/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.13921499]

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[Anonymous No.13921502]

First for
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (2019)
Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter (2018)
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (2011)
Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (2010)
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (2007)
Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (2006)
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks (2010)

[Anonymous No.13921542]

How does one write original fantasy?

[Anonymous No.13921554]

>>13921542
Mix up LOTR

[Anonymous No.13921599]

>>13921542
Base it on a a religion or sect that hasn't already been fantasy'ised.

[Anonymous No.13921698]

>>13921542

Cut off your pee pee

[Anonymous No.13921730]

>>13921698
I don't have one

[Anonymous No.13921742]

>>13921730
Pretend you wish you were born with one

[Anonymous No.13921885]

>>13921502
thanks friend, we really need this general to look exactly like every single r/fantasy request thread.

[Anonymous No.13921956]

>>13921885
>every single r/fantasy
Yes, Dunsany bad, Sanderson good
You have missed the last few threads, haven't you

[Anonymous No.13921962]

So what's the best fantasy book?

[Anonymous No.13922006]

>>13921499
Water crocodile elementals vs Air Horse elementals.

[Anonymous No.13922051]

Can someone explain Malazan to me without much spoilers?

I'm about halfway through book two, and I hear book three and four are completely new casts like going from book one to book two. Do they all eventually merge into one story, or is this series just a bunch of stand alone novels set in the same world? I'm super confused where all the hype comes from, unless all these plotlines end up converging at the end of the series.

[Anonymous No.13922057]

>>13921502
>he still doesn't understand that the list was to get the reader back into fantasy after taking a decade off from reading it, specifically listing those books because the guy asking for recommendations was only reading Drizzt and DragonLance books

Still, cracks me up that a few of you are so butthurt by that list that you post it in every thread now.

[Anonymous No.13922064]

>>13922051
Check the last thread faggot.

[Anonymous No.13922071]

>>13921962
A spell for chameleon

[Anonymous No.13922084]

What’s the best meme isekai story

[Anonymous No.13922092]

>>13922084
Tarnsman of gor.

Otherwise, is there something more specific you're looking for?

[Anonymous No.13922102]

>>13922092

[Anonymous No.13922164]

>>13922057
>he still doesn't understand that I will be posting this list not because of any reason related to it's origins, but for the sheer meme of someone having unironically given it as the best fantasy of the decade and like 5 anons being sure it was bait until you clarified it was not
I mean this list is a better representation or leddit fantasy than any list I could have made, so it's useful to keep it around.

[Anonymous No.13922254]

>>13922102
The memest.

[Anonymous No.13922261]

>>13922057
The more people that fall for that list, the most successful it will have been.

[Anonymous No.13922278]

>>13922051
not to state the obvious, but only people who love it hype it up. there are plenty of people who don't.

[Anonymous No.13922293]

>>13921730

Dilate

[Anonymous No.13922317]

>>13922164
Hey, dipshit. I never said it was the best fantasy of the last decade.
> a better representation or leddit fantasy than any list I could have made, so it's useful to keep it around.
Oh, that's right, you're the contrarian who's only contrarian because that's how you act on 4chan. Your pretentiousness just oozes out of you. Scoffing at others for daring to suggest easy-to-read Fantasy books just like the easy-to-read Fantasy books he's used to. What a sad excuse for a human you've turned out to be.

[Anonymous No.13922327]

>>13922064
I did. And it doesn't actually answer any of the things I asked. All it said is that there's a massive cast of characters, maybe 1/5th of which are in the first book.

Doesn't answer if it all comes together or if they're all supposed to be more or less stand alones or if it's going to be a bunch of self contained 2-3 part stories that you get a part of once every 4 books, etc etc.

God forbid I try to get people to discuss something in the /sffg/ rather than just ridicule them.

[Anonymous No.13922415]

>>13922317
I mean at least if I am butthurt, I would see the irony in calling someone else butthurt.
I will be posting that list for a long time, and there's nothing you can do to stop me; how does does it feel?
I will also keep making fun of Sanderson, and recommending obscure 19th century fantasy, and there's nothing you can do about it either, expect call me pretentious, so that you do not have to confront your brainlet self over your shitty reading habits.

[Anonymous No.13922439]

>>13921542
Think of what you hate about our world, and imagine what kind of magic would be used to fix it.

[Anonymous No.13922450]

Recc me a book so I can learn about angels. I want to learn about their historical depictions, as well as similar creatures in other religions besides Abrahamic ones.

[Anonymous No.13922466]

>>13922415
>I will be posting that list for a long time, and there's nothing you can do to stop me; how does does it feel?
Like I said, it's fucking hilarious to me that you're so triggered by a list that you make an effort to repost it in every thread.

[Anonymous No.13922518]

[Anonymous No.13922526]

>all the ideals
God, its so cheesy but good.

[Anonymous No.13922540]

>>13922466
>The anger is literally leaking in liquid form
>fucking hilarious
You should read some Crowley, or Le Guin to calm your nerves, buddy. If you are angry, that doesn't mean I am angry.
I just want to keep posting that android of a list and see what happens. Does someone fall for it? Does someone start screeching over it? Does Joe himself come over?
Someone takes the effort to call the feetfag a hack almost every thread, why do you think they do it? Someone shilled Fataass for a long while, I still think about the faggot sometimes. I don't even care if he liked the book or did it ironically, I just want him back.

[Anonymous No.13922545]

>>13922518
But it's true

[Anonymous No.13922555]

>>13922540
>Does someone fall for it?
Newfags will definitely fall for it.

[Anonymous No.13922557]

>>13922540
That's the most pretentious and wordy way of saying "u mad, bro" that I've ever seen, made even more hilarious by how terribly written it is and how proud of yourself and smug you are about it.
Little bit of life advice for ya: just because someone replies to you, doesn't mean they're mad.

[Anonymous No.13922578]

>>13922327
I know you were trying to bait a discussion, even though your answer was answered to the best without spoiling in the last thread.

If you want more info check the archives. I'm fed up of discussing the same fucking book over and over. Read new shit so you can discuss other shit.

>>13922450
Plague of Angels
Blood mage by faith Hunter

[Anonymous No.13922629]

Why is Malazan so hard to read bros? I'm 150 pages in to the 2nd book and yes, it's a nice series but damn it's fucking hard to read

[Anonymous No.13922631]

>>13922557
>Literally gets triggered by my writing style
It hurts bro, not everyone is an Amerifat like you; some of us learned engrish as their third language, and have to put a lot of effort in to write properly.

[Anonymous No.13922632]

>>13922629
Do it for Coltaine

[Anonymous No.13922681]

>>13922631
>t. third-world kebab

[Anonymous No.13922689]

>>13922578
>I know you were trying to bait a discussion, even though your answer was answered to the best without spoiling in the last thread.
>If you want more info check the archives. I'm fed up of discussing the same fucking book over and over. Read new shit so you can discuss other shit.
you are everything wrong with this general. you're so in your own head about people trying to "bait discussion" and so annoyed at people trying to discuss something you don't want to, that rather than just ignore the post, you bring attention to it and mock the person posting it.

[Anonymous No.13922731]

>>13922631
>living in his head rentfree

[Anonymous No.13922743]

>>13922518
Based
>>13922681
English is my third language, and I live in a literal third-world country. We have nice mountains though. And we are rich, so that's nice.

[Anonymous No.13922765]

>>13921499
Fuck you /sffg/. Been here for years and you never recommended me L. E. Modesitt.

[Anonymous No.13922798]

>>13922765
Literally the previous thread and others

[Anonymous No.13922814]

>>13922765
You've been here for years and still haven't realised /sffg/ is trash for recommendations? Also he's been mentioned several times.

[Anonymous No.13922821]

This should be our monthly read.

[Anonymous No.13922831]

>>13922821

[Anonymous No.13922836]

>>13921409
I miss LOST.

>>13922327
You will read the full series and still not have some of your questions answered. Don't even bother.

[Anonymous No.13922871]

>>13922821
Based and redpilled.

>>13922831
GTFO newfag

>>13922765
You are probably dyslexic then, its probably among the top 100 most recommended books

[Anonymous No.13922899]

>>13922836
>You will read the full series and still not have some of your questions answered. Don't even bother.

I can't think of a single series that I've read that answers ALL the questions I have, when concerning fantasy. There's a ton of world building stuff that is a giant ??????? in practically every book I've read. The authors have figured it out somewhere in their notes, but it's not really anywhere for readers to see, nor does it need to be. The need to have all your questions answered will ruin most stories, because that's not the way life works.

I just want to know if the 4-5 separate stories happening on different continents each with their own dedicate book end up joining into one mega-plot by the last few books, or if it's more just a few somewhat un-related stories. Like if I only read the books that the first book cast is a part of, will I miss anything? Why is it so fucking hard to get a simple "yes" or "no" from you guys with these basic fucking questions.

[Anonymous No.13922906]

>>13922821
But how many trees were killed?!?!

[Anonymous No.13922909]

It seems we're ever increasingly in an age where it's no longer possible separate the work from its creator.

[Anonymous No.13923065]

>>13922689
>ask a question that is asked over and over ad nauseam
>get fed up
>tell the cunt if he really wants answers they were answered in the archives
>admits he doesn't want answers and is just trying to bait a discussion
>tell him to fuck off because it's been discussed to death
>you are everything wrong with this general...
No. Cunts like you and >>13922518 who post the same shit over and over in hopes of getting to shitpost about the only books you read instead of reading new things to discuss is what is wrong with the general.
Fuck off

[Anonymous No.13923123]

>>13922899
Yes you will see the term 'convergence' crop up more and more as you get into the later books but they are still very much primarily focused on one or more significant groups even up into the last book.

[Anonymous No.13923136]

>>13923065
That was LITERALLY the first time I've ever posted about Malazan other than a dozen or so threads ago where I said I enjoyed the first book.
Like I said, you're so in your head you think anyone who dares ask a question about one of maybe a dozen of the most popular fantasy right now are clearly trolls that are just trying to bait shitposts. It doesn't even occurs to you that someone might legitimately be asking for an opinion or want to discuss something. At that point, why are you even here?

[Anonymous No.13923142]

>>13923065
>I'll stay here and complain about how no one is talking about new books and antagonize posters instead of talking about new books
That's a great discussion strategy.

[Anonymous No.13923146]

>>13923136
>>13923142
Stop responding to it, you utter retards.

[Anonymous No.13923166]

>>13922821
>would fuck below right
>would not read all else

[Anonymous No.13923172]

>>13923146

[Anonymous No.13923174]

Shit niggas, this general is moving way too fast for people with a job.
Ease up with all the fantasy shitposting.

[Anonymous No.13923191]

>>13923174
>implying you can't just ignore the vast majority of posts

[Anonymous No.13923198]

Where is Monthly Reading anon with the list of nominations?

[Anonymous No.13923205]

>>13922526
>going so well first
>shits the bed on the third
how does Sanderson does it?
Holy fucking hell its always the third fucking book.

[Anonymous No.13923214]

>>13923191
There is no fun in that.
Unlike other boards, funposting here is sometimes entertaining.
Too bad I am too busy with the new job.

[Anonymous No.13923238]

>>13921499
Books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.13923247]

>>13922821
I want to KISS Sarah J. Maas

[Anonymous No.13923271]

>>13923123
finally, thanks

[Anonymous No.13923287]

>>13923198
Timezone, job, school, other interests, and other stuff.

[Anonymous No.13923310]

>>13923287
I am always amazed at how little consideration for others neets have.

[Anonymous No.13923355]

>>13923310
Nah, It's more that sometimes when someone revolves their life around something it's possible to forget that not all others have the same level of devotion and dedication.

[Anonymous No.13923363]

>>13923355
...so basically someone with very little consideration for others.

[Anonymous No.13923379]

>>13923363
Yes, but not limited to NEETs.
Someone could easily have the thread on auto-refresh on their phone all day.

[Anonymous No.13923430]

>>13923174
What is with those man hands?

[Anonymous No.13923440]

>>13923214
I probably would... depends on if she thicc with the birthing hips.

[Anonymous No.13923449]

>>13923430
She has a demon cock

[Anonymous No.13923466]

>>13923440

[Anonymous No.13923497]

Whats everyone think of the wheel of time table read?

[Anonymous No.13923654]

You could read some Discworld, a random book will do. The audio books are even up on youtube.

[Anonymous No.13923876]

I downloaded Uncrowned, but I only started reading it last night. How do I cope with having just finished it? And that atrocious cliff hanger?

[Anonymous No.13923917]

>>13923876
Realize that it’s only 4-6 months until the next one.

[Anonymous No.13923932]

>>13923917
Too long. This is why books fail compared to other media. Everything needs to be a weekly release or more often.

[Anonymous No.13923948]

>>13923205
>shits the bed on the third
I don't agree, i still love "you can't have my pain" a year (or two?) later. I do wish Kalladin would have been less of a bitch, or at least resolved his current issues by the end. I really liked the character growth that happened in the two previous books.

[Anonymous No.13923954]

>>13923932
thats what you get for reading shitty 150 page unedited sperg lord harem shit

[Anonymous No.13924024]

>>13923954
>imagine actually wanting to wait for years between release

[Anonymous No.13924069]

/sffg/, what's your opinion on giving every single character a random weird fetish for the sake of humor?

[Anonymous No.13924140]

>>13924069
Considering what you'd have to do to bring up so many fetishes, if it's intended to be a sex comedy, then sure.

[Anonymous No.13924171]

>>13924140
comedy yes, sex comedy no. on the other hand its a survival fantasy with a cast of mentally ill adolescents in a situation where societal pressure isn't around to rein them in. it isnt hard to get a situation like this

>characters witness someone get eaten alive
>"is it weird that that made me feel kind of tingley"
>"Fuck. Yes."

[Anonymous No.13924228]

>>13924171
>>13924171
You seem to have confused the fantasy of fetishes with the reality of fetishes. If you want your characters to be entirely defined by their fetishes and one-dimensional then okay. It's fine to do so in erotica and and irrelevant and flippant comedy, but other than that it's probably not going to go over well for most. Because then they aren't believable characters, they are just constructs of your agenda.

[Anonymous No.13924244]

>>13924228
That was meant to be irreverent, what a slip.

[Anonymous No.13924258]

>>13924171
Are you saying you're autistic author writing autistic humor for an autistic audience?

[Anonymous No.13924260]

God this book is boring. I am thinking of giving up on it.

[Anonymous No.13924265]

>>13924260
Regardless of whatever it is, if you think you should, you should.

[Anonymous No.13924313]

Why are authors allowed to publish novels under 1000 pages

[Anonymous No.13924326]

>>13924313
Because of the difficulty and problems involved with such lengthy printed books. In Europe, they are split into multiple novels, such as in the case of the game of thrones ones.

[Anonymous No.13924378]

>>13924326
A webnovel author publishe 1000 pages every couple months no issues
No excuses for “legacy” media like ebooks

[Anonymous No.13924415]

>>13924378
Webnovels are a bad example because as serials they are inherently different.

[Anonymous No.13924418]

>>13921962
Mistborn.

[Anonymous No.13924424]

>>13924415
Game of thrones is also a serial

[Anonymous No.13924428]

>>13922831
based newnigg-poster

[Anonymous No.13924431]

>>13924228

you forget we're discussing comedy, which almost by necessity revolves around exaggeration of character traits

>>13924258
did I fucking stutter?

[Anonymous No.13924439]

>>13924424
It isn't. If your argument is one of semantics of "words mean whatever I want them to mean" then I don't have anything else to say.

[Anonymous No.13924445]

>>13924069
Joe, give it up, gum sucking isn't a real fetish.

[Anonymous No.13924470]

>>13924431
Yes, a "comedy survival comedy".

No doubt with scenes such as
>character is a hand fetishist
>at night chops off the hand of someone else and begins masturbating with it
>guy wakes up and goes OH MY GOD, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?!?!!? OH NO MY HAND!!!!! as an exaggerated geyser of blood gushes forth and he begin running around to the tune of yakety sax
Very egdy comedy. Bravo.

[Anonymous No.13924494]

The Jules Verne collection I bought has a shitty translation of Journey to the Center of the Earth. Sounds like all of the single book collections have that translation and I'm pissed.

[Anonymous No.13924517]

>>13924431
>did I fucking stutter?
In real life? Probably.

inb4 BUT IT'S A MEME! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.13924648]

>>13924470
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDlpETyqweE

[Anonymous No.13924670]

>>13924494
apprends à parler français gros con

[Anonymous No.13924690]

>>13921472
>>13921480
Tfw live in will wrights head rent free

[Anonymous No.13924697]

>>13924690
Or does he live in yours? The duology of man.

[Anonymous No.13924716]

>>13924697
Nah. I even nominated his most favoritest book for him.

[Anonymous No.13924787]

>>13924716
You keep bringing it up, so obviously it's taking up some space.

[Anonymous No.13924959]

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barnes-noble-leatherbound-classics-jules-verne-jules-verne/1106658814
Does anyone know if this has a good translation of Journey to the Center of the Earth (one with Lidenbrock)? Hoping it comes in stock so I can check it out.

[Anonymous No.13925014]

The whole time I'm reading this book I kept thinking how much I missed the old characters and how all the new point of views felt so shallow compared to the old ones. The only one that was decent was Orso. The first trilogy was good while the stand alones where decent but this one is a slog.

[Anonymous No.13925041]

>>13924787
I only said it once, fren. R-E-L-A-X

[Anonymous No.13925123]

An Autobiographical Ramble - Joe Haldeman (~16.6k words, ~2001)
Excerpts

>first publication was a poem in the Washington Post, at the age of nine
>last semester in college...Creative Writing class...my first story came back...with the question of why a person who was obviously a published writer...in an elementary course
>I did sell the science fiction stories I wrote in that class
>Not bad for a story I banged out overnight to meet a class deadline
>Usual pattern...piles of rejection slips...years to make a sale...writers I've met, a quarter or a third, didn't do that — like me, they sold their first story and just kept selling. I also sold my first novel to the first publisher who saw it, my first stage play, my first screen play, and when I returned to poetry...a long narrative poem
>writing would be a sideline...twin Ph.D in computer science and physiology
>never been able to write the usual way, blasting out a rough draft and then refining it
>publisher knows the writer will run out of money before they run out of books
>seven of us...collaborate on a novel...while playing poker...write two pages...wound up with over forty pages...called The Trouble With Smegma
>Hasford presented his opening chapter...Ellison stood on a table and said it was the best thing he had ever seen...we all should get down on our knees and thank Hasford for letting us read it...I couldn't believe that a person who wrote this silly piece of tripe had ever been in combat...everyone else liked it except Dozois...later became Full Metal Jacket...a silly melodrama...fifteen years later Hasford was arrested for having stolen thousands of library books...filled me with joy
>Harlan Ellison said he would buy it for the The Last Dangerous Visions...If it had actually appeared in the seventies, I might have invented cyberpunk
>My novel was The Forever War, perhaps the only master's thesis that's won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.
>highly respected critic Leonard Michaels...read only one page of Mindbridge...writing career down the drain...employ my small talents in a legitimate direction...months later I sold the rights for the most ever paid, up to then, for a single sf novel
Writes for Steven Spielberg then is fired for lack of reverence.
>George Lucas was a marvelous man to work with
>In the fifth grade...teacher was sure I cheated...read 2500 words a minute with 100% comprehension...a special IQ test...I scored 188.
>A publisher could buy forty beginners’ sf novels for what they paid for one of mine...squeezed the backlist out of existence. Over a thousand new titles appear every year, so there's no room for old ones...no motivation for them to change...this new reality destroyed the sales of my books...most first novels sell for an advance that's less than a migrant farm worker makes in a season...the professorship at MIT provides me a safety net
>explosion...all of my squad was killed but me
>Right now...pedaling bikes 30-50 miles a day...Florida to California

[Anonymous No.13925144]

>>13925123
It was rather interesting. I cut it down to fit in a single post. I'll have to read some full length biographies, especially autobiographies, of sff writers sometime.

[Anonymous No.13925197]

>>13925041
>R-E-L-A-X
https://youtu.be/wN2tHv8gPm8?t=21

[Anonymous No.13925265]

>>13925123
>Dozois
Oh shit. His name looked familiar and I googled... he dead. He died last year.
So many authors died while I was self aware on 4chins
>Larry Niven
>Gardener Dozois
>Ursella Leguin
>Gene Wolfe
Press F

[Anonymous No.13925298]

>>13925265
and many others.

[Anonymous No.13925338]

>>13922831
OUT!!! OUT!!! OUT!!!

[Anonymous No.13925343]

>>13922821
>the most obvious self insert of all time
>but she's actually pretty hot IRL too
based

[Anonymous No.13925350]

I'm sorry guys, I'm three books deep and I think I love it

[Anonymous No.13925356]

>>13925014
It’s better than most fantasy written in the last several years. But original trilogy was way better

[Anonymous No.13925364]

Do you guys frequent places other than sffg for sci-fi and fantasy literature discussion/recs? Blogs, forums, podcasts whatever

[Anonymous No.13925371]

>>13925364
We do, but we won't tell you.

[Anonymous No.13925400]

>>13925364
Not since I started reading xianxia exclusively

[Anonymous No.13925404]

>>13925364
I wish a good forum existed ever in any capacity anymore.

[Anonymous No.13925412]

>>13925371
>>13925400
Based
>>13925404
Web 2.0 and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[Anonymous No.13925562]

Whats my boy Sandy up to? I pay that bitch so much money for Cosmere books. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? You know what I mean? I've been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blowjob?

[Anonymous No.13925575]

Why did I waste all that time writing something that sucks

[Anonymous No.13925581]

>>13925575
>t. Sanderson, Erikson, and Abercrombie

[Anonymous No.13925603]

/sffg/, since nothing else has worked yet I've asked one of my friends who's an aspiring novelist and another who's an aspiring graphic novelist if they want to start a writers group with me. The both said they're interested and we set a day. What should I do to prepare?

[Anonymous No.13925610]

>>13925603
My writers group does writing prompts. Come up with a couple of those

[Anonymous No.13925627]

>>13925610
Interesting. I was thinking we'd work directly on the things we want to work on. What's the logic for that?

[Anonymous No.13925648]

>>13925627
Write about how you repressed fucking your mother and sister for years and that you want to take your father's place with the filling of your mom's fertile womb

[Anonymous No.13925706]

>>13925627
My group has a bunch of shy people and it gives us something to talk about and things to share. Maybe hold off on the prompts and just use them if you have tons of shy people or the meetings don't have much discussion/sharing going on

[Anonymous No.13925941]

Fucks sake. Sorry I did not post yesterday, life got in the way.

VOTING TIME. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO READ NEXT?

Flowers For Algernon,
by Daniel Keyes. ~225 pages
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon

Awake in the Night Land,
by John C. Wright. ~300 pages
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21911510-awake-in-the-night-land

The Circus of Dr. Lao,
by Charles G. Finney. ~150 pages
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315736.The_Circus_of_Dr_Lao

Dying Inside,
by Robert Silverberg. ~250 pages
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968902.Dying_Inside

The Quantum Thief,
by Hannu Rajaniemi. ~325 pages
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562764-the-quantum-thief

The Mirrorshades Anthology,
featuring William Gibson, Greg Bear, Bruce Sterling and others. ~250 pages
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302702.Mirrorshades

Poll: https://www.strawpoll.me/18732249

We had loads of nominees. Three books were disqualified, Tigana because it's too well known (and already recommended in the selected fantasy chart) and too long (~675 pages).
The Riddle Master of Hed because it ends on a cliffhanger, hardly suitable to read as a standalone. Cradle/Unsouled because reviews, the promoting material and the fact that it was recurrently nominated under the name of the series give the impression that it's not a standalone work. Do you disagree? Feel free to tell me why I'm wrong and try again next month.

[Anonymous No.13925956]

>>13925941
>Cradle/Unsouled because subjective reasoning and the fact that it was recurrently nominated under the name of the series give the impression that it's not a standalone work
But Black Company is okay? A series with more books and thicker content is okay? Radical.

[Anonymous No.13925959]

>>13925956
>But Black Company is okay?
In hindsight, not really. Black Company is the book that made me more anal about length, how well known it is and it it's part of a series. Before it I hardly disqualified nominees.

[Anonymous No.13926082]

>>13925941
Whatever the result is, if the drive isn't around or not doing it, I'll put it in the mega.

[Anonymous No.13926175]

Anyone read any Mary Gentle? I didn't really enjoy Rats & Gargoyles which made it really surprising when I fell in love with her SF series of Orthe novels. I'm not sure if I wanna read ASH because I'm pretty sure there aren't any SF or F elements, but I was really impressed with The Golden Withbreed

[Anonymous No.13926255]

Is the sequel to The First Law any good?
Snail boy and grimderp anon need not reply.

[Anonymous No.13926257]

>>13924069
You should focus each series on a single specific fetish, like Malazan is focused on femdom, name of the wind on cuckoldry, lotr on interracial and so on.

[Anonymous No.13926280]

About to start Sins of Empire boys, what am in for

[Anonymous No.13926388]

>>13926280
A book about sins that an empire committed.

[Anonymous No.13926567]

Lindon fucking sucks, he's so pathetic I mean by book 7 he's still soooooo far behind everyone else. Who likes reading about a dude who's always behind in his own crew. Plus Blackflame sucks

[Anonymous No.13926685]

Classic space scifi that I should read before anything else?

[Anonymous No.13926690]

>>13926280
A book about the sins of imperial boys

[Anonymous No.13926692]

>>13926685
Masters of Rome

[Anonymous No.13926700]

>>13926685
Foundation desu

[Anonymous No.13926786]

I'm a hundred pages away from finishing The Name of the Wind. very charming characters that I can't help but play the 14 y/o fanfiction writer and think awful, dirty thoughts of. specially Bast and Simmon. *Holy God yes*, they are cute

[Anonymous No.13926874]

It's up boys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doe6rI4cKW8

[Anonymous No.13926881]

>>13926257
>you should focus each series on a single specific fetish, like Malazan is focused on femdom, name of the wind on cuckoldry, lotr on interracial and so on.
Lmao

[Anonymous No.13926902]

>>13926786
>...I can't help but play the 14 y/o fanfiction writer and...
Seems kinda pointless considering all characterization is already written in the style of a 14 y/o fanfiction writer.

>>13926874
>Brent Weeks

[Anonymous No.13926916]

>>13926902
>>Brent Weeks
>not wanting to watch an interview with the best booktuber on youtube and one of the biggest up and coming authors in the fantasy genre
your loss.

[Anonymous No.13926925]

>>13925265
You got me, mate.

[Anonymous No.13926933]

>>13926280
>Sins of Empire
based ben styke

[Anonymous No.13926953]

>>13926916
>I don't want to fuck

[Anonymous No.13926954]

>>13925265

[Anonymous No.13926961]

>>13926567
>t. dragon psychobitch

[Anonymous No.13927008]

>>13926902
you're right but from what I know all of the characters are straight, so I come up with my own headcanon in which every one is very gay for me

[Anonymous No.13927017]

>>13926916
can't tell if bait or the reddit faggot

[Anonymous No.13927018]

Do you think Stannis will actually execute Theon somehow or will he manage to escape and flee to Braavos with the Iron Banker?

[Anonymous No.13927094]

>>13921499
Is it possible to invent a new fantasy race that would be as memorable as elves, dwarfs and orcs?

[Anonymous No.13927111]

>>13927094
no but it's true of anything at this point. Cultural solidification.

[Anonymous No.13927128]

>>13923948
Shallan ruined it for me tbqh, but hte mormon himself for writing that gay love triangle. Also it pains me that he is an adult married male but is still petrified of sexual intercourse between men and women because of his beliefs in that absolute sham of a """"religion"""".

[Anonymous No.13927129]

>>13927018
haven't read the books for many years now but my theory was that some fuckery occurs, maybe via bran, asha gets executed instead of theon and theon escapes. can't really see him ending up in braavos though

[Anonymous No.13927142]

>>13926280
It's pretty comfy. Wish the espionage parts with Tampo and Michel had lasted longer though

[Anonymous No.13927154]

>>13927018
I remember 5 years ago I used to be one of those asoiaf turbo nerds along with a friend of mine, used to watch that preston guy on youtube, had theories for all the side plots and implied plots that never occurred or ruined by other plots and everything. That friend moved to Denmark two years ago and I don't think about the tits and dragons books anymore, i doubt they'll ever get resolved, not martin as the author as he'll be cold in the ground high cholesterol or heart attack or ranch dressing consumption.

[Anonymous No.13927166]

>>13927129

I can see it happening. Theon could either sneak back to the wall somehow, have a quick reunion with Jon then be on one of those ships filled with the wildlings jewelry they were using to pay the wall's debt. If Theon does make it to Braavos somehow then I see him being set up to become the next Varys.

[Anonymous No.13927213]

Who let the /tv/ cunnies in? We all know that a new Game of Incests and Regicide will never come out. Why do these cunts bring their fanfiction tier theories here?

[Anonymous No.13927296]

>>13927094
Those fantasy races were invented millennia ago.

[Anonymous No.13927319]

>>13926255
I liked Malmer, Savine, Glokta and Clover the most in this book. The second gen kids other than Savine and Orso made me doze off. Half the book is shit and the other half of the book is quality. The main problem with this book is that every few pages the POV changes, so the amount of pagetime anyone gets is miniscule.

[Anonymous No.13927348]

>>13927008
If you want extremely gay undertones, books that are actually finished and which have an interesting backstory and worldbuilding, the Coldfire Trilogy is much better for that. Rothfuss will never finish his books and the second book is just elf sex and not even good elf sex with a plot.

[Anonymous No.13927409]

>>13927348
Miles C*meron can SUCK MY DICK

[Anonymous No.13927431]

>>13927409
Coldfire isn’t Cameron brainlet kun. Coldfire is literal yaoi, but without the graphic gay sex.

[Anonymous No.13927436]

>>13927409
Literally who?

[Anonymous No.13927492]

Currently reading "cities in flight", "Earthman, Come Home" is a long piece of shit. Any of the other books is good, or I will waste my life with them?

[Anonymous No.13927494]

>>13926874
This guy never shuts up about wheel of time
and his favorites are Vin and Rand

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.13927528]

>>13925014
They all sucked, anon. Go suck your gums.

[Anonymous No.13927557]

>>13926255

[Anonymous No.13927571]

>>13926280
>Sins of Empire
third book comes out beginning of December, so your timing is pretty good

[Anonymous No.13927678]

>>13927528
Are those things poisonous?

[Anonymous No.13927682]

>>13927678
Very

[Anonymous No.13927754]

Looking for medieval warfare (fantasy or not in fact) involving houses with each its individual history fighting for power, like the first part of Game of Thrones before it turns into a messiah story, or the Fire Emblem games.

[Anonymous No.13927761]

>>13926255
i don't regret having read it but it was all a bit aimless. There are so many povs at times it's like he's trying to pull off a fantasy version of the wire, set against a backdrop of an industrialising society showing its impact and results but he's not really the writer to pull something like that off successfully. The standalones and short story collection are better.

[Anonymous No.13927767]

>>13927754
>or not
red rising

[Anonymous No.13927826]

>mfw Jesus Zen Rand
God, after all the bitching. self-pity, self-loathing, edginess, this is so cathartic.

[Anonymous No.13927877]

>>13927678
Uhhhh>>13927682 no.

[Anonymous No.13927985]

What book will give me jrpg vibe?

[Anonymous No.13928004]

>>13927985
light novels and litrpg obviously.

[Anonymous No.13928035]

>>13927985
Mistborn trilogy.

[Anonymous No.13928106]

>>13927348
Coldfire is excellent. Tho it isn't faggot-fodder as you implied. Merely very interesting characters with development.

[Anonymous No.13928113]

>author goes out of his way to trash lovecraft in a book using lovecraftian mythos

Is there a quicker way of telling an author is up their own ass?

[Anonymous No.13928118]

>>13927494
Vin? As in from Mistborn? Or do you mean 'Min' from WoT.

[Anonymous No.13928130]

>>13927494
>hating on based greene daniel
gtfo

[Anonymous No.13928140]

>>13922526
>slave tattoo is so little

The idea of the tattoo is that ts immediately visible and impossible to hide, though.....

[Anonymous No.13928151]

>>13925941
>Cradle/Unsouled because reviews, the promoting material and the fact that it was recurrently nominated under the name of the series give the impression that it's not a standalone work.
Are you working with the Will Wight accuser anon?
>Do you disagree?
Yes. It was to shut him up.

[Anonymous No.13928153]

>>13927877
In nature, isn't the rule of thumb the more vivid the colour the dangerous the animal?

[Anonymous No.13928171]

>Remnant 2 (November 7th)
Oh Boy. Midgets getting dicked is back. Too bad I will get audiobook in February.

[Anonymous No.13928174]

>>13922629
It just gets worse and the POVs of the characters you like become fewer and farther apart as you go on.

[Anonymous No.13928184]

>>13922831
Actually the two typically go hand in hand.

[Anonymous No.13928186]

>>13928171
I continue not to understand the desire for psuedo-erotica.

[Anonymous No.13928189]

>>13928174
But the best characters are introduced in Books 4 and 5, respectively.

[Anonymous No.13928193]

>>13927494
>hating on Vin
shit taste

[Anonymous No.13928201]

>>13928130
The guy genuinely like WoT so much that his eyes just sparkles speaking about it. Can't wait for his disappointment of the TV adaption

[Anonymous No.13928223]

Tips on how to read Malazan past Coltaine's story?
I don't think I can move on.

[Anonymous No.13928239]

>>13926255
It's okay. The point of views aren't as good as his previous ones in the standalone and none come close to Logen and OG Glokta though it was nice to see some old characters again. I feel like after this trilogy he's gonna leave the universe behind which might be for the best. Joe needs to finish up the story with Bayaz and move on to something else.

[Anonymous No.13928282]

/sffg/, I kind of want to turn one of my side characters into a self-restrained closet pedo but the candidate I had in mind already has a character arc that ties into everything and I don't want to compound problems. should I just go for it?

[Anonymous No.13928318]

>>13928282
I mean, why? What would it add to the story other than being a self-insert?

[Anonymous No.13928398]

>>13928223
You should have dropped it right away bro.

>>13928318
Oh snap.

[Anonymous No.13928418]

>>13928223
It’s got some good moments, but Coltaine is absolutely the best storyline he ever wrote.

[Anonymous No.13928422]

>>13927985
Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms novels
Demonwars Saga
Runelords
Maybe Riftwar
Unironically Sanderson and David Eddings

[Anonymous No.13928475]

>>13928418
Yeah, honestly, I couldn't give a single shit about Azath's storyline. Now I am just slowly reading when I have time to

[Anonymous No.13928507]

>>13928189
Correct

[Anonymous No.13928508]

>>13928130
I hate that wee prick with a passion and I have no idea why.

[Anonymous No.13928515]

>>13927431
Oops.
Nevertheless Miles Cameron can still suck my cock.

[Anonymous No.13928561]

>>13927754
The War of the Roses series by Conn Iggulden is pretty good, he also has a fantasy series which sounds like what you're looking for (imo his historical fiction is a lot better) called Empire of Salt.
There is also The Accursed Kings which inspired Asoiaf, and isn't shit. But it doesn't have any battle scenes or the like.

[Anonymous No.13928571]

>>13928201
He'll love it because of all the recasts.

[Anonymous No.13928710]

>>13926874
Jesus, the fucking life of an author sucks

[Anonymous No.13928743]

>>13928561
It's good, not a patch on his genghis series tho.

[Anonymous No.13928764]

>>13922518
Oh man a friend recommended this to me in highschool and I'm just now reading it
I wish I HAD read it in highschool because it's some Eragon-tier fantasy

[Anonymous No.13928782]

>>13928743
>asian history
It's a yikes and hardpass from me

[Anonymous No.13928808]

Is the only difference between YA and adult fantasy the age of characters and using some bigger words?

[Anonymous No.13928813]

>>13922909
Let's be real, that's never been possible

[Anonymous No.13928818]

>>13924313
There should be a name for /lit/ morons (like you!) who go around posturing like a pseudointellectual peacock for the sake of nonexistent internet points.

[Anonymous No.13928823]

>>13928808
It also depends on just how much you are trying to impress your internet friends on a Bulgarian steroid abuse forum.

[Anonymous No.13928829]

>>13925350
>Norse author
I should check this out

[Anonymous No.13928836]

>>13928829
>Norse
>American
Yet another case of plastic Paddies.

[Anonymous No.13928906]

>>13928836
>American
akshually

[Anonymous No.13928958]

>>13928906
Oh.
That's even worse.

[Anonymous No.13929077]

>>13928836
I just liked the Witcher
>>13928906
this isn't me

[Anonymous No.13929146]

>>13928113
>h-his prose was purple and not that good actually
>proceeds to produce absolute diarrhea in written form
It so sad to watch these people. It annoys me that their garbage clogs up mythos and weird horror lists though.
Most of the stuff referencing Lovecraft or his mythos are already kinda questionable in quality but with these faggots on the market the whole things becomes a minefield ready to blast you with interracial lovestories and strong Yaas kween characters.

[Anonymous No.13929155]

>>13928829
Very unsurprisingly he is also deeply into femdom, but the books are great although allegedly hard to get into for some.

[Anonymous No.13929236]

If I thought Dune: Messiah was a total fucking drag should I just bail on the rest of them?

[Anonymous No.13929256]

>>13929236
Yes

[Anonymous No.13929399]

Nigga what

[Anonymous No.13929406]

>>13929399
imagine an orc going to college haha

[Anonymous No.13929413]

>>13929399
Jumped the shark in 3

[Anonymous No.13929424]

>>13929399
>Best Seller in Transgender Romance

[Anonymous No.13929430]

>>13927985
Death Gate Cycle

[Anonymous No.13929534]

Post sffg cringe

[Anonymous No.13929542]

>>13929534
What even is that?

[Anonymous No.13929544]

>>13929534
Alright.

[Anonymous No.13929550]

>>13929534
I got angry. I don't like to get angry. It makes me angry.

[Anonymous No.13929556]

>>13929534
>>13929550
Bubble bubble

[Anonymous No.13929572]

>>13929544
Wow

[Anonymous No.13929630]

>>13929550
>I said, getting angry now. I don't like to get angry. It makes me angry
woah....

[Anonymous No.13929791]

I looked up those 4 passages and it makes me irrationally angry that 3 of them are from popular and successful books. Not as mad as RP1 cringe getting a Spielberg movie deal but still.

[Anonymous No.13929819]

>>13929534
Is this the new Hugo winner?

[Anonymous No.13929924]

>>13928151
Kek. I was the first one to nominate it tho

[Anonymous No.13930124]

>>13929399
He probably copied the "Another Stupid Apocalypse" series.

[Anonymous No.13930223]

y'all are faggots

[Anonymous No.13930324]

>>13930223
>y'all

[Anonymous No.13930326]

>>13929819
Most certainly not.

[Anonymous No.13930362]

So what are we going to be hyping for the month of October?

[Anonymous No.13930384]

are their any books that take place in a utopia? that are not totally based on drama, tension, and conflict. something more feel-good, slice-of-life and maybe about exploration, technology, interpersonal relationships, and just day to day type stuff in a sci-fi setting.

and I really don't want something like hurr it seems to be a utopia but really everyone is being tricked and controlled and actually in a dystopia they just don't know it type of cliche trope shit.

[Anonymous No.13930386]

>>13930362
http://locusmag.com/forthcomingbooks/
Pick from the OCT 2019.
If it's going to be something self-published or web only, I wouldn't know.

[Anonymous No.13930398]

>>13930384
What an "utopia" is depends on the reader.
One reader's utopia is another's dystopia and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.13930406]

>>13929406
Anyone else smoke a pipe while you read? It is nice.

[Anonymous No.13930413]

>>13913258
>that feel when I used to perfect bait to get cosmerefag to (you) me and it didn't work

[Anonymous No.13930469]

>>13930413
Read vampires in space

[Anonymous No.13930481]

>>13930386
>BRENT WEEKS • The Burning White • Orbit US, Oct 2019 (hc, eb)
>from sep 2019 to jun 2020 this is the only thing of interest listed
Traditional Publishing is dead.

[Anonymous No.13930576]

>>13930481
Nah, it's just that you have very restricted taste and aren't open to new experiences.

[Anonymous No.13930618]

>>13930576
What do you think I should be sampling?

[Anonymous No.13930653]

>>13930618
That's a mystery for you to solve.

[Anonymous No.13930726]

>>13925941
>>13921499

[Anonymous No.13930755]

I assume you all know about the Legendarium podcast? About scifi / fantasy books and reading?

[Anonymous No.13930769]

>>13930755
I haven't heard it and personally I wouldn't listen to it. I don't really have any interest in listening for hours to a group of people discussing a book.

[Anonymous No.13930782]

*Tug braid*

[Anonymous No.13930803]

>>13930782
*smooths dress*

[Anonymous No.13930806]

>>13929544
gonna be a big yikes from me senpai

[Anonymous No.13930813]

>>13930803
Why did that always happen?

[Anonymous No.13930826]

Is this worth the read? I'm currently reading Hyperion and really enjoying it, this seems like a fun spooky concept but it gets universally bad reviews, seems like mostly people calling it racist though.

[Anonymous No.13930828]

>>13929544

[Anonymous No.13930860]

>>13929556
>>13929550
>>13929544
>>13929534
I don't like getting angry. It makes me angry.

[Anonymous No.13930875]

>>13930384
Utopia by Thomas More.

[Anonymous No.13930880]

>>13930860
I don't like getting angry. It makes me that angry that I'm unable to prevent myself from becoming angry which only makes me angrier due to this feedback loop. I try never to become angry because once I am, there's no limit to my anger and it causes problems for me and everyone else. So, don't make me angry unless you want to fight to the death and as you can see, I'm still alive despite so many times of being angry. Are you angry about that? You should be. Your anger is at best a worthless imitation of my anger.

[Anonymous No.13930885]

>>13930880
I'm gonna say the n word

[Anonymous No.13930898]

>>13928829
It's a pen name, he's just larping.

[Anonymous No.13930902]

>>13930885
A N is just a sideways Z.

[Anonymous No.13930913]

>>13930902
I...I'm defeated!?

[Anonymous No.13930956]

>>13930913
d,p,b,q are rotations.
g thinks it's better than q because it has more curves
h is b without closure.
c is o without closure
m is nn
W is vv
F is a failed E
R is P with an extra line
Q is an O with an extra line

and it goes on and on

[Anonymous No.13930999]

>>13930956
press ctrl+shift+esc

[Anonymous No.13931000]

>>13921499
i just realized that i only enjoy male sci fi authors, and actively hate female sci fi authors. I like women writing other genres, but thejr sci fi just doesnt ever resonate with me and i get bored. I hate
>Jemisin after her second book in the Broken Earth trilogy
> oryx and crake bitch
> Ancillary tea drinking shithouse of a series

You know what, I need to know if it's a troll rec in the img on these threads that Ancillary Justice is recommended. It was so plodding so fucking boring and I kept at it and read I tbj n two or three books deep because I believed Goodreads and Hugo two years ago.

So, recommend me a sci fi novel written by a women for a man who's favorite authors are Gene Wolfe and Neal Stephenson. And please, no western white women political subplot bullshit because I think that's why I hate these authors, even Jemisin.

[Anonymous No.13931002]

>>13928153
A lot of the time it is, but banana slugs aren't. They get fucking huge too

[Anonymous No.13931016]

>>13930755
>Brandon Sanderson may become better than Tolkien video
um

[Anonymous No.13931042]

>>13931000
>recommended me something I've already decided that I won't like because I need more proof that I don't like it
Seems rather pointless for anyone to do.

[Anonymous No.13931051]

>>13931000
Look at the female authors chart.

[Anonymous No.13931063]

>>13930813
sometimes you just gotta tug a braid or smooth a dress

[Anonymous No.13931077]

>>13930481
c'mon, there's new Sarah J Fatass and Mark Lawrence books listed

[Anonymous No.13931096]

>>13929534
>>13929544
>>13929550
Good lord, what shit books did these come from?!?!

[Anonymous No.13931107]

I need some good xianxia after reading Uncrowned. Someone suggest some please. No ISSTH, A Will Eternal, Reverend Insanity, Desolate Era, or any of the other major ones.

[Anonymous No.13931110]

>tfw around 40% of Desolate Era to finish
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Anonymous No.13931121]

>>13931096
>>13929534 Once & Future
>>13929544 The Name of the Wind
>>13929550 Prince of Thorns

[Anonymous No.13931123]

>>13931107
But those are the only half decent ones. Granted, if you're reading Uncrowned you don't have high standards, but there's not a lot of good options. Have you read those already? Or are you just being contrarian?

[Anonymous No.13931126]

>>13931042
I have no idea where to look anon otherwise I wouldn't ask /lit/ of all places. It may be that I don't like women authors because i truly hated the half dozen or so I have read. But maybe I've just found bad recommendations like lackey, Jemisin, le Guin and attwood. Maybe it's that those recommendations were made by politically obsessed white women on forums and have used Hugo as a reading list before their obvious fall to irrelevance. But I'm now asking you faggots. So recommend me some fucking women authors that write with intelligence, heart and subtlety Jesus christ they must exist. If a fucking Chink can write decent sci fi and western educated women must be able to.

[Anonymous No.13931129]

>>13931096
Once & Future
The Name of the Wind
Prince of Thorns

[Anonymous No.13931135]

>>13931121
Ahhh, books that no one could pay me to read. I guess I was right.

[Anonymous No.13931146]

What will happen sooner? Will that one fat fuck release more Song of Ice and Fire or will this fat fuck finish King Killer Chronicles.

[Anonymous No.13931150]

>>13931146
The answer is neither will happen for different reasons

[Anonymous No.13931152]

>>13931126
That's not true and you know it. Remember, even the bugman is a bug-MAN!

[Anonymous No.13931156]

>>13931146
neither are ever coming out

[Anonymous No.13931167]

>>13931126
It's not possible to do what you are asking for.
All that can be done is to post women that have been well-regarded by by critics and to post the relatively few female sci-fi authors that aren't recent. This is complicated by older works of female authors using male names because of prejudice such as yours.

[Anonymous No.13931170]

>>13931150
What's the reason Rothfuss can't finish book 3?

[Anonymous No.13931172]

>>13931000
CJ cherryh.

[Anonymous No.13931176]

>>13931126
Beggars in Spain - Kress
Synners - Cadigan (cyberpunk)

[Anonymous No.13931178]

>>13931170
Inability to meet the pressure of expectations

[Anonymous No.13931181]

>>13931146
Fat Fuck One is going to drop dead trying to get out of his chair, and Fat Fuck Two is going to die of exsanguination due to extremely rough pegging by radical feminists.

So, neither.

[Anonymous No.13931183]

>>13931126
James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
Phyllis Eisenstein

[Anonymous No.13931206]

>>13931178
I know everyone on here hates Kingkiller Chronicles, but I sort of enjoyed the first 2 books. I liked the structure. I hope that lazy asshole finishes it.

[Anonymous No.13931212]

>>13931206
>first two

[Anonymous No.13931215]

>>13931206
Nah, it's just some really vocal people.

[Anonymous No.13931234]

>>13931126
>>/lit/thread/S13441921#p13454348

[Anonymous No.13931247]

>>13931234
Are there any fantasy novels written by women that don't have a shitty romance angle other than Harry Potter?

[Anonymous No.13931292]

>>13931247
This may sound ridiculous and absurd considering the post that you're replying to, but as far as I can tell I haven't finished any fantasy novels by a woman since a few Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Magic: The Gathering and similar Wizards of the Coast series a very, very, long time ago.

And no, I haven't read Harry Potter. Never even looked at the first book or seen the movies or anything else.

Maybe that will eventually change.

[Anonymous No.13931298]

>>13931292
"That" being finishing novels by female fantasy authors.

[Anonymous No.13931327]

>>13931298
That being said, there are several that I'll eventually* get around to that seem ok on first glance.

*or not, it's difficult to tell, I have stuff that I've meaning to get around for decade or more

[Anonymous No.13931424]

Any series like Wheel of time?
I've read all 14 of them and I enjoyed them thoroughly.

Here's other recent novels/ books/ anthologies I liked:
The Great Gatsby, Roadside Picnic, No longer Human, Setting Sun, Emperor of dreams, Don Quixote, Maldoror, Caves of steel, Voyage to Arcturus.
Based on my preferences, what would I enjoy?

Oh and I also got The Book of the New Sun. But I haven't gotten into it yet.

[Anonymous No.13931459]

>>13931424
How did you handle all the braid tugging and dress smoothening?

[Anonymous No.13931471]

>>13930362
I think you mean Octember

[Anonymous No.13931486]

so help me god /sffg/ I'm seriously considering having my MC win through the literal power of friendship.

Literally.

And the worst thing is, the entire story falls apart if I find a less cheesy way to handle it

[Anonymous No.13931495]

>>13931486
Guess you have no choice then

[Anonymous No.13931509]

>>13931459
Sniffs, *men, fool, bloody, I simply phased out through them. It's not that bad after a while.
But, seriously, I can't recount how many times I imagined myself strangling Nynaeve, Elayne and Aviendha.
Moiraine kind of grew on me.

Ajahs were filled with annoying characters, but that's to be expected.

I think, the only character I liked was Mat.

[Anonymous No.13931523]

>>13931509
I've noticed that my enjoyment of WoT greatly increases when the PoV is on one of the boys and subsequently lessen a great deal when a girl is a protag. They're all goddamn harpies especially with how they treat Mat

[Anonymous No.13931526]

>>13931486
That's because you lack writing ability.

[Anonymous No.13931551]

>>13931486
Take the cowards way out.
>along the journey to the the big bad friends slowly sacrifice themselves and disappear
>on the final confrontation they all emerge again as it turns out they aint dead so they all band together to defeat the big bad.
Its the cliche anime thing to do.

[Anonymous No.13931554]

This is the literally currently the only thread on /lit/ past the bump limit

[Anonymous No.13931590]

>>13925941
>not a standalone work.
>The Quantum Thief
>first novel in a trilogy

>all the others are standalone
>the only one that isn't is winning
What did monthly reading anon mean by this?

[Anonymous No.13931617]

>>13921499
>How often do you read or listen to books?
Daily got the most votes. I find this difficult to believe, but that is the current result.

>What do you come to /sffg/ for?
Personal Recommendations, Discussions, Charts, in that order.
No one who voted was willing to admit they came to blog about their life or troll, etc.

[Anonymous No.13931653]

>>13931590
The only option is to vote for the dark land

[Anonymous No.13931655]

>>13925941
Why is it possible for vote for every choice at once rather than only a single choice?

[Anonymous No.13931658]

>>13931653
I didn't like it so I couldn't vote for it.

[Anonymous No.13931755]

>>13921499
Moving past polls link to the Resources pastlink
Moving the 2nd threads archive link there as well
Limiting previous threads to the 3 most recent

[Anonymous No.13931790]

>>13931000
CS Friedman - Black Sun Rising

[Anonymous No.13931803]

New Thread
>>13931801

[Anonymous No.13931804]

>>13931486
Have you exhausted every other option? Even if you have to do a massive rewrite, I think you should do that instead. You need to make your story the best it can be without sacrificing quality.

[Anonymous No.13931851]

Is everyone ready to see Jemesin dab on lovecraft next year? She’ll show that long dead racist the power of a sting, diverse, progressive cast!

[Anonymous No.13931860]

>>13931851
Did you mean to type "sting"?