/sffg/ Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.14756626]

Elf Wife Edition
Thread question: How many elfs can you wife?

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[Anonymous No.14756664]

>>14756626
Enjoy yourself threadslave, you're here forever now.

[Anonymous No.14756680]

>>14756626
>Elf Wife Edition
Dark Elves > other Elves

[Anonymous No.14756705]

>>14756626
based new threadslave

If you're here Dying Earth anon, you'll want to add Robert Chilson's As the Curtain Falls to your chart.

[Anonymous No.14756721]

>>14756680
awwwww yeah

[Anonymous No.14756821]

>>14756664
>>14756705
eh I'm not as autistic as the previous ones so don't expect too much

[Anonymous No.14756854]

>>14756821
That doesn't matter. Your life is ours now.

[Anonymous No.14756885]

>>14755698
Recommendation cascade. One person recs it. Other people read, leading to more recs until it hits rec-saturation

Also it's a good book

[Anonymous No.14756961]

>>14756821
I was actually gonna start doing it if nobody else did. I'm next in line for the collar

[Anonymous No.14757027]

>>14756961
dude, make threads. i'll help out but i've been around a lot lately and that's not always the case.

[Anonymous No.14757034]

Explain Book of the New Sun to me why do so many people here like it exactly?

[Anonymous No.14757082]

>>14757034
Sev fucks bitches and has a cool sword

[Anonymous No.14757351]

>>14757034
It's a pretentious book for pretentious people.

[Anonymous No.14757364]

>>14757351
Filtered.

[Anonymous No.14757367]

>>14756664
Juuust started 'the darkness that comes before' and got to the point where I realize this is in reference to the series, what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.14757375]

>>14757351
>reading genre fiction
>being pretentious in any way

[Anonymous No.14757424]

I'll just ask again.
What's so bad about Terry Goodkind?

[Anonymous No.14757451]

>>14757424

Its unreadable

[Anonymous No.14757476]

Oh my God, it's so autistic.

[Anonymous No.14757481]

Speaking of genre fiction.

Have there been any authors that've tried to add dickgirls/futa to their serious novel?

Also, which author is easily the biggest degenerate without writing out and out porn?

[Anonymous No.14757505]

>>14757481
R Scott Bakker

[Anonymous No.14757528]

>>14757505
Pill me down on this. I checked the Wiki and he doesn't seem to have any controversies.

[Anonymous No.14757554]

>>14757528
Didn't his editor dropped him because he was "too edgy or too dark"? I don't know, at least that's what I read here from time to time.

[Anonymous No.14757576]

>>14757528
Read the Second Apocalypse series. Among other degeneracy it technically has what you asked for a couple of times in those books, but it is shown form a horror perspective and is thus completely different from the stuff you masturbate to.

[Anonymous No.14757624]

Looking into Brandon Sanderson, do I strat with Mistborn or Stormlight Archive?

[Anonymous No.14757630]

>>14757624
You start with The Emperors Soul, then Stormlight

[Anonymous No.14757714]

I wish the Library Thing app was better. Goodreads keeps deleting books from my read list. What the fuck is the point then? And I don't even know it, I just happen to see a book that I've rated before as unread.

[Anonymous No.14757842]

>>14757714
sometimes i see that if i've rated a different edition of a book than the main/newest one

[Anonymous No.14757916]

Is pic related worth reading or is it a weeb self insert trip shit?

[Anonymous No.14757996]

>>14757916
No. Its pretty good and loosely based on real events. Its sort of a last samurai kind of thing but very well executed. Absolutely worth reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(sailor,_born_1564)

[Anonymous No.14758039]

>>14757034
I love the unique perspective its written from, which is Wolfe translating some asshole's autobiography from a distant time using a dead language. The descriptions of people, events, and environments can be interpreted many ways and each re-read gives you a different opinion. The characters are so memorable and the journey feels unorthodox.
Also its a comfy read.

[Anonymous No.14758081]

>>14757996
Alright I'll check it out.

[Anonymous No.14758107]

>>14756626
Any good african fantasy? I'm tired of seeing european landscapes and castles.

[Anonymous No.14758123]

>>14758107

You want to read about... niggers...?

[Anonymous No.14758125]

>>14757367
Despair and rape monsters

[Anonymous No.14758149]

>>14757916
Weebs hate the inaccuracies but it's a great story. And there's no tom cruise character becoming a master katanaista but he does get sweet Japanese pussy

[Anonymous No.14758436]

>>14756626

>Marq turned from the terminal and caught a glimpse of his doll in her half-open drawer. "She" was a quasi-living, speaking paracoita (a name given to such devices by an ancient writer named Wolfe, who speculated vastly about Earth's future), an almost ludicrously buxom product of the sex laboratories of Yoni Island, on Nightwing in the Ross stars. Driven beyond endurance by abstinence early in his first voyage, Jean had purchased the grotesque artifact. She was a low-level android designed to perform coitus on demand. "Better than Lefty"s sister", the vulgarians of Yoni had said of their product. But Marq, shamed by what he had done, never used her. She rested in her transparent case, a plastic sepulcher decorated with erect phalluses and gaping labia.

I am still being amazed by what is written in this book

[Anonymous No.14758462]

>>14758123

[Anonymous No.14758528]

>>14757351
You could always read YA.

[Anonymous No.14758718]

>just coming off Animal Farm and Heart of Darkness, need some SF
Blood Music, Hammer of God or Snow Crash?

[Anonymous No.14758745]

What are some body horror sci-fi?

[Anonymous No.14758860]

>>14758745
Voyage to Arcturus is borderline body horror.

But you're safe with anything by Jeff Vandermeer, anything in the Southern trilogy or Borne should fix your fix.

[Anonymous No.14758866]

>>14758436
Wolfe? Like he dropped Gene all of a sudden in his book? I

[Anonymous No.14759318]

>>14758745
Blindsight

[Anonymous No.14759709]

>>14757476
that's a good thing, right?

>>14758107
The Rage of Dragons by Evan WInter

[Anonymous No.14759802]

>>14758107
Imaro is a good pick IMO.

>>14758745
Check out Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima.

[Anonymous No.14759850]

>>14758149

>asshole samurai pisses on him
>cucks the samurai so hard he takes his wife and his whore

Best revenge story of all time

[Anonymous No.14759876]

Just finished God-Emperor of Dune and it was...deeper for sure than the others but I think I enjoyed the original more just because it's more exciting to follow Paul's journey and discover the Fremen culture.
This book definitely "made me think" more but that's not really why I was into the series in the first place.

If the next ones aren't as good I think I'm gonna stop here, it's a fitting end to the series.

[Anonymous No.14759901]

>>14759876
I would stop there, the last two really don't add anything.

[Anonymous No.14760079]

>>14758436
>paracoita (a name given to such devices by an ancient writer named Wolfe, who speculated vastly about Earth's future)
what the cringe

[Anonymous No.14760186]

>read Book1
I should be really reading Book2
>start reading a few lines of Book2
I think I should be writing, I haven't written in a while
>start writing
Damn but I've already put Book1 aside for too much
>pick up Book1 again
But Book2 has better prose
>pick up Book2
But why am I even reading this for prose if I'm not even gonna write?
>open document to write
But Book1 is so good

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...... why am I like this right now? Granted I'm really sleepy and tired, I should probably just go to sleep instead of juggling between these 3 options the way I did for the last 3 hours.

[Anonymous No.14760213]

>>14757528
>men fuck little boys
>women are all either whores or slaves
>big bad orc equivalents are rape dogs that kill, mutilate and rape, in whatever order your mind can imagine
>the biggest of bads is a bigger rape monster
>but actually no, the biggest of bads is a deceiver inhuman jesus
>also dick girls. No, I'm serious, there's a VERY graphic and specific scene where a guy is visited by his mom, and he is horny and they start to fuck, only to realize his mom was actually replaced by a dick girl with a big throbbing dick
100% serious about this all btw. Also the elf equivalent of his setting are called "sodomite kings". Take it as you will.

[Anonymous No.14760222]

>>14759901
wrong

[Anonymous No.14760230]

>>14759876
Heretics is the best in the series

[Anonymous No.14760263]

/sffg/, i wrote a scene that was supposed to be a transition from my characters looking for a place to sleep to my characters getting captured. I wrung a lot of humor out of it, but the whole thing is bombadillian in how weird and out-of-left-field it is. I don't want to scrap the scene, but the characters appearing here are basically non-canon and it feels kinda weird to have serious characters in the mix

[Anonymous No.14760283]

>>14760263
If you're writing in english, can you link that to me? I'm unironically interested in other people's writings.

[Anonymous No.14760323]

>>14760213
The elves being tricked into immortality was pretty good

[Anonymous No.14760359]

>>14758436
> a book published 27 years ago, when the author, a WW2 fighter pilot, was in his early seventies.

[Anonymous No.14760369]

>>14760323
Well I fucking love Second Apocalypse. I've read all the books several times and you can't deny that Bakker is the edgy philosopher fantasy author we've all secretly wanted, even if his stuff is ridiculously over the top.
Yeah, he IS indeed over the top, but the things he does good he does great. To be honest, even if the dunyain are more or less an over the top copy of the Bene Gesserit, I still fucking love the concept of such inhumanly perfect humans.
And the skin spies were a good concept in the first book. They've soon become irrelevant, like all shape-shifting monsters in every book ever.

[Anonymous No.14760383]

>>14758436
Did he casually just do that?

[Anonymous No.14760412]

>>14760369
I agree that the skin spies fell out of use too quickly. But he wrote himself into that problem, with how easily Kellhus can detect them.

[Anonymous No.14760461]

/sffg/, which monster seems more interesting

>a displacer beast knockoff who manipulates its own squid ink rather than life
>a jokeresque hyena monster who manipulates clouds of acid and poison

[Anonymous No.14760471]

>>14760461
>light
fuck

[Anonymous No.14760518]

I loved Greg Bear's Blood Music, what do I read next if I want something with similar themes?

[Anonymous No.14760686]

We have some tranny posting in outer /lit and it's beyond horrible.

[Anonymous No.14760704]

>>14756626
>RECS https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>requires a jewreads account
This general is worse than I thought. SFfags are cancer

[Anonymous No.14760711]

>>14760704
Privacy matters. That's why we're anonymous.

[Anonymous No.14760718]

>>14760711
>privacy matters
>requires a jewreads account
are you braindamaged

[Anonymous No.14760742]

Recommend me some litrpg. I just read furies of calderon and cradle, loved both.

[Anonymous No.14760793]

>>14760742
Wraiths haunt

[Anonymous No.14761086]

It's amazing how much more slowly the thread goes with a bad image. Seems that the OP image is more important than anything else about the thread.

[Anonymous No.14761181]

>>14759709
>that’s good though
Not him, but no. The author goes full woke autism. It’s garbage

[Anonymous No.14761267]

>>14760718
I don't think he was talking about you.
Your privacy is worth shit.

[Anonymous No.14761319]

What's the Game of Thrones/The Accursed Kings of sci-fi?

And don't fucking say Dune. I swear to God, recommending Dune on /sffg/ is like recommending EVA on /a/.

[Anonymous No.14761328]

>>14760704
>he doesn't create fake accounts to spread disinformation
laughingelfwifes.mkv

[Anonymous No.14761340]

>>14759709

I mean, I really appreciate that the narrative and setting are cohesive despite the author's best attempts to write this as an 18th century novel from the perspective of a 26th century person. This makes following along with what's going on a fucking nightmare at times. However, the writer has done something of a narrative trick by outlining that the author is actually mentally ill - basically a based schizo poster combined with Sherlock Holmes.

I don't mind what they do at all with gender in this either. In fact, there's a nice little bit where a woman who conforms to ancient gender roles, the submissive Japanese wife, while also being unbelievably beautiful turns the protagonist into a white knight, mainly because society has not prepared him in the least for the charm and mannerisms of someone so displaced from time. In fact, they do this again later on with a dyke that is extremely dominant and sexually charged who just happens to dress up as a Parisian dandy from the 16th century. They also play around with gender pronouns in a much more satisfactory way than fucking Ancilliary Justice does.

Overall, it's extremely dense and well thought out, but I loathe how she has the protagonist just pepper us with minutia like a fire hose.

[Anonymous No.14761351]

>>14759709
>>14761340

Oh, and this is also something of a great critique of Neoliberalism. They solve pretty much all issues relating to identity and sexuality, but still managed to create two forms of underclass by doing so. The entire world is still a hypercapitalist hellhole, and the only reason everyone isn't worked to death is because of the underclasses and robots.

[Anonymous No.14761586]

Guys what was the purpose of having a underage sex part?

[Anonymous No.14761609]

>>14761319
why are you recommending anything on /a/?

[Anonymous No.14761612]

>>14761586
comedy you fucking loon

[Anonymous No.14761646]

>>14756626
Does anyone know what happen to the guy who was making a hardboiled crime novel with Egyptian gods?

[Anonymous No.14761650]

>>14761586
To remind us that tomboy sk8r punks are easy lays

[Anonymous No.14761725]

>>14761586
I talked about this a few threads ago, it was to show the difference between Hiro and Raven - both of them could have banged YT, but only Raven did. Hiro and Raven's fathers knew each other, and they both grew up to be powerful in cyberspace, and they also make completely different choices.

[Anonymous No.14761767]

>>14761725
Gonna mention Cryptonomicon again, to show that Stephenson does this repeatedly -

So in Cryptonomicon the present-day MC mentions smugly that it would be theoretically possible to look at a train timetable and then work out where a train is heading by looking at clocks, w/o knowing your inital starting point or destination. Then later in the past storyline, a guy actually does this - he's a prisoner under armed guard, glances at a timetable for a split second, memorizes it, then works out the route. Stephenson contrasts characters by showing them react differently to the same idea. Present-day MC thought idly about an idea, past guy did it automatically under duress.

[Anonymous No.14761774]

>>14761767
Cryptonomicon is the only Stephenson novel I enjoyed.

[Anonymous No.14761822]

>>14761767
And then if you want to get into Diamond Age, it's more explicitly about reacting to the Illustrated Primer and choosing your own destiny.

>>14761774
Cryptonomicon was the book I enjoyed the least out of the 3 I've read. It had a lot of golf clap moments, /our guy/ talking about nerd culture. Meh.

[Anonymous No.14762120]

>hey anon you should read the classic before anything else
>underage homicide
>two underages took over the world by shitposting on the internet
>vidya gaem that fucks with your mind and possibly breaks it
>Darwinism extremists
>adults using a child as a scapegoat
>genocide
Should I continue the series with Speaker for the Dead? I thought it was like Harry Potter in space but it's not

[Anonymous No.14762137]

>>14762120
Unpopular opinion: I liked Speaker for the Dead better. But I also liked Ender's Game a lot even though it's very YA "kids can do anything!"

[Anonymous No.14762177]

What, if anything, do you guys reccommend from Andre Norton? My local book store has a huge collection of her? books and the covers are quite based but idk where to start if at all

[Anonymous No.14762637]

>>14762120
No it gets worse

[Anonymous No.14762644]

>>14760742
Big webnovels on royal road is the way to go for literalrpg

[Anonymous No.14762745]

>>14760742
Heroes Die is essentially the progenitor for all litrpg. It doesn't really read like litrpg, but it is, and it's fucking great.

[Anonymous No.14762749]

Malazanfags, tell me about your series, why do you like it?
I have a very vague idea of what it's about and it sounds cool but opinions about it seem divided.

[Anonymous No.14762792]

>>14762749
some of the characters are cool, especially the ones that punk out gods
and all hell breaking loose in different places at the same time is kinda fun

[Anonymous No.14762826]

>>14762745
No, it's just the first you personally know of.

[Anonymous No.14763512]

>there is a head on a pole behind you
I'm at that part in the Great Ordeal. What the fuck does it mean?

[Anonymous No.14763538]

Did my boy Corwin fucked his great niece? The madman.

[Anonymous No.14763544]

>>14759802
Okay. Who pasted the sticker price by his hand and that stick to make it look as if he is selling himself for 1.70 to that white hippopotamus man thing carrying him?

[Anonymous No.14763592]

>>14760742
>Recommend me some litrpg.
>I just read furies of calderon and cradle
>loved both
Um... Those two aren't litrpg..

[Anonymous No.14763615]

>>14762120
>putting his name, mainly the C right on top of the boy's crotch
What did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.14763625]

>>14763512
Continue reading.

[Anonymous No.14763811]

Where can I get some good looking bookmarks? I'm wondering if there's a website that has a big selection of them or sells custom ones.

[Anonymous No.14763824]

>>14763811
Make your own. Design something in Photoshop and print and laminate it. Or 3d print something, sand it and laminate it.

[Anonymous No.14763975]

>>14763811
The best I've got came from the site bookdepository.

[Anonymous No.14763999]

>>14763811
I've been using the same leather bookmark since I was a kid. Highly recommend just finding a simple, thin leather bookmark.

[Anonymous No.14764178]

Malazan chads report in

[Anonymous No.14764191]

>readlet thinks he's some big deal because he finished Malazan
You haven't even reached one percent of being a sffchad.

[Anonymous No.14764205]

Why read modern genre fiction anons? I'm starting to question my reading habits and it looks like I mostly use reading as an escape or coping mechanism. I'm starting to believe I would be better off reading the classics of literature and getting an "education" at the same time instead of digging into Malazan for the next two years.

[Anonymous No.14764210]

>>14756626
Marrying elves is immoral.

>None of them can cook - just eat vegetables out of the ground.
Addicted to mana and can't function at all without it.
>live in a tree house like a child.
Endangered species - unviable genetic offspring
>they think they can actually fight but continually btfo by "weak" humans
Barely able to form a structured society - only have a King/Queen and that's it.

They do make my pp hard tho

[Anonymous No.14764236]

>>14764210

Im angry about eleves

[Anonymous No.14764242]

>>14764205
>two years
If that's the only thing you'd be reading, you really don't really much anyway.

[Anonymous No.14764271]

>>14764210
>None of them can cook - just eat vegetables out of the ground.
And that is a good thing. Imagine how much time it would save to not have to cook.
>Addicted to mana and can't function at all without it.
And humans can't function without oxygen. What's your point?
>live in a tree house like a child.
That is awesome, fuck you.
>Endangered species - unviable genetic offspring
Good. Who wants a race of mutts?
>they think they can actually fight but continually btfo by "weak" humans
All the accounts about this were written by humans. Really makes you think.
>Barely able to form a structured society - only have a King/Queen and that's it.
Only humans who need to be taught how to be civil care about muh structured society. Evolved beings don't need convoluted anti-anarchy measures.

[Anonymous No.14764272]

>>14763592
Just looked it up and you are right, I got misled by people calling every easy and simplistic book 'litrpg'.

[Anonymous No.14764288]

When does Thomas Covenant start making sense?
Atiaran says that all is lost for no reason, says that she chose the route for her personal profit, but it doesn't make any sense to me.

[Anonymous No.14764298]

>>14764272
You got meme'd on.

[Anonymous No.14764524]

>>14764242
Your point?

[Anonymous No.14764598]

>>14764524
It's so little that it doesn't matter regardless.

[Anonymous No.14764611]

>>14764598
Anon, literally nothing matters regardless

[Anonymous No.14764657]

>>14764611
Should I Kill Myself or Have a Cup of Coffee? - Albert Camus

[Anonymous No.14764667]

>>14764598
Only true if Malazan is equal to any other pile of pages with the same word count.

[Anonymous No.14764689]

/sffg/ I just remembered a prototype version of one of my characters that had a character quirk I thought was kind of funny and i'm debating if I should bring it back or leave it.

[spoilers]the character was an obsessive mac geek from the late steve jobs era. by obsessive, i mean she basically stalked their engineers online and kept trying to submit her own "fan schematics" for iGlasses. presumably, finding out that Steve jobs died in the real world would cause her to go through a mental breakdown[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.14764693]

thanks for this recommendation /lit/, now give me more fantasy with sex

[Anonymous No.14764816]

>>14764689
Apparently the spoiler didn't matter enough to delete the post and try again.

[Anonymous No.14764823]

>>14764693

Don't ask this again, last time I was recommended a fucking harem series. Little did I know the mother fucker who wrote it would be using modern vocabulary and sayings in a setting that took place in Fantasy Dark Ages. Mother fucker literally had a character say "thug life" unironically. I've never dropped anything recommended by /lit/ harder.

[Anonymous No.14764836]

>>14764823
>harem

Outside of weebshit that's pretty much a litrpg trope. How do you fall for something like that.

[Anonymous No.14764873]

>>14764823
>>14764298

[Anonymous No.14764930]

>story starts off good, dare I say great even
>turns to absolute shit in the second act

What's her name, /sffg/?

[Anonymous No.14764934]

>>14764689

>she

[Anonymous No.14764974]

>>14764934
ok incel

[Anonymous No.14765104]

I was looking into shadow of the torturer and apparently it's not only fantasy and sci fi but also dying earth. I never read anything in that genre, should I expect some Dark Souls vibes from the story?
Please tell me at least it's something exciting at times and not depressing throughout.

[Anonymous No.14765177]

>>14765104
>should I expect some Dark Souls vibes from the story
I am literally shaking my head familia.

[Anonymous No.14765232]

>>14765104
Well, sometimes the environment tells a bit of a story and some events may not be what they seem on the surface. You can consider that aspect a bit Souls like.

[Anonymous No.14765258]

>>14765104
Yes to everything

[Anonymous No.14765289]

>>14758745
It's not what you're looking for but I honestly found Leto's transformation in Children of Dune disturbing.

[Anonymous No.14765339]

>>14764689
mactoddlers btfo

[Anonymous No.14765425]

>>14763538
I need to read amber again.

>>14764178
This as well

[Anonymous No.14765496]

>>14764693
there's literally a romance fantasy subgenre. try kushiel's dart.

[Anonymous No.14765622]

>>14765496
>romance fantasy subgenre
I thought that was girls. Not even basedboys would stoop so low.

[Anonymous No.14765646]

>>14765496
The Kushiel series is too well written to be classed as a romance or on the same level as the trash Maas writes.

[Anonymous No.14765667]

it feels like author never commanded or was responsible for anything. If some character takes control they become evil and dumb.
Otherwise it reminds book like "mote in gods eye"

[Anonymous No.14765781]

>>14757367
fun times, great characters, dickgirls

[Anonymous No.14765792]

>>14757034
kill people, get paid, fuck bitches but all gothic and poetic

[Anonymous No.14765807]

>>14760213
you forgot the baby headed crow that gives someone a wingjob

[Anonymous No.14765851]

>>14758718
snow crash is good if you want a cyberpunk parody, perfect pulp imo. if you liked animal farm try 1984 and brave new world.
other recommends
slaughter house 5,
rendezvous with rama, starship troopers, forever war, moon is a harsh mistress, mote in gods eye, lucifers hammer, consider phlebas

[Anonymous No.14765856]

>>14763544
kek

[Anonymous No.14765896]

>>14762120
yes, at least read ender's shadow, it takes placed during enders game and spits the endersverse into Ender's and Shadows story lines. i really enjoyed the 1st & 2nd formic war trilogies (space mining and Mazer Rackham fun) but honestly i really liked the whole series

[Anonymous No.14765904]

>>14764191
this.
>>14764178
now read black company

[Anonymous No.14765913]

>>14764191
>You haven't even reached one percent of being a sffchad
Wouldn't reading Malazan take you back into negative regarding the percentage of being a "sffchad"?

[Anonymous No.14766018]

pretty gud ending

[Anonymous No.14766023]

125 in goodreads group now.

[Anonymous No.14766165]

>>14765425
About Amber, oh man. It was not his great niece after all. I thought Ganelon was the one that killed the peasants or no one really important. How could I not see it..That was a great twist. And Eric, that was a class act, keeping his curse to save Amber. Now to the next!

[Anonymous No.14766230]

>>14761725
But is Raven a pedo?

[Anonymous No.14766312]

>>14766165
You're making me want to reread Amber again

[Anonymous No.14766326]

>>14766023
What's even the point nobody talks about anything and people barely leave any reviews.

[Anonymous No.14766349]

Any fantasy with a Glorantha feel to it?

[Anonymous No.14766396]

>>14765851
Honestly I don't think it's that much of a satire beyond the exposition. Stephenson pays lip service to some over the top elements like Hiro's description and the business run city states, but ultimately he's using the same themes and aesthetic to sell some hand wavy deepak chopra level idea about human cognition.

You get the feeling that Stephenson believed on some level the impresiveness of the woo he was peddling. As in the whole idea about linguistic mind viruses and programmable humans weren't supposed to be a blatantly over the top parody of over ambitious cyberpunk concepts, and instead thought it was going to be a transcendent revelation for the readers on the same level as merging minds in Neuromancer. But ultimately it falls short and basically appeals to the left brain side of geek readers who have a superficial fascination with topics like programming languages, computation, linguistics, and consciousness.

The bits about ancient sumer and the tower of babel was neato I guess.

[Anonymous No.14766413]

thoughts? On the second book and it's kind of a chore

[Anonymous No.14766423]

>>14766396
i agree but everyone seems to agree that its a parody of cyberpunk even though cyberpunk itself is pretty much a parody genre just like noir at this point, being massively over the top with everything doesn't help either

[Anonymous No.14766425]

Looking for some good medieval fantasy with roadside taverns, castles, kings, conniving nobles competing for power, princesses, knights, battles.

[Anonymous No.14766428]

>>14766326
What's the point of posting in this thread?

[Anonymous No.14766431]

>>14766428
People actually talk.

[Anonymous No.14766443]

>>14766425
Tales of Dunk and Egg, deeds of paksenarrion, redwall

[Anonymous No.14766451]

>>14766425
wheel of time but its actually more Renaissance

[Anonymous No.14766455]

>>14766423
Ironically Stephenson himself probably had a pretty optimistic view of VR and lacked the jaded view on technology characterized by cyberpunk writers to fully come to terms with its destructive long term effects.

He's working for Magic Leap right now and was a giddy fanboy when it came out.

[Anonymous No.14766471]

>>14766455
it reminds me of ready player one but without pop culture references

[Anonymous No.14766504]

why hasn't the glorious isekai fad overtaken fantasy literature like it has anime

[Anonymous No.14766534]

>>14766504
because most fantasy is already d&d instead of video games, d&d starts with character creation videos games generally dont. creating a world vs being dumped into an existing one

[Anonymous No.14766543]

>>14766504
Already happened

[Anonymous No.14766550]

>>14766534
Most fantasy is not d&d, they don't fall into the rigid moral structures imposed by the system.

Otherwise you end up with shitty one dimensional characters like drizzt.

[Anonymous No.14766562]

any girls here besides myself

[Anonymous No.14766597]

>>14766562
lmao is this real

[Anonymous No.14766658]

>>14762120
>I thought it was like Harry Potter in space but it's not
That makes me think. What would be considered the Harry Potter of sci-fi then?

[Anonymous No.14766676]

>>14766562
>amara's rose
is that a euphemism?

[Anonymous No.14766709]

>"A glistening bead of feminine dew trickled down the slender opening of Amara's rose © 2017 Random House Books. His eyes followed hungrily as it traced a path across the supple skin of her inner thigh and dampened the linen underneath. His lips alighted on her rosebud and her pink petals blossomed in response, beckoning him forth. He inched his head forward with bated breath. And as he gently parted the curls of her untrimmed hedge, he saw the thousand gnashing teeth of the Rosa-hulud emerge from between the delicate folds of her flesh. >He stared at it for a moment. "Oh well, every rose has its thorn I suppose," he whispered into her entrance. The laugh track died away as he promptly inserted his tongue.

you can see the influence from sarah j maas. I can't believe it's categorized as young adult. I wouldn't want my 30 year daughter reading this smut.

[Anonymous No.14766768]

>>14766543
>becomes an amazing swordsman in this other world
>LITERALLY all the attractive women he encounters want to fuck him
Truly the precursor to isekai.

[Anonymous No.14766837]

>>14766768
>>14766543
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

[Anonymous No.14766886]

>>14766837
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

[Anonymous No.14766887]

>>14766326
The people that use goodreads for it's function, i.e. reviews, will not join that group.

[Anonymous No.14766895]

>>14757034
Good writing, cool setting, lots of weird shit happening that's fun to make theories about.

[Anonymous No.14766926]

>>14757034
Mostly to annoy you and your sensibilities.

[Anonymous No.14766962]

>>14766230
banging a 16yo doesn't make you pedo

[Anonymous No.14766982]

>>14766658
the fact that there's no immediate answer makes me think that SF is a lot less tropey than fantasy. SF can say 'fuck you' to having a coherent plot as long as it explores some neat ideas.

[Anonymous No.14767067]

>>14766962
Look it up Y.T is 15

[Anonymous No.14767306]

>>14764288
In the 2nd series

[Anonymous No.14767330]

>>14766018
Excellent ending. I didn’t think he’d pull it off

[Anonymous No.14767337]

>>14766413
First book was bad. For some reason I started the 2nd and dropped it like 20% through. Mark Lawrence is the most cringe author out there next to rothfus

[Anonymous No.14767345]

>>14766018
I'm kind of interested in picking this back up, but I've heard that the characters stay flat and tropey, is that true? Even if this has a great plot and ending I'd rather read something with fully fleshed characters.

[Anonymous No.14767404]

>glory-seeking underdog MC gets a powerup in his darkest hour and uses it to deal the final blow to the big bad
>ends up even more insecure in his own abilities as a result and has to go through two more books worth of glory-seeking before he grows enough to let someone else defeat the final boss

How kino would this be?

[Anonymous No.14767406]

>>14766504

[Anonymous No.14767407]

>>14767404
You're still stuck in the language of video games and shonen anime so not at all.

[Anonymous No.14767413]

>>14765667
as a rule anything that wins a scifi or fantasy award these days should be avoided

[Anonymous No.14767417]

>>14767406
Was it rape?

[Anonymous No.14767525]

Finished Children of Dune and it pretty cool. Alia didn't deserve that, bros.

[Anonymous No.14767538]

>>14767406
What was the point of the protagonist being from America(our world), when it never ever got brought up and used for something
The main thing was that he had the mind of a young boy, and that got it's mileage

[Anonymous No.14767550]

>>14767345
Try powdermage

[Anonymous No.14767554]

>>14767413
This

[Anonymous No.14767765]

What can you tell me about this series, worth a read?
Never read anything by the author but I'm currently in the mood for a naval/sailing centered fantasy.

[Anonymous No.14767817]

Is there anyone cringier than this guy?

[Anonymous No.14767821]

Is the Discworld series worth it? I'm getting into fantasy stuff and i want something deep and long to get immersed in, so i don't have to think about what i'm going to read next

[Anonymous No.14767827]

>>14767817
Yes.
(You)

[Anonymous No.14767837]

>>14767821
Discworld is definitely not deep, it's a fucking comedy series. Go for Wheel of Time, Elderlings (Robin Hobb), or Malazan.

[Anonymous No.14767838]

No more monthly reads?

[Anonymous No.14767848]

>>14767838
The monthly read is Small Gods by Pratchett, on discord. But yeah we might go back to discussing in the threads next month, not sure.

[Anonymous No.14767855]

>>14767838
it's up to the new threadslave

[Anonymous No.14767899]

>>14767837
thanks, i'll check em out

[Anonymous No.14767902]

>>14767821
It ain't deep. And it is only long if you read every book from start to finish, which you shouldn't. Discworld is for picking and choosing which self-contained story you feel like reading on a given day.

[Anonymous No.14767925]

Anybody else read Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City? It was a good read right up until the end. Instead of being a book with a bunch of in your face action it’s told from the perspective of an engineer who’s managing the city under siege. It’s pretty enjoyable right up till the end. And fuck the end in every way which fucks.
Story is told first person, and it turns out the protagonist takes a random arrow before the end of the siege and is having his account transcribed as he’s dying a slow death.
As a double fuck you the story ends with a “translator/historian”’s note that says they can’t verify anything about the text and provides less than zero closure

[Anonymous No.14767948]

>>14767550
>Powder Mage
>Got told it experiences a huge drop in quality in the second book
>Didn’t think it was as good, but wasn’t bad
Am I weird for thinking it was still decent?

[Anonymous No.14768001]

Currently reading Chronicles of Narnia.
However, I really want to get into Sword and Sorcery since that's what I want to write. Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.14768035]

>>14768001
Conan for Classic, Lord of the Rings for prose, and Book of the New Sun 2deep4u in the best of all ways.

Also I know LotR is really high fantasy, but you should read it anyway.

[Anonymous No.14768115]

what are some good books where a character is thrown into a different culture/society? i'm thinking of something like the dispossessed, planet of the apes, and the time machine

[Anonymous No.14768135]

>>14768001
>I really want to get into Sword and Sorcery since that's what I want to write
Good luck getting published lol. But go for Howard's Conan stories, Clark Ashton Smith wrote a couple of truly great ones and dive into some ancient pulp magazines for more material.
>>14768115
The Barsoom series does that.

[Anonymous No.14768186]

>>14768135
>>14768035
Not that guy but Solomon Kane sounds more appealing to me than Conan in terms of aesthetics and such, how are the Solomon Kane stories?

[Anonymous No.14768230]

>>14767765
Read the farseer trilogy before the liveship trilogy.

[Anonymous No.14768231]

>>14768186
They're fine for what they are, without the hyborian setting I find them less interesting than his Conan stories, but Howard knows how to write pulp action so you should give them a go if they sound interesting to you.

[Anonymous No.14768251]

>>14766312
You should. I'm having a lot of fun with the series.

>>14766413
For me the second book is the best, but I didn't really enjoy the series. It got weird sometimes and I liked it then but the last book was a let down. Plus, that horse kick, meh.

[Anonymous No.14768301]

>>14766562
based and pure hearted, might pick up

[Anonymous No.14768327]

>>14767948
i enjoyed the 1st trilogy, less so the 2nd. 3rd book ends well

[Anonymous No.14768409]

>>14768186
It's been years since I read them but the Kane stories are more moody and dark than Conan as I recall.

[Anonymous No.14768565]

>>14762749
>Malazanfags, tell me about your series, why do you like it?

I'll never understand why people always refer to it as complicated or hard to get into. Do they just skim over pages as they pretend to speed read so nothing sticks with them?

>Gardens of the Moon is SOOOO complicated
It's not, just pay attention. There's simply a lot going on.

[Anonymous No.14768572]

>>14764191
Reading through Wheel of Time in its entirety of through Malazan with supplemental books is something worth noting. I think Malazan isn't even finished yet in a sense more books are coming out not related to the core series.

[Anonymous No.14768613]

>>14762749
>tell me about your series
It is one of my favorites, the cultures in the books are some of the most genuinely alien and believable that I've read.

I especially have a thing for coherent systems of magic, and the Malazan series delivers a very unique system that retains the same sort of mysticism that Tolkien had.
Magic is never *fully* explained, allowing it to remain magic.

Malazan also has one the the widest feeling worlds I have read. The feeling of distance between one place and the next is not something I've ever seen better done.

>>14768565
I have not seen anyone claiming complicated, but Gardens of the Moon is somewhat poorly written for a first time reader.
I get the feeling that the author knew his world well but failed in guiding his readers to that same understanding.
This is not an issue past the first book, as the reader has either sunk or swam at this point.

[Anonymous No.14768630]

>>14768565
the only hard thing about the series is remembering who everyone is, there's ~500 pov characters
>>14768572
even if you dont think they're particularly good its still a large amount to read

[Anonymous No.14768644]

>>14768630
It's time for you to go back.

[Anonymous No.14768659]

>>14768644
i googled book series by word count as i couldn't remember if malazan was larger than the 41 discworld books

[Anonymous No.14768665]

>>14768659
Less talking, more leaving pls.

[Anonymous No.14768678]

>>14768665
no.

[Anonymous No.14768679]

>>14767067
Banging a 15 year old doesn't make you a pedo. Americans are the world's most word corruption criminals. You idiots even call a thirty something sleeping with an 18 year old a pedo.

[Anonymous No.14768690]

>>14767404
I hate philosophical shit in my fantasy. Kys

[Anonymous No.14768691]

>>14768630
Brevity is underrated, fantasy series which exceed the length of LotR are trash by default. Short stories and novellas are usually the best format, unless the author has a particularly epic story to tell that warrants the excessive amount of words, even then a novel's worth of text should be enough.

Multiple stories set in the same universe is another thing entirely though, and shouldn't be conflated with slow narratives spanning multiple books and containing multitudes of filler content.

[Anonymous No.14768705]

>>14767821
>i want something deep and long
>to get immersed in me
>so i don't have to think about what i'm going to read next

[Anonymous No.14768715]

>>14768630
That just takes core books into account, though. With everything Malazan released I think it has about 50% more pages than WoT at this point.

[Anonymous No.14768718]

>>14768135
Stupid bitch will just tear a hole in her cheek. Not a killing blow.

[Anonymous No.14768720]

>>14768691
I don't really care if your work is long or short, bigger problem is author seem to be under this impression they NEED to write a long-running series by default. Everything's a fucking trilogy or more for that reason.

[Anonymous No.14768723]

>>14768301
You're just a filthy degenerate footfag, admit it.

[Anonymous No.14768730]

>>14768630
>vegan sex machine
Where is he getting all this energy for sex? Photosynthesis?

[Anonymous No.14768734]

>>14768691
>Brevity is underrated

Agreed. My favorite fantasy/sf books are all 200-400 pages. Nowadays you get a trilogy and the first book alone has over 600 pages, and don't tell me it is needed, there's a lot of crap that could get edited out. It's just because it became the norm and now very few authors go against it.

[Anonymous No.14768738]

>>14768720
>I don't really care if your work is long or short
>author seem to be under this impression they NEED to write a long-running series by default
>everything's a fucking trilogy or more for that reason
That is the publishing house, not authors, and self published authors take their notes from the publishing house.

[Anonymous No.14768779]

>>14768734
There's something incredibly satisfying about picking up a book where no sentence is wasted, it starts somewhere and by the end of it the pattern is complete and everything is resolved. That you can read in a couple afternoons after work/school and then put in your bookshelf, feeling sated.

I have entire shelves of these wonderful pocketbooks that actually fit inside your pocket and within their pages contain complete structures and stories. Science fiction anthologies and standalone fantasy works, smaller anthologies. Even works that were first published in this neat manner are now slapped together into big tomes. Every time I pick up a new fantasy brick and it says it is the first part on the front I know what drudgery to expect and I'm never proven wrong.

[Anonymous No.14768864]

>>14768779
No one cares what you think.

[Anonymous No.14768884]

>>14768678
Shoo-shoo gainz goblin.

[Anonymous No.14768901]

>>14762749
it's okay. try to seek out more balanced opinions about it rather than listening to people who flat out love the series and can't see its myriad faults.

i read the first four books, generally thought they were pretty good, and felt no compulsion to ever move onto the 5th. the good thing is the books are more self-contained than a lot of long fantasy series, so you can do that quite easily.

[Anonymous No.14768907]

>>14766425
Lyonesse trilogy

[Anonymous No.14768910]

>>14767925
Getting mad at 'sad' endings means that you're a manchild.

[Anonymous No.14768918]

>>14767925
Yes, I thought it started slow but got really good once the siege got underway.
I am not sure how I feel about the ending. Part of me thinks based autist Parker couldn't think of ending and just likes writing about sieges.

[Anonymous No.14768932]

Dumb question here;
Do I read the Hobbit first, or should I read them in release order?

[Anonymous No.14768939]

>>14768932
Doesn't really matter honestly. Most people Read LotR first and then hobbit though. Hobbit ties in to many things and is a prequel story but honestly all those "AHA" moments feel better if you know how they tie in. So yeah LotR then Hobbit.

[Anonymous No.14768990]

>>14768932
Read the hobbit then stop.

[Anonymous No.14769160]

>sffg for lifer
>literature lover comes in sffg and opens non fiction piece
>users of sffg look on with derisive disgusted scowls on their face by the cheek of this fucker
>tell them I got this
>beat him to death with genre fiction
>off to find a mod to confess
>see a known /his/ hoping philosophy trafficker
>think to myself "in for a penny in for a pound"
>deal with him too
>tfw thousands put money on my books for such a good deed

[Anonymous No.14769163]

>>14768932
up to you. hobbit is entirely skippable imo.

[Anonymous No.14769177]

>>14768565
Because A) it's the kind of series that doesn't slow you in, B) it has an ensemble cast and you obviously can't tell who's important in five seconds which feeds into C) fucks these days want everything explained NOW. Malazan is simply a slow burn.

[Anonymous No.14769188]

>>14768718
She isn't trying to kill herself

[Anonymous No.14769195]

>>14769160
Hello based department

[Anonymous No.14769197]

>>14769177
its not even that slow a burn, its starts with a siege and from then moves straight onto planning the invasion of a new city. told from the povs of infiltrators in that city and a few of its residents, there's a lot of big picture stuff and world building but the basic plot is well basic. good book imo it saddens me that people tell others to skip it

[Anonymous No.14769202]

>The first 80 something pages (reading from the epub) of God Emperor is somehow better than the entirety of Children

How the fuck did Frank drop the ball so hard?

[Anonymous No.14769207]

>>14768864
Considering I only care about good writing it would be more accurate to say that very few people care about quality and most would happily consume slop by the truckload, which is why it gets published. What a sorry state genre fiction is in, and the source of the rot is obvious.

As an antidote to the extravagances of modern publishing I recommend you read CAS' The Abominations of Yondo, or listen to a reading of it here:
https://youtu.be/TnGkRaQ99yE
With a not just an economic use of words but a downright austere trimming into only that which is necessarily he paints a world, tells a story and gives the reader a vivid imagery that rivals that of multi-volume series.

[Anonymous No.14769308]

>>14769202
Children was great, fuck you. It was tragic and entertaining.

[Anonymous No.14769330]

>>14769308
>Tragic
Yeah, it was.

>Entertaining
Preacher, Alia and Farad'n were the only interesting characters.
The premise was 'Eh' at points and 'Come on, we know what you're doing.' at others. Frank couldn't write kids for shit, writing prescient kids is even worse.
I will give it to Frank, it picks up at the end, it's just a shame that it wasn't until the last, what, 30-40 pages that it was where he got his mojo back.

[Anonymous No.14769346]

>>14769330
>Frank couldn't write kids for shit
Technically there weren't any in the book besides The Preacher's assistant.

[Anonymous No.14769358]

>>14768910
I’m not mad at the ending for being “sad”. I’m mad at the ending for leaving everything unfinished and then saying it all probably never even happened.

[Anonymous No.14769397]

>>14768910
I’m not mad at the ending for being “sad”. I’m mad at the ending for leaving everything unfinished and then saying it all probably never even happened.

>>14768918
It feels like he generally wrote himself into a corner and did’t have any more siege stuff to talk about so he ended it. Then included the historian’s note to try and be clever about it.

[Anonymous No.14769423]

>>14769397
it's a fiction book anon. of course it never happened.

[Anonymous No.14769445]

>>14768779
Truth. I feel like a lot of genre fiction is more like a first or second draft of a story. The "epic" stuff is especially guilty of this. Half the time it feels like there really was no editor. I've enjoyed my reads, but there are days when it grates on me.

[Anonymous No.14769458]

>>14768691
>Brevity is underrated
What are some great examples of fantasy book that fit this criteria?

[Anonymous No.14769490]

>>14768001
I highly recommend Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser books.

[Anonymous No.14769502]

>>14768572
I feel like comparing WoT to Malazan is like comparing WoT or Malazan to the entire D&D novella line. You have to draw a line in the sand somewhere when talking about book series length. WoT is a single story.

[Anonymous No.14769505]

>>14768939
>Most people Read LotR first and then hobbit though.
The most retarded thing I've read in ages.

[Anonymous No.14769525]

>>14756626
How To Use The /sffg/ Goodreads Group

Reviews From /sffg/
To view a list of reviews written by /sffg/ either add everyone in the group to your friends list and view them in your update feed or log into the Group Updates account and look at feed in that account on the Home page. Click "Customize" at the top right beside the gear icon and select "Reviews only".

What /sffg/ Has Been Reading
See above, but "Book Updates only" or "Everything".

/sffg/ Ratings, Read Counts, and Book Status
In the group home page click bookshelf and then either enter the book the search field or find it in a bookshelf. Click "view activity" and all activity regarding that entry of the book by /sffg/ will be shown. Add whatever you want that is /sffg/ relevant whenever you want.

What is /sffg/ currently reading?
Click on "Members" on the group home page.

Discussion
Feel free to make topics about whatever.

Everything Else
Do whatever you want whenever you want without needing ask anyone whether you ought to do it.

Feedback & Suggestions
Is there anything missing in this? Let me know.

[Anonymous No.14769541]

>>14769207
Do you have more recommendations?

[Anonymous No.14769584]

>>14769330
>Frank couldn't write kids
They literally tell you 10 times in the book they're not kids.

[Anonymous No.14769707]

wow, this was shit. its about twice as long as it should be, and repetitive. and the cover art has absolutely nothing to do with the book. The dystopic background is entirely inconsistent.

what a shame to give such a good concept such a poor execution. It's like if you rewrote roadside picnic so that it was told during flashbacks with a therapist, except boring, and the narrator's only trait is that he is an asshole

[Anonymous No.14769876]

>>14769525
>autist is teaching other people to be autistic

[Anonymous No.14769975]

>>14769490
I will second this. Some of the best of the genre.

[Anonymous No.14769976]

>tfw you set out to be a fantasy author and end up as a smut writer
>the amount you make writing smut is probably more than all but the top 0.1% of fantasy writers make
Should I just give up and keep writing contrived gay erotica for plebs? How do you make money as a fantasy writer?

[Anonymous No.14769991]

>>14769976
I think you have to write gay fantasy about how western imperialism has ruined everything.

[Anonymous No.14770065]

>>14769976
The standard required for smut is much lower than a real novel. Maybe just admit to yourself you're not the next great writer and simply do what you have to do to make a living.

[Anonymous No.14770094]

>>14770065
What absolute quitter talk.

[Anonymous No.14770151]

>>14770094
Very very very few writers make a decent wage. The average yearly salary for full-time authors is around $8k.

[Anonymous No.14770361]

Guys I'm halfway through dying earth,it's quite boring. Does it get any better?

[Anonymous No.14770396]

>>14767837
I was looking at a new serie to read and I either already read or am not interested in any of the series there. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.14770416]

>>14770361
No. It's shit. You were told to avoid but you wanted to get memed into reading it by posters who were alive when it was first published. Enjoy your shit. Read WoT and Terry Goodkind when you're done. You seem to like shit books.

[Anonymous No.14770455]

>>14770396
Try some of these or don't. This general doesn't read anyways. They just cry about not having anything to read, then try to discuss the only things they read a decade or more ago: Book of the new sun, conan, asoiaf, etc.

[Anonymous No.14770510]

>>14770416
Are you ok friend?

[Anonymous No.14770657]

>>14768932
>>14768939
Have I accidentally wandered into an alternate universe where the Hobbit was released after LotR? I mean, "Hobbit first" and "release order" are the same shit, why even discuss that?

[Anonymous No.14770685]

>>14770657
not the guy you are responding to but i think he means because lotr got way more popular due to exposure most people read the books because of the movies and then read hobbit afterwards. in that sense it seems logical but i agree. id read in release order too.

[Anonymous No.14770739]

>>14770657
Wasn't there a bunch of short stories released before the Hobbit?

[Anonymous No.14770814]

>R. Scott Bakker

[Anonymous No.14770888]

>>14770814
Weeper faggot

[Anonymous No.14771076]

What you faggots reading?

[Anonymous No.14771111]

>>14771076
Sign of the Unicorn. Great series my dude

[Anonymous No.14771216]

>>14764930
Name of the Wind
The Warded Man

[Anonymous No.14771245]

>>14771216
could you redpill me on the quality of Name of the Wind vs Wise man's fear quality dip. I read both of them a few years back, and I don't remember there being a significant dip in quality

[Anonymous No.14771285]

>>14771076
rereading. i never see this book mentioned anywhere but it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.14771291]

>>14771245
Oh I wasn't referring to Wise Man's Fear, I didn't get that far before I thought that Rothfus had driven the story into the ground.
About the time where Kvothe cucks out to an endless parade of boys that Denna brings around to meet him while expositing garbage like "you get to hold her hand but I know her favorite song" is when I realized the protagonist had gone from a charming rogue mage I could enjoy reading about to a far less entertaining character that espoused whatever "morals" the author wanted to shove in our faces and could do no real wrong.

[Anonymous No.14771316]

An Anon posted a thread asking for critique on his idea for a fantasy novel, and I was the only one who replied by saying "Shut the fuck up retard".

He then deleted his thread.

I only intended that in the typical 4chan banter manner to kickstart the thread. Please don't be discouraged, young Anon. Write it and don't ask for feedback on an idea from here. Just write.

[Anonymous No.14771333]

>>14758039
Exactly this for me.

Also I love the Dying Earth genre, and as far as I'm aware it's the most well written entry.

[Anonymous No.14771348]

>>14771316
Those are shitty threads tho. Execution is much more important than the idea. All this crowdsourced looking for approval before they even begin writing is nothing more than a participation award.

[Anonymous No.14771370]

>>14771285
Then why don't you mention it?
I started making charts because I didn't see no one mentioning my books. Now sffg discusses them regularly or does book club readings.
Be the change you want.

[Anonymous No.14771376]

>>14771076
Gonna start God Emperor tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.14771382]

>>14771333
Wtf is that thing in your pic?

[Anonymous No.14771389]

>>14769541
Not him but Vance is an absolute champion when it comes to word economy

https://www.tor.com/2019/01/11/a-lean-mean-writing-machine-jack-vance-was-science-fictions-tightest-worldbuilder/

[Anonymous No.14771398]

So I recently finished the wheel of time. Jesus christ, that was simultaneously the worst shit I've ever read and the best thing I've ever read. Anyone got any thoughts on it?

[Anonymous No.14771402]

Why don't you feed the aching god?

[Anonymous No.14771416]

So who was the hermit and who/what was he looking for?

[Anonymous No.14771417]

So I just finished the Wheel of time.
Wow, that was simultaneously the best thing and the worst thing I've ever read. The 200 page Last Battle chapter was gold. Not sure how I feel about the ending though. Any thoughts on this 14 book monstrosity?

[Anonymous No.14771419]

>>14771370
it's out of print, not an ebook, not on #bookz, b-ok, libgen

[Anonymous No.14771443]

>>14771417
A very flawed masterpiece. It's the second best selling fantasy series after LotR for a reason.

[Anonymous No.14771450]

>>14771416
It's been a while since I read Canticle, can you give some more background, which time period was it?

[Anonymous No.14771454]

>>14771419
Donate your copy to a private tracker. They have companies that scan books. Or use your cellphone and take a hdr picture of each page. Phones can do good hq pics these days.

[Anonymous No.14771462]

>>14771382
Something from "The Night Land" a dying earth novel written by a WW1 vet with PTSD.

It's amazing, but is written in 17th century prose. I found a re-write using plain English and it was fantastic, though. Lovecraft was a big fan.

[Anonymous No.14771485]

>>14771450
The old jewish hermit man who appears in all three periods and claims to be over 1000 years old.

[Anonymous No.14771505]

>>14771485
The wandering jew?

[Anonymous No.14771513]

>>14771417
>>14771398
>>14771443
It probably should have been rewritten a few more times and edited into a masterpiece. That said, I enjoy my time with the WoT.

[Anonymous No.14771529]

>>14771513
>That said, I enjoy my time wasted with the WoT.

[Anonymous No.14771548]

/sffg/, I want to be a better writer but I just feel like I'm getting worse. The pressure was so bad that I needed to take a break to learn to forgive myself, but now I realize that all I've learned to do is coddle and pacify myself like a fucking toddler.

I'm utterly lost now and I don't know what to do

[Anonymous No.14771556]

>>14771548
fuck off

[Anonymous No.14771564]

>>14771548
dont post your blog on 4chan. dont be a pussy. dont think anyone cares.

[Anonymous No.14771568]

>>14771529
Well, not like I would be doing anything more valuable with that time. I'm not a heart surgeon anon.

[Anonymous No.14771576]

>>14771513
> rewritten a few more times and edited
His publisher didn't care because he was earning them so much money.
His editor didn't care because she was married to him.

[Anonymous No.14771595]

>>14771548
i told you to read some books. here, read this one specifically:
Donald Maass - Writing the Breakout Novel.
he runs a literary agency so his job is literally finding good novels and helping almost good ones get to a publishable level

[Anonymous No.14771604]

>>14764930
Shadow of the Torturer.

[Anonymous No.14771606]

>>14771548

[Anonymous No.14771614]

>>14768723
Yes.

[Anonymous No.14771735]

Hmmm...I'm trying to map out my sci-fi world to start writing my novel and initially, I wanted to do a military sci-fi thing in the vein of The Expanse. But now I'm starting to be more interested in space colonization and industry and how mining, trading, and terraforming would actually look like instead of just having all that shit be in the background. Now I'm conflicted because I'm thinking about changing the entire premise of my work, fuck. I'm having trouble justifying the cause of an interplanetary war anyway.

[Anonymous No.14771738]

>>14771614
Don't go posting shooped versions, you disgusting cretin.

[Anonymous No.14772482]

Threadslave, where's the new thread?

[Anonymous No.14772497]

>>14766326
joined the group to compare books and hopefully find someone with similar taste to find new books. unfortunately nobody in the /sffg/ group reads sffg

60% have ~0-20 books read
25% have ~1000 books read but none are sffg related barring maybe dune in the to-read
10% have only read jap LN's
5% are sf readers not f

[Anonymous No.14772760]

new thread fellow nerds

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