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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:02:51 2023 No.21799868 [Reply] [Original]

Grim and Dark Edition

Previous thread: >>21795040

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>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:03:30 2023 No.21799870 Sneed

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:23:17 2023 No.21799918 File: 24 KB, 313x500, 1677453007504575.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21799868 First for DAMN, he's good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:26:16 2023 No.21799922 >>21799918 Surely you're jesting

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:35:54 2023 No.21799940 Would you all Second Apocalypse Dark Fantasy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:36:50 2023 No.21799942 >>21799940 You mean would I Isekai there? Sure I'll go.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:52:00 2023 No.21799965 >>21799942 what about all the rape?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:53:30 2023 No.21799968 >>21799965 It's better than sitting at my computer all day.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:56:49 2023 No.21799972 File: 1.07 MB, 266x268, 1502376149501.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21799968 ok

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:03:36 2023 No.21799984 File: 404 KB, 1235x721, 1532017286084.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21799968 actually rapes feels even worse on your ass than that

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:14:53 2023 No.21800019 Would you read a fantasy pulp set in pre-colonial New Zealand? (Maori characters and lore)

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:16:16 2023 No.21800021 File: 478 KB, 594x710, saint george.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Make a novel of this and make the big bucks with the New York publishing houses.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:18:17 2023 No.21800025 Jesus Christ, thread already turned to shit

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:28:04 2023 No.21800053
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>begin the unholy consult
>prosha gives in to rape-cannibalism
> ___ing for (want of) __ing, etc etc
>ejaculation...rutting... (bakker's favorite words)
>sorwa gets laid
>gets gayed immediately afterwards
>mfw I'm not even a fifth into the book

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:46:35 2023 No.21800166 I love Bakker

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 09:30:28 2023 No.21800250 File: 734 KB, 1169x734, 1652683785447468.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gentleman, we did it!

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:10:36 2023 No.21800300

>>21800019
Yep. I think there is a really good space for different settings now and Polynesian cultures are cool. My friend told me Maoris had trench warfare pretty early on, but I need to find a source for that.
I wrote a horror story in the Philippines about my tribe's mythology/folklore, and it got accepted. It was really hard to find the voice for it since it's hard to know when I actually know anything about my own ancestors or not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:28:47 2023 No.21800348 >>21800300 I doubt they were the first to Invent digging a hole.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:29:15 2023 No.21800350

The Dragon Waiting has amazing ideas, but I just can't get behind the prose itself. The whole book is just dry so far. There's so much grand-scale plot occurring, but where's the heart? I'd rather read some Dunsany do-nothing story where he describes a misty glade for 2 pages, at least the passion is there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:31:01 2023 No.21800355 >>21800019 I thought about adapting some australian abo mythology, but apparently Dowling already did it well enough.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:33:23 2023 No.21800359

>>21800348
Fighting inside a trench wouldn't make much sense without cannons and muskets, anon.
>The final battle was at Ruapekapeka, the Bat’s Nest. Like Ōhaeawai, Ruapekapeka was a new type of pā, designed to counter bombardment. Late last century, historian James Belich made much of these artillery-proof pā, in which underground bunkers, communications tunnels and rifle pits replaced palisades and fighting towers as the key defensive measures.
>He credited northern Māori with inventing trench warfare. Perhaps. Māori had certainly adapted pā to suit the musket, but others dismissed Belich’s claim as baseless post-colonial revisionism.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/ruapekapeka

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:40:13 2023 No.21800375 >>21800359 romans did it first. not that maori took the idea from romans - they did figure it out on their own, which shows great adaptation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:49:39 2023 No.21800386 >>21800375 Uh... Romans didnt have guns, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:51:40 2023 No.21800391 >>21800386 I guess if we define it as anyone having dug a hole to stop being charged, attacked by projectiles or balistae, then they must have a trench warfare system...

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 11:42:08 2023 No.21800489 >>21800350 Yeah I didn’t like it too much but the alternate historical setting was cool. The guy just can’t write. But lost fantasy authors can’t so idk

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:05:33 2023 No.21800973
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can I get some fantasy recs for something like the following: ancient religions, esotericism, demons, forbidden horrors, gothic, dark.. something along those lines. Something Lovecraft-like but modern.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:07:44 2023 No.21800983 >>21800973 novels from Vamprire:The Dark Ages

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:11:42 2023 No.21800992 File: 514 KB, 1920x1080, 1639862132153.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's that time again. Post the >last book you read >current book you are reading >next book you plan to read

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:15:56 2023 No.21801007 >>21800992 >Last book I Shall Seal the Heavens 1 >current book No book but webnovel, Jackal among Snakes on royal road >next book Dunno maybe ISSTH 2

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:17:00 2023 No.21801011 >>21800973 Lord of Mysteries 1 and 2

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:26:54 2023 No.21801048 >>21800992 >last book you read Man in the high castle >current book you are reading The Name of the Wind >next book you plan to read I'll read anons book >>21798630 or pt2 of rothfuss book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 15:27:50 2023 No.21801052 >>21801048 Did anon post it? I'm interested too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:09:55 2023 No.21801176 >>21801007 you are not reading the patreon chapters on kemonoparty like a good goy, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:22:41 2023 No.21801225 >>21801176 I don't know what are you talking about, I'm just reading whatever is available on royal road.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:23:30 2023 No.21801226 File: 4 KB, 199x199, cbd5d0e9c114906c83522160472b7a8f.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21801225 its ok dude, just do it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:32:41 2023 No.21801250 >>21801052 Not that I know of, but I'm sure he'll do it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:47:42 2023 No.21801283 >>21800019 I already have.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:51:29 2023 No.21801289
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>>21800973
What do you mean by modern? Written by a modern author, or modern setting?
Because if you're looking for a medieval setting, then you've pretty much described pic related.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:51:55 2023 No.21801292 >>21800973 I haven't read any of the books so this might be a wrong rec, but maybe the the Isaiah Coleridge series by Laird Barron.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:52:24 2023 No.21801294 How shitty was fantasy in 2007 that Name of the Wind became popular?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:58:37 2023 No.21801311 >>21800973 Bakker, unironically

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 16:59:07 2023 No.21801312

>>21801294
>How shitty was fantasy in 2007 that Name of the Wind became popular?
Name of the Wind comes from the times when a classic story of a poor but capable young man was still mainstream. What do you think young men read? Stories of other young men overcoming difficulties and growing up. Then the market went to shit.

Not as if Name of the Wind was some great book, but it deftly distilled the classic fantasy tropes with a 'genius' protagonist. It's success is nothing surprising. If anything it's sad more books like that aren't allowed to be published these days.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:03:30 2023 No.21801323 >>21801294 Pretty bad. I think it got big because of a huge marketing campaign and was sold as Harry Potter for "adults" and caught the tail end of that craze. Readership was in decline at the time and the market was very conservative and stale.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:07:15 2023 No.21801330 >>21801289 >>21801311 Modern author, let's say 1980s and up. I have read Bakker twice. Truth shines.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:09:50 2023 No.21801338 >>21801312 Name of the wind has amazing prose

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:10:37 2023 No.21801340

I finished Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and although it has weak parts, I enjoyed it a ton overall.
Bad parts
>Entire chapters dedicated to mindnumbingly boring exposition on the science of Solaristics. I did not enjoy them at all. I'd argue you could skip 90% of those certain chapters (they were 3 IIRC) and you would miss nothing.
>The ending was not bad, but definitely not satisfying
Good parts
>Absolutely FANTASTIC athmosphere aboard the space station. Our protagonist arrives on a space spation and immediately you can tell something's wrong. It is littered with trash, the person he was supposed to meet was dead, the remaining two are obviously at their wits end and only offer cryptic replies to his questions.
>Psychological horror elements. Strange apparitions, people that should not be on the station, appear. Not being able to tell between dreams and reality. Is our protagonist going crazy or is something else at play? Fantastic scenes in that regard.
Sadly it began very, very strong and over time slowly but surely got weaker and weaker. Nontheless, it is a great book, I wouldn't have finished it otherwise.
After Solaris I am on the lookout for books with similar themes. Scifi books with (psychological) horror, maybe even philosophical themes. I recently finished the video game Signalis, which strongly falls into this category as well, I think I found a bit of a favorite of mine.

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Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:21:10 2023 No.21801368

>>21801312
I was still working through the classics at the time and wasn't really plugged in to contemporary publishing. I know the recession hit the book market hard and the Hugo fiasco was only the tail end of a growing issue, but not what was selling at the time. It's odd because Farseer showed that what young women want is stories about poor but capable young men.

>>21801338
It has moments but doesn't scream mega hit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:21:57 2023 No.21801370 >>21801338 ...What? Lmfao.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 17:25:20 2023 No.21801387 >>21801338 Where, exactly?

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:03:56 2023 No.21801500

>>21801387
Half an hour later Bast brought a bowl to his master’s room, reassuring himthat everything was well downstairs. Kote nodded and gave terseinstructions that he not be disturbed for the rest of the night.Closing the door behind himself, Bast’s expression was worried. Hestood at the top of the stairs for some time, trying to think of something hecould do.It is hard to say what troubled Bast so much. Kote didn’t seemnoticeably changed in any way. Except, perhaps, that he moved a littleslower, and whatever small spark the night’s activity had lit behind his eyeswas dimmer now. In fact, it could hardly be seen. In fact, it may not havebeen there at all.Kote sat in front of the fire and ate his meal mechanically, as if he weresimply finding a place inside himself to keep the food. After the last bite hesat staring into nothing, not remembering what he had eaten or what ittasted like.The fire snapped, making him blink and look around the room. Helooked down at his hands, one curled inside the other, resting in his lap.After a moment, he lifted and spread them, as if warming them by the fire.They were graceful, with long, delicate fingers. He watched them intently,as if expecting them to do something on their own. Then he lowered themto his lap, one hand lightly cupping the other, and returned to watching thefire. Expressionless, motionless, he sat until there was nothing left but greyash and dully glowing coals.

how do you not think it's good?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:06:47 2023 No.21801509 File: 41 KB, 502x444, 1679075898200771.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21801294 Gen x babby's first fantasy book, same reason why zoomers love sanderlad so much, because it literally is the first fantasy book they ever read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:13:58 2023 No.21801536 >>21801509 Gen X was 27-42 years in 2007.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:15:59 2023 No.21801540 >>21801536 Gen x don't read books, they read comic books and watch movies like high fidelity

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:16:07 2023 No.21801542

>>21801323
Yeah, the 00s didn't have a strong start. All I remember were series continuing from the 90s and stabs at urban fantasy. There were probably some highlights but it was pretty stale overall. I think one of the bestsellers was a book from the 80s that got a new edition.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:20:14 2023 No.21801561
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>>21801500
Have you never read a character experiencing a stunned, shellshock-like state after recanting their glory years while skirting around his own downfall? Here, I've got another good one for you from Wise Man's Fear:

After half an hour, not only was Vashet breathing harder, but she began to sweat a bit. I was still no sort of challenge to her, of course, but after days of humiliating nonchalance on her part, she was finally having to put forth a shred of effort to keep ahead of me.

So we continued to fight, and I noticed that - how Can I say this delicately? She smelled wonderful. Not like perfume or flowers or anything like that. She smelled like clean sweat and oiled metal and crushed grass from when I'd thrown her to the ground some time before. It was a good smell. She...

I can't describe this delicately, I suppose. What I mean to say is that she smelled like sex. Not as if she'd been having it, as if she was made of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:20:37 2023 No.21801563 >>21799868 I havent read many fantasy novels but i loved Tolkien, Gormenghast, Earthsea and even children books like Bartimaeus when i was younger. Do you guys think i would like The Wizard Knight?

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:25:37 2023 No.21801579

>>21801561
GIRLS SMELL SO GOOD, ANON!

>She shivered. “Let’s go in here.” She pointed to a small garden. “There’s more wind tonight than I thought.”

>I set down my lute case and shrugged out of my cloak. “Here, I’m fine.”

>Denna looked like she was going to object for a moment, then drew it around herself. “And you say you’re not a gentleman,” she chided.

>“I’m not,” I said. “I just know it will smell better after you’ve worn it."

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:33:16 2023 No.21801595 >>21801563 Probably. It's a weird read and life kept getting in the way of me getting very far into it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 18:39:48 2023 No.21801611 >>21801563 Sounds like Gene Wolfe should be right up your alley. He's not similar to those, but he's very good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:09:05 2023 No.21801668 >Zach and Ra'azel How far will Zach bruteforce the Framework before the first series ends?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:09:35 2023 No.21801671 File: 349 KB, 1281x1920, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone here read this? I need some books with mature women.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:16:19 2023 No.21801695 >>21801338 >>21801500 >>21801561 Rothfuss' prose doesn't get good until book 3

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:18:46 2023 No.21801702 >>21801671 >Neighbor's Damn, so close yet so far to incest kino Go to the granny thread on /gif/ >>24751133

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:19:48 2023 No.21801711 File: 83 KB, 800x1200, 1675861686366.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21801702 Fuck, >>>/gif/24751133 There

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:23:05 2023 No.21801721 >>21801509 >>21801536 Gen Xer here. I was an olfag 38 in 2007. My first fantasy books were Moomins, Pyle's Story of King Arthur, Narnia, Prydain, Dark is Rising. First adult fantasy was LotR then Pern, Elric.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:24:13 2023 No.21801728 File: 2.78 MB, 656x688, 1669502975941157.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21801561 What are some sff books with sweaty women? Asking for myself

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:30:37 2023 No.21801751 File: 29 KB, 678x452, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What kind of fantasy books are popular in Slavic countries? I heard The Black Company series by Glen Cook is quite popular in Russia, as well as LOTR.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:31:29 2023 No.21801753 >>21801721 >54 now Nice job on continuing living.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:40:28 2023 No.21801780

>>21801048
>>21801052
If you're that interested. Here's the first three chapters. I'm still in the process of editing.

Chapter 1
https://pasteio.com/x7Dn6Bo3nf93
Chapter 2
https://pasteio.com/xjSkhqwKCAfe
Chapter 3
https://pasteio.com/x3QEE5QWipDs

If you think something is stupid please by all means, let me know. It would be nice to get some feedback.

Blurb:
>Adah Phenric took a vow when she became a Knight of Valora. It was an oath required of every Knight blessed by the Goddess.

>All was well until she and her team were sent on a routine mission to hunt a monster. Things go awry and Adah finds herself to be the sole survivor. Unconvinced her comrades are dead, she ventures out into the world to uncover the reasons for their disappearance.

>Adah’s investigation leads her to uncover a larger mystery concerning the nature of the Goddess herself. Her mission soon leads her in conflict with a mysterious merchant. Monsters, mayhem, and the past threaten the stability of the world itself. Now Adah is forced to protect "all that threaten to burn world of Tymber."

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:43:02 2023 No.21801785 >>21801780 Where are you going to end up posting/publishing it?

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:44:22 2023 No.21801790
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>>21801751
>What kind of fantasy books are popular in Slavic countries?
The Last Ringebearer, unironically kino at times desu
It's a fan-fiction series of LotR officialy published in Russia during the time copyright didn't really apply there, it was then translated and sold in other slavic countries. Other than that, stuff like Sapkowski's The Witcher or his other book series.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:45:59 2023 No.21801795 >>21801721 >Moomins >Pern >Prydain Based oldfag

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:46:59 2023 No.21801798
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>>21801780
>>Adah Phenric took a vow when she became a Knight of Valora. It was an oath required of every Knight blessed by the Goddess.
>>All was well until she and her team were sent on a routine mission to hunt a monster. Things go awry and Adah finds herself to be the sole survivor. Unconvinced her comrades are dead, she ventures out into the world to uncover the reasons for their disappearance.
>>Adah’s investigation leads her to uncover a larger mystery concerning the nature of the Goddess herself. Her mission soon leads her in conflict with a mysterious merchant. Monsters, mayhem, and the past threaten the stability of the world itself. Now Adah is forced to protect "all that threaten to burn world of Tymber."
No offense, but the blurb is kinda bad. Speak it aloud. Just a bunch of cold statemenets. Is your book also written this way?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 19:59:31 2023 No.21801830 NEW BAKKER VID https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLa_Mw8YXU

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:03:44 2023 No.21801844

>>21800992
>Last book
Of Mice and Men. If only sff counts The Emperor's Legion (40k schlock kino).
>Current book
Dune, halfway through and it's a slog because Paul is a dreadfully dull character.
>Next book
I have someone pick from a list of books I need to read for my next book so don't know. I expect it will be Blood Meridian though.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:04:06 2023 No.21801845

>>21801798
You can take a look, I didn't even think of that. I'll rework the blurb.
>>21801785
No idea. I'm thinking Royal Road, but I want to finish it first then post it. Let people buy an entire version on Amazon if they like the first few chapters. My plan is to slowly release the chapters, 1 per week, for 35 weeks, but if you want to read the entire thing in advance, you can buy it on Amazon/Kindle.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:05:51 2023 No.21801850 Any good fantasy books that are available on kindle unlimited?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:06:40 2023 No.21801854 >>21801850 Cradle.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:09:30 2023 No.21801862
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How hard do you think it would be to draw up a map of the planet from the Lord of Light when there currently is no visual references of what it looks like, just what is written in the book?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:10:02 2023 No.21801863 File: 1.25 MB, 2700x1500, lord of the mysteries 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21800973

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:10:32 2023 No.21801869 >>21801854 ty bro

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:17:23 2023 No.21801898 >>21801862 It would be easy since you can make up a lot with so little canon references

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:17:52 2023 No.21801900 File: 397 KB, 1544x1049, thumb-1920-235048.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21800973 this post is reddit trash and so are you but I'll give you an honest reply anyway >God's Demon and The Heart of Hell - Wayne Barlowe

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:21:08 2023 No.21801910

>>21801751
The most popular literature in Russia is books about spetznaz operatives going back in time to change history so Russia conquers the world, there's thousands of these things and they are as schizoid as Chuck Tingle novels
Oh there's also this shit where Russians read LOTR and immediately identified themselves with Satan and orcs >>21801790 and rewrote it so that they're actually the good guys and all the westerners are evul capitalist imperialist pigdogs, which really goes to show the Russian spirit, such as it is

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:23:01 2023 No.21801916 >>21798560 Anyone read anything from this chart? I wanna try getting into litrpg

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:25:10 2023 No.21801921 >>21801780 Damnit... found some grammar issues in the first paragraph. This is why I can't ever release it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:25:22 2023 No.21801922 >>21801900 >this post is reddit trash Okay, explain to us why it's reddit trash. Go on. Put it into words.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:26:16 2023 No.21801929 >>21801921 You have lots of grammar issues 2bh

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:27:46 2023 No.21801934 >>21801790 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer this does sound kinda kino

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:28:20 2023 No.21801936 File: 183 KB, 840x968, 507-5077695_47kib-1000x994-chad1-chad-meme-face-hd-png.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21801922 Because I said so.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:28:26 2023 No.21801938 >>21801780 >she stopped reading there

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:28:56 2023 No.21801941 >>21801938 holy based

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:31:59 2023 No.21801959 >>21801921 run it through Grammarly.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:43:52 2023 No.21801998

>>21801916
Not all of them are litrpg, in fact most of them aren't. I don't even know why some of them are even listed on that chart. Anyway, out of those I've read I'd recommend:

Randidly Ghosthouse (litrpg / progression)
Mother of Learning (progression)
Paranoid Mage (n/a but it is quite good)
Defiance of the Fall (system apocalypse / progression)
Tower of Somnus (progression)
Beware of Chicken (isekai / progression)
Primal Hunter (system apocalypse / progression)

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:48:19 2023 No.21802009 >>21801998 >Randidly Ghosthound Why though? It's utterly nothing. Defiance of the Fall is also one I wouldn't recommend, but it at least has some positives to it. Tower of Somnus I enjoy conceptually, but in execution it's a mess.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:48:24 2023 No.21802011 File: 27 KB, 480x517, angry gun man 11.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >System apocalypse litrpg

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:51:01 2023 No.21802020
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/SFFG/ Recommendations:

Read Reverend Insanity, Lord of The Mysteries, Neuromancer, Hyperion, The Prince of Nothing

Also read The Wandering Inn, Between Two Fires, Mother of Learning, Cradle, I Shall Seal the Heavens, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Poppy War.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:52:28 2023 No.21802025 File: 1.90 MB, 660x1080, 1650968981352925.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21801936 I think you need to go back.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:56:01 2023 No.21802031 >>21802025 Tell me the video on teh TV is fake... someone turned those wojaks into a counting video?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:57:25 2023 No.21802036 >>21802031 it's real

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 20:59:23 2023 No.21802041 >>21802031 it's fake as fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:00:31 2023 No.21802045 File: 417 KB, 1487x2000, 1663210232950550.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Happy Bakkerday, lads. Post your rarest Bakker memes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:12:48 2023 No.21802076 >>21801283 Interesting. Post it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:14:12 2023 No.21802080 >>21800019 As long as it features cannibalism and slavery which permeated Maori culture before white missionaries told them it was bad.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:14:18 2023 No.21802081
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>>21801312
>young men overcoming difficulties and growing up.
Posting the superior version of poor farmboy turned into powercreep, it's better because he isn't a cuck and has a cool karen aunt.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:19:29 2023 No.21802096

>>21801387
>And then there was advanced sympathy with Elxa Dal. Out of class, Elxa Dal was charming, soft-spoken, and even a little ridiculous when the mood was on him. But when he taught, his personality strode back and forth between mad prophet and galley-slave drummer.
His prose is unobtrusive and descriptive. For fantasy, and modern fantasy in particular, that is a great plus. Unfortunately several of his characters, and some of the plot, is repulsive to read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:20:47 2023 No.21802100 >>21802081 All of Kvothe's sexy fun times pisses the whore off. I don't even know what to classify that kind of relationship as. Trauma buddies? She's written like a crazy ex girlfriend waiting to happen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:20:47 2023 No.21802101 >>21802009 Because anon said they want to get into litrpg and those are good introductions to the genre (or similar in style).

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:23:06 2023 No.21802103 >>21802081 Belgariad is based as fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:23:21 2023 No.21802104 >>21802009 >>21802101 Oh yeah, forgot to say everything else on that chart is worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:24:30 2023 No.21802108 >>21802101 >>21802104 I mean, fair, but there's better LitRPGs than those. Unbound is a better 'solid' one to recommend, and DCC is great, of course, though it's not really a 'standard' one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:25:21 2023 No.21802110 >>21802103 30 years ago it was every kids first introduction to fantasy. Not sure it has stood the test of time that well, especially after the truth about the author was discovered.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:30:31 2023 No.21802125 >>21802020 >I Shall Seal the Heavens coughs up blood

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:30:46 2023 No.21802126 >>21802110 I only read it for the first time like 2 years ago and it was one of the best series I've ever read

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:31:34 2023 No.21802133

>>21802108
Unbound is good though I think the MC is more of a Gary Sue than most in the genre, and that's saying something. Also the author is obsessed with the mechanism of levelling his character. Whole chapters on progressing or selecting a skill gets repetitive. Agreed about DCC but it's kind of the exception to them all.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:33:35 2023 No.21802140

I'm not adverse to some suffering and mise5in mybooks, but I've gotta know before I go any further. In Stormlight Archive should I expect every character to constantly get mindbroke over some tragedy or angst that could have easily been dealt with? I'm about 70% of the way through Oathbringer and it just keeps happening. Character makes some progress fighting their demons and then they either decide to act retardedly or something stupid happens out of nowhere and they lose whatever emotional ground they've gained.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:35:11 2023 No.21802145 >>21802096 I agree with you, anon. Rothfuss did write good prose. I think Jordan is underrated in that respect as well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:35:53 2023 No.21802150 >>21802126 Well it is an easy read and very straight forward. It's the antithesis to something like Game of Thrones and a lot of modern fantasy. The good guys are good, they bad guys are bad, there is no shades of grey.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:37:55 2023 No.21802154 >point out grammatical mistake to author >he doubles down and does it even more

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:39:07 2023 No.21802159

>>21802150
that's not entirely true, same way with the Sparhawk series, but it was just honest and genuine adventures, something with a point, not bland mindless Machiavellian politicking and violence for its own sake or worse, a shaggy dog story
it also achieves one of those things it seems very few people these days are able to grasp - it has a FUCKING ENDING

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:41:42 2023 No.21802168 >>21802159 > it has a FUCKING ENDING It did but then it was a success and Eddings wrote the Mallorean sequel to cash in. Fucker didn't even change the plot, he literally cut and paste everything from the first series.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:42:23 2023 No.21802172 >>21802159 >a shaggy dog story 80s "deconstruction" was really bad about that and the current trend is even worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:43:40 2023 No.21802180 >>21802125 >I Shall Seal the Heavens Bashful smile

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:44:49 2023 No.21802186

>>21801845
>My plan is to slowly release the chapters, 1 per week, for 35 weeks
Wroooooooooooooooooong. You should look the most optimal upload tactics, iirc you are supposed to upload several chapters at first, then one every few days or a week, but I gaming the algorithm is important. I think stories get to trending only after a month or so unless you are already famous or get a lot of recommendations from other authors.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:46:33 2023 No.21802195
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Any decent fantasy booktubers? Only one I know is pic related. Every other fantasy reviewer on YouTube almost exclusively reviews shit YA, and maybe the 'new' Tolkien every now and then

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Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:48:30 2023 No.21802206

>>21801780
I did a read aloud using an app and to be honest, chapter 2 and 3 is very interesting. Chapter 1 however, is pretty shit. You need to edit chapter 1. Also stop saying the same shit in different chapters. Lore build only once. If someone speedreads too bad. We already get it after the first time, no need to spoonfeed us the other 4 times.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:48:39 2023 No.21802207 File: 3.74 MB, 4032x3024, 28663FC4-1F08-40AE-BB35-4BE5DCB8A1D7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21799868 I got this book for 10 bucks from Goodwill. Is it good?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:51:06 2023 No.21802216 >>21802207 how the hell do you spend 10 on a single item at good will? should cost 99 cents

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:51:15 2023 No.21802217 >>21802076 https://whetstonemag.blogspot.com/p/issues.html Issue 1. Kauahoa and the Tattooed Bandit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:54:31 2023 No.21802223 >>21802207 Unfortunately you got the bad edition that was misprinted sideways

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:55:29 2023 No.21802229
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>>21801916
>I wanna try getting into litrpg

Dungeon Crawler Carl
Never Die Twice
Vainqueur the Dragon
Life Reset
The Wandering Inn (optionally Gravesong, a spin-off normal-sized novel from TWI that should give you some understanding how the writting looks like before you start reading the big story) [Also,Gravesong should be downloaded from libgen or zlibrary, the author took a stupid deal to have it released on stupid app]
Monsters and Legends (Infinite Realm #1)
The Primal Hunter
Defiance of the Fall

I recommend those few to get a taste. Choose any you like, but Dungeon Crawler Carl is considered the best story in a classical sense, Never Die Twice or Gravesong are self-contained books that don't make you commit to a series.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:57:35 2023 No.21802236 File: 33 KB, 640x348, meng hao.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802180 What a cute and helpless cultivator! It's obvious even though he's standing on a mountain of corpses and covered in blood I can steal from him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:58:35 2023 No.21802238 >>21802080 Sounds like a Conan story.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 21:59:00 2023 No.21802239 >>21802229 >pirateaba No thanks. I read Wandering Inn Volume One when it was professionally published a few years ago, and swore to never read anything else by her.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:00:27 2023 No.21802243 >>21802239 >her

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:00:51 2023 No.21802246 >>21802045 Bakker fags, Tell me about his second apocalypse magic. Is it shooty-pew-pew light beams? Is it yelling at the sky to summon bolts of lightning? Is it more subtle?

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:01:57 2023 No.21802250
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>>21802159
>bland mindless Machiavellian politicking and
WHY IS MODERN FANTASY SO OBSESSED WITH THIS? I want dragons, Magic battles, cool sword fights and people talking about honor and justice not a group of white women and fat men being passive-aggressive for 800+ pages

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:02:38 2023 No.21802252

>>21802229
>tfw seeing Carl burn it all to the fucking ground is one of the very few book anythings I'm looking forward to
It frustrates me how Infinite Realm author has 20+ novels now worth of book material and still cannot follow basic sentence structure. The run-ons; oh man I don't know if it's some meta mind attack on the reader but it's working.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:02:52 2023 No.21802254 >>21802168 Malloreon is the ending though, Belgariad clearly set it up in the fifth book when the emperor kidnaps Ce'nedra and Polgara and sends them to Torak's shithole temple

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:03:27 2023 No.21802259
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>>21802246
There's a philosophical aspect to it. Most of it, I mean. But it's deeply related to the Soul and did not originate with humanity.

There are many more subtleties to it, but you would honestly have to read it to find out.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:03:27 2023 No.21802258

>>21802243
It has to be a woman author. Look how the book is written with so many girl powah characters. And when the Inn girl fucks up and gets people killed, she blames everyone else than her for her problems and accepts zero responsibility. A man can't write real women.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:04:22 2023 No.21802261 >>21802246 It's implied to be extremely tied to the world's metaphysics in a very scholarly fashion, but (at least in the first trilogy) is kept rather arcane and esoteric to the reader, in terms of the mechanism of its action at least.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:04:30 2023 No.21802262 >>21802217 Saved. Its actually Hawaian but I skimmed it and it seems like a fun read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:04:54 2023 No.21802267 >>21802168 That nigger just cut and paste the same book over and over within the Belgariad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:05:40 2023 No.21802271 >>21802252 Infinite Realm is like the worst-written book from a technical standpoint that I still enjoy reading because it's clear the author has a genuine passion for what he's doing, even if he's not great at actually writing.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:06:01 2023 No.21802272

>>21802250
I should say I'm not against Machiavellian plotting, it's extremely enjoyable especially when done right, but only in service to a larger overarching story. Petty political catfights that exist purely for their own sake (I'm looking at you Chronicles of Amber you shitty fucking piece of trash) and don't serve any broader narrative purpose is no different than mindless action shooting galleries. If I wanted that, I'd go to pixiv and wank to ryona, because it'd serve the same masturbatory purpose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:06:14 2023 No.21802274 >>21802254 The Mallorean is a 90% skippable cash grab

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:07:15 2023 No.21802281 File: 609 KB, 2190x1872, boxxy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21801916 >I wanna try getting into litrpg Everybody Loves Large Chests is kino

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:07:22 2023 No.21802282 >>21802274 very cringe and bluepilled opinion tbdesu, it literally has the most perfect ending of all time, even better than Return of the Jedi

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:08:03 2023 No.21802287 File: 89 KB, 792x792, 1651588050491509.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802259 We never got an explanation on how THAT Skin Spy got a soul in the first place.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:09:11 2023 No.21802293

>>21802229
A rough but very interesting one I'd recommend as well is Path of Ascension. It's a bit different from the rest in that it is, by its own admission, actually just a xianxia in a LitRPG coat, but it has probably some of the most intriguing worldbuilding of the genre.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:11:11 2023 No.21802299 >>21802250 Politicing is fine but 99% of the authors writing it can't do it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:11:58 2023 No.21802301 >>21802229 surprised there is no HWFwM . A lot of people are into that. good list but it's missing dungeon core stories.

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Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:13:07 2023 No.21802307

>>21802195
>https://youtube.com/@thelibraryladder/featured
I fucking hate booktubers with a burning passion but libraryladder boomer is cool, his videos feel like talking to an owner of an used bookstore. His Review of Thomas Covenant is great and the only reviewer i ever saw that actually understands that the whole story is just an allegory to mental illness.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:17:50 2023 No.21802319 >>21802299 Ye, it feels like PTA moms fighting with each other most of the time.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:18:02 2023 No.21802320

>>21801340
>Entire chapters dedicated to mindnumbingly boring exposition on the science of Solaristics.
That's the best part.
>>21801340
>Is our protagonist going crazy or is something else at play?
It's not really a horror novel. The events are psychologically traumatizing, due to the nature of the clones, but it's clear what's going on.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:20:02 2023 No.21802326 Hot take: Harry Potter is not good but it is still much better than most shit anons shill here, including "classics" like Asimov.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:21:00 2023 No.21802328 >>21802271 Heh that's about exactly how I feel. I do dislike how he's yet another "writes multiple series at once" author but it's clear he has so many ideas he wants to put out there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:21:51 2023 No.21802330 >>21802326 >Asimov >Classic Asimov is cringe, Heinlein is the real scifi Golden age grandmaster

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:24:10 2023 No.21802334

>>21802301
HWFWM I'd rate as slightly above DotF, just because while both kind of devolve as time goes on, HWFWM at least feels like it's about something, and Jason is at least a character, whereas in DotF, it's just sort of 'events happening' and Zac is... Just not a character.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:24:37 2023 No.21802336 Any suggestions for contemporary fantasy (published in the last 10 years)? I’ve already read through Bakker’s work, and I’d prefer to avoid Sanderson after having gone through his attempt at finishing WoT.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:24:41 2023 No.21802338 >>21802330 Starship Troopers is easily one of the worst books i have ever read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:25:29 2023 No.21802341 >>21802330 I hate that (((they))) call the worst period in scifi (that isn't 2000-present) the """golden age"""

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:25:35 2023 No.21802342 >>21802328 Haven't actually read anything else by Ivan Kal, I've heard some stuff about his various work, but I have no idea if I'd even want to.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:27:09 2023 No.21802349

>>21802330
>Heinlein is the real scifi Golden age grandmaster
Ah yes today I will write a series where my main character fucks and marries his mother and fucks his daughters.

PBBBBBBBBBT all three (Asimov/Heinlein/Clarke) are massively overrated.

>>21802342
Unless it was you I was talking to, you can search the archives for "Universe on Fire" and find a post from a couple weeks back where I talked about his other series some. I haven't read everything of his but I've known of the guy before Infinite Realm was a thing.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:29:42 2023 No.21802355

>>21802349
Might've been me? I don't really remember the specifics. Some of it sounded potentially intriguing but the sort of question is "does my general dislike of his writing ability get overcome by the actual stuff he's writing about", and just on a blurb level I don't recall anything else he wrote quite appealing to me.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:33:18 2023 No.21802362

>>21802301
>surprised there is no HWFwM . A lot of people are into that.
>good list but it's missing dungeon core stories.
I personally can't stand HWFWM. I should give it another try eventually as it must have some good traits to be so popular, but my first attempt at reading it made me bounce of HARD.

As for Dungeon Core stories...how many good ones are there? I genuinely can't recall any beside Blue Core, and that's an autistic semi-harem story. All I tried were average to bad. Give me some recommendation if you have any.

Oh, I should start recommending people that new Rock story from RR, very fast and hilarious, I think it's only 100-200 pages long and complete.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:33:23 2023 No.21802363 >>21802355 His UoF series has magitech mecha in space which is somewhat novel within the relative sphere of this general's discussion cosm.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:33:56 2023 No.21802364
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>>21802341
the REAL golden age of sci-fi is the period between about 1910-1940, with the pulps and planetary romances, although those did overlap with what's commonly called the "golden age of SF", which is really the Silver Age, that started with WWII and lasted until Star Wars (and to a lesser extent, Star Trek)

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:40:07 2023 No.21802385 >>21802282 >read 5 books you've already read before to get the good ending A novel series isn't supposed to be a RPG with grinding

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:40:42 2023 No.21802387 >>21802362 All the good ones are abandoned , unfortunately , or turn into harem/kindgom building with very few stats-go-up sections. I mostly read them to get ideas for traps when I'm DMing

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:43:38 2023 No.21802394 File: 27 KB, 480x480, 1606353738747.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21799868 >Grim and Dark Edition When the fuck will Horus Heresy novels get a reprint

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:50:19 2023 No.21802420 >>21802362 >new Rock story from RR What's this one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:53:20 2023 No.21802434 >>21802420 It's the first result on google, anon. >https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/55418/rock-falls-everyone-dies

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:55:58 2023 No.21802445 File: 617 KB, 617x676, 1676302006577331.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Dungeon Cuck Carl Please stop baiting newfags with this shit cuck LITRPG trash, its horrible, stop, go read something good instead

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:56:19 2023 No.21802448
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>>21802341
It's not called Golden age because it's best, it's called like that because it's arguably the beginning of scifi as we know it. The best era was the New Wave (late 50s up until the late 70s)
>>21802349
>I will write a series where my main character fucks and marries his mother
That's pretty based from my point of view

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:56:40 2023 No.21802450 >>21802445 you reviews are shit

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 22:57:49 2023 No.21802452 >>21802450 jokes on you, im not the review anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:01:19 2023 No.21802474 File: 217 KB, 1280x720, spx8p3celdrz.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802385 It's funny because i always felt like belgariad/malloreon was a jrpg in book form, similar to games like Tales of.. or Dragon Quest

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:03:43 2023 No.21802486 >>21802452 if it looks like a dog and it barks like a dog...

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:05:32 2023 No.21802497 >>21802486 ok cuck carl

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:07:08 2023 No.21802503 >>21799868 books with the feel of OPs pic? gothic castle, misty grounds, evil pet hounds, or wild dogs roaming the abandoned estate

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:08:49 2023 No.21802509 >>21802503 You mean books with souless IA feeling? just go to royalroad LITRPG trash section

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:12:58 2023 No.21802524 >>21802474 Yeah I can see that with all the tropes. To me it was fantasy Star Trek, each race has one personality

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:13:29 2023 No.21802525 >>21802503 Matthew Pungitore and David Sodergren

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:13:36 2023 No.21802526 >>21802509 seethe

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:16:17 2023 No.21802534 >>21802145 Jordan's prose is fine in a similar fashion. The problem is that he writes too much about shit that is totally uninteresting, and then fumbles the actually interesting stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:16:29 2023 No.21802536 >>21802525 >David Sodergren Thanks, Ive been into Scottish history lately so I'll check out his Scottish horrors. The Haar a good place to start?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:17:45 2023 No.21802541 File: 608 KB, 1157x679, 1659350822828982.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802045 A relic of the sanderon-Bakkerchad seethe threads. Good times.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:17:49 2023 No.21802542 >>21800992 >last book you read The Perfect Spy >current book you are reading Renegade Immortal >next book you plan to read Master and Margarita

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:18:20 2023 No.21802544 >>21802536 Any book is fine to start with since they're all standalones.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:19:51 2023 No.21802551 >>21801356 Finished never. The FUCKING author said hed finish it even if he couldnt publish due to the govt but that was just a lie. FUCK this semen slurping genre and FUCK the CCP

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:20:25 2023 No.21802554 File: 33 KB, 512x384, 1669771361425460.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This picture makes to incels seethe.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:23:53 2023 No.21802565 >>21802303 MOTHER'S BONES

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:27:34 2023 No.21802579 >>21802554 This. I'm blasting Bolt Thrower and plan to read some Bakkerchad before sculling a crispy, creamy double IPA.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:29:22 2023 No.21802590 >>21802554 >2017 Where are they now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:33:18 2023 No.21802609 >>21802590 Well Bakker couldn't sell anymore books so he got depressed and stopped writing and posting

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:34:11 2023 No.21802614 >>21802609 That will only make him more grimdark when he makes a comeback.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:35:09 2023 No.21802619 >>21802609 hes a canadian so he's genetically predisposed to being moody, menally ill, and a quitter. >>21802614 he's never coming back

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:36:21 2023 No.21802622 >>21802619 Screencap this Comebakker 2025

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:40:30 2023 No.21802635 >>21802554 Im an incel and I don't know what that is so I can't be mad at it

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:44:39 2023 No.21802647 >>21802609 >>21802614 >>21802622 wait i just started SA. is the series not finished? I cant stand reading a series that deosnt have an ending.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:48:54 2023 No.21802661 File: 839 KB, 1934x1022, bakker supreme woman creamer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802647 Most people think the initial trilogy are self-contained. >the first three in this series tell a complete and satisfying story

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 23:51:27 2023 No.21802672 >>21802661 Thats good, because Im really enjoying it. I'd say he deserves the meme-status he has around here, even if Bakkerfags can be annoying.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:00:21 2023 No.21802705

>>21799868
Is it me, or does GRR Martin have really mediocre prose in A Song of Ice and Fire?
I'm currently going through the books, and I can't help but notice, that so many of his sentences are clunky and awkward. He also makes no real effort to "flow" his sentences together. Rather, he'll usually just force together sentences that share an idea. Which, while grammatically correct, feels really clunky imo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:02:08 2023 No.21802715 >>21802705 Never read books written by obese people

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:03:26 2023 No.21802718 >>21802705 I have no idea what are you talking about

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:04:50 2023 No.21802721
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>For my part, I can't help but to think that this massive story was where Scott's creative life began and, it would surprise me if, after his real life trials are complete, he doesn't return to it, before the end.
Bakkerchads, one day the Ordeal will be over.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:14:07 2023 No.21802755 >>21799868 Alternate timelines,?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:27:55 2023 No.21802798 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHJaAtQjYrY Post soundtracks to reading, fellow fantasy and science fiction chads.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:31:07 2023 No.21802805 File: 57 KB, 976x850, 16594924.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why should I read books with women protags if I'm a guy? Rddit and Godreads are hell bent on reccing books with girlboss mcs

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:35:22 2023 No.21802824 >>21802805 Sabriel's good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:37:33 2023 No.21802832 File: 21 KB, 500x328, disgusted gun frog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802805 I'd rather read about a straight female than a gaybook

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:44:26 2023 No.21802860 File: 78 KB, 490x498, 8e1c35a61929fbd46948788ba47b9860.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802805 Girlboss mc are cringe i rather have Milfboss mc

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:48:45 2023 No.21802869 >>21802307 >"Who is the greatest living fantasy author? Is it Brandon Sanders-" The first and the last video of his I will be watching. Thanks for the recommendation all the same.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:48:55 2023 No.21802870 File: 208 KB, 1024x1024, shadowpeople1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Please enjoy my audio horror offerings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feIw0r28q3U&list=PL6jI5DqxxW73O7Einf38QghxpkWbn5emB

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:50:48 2023 No.21802878 >>21802870 Don't care about creepypastas but she sounds HOT. I literally started drooling from listening to her.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 00:56:27 2023 No.21802895 >>21802878 Average audioporn poster on /t/

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:03:07 2023 No.21802921
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>Like romance in my fantasy novels but not too much of it
Anyone else experience this?
I feel like it adds a bit of depth if the mc has a love interest but if the romance exceeds like 25% of the story it just gets boring.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:03:43 2023 No.21802926 >>21802832 this desu I've read plenty of bad books with female protagonists, but I don't think a single one of them has offended me as much as seeing the phrase "his husband" in print

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:06:07 2023 No.21802937

>>21802921
Romance should either be a way to help push two characters forward as people, or simply just as a nice 'thing' that progresses a character relationship. If you wanna make it a big deal, make it tie into who these characters are. If not, it can just be "they just started going out, anyway".

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:11:30 2023 No.21802958 >>21802921 All romance is good, especially when you're a love starved incel like me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:13:53 2023 No.21802971 >>21802878 Yes she has a cute voice but that's not supposed to be the focus, coomer

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:20:15 2023 No.21803001 >>21802958 It's only good if there's no cuckoldry involved.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:21:12 2023 No.21803006 >>21802921 I find romance boring so I don't like it in fantasy books. Not that much of a dealbreaker though, I mostly speed read it

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:22:08 2023 No.21803010 >>21803001 especially haremcuckery

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:22:59 2023 No.21803013 >>21803010 >he's not a harem enjoyer NGMI

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:23:53 2023 No.21803016 >>21801751 Tons of litrpg comes from Russia.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:25:11 2023 No.21803022 >>21801910 Butthurt belter?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:25:17 2023 No.21803023 >>21803010 I don't hate it but I definitely prefer monogamy.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:27:26 2023 No.21803036

>>21800992
>Tress; then got caught up on 30+ chapters of Infinite Realm if we want to count that as a book
>The Demolished Man; two chapters in and this already reads like a Dick novel so I think I'll enjoy it
>Maybe some actual Dick depending on how this makes me think when I complete my current

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:30:48 2023 No.21803049 >>21802878 sounds like a twelve year old with nasal congestion

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:32:49 2023 No.21803059 >>21803022 Irish-American

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:49:36 2023 No.21803114 >>21802878 retard coomer

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:54:17 2023 No.21803127 >>21800053 Just wait for the next thing Kellhus does to Proyas...

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:58:27 2023 No.21803142 >"When did you begin to serve Golgotterath..." When did you realize the Kellhus was irredeemably the bad guy and start rooting for the Consult? This was it for me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 01:59:38 2023 No.21803147 Why do so many villains just sit in their lair at the end of the journey?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:00:09 2023 No.21803153 >>21803142 I think Bakker tries to say real evil is sexualised in the modern period, so that's why his evil is kinda rapey.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:00:24 2023 No.21803154 >>21803147 What else could they do

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:00:27 2023 No.21803155 >>21803147 If I had a lair and I could just sit in it all day that's what I would do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:03:41 2023 No.21803174 >>21802045 why do they love rape so much?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:03:51 2023 No.21803177 Serwë's butt!

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:05:31 2023 No.21803188 >>21803174 They are Bakkers niggers. He just made them pale skinned so leftoids cant cancel him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:05:32 2023 No.21803189 File: 210 KB, 1280x905, arabian nights.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's still fantasy... and djinns are based.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:05:41 2023 No.21803192

>>21803147
Sometimes they're nebulously "doing their plan", sometimes they're bound to their lair (Sauron was like that, yeah?), sometimes they just genuinely are not motivated enough to care, etc. Most series I've seen that do that sort of thing tend to give some reason for it, though. Often it's simply "they don't even know the heroes exist".

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:06:46 2023 No.21803199 >>21803188 So true

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:09:16 2023 No.21803218
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>Dungeon Crawler Carl author talking about 4chan threads and incels hating his book

Now i know why that cuck lover is forcing Dungeon Crawler so much here, fuck shills man

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:13:13 2023 No.21803241 >>21803218 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu6MaN9tT_8 I bet he loves this

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:14:05 2023 No.21803246 >>21803218 You guys are talking about cuck shit but what actually happened

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:15:17 2023 No.21803256 >>21803246 DCC opens with Carl having broken up with his girlfriend after finding out she was cheating on him. He barely spares a thought for her throughout the remainder of the story unless the cat brings her up.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:17:49 2023 No.21803266
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Is there any book that captures the vibe of the old video game Lords of Magic? Straight up campy fantasy world in an epic LOTR style civilization level war. I've read a lot of fantasy but never seen something that quite hits that note. I remember once stumbling on a decent fanfiction for it but even that seems to have been lost to the years now.

>>21802025
>>21802031
>>21802036
>>21802041
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hyb6OzeBE

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:19:46 2023 No.21803273

>>21803256
To expand upon anon's summary, Carl
>'s girlfriend goes on a trip to the Bahamas
>sees that she uploaded a picture on her instagram sitting on her ex-boyfriend's lap
>Carl did not know her ex was going to be there
>Carl specifically packs her shit up with no fuss and texts or calls her to dump her right away

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:22:44 2023 No.21803282 >>21803218 >eceleb writer is super sensitits Imagine my lack of shock. DCC has had a pretty kind reception here if anything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:24:57 2023 No.21803291 And to think, there are genuine mentally brain dead retards who think /sffg/ is a better place to talk about books than r/fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:27:59 2023 No.21803303 File: 307 KB, 1267x438, lit - Literature - Catalog - 4chan.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21803291 Really love how 5 hours ago, the thread haven’t reached a 100 posts. Just goes to show how useless and pointless this general really is.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:28:41 2023 No.21803307 >>21803266 >2:45 in the video lol'd

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:29:36 2023 No.21803311 File: 43 KB, 430x720, 1679021598332368.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21803291 Sadly i can't blatantly post fantasy milfs in r/fantasy, You see those threads in Reddit asking for books with older women? All of them are me

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:30:02 2023 No.21803314 >>21803291 >>21803303 >Threads used to last for two days >Now they barely last a day Every day, this general just becomes less and less useable.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:30:08 2023 No.21803315 >>21803303 >hes taking pics every few hours to check the state of the general yikes, nice job incel, not even jannys do that, gz homie

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:30:14 2023 No.21803316 >>21803291 Go back then

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:30:43 2023 No.21803319 >>21803311 Why are you shitting up /sffg/.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:31:17 2023 No.21803321 >>21803291 >>21803303 I don't even know what caused this thread to be derailed other than the usual.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:31:37 2023 No.21803323 >>21803291 >>21803303 Just leave. I don't know why you mope. Is it to troll? I like the way we do things here because it's informal and people don't try to show off like on Reddit or Goodreads.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:32:27 2023 No.21803326 >>21803321 Retards being retards.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:34:05 2023 No.21803337
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I wonder why people here think about the quality or speed of this general

I come here, i ask about some book im instered or talk about something im reading or someone is reading and then leave when im done or have nothing else intestering going

are you really sitting on ur pc with this general open 24hours just to check the quality, speed, number of posters, whats being talked about and more?

Dont you have a life?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:34:15 2023 No.21803338 >>21803303 Jesus, how did /sffg/ deteriorate this much?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:35:00 2023 No.21803339 >>21803337 >i ask about some book im instered or talk about something im reading or someone is reading and then leave when im done Where'd you go to do this? Because I haven't seen that happen here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:36:46 2023 No.21803347 >>21803339 He doesn't discuss books. That's underage ESL /sffg/ recommendations chart ritualposter. Watch him proceed to flip out and spew buzzwords.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:38:31 2023 No.21803355 >>21803337 Doomposting by doomers who, yes, have nothing else going on in their lives

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:38:37 2023 No.21803356 >>21803339 It’s fucking weird whenever people insist that book discussions happen here. Been here for two years and I can scarcely recall being discuss here. Just endless spam here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:39:13 2023 No.21803359 >>21803355 >Doomposting Is it really doomposting when you scroll up the thread and it's just endless shitposts?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:39:59 2023 No.21803361 >>21803356 Define discussion

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:40:39 2023 No.21803363

>be me, lurking on /sffg/
>come across an argument about whether dragons or unicorns would win in a fight
>read through the hilarious arguments on both sides
>someone brings up the fact that unicorns have a magical horn, while dragons just have a breath weapon
>someone else counters with the fact that dragons can fly and breathe fire
>thread devolves into an all-out nerd war between dragon and unicorn fans
>suddenly realize I'm spending my Saturday night debating the outcome of a mythical creature battle
>laugh at the absurdity of it all
>decide to make my own contribution to the thread: "Why not both? A dragon-unicorn hybrid would be the ultimate winner."
>thread explodes with reactions and responses
>realize that, as ridiculous as it may seem, this is why I love being part of the /sffg/ community
>go to bed dreaming of dragon-unicorns wreaking havoc in a fantastical world

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:42:08 2023 No.21803367 >>21803355 makes sense fucking insane like someone will post screenshot of the general 5 hours ago and act like that is normal behavior

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:42:26 2023 No.21803368 >>21803363 >>come across an argument about whether dragons or unicorns would win in a fight People here rarely talk about dragons and I can't even remember when unicorn were last mentioned.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:43:27 2023 No.21803370 >the underage ESL /sffg/ recommendations chart ritualposter is samefagging again. It’s all so tiresome.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:43:31 2023 No.21803371 >>21803368 Most I've seen dragons mentioned was when somebody asked for books that have good dragon depictions, properly having them as noble, majestic, powerful, etc. Turns out there's really not much besides Vainqueur the Dragon lately.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:44:28 2023 No.21803374 >>21803368 >>21803371 He was trying to make a point, but failed because /sffg/ is just that shitty.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:46:12 2023 No.21803379 >>21803370 >>21803347 I always do get a chuckle out of it him trying so hard denying reality and his samefagging tactics. Just seems strangely weird he's that investing in trying to deceive people here that /sffg/ is good and not a terrible place.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:46:47 2023 No.21803381 >>21803370 Is the ritualposter in the room right now?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:47:51 2023 No.21803388 >>21800992 >last Warrior Prophet >current Gormenghast, The Golden Fool, Dragons of Autumn Twilight >next Thousandfold Thought

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:49:18 2023 No.21803395 >>21800973 Book of the New Sun fits

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:49:46 2023 No.21803397 >>21803363 Anon, are you okay? This never happened.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:49:55 2023 No.21803398 >>21803379 >>21803370 >>21803347 lmao schizoposting hours

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:51:25 2023 No.21803404 File: 48 KB, 337x434, 1554578454006.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21803371 >noble >majestic >Vainqueur

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:51:57 2023 No.21803407
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>>21803398
Yes, yes, everyone sees right through you. Can you just fuck off for a moment.

>>21803339
>Where'd you go to do this?
Same. I want to know if there's an actual place to talk about books. Truly at my wits end with this place.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:53:03 2023 No.21803412 Real american hours

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:53:26 2023 No.21803414 >>21803359 Excuse me but when I funpost it's Art

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:53:41 2023 No.21803415 >>21803367 >act like that is normal behavior You’re posting on 4chan. Anon, I…

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:54:28 2023 No.21803421 >>21803414 Nothing fun about it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:55:04 2023 No.21803424 >>21803407 why are u posting screenshot? never said it was samefag, take ur meds schizo

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:56:07 2023 No.21803428 >>21803412 Not even American hours, retard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:59:01 2023 No.21803442 >>21803370 I don't think that one is the same but I am beginning to believe that bakkerspammer = your reviews is shit ritualposter = acktually go to goodreads and reddit ritualspammer. Non-fucking stop.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 02:59:15 2023 No.21803443 File: 86 KB, 405x720, 03d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw ritualposter can make schizos have a meltie without even saying nothing I kneel.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:00:32 2023 No.21803453 >>21803442 >go to goodreads and reddit Any other websites for book discussions l? Or just those two?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:02:01 2023 No.21803458 File: 591 KB, 2400x1600, 20221963_wbe487_006a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21803421 That's cos you have terminal doomer brain >>21803442 I'm not sure about bakkerspam but the rest I've thought are a possibility

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:04:17 2023 No.21803467 >>21803442 nah the guy spaming Dungeon Crawler Carl = your review is shit >>21802450 Bakkerspammer = go to goodreads and reddit

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:05:26 2023 No.21803474 >>21803458 I include the former spammer because he's been banned before and we've seen around 1/4th of all posts disappear in a nearly bump limit thread. Patterns of grandiose spam.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:07:55 2023 No.21803483 Lol seething incels itt would NOT like to see me use my kung fu (mantis style, crane chop) on they dumb ass. Wuxia reigns supreme.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:10:43 2023 No.21803499

>>21803467
>anon says shit about dungeon crawler carl
>your reviews are shit

did the review anon originaly said he didnt liked Dungeon Crawler? bc at the start the retard wouldnt say your reviews are shit, but after sometime he started and never stopped

it all makes sense

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:12:27 2023 No.21803506 >>21803499 It's tied for Lord of the Mysteries as his highest-rated one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:13:33 2023 No.21803511 >>21803467 >the guy spaming Dungeon Crawler Carl The one spamming about Carl being a cuck every time somebody mentions the book?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:16:01 2023 No.21803526 >>21803511 nope, the one talking about dungeon crawler, makes no sense to the guy saying carl is cuck to call your reviews is shit at someone saying dungeon crawler sucks

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:19:14 2023 No.21803538 Can anyone chart the evolution of fantasy genre from lotr to asoiaf by listing significant works tending towards that path I guess Guy Gavriel Kay's stuff and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn fit somewhere in there but idk much about this shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:20:15 2023 No.21803543 >>21803538 Just google it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:20:25 2023 No.21803545 File: 865 KB, 1600x2400, 21013040_rwm481_005 c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21803474 I haven't been paying close attention but it makes sense that spammers gonna spam

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:20:39 2023 No.21803548 >>21803538 Do it yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:20:47 2023 No.21803550 >>21803538 >fantasy started at lotr

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:23:08 2023 No.21803562 Thread reached bump limit, shame the next thread is going to be dogshit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:23:08 2023 No.21803563 I want to read Gene Wolfe's books but i have an average IQ and don't have much culture do understand deep references. Will i still be able to enjoy them?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:23:38 2023 No.21803567 >>21803526 I'm not sure which one exactly. I'm one of them and we had a very brief conversation about the series at the end. >>21803562 Rev up the "next thread when" rituals.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:23:56 2023 No.21803568 >>21803550 Fantasy as we know it yeah Before that it was weird shit like Alice In The Wonderland or Arthurian fairy tales >>21803543 Google failed me and that's why I'm here >>21803548 No

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:24:17 2023 No.21803571 >>21803538 I'm not going to do your homework but add the Amber books. GRRM and Zelazny were good friends and gurm obviously took some cues from Z's most popular books

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:26:49 2023 No.21803582 >>21803571 And guess who Zelazny briefly worked with and had nothing but good things to say about? The Dick himself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:34:29 2023 No.21803603 >>21803545 You just know she doesn’t read

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:35:59 2023 No.21803605

>>21803582
From everything I've read Zelazny was a super nice guy. He had good things to say about everybody. PKD was clearly a madman but also had foresight and was maybe kind of a genius

>>21803603
I don't mind at all. I'm extremely shallow when it comes to women

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:40:48 2023 No.21803626
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>>21803568
>Fantasy as we know it yeah
>Before that it was weird shit like Alice In The Wonderland or Arthurian fairy tales
The absolute newfaggotry of this post physically hurts me. This general is fucking trash nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:40:51 2023 No.21803627 File: 11 KB, 600x800, 1620215660823.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21803412 >Real american hours

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:48:36 2023 No.21803654 >>21803626 Bro if you don't educate us newfags how can we learn oldfags get old and abandon this place.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 03:59:32 2023 No.21803692

>>21803605
He was very educated/knowledgable(?) and had all sorts of wild ideas along with an unparalleled insight into the human qualia.
He's the only person who could write a cultivation series/novel without a shred of fighting or have it all offscreened.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:29:15 2023 No.21803798 >>21803654 >newfags don't know you're here forever

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:29:16 2023 No.21803799 >>21803692 Who you talking about

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 04:33:27 2023 No.21803812 >>21803799 PKD.

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 05:12:25 2023 No.21803892

I was thinking about Will Wight's next series while in the shower. All we really know is that it will be a space fantasy series, but will it be like Spelljammer, Star Wars, or Star Ocean? It's actually not that far of a leap to go from the high level space travelers of Cradle to a space setting but will it be at that level (and connected to the inevitable shared universe he seems to want to make) or will it be more grounded and separate? desu

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 05:17:18 2023 No.21803911
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>>21803538
>https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/75483.Best_Fantasy_of_the_50s
>https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/75425.Best_Fantasy_of_the_60s
>https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1116.Best_Fantasy_of_the_70s
>https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1117.Best_Fantasy_of_the_80s
>https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1118.Best_Fantasy_of_the_90s
>https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/38609.Best_Fantasy_of_the_2000s

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 05:20:40 2023 No.21803918 File: 153 KB, 1200x668, dcovwatn_main.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21802554 >2017? i wonder what books are they reading now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 05:22:02 2023 No.21803921 Can anybody recommend some more ethereal fantasy similar to Dunsany? I'm looking for something that's more concerned with atmosphere and prose, than character or plot. Preferably something modern, but any recs are welcome

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 05:23:11 2023 No.21803923 >>21802554 Me on left

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 05:34:06 2023 No.21803953

>>21803921
>Preferably something modern
Orson Scott Card wrote Hart's Hope (1983) as an homage to pre-tolkien fantasy, mainly Dunsany, it's a bunch of connected short stories, similar to Gods of Pegana or Time and the Gods, you could give it a try. and it's not modern but maybe Day of the Minotaur (1966) by Thomas Burnett Swann.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 05:35:37 2023 No.21803956 >>21803921 The Night Circus Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 06:13:11 2023 No.21804012 >>21803538 Lord Dunsany -> Robert E Howard -> Gormenghast -> The Broken Sword -> Tolkien -> Dune -> Earthsea -> Elric -> Book of the New Sun

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 07:08:27 2023 No.21804098 >>21803953 Thanks m8 haven't read either of these. >>21803956 Haven't read The Night Circus. I didn't find JS&MN at all like Dunsany, although I enjoyed it a lot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 07:15:58 2023 No.21804107 >>21801561 muh dick

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 07:43:24 2023 No.21804159
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>>21804098
Then I assume you've already been recced or read ER Eddison and Gormenghast. What about Tanith Lee's Night's Master or Valente's Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 07:44:25 2023 No.21804162 File: 866 KB, 1716x973, Screenshot 2023-03-19 at 12.38.35 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21804098 Circumnavigated Fairyland

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 09:04:47 2023 No.21804284

>>21800019
Does this opening scene grab you?

The first light of the day had yet to penetrate the dense forest canopy that shrouded the valley. In the dim light, a group of Maori warriors moved cautiously along the winding path, their weapons at the ready. Among them was Kahu, a renowned warrior and tracker who had been called upon to lead this mission. Their destination was a sacred site deep in the forest, where the spirits of their ancestors were said to reside. It was a place that few dared to approach, for fear of angering the gods. As they approached the clearing, Kahu motioned for the warriors to halt. He raised his hand, and they fell silent, listening intently for any sign of danger. In the center of the clearing stood a towering stone pillar, covered in intricate carvings and symbols that spoke of ancient power. Kahu approached the pillar, his hand resting on the hilt of his mere, a short-handled club, as he spoke in a low voice.
"Greetings, ancestors," he said. "We have come seeking your wisdom and guidance."
There was no reply, but Kahu could feel a presence in the air, a sense of weight and power that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He closed his eyes and focused his mind, reaching out to the spirits with a quiet intensity.
For long moments, there was only silence. Then, a faint whisper in his ear, like the rustle of leaves in the wind. Kahu listened intently, suddenly his senses were overwhelmed by a dark and malevolent force that seemed to emanate from the very stones beneath his feet. His mind filled with visions of death and destruction, of war and chaos. Kahu realized with a shock that the sacred site was cursed, the place of power had been corrupted by sin. Tainted by Whiro.
He staggered back, gasping for air as he struggled to break free of the curse's grip. The other warriors rushed to his side, their weapons at the ready, but Kahu waved them back. "We must leave this place," he said, his voice hoarse with fear. "The darkness is already upon us.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 09:22:37 2023 No.21804299 >>21804284 I keep waiting for the punchline

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 09:27:35 2023 No.21804310 >>21804299 Damn, still not punchy enough. Suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 09:28:05 2023 No.21804311 >>21804159 I've read both, yep. Haven't read anything by Lee, although she is on the list. As for Fairyland, I tend to stay away from YA/children's stuff. >>21804162 As above.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 09:49:23 2023 No.21804343 File: 1.39 MB, 2675x4032, 1678603795286685.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21804284 Heres how you grab the reader on the first page.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 10:04:39 2023 No.21804378 >>21804343 >expostulated

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 10:06:27 2023 No.21804382 >>21804378 Aye, a good word.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 10:23:32 2023 No.21804412 >>21803282 >>21803218 Where is the actual interview, though

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 10:26:18 2023 No.21804418 >>21803147 they live there

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 19 10:27:32 2023 No.21804419 >>21804412 it doesn't exist, you just fell for low tier bait

Anonymous Sun Mar 19 10:48:17 2023 No.21804465
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>>21803371
>>21803368
The Wandering Inn has the best portrayal of Dragons, majestic, old and wise. And quite stupid at times. Vainquear The Dragon offers a satire, TWI a full spectrum, from seriousness and glory through silliness.

Hilariously enough, at the moment there is a Unicorn character in TWI that spends a lot of time with a Dragon, with some strong implication that he could kill Dragons. But the discussion which could kill which is kinda stupid because Unicorns and Dragons are varied in both birth and personal ability. Both are very strong magical species that could fuck you up in myriad of ways.

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