>>13534071
It's very ironic that you talk about "retards misinterpreting the point of his stories" as you do the exact same thing yourself by echoing a very superficial interpretation of the concepts behind them.
Also just because some people chose to misread his stories doesn't change the fact that his intention was the complete opposite of it, and anyone who reads them would know.
>>13534088
Click on the top left checkbox, scroll down to the bottom of the page, check "File Only", then Delete.

[Anonymous No.13534116]

>>13534099
Death of the Author kind of removes any leverage that author intent has

[Anonymous No.13534117]

>>13534071
But of course AI is bad. And it should be punished.

[Anonymous No.13534133]

>>13533431
Senlin Ascends 3: Hod King

[Anonymous No.13534142]

>>13534116
He's also literally dead, so yeah.

[Anonymous No.13534147]

>>13534133
>Senlin Ascends 3: Hod King
Sounds pretty formulaic from the excerpt desu senpai.

[Anonymous No.13534208]

>>13530930
Based

[Anonymous No.13534258]

>>13534147
Well it may be that I haven't read many similar books, but I didn't find it generically formulaic. Even though you could describe the series as picaresque, it is the execution where it shines.
The thing is, and you don't know unless you try, that there's a chance that you might actually grow to like the places and people this book has on offer. I found the setting delightfully unique and myself invested the cast of characters, and how they interact and change through the series. I also recommend the audiobook adaptation.

[Anonymous No.13534364]

>>13534133
Are these books any good? I remember that prince of thorns author speaking highly of them and I can only imagine that they're trash

[Anonymous No.13534366]

>>13533150
The Long Tomorrow. Not to be confused with the comic.

> Two generations after destruction rained down upon America's cities, the population is scattered into small towns. Cities are forbidden by law, as is scientific research. Rumors abound of a secret place known as "Bartorstown", where science is untrammelled by interference or hatred. A youth named Len Colter, developing an unhealthy thirst for knowledge exacerbated by the discovery of a forbidden radio, sets out on a long road. During this journey, he will change his mind many times before determining the correct direction for himself, and the benighted America in which he lives.

[Anonymous No.13534374]

>>13534366
>he discovers a small enclave in the mountains of scholars working to study the difference in intelligence between white and black people
>'bigots' he says

[Anonymous No.13534435]

>>13534366
Typical boomer garbage

[Anonymous No.13534455]

Is there any reason for trans people to exist in SFF? If it's a fantasy story, you can cast a spell and boom, you're the cis gender of whatever you want to be with fully functioning genitals. If it's a science fiction story, why would society not have developed the technology to give trans women functioning vaginas/wombs/eggs and trans men functioning penises/sperm?

[Anonymous No.13534462]

>>13534364
I didn't enjoy it myself but YMMV.

Maybe others will recommend good stories involve travelling up a Tower.

[Anonymous No.13534476]

>>13534455
You're being reductionist by assuming science fiction stories as a whole shows the same level of advancement across their entire societies, but for the sake of argument, this has already been done. You should read Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, in one of its stories there's a society that managed to harness body manipulations and genetic engineering to the point they could change sex (not just gender), create new ones, modify their limbs, appearance, etc., to differentiate their traits from each other.

[Anonymous No.13534480]

>>13534455
Because of retarded semantics and idiots refusing to accept the fact that humans can be fundamentally changed and original traits erased or supplanted, especially when it comes to something as intrinsic to human culture as biological sex.

I just kind of gave up trying to deal with it in an sort of palatable manner and I have characters routinely switch bodies and genders just like someone would change clothes, because that is exactly what would happen in a fully transhumanist society.

[Anonymous No.13534548]

>>13534455
It makes sense in fantasy and near-future, steampunk or PA/dystopian scifi. It's only in space operas and (cyber/bio/solar)punk that it's hard to justify

>>13533973
Honestly, Asimov isn't wrong. Look at the robots we have now. They don't need to be even remotely intelligent to be catastrophic. All you need is sufficient incompetence, and humanity abounds with that.

You know those drones that can fly around and snipe you with perfect accuracy from above cloud cover? Imagine for a moment the government decided to make them autonomous. Now imagine someone fucked up the facial recognition algorithm with a misplaced if statement and they minute they turn it on, it identifies the engineering team as targets and shoots them all in a fraction of a second, and then takes off firing at every face is identifies

Granted, that alone isn't enough to cause an apocalypse, it would quickly get taken down. However, let's suppose it's a software update that does it and all the drones download it in the air at the same time. Now, you've got every drone above cloud cover shooting anything that moves.

That's what I'd call an apocalypse, and that's something that could conceivably happen tomorrow

[Anonymous No.13534606]

>>13533601
>>13534366
>>13533641

Thanks

[Anonymous No.13534728]

>>13534435
>Leigh Brackett
>boomer
Bugmen were a mistake.

[Anonymous No.13534775]

I want to read the most generic shit that focuses on wizards. I’m not being sarcastic. Recommend me something.

[Anonymous No.13534786]

>>13534775
Addendum: miss me with that Name of the Wind shit.

[Anonymous No.13534795]

>>13534786
What's wrong with the name of the wind

[Anonymous No.13534809]

>>13534795
/ssfg/ hates cuckoldry.

[Anonymous No.13534814]

>>13534775
Tales of earthsea.

[Anonymous No.13534881]

>>13534775
Riftwar

[Anonymous No.13534883]

>>13534795
the author is a weak man. lets presidential elections dictate his life because he didnt like who got voted in also >>13534809
who the fuck once to read about someone who gets their love interest railed by anyone but mc.

[Anonymous No.13534899]

>The earth and the glaciers were innocent, and one couldn’t casually hurt them!

[Anonymous No.13534964]

>>13529127
I'm making something that will hopefully at least slightly reduce asking about authors as well as being more informative.

As it is, it's usually just one random person answering the other person. A single person isn't representative of the whole.

Sure, could look at the various review and aggregator sites, but turns out anons want to know "what /sffg/ thinks".

This is just a rough draft at the moment. It'll become more functional and aesthetic if there's interest.

Sample form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRGVlS-selwV3GimndvZu-eZDuw9dJSuSRFep51ShiSjWT_Q/viewform

Results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQwqwUZwMgOk86gRLborZkpGxazucdFMdpJFtD1v9XsimiZMSDuv-8csr0O5GvtQENifEp2WZ6Gy7Fa/pubhtml#

I considered just having free and open editing access for everyone, but vandalism is a bother. If you think it would be better that way, tell me.

The identifier is so that you can find yourself and refer yourself to others.

Should I drop the Neutral and only have Read and Avoid? Maybe change to them to symbols instead as well.

Should it include various authors or only the "meme" ones?

How many is too many?

If more authors are added later, you can edit your response if were signed into an account OR if you don't delete your cache/lose your session. Even if you lose that, can just tell me the identifier, assuming you use something that can be verified that it's use, such as a tripcode.

Should be able to general idea of who likes which combination of authors and find those similar to you, which may increase your chance of finding something you'd like to read.

I'll try to include some automated correlations in the future.

If anyone who is adept at spreadsheets wants to help, let me know.

If you know a better way to do this, then let's do so.

[Anonymous No.13534989]

>>13534964
everyone is just gonna ignore the huge spreadsheet anon.
you can make interactive flowcharts with google docs, microsoft office or https://www.visme.co/flowchart-maker/..
theres other tools im sure but flowcharts are the easiest way for people to find things.
because people are to lazy to search through a boring list even when using ctrl+f.

[Anonymous No.13534990]

>>13534814
>>13534881

Thank you kindly.

[Anonymous No.13534994]

>>13534989
You don't speak for everyone, especially with your short attention span.

[Anonymous No.13534997]

>>13532893
Check /h/ for the sticky. They are(were) archiving stuff there. You will get some relief, I'm sure.
So now that there is no sadpanda... do we keep the /h/ banner?

>>13532560
No. They aren't really lit.

[Anonymous No.13535000]

>>13534994
im actually with you that a simple list would be better.
im speaking for the idiots that seem to make up the overwhelming majority of the people that this is intended for.

[Anonymous No.13535006]

>>13535000
Gatekeep and don't conform.

[Anonymous No.13535018]

>>13534989
>>13535000
Flowcharts and lists are for a different purpose.

[Anonymous No.13535027]

>>13534795
Kind of cringeworthy. My problem with it despite the sexual bullshit is that it moves at a snails pace. The worst part of the books take place in college and that’s, what, 75 percent what the two books are about? Also the main character is insufferable. I can’t bring myself to read the third when it comes out.

[Anonymous No.13535039]

>>13535018
More specifically, it's prescriptive versus descriptive.

[Anonymous No.13535041]

>>13534997
what counts as /lit/

[Anonymous No.13535158]

>author blogs about how “hard” their work is

[Anonymous No.13535197]

>>13535158
Must be a shitty author then since the authors I follow constantly talk about how much they love to write and they're putting out stories consistently.

[Anonymous No.13535273]

Anybody recommend any high-concept horror that isn't overtly Lovecraft? Short fiction antologies mainly. I really like the idea of 'lovecraftian" horror but I think most of it suffers from cribbing directly from his mythology. All the mystery and surprise kind of goes out the window when you can taxonomically identify every creature named in passing.

[Anonymous No.13535278]

>>13535273
The Jaunt is a good short story

[Anonymous No.13535324]

>>13535278
Unfortunately I've already read it. I'm not that big a fan of Stephen King but I feel like his short stories are much better than his novels.

[Anonymous No.13535335]

>>13535324
If you like his shorts the Bachman Books are good as well, some more reality-based and some that classic Stephen King

[Anonymous No.13535397]

>>13535273
what do you mean by "high concept horror"? Do you just mean something unique, or something heady

>>13535197
I think there are two kinds of authors out there: people who like writing, and people who are simply hard-working glory-seekers. Most who are authors are the former and are usually better and more well-adjusted. The latter are miserable cretins who will rarely get anything published because they're going against their nature

guess which kind we are.

>>13534883
I think Rothfuss's problem is that he thinks that in a troubled time his political activism is worth more than his writing, when in fact he could have a bigger political influence if he did it through his writing.

Like what? Does he think going on a writer's strike and appearing in webcomics is going to stop Trump from declaring a state of emergency, seizing dictatorial power, throwing all of his political opponents and dissidents into concentration camps and escorting latinos into gas chambers? That shit's going to happen regardless of whether he teams up with a webcomic artist infamous for their comic on cuckholding

[Anonymous No.13535413]

Dragonlance Legends is something else
It has
>that
Special Feeling
It's the Great fantasy Trilogy (not counting LOTR)
It doesn't try to be anything unique or special, dooming itself, instead it perfected fantasy.

[Anonymous No.13535415]

>>13535273
The Southern Reach Trilogy, maybe? Though you just asked for short fiction so that probably won't do.

[Anonymous No.13535422]

>>13535413
Now read the rest of the mainline trilogies.

[Anonymous No.13535430]

Someone start a poll to see if Horror should be officially added to the general. It's ridiculous this general has gone on this long without Horror officially being added since Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Horror together were the original trifecta of genre fiction.

[Anonymous No.13535442]

>>13535430
is there any doubt it should be? I think the only reason it hasn't been fully incorporated is because we don't want to change the general name

[Anonymous No.13535456]

>>13535397
>eclaring a state of emergency, seizing dictatorial power, throwing all of his political opponents and dissidents into concentration camps and escorting latinos into gas chambers?
the irony is none if this is gonna happen. trump might not be the best possible president. but so far he hasnt actually done a bad job. the only blunder he did so far is approving the net neutrality repeal. everything else is what you would expect from any other president. well minus his big mouth but that just makes politics entertaining since he just says what comes to his mind.

[Anonymous No.13535469]

>>13535430
What's good sci-fi horror?

[Anonymous No.13535475]

>>13533909
I had the exact same problem when I read them and I always felt the books asimov wrote later on (prelude to foundation, forward the foundation, foundation's edge & foundation and earth) were a magnitude better.
They round it off pretty well.

[Anonymous No.13535494]

>>13535456
he's already said outright he wants to be president for life and now it's pretty clear he might go to jail the minute he's out of office. That he's going to make a grab for power if he loses isn't a low chance, or even a high chance. It's a certainty that I'd be willing to stake my entire savings on

[Anonymous No.13535504]

>>13535397
>what do you mean by "high concept horror"? Do you just mean something unique, or something heady
Unique, I guess. Stuff where the source of horror is itself a striking and interesting idea, rather than something prosaic like a serial killer or rote for the genre like a demon haunting a house. I came here because these sorts of stories are almost always speculative in nature.

[Anonymous No.13535541]

>>13535504
I'm not sure if it's unique enough, but the John Dies At The End series is pretty good even if it's a pretty crass comedy. The plots tend to revolve things like giant brood parasites with a perception filter that makes hosts think the maggot eating chunks of their flesh is a baby nursing, or syringes of sentient heroin that can stop time

[Anonymous No.13535542]

>>13535494
There is absolutely no chance of a former President being convicted with all the dirt and information they have about the country. He'll start shit posting national secrets on Twitter if there's even a chance of going to and likely dying in jail at his age. Win or lose once he's out of office it will all be swept under the rug and all the politicians of both parties will pretend his Presidency never happened.

[Anonymous No.13535549]

>>13535469
The Autopsy by Micheal Shea

[Anonymous No.13535557]

>>13535430
I personally have no problem with the change but I'll play devil's advocate. It is true that a great deal of horror is speculative in nature, since a great deal of it deals with supernatural or otherworldly threats. But when people read a scary ghost story they're inclined to think of it as horror, not fantasy, even if the story only describes ghosts in fantastic terms. That's because what defines horror isn't its setting, it's that it's supposed to be scary. Scifi and fantasy are settings. Horror is a type of storytelling. Scifi and fantasy can run from epics to mysteries to dramas to comedies, which are all unlikely to interest people who come looking specifically for horror.

[Anonymous No.13535575]

>>13535542
I'm not denying he can nixon himself, I'm denying there's any chance he'd give up power willingly, especially if it's because he lost an election. Again, dude has already said outright he wants to be president for life. He can get away with it too. Easily. And if he loses the election god help us. The guy who changed his name to be synonymous with victory and who uses "Loser" as his primary insult is NOT going to handle that well.

All signs point to a power grab. It's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN

[Anonymous No.13535643]

>>13535469
Evangelion
Revelation Space
Blindopraxia

[Anonymous No.13535669]

>>13534366
Based Brackettposter

[Anonymous No.13535739]

>>13534775
Rhialto the Magnificent

[Anonymous No.13535751]

>>13535575
lmao

[Anonymous No.13535774]

Anyone got any ideas for fictional ingredients that aren't based on puns? I mostly only have shit like peppers that resemble and taste like mint leaves, mint leaves that resemble and taste like chilis, dragon eggs growing on withered black stalks, and flamboyant cotton plants with sweet fibers

[Anonymous No.13535785]

>>13535774
put things into google translate and try out different languages. then change a few letters.

[Anonymous No.13535791]

>>13535751
>>13535542
note how only the left-wing posts were deleted. It's official. /pol/ has taken over

[Anonymous No.13535802]

>>13535791
I think I know a place you can go that might be more friendly to your sensibilities

[Anonymous No.13535804]

>>13535774
The Redwall books have the best descriptions of foods I've ever read

[Anonymous No.13535810]

>>13535774
If you're looking for plain exoticism, my advice would be to look up shit that's weird in real life and try to put a spin on it. Like that flower that smells like meat to attract flies and small carrion eaters. What if was also an acidic plant that digested what it attracted, and the meat smell was actually caused by a preserved lump of semidigested insectflesh inside the flower?

[Anonymous No.13535811]

>>13535802
The Donald?

[Anonymous No.13535814]

>>13535811
Warmer

[Anonymous No.13535871]

>>13535810
flying sting/manta rays maybe? I feel like I'm ripping that from a dnd thing I just read, but people already eat skate. bigger rays are probably even better. wikipedia they eat sting rays in malaysia so that's on the list too

Maybe the MC can throw a ray on the barbie and call it steve irwin's revenge

[Anonymous No.13535883]

>>13535804
I am so tempted to read that stuff now.

[Anonymous No.13535929]

Recommend fantasy with good food porn please

[Anonymous No.13535936]

>>13535430
Sure,why not? i mean sometimes we even talk about historical fiction here

[Anonymous No.13535939]

>>13535929
There is a hobbit cookbook out there somewhere. It has some tasty recipes.

[Anonymous No.13535946]

>>13535929
Brother Alf remarked that Friar Hugo had excelled himself, as course after course was brought to the table. Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn puree, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg.

A chorus of ooh's and ah's greeted the arrival of six mice pushing a big trolley. It was the grayling. Wreaths of aromatic steam drifted around Cavern Hole; the fish had been baked to perfection. Friar Hugo entered, with a slight swagger added to his ungainly waddle. He swept off his chefs cap with his tail, and announced in a somewhat pompous squeak, "Milord Abbot, honored guests from Mossflower area and members of the Abbey. Ahem, I wish to present my piece de resistance"

"Oh get on with it, Hugo!"

After some icy staring about to detect the culprit, and several smothered sniggers from around the room, the little fat friar puffed himself up once more and declaimed firmly: "Grayling a la RedwalL"

[Anonymous No.13535959]

>>13532671
Don't do the Silmarillion until you finish LOTR.

[Anonymous No.13536008]

Is it weird that my favorite parts of Mistborn were the ballroom scenes? Any other books with a lot of noble social events?

[Anonymous No.13536050]

>>13535791
More like those were the only ones who got reported. Either way, the mods only listen to the userbase and if the userbase is full of /pol/tards, well..

[Anonymous No.13536089]

>>13535946
not OP, but am I the only one who doesn't feel awed by this?

Maybe my prejudice against norther/eastern european food is leaking through, but aside from the shrimp it sounds like the author's trying to make boiled cabbage and turnips sound appetizing. Also, the shrimp is kind of jarring since I'm honestly struggling to imagine what real-world culture would have eastern europe cuisine, but also have access to shrimp and garnish with rose petals. Georgia? Armenia?

[Anonymous No.13536104]

>>13536089
That is just a small excerpt from the entire series of books, but it is rare to see authors go in to such descriptions of food at all if they even touch on the matter of hunger. The author is from England so I imagine it has that similar setting

[Anonymous No.13536136]

>>13536089
This + i don't like books where there's talking animals or whatever

[Anonymous No.13536141]

>>13536104
I figured, most YA with food porn is english. I imagine the rose petals sort of fit in when you remember how big the england's indo-pakistani community is.

>>13536136
Damn, well, then you are NOT going to be happy with TBoH/TBoF, If I ever finish it

[Anonymous No.13536153]

>>13535929
Don't want to be that guy, but A Song of Ice and Fire is filled with descriptions of food from start to at least book four, which is as far as I could stomach

[Anonymous No.13536157]

>>13536141
Rose petals were used in medieval European cooking.

[Anonymous No.13536159]

>>13536141
What's tbof

[Anonymous No.13536169]

>>13535643
>Blindopraxia

I think that's quite a stretch.

[Anonymous No.13536186]

>>13536159
the unfinished book I've been angsting about here for like three or four years now. I'm not going to say the actual name but names are so generic now that you can probably figure it out

>>13536157
did they do it in northern/eastern europe? I always though of eating roses as a muslim world thing, but I could see it in france and england. Still, the rose petal garnish feels super middle-eastern to me

[Anonymous No.13536191]

>>13536186
Close this fucking tab and write for 30 minutes

[Anonymous No.13536194]

>>13536186
You can always work out names later, anon. Just get everything else right.

[Anonymous No.13536210]

>>13536186
http://giveitforth.blogspot.com/2016/05/harleian-ms-279-ab-1430-rede-rose-rose.html
https://britishfoodhistory.com/2019/05/17/medieval-rose-pudding-rosee/
Desserts
http://www.picturebritain.com/2012/10/food-and-drink-in-medieval-england-and.html
Rosewater was also used.

[Anonymous No.13536225]

>>13536141
>>13536159
>>13536186
The Book of Hermaphrodites/The Book of Futanari?

[Anonymous No.13536311]

Anybody want to do a friendly short-story jam? One a week type thing with a collective theme?

[Anonymous No.13536315]

>>13530584
The feeling I got from the last few pages of this book was really unique and I miss it.

[Anonymous No.13536380]

>>13535413
Based and Majerepilled

[Anonymous No.13536526]

>>13536186
Why can't you say the name of the book ?

[Anonymous No.13536531]

>>13536153
Yes , I read the first 3 books and actually enjoyed them

[Anonymous No.13536618]

I am glad to see this general acknowledges just how great the Golden Golem of Greatness is.

[Anonymous No.13537127]

>>13536618
>Golden Golem of Greatness
Truly, we live in an Auspicious Age of Alliterations.

[Anonymous No.13537268]

A dark, twisted Cinderella retelling that fans of Sarah J. Maas and/or Melanie Dickerson are sure to enjoy.

[Anonymous No.13537280]

>>13537268
I will find you and kill you slowly if you don't stop.

[Anonymous No.13537485]

>>13533366
>Andrew Rowe
So you enjoyed the gayness.

[Anonymous No.13537537]

currently reading malazan, this shit is too good and addictive. I'm glad there's still 9 and a half books to read, just hoping that the quality doesn't drop.

[Anonymous No.13537541]

>>13537537
Hope you like changing the cast for the first few books... only for it to be changed again big time. Check out spin-off novels as well.

[Anonymous No.13537573]

>>13534548
>You know those drones that can fly around and snipe you with perfect accuracy from above cloud cover? Imagine for a moment the government decided to make them autonomous
Read zone wars by John Conroe.... unless you are John himself. That is almost what happened in zone wars.

[Anonymous No.13537588]

>>13529905
>>13534088
>>13529165
>>13529196
Ahh. It makes sense that all the out of the blue constant sword and sorcery shilling was by an actual paid shill. Trying to revive interest in a shit homoerotic genre.

[Anonymous No.13537601]

>>13537541
so the second book will be about totally different characters? well, that may be interesting, it changes a bit in the first book too. I don't remember reading a book that introduced so many characters, but it's not that hard to keep up, so far at least.

[Anonymous No.13537637]

>>13534964
People not going to sign in anon. Even if they use a dummy account. I won't be putting my account dummies or otherwise in there.

[Anonymous No.13537681]

>>13535774
I got a bunch (haha), flavours anon.
But I don't know if you like my imagination. The rock soup thing didn't really tingle you.

[Anonymous No.13537693]

>>13535946
>piece de resistance"
>both piece and resistance has different meanings in English, but comes together to make a word in "I surrender"

[Anonymous No.13537710]

>>13537588
>Ahh. It makes sense that all the out of the blue constant sword and sorcery shilling was by an actual paid shill. Trying to revive interest in a shit homoerotic genre.

[Anonymous No.13537711]

>>13536089
>it sounds like the author's trying to make boiled cabbage and turnips sound appetizing.
That's what all cooks/chefs do. They give shit long descriptive fancy names when it's just rice, srew and salad that appears on your plate.

[Anonymous No.13537714]

>>13536136
Damn anon. You try to avoid the furry so bad is comical.

[Anonymous No.13537717]

I used to read SciFI but am really out of touch with contemp. works. Is there still anything like Hyperion Cantos or Baxter today ? And please without any feminazi or SJW BS being rubbed in my face

[Anonymous No.13537724]

>>13536311
>please write stories for me so I can post them on my amazon kindle account and get money

[Anonymous No.13537727]

>>13537717
Check out John C. Wright's stuff.

[Anonymous No.13537773]

>>13537714
That's not it . I just don't like it .I don't feel immersed and can't relate to the characters . When I was a child i wouldn't even watch these kids movies with talking dogs or whatever

[Anonymous No.13537797]

>>13537724
? Is that a thing?

[Anonymous No.13537945]

>>13537601
>so the second book will be about totally different characters?
For the most part. It also switches continents. Deadhouse Gates is a way more memorable books and you'll be in tears by the end.

[Anonymous No.13537967]

>>13537797
Not sure if it happened yet, but who could deny the uploader's claim of ownership?

[Anonymous No.13537989]

>>13537945
I swear to god that gardens of the moon was "are you a bad enough dude to read through this?" test before you get to the good stuff. so many dropped malazan right then and there.

[Anonymous No.13538021]

If I wrote some short stories, would any of you fags read them? Fantasy, that is.

[Anonymous No.13538029]

Desolate Era faggot, how wild does the Conclave tournament get? I'm about to start that Book, on the last chapter of the one beforehand but got sleepy last night mid-chapter
>UNCROWNED FUCKING WHEN

[Anonymous No.13538045]

>>13537967
k..

[Anonymous No.13538057]

>>13537537
>there's still 9 and a half books to read
That's a bit pessimistic, there are two other trilogies finished/in planning and half a dozen or so spin offs and some short story collections.

[Anonymous No.13538122]

>>13538057
jesus
i hope my autism project is that expansive someday

[Anonymous No.13538180]

>>13538122
I sure fucking hope not if it's 2019 and capitalizing "I" is a difficult task for you still

[Anonymous No.13538203]

>>13538180
>whinging over punctuation and capitalizing letters on a cantonese snail farming board
If it makes you feel any better, I agonize over this kind of thing in my writing. A post on this board, however, is not worth the mental effort.

[Anonymous No.13538205]

>>13537945
well that's good to hear. I was a bit afraid that the quality would drop.

>>13538057
I had no idea.. thought was only 10 books. fuck that's a lot of stuff to read.

[Anonymous No.13538216]

>>13538203
>durr it's the internet!
It's the digital equivalent of walking around with mustard on your shirt. It's disgusting and you should know better as an adult

[Anonymous No.13538229]

>>13538216
If 4chan was a place it would be the kind of place where mustard on your shirt is the least of your concerns.

[Anonymous No.13538239]

>>13538229
I don't dress like a homeless person and excuse it because I live in Seattle

[Anonymous No.13538242]

>>13538029
>UNCROWNED FUCKING WHEN
According to the posters on his blog, not August.

[Anonymous No.13538268]

>>13538239
Eh, fair enough.

[Anonymous No.13538347]

Is libgen dead?

[Anonymous No.13538363]

>>13538347
Dont scare me like that anon, im still recovering from sad panda.

[Anonymous No.13538407]

Anyone have ebooks of the Ender's Game series?

[Anonymous No.13538420]

>>13532989
>Unsong and the myriad of short stories by Scott Alexander
http://unsong.libsyn.com/

[Anonymous No.13538633]

>>13538407
It's all over online.

[Anonymous No.13538669]

>>13532989
I have already read all of these expect for the Nostalgebraist guy (haven't head of him till now) and sailor moon shit.
What else do you like?
Worm, MoL, and Unsong are among my favourite fictions.

[Anonymous No.13538832]

I want to write so much but I cannot get myself to do it
free me from this cyclical hell

[Anonymous No.13538862]

>>13538347
Libgen has hickups sonetimes. 2 years ago it was not reachable for around 2 weeks and from time to time it sometimes has problems with downloads

[Anonymous No.13538873]

>>13538347

When this happens, for instance the address ending with .io being a dead end, just google libgen and you'll get a different address that's the new one, for instance this time it ends with .is

[Anonymous No.13538890]

>>13538873
Yea this is what I did.

[Anonymous No.13538972]

>>13533534
mobilism.org (best option)
myanonamouse,net(Also best option but it's invite only)
libgen.io
b-ok.org
irc(See /lit/ Sticky)
If you don't find whatever you're looking for on the above sites, your best bet is to look into the request sections of mobilism and myanonamouse.

There used to be an image floating around explaining all this, please post it if anyone has it saved. I'll stick it in the OP.

[Anonymous No.13538978]

>>13538832
Write shitty stuff, then laugh at it in a few months.

I had an anime idea, let it fester around, and now I'm rewriting it's basis as a far future book.

[Anonymous No.13538984]

>>13538978
Not what I mean. I've been working on a story for about a month and a half, I'm struggling to write a scene that needs to be written.

[Anonymous No.13538993]

>>13534147
i read the first book on the series only, but it was worth it. i hated the ending, mostly because i felt it was a complete betrayal of the first half which i loved, but it was still worth it and i plan on reading the rest of the series when i get around to it. and the other anon says, the setting was delightfully unique for me

[Anonymous No.13538994]

>>13538029
It's fun, goes about as expected with a small twist. Also, Ning ends up meeting based time space wizard after it ends as a result of using Starsiezing Hand in the tournament.

[Anonymous No.13539040]

>>13538984
I was thinking of a means to get writing. Then I'll jump tracks to get writing on stuff I need to do.

[Anonymous No.13539045]

>>13539040
If jumping mental tracks isn't your way of doing things, then I'll understand.

[Anonymous No.13539068]

>>13530930
>new wave
?

[Anonymous No.13539082]

>>13539068
>hippy sci fi

[Anonymous No.13539098]

>>13538972
>I'll stick it in the OP.
NO.jpeg
It's fags like you that opened up known secrets to normies and brought down websites. Those normies then post on Facebook about their private tracker.

[Anonymous No.13539117]

>>13538669
Read Nostalgebraist for sure. Also read Cordyceps, also on Ao3. In 2012 an anon published an epistolary style novel titled Trapped in a Fantasy World over 12 days on /tg/. You can read it through the archives here https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Stranded_in_fantasy#Sup.2Ftg.2F_archives . It's pretty good. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the granddaddy of ratfic. Poor writing in spots, but still very good.

[Anonymous No.13539152]

>>13538984
Even if it needs to be written, it doesn't need to be written now. Write another part then come back to it.

[Anonymous No.13539169]

>>13539152
I have an overwhelming feeling that doing that would give rise to continuity errors. I'm not writer's blocked, just struggling to get myself to actually write at all.

The heat is completely fucking up my ability to focus and hold focus.

[Anonymous No.13539205]

>>13537711
sorry to dig up this dead conversation, but that's not exactly what chefs do you overstate the bullshit and understate the craftsmanship.

im not a chef, but as a dedicated amateur ive had more than my share of insane and disgusting-sounding dishes. the goal of a chef who pushes the boundaries isnt to convince you something bad is good, but to set aside preconceptions and find new foods and new combinations that work. Lobster is a good example of this. up until the early 20th century, it was considered inhumane to feed to feed even to prisoners. Now its a luxury food, and its a luxury because its genuinely delicious.

not everything is successful. Culinary ashes and chia seeds were a mistake. personally, im never allowed to cook sea urchin again after one of my worst creations. still, occasionally you find diamonds in the rough. you'd never think that lobster is good with white chocolate, but the combination works beautifully

[Anonymous No.13539270]

>>13539068
Scifi from the 60s and 70s about psychedelics drugs and weird sex and depression and the fall of civilization and etc

[Anonymous No.13539271]

>>13539205
That lobster comparison reminded me on how chicken wings were considered a throw-away part of the chicken until... 40 or so years ago but then got spun around to literally be a premium part of the chicken now and at times supply couldn't be met.
Go back a hundred years, it was considered a poor man's food then.

[Anonymous No.13539272]

THREAD BITCH!

[Anonymous No.13539313]

>>13534258
>>13538993
Thank you for the recommendations.
I don't have the time and energy to take chances on reading something I might drop 50 pages in.
Being recommended like this makes all the difference.

[Anonymous No.13539339]

>>13539313
Quick,before the slavethread comes post fantasy books with cute Readheads.

[Anonymous No.13539354]

>>13539339
Why don't you make a new thread?

[Anonymous No.13539396]

>>13539354
That's how starts,first you just make 1(one) new /sffg/ thread and then you realize you have spend the last 5 years being a slavethread.

[Anonymous No.13539414]

>>13539396
Do you want me to make a thread?
Fair warning, I am going to post some hot thot in the OP.

[Anonymous No.13539417]

Right in time as always, what are you all crying about?

>>13539413
>>13539413
>>13539413
>>13539413
>>13539413

[Anonymous No.13539601]

>>13539396
I remember that feel from the Mass Effect Generals on /vg/. Made like 40 OP collages for that as well and bumped it off page 9/10 untold times.

[Anonymous No.13539676]

>>13539354
Horny for Thorne

[Anonymous No.13539976]

Does The Belgariad exist as a pdf somewhere? I can't buy it for my Kindle and it is annoying me. Any help?