/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.20594647]

Remember Reach Edition

Previous Thread:>>20587234

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[Anonymous No.20594655]

>>20594647
Wait are there actually any good game-related novels?

[Anonymous No.20594659]

>>20594647
Halo SUCKS!

[Anonymous No.20594664]

>>20594659
I almost imagined that this is /hg/ and Reach a Shit poster will post here.
Reach probably had a bad plot, like most action sci fi, but at least it was fun action wise.

[Anonymous No.20594674]

Cyberpunk is an amazing genre, Especially since the game Cyberpunk 2077 revolutionized the genre and reinvented it into a better and more sophisticated form. Johnny Silverhand rules, Corpo scum drools, and corpos are the biggest fools.

[Anonymous No.20594679]

>>20594659
>>20594664
I honestly think Reach should have followed Chief, as an adaption of the novel.
As it is, the characters in the campaign were pretty forgettable as were some of their mission objectives.
Gameplay was really good though.

[Anonymous No.20594686]

>>20594679
I don't know, I liked the characters even if they seemed like try hard action film characters that tried to imitate what competent super soldiers should look, act and sound like. As for forgettable, well, desu most of Halo is like that, outside of maybe the Flood and as you say, Halo is nice for its gameplay first, not the story.

[Anonymous No.20594755]

>>20594659
Delete this please anon

[Anonymous No.20594834]

Soo i read the 3 Dragonlance Chronicles books. And after that i jumped straight into The King Beyond The Gate by David Gemmell, with basically zero info about the books or the writer. (Legend was on one of the recommended lists but it was unavailable, so i'll have to get to that later)


... And holy shit was it good. It felt so fresh, and the story just rolled forward with a nice pace until the finish. So nice to actually read about big battles without them just being outright skipped (EVERY TIME), and no wasting of multiple pages or chapters on another village or city with something "eerily wrong with it". Definitely gonna read more of this mans books, probably gonna get some for myself too, instead of just borrowing them from the local library.

My only gripe is that at a few points i would have liked more descriptions on how a few characters looked, but even that was something that didn't bother me much later. The storytelling just worked.

And yeah, i gotta ask. Any other fantasy writers with the same type of "simplistic" style of storytelling? I've read Conan a bit but it has exactly a bit too much of those "mystic places" as locations for my liking.

[Anonymous No.20594903]

[Anonymous No.20594906]

[Anonymous No.20595067]

Now I'm reading ISSTH's pokemon arc

[Anonymous No.20595194]

>>20594655
The metro books are pretty good

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.20595257]

>>20594647
Speaking Bones, The Dandelion Dynasty #4 - Ken Liu (2022)

Now that I've finished the series, I can safely say that this is one of my all-time favorites. Each book never failed to delight in a new and exciting way. There were many times that I had slow down how quickly I was reading to better savor the experience, but the tension was difficult to resist. I didn't grow weary no matter how long I read. As I wrote about the first book in the series, and about a few other series, I'm unable to tell how much my enjoyment is because it's exactly what I personally enjoy and is probably the same for many others who have now read the entire series. Everything about this is far greater than the sum of its parts, which makes it difficult for me to point to any particular part that makes it truly great.

The advancement of technology through scientific endeavor has been marvelous. Every time a new technology was developed I was astounded by its ingenuity. It presented a wholly different way that technological progress may have been ordered than what it was for us. I didn't feel that the extended scenes that explain in detail were overly long or unneeded, but I can see how they could limit appeal.

The character drama was splendid. I greatly enjoyed every single perspective. There were times when it was ridiculous, but in the best way possible that had me ecstatic due to its audacity. At other times it was realistic in that it paid no heed to expectations of a fantasy series. There are no heroes, only narratives of heroism. Success is not guaranteed and death may come at any time to anyone.

There were many meaningful discussions that examined the relationship between the people, the organization of their societies, their material culture, and their systems of belief. All is approached with empathy and understanding. There's no praise or condemnation, as such valuations are for the reader to decide upon. Much of this series relies upon the reader to actively engage with the narrative and create their own meaning.

The ending was almost everything I could have wanted it to be. There were a few unresolved questions I still had, but almost anything can be better for personal preferences, but sometimes we may be wrong about what's for the best. The biggest surprise I had from this series was that there was a lot that I wanted and expected it to be, but that's not what I got. Instead, I was shown a better way and given what I didn't know that I wanted.

The two single sentences that explain the essence of the series are these:
"History has no plot, and kings do not follow character arcs."
"I want to tell a story that the people don't expect, a story of empathy that encompasses the world."

Rating: 5/5

[Anonymous No.20595353]

Hot garbage, simple as.

[Anonymous No.20595367]

MAGNA

[Anonymous No.20595380]

Halo sucks

[Anonymous No.20595406]

>>20594655
I read quite a few in elementary and middle school. The Eric Nylund Halo books were a standout (only the Nylund ones).
Only other one that I remember fondly was StarCraft Speed of Darkness.

Of course that's talking video games. There's quite a lot of good Warhammer and D&D books.

[Anonymous No.20595435]

>>20594655
They Crysis 2 book is good

[Anonymous No.20595527]

>>20594647
Reply to this post with which works you think should be a self-published cover book for the /sffg/ goodreads group for July. 4 can be shown each week for a total of 16. The criteria I used were overall popularity, how many and how it well it was rated it in the /sffg/ GR group, and what I already knew. In absence of suggested changes, it'll be as follows:

Week 1: Self-Published Fantasy Novels
Aching God
Beyond Redemption
Orconomics
Senlin Ascends

Week 2: Self-Published Progression Novels
Unsouled
A Thousand Li
Mage Errant
Sufficiently Advanced Magic

Week 3: Western Web Fiction
Defiance of the Fall
Mother of Learning
The Wandering Inn
Worm

Week 4: Eastern Web Fiction
A Will Eternal
Desolate Era
I Shall Seal The Heavens
The Lord of Mysteries

[Anonymous No.20595558]

>>20594647
Have you read any recent works that, despite being fawned over by usual online suspects, actually turned out to be legit decent?

[Anonymous No.20595563]

>>20594647
hold up, group started reading MULTIPLE books at the same time now?

[Anonymous No.20595564]

>>20594647
Reading The Mote In God's Eye now. 100 pages in and not sure how long I'll continue. Pretty weak uninteresting characters. I'll give it a little longer

[Anonymous No.20595574]

>>20595563
No, it serves a different purpose now because the previous one didn't work out.

[Anonymous No.20595589]

>>20595558
Is your pic related actually any good?

[Anonymous No.20595606]

You're all colossal fucking faggots and I hate you all.

[Anonymous No.20595610]

>>20595606
And that's just the tea sista wig boots

[Anonymous No.20595632]

Oh no no sisters. How will we cope?

[Anonymous No.20595643]

>>20595632
By avoiding posting about identity politics as you've done.

[Anonymous No.20595648]

>>20595632
>Dan Simmons is based
Fuck, now I feel obligated to read Hyperion.

[Anonymous No.20595656]

>>20595632
lol, what did he say?

[Anonymous No.20595664]

>>20595656
He's a pretty standard conservative as far as I know. He has the same beliefs as your grandad.

[TWI vol4 No.20595666]

>>20591773
yeah but my point is, since he realized that he should have let the fool go, just like he let go the other tentacle mage. but instead he went out of his way to stop and kill him, even though he liked him and was sympathetic to his plan/agenda.
given that, he has no right to cry about it afterward. it feels a bit stupid to do so imo.

>As for Rags and Toren, not sure which arcs you reference. Remember how long the story is, I need more data.
see my name.
that being said, i'm not really asking for spoilers so don't mind me. but their two arcs are pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.20595686]

>>20595558
my basketball-american

[Anonymous No.20595703]

Seveneves bros.. I'm starting to lose steam with this book. and I'm not even at the dreaded last third of the book.

[Anonymous No.20595768]

>>20595589
Not him but I read it when it was botm and liked it.

[Anonymous No.20595775]

>>20595703
Let go of the way you wanted it to go.

[Anonymous No.20595784]

>>20595656
he said a meanie weanie about heckin' based greta

[Anonymous No.20595796]

>>20594647
Halo Forerunner Saga

[Anonymous No.20595963]

>>20594363
I'm really liking it so far, it's delivering a LOT after so much set up, if it keeps like this I can easily put this as the best volume so far.
The super funny chapters at the beginning in Pallass, the defense of Liscor, the Selys mini arc, they've all been fantastic. The Laken banquet was good too, but not as satifying. I'm still waiting on the polemic part with him though, got me really wondering what's it gonna be about.

[Anonymous No.20596136]

read cradle

[Anonymous No.20596155]

>>20596136
did you draw that?

[Anonymous No.20596188]

>>20596155
yes

[Anonymous No.20596261]

Despite growing up an avid fan of the star wars movies/games, I've never given any of the novels/EU a try (besides reading an edgy book about some zombie plague infesting a prison ship, remember it being bretty gud as a kid).
Where do I start? My main interest is in Imperial warfare and actual frontline conflict (similar to what's depicted when Han gets drafted in Solo).
Would the Thrawn trilogy be the place to start for this? Want to learn more about the daily life and personal stories of Stormtroopers/Imperial special forces.

[Anonymous No.20596262]

>>20595257
What do you think about the fact that the prose is ugly and clunky?

[Anonymous No.20596267]

>>20596261
>thrawn
yerrr
also that stormtrooper horror book was bretty gud

[Anonymous No.20596276]

>>20596262
I think if that was one of my primary considerations then I wouldn't be reading much of any genre fiction in general.

[Anonymous No.20596280]

We we find out what the anomaly from Blindsight was really all about in Echopraxia?

[Anonymous No.20596294]

>>20595796
Not a good book...

[Anonymous No.20596312]

wtf bros, was expecting political intrique and alien worlds but got 60's era free love, sex cult shit instead

[Anonymous No.20596321]

>>20596312
Thanks, just downloaded it, deleting now.
Unless it's sex with aliens.

[Anonymous No.20596362]

Post incompetency

[Anonymous No.20596374]

>>20596321
Cuckoldry and wife swapping.

[Anonymous No.20596416]

>>20596374
Downloaded again just so I could delete it again.

[Anonymous No.20596562]

>>20595527
My vote goes for Unsouled, Worm, and The Lord of Mysteries, respectively. Haven't read anything for week 1 so I withhold judgement.

[Anonymous No.20596571]

>>20595527
Hmm, I guess I really ought to include some self-published SF as well. It can be 5 selections lasting 6 days instead.

Selection 2 - Self-Published Science Fiction
Odyssey One
The Martian
We Are Legion
Wool

[Anonymous No.20596580]

what does /sffg/ think of ursula k le guin?

[Anonymous No.20596581]

>>20596562
You seem to have misunderstood. Maybe I was unclear. I didn't expect any response so I already preselected all 4 choices. It isn't a vote for which of the 4 it should be, but rather the opportunity to say why those I picked are bad and wrong and they should be different.

[Anonymous No.20596593]

>>20596580
Possibly the best SFF female author and among the best overall.

[Anonymous No.20596598]

>>20596580
Great writer.

[Anonymous No.20596600]

>>20596580
Have you checked the archives?

[Anonymous No.20596601]

>>20594655
The Dark Elf Trilogy from what I remember. I tore through like a dozen of the Drizzt books in middleschool.

[Anonymous No.20596609]

I just started The Forever War last night. Can't believe he gets to cuddle with a /fit/ tomboy gf every night.

[Anonymous No.20596611]

>>20596609
Ha ha, just wait.

[Anonymous No.20596624]

>>20596601
I read the D&D/Forgotten Realms books a lot as an early teen too, but I don't remember them being especially good. According to a few anons a couple of threads ago, the Planescape novel is actually decent though.

[Anonymous No.20596625]

>>20596600
Only the current thread exists. There is no past or future, only the present. Even if they did exist, they do matter. All is ephemeral.

[Anonymous No.20596633]

>>20596611
I got to the part where they encountered the three legged things last night before I went to bed. I think I'm going to finish the rest of the book tonight.

The part with the girl in the crater and when the guy fell on his back and damaged his heat exchanger fins was incredibly tense for how short the chapters are. Can't believe we had extrasolar colonies in the 1990's and nobody told me.

[Anonymous No.20596650]

>>20596624
You're probably right, but I've read worse.

[Anonymous No.20596661]

>>20596580
Some of her work, like A Woman's Liberation, is insufferably pozzed. Most of her stuff is great though. Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favourite books.

[Anonymous No.20596696]

>>20596661
You have an odd sense of determining what is your meme word or not.

[Anonymous No.20596716]

>>20596136
NEED goth mommy Malice gf lads.

[Anonymous No.20596771]

>>20596600
Fuck off to whatever phpbboomer site you came from.

[Anonymous No.20596794]

>>20596771
>bawwwww why can't my newfag ass ask the same questions in every single thread?????

[Anonymous No.20596813]

Do you think that the guys who were writing sci-fi in the 60's and 70's that are still alive today are disappointed?
We're not even hurtling towards ready player one, at least they have cool VR, we're still smacking blocks around and vomiting when we move in game.
I don't think there's going to be a one world government either, not any time soon, especially not since that image where a guy in a UN helmet projects aliens to the sky and the 2 betas with their mouths open are pointing at the aliens.

[Anonymous No.20596860]

>>20596813
That hasn't changed current day writers from being putting their future settings so close to the present and still expecting so much.

[Anonymous No.20596919]

This is going to be a retarded question.
But do you guys get anything out of books like I, Robot, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Time Machine, 1984, 2001 A Space Odyssey, and Lovecraft?
I feel like it's so prevalent in our media that I don't need to read them, that I've already ambiently absorbed them.
But at the same time I know better because I read Treasure Island. I didn't even want to start it because I rush to hasty conclusions like, "What can I get out of this? They go to an island, find treasure and fight pirates, who cares?" But now I've read that book more than once.
I feel like I won't be awed when I read those books I mentioned. But I'm trying to sit here and build a library of things I should read and going through the /sffg/ images.

[Anonymous No.20596988]

>>20596919
Public perception of classical works is basically the "We have X at home" meme. Stop making excuses and go read the classics.

[Anonymous No.20597002]

jolenta booba glistening with sweat & severian pondering the aroma

[Anonymous No.20597025]

>>20596919
Keep in mind that the charts are just arbitrary selections by random individual anons.

That mindset is rather silly though.

[Anonymous No.20597066]

>>20596716
I haven't read Cradle, but Malice is the name of a Drow Ranger/Cleric ebin donutsteel NPC in the game of 5th edition D&D that I currently run.

[Anonymous No.20597071]

>>20597002
>he posted it again

[Anonymous No.20597115]

>>20596136
I started to because I thought it would be kino daoist-esque fantasy but it was just such "young adult" trash that I couldn't stand it and dropped it.

[Anonymous No.20597128]

>>20597066
Doesn't sound too far off. In Cradle she's an immortal sorceress tyrant who rules over half the continent with an iron fist and is fighting a forever war against a group of dragons that want to enslave humanity.

[Anonymous No.20597148]

Way of Kings is really good so far. 200 pages into hardback. Saw anons in the archive call it soulless and video game rpg level tier of exposition. Haven't had any instance of outright autism level of info dumping besides a small moment in the second prologue which has been the only combat scene ive had up to this point. Great high fantasy so far that doesn't feel tolkien/dnd. The struggles Kaladin and Shallan have been through so far have been great, loved the scenes. Looking forward to reading more later tonight.

[Anonymous No.20597154]

>>20596580
I've really only read The Lathe of Heaven all the way through and I enjoyed it thoroughly I recently started A Wizard of Earthsea and its inoffensive enough, pretty amateurish IMO but I haven't finished it so I'll withhold my judgment for now. She was a hardcore feminist which is cringe but she was also a based daoist so she's alright by me for the most part. I won't read any of her hardcore fem shit like left hand of darkness or whatever however.

[Anonymous No.20597163]

>>20596633
They're all gone now. Sad times, sad times..

[Anonymous No.20597171]

Question for people who have read the Wheel of Time. I am only in the middle of the second book and it looks like Rand is getting a love square thing going on. As a f/a/g I have an autistic hateboner for haremshit and my question is how prevalent is the that angle going to be in future books?

[Anonymous No.20597180]

Need something to listen to at work give me recommendations

[Anonymous No.20597181]

>>20595963
Volume 5 is where the real stuff starts, told you so. Btw, what do you mean by polemic part with Laken? The banquet might be the least memorable part of the volume, even though Fae were fire as fuck that night.

I recall one specific moment, around halfway through the volume 5, where after the climax of one of the arcs I was like, 'Damn, this is now fucking amazing, how much do I have left?' and then I saw I still have the entire volume 6 to read with a few V7 chapters. You will have not only that, but 7 and 8 as well. You cannot imagine how spoiled you are.

[Anonymous No.20597183]

Read the Lovecraft's biography, against the world, against life. Where should I start with him? Chronological order of the great texts or is there an entrance point more suitable to newcomers?

[Anonymous No.20597188]

>>20597171
>As a f/a/g I have an autistic hateboner for haremshit and my question is how prevalent is the that angle going to be in future books?
Extremely prevalent. Just know that Elayne is best girl, Aviendha is an animal, and Min is for faggots in denial.

[Anonymous No.20597198]

>>20597180
library at mount char

[Anonymous No.20597225]

>>20597198
Pitch it to me Pls

[Anonymous No.20597230]

>>20596919
I enjoyed 1984 for what it was, Lovecraft is generally shit across the board as far as I'm concerned because of muh "OH NOOOOOOO, I'M LITERALLY GOING MAD BECAUSE OF SOMETHING I SAAAAAAAW" and "IT WAS JUST TO HORRIBLE TO DESCRIBE BRO" and his brand of story has been done better by modern authors, check out Laird Barron if you want some decent cosmic horror.

I've tried to get through 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea two or three times by now but it's just.. uninteresting at most, it's supposed to take place UNDER WATER and I think they spend the majority of the novel on a fucking ISLAND.

All that being said, I've thoroughly enjoyed plenty of old timey sci-fi to be able to recommend them War of the Worlds is fine, I enjoyed Frankenstein but The Isle of Doctor Moreau is superior, Dracula is a fantastic read there's plenty of old sci-fi that while maybe "out of date" are nonetheless solid reads. There's much to be said in favor of the classics just pick the ones that seem interesting to you.

[Anonymous No.20597243]

>>20594647
What are you reading and what are you planning to read?

[Anonymous No.20597249]

>>20597171
I aint gonna lie to ya chief, the romance subplots only get more prevalent as the series goes on. If it's specifically the "will they won't they" aspect of the harem that annoys you I will say that goes away after a while. He dates all three at the same time.

[Anonymous No.20597253]

>>20597243
Wizard of Earthsea and I might break down and read Cradle idk

[Anonymous No.20597271]

>>20597188
>Elayne
You been smoking crack nigga? Elayne is absolute dogshit.

[Anonymous No.20597276]

>>20597188
>>20597249
All right thanks. I'll keep reading because I like the series so far, and try to plow through those parts.

>spoiler
Well at least RJ didn't pussy out so I give him that.

[Anonymous No.20597296]

I was forced to read Childhoods End in school and I fucking hated every minute of it but I went back years later and read it on my own as an adult and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Is this a thing?

[Anonymous No.20597302]

>>20597171
I am also a gay and fell in love with early-middle books Rand. Don’t believe the other anon btw, Elayne is shit and the only one deserving of late books Rand

[Anonymous No.20597317]

>most of Greg Egan's stories are self-published
there's hope for us yet selfpublishbros

[Anonymous No.20597326]

SFF novels with multiple layers and puzzles the reader has to figure out? Stuff like Gene Wolfe, 'Gnomon', 'House of Leaves', 'Dictionary of the Khazars', etc. Preferably stuff that does not rely on introducing dozens upon dozens of characters for complexity (e. g., Malazan, ASOIAF).

[Anonymous No.20597337]

Wheel of time sucks so much ass. It should be called women bitching

[Anonymous No.20597345]

>>20596988
Good point about X at home.
>>20597230
Good intel. I'm also glad you mentioned Frankenstein because that one feels exactly how I felt about Treasure Island.
>>20597025
I'm fine with that. I've relied on 4chan gestalt consensus for other things.

All in all I just need to get over the public perception and judging a book by it's cover (and title).
I just need to READ MORE and stop fucking browsing 4chan and being content watching YouTube.

[Anonymous No.20597361]

>>20597296
Yes. I did that with Wuthering Heights and Great Gatsby.
Both are fantastic. Gatsby is cool and Catherine in Wuthering Heights is the most furious I've ever seen a woman be for 2 whole pages and it's amazing.

[Anonymous No.20597368]

>>20597148
I don't think too many people have complaints about Way of Kings, it's the later books people really have issues with. Way of Kings' main issue is, as ever with Sanderson, just pacing.

[Anonymous No.20597382]

>>20597148
Its great except the third book drags

[Anonymous No.20597385]

>>20597181
A few threads ago a couple anons mentioned something about Laken having a somewhat controversial part in V5 and that they hoped that I'd be on the right side, but I don't think I've reached that spot yet.

[Anonymous No.20597406]

I HATE I DESPISE I LOATH fucking STAR WAR. Society abroad needs to SHUT the FUCK UP about FAGGOT ASS JEW WARS AHHHHHH!! it's fucking SHIT!

SHIIIIIIIIT!!!

[Anonymous No.20597408]

>>20597230
Just don't be one of these "people"

[Anonymous No.20597423]

>>20597408
...... The global IQ continues to plummet.

Neat.

[Anonymous No.20597427]

>>20597408
Women are fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.20597452]

>>20597408
>2010

[Anonymous No.20597457]

>>20597408
Women are the most metaphysically interesting creatures in existence, they're the only thing in the entire cosmos that makes me go "why did God create this?"

The universe is like a beautiful painting where everything has a place and everything seamlessly fits together and then taking up 20% of the total painting there's a magic seeing eye picture that makes your eyes hurt to look at, and the longer you look at it the worse and uglier things you see. I just want to ask the painter so badly, why did you do this?

[Anonymous No.20597468]

>>20597457
>G*d
>Create

Lmfao

[Anonymous No.20597492]

>>20597457
Do incels REALLY?

[Anonymous No.20597500]

>>20597457
>Gets rejected by his crush in middle school
>Like, why do women even HECKIN' EXIST bro?

Jesus fucking Christ...

[Anonymous No.20597530]

>>20596813
>no autokitchen
>no autodoc
>no levitating cars
>no space stations, moon bases, asteroid mining

>yes, social media, wokism, elon musk

I’d certainly be

[Anonymous No.20597536]

>>20597530
>What is the ISS

[Anonymous No.20597539]

>>20597317
>not picture of Greg Egan exists on the Internet
What is he hiding?

[Anonymous No.20597547]

>>20597317
That's wrong though. After the rights revert back to the author they sometime publish their works again in a new edition.

[Anonymous No.20597548]

>>20597457
>God created parasites that bore inside human eyeballs and lays eggs
>Muh hecking woman are God's sole mistake
Incels should be shot on sight.

[Anonymous No.20597553]

>>20597536
A glorified rusting tin can that can’t even house more than 7 people

[Anonymous No.20597560]

>>20597457
Holy fucking shit HAVE SEX lmao

[Anonymous No.20597561]

>book 2 of DCC
>finally learning who Ferdinand was
That entire sequence was fun.

[Anonymous No.20597564]

I get it he's insane but you dont gotta samefag gawd dayum

[Anonymous No.20597574]

>post more than three sentences long
>angry crossboarders come out of their hives and buzz in anger

[Anonymous No.20597582]

>Holy shit women r liek, heckin' BAD!

Shut the fuck up you limpwristed little faggot lol

[Anonymous No.20597588]

>>20597574
conclusive proof the destruction of these threads was a collaborative work of touchy troon schizos

[Anonymous No.20597594]

>>20597582
>>20597500
>>20597548
>heckin
Can your rebbit ass stop spamming shit? Maybe neck yourself? We don't give a fuck what that autist wrote and neither should you.

[Anonymous No.20597598]

>>20597588
>Not having an all-consuming hate boner for the opposite sex in anno domini 2022
>It's those heckin' TRANNIES maaan...

Literally mentally unstable as FUCK

[Anonymous No.20597599]

>>20597594
Confirmed triggered by a meme word

[Anonymous No.20597605]

>>20597539
He's just a boomer reveling on rebelling against big tech

[Anonymous No.20597639]

>Faggot posts wall of text cringe
>Gets called out for his schitzo babbling
>hahaha... s-stupid rebbit TROONS l-lol

Can't make this shit up...

[Anonymous No.20597652]

>>20596919
classical works have much better prose, even simple prose is miles above modern authors, nowadays it seems modern authors can only speak like urban youths or liberal trannies.

[Anonymous No.20597663]

>>20597599
>typing like a rebbitor is a meme word
>you caught me I was only pretending

[Anonymous No.20597672]

>>20597408
>old english
Why the fuck do people spout this bullshit? I hear it a lot about Tolkien as well, it's so hard cause muh old English. It's all perfectly modern English, those "people" are just borderline illiterate.

[Anonymous No.20597677]

>>20597639
>samefags three posts
>tries to pretend ythey aren't a butthurt female
>tries to pretend they aren't from rebbit
>tries to brush it under the rug after they are caught

[Anonymous No.20597685]

>>20597663
You got triggered. Please, continue to tell me about how I came from a website I've never used before, I'm sure you'll BTFO out of me based memelord.

[Anonymous No.20597690]

This conversation is going to end with the thread being deleted. Just as they planned.

[Anonymous No.20597699]

>>20596580
Didn't care for the Hainish books.

[Anonymous No.20597707]

>>20597690
Yes, all threads are eventually deleted. Very perceptive.. fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.20597716]

>>20597707
dumbfuck newfag playing stupid
just go back to whatever shithole you crawled out of

[Anonymous No.20597718]

[Anonymous No.20597731]

>>20597716
He's doing the old I was only pretending to be retarded routine because he got called out for being a schizo and the only way to deflect the shame is by telling himself it's all for the epic troll

[Anonymous No.20597750]

I'm like 30 chapters into Lord of the Mysteries and while there's some interesting stuff I don't feel totally invested into the story yet. Anons who've read it would you say I've seen enough to make up my mind or should I keep going?

[Anonymous No.20597772]

>>20597716
I've been here longer than you've been alive, faggot.

[Anonymous No.20597782]

>>20597772
lmao fucking loser spending all day & all your free time on a sioux buffalo hunting message board
and all you have to say for it is
>i trol u

[Anonymous No.20597790]

web 2.0 was a mistake

[Anonymous No.20597795]

>>20592858
>Travis Baldree on TikTok about Beware of Chicken! (v.redd.it)
thinkign of u

[Anonymous No.20597823]

>>20597782
>i trol u

I never said that. YOU said that. You PROJECTED that onto me you mindless meme spewing APE.

Shut the fuck up kid. We're all laughing at you for being a whiny, bitter little woman hating baby.

Cry more.

[Anonymous No.20597870]

>>20597385
Ah, a part so legendary its profound impact on community hasn't been challenged to this day. People still bitch about it.You are going to love it.

[Anonymous No.20597875]

>>20595558
Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson. It started a bit slow with some knitting. Then it picked up and I consider it to be the best Star Wars novel I've read at this point. I'd take it over the Darth Bane trilogy any day of the week.

[Anonymous No.20597881]

>>20597148
The Way of Kings + Words of Radiance is probably the best reading experience I've ever had, but I dropped the series at Oathbringer. Something about the way Sanderson tries to expand the plot and integrate the Cosmere irked me

[Anonymous No.20597898]

lmao gottem
fucking faggot probably doesn't even read

[Anonymous No.20597919]

>>20597795
Thanks babe. Tell him I hate him.

[Anonymous No.20597936]

>>20597881
I thought somebody turned my old Stormlight Archive comments into copypasta with added hyperbole. Honestly though I really do like those two books and dropped the series at Oathbringer too. It's a shame. I'll be rereading the first two books, but I've lost all interested in anything else from Sanderson.

[Anonymous No.20597941]

>>20597881
The fourth book is really good
1>4>2>3

[Anonymous No.20597949]

>>20597795
Literally WHO?

[Anonymous No.20597950]

You guys read any of this guys smut fantasy series'? They're surprisingly well written for smut.

[Anonymous No.20597958]

>>20593214
>That's few options when you're intent on excluding everything.
Thanks for making my point for me anon. There's not much epic fantasy to choose from that isn't deeply flawed in some way. Malazan is higher quality that most. It filters a lot of people and that's okay. You don't have to like every book series out there. Sour grapes and all that.

[Anonymous No.20597981]

>>20597950
I read at work for the most part so getting horny seems counterproductive.

[Anonymous No.20597993]

>>20597936
Have you read Warbreaker or The Emperor's Soul? They're pretty good standalone experiences. Warbreaker is practically required reading for later Stormlight, but it doesn't rely on anything itself.

[Anonymous No.20597997]

>>20594655
The early Halo novels are good
The Splinter Cell novels are solid
Doom novels are ludo
Resident Evil novels are fun

[Anonymous No.20598000]

>>20597950
>Mike Truk
What a pull for a pen name.

[Anonymous No.20598016]

>>20597594
Just report him instead of replying to him, you retard.

[Anonymous No.20598020]

>>20597950
What defines 'surprisingly well-written'? Because I've tried some smut fantasy stuff and Dante King is the only one who's even remotely readable and I still never wanna read past the first book of any of his insanely long series. Everything else feels practically paint-by-numbers.

[Anonymous No.20598035]

>>20597950
I've only read TTTT but it's up there in my top series list (not just smut)
It's surprisingly well written indeed, specially after the first book

[Anonymous No.20598049]

really enjoyed murderbot diaries: network effect, pretty easy going right up until the last quarter then shit got real
now the question is do i start on foundation with the list you niggas gave me, or continue with tltl 2

[Anonymous No.20598054]

>>20598049
>now the question is do i start on foundation with the list you niggas gave me, or continue with tltl 2
Can't you decide for yourself? You're going to read the books, not us.

[Anonymous No.20598056]

>>20598049
The series name is Terra Ignota.

[Anonymous No.20598058]

>>20597795
Can I get a quick rundown on Travis Baldtree?

[Anonymous No.20598063]

>>20598049
I thought the novel was relatively weaker. Should've stuck with the novella form. Though that may be the only one that's a novel. I hope you read the prior books on the series first.

[Anonymous No.20598067]

>>20598058
Use google to find the answer, and stop being such a lazy fuck.

[Anonymous No.20598072]

>>20598067
Nah.

[Anonymous No.20598085]

>>20598072
Then don't ask if you're not interested.

[Anonymous No.20598088]

>>20598054
not sure is why i'm asking; i checked out the first couple pages of caves of steel and i dunno what i was expecting so i switched to murderbot

>>20598056
yeah but you knew what i was talking about

>>20598063
of course bro, i think it was the only selfpub thing i sought out when it was first spammed here

[Anonymous No.20598096]

>>20598020
>What defines 'surprisingly well-written'?
A planned out story that doesn't drag shit out. Girls that don't just fall in love with mc's cock as soon as they meet and have actuall goals and characters arcs of their own. Male characters who are bros instead of just being fodder to show how cool the mc is.

[Anonymous No.20598098]

>>20598088
It was never self-published. Murderbot Diaries, and her previous works for decades, have been published by TOR, the largest by far publisher of SFF. If you mean from that chart, there's a lot that was wrong with it.

[Anonymous No.20598108]

>>20598035
The main character and setting really takes me out of it in this series and I couldn't get past the second book. It read like an edgy isekai to me.

[Anonymous No.20598110]

>>20598058
Baldree is a book narrator for Audible who rose to prominence after doing A Thousand Li (entry book to Wuxia/Cultivation in the West) and Cradle (arguably one of the better attempts at the progression fantasy genre). Because of these two major titles, any progression fantasy author that gets an audiobook deal chooses him to narrate it. This is solely for visibility on the author's part, but it's inevitably led to him narrating over 250 titles. He has no range for male or female voices. Every single male MC in every single title he reads has the same dickish inflection and NO emotional range.

He's a fucking hack, but he's failed upwards due to being the first guy to get in front of a trending genre. Enlightened by all the tripe he's had to speak aloud, he decided to write his own fantasy series called Legends and Lattes. Naturally, it blew up in the Reddit scene so he is rising to all new heights in popularity. I've reviewed a few series in audiobook format but his narration caused me to drop them all together. Can't disconnect my HATRED for him and still review objectively.

>>20598067
>>20598072
>>20598085
Had to get that off my chest, sorry boys.

[Anonymous No.20598113]

Is this any good?

[Anonymous No.20598115]

>>20598113
Read it and find out.

[Anonymous No.20598116]

>>20598110
Get over here, bro.

[Anonymous No.20598117]

>>20598113
If you want comfy repetition, then sure.

[Anonymous No.20598123]

>>20598110
Then maybe stop using audiobooks and just read the damn books.

[Anonymous No.20598132]

>>20598116
Kiss...?

>>20598123
Think I mentioned that in the post, friend. If you were less stand-offish maybe you wouldn't speed read so much?

[Anonymous No.20598136]

>>20598132
>Think I mentioned that in the post,
If you keep bitching about it, I doubt you did.

[Anonymous No.20598138]

>>20598132
I was going to hug you but now I'm regretting my decision.

[Anonymous No.20598144]

So no one else here has read this series?

[Anonymous No.20598149]

>>20598144
If you check the archive, you would know it’s been discuss before.

[Anonymous No.20598155]

>>20598144
I haven't seen anyone mention this series besides one random Booktuber

[Anonymous No.20598158]

>>20598144
Have you checked the archives? It's the first thing I do when I read a new book and want to talk about it with others.

[Anonymous No.20598166]

>>20598158
>>20598155
>>20598149
Not that anon
It doesn't release until Nov 2022 and it hasn't been mentioned here before. I checked.

[Anonymous No.20598167]

>reading old forum posts instead of having a discussion with other human beings where you share your own thoughts and ideas
I sure hope you guys don't do this.

[Anonymous No.20598179]

>>20598167
>implying the discussion is any higher quality and will give you the information you want

[Anonymous No.20598187]

>>20598138

[Anonymous No.20598190]

who is the most supreme Booktuber?

[Anonymous No.20598197]

>>20598187
Danmei Derangement Disorder

[Anonymous No.20598200]

>>20598179
You're right, god forbid we discuss books in this general. We retread old discussion topics and that would... be bad... for some reason? We clearly need to go back to shitflinging about the culture war and calling each other faggot.

[Anonymous No.20598206]

>>20597750
Finish the first book.

[Anonymous No.20598211]

>>20598167
Just look at the state of this thread, at this point, reading old forums posts would be better.

[Anonymous No.20598213]

>>20598200
It's more about how much the poster wants an answer or not.

[Anonymous No.20598217]

>>20598197
I feel so much better knowing there's a name for my illness. Is this what I get for checking out Scum Villain's Self-Saving System?

[Anonymous No.20598289]

>>20598149
Admittedly I don't come to these threads as often anymore since the Bakker schizos drove me off so I probably missed it. Just wanted to get /sffg/ on it since I wouldn't exactly call the series good, but there's something about it that keeps me coming back maybe it's just the unapologetic edge about it.

[Anonymous No.20598304]

>>20598096
I mean, that's a low bar, but I guess it's smut. Are they, like, decent stories disregarding the smut, or is it just "porn with a story that doesn't suck as much"?

[Anonymous No.20598321]

>>20598289
It looks like something, and I'm judging purely on the cover, that is written with a layer of ironic edginess that's thinly veiling a wedge of unironic edginess.

[Anonymous No.20598323]

>>20598289
>Admittedly I don't come to these threads as often anymore since the Bakker schizos drove me off so I probably missed it.
Just report them, jannies and mods have been cleaning up /sffg/ for a while now.

[Anonymous No.20598335]

>>20598304
Yeah you can skip the smut scenes and they'd work ad fantasy adventure series' one of them is about the mc and his companions who just happen to be females overthrowing a crime syndicate who rule over a city.