/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy Genera

[Anonymous No.22040654]

/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

We have to go back edition

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[Anonymous No.22040660]

What is the most unique religion in Science Fiction or Fantasy?

[Anonymous No.22040664]

>>22040654
OP pic is an Albanian fantasy. No Albanian woman looks like that.

[Anonymous No.22040726]

Mother of Learning is a great series but it has virtually no POC, has zero LGBT relationships and the main character is unironically an incel. I don't know how it got published.

[Anonymous No.22040758]

>>22040726
It has quite a bit of POC but the rest is true. It got published because it's self-published iirc except the audio version which is published by a coomlit audiobook publisher

[Anonymous No.22040766]

>>22040660
Christianity desu

[Anonymous No.22040769]

/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 No.22040784]

>>22040660
god emperor or the orks

[Anonymous No.22040786]

/SFFG/ Recommendations: LITRPG Edition

Read Azarinth Healer, Primal Hunter, He Who Fight with Monsters, Dungeon Crawler Carl
Also read System Universe, Dissonance, Defiance of the Fall, Iron Prince.

[Anonymous No.22040841]

>>22040660

Lord of Light is pretty up there. A reincarnation clone cult shaped into Hindu/Buddhist expressions.

But I'd have to say Glorantha's religion as a whole are the best in the genre lit realm: There are so many different expressions of religion that fit every reality faced by their worshippers, but my favorite would be the God Learners. God Learners realized that you could reenact myths and change them subtly to change the actual mythological history of the world, reshaping the current reality. This did very well to them until they got genocided by the gods after another cataclysm snapped back mythology somehow, and also humanity lost sea travel privileges for a long time. The gods just didn't want people to be on the water I guess.

[Anonymous No.22040957]

Reminder to read The War Eternal series.

[Anonymous No.22040980]

>>22040786
>/SFFG/ Recommendations: LITRPG
We recommend going to /litrpg/
>>22010612

[Anonymous No.22040986]

>>22040980
Who is the 'we' you speak of? That doesn't represent me or many others. litrpg is here to stay, cope or leave.

[Anonymous No.22040992]

>>22040769
>Read Reverend Insanity, Lord of The Mysteries, Neuromancer, Hyperion, The Prince of Nothing
Are we being punished? Are there any recommendations for those not on the spectrum?

[Anonymous No.22041007]

>>22040980

[Anonymous No.22041015]

Hey Incels. Just read in your spare time and don’t bother discussing books here.
Read. Read. Read.

[Anonymous No.22041021]

>>22041015
This desu

This general has become nothing but a thread where people come just to shitpost. They don't actually read, just come here to spam the exact same posts over and over every thread.

[Anonymous No.22041031]

>>22041021
> just come here to spam the exact same posts over and over every thread.
So the same as every other general on this site.

[Anonymous No.22041033]

>>22040654
>/sffg/ - white knight coomer edition

[Anonymous No.22041045]

>>22041033
Dumb fucking frogposter

[Anonymous No.22041047]

>>22040726
Mother of learning is quite bad, I can't think of single good thing about it, it just so bland and boring, the main character is half the reason for, the other characters are no better, time loop mechanics literally taken to retard level etc

[Anonymous No.22041056]

>>22041047
It does a very good job of gradually and coherently increasing the power-level of the MC from weak to eventually OP, and also expanding the world building. I agree about him being bland and boring though.

[Anonymous No.22041073]

>>22041015
>>22041021
>>22041031
is the ''you guys dont read'' samefag again?

i thought he had dropped this general, shit here we go again

[Anonymous No.22041108]

>>22041073
>posts about the exact same books everytime
>never posts about new ones
>everytime someone posts about new books he shits on them
Are you sure you read?

[Anonymous No.22041110]

>>22041056
The magic and power levels are just dumb and basic, if author couldn't come with his own he could have copied of hundreds magic systems out there that work and aren't totally dumb.
The worldbilding was frankly terrible and dull.

[Anonymous No.22041120]

>>22041110
That's just your opinion. The series is wildly popular so it would appear to be in the minority.

[Anonymous No.22041121]

>>22041108
i dont even know who or what you talking about my dude

[Anonymous No.22041136]

>>22041120
It's garbage and it attracted a huge audience of garbage readers, garbage popular among garbage.

[Anonymous No.22041165]

>>22041073
But wait last time I was the "we don't read around here" guy

[Anonymous No.22041187]

>>22040986
> litrpg is here to stay

[Anonymous No.22041194]

>>22041110
the magic system is literally dungeon&dragons you fucking moron

[Anonymous No.22041200]

>>22040654

[Anonymous No.22041323]

Is this as boring as it sounds? I'm not interested in characters talking about mathematics, if that's what it is.

[Anonymous No.22041508]

>750 pages into the book, stuff finally starts to happen in shallan and kaladin's stories
>suddenly it's back to adolin and his dad
God damn it

[Anonymous No.22041543]

>>22040758
The audio began as a volunteer project by the reader, if I'm thinking of the right one.

[Anonymous No.22041618]

>>22040660
Book of the Long Sun has actual monsters from mithology which are actually supercompoters designed after the family of the ruler of the universe. What's interesting, they actively interact with people.

I just started Elric of Melniboné. I didn't believe it was awesome as you guys say, but my mind is blown. I also learned a lot about Neil Gaiman's fapping habits from back when he was in boarding school. No idea why he put this in the foreword.

[Anonymous No.22041632]

>>22041200
I see he still hasn't won his Amazon legal case for all his scams.

>>22041323
Are you really asking if you should read possibly the most famous and praised sci-fi book of all time?

[Anonymous No.22041647]

>>22041632
>Are you really asking if you should read possibly the most famous and praised sci-fi book of all time?
Yeah.

[Anonymous No.22041655]

>>22041647
Ok. Then no, you don't deserve to read it.

[Anonymous No.22041665]

>>22041200
The more I learn about famous and powerful people, the more I'm inclined to believe men really want to have several women, on permament basis. Obviously harems are a bit much, and men don't even really want to have sex with many women, but 2-3 girls? Men would want that, real emotional connection with multiple women at the same time. Word 'powerful' is used here losely, I mean all kinds of high-value men who have largely intrinsic worth. Famous writers, politicians, high-achievers...all of them fuck around and cheat all the time. You simply can't constrain powerful men from having sex with other people if they can.

As such, little harems are quite likely the ideal of male romance/family structure. I wonder what will be the societal impacts of the new age of humanity. I expect polygamy to grow if men can afford it. Harem truly is the romance genre for men.

[Anonymous No.22041674]

>>22041323
Reading the prequels and maybe the original trillogy should be enough, reading all of it is mostly waste of time - it's not bad, but very dated. The Prequels contain most of the idea and Asimov's concepts which should suffice.

[Anonymous No.22041693]

>>22041655
Poor response, you're a retard.
>>22041674
Good response, thank you anon. I've read that it's dry and outdated by modern standards but a lot of the online discourse surrounding old SF can't be taken too seriously, of course. I tend to read in order of release so I hadn't considered starting with the prequels.

[Anonymous No.22041698]

>>22041693
Starting with the prequels is a terrible idea.

[Anonymous No.22041713]

>>22041693
>I tend to read in order of release so I hadn't considered starting with the prequels.
I have Asimov in my collection and the the prequels have an introduction from Asimov himself. It's amusing to read how once upon a time he enter an elevator where he met a fan who urged him to write more of Foundation series, which put Asimov in consternation, since...it was so many years ago that he forgot what Foundation was about except for in general terms.

Then he wrote the prequels, which were successful enough to continue the series. Hilarious.

[Anonymous No.22041761]

>>22037426
>>22037884
Thanks, guys. I wrote an urban fantasy book where the male protagonist learns about the world alongside the reader and could only thing of YA examples I read when I was younger like Mortal Instruments, Percy Jackson, and etc. The separation between modern and fantasy goes completely out the window after the first act when the enemy invades, though.

>>22037481
Thanks, but I'm looking more for actual novels than webnovels, at least for as long as I'm stubbornly set on publishing traditionally.

>>22037930
Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Anonymous No.22041777]

>>22040766
Really, when you take a deep dive into ALL religions they're batshit insane. Most people have only rudimentary familiarity with the most sanitized aspects.

[Anonymous No.22041900]

>>22041045
>replies "dumb frogposter" on queue
and you think you aren't reddit. literal hivemind.

[Anonymous No.22041912]

>>22041136
>>22041110
>>22041047
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
ITS POPUALR SO ITS BAAAAAD
WHY DON'T MY BOOKS EVER TAKE OFF???

[Anonymous No.22041918]

>>22041508
A good series, but the weakest point really is the multiple perspectives constantly shifting. I can enjoy a good multiple-perspective book, but goddamn does it not annoy. You get really into the groove for one character and now its suddenly "stop, hammertime" and you have to get into another characters perspective.

[Anonymous No.22041925]

>>22041918
I wouldn't mind it so much if he didn't do 400 pages of Kaladin and Shallan before swiching to the others

[Anonymous No.22041926]

>>22040766
Was done better in BotNS.

[Anonymous No.22041935]

>people bitch about mother of learning
>Never write their own books
>Never share their writing
>Bunch of bitter losers that can't write even a single sentence

[Anonymous No.22041939]

>>22040786
>>22040769
These guys produced more than this shithole has. Name one. Just one story you fags shilled on here.

[Anonymous No.22041944]

>>22041777
>Endeth we seek through our dawn, all endeth. Falter now and become one with the wayside orphans that feed me. Follow and I shall adore you from inside. My first daughter ran from the road. Her name was Ruma and I ate her with no bread, and made another, which learned, and I loved that one and blackbirds formed her twin behind all time.

[Anonymous No.22041954]

>>22041939
look up three flash fiction anthologies

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.22041968]

>>22040654
New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction (2022)
Edited by Neil Clarke, Xia Jia, and Regina Kanyu Wang

Introduction - Xia Jia (2022)
I was surprised by the quality of the works in this anthology. Then I saw that they almost all won a prestigious award for the best SF of the year in China. That seems appropriate to me. In the introduction Xia Jia writes that we're in the Post-Liu Cixin era. That seems like a good thing to me, especially going by the stories included, and because I'm not a fan of his work. As to whether it's true, I wouldn't know. She also notes that this anthology was a stretch goal for her Kickstarter campaign to have her first English science fiction collection published. I'm not much a fan of her writing either, so I may or may not read A Summer Beyond Your Reach later.

My Family and Other Evolving Animals - Shuang Chimu, Carmen Yiling Yan (2019)
The year is 2119. In four years a new space megastation, one of almost a hundred already in space, will set off to begin its deep space ecological experiments. This story is almost entirely speculation about how ecosystems may change in space, with a focus on fruit flies. Its scientific narrative is presented through the lives of a particular family, especially the youngest daughter. This was a pleasing speculative slice-of-life story.
Enjoyable

The Bridge - Liu Xiao, Andy Dudak (2019)
I think I would like this story if I knew the specific context for its allegories rather than only vaguely being about the changes that modernity has brought to isolated areas. I assume it's an allegory about Atulie'er and other cliff villages in China, though that may only be at face value.
Ok

Tombstone - Yang Wanqing, Andy Dudak (2017)
Catastrophic climate disasters brought forth the Great Scattering of humanity. New Anchorage, population twenty million, is one of the last bastions of civilization that remain. Everything is devoted to Osiris Tower, which promises an afterlife through the creation of a soul. This is told through the life of a Charon, a ferryman of the dead, and his relationship with the love of his life. I wasn't liking this for almost half its duration, but by the end I was won over by its allegories.
Enjoyable

PTSD - Hui Hu, Rebecca Kuang (2016)
A VR journalist seeking clout radicalizes a young boy online hoping to goad him into becoming viral content. Four years later working at NetLord (NetEase) the consequences of his actions have caught up to him in a way that he never could've seen coming. This was a fun SF thriller about being unable to tell the difference between fantasy and reality. It also considers some problems that may arise from 3D printing and virtual reality.
Enjoyable

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.22041970]

>>22041968
By Those Hands - Congyun "Mu Ming" Gu, Judith Huang (2018)
I'm astounded by the masterful craft that created this beautiful work. Its emotionality is admirable and its science praiseworthy. A master bamboo weaver is distraught that he will not be able to pass on his craft and that all the traditional ways are being replaced by low-quality automation. A neuroscientist with a specialty in hands is distressed about the kinesthetic knowledge that is lost upon death. Perhaps by using the newest technologies traditional ways may yet be preserved.
Highly Enjoyable

The Kite of Jinan - Liang Qingsan, Emily Jin (2017)
In the introduction to this book this story is called "fictional nonfiction", which is apt. This story is simply a guy who saw something he thought was interesting and unsolved in the historical record. In this case the truth behind why a series of gunpowder workshops exploded and whether the primary suspect was indeed responsible. So, he took it upon himself to deeply research the matter for no other reason than personal curiosity. This is probably somewhat similar to the research that goes into making edutainment videos on Youtube. One example would be some of the videos CGP Grey has made. This was more interesting and enjoyable than may be expected.
Enjoyable

Pixiu - Shi Heiyao, Andy Dudak (2018)
A biologist is hired by a mining company to create a new bacteria that can bioleach low quality ore effectively and as cheaply. He relates its development to his relationship with his grandmother from his birth to her death. There's a considerable amount of philosophizing about the purpose of life and the nature of interpersonal relationships, including for bacteria.
Enjoyable

The Postman - Liao Shubo, Rebecca Huang (2016)
An interstellar postman keeps receiving messages from a little girl asking if he has any mail for her. He doesn't and he takes a memory-erasing pill after he finishes delivering the mail, but then one day...
Meh

[Anonymous No.22041972]

>>22041968
>>22041970
Nice shitpost!

[Anonymous No.22041975]

>>22041968
didn't ask didn't read
take the L back to r*ddit, bozo
thank g*d you don't write books because your prose is absolutely fucking terrible and your tastes shit

[Anonymous No.22041976]

>>22041968
i'm not reading anything written by a chinaman

[Anonymous No.22041977]

>>22041632
>I see he still hasn't won his Amazon legal case for all his scams.
What's the deal with that anyway? I've heard it come up a few times. I gave one book of his a read once, decided it was trash and I didn't need to bother, but I never really looked any deeper.

[Anonymous No.22041981]

Kneel.

[Anonymous No.22041983]

>>22041925
It's even worse because Shallan actively doesn't matter to Way of Kings at all. She has no bearing on the other two major characters' plots and only exists to set up her doing stuff in book 2, whereas she could just... Be introduced in book 2.

[Anonymous No.22041987]

>>22041968
>>22041970
>>>/g/93445543

[Anonymous No.22041998]

>>22041968
>>22041970
your """reviews""" are SHIT
FUCK
OFF

[Anonymous No.22041999]

>>22041968
>>22041970
stfu

[Anonymous No.22042003]

>>22041968
>>22041970
Don't read schizposters get to you, good job for effort posting.

[Anonymous No.22042005]

>>22042003
>effort
lmao what effort

[Anonymous No.22042020]

>>22041977
Supposedly he gamed the Amazon system to inflate his pages read count and hence increased his payments. He and a bunch of other authors got banned around the same time by Amazon. Then he make angry posts saying how he was innocent and had evidence to prove it, and that he was sending his legal team after Amazon and he would be back on the site within weeks. That was something like 3 years ago and instead he ended up self-publishing on his own website.

[Anonymous No.22042035]

>>22042020
Huh. Feels like the genre he's writing for is already full of ghost-written mass-produced trash anyway.

[Anonymous No.22042046]

>>22040654
Is there any reason to read something when you know that you aren't the intended demographic?

[Anonymous No.22042047]

>>22042035
He was one of the early success stories and the rumours are he now funds, maybe even writes for, some of the current popular smut authors since they are basically aliases for ghost writing teams (Eric Vall and Logan Jacobs are two that I remember being mentioned).

[Anonymous No.22042052]

>>22042047
Eric Vall and Logan Jacobs absolutely are ghost writer teams. Dante King I'm less sure on, I haven't read enough to notice any coherency in style. Simon Archer is also the other question mark.

[Anonymous No.22042271]

>>22041935
>>22041912
Did YOU write MoL?
If so, it's kinda shitty. Next time don't copy a naruto fanfic 1 for 1, at least add some new characters.

[Anonymous No.22042282]

>>22042271
>naruto fanfic
kek is that what these fags have been jerking off to this entire time?

[Anonymous No.22042316]

>>22041618
Just started Elric too, love it so far. After I will move on to Wagner's Kane.

[Anonymous No.22042349]

You should read elric as if it's serialized

[Anonymous No.22042361]

[Anonymous No.22042694]

>>22040654
so waht's the consensus on Raymond e feist?
i have yet to read anything by him.
he's good or nah?

[Anonymous No.22042781]

>>22041970
>By Those Hands
Sounds like my kind of shit, I'll give it a look

[Anonymous No.22042795]

>>22040654
how and when did it become so easy to guess the politics of an author (and the propaganda they will try to push in the book) just from the cover alone?

[Anonymous No.22042798]

>>22042795

[Anonymous No.22042804]

>>22042795
>>22042798

[Anonymous No.22042811]

>>22042795
>>22042798
>>22042804

[Anonymous No.22042813]

>>22042795
>>22042798
>>22042804
I'm assuming that you're assuming everything based on the presence of black people on the covers.

[Anonymous No.22042817]

>>22042813
Also that they're women.

[Anonymous No.22042818]

>>22042813
well yes,i know i'm very perceptive,thanks. but there is something else about it as well

[Anonymous No.22042828]

>>22042813
The art style is shit also.

[Anonymous No.22042836]

>>22040654
>>>/vg/429688447
Bitch slap /aa22/ #1347
Asked /niger/? Edition

Welcome, this general is for the discussion of retards.

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Booru: https://aau.booru.org

>HELP! I have a Nvidia card and my game crashes on startup!
Try the dgVoodoo option in the new win10fix settings.
Alternative: Update your AAU and see if it happens again. If so, disable win10fix, enable wined3d and software vertex processing.
>HELP! Required Windows 11 update broke things!
winkey+R -> ms-settings:developers -> Terminal=Windows Console Host

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[Anonymous No.22042840]

>>22042795
Since when marketing tried to attract a particular demographic. So, basically ever since books went mass market.

[Anonymous No.22042845]

>>22041935
I gave it an honest try but I just didn't like the bit I read and it didn't hook me. IIRC I found the protagonist unlikable in a way that was annoying rather than relatable or fascinating, and his sister reminded me more of secondhand anime gripes than of any sisters I've met in real life.
Does it get better? Should I push through? I have read a few million words of ratfic, I'm not opposed to it in principle.
>>Never share their writing
Would it really help if I posted my gay furry fanfic?

[Anonymous No.22042853]

Not ready for it to be over bros...

[Anonymous No.22042859]

>>22042845
The sister is really quite minor all things considered. Zorian is also not really meant to be all that likeable, as I understand. He's selfish. You're kind of meant to look at it like Groundhog Day in that sense, except less "spiritual journey to being a better person" and more "just becomes better over time because circumstances".

[Anonymous No.22042903]

>>22042859
>The sister is really quite minor all things considered.
Yeah, I saw it more as a sign that the author's aesthetic sense didn't get along with my own.
>Zorian is also not really meant to be all that likeable, as I understand. He's selfish.
But like I said, I didn't find him relatable or fascinating. Juniper Smith is a dipshit but he's just like me (fr) and that makes it worthwhile. Patrick Bateman and Charles Kinbote have repulsive psyches and would be insufferable in person and they never even grow as people but they're bizarre, they're interesting, I can't stop watching because I want to figure out what their deal is.
It sounds like Zorian has less to offer.

[Anonymous No.22042914]

>>22042903
Yeah fair. I personally don't have a super high opinion of MoL (I think it's pretty good, but not that great) because it takes a while before any of the interesting characters show up and actually have a presence. Zorian is the major one for the first two arcs and he's just... Not enough to carry it, in my opinion. He's good when he has character dynamics to work with, but he's a solo player (basically by choice) for FAR too long.

[Anonymous No.22042939]

>>22041015
Literally me, just read Book, watch some porn, then read Book again

[Anonymous No.22042963]

Just read Genocidal Organ which I got from the Hideo Kojima thread a few days ago. Pretty fun and entertaining read.
It's a little bit heavy one the monologuing some of the characters do when guns are pointed at them, but it adds to the disembodied experience.

[Anonymous No.22042975]

This would have made a great comic book with the right artists. A frenchy with with imagination like Moebius or Ledroit.

[Anonymous No.22042979]

>>22042795
What do chud covers look like?

[Anonymous No.22042986]

>>22041618
Only the chronological first story is good and then it varies between mediocre and shit.

[Anonymous No.22042999]

Anyone read this shit? Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.22043012]

>>22042845
It does get better, but you shouldn't push through. Completionism is a disease and you should cherish your ability to drop things.

[Anonymous No.22043073]

>>22042963
Next you can watch it.
Also read his other works.

[Anonymous No.22043170]

>>22042914
>it takes a while before any of the interesting characters show up
That's the info I was looking for, thanks. Doesn't sound like it's worth it for me.

[Anonymous No.22043194]

>>22041983
>Shallan actively doesn't matter to Way of Kings at all. She has no bearing on the other two major characters' plots and only exists to set up her doing stuff in book 2, whereas she could just... Be introduced in book 2.
Yeah, unfortunately she exists only as a infodump tool in book 1.
Jasnah as a main character viewpoint would have made much more sense.

[Anonymous No.22043212]

What will your week be like when The Winds of Winter finally drops?

[Anonymous No.22043229]

>>22043212
idk, probably reading Vance

[Anonymous No.22043237]

>>22040654
I would like to hear your thoughs on Guy Gavriel Kay frens

[Anonymous No.22043241]

>>22042694
Magician was just dull and very low energy, dropped it halfway through. There was hardly any magic, poorly written characters and some really dumb and unrealistic events in the story.

[Anonymous No.22043281]

>>22042914
>He's good when he has character dynamics to work with, but he's a solo player
he is so plain and dull, the worst mc I have ever read, his personality is literal npc tier (I don't mean this in current political context), he has no personality at all.

[Anonymous No.22043288]

>>22043194
I guess it was to avoid having too many Alethi protagonists, but it just means you have Shallan "over here doing stuff" and then none of it matters except it turns out TWO people have magic now (and also Jasnah and Dalinar and Szeth and you know what nevermind).

[Anonymous No.22043308]

Since we're shitting on Stormlight Archive, did anyone else find it obscenely annoying how Sanderson made Shallan go through the same character arc twice in a row during Words of Radiance and Oathbringer?

[Anonymous No.22043315]

>>22043237
Probably the best living fantasy writer. Along with Stephen Lawhead and Stephen Donaldson (but fuck The last chronicles of Thomas Covenant, that sequel was terrible)

[Anonymous No.22043323]

>>22043237
I've only read the Fionavar Tapestry, and it's a solid 8/10 (should have been a 9, but I think Kay hobbled himself a bit with some questionable narrative choices)
I do intend to read more of his work eventually, so I do recommend him

[Anonymous No.22043331]

>>22043237
I've only read Tigana by him, but I enjoyed it greatly. I read it years ago though.

[Anonymous No.22043332]

>>22043308
>Sanderson
how can you even stomach reading him?

[Anonymous No.22043333]

>>22043212
Probably like any other week because I'm putting off reading ASOIAF until the fat fuck finished, which he probably never will

[Anonymous No.22043341]

>>22043237
I read Tigana a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it, I'm looking forward to getting onto The Lions of Al-Rassan but I can't stop reading really skinny scifi books.

[Anonymous No.22043351]

>>22043308
He also did that with Kaladin in WoK and RoW. He doesn't seem to know what to do with these characters if they're not having arcs, and he doesn't seem to know how to build a new character arc off a finished one.

[Anonymous No.22043392]

>>22042795
are black lesbians the most over represented group in fiction?

[Anonymous No.22043409]

>>22043392
That depends on the context. White males are only around 6% of the global population. Surely they are by far the most over represented.

[Anonymous No.22043412]

>>22043392
The most overrepresented group in fiction is royalty, or possibly God

[Anonymous No.22043432]

>>22042795
>>22042798
>>22042804
I don't care about blacks or lesbians, i just fucking hate modern fantasy covers.

[Anonymous No.22043433]

>>22043409
>White males are only around 6% of the global population
it's over...
whitebros, how do we win and take back literature?

[Anonymous No.22043436]

>>22043432
was going to read this soon. I hope it's good. Standalone fantasy is the best

[Anonymous No.22043451]

>>22043436
>>22043432
that book sucks, and is the single most lying book cover ever put to a fantasy novel, and that's saying a lot

[Anonymous No.22043467]

>>22043433
Too late whyteboi

[Anonymous No.22043472]

>>22043432
Modern covers are so often just "main/major character standing there in an action pose" or sometimes "dude with hood standing there with a sword or something".

[Anonymous No.22043505]

>ZuYi (aka maternal grandfather's second cousin who was born of a wife and not a concubine) it's XiChan (modern time 2-5 am) does you know what BenGong did with BengGong's thing?
Now I understand why people who don't know japanese mocked old anime fansubs so heavily, these amateur chinese translations are just as bad.

[Anonymous No.22043542]

>>22043212
I don't know how my typical week in some alternate universe where it actually gets released looks like, so I can't tell you what that one will be like.
>>22043229
Most exquisite choice, my good sir.

[Anonymous No.22043551]

>>>/vg/429688447
NonOC in the megas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1niC6g-Xd2a2yaY98NBFdAXnURi4ly2-lKty69rkQbJ0/edit#gid=2085826690
https://db.bepis.moe/aa2/

>Mods & More:
Mods for AAU/AA2Mini (ppx format, the mediafire has everything):
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vwrmdohus4vhh/Mods
/aa2g/ Modding Reference Guide (Slot lists for Hair/Clothes/Faces, List Guides, and More):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gwmoVpKuSuF0PtEPLEB17eK_dexPaKU106ShZEpBLhg/edit#gid=1751233129
Booru: https://aau.booru.org

>HELP! I have a Nvidia card and my game crashes on startup!
Try the dgVoodoo option in the new win10fix settings.
Alternative: Update your AAU and see if it happens again. If so, disable win10fix, enable wined3d and software vertex processing.
>HELP! Required Windows 11 update broke things!
winkey+R -> ms-settings:developers -> Terminal=Windows Console Host

Previous Thread:
>>>/vg/428858839

[Anonymous No.22043554]

>>22041508
Brandon Sanderson really needs an editor.

[Anonymous No.22043656]

>>22043467
a century ago she would have been married to the town's baker or something. Sad...

[Anonymous No.22043698]

>>22043332
I quite enjoyed the first Mistborn trilogy, and by and large Stormlight Archive is pretty enjoyable minus some parts that are a slog to get through. Haven't read Rhythms of War yet though and probably won't until the last book in the first set of 5 comes out in a year or two.

[Anonymous No.22043734]

>>22043698
Rhythm of War is... I dunno. It felt like a real low point. There were a lot of cool concepts marred by poor execution. The only scene I think that really was handled all that well was the big thing with Taravangian.

[Anonymous No.22043749]

>>22043656
no, she would have been a whore

[Anonymous No.22043789]

>>22043749
that's what happens when your daughter reads Bakker

[Anonymous No.22043892]

>>22043451
I Will not tolerate any stackpolekino slander
Go read DragonCrown

[Anonymous No.22043897]

>not recommending the official Dork Sails novel
the only novel I've read by the guy

[Anonymous No.22044041]

>>22043892
I had that on my todo list, redpill me on it
I know stackpole wrote a bunch of those Rogue Squadron books for Star Wars but I found them intensely dreary and tedious and couldn't make it through the first book, but to be fair that's because I went in with preconceptions about what Star Wars was supposed to be - namely, having actually watched the movies

[Anonymous No.22044050]

>>22040654
I want to get into sci-fi, but many of the recs I get seem like cliche and preachy stories that have already been absorbed into the mainstream with predictable plots.

What are some unpredictable sci-fi stories that will really make me think? Preferably involving space and/or time.

[Anonymous No.22044058]

Is the Silo series worth reading? I enjoyed the first story in Wool, but for some reason, I doubt that rest of the book and series is as good.

[Anonymous No.22044095]

>>22044050
Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead
possibly The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
the Dune series if you really want to torture yourself

[Anonymous No.22044108]

>>22044050
Blindsight gets memed a lot but it aint bad. And of course there's Thee Body problem (soon to be a major motion picture!)
But I personally prefer more things like The Deep by John Crowley or The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe.

[Anonymous No.22044143]

>>22044108
Why does Blindshight get memed?
I heard three body problem is a lot of "X did this. And then Y happened. then X did this."

I think I will try Fifth Head of Cereberus.

[Anonymous No.22044161]

>>22044143
it's a free book online and it's very contemporary. Has a cool vampire idea that District 9 man talks about on Joe Rogan
https://youtu.be/2s8eQWtdA_E
https://youtu.be/ur97cQhBeP0

[Anonymous No.22044165]

>>22044143
Blindsight has a gay reveal about consciousness being a a galactic anomaly; all the other aliens in the universe operate without self-awareness, and behave more like cells in a body, but without even a hivemind

Three Body Problem suffers from the fact that it's chinklit, which is really all you need to know to reject it

[Anonymous No.22044225]

>>22044050
Greg Egan

[Anonymous No.22044261]

https://www.basedcon.com/?page_id=85

[Anonymous No.22044284]

>>22044261
based but cringe

[Anonymous No.22044305]

Holy moly this book is just retro encabulator levels of tech jargon with dashes of reddit humor
>dude a TALKING CAT! TALKING LOBSTER BRAINS!! XD
and I thought Neuromancr was bad

[Anonymous No.22044310]

IMAGINE READING A BOOK WITH A TALKING CAT IN IT HAHA WOULDN'T THAT BE FUNNY?

[Anonymous No.22044326]

[Anonymous No.22044329]

>>22044326
nah i have to work through Jung as far as nonfic goes

[Anonymous No.22044336]

>>22044310
DCC is pretty much the opposite of funny

[Anonymous No.22044337]

>>22044336
YES BUT WE CAN BOTH AGREE THAT THE CAT BRINGS A SHADE OF MUCH-NEEDED LEVITY UPON THE SHOW.

[Anonymous No.22044369]

>>22044305
Every word printed on that cover should have been a huge red flag

[Anonymous No.22044524]

>>22044369
>author
indeed

[Anonymous No.22044643]

>>22044524
for me it's "fun"

[Anonymous No.22044755]

Quentyn Martell is a fucking retard

[Anonymous No.22044858]

>>22041665
Those stories don't go far enough for me lmao

[Anonymous No.22044959]

I started with Gormenghast. What do I do now?

[Anonymous No.22044971]

What is it with these weird, wistful, pretentious titles nowadays?

[Anonymous No.22044993]

>>22044959
colour of magic is pretty B tier, it's okay but it is too much of a generic fantasy parody for a discworld book.

[Anonymous No.22045009]

>>22044305
>>22044369
The cover is also very ugly. What's this? A sci-fi novel or a math textbook?

[Anonymous No.22045016]

>>22044959
Now read it backwards to undo the damage it has done to your mind.

[Anonymous No.22045080]

Just finished this. It's incredibly overrated.

[Anonymous No.22045262]

>>22044971

Its the pendulum swinging back a bit, we went from flying high to more utilitarian single word titles, e.g. Songs of a Distant Earth, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart of the World to Spin, The Martian, Network Effect

Now we're trying to capture a false romanticism, let us try imitation, we shall be better for it.

[Anonymous No.22045281]

>>22045080

Peter Watts is an exemplar of science-fiction as a magic lantern show. If you go in while the tent is dark, and remain ignorant to the lantern's workings then there's a strong illusion that can easily confound you and force you to reconcile with radical new possibilities that you seemingly can't account for in an ordinary way.

But once you've learned the twists he prefers, once you've kind of gotten his themes, or even if you've just heard something similar before, then the magic is pretty much gone and what's left is a presentation that lies very flat, I have notoriously asked everyone I know who's finished the book and claimed to deeply love it to name a single character from it: that knowledge seems to have fled from them as soon as the inquiry starts.

[Anonymous No.22045306]

>>22044971
>how
>high
>we
>a novel squioa go nagamatsu
>in
>the
>gark
huh?

[Anonymous No.22045753]

Books about a demon invasion?

[Anonymous No.22045763]

>>22044993
I think that's more just representative of Discworld as a whole, not just Colour of Magic.

[Anonymous No.22045884]

>>22045080
What did you go in expecting?

[Anonymous No.22046129]

>>22045281
As a psychfag, Siri is a great representation of subjective perspective/qualia.

[Anonymous No.22046223]

I really don't get most of the hype around Prince of Nothing. All the conspiracy and war plot is spectacular as all reveals and questions are given at a perfect pace and the ideas themselves are intriguing but the character drama is so ass. It's like a test to see how much of the cast could be made unlikeable cynical assholes. Fat man and unfortunate whore have rocky relationship, it's like George R.R Martin with all the humanity and empathy stripped out. Sad events without the emotion and attachment to these people to make me sad about it. At least Conphas and Cnaiur slipped through the cracks and are instead very interesting and likeable pieces of shit.

[Anonymous No.22046276]

>>22041665
Men value loyalty over all. Hence why in stories the uncivilized barbarian is the one with 3 wives in harems while the civilized just king has a single queen. One that would support and nurture his nature.

[Anonymous No.22046323]

What are some good self-insert power fantasy novels?

[Anonymous No.22046359]

>>22046323
>Imagine self inserting instead of just making your own life as powerful as the character you want to emulate

[Anonymous No.22046367]

>>22041508
Yeah but Adolin's dad becomes the best character in the series by the end of the book and just maintains that momentum

[Anonymous No.22046415]

>>22044050
this
>>22042975

[Anonymous No.22046445]

>>22046323
I want to (powerfully) self-insert myself into this skank's asshole

[Anonymous No.22046468]

I got through Prince of Nothing and didn't think much of it, I was confused by a lot of it.
Went onto Aspect Emperor and holy fuck what a drastic shift.
The more I think of Prince of Nothing there are tons of parts that stuck with me and I want to get to in a reread, but a lot of is was very deep philosophical text and essentially religious scripture, dense as fuck.
Then Aspect Emperor has the Slog of Slogs and is basically Bakkers version of The Hobbit and god DAMN does it skyrocket into 10/10 levels.

[Anonymous No.22046475]

>>22046359
>>22046445
Not answers.

[Anonymous No.22046698]

>>22046468
I see people talking about the philosophical stuff in Prince of Nothing and I have no idea what they're talking about. Like did I miss it? What is the philosophy and subject of the books? What is it about in that sense because I have read notably dense and difficult books and got it, I feel like I'm missing something here.

[Anonymous No.22046777]

>>22046698
>>22046468
>>22046223
schizo book for pseuds written by a schizo pseud predictably attracts schizophrenic pseudointellectuals
there is nothing of value for neurotypicals within Bakker, it's a literary Rorschach test and you passed

[Anonymous No.22046782]

>>22046698
The entire first trilogy is drenched in what it means to be a man, what it means to have free will, what it means to think and how one can shape the thoughts of others. It's basically Kellhus learning what it is that makes a man and how to fully manipulate man for the entire first trilogy.

I didn't mean that it was deeply philosophical, in that you need to be a massive egghead to understand it. A better way of putting it would be the entire first trilogy (more or less) is spent exploring the philosophy of what it means to be a man / the philosophy of man while occasionally having a battle scene. It's not particularly deep head scratching 'digest for a year and come back' philosophy, but it's far more than most other fantasy series even consider entertaining.

[Anonymous No.22046785]

>>22046698
The novel starts with a Kant quote. Kellhus spews philosophical bullshit and the embodies Nietzschean ubermensch. The subject of the book seems to me about control and how most men are slaves. How we are merely cogs in a machine and few of us can break out if we are le wise. Achamian spews his own philosophy throughout. The wiki of prince of nothing goes into more detail but the philosophy is about as much there as Dune. Which is a lot or a little depending who you are.

[Anonymous No.22046918]

>>22044041
The chosen one and his jrpg party fucking die at the end of Book one and the rest of the series is about the minor characters trying to save the world.
The villain is a dominatrix too

[Anonymous No.22046963]

>>22044959
if Eye of the World represents the entire WoT series, it should be raised vertically 1 or 2 steps IMO

[Anonymous No.22046993]

>>22046785
>>22046782
This jogged my memory honestly, like I remember that all the stuff about free will and men like Kellhus breaking out of it, seeing what comes before and all that and pieces like Cnaiur clawing to that point of true free will. Then or now it just never hit me as substantial or much engrossing. It's just there, not a bad element but far from a highlight or anything to think about to me.
Comparing it to Dune makes a lot of sense in hindsight although I think it's much more thought provoking in Dune (which may be unfair since it's one of those definitive sci-fi books though I'm not ride or die for it like some people are).

If that shit does pop off later I may continue to the next series as I only ever finished The Thousandfold Thought and never went further.

[Anonymous No.22047021]

I think I'm going to start Kingkiller Chronicle today

[Anonymous No.22047151]

>>22043315
high praise
what makes him special?

[Anonymous No.22047226]

>>22046323

If you don't mean fantasy as in the fantasy genre, try picking up almost any military sci-fi series with career progression, or the pulp heroes. Anything by a Weber or Ringo would be good.

If you want actual fantasy its not a novel but Sideboob Fantasy is one of the greatest self-insert from rags to riches stories in all media.

[Anonymous No.22047231]

>>22046323
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, if you have the temperament

[Anonymous No.22047237]

Looks like Ser Piggy has a new novella out this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgUeSBTy6lU

[Anonymous No.22047263]

Any good fantasy or even scifi with lost o' Lesbians?

[Anonymous No.22047287]

>>22047237
why does he care so much about people voting in his pointless poll? guess a new novella is cool, at least it's something new from him

[Anonymous No.22047323]

>>22047021
It's a good read, just be at peace with the fact that you'll never read the final book in the trilogy

[Anonymous No.22047348]

>>22047287
It isn't a new novella. It's an expansion of The Lightning Tree which is already a novella.

[Anonymous No.22047366]

>>22047348
>#1 NYT bestselling phenomenon Patrick Rothfuss returns to the wildly popular Kingkiller Chronicle Universe with a stunning reimagining of “The Lightning Tree." expanded to twice its previous length.

[Anonymous No.22047371]

>>22047348
from what he say's its about double the length so it seemingly has a lot of new shit (havent read lightning tree so idk what could change)

[Anonymous No.22047376]

>>22047371
I've read it. It's 58 pages. Double that would be 116 pages. Not that much really.

[Anonymous No.22047615]

>>22046993
The first two books in the next series are like a grimdark mix up of the plots in LOTR and The Hobbit. The next two get back into the heavy philosophical gibbering, but no where near the level of the first trilogy, while still maintaining the great raw storytelling of books 1 and 2 of the second series.

[Anonymous No.22047646]

>>22047263
I've read lots of good fantasy/SF books, and lots of books with lesbians, but not any good fantasy/SF books with lesbians
I think the best you're liable to do is Death's Master by Tanith Lee, but that was too puerile to be taken seriously but not pornographic enough to be arousing, just trash

incidentally Heart of Hell by Wayne Barlowe has an explicit F/F sex scene practically out of nowhere, but the women who did it wouldn't have considered themselves homosexual

[Anonymous No.22047714]

I want to like this, it has a super cool concept, the author has a writing style I like, and there's a lot of interesting ideas. It's waisted on the protagonist though, he's got far too much personality (spunk, maybe? Strength of will?) for someone that's supposed to be pathetically addicted to his android gf and isn't really useful or even especially liked by her, and the plot itself is a shallow b-movie copy of Neuromancer. The story should have been about Peter. Less action, more sex, gore and body horror. It was so close to being good.
The Human Front did nothing wrong.

[Anonymous No.22047805]

Is the House Absolute (with its ten thousand corridors) a prototype for Whorl (which is filled with underground tunnels)?

[Anonymous No.22047828]

>>22041981
FINNISH THE FUCKING BOOK GEORGE!!!

[Anonymous No.22047841]

Any good?

[Anonymous No.22047906]

rothfus just announced a new novella which is just an extended version of an existing short story and he says it isn't even finished yet, lol

[Anonymous No.22047947]

where are these rothfags coming from the past few days
fuck off we're full

[Anonymous No.22047961]

need me a piece of that Rothfussy ong....

[Anonymous No.22047971]

for me it's books based on video games

[Anonymous No.22047979]

>>22047906
>>22047961
>>22047021
>>22047348
>>22047366
Can you fags talk about someone not shit like David Gemmell

[Anonymous No.22047985]

any more books with redhead princesses?

[Anonymous No.22048008]

>>22047985
Sioned from Dragon Prince has "Gold red hair". But she only looks like the girl from your pic on book one, by the second book she's already a mom in her forties (still hot)

[Anonymous No.22048163]

>>22047985
Belgariad

[Anonymous No.22048168]

>>22047985
Song of the Lioness. Now gimme the uncensored version.

[Anonymous No.22048201]

You guys see the TV series for The Winer King is coming out in august?

[Anonymous No.22048238]

Are the Discworld City Watch books just straight up comedies, or do they have a mystery aspect with substance to it? I am starved for good SF/F mystery content and will take recommendations for that

[Anonymous No.22048241]

>>22048201
Nope

[Anonymous No.22048250]

>>22048238
they're all mystery noir. there's questions that need to be answered that keep you going.

[Anonymous No.22048265]

>>22047646
Hmm thanks for the thoughts. Do you have and /u/ books you'd recommend then?

[Anonymous No.22048274]

>>22048201
>Merlin, the character whose entire storyline is about being a native celtic druid trying to resist Christianity and the invasion of foreigners, is a bl*ck
I fucking SLEEP on this shit

[Anonymous No.22048317]

>>22048201
I don't watch tv adaptations of fantasy books

[Anonymous No.22048352]

>>22048274
What the fuck are you talking about you retard
Merlin was never a druid, he was a magician, and King arthur was a christian romano briton fighting against pagan saxons
Arthur, in the legends, was literally a defender of christianity, there's no way he'd have as his mentor a pagan druid
spastic

[Anonymous No.22048395]

>>22048352
Ok so you haven't read The Winter King

[Anonymous No.22048398]

>>22048395
Which isn't based on the actual legends of king arthur
so it's trash
LOL

[Anonymous No.22048400]

>>22048398
It's
>Let's try to make a historically accurate King Arthur
>Also I hate Christianity btw
By the author of Sharpe, Saxon Tales, etc. It's actually not bad but it gets really depressing by the second book.

[Anonymous No.22048414]

>>22040660
Lovecraft's mythos.

[Anonymous No.22048423]

>>22040654
Going to have my first daughter in Aug. Any name picks? Female names suck mostly, any of these series have good non generic female names?

[Anonymous No.22048430]

Finished this one about ten minutes ago. What a great conclusion. I've been patiently waiting since the first book for the Patriarch to take a major role, and the author fucking delivered. He and Space Christianity in general were ultra based. Also loved that illusion magic was literally the only power the main antagonist had and the way it was used. And the magic system, while less prominent than it was in the second book remains one of my absolute favorites. Maybe I'm even a little bit salty that she ended up erasing it all together with everything that made this setting so perfect for adventuring, but I gotta hand it to the author, she brought every plot thread to a pretty satisfying, definitive conclusion. And the main focus of the trilogy, the way in which Vryce and Tarrant went from enemies to temporary allies to true friends over the the course of the story was handled exceptionally well.

Really good stuff. Kudos to the anon who recommended it to me over a year ago.

[Anonymous No.22048431]

>>22048423
Carol
But really, it's your daughter's name. You should come up with it yourself.

[Anonymous No.22048432]

>>22048400
I actually like Derfel as the main character, sort of an every man who watches the great rise and fall from the sidelines. The framing device of him compiling his memories of Arthur for a noble woman who is obsessed with his legend is also great, it lets him do things like say "ok so his sword had a welsh name but if her lady keeps wanting it to be called Excalibur then I don't mind."

[Anonymous No.22048436]

>>22048431
Fair anon. Yeah I am just looking for ideation. Gone through lot of names. Ahri is the front runner currently. Really would rather get some inspiration from a cool source. Leads appreciated.

[Anonymous No.22048441]

>>22048423
>Naming your daughter after a league of legends character
ffs

[Anonymous No.22048442]

>>22048430
Nightborn: Coldfire Rising July 18, 2023

[Anonymous No.22048448]

>>22048441
Yeah, as you can see I need inspiration. I have gone through tons of things. Bible, history, lit, even us warplane/ship names. Nothing is resonating.

[Anonymous No.22048455]

>>22048442
No way what the fu-
>prequel
Ahhh, good. But huh, what a coincidence. Thanks for the heads-up, anon.

[Anonymous No.22048457]

>>22048436
>Ahri
She's one of the most popular League of Legends characters with a music video that has 552 million views. Good luck not having the character compared to her.

[Anonymous No.22048463]

>>22048457
>I don't play the game I only like LOL for the music videos
The fuck timeline is this?

[Anonymous No.22048467]

>>22048457
Shit. Thanks for the feedback. I am not a lol player, I was not aware of the extent.

[Anonymous No.22048478]

>>22048448
Pick relevant real world culture
Look at names from that culture, there will be tons. The US government has a public databse of all birth names used from most popular to least. Alter them as needed. Alternatively make your own names based on whichever aesthetics you want for the people. How they sound, or look, based on cultural values, or whatever else.

[Anonymous No.22048485]

>>22048478
Thanks anon. I am spending a lot of time on this. A lot tougher than I expected. My son was easy and natural. Hard to come up with a strong original female name. I really appreciate the help

[Anonymous No.22048495]

>>22048485
>original
Why? As someone with a name that is fairly normal but spelled just a little bit off from the norm it's been a problem my whole life.

[Anonymous No.22048502]

>>22047237
The end of the video hurt my feelings a little.

> I love you all. You are better than I deserve.

He knows he's fucked up and he's trying. I can't even be mad at him. I also never game him a dime though, I tormented all the audiobooks and found cheap copies of the first two at book stores.

God I hope his life turns around, it's a little hard to watch.

[Anonymous No.22048504]

>>22048485
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a37668901/top-baby-girl-names/

You can get all the data here though:
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

[Anonymous No.22048510]

>>22047971
Read this last month, total goyslop but I main thresh and senna so the fanservice was fun

[Anonymous No.22048517]

>>22048485
There are three main types of people who pick "original names": eccentric celebrities/wealthy, minorites, and the obsessed. I've literally met a white guy named Naruto and various other media names. Personally my name was one of the most popular of its year, top 3, and I even had a few classmates of the same year and in the same class with even the same first letter of the last name. It isn't something that bothered me even though.

[Anonymous No.22048520]

>>22048517
Your child has to live with their name for their whole life, don't treat it like a quirky fashion accessory.

[Anonymous No.22048526]

>>22048455
You can read it now for free by requesting a digital reading copy from the publisher through NetGalley. May not approve you though.

[Anonymous No.22048527]

>>22048495
Yeah I don't want a fairly normal name spelled silly just to make it unique. Trying for something that when they go through life they don't work with 3 other people with the same name, and it makes them feel special. She's not born yet. And this is all I can really do to prepare. Just trying to be thoughtful with it.

[Anonymous No.22048531]

>>22048520
Well, legal name changes are possible.

[Anonymous No.22048533]

>>22048527
Personally I think the best choice would be give her a relatively popular first name and then whatever you want for the middle name and she can go by her middle name if she wants.

[Anonymous No.22048541]

>>22048526
It's cool, I'll just buy it when it's officially out. But thanks anyway.

[Anonymous No.22048547]

>>22048533
Yeah that seems like a common strategy. I have never really met anyone that goes by their middle name. But hey. I have a common ass name, so I don't know what it feels like. I think my middle name is arguably cooler. But I can't imagine transitioning to it even back in my adolescence. I really do appreciate the insight though.

[Anonymous No.22048565]

>>22048547
It's very common in my grandmother's southern family. She and her sisters all went by their middle names. She's never once called my dad by his first name his entire life; he didn't find out what his name was till his first year of school.

[Anonymous No.22048574]

>>22048547
I have multiple relatives that go by their middle name, so it's just a different experience I guess. Don't forgot to consider the initials as well, otherwise you may end with a 3 letter word you don't like. It probably wouldn't matter all that much though.

[Anonymous No.22048580]

>>22048574
first name starts with n
middle name starts with i
last name starts with g

[Anonymous No.22048586]

>>22048580
Nicole Irene Granger

[Anonymous No.22048668]

made an /sff/ altchan
https://scifichan.space/index.html

[Anonymous No.22048696]

>>22048668
I don't see the purpose, but may as well.

[Anonymous No.22048770]

>>22047971
The only video game based book I read was Assassin's Creed 2 book and the shit was so bad I dropped it after like three chapters. And I was a teenager at the time.

[Anonymous No.22048789]

>>22048770
i read an embarrassing amount of warcraft books for a while there

[Anonymous No.22048832]

>>22048789
Did any of them have troll main or secondary character? I always like warcraft trolls.

[Anonymous No.22048934]

>>22046323
Reverend insanity unironically. All chinkshit is just this.

[Anonymous No.22048967]

>>22047237
The comments on the FB post are pure comedy.

[Anonymous No.22049005]

>>22048934
>self inserting into Fang Yuan
YOU DARE? The toad hungers for swan meat but can't see Mt Tai from the bottom of the well! Kowtow ten times and I'll only flay your skin and chew your tendons, otherwise it'll be the death of nine generations!

[Anonymous No.22049094]

>Destroy your cultivation base, kowtow, and chop yourself into ten hundred pieces and I might leave you with an intact corpse
How does this make any sense

[Anonymous No.22049125]

>>22048423
Thecla
Agia
Dorcas
Jolenta
Cyriaca
Severa
Pia
Burgundofara
Marble
Mint
Mucor
Nettle
Hyacinth
Rose
Nettle
Daisy
Mora
Jahlee

[Anonymous No.22049127]

>>22048423
zelda

[Anonymous No.22049144]

>>22048668
can you dump books and pdf/epub files there?
if not then it's totally worthless

[Anonymous No.22049208]

>>22049144
Why would that matter when you can link whatever here as it is?

[Anonymous No.22049338]

>>22049005
>>self inserting into Fang Yuan
Why not? Out of all protags chinese and western he is one of the most based ones.

[Anonymous No.22049408]

>>22048265
Nevernight's protagonist is bi, but her primary lover is another woman. It's not a masterpiece but it is plenty of fun to read.

[Anonymous No.22049433]

>>22049408
>bi
>lover is a woman
99.99999% of bisex protagonists.

[Anonymous No.22049443]

>>22049433
Over the course of the series she sleeps with four men and two women on the page as far as I can remember.

[Anonymous No.22049462]

>>22040769
Wandering Inn is one of the shittiest books I ever read NGL.

[Anonymous No.22049482]

>>22049443
I appreciate you trolling the /u/fag.

[Anonymous No.22049582]

>>22049433
its some fagshit garbage

[Anonymous No.22049588]

Is there a fantasy book that is standalone, has some mystery, a bit of action, comedy, modernized without the lamentation of their women, and nothing to do with sex with some monster?

[Anonymous No.22049637]

>>22049588
Curse of Chalion. Technically part of a trilogy, but it's a trilogy of stand alone stories.

[Anonymous No.22049648]

>>22049208
There are boards on this very site already which allow for file sharing.

[Anonymous No.22049697]

>>22049588
No, none.

[Anonymous No.22049750]

>>22049482
I'm not? I don't understand.

[Anonymous No.22049798]

>>22048967
Post 'em.

[Anonymous No.22049803]

Give me some shit you wrote. I want to see if it's better than the litrpg progression anime shit shilled on here.

[Anonymous No.22049806]

Who is this turd above me talking to?

[Anonymous No.22049886]

>>22049803
>>22049512

[Anonymous No.22050104]

opinions on Witch World by Andre Norton?

[Anonymous No.22050134]

Just graped pic related from amazon for 99 bong pennies. Need to finish reading the war eternal series first though.

>tfw too tired to read

[Anonymous No.22050210]

>>22049803
I wrote a short novel about an American college student from the present day getting sucked back in time to fight vikings and the supernatural in 9th century England. It's very rough, but I can post it if you like.

[Anonymous No.22050356]

>>22049798

[Anonymous No.22050365]

>>22050356
oh yes sando is such a prolific writer that stormlight won't be finished until 2040

[Anonymous No.22050418]

>>22050356
I can't imagine being so up in arms about a sequel to a fantasy novel. It isn't exactly high literature. Why are people so invested in it?

[Anonymous No.22050424]

>>22049588
>give me a book of fun and passion
>also, omit all the usual passion of love and intimacy humans express
You need mental help, not books

[Anonymous No.22050449]

>>22050134
shill

[Anonymous No.22050454]

>>22050449
>noooo stop talking about books
>reeeee

[Anonymous No.22050491]

>>22049588
If you can stand Brandon Sanderson's subpar prose, Elantris and Warbreaker are two quite good standalone books.

[Anonymous No.22050496]

>>22050418
>Why are people so invested in it?
For me it's closure, I enjoyed part one and two enough to want the third and final part.

[Anonymous No.22050514]

space cats

[Anonymous No.22050568]

>>22050418
Anything people make part of their personal identity is something they become angry about, especially if they feel entitled

[Anonymous No.22050575]

>>22046359
>>22046445
>>22047226
>>22047231
>>22048934
Thanks gents, Ive decided to self-insert into the Dresden Files. However I've read the first few chapters and it seems kind of gay so I think I will just smoke weed, edge, and drift in forza 5 for a few days instead. Nothing really compares to the power fantasies' in my mind.

[Anonymous No.22050750]

>>22050210
Was the student you and a class you were taking/took?

[Anonymous No.22050754]

>>22050365
No one said he was a focused writer.

[Anonymous No.22050794]

>>22049648
Not relevant. Posting external links is sufficient.

[Anonymous No.22050805]

>>22049094
Trying to find sense in that is even more nonsensical than what you've quoted.

[Anonymous No.22050816]

>>22042781
Let me know if ever do regardless of what you thought of it.

[Anonymous No.22050823]

>>22043212
Nothing any different than usual I'd assume. People who rearrange their lives for a single thing are foolish.

[Anonymous No.22050845]

>>22050104
Andre Norton is the pen name for Alice Mary Norton.

[Anonymous No.22050858]

>>22049125
>just list out every botns woman

[Anonymous No.22050867]

>>22049127
Zelda comes from Griselda. What a terrible name the latter is.

[Anonymous No.22050877]

>>22050575
You can only be satisfied by yourself which is why you're be forever alone, and that's a good thing.

[Anonymous No.22050889]

>>22050491
You're wrong on both counts.

[Anonymous No.22050899]

>>22049750
That's by design.

[Anonymous No.22050923]

>>22040660
The Eaters

[Anonymous No.22050979]

>>22050454
Actually it's more like
>noooo stop talking about your book that you published and no one read and you are trying to pretend to be someone else to get someone to readit

[Anonymous No.22050985]

goddamn i hate eric vall, logan jacobs, simon archer, sa archer, db king and dante king so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.22050990]

Fresh bread?

[Anonymous No.22050991]

>>22050979
based
I can't overstate how common shills are on this site
especially on /lit/ and /tg/

[Anonymous No.22050995]

>>22050979
Anon....

[Anonymous No.22050996]

>>22050985
Makes sense since they're all the same collective.

[Anonymous No.22051008]

>>22040654

[Anonymous No.22051015]

>>22050996
DB King probably isn't. I'm not entirely sure if it's a single guy or not, but he's just 'schlock LitRPG writer' compared to the others who're 'shlock erotica writer'.

[Anonymous No.22051092]

>>22041918
>A good series

[Anonymous No.22051198]

>>22050985
literarilly who

[Anonymous No.22051214]

>>22050816
I just finished it. It was good, though not exactly what I was hoping for—I'm a sucker for melancholic reflections on inevitable irreversible loss, but most of the melancholy had drained away by the end. The science also felt on the optimistic side: I could buy the possibility of it all, but the progress appeared sped up by a factor of 10 in order to enable the plot.
The first half did scratch the itch. If the rest were finetuned to my personal taste then the events would be more tragic, or if the bare events were kept intact then the commentary would have acknowledged the inevitable gaps at the edges, where technique informs artistic judgment, since you can't capture that without going a good bit further. (It's notable that the story involved an exact replica.)
But that's just me, and I did enjoy the actual tone for what it was. I also liked the characters and the Chinese perspective. I am glad I read it.

[Anonymous No.22051221]

>>22049338
He's too perfect for a normal man to self insert into. He's my role model, but I can't imagine myself as him. Maybe in the flashback chapters, but not after the first 500 years.

[Anonymous No.22051252]

>>22051198

[Anonymous No.22051329]

>>22051198
I'm not sure on SA Archer, but DB King is a shlocky LitRPG writer that may just be a ghost-writer group pen name. The rest are shlocky erotica writers that are almost certainly ghost-writers under a singular pen name.

[Anonymous No.22051339]

>>22051214
Yeah, the melancholy goes away because it was to show how skills can be made more general. It's all the same skill employ differently, the restriction is both the human mind and society. There wasn't all that much difference between weaver and surgeon from a kinesthetic view. The science is quite optimistic and I think it intentionally cheery view on its practical implications. Not every story has to about the potential abused and negatives though. There's a few other Chinese stories I've read that are similar to this in the various anthologies I've read. The stories in general do provide a different perspective, which I appreciate.

[Anonymous No.22051426]

>>22050750
It is effectively a self-insert story, but the college part is almost completely irrelevant because the isekai turns into a combination of Arthurian legend, Norse mythology, and Christian eschatology

[Anonymous No.22051430]

>>22051221
how can one character be so based? and written by a chinese nonetheless

[Anonymous No.22051538]

>>22051430
>and written by a chinese nonetheless
What's that supposed to mean?

[Anonymous No.22051546]

>>22051329
MSE IS KING !
NOUGH SAID!

[Anonymous No.22051571]

>>22051546
I still feel baffled by this man's existence and continued presence.

[Anonymous No.22051578]

>>22051538
what do you think it could mean?

[Anonymous No.22051675]

>>22051571
i read most of his stories and i came to the conclusion that he's racist.
i mean ,there are no blacks in his stories. and no blacks among the harem.
in this story (space justice) ,he even meet and become king of this space viking clans who are clearly emphasized to be more beautiful, stronger, better disciplined and have more advanced tech ,and of course ,they are all white.
i still enjoyed it ,of course . But if it was more mainstream ,many will be pointing the race finger at him.

[Anonymous No.22051711]

>>22051675
>asians writing about asians - not racist
>blacks writing(?) about blacks - not racist
>south americans writing about south americans - not racist
>arabs writing about arabs - not racist
>whites writing about whites - RACIST!!!!!

[Anonymous No.22051725]

>>22051675
dude ,don't be a bitch . i never judged him. and i said i enjoyed it and i loved the pace vikings for the very reasons i stated. i simply pointed out that compared to other writers in the genra ,there is zero presence of blacks in his writing

[Anonymous No.22051737]

>>22051711
>>22051725

[Anonymous No.22051738]

>>22051675
Honestly I've read a fair few harem stories, there's VERY few non-white girls in them. Sometimes they have weird skin colours if it's fantastical races and whatnot, but I don't really recall any black women in any of the stories I've read. Granted I've forgotten a lot about most of them.

[Anonymous No.22051756]

>>22051725
that is simply not relevant, white man writing exclusively about whites is not a racist and such literature is in no way racist

[Anonymous No.22051777]

>>22051738
Most of them are white or asian, yes.
Though MSE really his white girls .

I'm more than ready to be refuted on this and I have no sticks in the matter , but it seems to me that most harem lit writers fall on the right side of the political spectrum.
Then again. It may only appear that way to me because they dare write of masculine men . Polygamy, feminine women and heterosexual relationships. Which, may I remind you, is quite revolutionary these days .

[Anonymous No.22051786]

>>22051777
I feel like some are largely apolitical and just writing fun stuff. You can sort of tell if they're more left-leaning in some stories where it's clear how much consent and communication is a big deal, compared to others where it's just "man takes woman". Even as a lefty, I kind of enjoy both stories because they're fun explorations of the same notion.

[Anonymous No.22051788]

>>22051777
>returning to tradition is revolutionary rather than reactionary
Amazing, so this is the power of words becoming meaningless.

[Anonymous No.22051798]

>>22051786
>implying your self-identification is accurate

[Anonymous No.22051825]

>>22051711
>>22051756
>>22051788
>>22051788
I will not even attempt to guess the size of whatever is up your ass for you to keep picking at everything you read .

[Anonymous No.22051835]

>>22051777
>Though MSE really his white girls .
He does seem to prefer white girls so much he even made Z whose planet is culturally indonesian (I think) ethnically white but he also made the Tamer MC half-Korean despite the covers showing him to be obviously 100% Caucasian.

I think by 4chan standards he would be a cuckservative and most other authors are just left-of-centrists who aren't that invested in third-wave feminism but definitely support the LGBTQ+ community.

[Anonymous No.22051852]

>>22051675
>i mean ,there are no blacks in his stories. and no blacks among the harem.
>>22051777
>Though MSE really his white girls .
>>22051835
>He does seem to prefer white girls so much
I will now read your books.
>>22051711
>>22051725
This is just my personal opinion, but I think the so called "harem fantasy" genre, which is mixed often with litrpg, has become the current "white male fantasy" literature.

[Anonymous No.22051877]

>>22051852
not white though,i'm north african .
>has become the current "white male fantasy" literature.
you really don't need to be white to be repulsed by wokeness.
i will not claim that my taste is the best nor impose it on anyone but i mostly read self published and non-mainstream for this reason.
i believe it's also the reason why anime and manga make much greater waves in third world countries than American produced media.
even in my university ,you would find people that can be classified as ' delinquents' discussing the latest one piece chapter or girls with jujutsu kaisen and demon slayer shirts on ,but nobody talk about Netflix or marvel.
once you leave California ,anything saturated with wokeness become hard to digest ,but once you reach my country it become alien .
which would push a person to find a different entertainment culture to enjoy

[Anonymous No.22051914]

>>22051877
>you really don't need to be white to be repulsed by wokeness.
Yeah, it was more about the fact that "for some reason" anything woke tends to be "coincidentally", or 90-95% of the times, anti-white, especially fantasy and sci-fi, where the zeitgeist is pushing for "diversity" and "inclusion" and ostracizing the usual "old white dudes".
So, it's not a surprise that lots of anti-woke white guys tend to write fantasies about having harems of beautiful women (which tend to also be almost all white), which tend to create an echo chamber that gatekeeps itself.
I mean, why reading harem fantasy if you don't like the concept of harems? Pretty hard to justify to your feminist progressive friends, am I right? ;)
>i believe it's also the reason why anime and manga make much greater waves in third world countries than American produced media.
I noticed that A LOT.
Latin countires love Saint Seiya like you wouldn't believe, even in hardcore islamic countries Dragon Ball is really liked.

[Anonymous No.22051929]

>>22051852
>This is just my personal opinion, but I think the so called "harem fantasy" genre, which is mixed often with litrpg, has become the current "white male fantasy" literature.
I sincerely hope it has't because it's garbage.

[Anonymous No.22051939]

>>22051929
>I sincerely hope it has't because it's garbage.
Well, I didn't said that it was good....
I mean, you're telling me you don't like cheap, low quality books with self-inserted white chads with giant dicks fucking all the beautiful women, in an rpg-like setting with rpg-like skills, with an AI-made cover?

[Anonymous No.22051943]

>>22051914
>I mean, why reading harem fantasy if you don't like the concept of harems? Pretty hard to justify to your feminist progressive friends, am I right? ;)
There are some harem stories that are basically female-led relationships with the MC being the happy, semi-sapient dildo for a bunch of bisexual boss girls (Arand even made a third pen name where he writes femdom) and shit like Good Intentions that goes full cuckoldry. The reddit crowd also loves those female harem writers like Misty Vixen who all used to write cuckshit pseudo-harems.

[Anonymous No.22051945]

>>22051939
yeah, I don't like it

[Anonymous No.22051955]

>>22051329
>but DB King is a shlocky LitRPG writer that may just be a ghost-writer group pen name.
I think DB King is Dante King's group, but it's PG13, no harem. Same with SA Archer, pg13 stuff.

[Anonymous No.22051958]

>>22051955
Makes sense. I read like one DB King thing, realised it was just kind of 'fine' at most and stopped caring when I realised he had like 50 fucking books.

[Anonymous No.22052001]

>>22051008
this series is really weird, the director of the anime hated the main girl and focused entirely on a side character

[Anonymous No.22052033]

>>22052001
>focused entirely on a side character
who is the side character?