/sffg/ Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.16540612]

"The Dragonriders of Pern is the greatest science-fantasy series ever written" Edition

[Anonymous No.16540619]

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[Anonymous No.16541156]

>>16540612
Maybe when you're 11 and have never read any other fantasy...

[Anonymous No.16541170]

>>16541156
Gene Wolfe sucks

[Anonymous No.16541177]

>Everything about Wintersteel
Holy shit this is garbage.

[Anonymous No.16541194]

>>16541177
>The Dreadgod will rise

[Anonymous No.16541219]

>>16541170
Who said anything about Gene Wolfe?

[Anonymous No.16541294]

dude and smoking mari also gives benefits to attention as to be able to read books without problems?

[Anonymous No.16541443]

>>16540612
recs for high fantasy short stories?

[Anonymous No.16541564]

>>16541170
This.
>>16541219
I did. He sucks. So does Conan.

[Anonymous No.16541675]

>>16541564
Sounds like you suck.

[Anonymous No.16541694]

To the musical Argentinean anon-bro from a few months ago with the qt Japanese wife. Did you give her a mating press and tell her it's from anon, for me?

[Anonymous No.16541870]

Any sexy fantasy recs?

[Anonymous No.16541930]

>>16541170
So does Peake. Just gay pretentious word soup that goes nowhere, you fall asleep 10 times before anything remotely engaging actually starts happening. Especially if you're listening to an auidiobook.

[Anonymous No.16541941]

>>16541694
Back to discord, trannies and normies

[Anonymous No.16541980]

I just finished reading the first book in this trilogy, and I was surprised by how much I liked it. It's not perfect - some of the dialog isn't good and the explanations of allomancy start to stray into RPG territory, but overall it was really enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.16542263]

Anyone heard of The Deed of Paksenarrion? It's advertised in the back of this book alongside David Drake.
>"has taken the work of tolkien ... her picture of life in a mercenary company is most convincing"

[Anonymous No.16542270]

/sffg/ "Missing OP pasta" Edition

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>>16516220

Discord:
https://discord.com/invite/KWPCM7m

From the end of the previous thread (>>16540968
):
Wheel of Time review from Amazon Japan (machine translated):
>It's an epic visionary work that you won't find in Japan.
>The writing is good and the setting is good.
>However, I think it will be treated as a light novel in Japan.
>In fact, LORD OF THE RINGS was also treated as a light novel type work.
>Fantasy is a branch of literature in other countries.
>In Japan, we tend to view fantasy as ridiculous.
>So the author of this series, ROBERT JORDAN, is not well known in Japan.
>Don't you think that's a pity?
>You don't know any of the world's best-selling authors.
>The Japanese translation is also available from Hayakawa Shobo, so why not give it a try?
>However, the Japanese translation is quite quirky, so I'd best proceed to enjoy the original book.
>The book is about 800 pages long, but it is not long at all.
>On the contrary, I don't think the careful storytelling will bore you.
>It starts off a little slow, but I am sure that you will be drawn into the various mysteries right away.
>If you are a fan of fantasy, this is a good game for you to learn English.

[Anonymous No.16542276]

>>16542263
Elizabeth Moon is good, unless I'm mixing her up with Elizabeth Bear, who is also good, but also exceptionally gay.

[Anonymous No.16542321]

>>16542270
Since you kindly reposted my WoT post, here's another Japanese Amazon review, but of Book of the New Sun:
>A great science fiction fantasy that can't be buried.
>It looks like an adventure fantasy set in a colorful, otherworldly setting, but as you unravel the elaborate writing style and thoughtful plot, you'll gradually discover a multi-layered narrative structure and a widescreen baroque science fiction world.
>It's a must for lovers of serious foreign sci-fi fantasy, but for now, the only way to get a feel for this world is to read the original. The original isn't always easy to read, but if you've done the hard work, you'll be rewarded for your efforts.

[Anonymous No.16542356]

>>16541694
How the fuck am I a tranny?
I never even used discord. Used teamspeak once but it didn't work out.

[Anonymous No.16542362]

the whole name and idea of the nogod is litty

[Anonymous No.16542420]

>>16541980
if you enjoyed it you'll enjoy everything he writes (and he writes a lot)

[Anonymous No.16542612]

I'm finding the style of writing in the black company a bit jarring after recently starting to read it. It seems like the story is skimming over everything that happens. I'm not saying i need a complete detail of every scene and character down to the way their nails look, but you need to give more than " just x happened, y was found". The best example of this is when they find the corpses on the tomb they just skin over their appearance and wounds The story move fast, sure, incredibly so, but it feels like I'm reading a summary of a book ratter than an actual one.
I'm still right at the beginning. is it like this trough the whole book?

[Anonymous No.16542637]

>>16542362
Everything about the Consult was great.

[Anonymous No.16542640]

>>16540612
I think the Harper Hall trilogy is comfy 2bh

[Anonymous No.16542704]

>>16542640
yesss, I just bought the anthology book. I'm rereading the first two trilogies in order
ie. dragonflight, dragonquest, harper hall trilogy, white dragon.

[Anonymous No.16542720]

Didn't sffg used to include horror too? I don't see a horror thread so I'm going to fart my question out in here.
Does anyone have any recommendations similar to the paperbacks from hell reprints? I've read the ones that interested me the most.
More on topic, I just read City by Simak and it was a solid 7/10.
Thanks for your help

[Anonymous No.16542800]

Finished reading this after elfstones yesterday. I kinda liked it better 2bh. Also I'm starting to find the post apocalyptic fantasy setting comfy now.

[Anonymous No.16542831]

>>16542800
it is the pre-eminent setting

[Anonymous No.16542885]

>>16542420
I mostly liked the writing. There was a tendency for him to over describe certain things early on in the book, but it got much better as it went on

[Anonymous No.16542902]

>>16542321
Japanese readers got good taste.

[Anonymous No.16543241]

>>16541870
Just write your own.

[Anonymous No.16543268]

Any recommendations for scifi/fantasy authors that require some intelligence to enjoy? People like Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny or Dan Simmons?

[Anonymous No.16543280]

>>16542612
Kinda but it's still worth reading imo.

[Anonymous No.16543287]

Chani or Irulan?

[Anonymous No.16543289]

>>16543268
Mervyn Peake and that's about it

[Anonymous No.16543395]

>>16541980
Read it recently too. Thought it was pretty dull and formulaic overall. Really basic character archetypes, super predictable plot, and the writing style, or complete lack of it, was pretty fucking bad. So much boring exposition constantly, dry and stilted descriptions and dialogue, etc. I've read more engaging text books.

[Anonymous No.16543412]

>>16541170
Looks like someone is afraid of the big bad Wolfe

[Anonymous No.16543459]

>>16540612
whats the difference between YA fantasy and normal fantasy? Because my edition of Dragonflight says YA on the back, but, have any one of you read them lately? That's not language the average 12-year-old would feel comfortable with usually, and there are really perfinicky, almost archaic sentences/writing in some places.

If it's not the writing quality, how does a person differentiate between the two?

[Anonymous No.16543467]

Thoughts on Mordew? Love the Mervyn Peake inspired art work

[Anonymous No.16543501]

>>16541870

[Anonymous No.16543577]

>>16543268
John Crowley. I've also been meaning to pick up James Morrow's Towing Jehovah

[Anonymous No.16543667]

Do I need to read Urth of the New Sun if I read first four?

[Anonymous No.16543699]

>>16543241
Sad but true. I doubt anyone could do your fetishes right (even if they are relatiely tame and not that weird). Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm autistic but only very rarely I can get turned on by the sex fantasies of others.

[Anonymous No.16543720]

>>16543287
Dunc plebs fucc of. Dunc is too mainstream now. Both are a shit.Siona is mai waifu.

[Anonymous No.16543736]

>>16543459
It's a censorship/rating matter. YA = no explicit sex and cussing. A book can be super dumb and basic, but if if has 'fuck' and 'cunt' it's adult. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.16543755]

>>16543736
so if I don't want my fantasy story to be YA, I just have to drop some f-bombs?

[Anonymous No.16543772]

>>16543755
Basically this, yes. Do some artsy-fartsy degenerate sex scenes, just to be sure.

[Anonymous No.16543798]

>>16543772
but my main character is too busy being badass to have sex :(

[Anonymous No.16543803]

>>16543798
Volcel chad.

[Anonymous No.16543806]

>>16543798
Have side charaters have sex and him watch like a cuk

[Anonymous No.16543844]

>>16543798
Just have rape happen to someone unrelated to the main character.

[Anonymous No.16543896]

>>16543806
>>16543844
but I don't care about sex. There is no romance. The quality of my writing doesn't matter at all? No one gives a shit? I'm fucking furious.
Is gore enough? I can do gore

[Anonymous No.16543953]

>>16543896
I'm not sure it is.Not in american standards after all. It needs to be some gory gore
Now that you are speaking about it it make me wonder if Asimov faced similar problems, because there are a few "sex" scenes coming out of nowhere and serve no propose on some of his books.

[Anonymous No.16544292]

If I had to pick one Dune character to feel sympathy for it would either be Dunanc or Irulan.

[Anonymous No.16544400]

>>16544292
>reading past the first book

[Anonymous No.16544413]

We watching this, barkerbros?

[Anonymous No.16544418]

>finally find a mild-litRPG with an underlying story that I enjoy
>it's haremshit
In addition to his succubus and his bug queen, he now has a dryad and a soon-to-be spider queen. I hope the story goes somewhere decent. There was an unexpected loredump early into the second book that suggests that the World Seed--the name of the RPG program--infiltrated the Realm and corrupted things which would make sense considering the characters in-world don't understand the RPG element, as well as spectulation from the MC about how the World Seed guides the world through quest rewards, et al.

>>16540612
I read Pern last year and enjoyed it but was disappointed that the dragons were artificially created by humans who discovered the planet from space plot never went anywhere beyond background noise.

>>16541177
From what I've read in these threads, he seems to have doubled-down and went the reverse of the criticism.

>>16542800
I remember liking Elfstones the most out of the first batch. How far do you plan to read into Shannara?

[Anonymous No.16544441]

Just finished reading the First Law series and the standalones. Abercrombie really cant write more than 3 characters and the worldbuilding is nonexistent. I dont know why normies praise him so much

[Anonymous No.16544523]

>>16544413
Why should we?
It's no more than a pale imitation of his short stories, with no more substance than one of the Jaff's Terata.
Also, I never really liked his short stories, anyway. I prefer his fantasy stuff.

[Anonymous No.16544627]

>>16544413
>Hulu
Nope, not watching that.

[Anonymous No.16544856]

>>16543395
Felt the same way. Got it recommended and bought the trilogy, but I couldn't make it through the first book.

[Anonymous No.16544880]

>>16542270
Isn't that a discord that's run by soft fags? When I was in there one of the mods had a multi-haired profile picture and seemed to be kind of a bitch. Also there's a "conduct" tab full of onions requirements for participation.

[Anonymous No.16544963]

>>16544880
Behold, the great filter

[Anonymous No.16545032]

>>16544880
>>16544963
is this real or just supposed to be ironic?
nowadays i cant tell anymore if things are real or people pretend to be retarded for lulz.

[Anonymous No.16545185]

>>16545032
No it's real. The discord mod is 100% a discord tranny

[Anonymous No.16545220]

>>16545185
So to be clear, 'discord tranny' means someone who isn't sexist or racist?

[Anonymous No.16545241]

>>16545220
you must be baiting right now... lat you you will get from me.

[Anonymous No.16545253]

>>16543667
Kind of. It's the conclusion to the series but many of the events could be inferred from the end of Autarch.

[Anonymous No.16545271]

Stumbled across this while looking for stuff about Kievan Rus.
It's very good.

[Anonymous No.16545338]

>>16545253
Accept who and what you are.

[Anonymous No.16545357]

>>16545338
I try

[Anonymous No.16545380]

>>16545241
Ok friendo.

[Anonymous No.16545387]

I finished starship trooper and holy fuck that made me mad at the movie. It was literally made in order to shit on everything the book stood for and wrote about. And that made the movie a joke only fart sniffing idiots think it's good. While the book is one of the best war book ever written, being my second favorite only behind the forever war.

Fuck Hollywood.

[Anonymous No.16545410]

>>16544418
I'm at least planning on reading up to the 4 horseman and the skynet ai Reason i'm reading the series in the first place is because I needed a good post apocalyptic fantasy binge, and a friend rec'd me this as well with a bit of interesting spoilers.

[Anonymous No.16545467]

>>16545410
>Death on a fucking lizard, fighting some sort of wizard.
Would read

[Anonymous No.16545517]

>>16545410
Give me all your post-apocalyptic fantasy recs.

[Anonymous No.16545527]

>>16545410
>post apocalyptic fantasy
Be sure to read Genesis of Shannara and its subsequent series then. ;-)

>>16545410
>>16545467
Walker Boh vs Four Horsemen is fucking sick

[Anonymous No.16545582]

>>16545517
Haven't read much, hence the recent binge. Only books I've read are Broken Empire trilogy, The Jerusalem man Trilogy, The Dark Tower series, and the first few books in the Wheel of time series(if that counts idk).

>>16545527
will do fren

[Anonymous No.16545844]

When creating a fantasy/science fiction story, is it best to build the world and then figure out the best plot that could take place in it, or would it be better to decide on a plot you wanna tell and craft the world that would best support it? How do the pros do it?

[Anony No.16545901]

>>16545844
Worldbuilding is often a trap that lets you fuck around thinking you're making progress when you still have no story to tell.

[Anonymous No.16545906]

>>16545844
plot > characters > setting

[Anonymous No.16545911]

>>16545844
>>16545906
this, but in reverse

[Anonymous No.16545933]

>>16545220
lol no, a discord tranny is a power tripping fag with no job who lurks in discords and waits to ban anyone who makes jokes they don't like. Basically a sexless, humorless nerd with no friends IRL who doesn't get that real people banter with each other.

[Anonymous No.16546031]

>>16540612
Put the treasures in the void key and I might not pull all your kin out by the roots.

[Anonymous No.16546130]

>>16545517
HAPLO
AND THE DOG

[Anonymous No.16546270]

>>16541930
>>16541170
>filtered so hard they began to seethe
i'm lamao'ing @ ur'e hole life rn bruh

[Anonymous No.16546369]

>>16542263
I read it a long time ago and enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.16546508]

>>16541870
Tarnsman of Gor series.

[Anonymous No.16546514]

>>16545271
thanks negroid, I'll check it out.
I had downloaded a pnp version of Rurik Dawn of Kiev boardgame, This'll go well with it.

[Anonymous No.16546522]

>>16545844
worldbuilding is shit if you have a shitty story. If all you want to do is worldbuild, just develop a tabletop rpg or write what they call LitRPG.

[Anonymous No.16546526]

>>16544441
Anon hawked spit onto his keyboard covered in grease and blood and decided today was a good day to die

[Anonymous No.16546534]

>>16545844
Story is most important

[Anonymous No.16546616]

what's a series that's like the Johannes Cabal books, but good?

[Anonymous No.16546836]

Where can I find an exhaustive list of character functions/roles? Stuff like protagonist, rival, sidekick, antagonist, shadow, love interest, treshold guardian, mentor, tempter, trickster, etc

I don't mind redundancy and overlap, the more the merrier.

[Anonymous No.16546858]

>>16546836
Tvtropes probably

[Anonymous No.16547032]

>>16545933
alright so discord tranny is just the new zoomer version of janny, got it

[Anonymous No.16547063]

>>16547032
Worse because they are offsite. And Jannie is the roomer version of a mod anyhow, just more pathetic.

[Anonymous No.16547137]

at this rate I'm expecting the first draft of the flavoranon book to be done by mid-2021.

There is no way I'm going to be able to create a whole fucking series

[Anonymous No.16547150]

You know, as I was reading the Revelation Space books, I thought they were enjoyable enough, but not particularly good, just your average sci-fi novel. But for some reason they've stuck with me, I keep thinking of them.

I don't know what it is, but I think the atmosphere was particularly grim and oppressive. The squalor in Chasm city and the lighthugger. The description of humanity being hunted down by the machines. The voyage of the first interstellar ships and how lonely and claustrophobic it felt. The fact that the whole series ends with humanity being on the run from self-replicating machines they created, which were implied to eventually take over not just the Milky Way, but the universe.

Just caused unsettling feelings enough to make it memorable I guess. The only other book that has stuck with me like that was the Night Land. I heavily recommend the Night Land by the way, it's fantastic.

But funnily enough I occasionally think of another Reynolds novel, Pushing ice, and how big the alium structure was in that.

>>16547032
Actually the term "discord tranny" came from when someone discovered some leftist discord server where literal transitioning trannies would discuss leftist politics and talk about coordinating raids on 4chan. Linking to threads in the server so they can swarm them or discussing the kind of threads they would post for "propaganda" and such. I can't remember which board they were talking about in the server in question, might have been /tv/ or /v/ or even no particular board. Anyway, obviously not everyone who gets accused of being a discord tranny is from that server, but that's just where the term originated.

[Anonymous No.16547471]

>>16541177
Yea he seems to have gone in totally the wrong direction, too much talking about things irrelevant to the protagonist, not enough about cultivation and finding treasures or inheritances or exploring mystic realms

[Anonymous No.16547488]

Oh look at that. It's been 2 years and not a peep about Daniel Black or loli space marine princess 2.
The year is ending and not a sound.

Fuck E William Brown

[Anonymous No.16547506]

Who was man enough to impregnate Malice Asura? Who is Mercy's father? I don't think you as a weak human can tell a Monarch you want anal and try to force her to give you what she doesn't want to.

[Anonymous No.16547612]

>>16547506
Malice is obviously into hardcore Femdom. They probably don’t even have a say in it.

[Anonymous No.16547624]

>>16547488
>google him
>first result is Is E William Brown still alive?
lol

[Anonymous No.16547720]

>>16542263
Thanks for reminding me about this one, I think I'll read it again. It's one of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.16547739]

>>16545387
Pleb detected. The movie didn't share much more than a title with the book, but it was just as exceptional, though in a very different way.

[Anonymous No.16547946]

can I ask about horror here?
I like biological or body horror . How can I find good reads

[Anonymous No.16547953]

>>16547946
define body horror

[Anonymous No.16547967]

>>16547946
Honestly, I just finished Rosemary's Baby and thought it was excellent. It's more of a slow burn psychological horror, but there is some minor body horror.

I expect you're looking for something more like The Troop by Nick Cutter though. Think Lord of the Flies with parasites.

[Anonymous No.16547978]

hey guys, is the ghormenghast series worth my time? I'm not that big into fantasy but this seems interesting

[Anonymous No.16547980]

>>16547488
suppsoedly he updates quite frequently on his subscribestar.
some anon here a while back subscribed once just to see whats going on and reported that he posts chapters about the new daniel black and alice long books.
there was a screenshot with some excerpts too.

[Anonymous No.16547983]

>>16547978
It's a Tim Burton story with similar aesthetics (Burton came much later), unlikable characters, with highly visual prose, a crappier second volume and a terrible one for the third.

[Anonymous No.16547991]

>>16547953
>Body horror or biological horror is a subgenre of horror that intentionally showcases graphic or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body. These violations may manifest through aberrant sex, mutations, mutilation, zombification, gratuitous violence, disease, or unnatural movements of the body.

yeah that's pretty accurate

[Anonymous No.16547994]

>>16547991
try john dies at the end for a start

[Anonymous No.16548085]

>>16547983
The second book is on par with the first man, I don't know what you're on about.

[Anonymous No.16548093]

>>16547991
Borne or The Southern Reach trilogy.

[Anonymous No.16548112]

>>16547150
It was /v/

[Anonymous No.16548226]

Lift is the most annoying and cringy character I have ever seen.
What the fuck was Sanderson thinking?

[Anonymous No.16548326]

I like fantasy but a lot of the popular stuff, or stuff you find recommended is terrible, bad quality literature. Are there some recommendations that exclude your Sanderson, rothfuss etc.

[Anonymous No.16548330]

>>16548326
Sanderson and Rothfuss

[Anonymous No.16548333]

>>16548326
Lord ...of the.........
.......

[Anonymous No.16548337]

>>16548333
Unironically, I do mean more stuff of that quality, the drop off from lotr to fucking that kingkiller trilogy is a joke.

[Anonymous No.16548340]

>>16548326
Chalion series and Penric series by Lois Mcmaster Bujold.
The Gotrek and Felix novels if you want some good pulp fantasy (but only the ones by William King).
The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan if you want something with a wildly different setting to typical fantasy.

[Anonymous No.16548359]

>>16548337
Gormenghast

[Anonymous No.16548543]

Any novels set in anything similar to a Sim City 2000 arcology?

[Anonymous No.16548583]

>>16548337
2nd apocalypse

[Anonymous No.16548605]

>>16544418
>but was disappointed...
Eh, I didn't mind at all. I came for dragon fantasy. The hints and implications makes Pern even more exciting, but doesn't take away from what we really want: Ugly fucking dragons.

There is at least one book that chronicles the first people that settled on Pern, so it's much more sci-fi. Did you read that one?

[Anonymous No.16548707]

>>16548337
Latro in the mist

[Anonymous No.16548717]

>>16548337
Wizard Knight
Once and Future King
Sorcerer's House
Chalion

[Anonymous No.16548878]

>>16543736
>>16543772
>>16543953
wait a fuckin' minute, there's a ton of YA with sex and cussing in it. So it's just completely arbitrary

[Anonymous No.16548892]

>>16548878
Demographic, when it comes to publishing, generally refers to who the content is marketed to rather than being defined by what is actually in the content itself.

[Anonymous No.16548946]

>>16543395
>>16544856
Filtered

[Anonymous No.16549216]

>>16547978
It you love the gothic aesthetic you will love the first two. It's a beautiful depressing world that's easy to get immersed in. The third removes everything that worked for the first two and you shouldn't bother with it at all.

[Anonymous No.16549411]

Reposting my request for grimdark and edgy but well written sci-fi or space opera.
Already tried and liked: Scott Bakker, Blindopraxia, BotNS
Hated/Didn't finish: Vorkosigan saga, Dhalgren

Alternately, any books with hard sci-fi takes on mythological/supernatural/religious concepts (besides Blindopraxia and the obvious Lord of Light)?

[Anonymous No.16549418]

now that the dust has settled "the lord of the rings" is not the ideal name for the novel considering sauron is hardly a character and doesn't show up a lot, even if you like the title...

Come up with another title for the book.

[Anonymous No.16549421]

>>16549411
have you read crash space by bakker, short story free online, pure KINO

[Anonymous No.16549424]

Any science fantasy recommendations? Kinda getting bored of pure fantasy or scifi

[Anonymous No.16549435]

>>16549424
haven't read it but book of the new sun?

[Anonymous No.16549464]

>>16549418
It isn't the name of any novel. That's the series name.

[Anonymous No.16549469]

>>16549464
kek, pedant btfo, the lord of the rings was actually intended by tolkien to be published as a single book, with 6 internal books (like the bible) the publisher split them up into 3 containing 2 each to make more money

[Anonymous No.16549473]

>>16549469
>a single book, with 6 internal books
That's called an omnibus, and in that case Lord of the Rings would still be the name of the series, not the individual books.

[Anonymous No.16549487]

>>16549473
no the internal books would be like books of the bible, the individual books are basically sections containing chapters and verses

[Anonymous No.16549494]

>>16549487
You mean... they would be referred to as the name of their book, while the series as a whole would be referred to as a different name?

[Anonymous No.16549500]

>>16549494
I literally have a version of lotr printed the way tolkien intended, it is one PHYSICAL book, with internal books, the title of the book is still LOTR

[Anonymous No.16549503]

>>16549500
you're a little bit dumb, aren't you

[Anonymous No.16549514]

>>16549500
The title of the omnibus is Lord of the Rings, which is the name of the series. It's still divided into different books therein. Is English your second language? Look at the bible, your example. People still refer to the Book of Revelations or the Book of Job.

[Anonymous No.16549520]

>>16549514
and they call it the bible

[Anonymous No.16549525]

>>16549520
Which is the title of the whole series, not the individual works.

[Anonymous No.16549569]

I miss him bros

[Anonymous No.16549581]

>>16549418
May I interest you in the book known as A Song of Ice and Fire?

[Anonymous No.16549595]

>>16549581
never intended to be published as a single book

[Anonymous No.16549603]

>>16549500
I've similar too. Bigger than bible and almost as small text too

[Anonymous No.16549700]

>>16549569
Can’t believe overlook killed him.

[Anonymous No.16549749]

>>16540612
If you're writing a light novel or manga-styled harem story, how do you handle the MC having the romantic attentions of multiple girls, and justify that attraction in the first place beyond looks and being nice to them/saving them, particularly in an Isekai story? How could you prevent jealousy from getting out of control between the love interests?

[Anonymous No.16549782]

should i read Disciple_of_the_Dog

[Anonymous No.16549807]

>>16549749
Give them a legit reason to want him. Make it so after he kills the villain, he'll be king, and he's looking for a woman to be his queen. Make the woman become friends with each other, and I don't know. The culture doesn't mind monogamy.

[Anonymous No.16549810]

>>16549749
He could be attracted to them due to their status, their looks, their personalities, as well as their skills. He might even have to marry one to form a bond between her family/tribe to increase his own status or resources.

Prevent jealousy? As long as he treats them all fairly well, it should be fine. It depends on the cutlure within the world. He may have to choose which is his favourite, or whichever has the highest status to be his main squeeze.

[Anonymous No.16549824]

>>16549424
Star Wars EU

Seriouslly, though, depressing how this shit has monopolized science fantasy. Fuck Lucas

[Anonymous No.16549828]

>>16549749
>how do you handle the MC having the romantic attentions of multiple girls, and justify that attraction in the first place beyond looks and being nice to them/saving them, particularly in an Isekai story?

focus on the main character, why he'd end up in this situation and how he'd handle it. is he a douchebag who sees the girls in this world as NPCs he can romance? is he a more timid figure who is unused to female attention and isn't sure how to respond to it all? are the girls other isekai protagonists, who flock to him because his level-headness is uniquely suited to the situation? if they are just the normal inhabitants, does he have some skill or knowledge to offer the world that draws suitors to him?

[Anonymous No.16550048]

>>16549435
Might check this out. Seems like some people like it and some don't.
>>16549824
Star wars shit is maybe too much. There's probably million books from different authors, but thanks anyway.

Been reading the salvagers. It's fine. Then read the locked tomb previously, which i believe was the "book club" thing in these threads at some point. Second book was a mess though in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.16550115]

>>16549424
Red Rising kind of? Not in the sense that there's magic, but it's structured more like average fantasy, first book especially since they barely use technology in that one. I'd like more of this genre too but it seems pretty rare for some reason.

[Anonymous No.16550149]

>>16550115
Have read those. Pretty good books.

[Anonymous No.16550229]

Best novel heavily featuring ayyys? I've already read Blindsight

[Anonymous No.16550251]

>>16550229
>ayyys?
this is too much meme for me. explain?

[Anonymous No.16550335]

>>16550251
>ESL
>everything is a meme!
Lurk more and kill yourself, retarded faggot.

[Anonymous No.16550370]

>>16550251
I think he means aliens
>>16550229
not exactly lmao ayys or best but children of time had spiders in space. kinda unique setup. trying to fast forward to evolve apes but instead get spiders due to reasons

[Anonymous No.16550410]

whatever happened to birdboi, I haven’t been around in a few months

[Anonymous No.16550418]

pls can one of the girls in this thread join the discord and be my fren. i'm reading the expanse right now.

[Anonymous No.16550428]

>>16542362
Shame the books suck ass.

[Anonymous No.16550429]

>>16550335
eat my taint, fuckbrain

[Anonymous No.16550544]

>>16550410
dude's been gone for over a year anon. Not sure he's coming back

[Anony No.16550697]

>>16549749
He's a Chad with srs milimeters of bone

[Anonymous No.16550727]

>calibre shits itself and is unreadable
>Kindle PC only allows font/color modification for purchased books
gay

[Anony No.16550731]

>>16548326
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

[Anony No.16550754]

>>16548543
Logan's Run

[Anonymous No.16550774]

>>16550370
I will look at this, thank you brother, inshallah

[Anonymous No.16550833]

>>16550727
please don't use gay in that manner anon, it's derogatory and offensive.

[Anonymous No.16550862]

>>16550833
Fuck off faggot

[Anonymous No.16550890]

>>16550833
>this entire post
gay

[Anonymous No.16550904]

I am somewhat depressed and I need to escape, give me something to read, I have finished Battle Grounds not long ago, I need another book that will let me escape this.

[Anonymous No.16550911]

>>16550727
What exactly is the problem?

[Anonymous No.16550913]

>>16550727
>still spreading misinformation
I hope you suffer some accident in the near future that will prevent you from typing words over the internet.

[Anonymous No.16550916]

>>16550833
>You have lived long enough to see the faggots turn into moralfag speech censors

[Anonymous No.16550928]

Ender's game was good

[Anonymous No.16550949]

Blindsight was good

[Anonymous No.16550952]

>>16550913
PDFs lack the options presented within the toolbar (pic related) that any azw3 (I assume as these are the titles straight from Amazon) file has. Also, note the WHITE background and BLACK text that I absolutely cannot change at all.
If you're the one who recommended this weeks back then fuck you for lying about something so trivial. I still have to use Calibre even to convert filetypes.

[Anonymous No.16551001]

>>16550774
not the best thing ever but thought it was interesting read.
may allah prosper your life and bless your children

[Anonymous No.16551043]

>>16550952
pdf is a pretty shit format that is supposed to be "unediteable". which has not been true since the 90s.
.azw is amazons encrypted version of epub.
epub is the gold standard now for ebooks for a lot of reasons, its completely open source, royalty free and extensible.
at its core thing of epub as a zip file containing html files for the actual text, css style sheets for styling and font work, an xml file for metadata, a .toc file for indexing and images.
thats pretty much it. heres what an epub file looks like when opened with any software that can extract zip files for example. also heres the spec: https://www.w3.org/community/epub3/

pdf on the other hand is an antiquated shitstain of a relic that needs to be gotten rid of.

[Anonymous No.16551064]

>>16551043
I agree but the Kindle reader only allows for importing PDFs, aside from downloading any .azw file, hence my reliance upon and the relevance of PDF.

[Anonymous No.16551106]

>>16550904
Read the Cradle Series

[Anonymous No.16551114]

>>16550952
>ah yes, I read with a dark purple background and a #FFA2C2 font face because it's quite aesthetic and easy on the eyes
The absolute state.

You seem to be mistaking me for someone else. I would never recommend any software other than Calibre, Sigil and perhaps some OCR software for proper PDF->flowable text conversions.
Calibre conversions are only unreadable if you use it to transform difficult file formats, like PDF, DJVU, etc. PDF is an inferior format for fiction (and from the "Chapter 13" you're clearly reading fiction).
It's like blaming a laser color printer because a photo taken with a Motorola RAZR from 2005 looks like shit when printed in an A3 size paper.

[Anonymous No.16551173]

>>16551114
Nah, calibre started showing this out of nowhere, on an azw file, and I couldn't for the life of me manage to get it back to any readable form so I gave up on the entire program. I didn't consider conversion of certain file types since I've never had this problem before. Granted, I don't tend to read books on the computer either.
Some other titles seem to work fine on Calibre now that I've taken a look again so maybe it's hit or miss.

[Anonymous No.16551212]

>>16551106
>tfw still haven't touched Wintersteel and have heard nothing positive

[Anonymous No.16551235]

>>16551212
It’s good

[Anonymous No.16551254]

>>16551173
Yeah, I remember this. It still sounds just as dumb.
If it's an AZW3 you purchased and copied from the Kindle for PC program, you're retarded.

First rule of troubleshooting. If it's one azw3 and not every azw3, it's a problem with that ebook (unless it's DRM protected).
Go to its file location in the Calibre library, delete it, delete it from the Calibre list and re-add. Even if it's still fucked, convert to other formats (mobi, epub) and open those files instead of the AZW3, since you're going to be reading on a computer and not on a device that requires a specific file type.

[Anonymous No.16551260]

>>16551173
>I couldn't for the life of me manage to get it back to any readable form
did you try to delete the converted file, and then reconvert the original file? Because calibre doesn't delete the original when you convert.

[Anonymous No.16551306]

>>16550418
>fren
>>>/r9k/

[Anonymous No.16551317]

>>16551254
>If it's an AZW3 you purchased and copied from the Kindle for PC program
Nah. I purchased and downloaded the .azw3 through the website itself. :-) I've only been using the Kindle PC reader for a couple weeks.

>>16551254
>>16551260
I'm aware of these things now, full flushes and all. Yes, it seemed to be that one book only as other .azw3 titles didn't have an issue.

>>16551235
That's what people said about Uncrowned which was a half-finished mess.

[Anonymous No.16551417]

>>16551317
No uncrowned felt rushed and unfinished. Wintersteel was better. Not as good as Underlord, but a return to form.

[Anonymous No.16551420]

>>16551106
>the Cradle Series
I am looking at amazon preview and so far it seems ok

[Anonymous No.16551434]

>>16551317
Didn't read the whole thread but did you DeDRM ?

[Anonymous No.16551446]

>>16542885
Sanderson is very easy to read. Which is fortunate because his books are seldom short. Frequently they are very, very long. Especially the Stormlight Archive novels.

[Anonymous No.16551475]

>>16551434
Nah never been an issue but I'll consider it in the future if all else fails.

[Anonymous No.16551590]

Idiots who refuse to accept that they are idiots so that they can become less idiots.

[Anonymous No.16551614]

>>16542263
>The Deed of Paksenarrion
very comfy fantasy series that takes a hard turn when Paks gets gang raped by orcs and the spider cult after that i couldn't continue on and it feels really out of place, the rest of the series is pretty pg-13 child friendly. not opposed to that stuff, (2nd apocalypse is possibly my favorite fantasy series) but it just killed the series for me.

[Anonymous No.16551645]

>>16543287
Hwi

[Anonymous No.16551652]

Is zlib kill? It stopped loading for me tonight

[Anonymous No.16551671]

>>16551645
Hello, Leto II. Post tail.

[Anonymous No.16551688]

>>16545387
now read forever war, written in response to starship troopers but has become incredible red pilled as time has gone on. also written by a Vietnam vet

[Anonymous No.16551727]

>>16548337
2nd-ing >>16548583

[Anonymous No.16551778]

>>16550928
whole series is good, shame its gets over looked because 'lol what a twist' when most people are too stupid to understand instantaneous communication across space is impossible irl

[Anonymous No.16551877]

>>16550229
The Gods Themselves

Be warned the first third is incredibly tedious

[Anonymous No.16552001]

>>16547488
>>16547980
>>16547624
He's terrible at marketing. His entire reader base hates him imao.

[Anonymous No.16552053]

>book features a group who controls currency

[Anonymous No.16552097]

>>16551212
I'm halfway through Wintersteel and I'm probably going to drop the series altogether. It's true that it's not as bad as Uncrowned, but the too many character povs I don't give a shit about, Lindon still being weak, and the stupid romance just ruined the series for me.

[Anonymous No.16552129]

>>16552097
ya I heard the pacing was fucked too and overall, he seems to have doubled-down on implementing exactly what he was critiqued. not a surprise when you listen to reddit bootlickers
shameful although i disagree about lindon being weak

[Anonymous No.16552179]

>>16548583
>>16551727
Why would you troll the poor guy? He's just asking for actually decent recs, don't point him towards that garbage.

[Anonymous No.16552237]

>>16552129
I may have a been a little unfair calling him weak, but that's mostly because I'm still mad at the asspull that happened between his fight with Yerin (the asspull was even mentioned a few times in Wintersteel). That fight could have been the chance for Lindon to finally beat a worthy rival and become the real MC for the series, but no, I guess Will just wants Lindon to farm more creeps and points to get stronger instead of fighting strong enemies.

[Anonymous No.16552279]

>>16547471
Are they irrelevant? His family and homeland could be wiped out if he doesn't get stronger and stop the dread gods.

[Anonymous No.16552321]

>>16552237
The points sage disagrees.

[Anonymous No.16552374]

>>16551877
>What's next? Alien sex

[Anonymous No.16552396]

>>16541156
and you are a gril

[Anonymous No.16552427]

>>16546616
unicorns dont exist anon

[Anonymous No.16552432]

>>16547471
>too much talking about irrelevant things

Uh anon there aren’t any sabriel chapters in Wintersteel.

[Anonymous No.16552457]

>>16549418
The Red Book

[Anonymous No.16552478]

I just finished pic related this morning. Where do I go from here?

[Anonymous No.16552555]

>>16540612
how come people are so goddam horny for dragons but there is hardly any fiction of worh catering to this niche?

[Anonymous No.16552590]

So I finally finished the first Mistborn trilogy, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Sanderson. I dont get the hype about him at all. Tbh I would only recommend it to a person if the person was VERY new to the fantasy genre and even then, theres other work i'd rather introduce them to.

>A lot of 2d characters
>boring MAIN characters besides a selected few
>SHIT ROMANCE
>lackluster prose
>keeps mentioning the same shit over and over
He keeps fucking mentioning throughout the books "x ability does x shit". Or will use the same words over and over again to describe things. Does the man not have an editor?

>Boring overall story plot
I personally fucking hated the fact, that the final boss was some kind of cosmic entity/god, it felt like a villain with no personality other than "ME RUIN, ME DESTROY Thought I wont say he didnt foreshadow it. I just thought it was uninspired.

I will say I really digged the ending with Sazed finding out he was the Hero of Ages, it was very well foreshadowed amd the way he incorporated the religions thing to set everything right again in the world was 10/10 for me, after Sazed having talked about his studies for 3 straight books

I enjoyed the magic systems a lot and the world, and SOME of the characters as TenSoon, Sazed, Breeze.
But the things above really got on my nerves as I went along the series. I dont really understand how the series got all that praise man. To me its the equivalent of marvel movies - alot of style with little substance.

Does he get better by the next Mistborn books? Or is it the same from here on.

[Anonymous No.16552701]

>>16552590
I've said it before and I'll say it again, people like it because it's shounen

[Anonymous No.16552715]

This was memed a lot on /lit/ a few years back. Now you barely mention it in these threads. Does /lit/ hate it now?

[Anonymous No.16552725]

Do you think Lindon will fuck little blue in the future? I mean she's not so little anymore, and I've seen fairies less than a foot take off a whole dong.

[Anonymous No.16552744]

>>16549418
The great sleep.

>>16552555
Because you don't read. You can't look at publishing houses to scratch your itch. You need self published for that. I read so many dragon fucking books.

[Anonymous No.16552755]

>>16549418
The Rings of the Lord

[Anonymous No.16552758]

>>16551106
>Pussy gook loser squeals and gets his shit kicked in for seven books
Nah

[Anonymous No.16552761]

>>16552715
Lit and sffg are two different beasts who share the same glen.

[Anonymous No.16552770]

>>16552758
Apologize, kowtow 3 times, and kill your siblings and I might spare your life.

[Anonymous No.16552775]

>>16551106
You have been shilling your books here for years now, Will. We don't want to read your chinkshit garbage.

[Anonymous No.16552776]

>>16552725
London's dick is on a microscopic level

[Anonymous No.16552777]

>>16552725
Coomers begone. Being a coomer on a blue board should be bannable.

[Anonymous No.16552788]

>>16552770
This one apologizes for being a GOOK pussy who always fucking LOSES even though he has a GOD and a BLUE WATER SPRITE DYKE looking out for him and will not FUCK the sword bitch because he is a fucking PUSSY

[Anonymous No.16552822]

>>16552237
I always thought Yerin outclassed him from the beginning

[Anonymous No.16553003]

>>16552788
>has a GOD
Who is this god? The only supernatural thing looking out for Lindon right now is the blue spirit and mind construct.

[Anonymous No.16553010]

>>16552775
>the cradle shill is one person, the author
>that means all the Dresden Files discussion was Jim Butcher shitposting with himself

[Anonymous No.16553017]

>>16552777
kek. All the greatest literature have been coomer approved. Read more you christcuck purity faggot.

[Anonymous No.16553018]

>>16552775
>you have been shilling
He has his brother shill for him on his own sub. Not even exaggerating.

[Anonymous No.16553028]

>>16552822
In the beginning sure, but Lindon powerleveled through Ghostwater, acquired the should've-been-OP Dross, and trained under Akura's clan. Lindon could've won the fight against Yerin but asspull happened at the end of their fight and gave Yerin "a little bit energy" or some shit to beat Lindon. It was literally mentioned in Wintersteel that Lindon would've won if not for that.

[Anonymous No.16553116]

>>16553028
So they outright say Lindon would have won if it weren't for the Sword Icon? wew lad Will is a fucking child

[Anonymous No.16553161]

>>16553116
Here's the passage in it
>I can't speak to that. I can't comprehend the nature of Sage powers yet, but I doubt you would have beaten Lindon without them. You remember, when you tapped into that power to kill Lindon. I mean beat him.

[Anonymous No.16553184]

>>16553161
big ol fucking yikes right there
welp wintersteel is officially in the pile o' trash that I'll get around to someday

[Anonymous No.16553229]

>>16553010
>the cradle shill is one person, the author
Yes
>that means all the Dresden Files discussion was Jim Butcher shitposting with himself
No, you utter mongoloid
>>16553018
Kek. I believe it

[Anonymous No.16553269]

>>16547032
Yes but even more mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.16553272]

>>16545844
>>16545901
>>16545906
>>16546522
>>16546534


It doesn't come down to story. The story of Star Wars, for example, could not work on the merits of its story alone. In fact, the story is kind of dumb and nonsensical without the amazing setting its placed in. Without the setting in this galactic empire, Star Wars is about an orphan that kills his dad. The facts of the story are uncompelling. What lesson is there to be learned? What great message is conveyed here? Nothing, without the setting.

The setting creates the plot, just as in real life.

[Anonymous No.16553306]

>>16553272
>The setting creates the plot
It really doesn't.

[Anonymous No.16553380]

>>16553306
Take any great story and strip it of its plot. See if it still works. Could Moby Dick make sense if its told in the modern day? And not at sea, but in the middle of a crowded city?

[Anonymous No.16553393]

Star Wars is a gatekeeper of better sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.16553399]

Who let in the fag wars trekky cunts?

[Anonymous No.16553420]

>>16549411
>grimdark
I asume you've already read whatever interested you from black library?

[Anonymous No.16553439]

>>16553380
Certainly, with the right author.

[Anonymous No.16553455]

>>16553272
If your measure is Star Wars, good luck.

[Anonymous No.16553506]

When will cradle get lewd?
Will Lindon fuck blue, ruby, yerin, mercy, or grace?

[Anonymous No.16553521]

>characters lift

[Anonymous No.16553531]

>>16553506
>Ruby
>Grace
I see you haven't read Wintersteel.

[Anonymous No.16553594]

>>16553506
>ruby
>grace
Wintersteel backlog anon, I....

[Anonymous No.16553726]

>>16552715
It's still one of the greatest books of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.16553735]

>>16553521
Wtf are you reading?

[Anonymous No.16553761]

/sffg/, I poorly planned my third act and literally nothing any of the characters are doing makes sense

[Anonymous No.16553796]

holy shit there are black people in Harry Potter, guys?
i had not realized that none appear
all races except blacks... and maybe latinos too

[Anonymous No.16553869]

>>16543467
>IN THE LATE 1990s and early 2000s, millennials in the United States were tweens and teens, and the Harry Potter phenomenon hit hard. There was nothing so comforting in the face of overseas wars and 9/11 as a bit of Blairite neoliberalism from abroad: the British school novel wrapped up with a bow, minus the unhappy homosexuals. Thanks to a combination of J. K. Rowling’s transphobia and homophobia, broadcast on Twitter, as well as the series’s own questionable choices (such as a race of enslaved serving elves), enthusiasm for the franchise is waning, not least among the highbrow literary-critical set, who arguably never really rated the series anyway — at least until forced to by concessions to both the market and a grating, unavoidable pervasiveness. In the wake of the Wizarding World’s decline, however, a new fantasy release from Britain promises to raise important questions about the political exoskeleton of the fantasy genre, its historical connotations as import, and where American expectations for it lie.
>A new British fantasy novel, Mordew by Alex Pheby, promises to reignite the transatlantic leftist fantasy imaginary, departing from midcentury predecessors in tone and political aim, but not in magisterial literary work and inventive quality. More Gormenghast than Lord of the Rings, and indeed with a Peakean second sense for crumbling architectonic and fleshly horrors alike, Mordew is a book with a map in the front that doesn’t reinscribe the hierarchies innate to the Lewis-Tolkien legacy in import fantasy and its perceived “Englishness.” In an opening that feels eerily prescient, young Nathan Treeves faces pressure as his father dies of a lung disease that primarily affects the working class. On the outskirts of a glittering urban core to which he has little access, Nathan’s father coughs up lungworms in vividly material Dickensian poverty, “a writhing black mass of them, hundreds, glistening in there.”

[Anonymous No.16553871]

So, sfanon, I finished Alistair Reynolds' Revelation Space books. I loved the wordbuilding, the how detailed the universe in them was. Of course, Absolution Gap ended idiotically, but overall, I liked those books, especially Chasm City. What would you recommend? I've read all Peter Hamilton's and Vernor Vinge's stuff, and I'm thinking about diving into Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time.

[Anonymous No.16553872]

>>16553531
>>16553594
Is he starting to kill off people?

[Anonymous No.16553877]

>>16553796
Read the books again, faggot.

[Anonymous No.16553906]

>>16553871
xeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.16553917]

>>16553869
>Homophobia
When did Rowling say anything about the buggerers?

[Anonymous No.16553920]

>>16553869
>Peakean
>Gormenghast
>Lord of the Rings
>Lewis-Tolkien
>minus the unhappy homosexuals.
>transphobia and homophobia
All I see here is that they are going to make a pro faggot book with shit from Lewis and Tolkien. The world has enough copycats from those shit authors, and no one wants to have a gormenghast-like book putting them to sleep.

[Anonymous No.16553924]

>>16553877
:(

[Anonymous No.16553954]

you know, I just realized that because of J.K. Rowling tanking her franchise, my story about how books like Harry Potter set unrealistic yearnings for one's own importance is going to be a lot less profound in like 10 years when nobody remembers what harry potter is

[Anonymous No.16553961]

>>16553954
yeah right, girls who read harry potter will be a new breed of cat mom

[Anonymous No.16554198]

When is the next cradle book?

[Anonymous No.16554216]

>>16551106
This one apologises.

[Anonymous No.16554223]

>>16553869
>Oh, so it's highly imaginative and with a youth public in mind, pretty interest-
>>muh leftist British imports
>o-okay, but surely it's just fantasy, right?
>>Nathan has two choices: he can “black his eyes” and engage in sex work like his mother, selling himself on the streets of the city
>eh...
>>The descriptions of leather and meat in the book are stomach-turning, not to mention the portrayal of corpses and sewers.
I get bringing Tolkien and CS Lewis, even Peake, but what the fuck does Harry Potter have to do with anything lmao

[Anonymous No.16554230]

>>16553393
It's barely even sci-fi at all.

[Anonymous No.16554236]

>>16551212
It's up there with Ghostwater and Underlord imo, I thought it was really good

[Anonymous No.16554266]

>>16552179
filtered

[Anonymous No.16554655]

>>16553272
Star Wars is as shit as your reasoning

[Anonymous No.16554678]

>>16553017
But we're not discussing great literature here, we're discussing genre fiction. Also, provide examples of said 'great literature', outside of the XX century degeneracy most of which hasn't stood the test of time yet and remains 'famous' only because it's continually forced by likeminded degenerates in academia.

[Anonymous No.16554693]

>>16553399
Implying weebs and bootleg xianxiaboos are any better. Dont flatter yourself, gookaboos.

[Anonymous No.16554702]

>>16553761
Go to the writing thread, this is shitposting general, no one will help you here

[Anonymous No.16554713]

The Jhereg series. YW.

[Anonymous No.16554865]

>>16554678
Gilgamesh features a dude being sent a whore, fucking this chick for a week, and feeling his legs becoming heavier from this activity. A goddess wants to mate with Gilga and he rejects her. A vengeance attempt follows with a 'heavenly bull' loosed upon earth. In some translations of the myth, the heroes cut the cock and testicles off the bull and throw it in the goddess' face.
There's a ton of lewd base stuff in Arabian Nights.
In Japan, The life of an Amorous Man and a bunch of glorified prostitutes (or wives) wrote poetry and even the first "modern novel".
There's a bunch of sex in Emile Zola. Marquis de Sade, well, the French in general. Venus in Furs. Etc.

(coomer is taken as a wider term.)

[Anonymous No.16554878]

>>16554865
Forgot to mention a French (actually Uruguayan) who wrote about turning into a shark and raping some whales or forcing a bulldog to fuck a woman, so... It's not like fantasy and coom don't mix.

[Anonymous No.16554880]

>>16554865
>Gilgamesh features a dude being sent a whore, fucking this chick for a week
you forgot the part where he fucks literally every wife in Urk so the husbands are so enraged that they work harder and faster.

[Anonymous No.16554887]

>>16554878
>who wrote about turning into a shark and raping some whales
when I was sixteen, I had a dream where I was taken into an underwater palace and got gang-raped by dolphins and sharks in the throne room.
The memory of me sobbing in my dream still turns me on a little bit.

[Anonymous No.16554974]

>>16554230
Exactly. People watch it then think it's the end-all, be-all and never dip their toe into the pool of actual sci-fi.

[Anonymous No.16555002]

>>16553871
>read all Peter Hamilton's
I just hope you didn't read Salvation?

[Anonymous No.16555031]

Is there a more terrifying depiction of hell in the history of literature

[Anonymous No.16555094]

>>16555031
what type of stuff happens in his depiction of hell? what type of creatures and environment?

[Anonymous No.16555150]

>>16555094
a pretentious rip-off of Berserk with some inane excuse for 'philosophy of mind' thrown in to justify all the cuckolding and rape

[Anonymous No.16555475]

>>16555150
Not everything rips of Japanese stuff like you seem to think since that's the only stuff you know.

[Anonymous No.16555503]

>>16543501
Sure is furry. I'll check it out.
>>16545032
It's real, these anons are trying to herd others into their more /pol/ discords. Of course those are intolerable spaces where everything you bring up ultimately gets thrown back to the topic of nigger hating. What fun.

[Anonymous No.16555538]

>>16555503
Sorry, you've lost the moral high ground by using the N-Word.

[Anonymous No.16555569]

>>16555031
in my diary desu desu

[Anonymous No.16555774]

>>16555475
>Not everything rips of Japanese stuff
But cuker does.
>that's the only stuff you know
Projecting much?

[Anonymous No.16555842]

I used to love fantasy books back when I was a teenager. I remember reading The Wheel of Time and just losing myself in it. But when I try to pick up one now I just get fatigued. Like I read some name like Qushmurghtoo and I just want to stop reading it. LotR still feels "real" to me, like it bridges the suspension of disbelief, but nothing else does.

[Anonymous No.16555861]

>>16555031
No

[Anonymous No.16555880]

>>16555538
>moral high ground
I just want to talk about stuff other than how much the discord runners hate women and everyone swarthier than a German. Moral high ground never came into it, the discord literally serves no purpose other than a /pol/ recruiting ground with a few NEETs larping as writers.

[Anonymous No.16555892]

>>16555880
There's a lot more in-depth book discussion there than there.

[Anonymous No.16556060]

>>16554198
In a year, probably, since Wintersteel just came out. Maybe less, since cradle is his only active series now.

[Anonymous No.16556084]

>>16556060
That which makes the money gets the attention.

[Anonymous No.16556105]

>>16556060
He's discussed a 6mo/book cycle before, in regards to Uncrowned being the way it was when discussing opportune advertisement/relevancy and profit.
He finished one of his other series but he still has the Traveler series whenever he goes back to it.

[Anonymous No.16556114]

Cradle will continue until he has another series to support him financially. If that never happens, expect Cradle to be a lifelong series.

[Anonymous No.16556319]

>>16553003
The one that literally brought him back to life

[Anonymous No.16556330]

>>16553506
London is so pathetic he doesn't even have a cock, just smooth flesh like a barbie doll

[Anonymous No.16556479]

>>16543896
Personally I skip sex scenes, if I want fucking ill read smut. Don't listen to the degenerates, not everyone reads a book to get to a sex scene.

[Anonymous No.16556537]

Finally this shit thread is dead!

[Anonymous No.16556779]

I'll make the next thread in a little while.

[Anonymous No.16556870]

>>16540612
Holy shit reading Way of Kings and these Shallan chapters are so fucking droll. One minute I'm intrigued by Kalladan's shit situation and the next I'm reading some boring as fuck Pride and Prejudice tier shit. Does her shit get better later?

[Anonymous No.16556892]

>>16556872
A new thread
>>16556872

[Anonymous No.16556904]

>>16556870
I wish Sanderson would make Shallan be kill. But he gives her MORE facetime in the later books.