/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.22349911]

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[Anonymous No.22349914]

Reverend Insanity is shit

[Anonymous No.22349917]

Hey guys, it’s me your good friend Mark Arrows here!

Read 12 Miles Below today! Tell all of your friends! Like, subscribe, and comment below to make sure you get all of my notifications! Hit that bell!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42367/12-miles-below

[Anonymous No.22349923]

>>22349911
Morrowind sucks btw.

[Anonymous No.22349929]

>>22349923
>he didn't pick alchemy at character creation
Skill issue

[Anonymous No.22349933]

>>22349917
I'm pirating the audiobook right now. I will also pirate the epub if I like it.

[Anonymous No.22349955]

Just finished Peace. It was good but I think I got filtered. Not surprising since it's considered his most difficult book. I'll definitely reread it again at some point to try and tease more of the real story out from behind the pages but for now I want to turn my brain off and read a trashy power fantasy. Something with lots of violence and a character coming from nothing and ending being powerful and respected. Any good recs?

Already read Cradle, Bakker and most of the other works fitting that description that regularly get shilled here btw.

[Anonymous No.22349967]

>>22349955
>since it's considered his most difficult book
what

[Anonymous No.22349972]

>>22349911
That orc woman has massive tits

[Anonymous No.22349984]

>>22349967
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_(novel)

>Unlike a lot of Wolfe's work Peace is a standalone novel set in a somewhat contemporary time and place (as opposed to the future or an imaginary world). Despite this, the story of the novel is one of Wolfe's strangest and most difficult;

[Anonymous No.22349988]

>>22349972
typical orc woiman

[Anonymous No.22349989]

>>22349914
>filtered by RI
fag, nvgm

[Anonymous No.22349999]

>Lord of the Rings - great
>A Song of Ice and Fire - great
>The Witcher - first two books were great, quality fluctuates a lot afterwards
>His Dark Materials - first book is great, second book is good, third book is shit
>Discworld - I've only finished Mort, too much british humor for my taste
>Stardust - cute and short
>The Princess Bride - cute and short
>Harry Potter - good, especially if you read it as a teenager
>Harry Dresden - ok, it reads as a B movie
>Codex Alera - absolute shit
>The Blade Itself - I've only finished the first book, only one of the characters is good
>The Last Unicorn - fucking boring
>Mistborn - first book is great, second book is awful, third book is ok
>Elantris - absolute shit, dropped it halfway through

I don't have a lot of experience with fantasy series, what should I read next? I don't care what the author posts on twitter as long as they books aren't preachy.

[Anonymous No.22350012]

>>22349999
>>22349955

[Anonymous No.22350028]

>>22349989
All jokes aside, who reads shit like this? Teenagers, or is it just ESL drivel?

[Anonymous No.22350030]

>Eric Larocca
any of you read something written by him? Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.22350038]

>>22350028
It's both.

[Anonymous No.22350046]

>>22349999
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, then continue to be disappointed by every fantasy book you read afterwards.

[Anonymous No.22350130]

>>22349933

Oh no, don’t pirate my book, please no!

[Anonymous No.22350221]

>>22350028
I know that cucks, coomers, liberals and whiteknights don't read it.

[Anonymous No.22350226]

How do I convince more people to read Bakker?

[Anonymous No.22350234]

>>22350226
You need to spam this thread really hard with all your Bakker memes.

[Anonymous No.22350241]

>>22350234
that can be done

[Anonymous No.22350250]

What's the most INTJ series or standalone book you can think of? I want to say New Sun since Severian's narration and how cryptic everything is reminds me a lot of INTJ logic I want to say Bakker's Prince of Nothing too with how philosophical focused everything is but j am fairly sure it is more INTP

[Anonymous No.22350365]

>>22350250
No one is more computer brained than Fang Yuan. His mind is a one track monorail.

[Anonymous No.22350411]

is Titus Groan /sffg/-approved? i notice Gormenghast is, so i guess this must be also.

[Anonymous No.22350451]

Just finished Book of the New Sun, is it better to reread it before reading Urth? Is Urth recommended at all? Is it true Wolfe never wanted to write it and the publisher somehow forced him?

[Anonymous No.22350468]

>>22334127
I finished Matter and did not enjoy its gestalt. It took too long to get to where it was going, with too much time spent on the medieval adventures of Sursamen, which was an abrupt unfulfilling ending with a bland tacked-on epilogue. In the end I am as frustrated as Holse's wife. It had good potential at times; a premature ejaculation at best.
I have Hydrogen Sonata downloaded. Is Surface Detail worthwhile?

[Anonymous No.22350492]

>>22349955
Check out the top Goodreads review for some insight on Peace, there's some subtle things that you have to keep in mind to really get the most out of it.

[Anonymous No.22350497]

>>22350451
Urth is really out there and very esoteric but it's the last Severian book in BOTNS so if you want closure then you'll need to read it

[Anonymous No.22350575]

what do I read next. I just finished 2010: Odyssey Two by Clarke and it was good but I don't think I'm going to read the final two books

1) Authority by Vandermeer (I enjoyed Annihilation, book 1)
2) Embassytown by that bald guy (I loved The City and the City)
3) Three Body Problem book 1 by Cixin
4) Use of Weapons by Banks (Banks can be a slog for me, I read Consider and Player of Games and they were both alright)
5) Lord of Light by Zelanzy
6) The Maltese Falcon by Hammett
7) Foundation book 1 by Asimov

[Anonymous No.22350586]

BORN TO CANT
CONSULT IS A FUCK
鬼神 Kill Em All 4132 Year-of-the-Tusk
I Am Mandati Man
478,637,782 CULLED SRANC

[Anonymous No.22350597]

>>22350586

[Anonymous No.22350714]

>>22350575
You have six choices, excluding the spoilered one. Just roll a die. I've either not read what you've listed or didn't like them

[Anonymous No.22350724]

>>22349999
What are you looking for? Because that's all over the place.

[Anonymous No.22350731]

>>22349999
Read Reverend Insanity

[Anonymous No.22350735]

>mfw Hugo nominees
Is any of this shit worth reading?

>The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
>The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi (Tor Books)
>Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree (Tor Books)
>Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
>Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)
>The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books)

[Anonymous No.22350739]

>>22350735
No, it's all garbage.

[Anonymous No.22350760]

>>22349999
Repairman Jack is pretty fun, it's kind of like Dresden but mixed with Reacher

[Anonymous No.22350799]

>>22350735
I'd rather stick with scribblehub shit

[Anonymous No.22350808]

>>22350735
My problem with nominees regardless of the category is less that they're clearly driven by the LGTBQ tags, which in most cases are very token adding nothing to the story, but rather just how mediocre they are. This isn't worth a nomination in anything, let alone Hugo when it still used to mean something.

[Anonymous No.22350810]

>>22350250
What the frick is an INTJ or INTP series?

[Anonymous No.22350815]

>>22350810
>INTJ or INTP
It's like astrology.

[Anonymous No.22350817]

>>22350808
>he doesn't mind lgbt
your a fag

[Anonymous No.22350828]

>>22350817
It's not that I don't mind, but it's clearly a token inclusion by authors chasing attention they know it'll get them. When I hear LGTBQ I think "main character is gay and that's a core part of the story", but in most cases it just means some tertiary character is goes by they/them or something. Utterly irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.22350829]

>>22350735
Hugo's been pozzed for at least a decade now, who cares? Use their nominees as a list of novels to avoid like plague

[Anonymous No.22350869]

>>22350724
Don't even know it myself. I'm a basic bitch, I just like books about epic quests, big political conspiracies and charismatic characters, even if they are one-note. Vanilla romance is a plus but not necessary. I enjoy the tone of Sanderson's books and his magic system but can't stand when his characters talk like redditors. Apparently his recent books have become more preachy but I don't know if I should believe /lit/. Gene Wolfe's books scare me because I'm not a fan of unreliable narrators and subtext.

[Anonymous No.22350879]

>>22350735
>Legends & Lattes
This deviantart bullshit is actually the cover of the book...

[Anonymous No.22350952]

>>22350735
>The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of lush jungles and feminist themes. Some light romance threads through the heavier ethical questions concerning humanity."
>The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
"When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on."
>Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree
"Rather than leave a quiet life for one of adventurous travel, the hero reverses the journey. She is, moreover, female, not male; an orc, rather than a human; and she finds love with another female, rather than someone of the opposite sex. Oh, and this partner is a succubus."
"Instead of violent battles so common in the genre, the focus is upon the less dramatic challenges of slowly building a thriving business in a relatively quiet city. That it involves creatures like orcs and elves, succubae and goblins, hobs and rattkins, who struggle to escape the stereotype imposed by others’ expectations of their race, adds another delightful level of irony."
>Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
"In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back."
>Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher
"After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself."
“Deeply satisfying and darkly funny feminist fairytale.... At its heart a story of good people doing their best to make the unjust world a fairer place, this marvelous romp will delight Kingfisher’s fans and fairytale lovers alike.”
>The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal
"Kowal’s book was revelatory for me, because here is a version of history where men eventually, finally, listen to women."
"A fine balance of integrating historical accuracy―including mid-twentieth-century sexism, racism, and technology―with speculative storytelling.”

[Anonymous No.22351037]

>>22349933
Ha me too. I'm just going to seed it, not even listen.

[Anonymous No.22351053]

>>22350575
The Maltese Falcon book is basically the same as the movie.

[Anonymous No.22351062]

>>22350735
I refuse to read anything new until it gets discovered to not be shit after about a decade (minimum) of examination by the reading community.

[Anonymous No.22351069]

>>22351053
Is it a good mystery? I enjoy Agatha Christie's books so maybe I'd give this one a try.

[Anonymous No.22351125]

>>22351069
Watch the movie. It's got everything the book does, plus three great performances. And it's only sort of a mystery. Hard boiled style is nothing like Christie.

[Anonymous No.22351202]

>>22350735
I'll defend Kingfisher a bit but the rest of it is from authors who I don't like (Muir's alright but I haven't read beyond Gideon)
Awards are very incestuous at the moment, just a very small circuit of con authors picking their mates for everything.

[Anonymous No.22351251]

Long Sun (BOTNS) is very odd lol

[Anonymous No.22351255]

Series with (tasteful) fanservice set in the Forgotten Realms?

[Anonymous No.22351282]

>>22351255
Ed Greenwood is probably the horniest forgotten realms author.

[Anonymous No.22351288]

>>22350810
Astrology for zoomers

[Anonymous No.22351344]

>>22351282
He's also the creator of the campaign setting itself.

[Anonymous No.22351351]

>>22351255
For most of its history the books were required to be written to a PG rating. Later on some were allowed to be PG-13. I don't know what the current status is. You aren't going to find the sexual sort of fanservice in them.

[Anonymous No.22351364]

>>22351062
>implying you can trust the general reading community at large to have the same taste as you

[Anonymous No.22351382]

>>22351251
I don't disagree, but I love summarizing the premise to people. Just finished Litany and can't wait to get home from work and start Epiphany.

[Anonymous No.22351461]

>>22351344
That's why they let him be horny on main. There's a lot of casual nudity in his books since in the original conception of the FG setting nudism was normal cultural thing lmao.

[Anonymous No.22351482]

>>22351255
Just read the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series, it has (mostly) tasteful fanservice and monster girls like pic rel.

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.22351496]

>>22349911
A Year in the Linear City, Linear City #1 - Paul di Filippo (2002)

How much I enjoyed this weird fiction novella shouldn't have came as a surprise, as I've read twenty-eight works of short fiction from di Filipo, mostly from a single series, and was pleased with the majority of them. Yet, somehow I haven't read any of his novels, but I will sooner than later now. Much of the weird I've read has been mediocre, but this gives me hope for it again. This alone may have made my novella binge worth it.

The premise of the world is that it's an endless city two blocks wide in both linear directions. These two separated blocks are more distinct than you'd think. They're basically complementary binaries. The world is probably a (spoilered to maximize the sense of wonder when reading) moebius strip atop a literal ouroboros. Each iteration of the city is slightly different from the next. There's unlikely any beginning or end, as zero would be an arbitrary point as on a number line. That doesn't make any sense, but why should it have to? It's weird for that reason. The closest thing in the real world to any of this is the proposed linear smart city that would be called, The Line, which would be in Neom, Saudi Arabia, assuming it's ever completed.

This novella has far more ideas crammed in than there reasonably should be, but even only a cursory examination of them was still more than enough for me to overlook all the shortcomings. For example, when people die they're visibly and physically taken to the afterlife by one of two groups. Nothing is ever explicitly explained, so if that's something you need, you won't find it here. The characters are almost as baffled about their world as the readers are. There's a bit of a meta aspect to their pondering, and especially to the writer protagonist's speculative writings.

There isn't a plot. It's simply the characters' daily lives, which is shown in a way that I especially prefer. Only maybe one of the characters develops in any significant way, not that there's all that many pages for many of them to do so. Despite that I liked all the characters. Almost everything is in service of worldbuilding. At first I was annoyed by Di Filippo's thesaurus plundering and the character names, but then I realized that the contrasting vocabularies and absurd names were part of the worldbuilding and it became quaint.

My only complaint is that it isn't longer, because I could read so, so, much more of this. It's absurd how much fun it became the more I read. I was going to rate it lower, but by the end anything that I disliked while reading became irrelevant. There's a sequel which is much lower rated and although it's apparently in the same setting, it's very different. Considering what I spoilered, that makes sense, and even though the probability of disappointment is significant it's still something I'll definitely be reading.

Rating: 5/5

[Anonymous No.22351499]

>>22349923
Oblivion is better tbqh.

[Anonymous No.22351507]

>>22351496
I used the original book cover art from the artist's site because all the covers I could find were low res trash. The font and typography look bad as well so it's not much of a loss.

[Anonymous No.22351517]

>>22349999
You seem to have pretty shit taste

[Anonymous No.22351620]

TWI 9.24 Goddamnit, I was about to complain about how the Liscor Dungeon plotline had been completely forgotten, but the author just had to bring it back to spite me and my complaints.
Also, chapter 9.23 was a bit of a disappointment considering it was one of the most notable chapters (due to title and warning), but still really nice. Seems like Vol 9 really is picking up after the slog that was parts of volume 8

[Anonymous No.22351626]

>>22351282
>>22351461
>>22351482
>>22351351
Thanks bros

[Anonymous No.22351635]

>>22351517
why?

[Anonymous No.22351673]

>>22351626
If you like fat women anda/or big ases read Malazan,.

[Anonymous No.22351681]

Halfway through pic related, have I hit "le drop off" yet?
I'm still enjoying it, but I may just be retarded.

[Anonymous No.22351692]

>>22351673
I read through book 5 about 10 years ago and don’t remember any fanservice

[Anonymous No.22351707]

>>22351681
Yes you've hit the wall. The experience may be different when you can just plow through a few boring books rather than having to wait 15 years for the series to get back on track. I suspect that you will admit to a lull after you get through the next 4 volumes though. They suck the energy out gradually.

[Anonymous No.22351732]

>>22351681
Fuck I would kill to own a full series with covers like that. All the reprints of old series are so fucking trash

[Anonymous No.22351822]

>>22351681
Crown of sword had Queen Morgase getting blacked so no, it's still good, the drop starts in path of daggers.

[Anonymous No.22351843]

>>22351681
It's a drop from books 4 5 and 6 for sure but it stays good until book 10. Book 10 is shit but then it goes back to good with 11 until finish. The slog is a boomer meme for those of us who waited years between books while jordan was dying.

[Anonymous No.22351862]

>>22351681
It's certainly where I quit 20 years ago. Keep telling myself I'll re-read the series from the beginning since it's "complete" but I just can't bring myself to do it.

[Anonymous No.22351969]

>>22349999
With that list I honestly expected to see Narnia on there
I'd say Earthsea but might be too meandering for your taste

[Anonymous No.22351998]

Just finished Light Bringer. It had some really high highs, especially with the Volsung Fá fight, but there was also a lot of awkward rushing/retconning, especially with Lyria. Brown decided to take away the one thing that made Lyria interesting and she brings the book down. Feel like there should have been some more POVs too.

[Anonymous No.22352009]

>>22351681
Don't listen to any Slogslayers.

Path of Daggers is great. You get one of Rand's best moments in it. Winter's Heart is also great because we meet a crucial character for Mat's story and the finale is one of the best ever put to pen and paper. Crossroads of Twilight is admittedly rough because a lot of it is either recap or meandering, but it does pick up by the end. After that, everything is 11/10.

[Anonymous No.22352044]

>Reading I Shall Seal the Heavens
>The whole journey in the dream world in the Violet Furnace Lord exam
>The whole part about the father in the dream world in the Immortal Demon Sect
Why are some gems buried in the shit?

[Anonymous No.22352055]

Rec me some good historical fiction for red blooded brehs. Already read Sharpe, hornblower, Aubrey maturin and flashman.

[Anonymous No.22352077]

>>22352055
What do you mean historical? Like, medieval? Just read some Bernard Cornwell.

[Anonymous No.22352100]

Were there any other attempts of writing a school of magic series after Harry Potter?

[Anonymous No.22352111]

>>22352055
In sff you might like March Upcountry and the Vorkosigan books. I just couldn't into Alexander Kent and the lesser historical fiction writers after the ones you mention. If you can handle historical mood and plotting but without the war and action read Name of the Rose.

[Anonymous No.22352113]

>>22352100
Yeah, fucking thousands

[Anonymous No.22352125]

>>22352100
It's 2/3 of the YA section at your local barnes and noble

[Anonymous No.22352162]

what are other works like this

[Anonymous No.22352201]

started reading the wizard knight, so far it's boring as fuck even black prism by brent weeks has a better start and people on /lit/ seem to shit on him

[Anonymous No.22352266]

>>22352162
His novels? With Ballard it really depends on what period you're after more of. IIRC that collection doesn't have much from his later period so you could read Atrocity Exhibition without much repeated material
Crowley has a similar approach of turning the genre story into a literary work but besides that they don't have too much in common.

[Anonymous No.22352272]

>>22352125
>>22352113
Isn't there anything worth reading of those thousands?

[Anonymous No.22352278]

Is Heathcliff the ultimate anti-hero? Or is it Edmund Dante?

[Anonymous No.22352283]

>>22352201
Don't make me post the pasta, anon.

[Anonymous No.22352284]

>>22352201
Wizard Knight is not a good adventure story. The people who like Gene Wolfe novels, like to piece together the secrets and hidden meanings behind the novel. Some of his stories are good without all that, but Wizard Knight is not one of them.

[Anonymous No.22352306]

Just finished Project Hail Mary. It's good. Flawed, but that didn't make it any worse of an experience.
I'd give it a 4-4.5 / 5. It's a good "hard" scifi, introduce handwavium premise, solve it within the framework provided as close to reality as possible. (Debatable, since I'm certainly not qualified in anything worthwhile)

[Anonymous No.22352338]

>>22352306
Didn't like the style and where the plot ended up going, but I'm a sucker for stories where the protag must solve a closed environment problem and overall it was still pretty fun

[Anonymous No.22352353]

>>22352272
vita nostra's good

[Anonymous No.22352378]

>>22349989
so this is RI
lol, lmao

[Anonymous No.22352456]

>>22352077
>say I want historical fiction
>ask if I want historical fiction
>recommend an author whose series I said I read in the OP

You should read posts before responding to them retard.

[Anonymous No.22352460]

>>22350586
based

[Anonymous No.22352466]

>>22352111
I read the first vorkosigan book, it had distinct written by a under sexed woman vibes and turns out I was right. I liked it well enough though, I should get back to it when I'm in the mood. But I said red blooded books for brehs not barely disguised rape and gay bait fantasies. And already read name of the rose.

[Anonymous No.22352560]

For me it's The Frost-Giant's Daughter.
>yfw Conan was in the right for attempting to rape her

[Anonymous No.22352620]

Any books that feel like a surreal cartoon? Something maximalist.

Bizzaro fiction seems kind of similar to that concept but the quality of the writing isn't very good and it leans too much into the edgy 'punk' shit.

[Anonymous No.22352629]

>>22352560
trash art
>story describes conan as wearing mail shirt and corselet
>choose to depict him as le shirtless naked barbarian for no reason
It's funny seeing the fake conan fans who haven't read the stories depict conan as always being naked when, unless he's sneaking or has been deprived of it, he always chooses to wear armor

[Anonymous No.22352634]

>>22352629
>trash art
>>story describes conan as wearing mail shirt and corselet
>>choose to depict him as le shirtless naked barbarian for no reason
>It's funny seeing the fake conan fans who haven't read the stories depict conan as always being naked when, unless he's sneaking or has been deprived of it, he always chooses to wear armor

[Anonymous No.22352639]

>>22351496
your """reviews""" are SHIT
FUCK OFF

[Anonymous No.22352648]

>>22352634
No, he's right.

[Anonymous No.22352655]

>>22352648
No, he isn't.

[Anonymous No.22352669]

>>22352655
Did you actually bother to read the story?
>Both were tall men, built like tigers. Their shields were gone, their corselets battered and dinted. Blood dried on their mail; their swords were stained red. Their horned helmets showed the marks of fierce strokes. One was beardless and black-maned. The locks and beard of the other were red as the blood on the sunlit snow.
>His mailed feet broke through the frozen crust; he sank deep in the drifts and forged through them by sheer strength. But the girl danced across the snow light as a feather floating across a pool; her naked feet barely left their imprint on the hoar-frost that overlaid the crust. In spite of the fire in his veins, the cold bit through warrior's mail and fur-lined tunic;

[Anonymous No.22352674]

>>22352629
Where the FUCK are you looking at, anon?

[Anonymous No.22352709]

>>22352669
You can enjoy art without it being accurate. Frazetta loved Conan and just about all of his Conan paintings are him in a loincloth.

[Anonymous No.22352736]

[Anonymous No.22352789]

>>22352284
It's an excellent adventure story if you have a good attention span and a little grounding in chivalry,

[Anonymous No.22352791]

>>22352456
this isn't the historical fiction thread retard

[Anonymous No.22352874]

>>22352709
Nta, but what's a goalposting. "Umm actually it doesn't matter if the painting isn't accurate."

[Anonymous No.22352900]

>>22350735
>>22350952
Hugo and Nebula awards are warnings to not read at this point.

[Anonymous No.22352931]

>>22352874
It isn't goalposting since I never claimed it mattered if the painting is accurate or not.

[Anonymous No.22352940]

>>22352874
>>22352931
Also you're strawmanning me since I never said it DOESN'T matter if it's accurate or not; I said you could still enjoy art even if it isn't accurate. 'Mattering' has nothing to do with it either way.

[Anonymous No.22352944]

>>22352306
I wanted him to go back to Earth tb h

[Anonymous No.22353055]

>>22350451
I didn't enjoy Urth nearly as much as the rest of New Sun, but it does do a good job of helping you understand New Sun overall. Also I'd move straight on to Long and Short Sun before rereading anything. Too many people never make it to the sequel series, which are just as good.

[Anonymous No.22353147]

>>22352639
post an example of a good review?

[Anonymous No.22353151]

>>22352634
You look like that.

[Anonymous No.22353228]

How do you ignore all the outdated science in most recommended scifi? It really irks me.

[Anonymous No.22353249]

/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.22353263]

/SFFG/ Recommendations: LITRPG Edition

Read Azarinth Healer, Primal Hunter, He Who Fights with Monsters, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Also read System Universe, Dissonance, Defiance of the Fall, Iron Prince.

[Anonymous No.22353267]

currently reading pic rel. Is this the greatest space opera of all time?

[Anonymous No.22353268]

>>22353263
Does System Universe get better? It feels really slow.

[Anonymous No.22353272]

>fight Volsung Fa
>have to level up mid-fight to get his healthbar down
>at 10% health he stims up and there's a flight chase minigame
when does this game get good

[Anonymous No.22353294]

Took me a whole to finally read Schweitzer. The Mask Of the Sorcerer is great so far, just wish that the kid narrating was a little less verbose. Usually I like that style, but it doesn't entirely fit the voice of a child. I kind of assume he is an old man retelling the vivid events of his boyhood, however I've not finished the novel yet. What are some other less popular Wolfe-lite authors similar to Schweitzer? pic mostly unrelated

[Anonymous No.22353302]

>>22352634
Anon is correct. Conan was a King (although obviously not at that stage). Art usually depicts him as a savage retard.

[Anonymous No.22353308]

>>22351673
Brittany!

[Anonymous No.22353310]

>>22353272
The part where he was jumping from Island to Island was do fucking corny bruh this series is absolute dogwater now

[Anonymous No.22353313]

>>22350735
I use the Hugo nominations as a list of books to avoid, not a list of recommendations. Hugo is so insanely pozzed these days, it's really quite shameful.

[Anonymous No.22353331]

>>22351673
le eyes far apart bakker hating lady

[Anonymous No.22353370]

>>22352055
Eagle series by Scarrow maybe?

[Anonymous No.22353373]

Is the hype justified?

[Anonymous No.22353436]

>>22352055
Accursed Kings

[Anonymous No.22353461]

>>22353436
Seconding this, absolute kino.

[Anonymous No.22353477]

Is there any recent fiction (post 2020) that is good and nonsexualized? Pic definitely non related.

[Anonymous No.22353485]

>>22350879
Saw this at an actual brick-and-mortar bookstore once.
Like a month ago.
Never recovered.

[Anonymous No.22353530]

>>22350879
>>22353485
Is it good if you like muscle mommy orc girls?

[Anonymous No.22353571]

Chinks are making a LOTM anime
We see stuff from vol. 1, like megose, 0-02 and clown klein
https://files.catbox.moe/ad681q.mp4

[Anonymous No.22353599]

>>22353530
I haven't read it but I think it's a yuri slice of life about the tiefling girl helping the ex-adventurer orcess run a cafe. So maybe?

[Anonymous No.22353605]

>>22353571

[Anonymous No.22353633]

>>22353599
It's cool how major publishing is just copying webnovels years after the fact now

[Anonymous No.22353659]

>>22352944
yeah, same. I wanted to know what happened with Earth.
Maybe he can stay but I want to know what happened

[Anonymous No.22353724]

>>22351062
>I refuse to read anything new until it gets discovered to not be shit after about a decade (minimum) of examination by the reading community.
I wish this still happened. Nowadays people just read shit because it's NEW. No better example than booktubers out there.

[Anonymous No.22353747]

>>22353571
I am lampooning so hard right now.

[Anonymous No.22353757]

How good is Oz series? I only read the first one ages ago.

[Anonymous No.22353823]

>>22353530
It's a SoL lesbian romance between a female orc and a succubus. It's also about breaking racial stereotypes and the author is a white man, so you just know he's writing about his self-loathing and porn addiction.

[Anonymous No.22353827]

Speaking of Oz, what about Wicked? Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.22353833]

>>22353228
Honestly i doesn't bother me at all because i read science fiction for it's sharp social critique because most litfic authors are pussies and/or too defeatist, with that whole "man is a futile passion" mindset.

[Anonymous No.22353901]

>>22353228
scifi is just a "what if?" genre
it doesn't actually matter if the what if isn't plausible
Like The Stars My Destination isn't hurt at all by it basically being about magic.
Meanwhile some attempts at 'hard scifi' are absolutely hurt by getting bogged down in technical language and plausability

[Anonymous No.22353959]

>>22351620
>Also, chapter 9.23 was a bit of a disappointment considering it was one of the most notable chapters (due to title and warning), but still really nice. Seems like Vol 9 really is picking up after the slog that was parts of volume 8
V9 is way better than V8 so far, not bogged down with myriad of plotlines and focused. And soon it will be ending and we are finally getting new lands arc we deserve in V10, not this endless teasing.

[Anonymous No.22353997]

>>22352055
The Reluctant Adventures of Lt Martin Jerrold

[Anonymous No.22354032]

Just started Malazan. What am I in for my /sffg/bros?

[Anonymous No.22354039]

>>22353833
this is exactly why I love Project Hail Mary
just a nigga and his lil buddy
no doomer shit to be found

[Anonymous No.22354073]

>>22353228
Remijd yourself that all of today's science will soon be outdated and many theories that were dismissed will be revived.

[Anonymous No.22354080]

>>22354073
>read a scifi novel
>it has room temperature superconductors
>fling it away in disgust whenever a study fails to replicate
>eagerly pick it up again when a study seems to replicate

[Anonymous No.22354097]

>>22352055
The Long Ships

[Anonymous No.22354101]

>>22352055

[Anonymous No.22354103]

>>22352620
R A Lafferty

[Anonymous No.22354116]

>tfw you have a million books on backlog, but just want to read books you've already read

[Anonymous No.22354155]

>>22354073
I mean, SF doesn't really have anything to do wit replicating 1:1 actual science. Even rock hard SF extrapolates and speculates.

[Anonymous No.22354180]

Recommend me some comfy slop I can read when I'm sad

[Anonymous No.22354188]

Why does Earwa have so many craters?

[Anonymous No.22354189]

Metro 2033 Writer in exile
https://worldcrunch.com/focus/where-is-dmitry-glukhovsky

Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky is handed an 8-year prison term in absentia for discrediting Russia’s army
https://apnews.com/article/russia-crackdown-navalny-court-dmitry-glukhovsky-4d35046224f7f0f2cba076bb1544fe4a

[Anonymous No.22354195]

>>22350952
Fantasy is fucking dead

[Anonymous No.22354206]

>>22354116
Me with Moorcock (hah cock) and David Eddings
>>22354180
Belgariad, Malloreon and Riftwar.
>>22354195
*Resurrects fantasy* Nothing personnel, kid.

[Anonymous No.22354207]

>>22354116
Literally me. I had to force myself to 1 new book between every reread

[Anonymous No.22354252]

>>22351822
valda was white

[Anonymous No.22354274]

>>22351681
>A [X] of [Y]

[Anonymous No.22354280]

i need a qrd on hyperion cantos

[Anonymous No.22354281]

>>22352460
>>22350597
>>22350586
so what do you guys think happened to kellhus' soul? He had a pretty sweet deal with the horngod but clearly didn't hold up his end of the bargain, so surely he's damned, right?

[Anonymous No.22354287]

>>22354206
>and one furious mom

[Anonymous No.22354315]

>>22350226
Fan art.

Someone posted this drawing of those demon things basically pillaging a city, and it got me super interested.

Would love to see more fan art of scenes.

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.22354321]

>>22349911
Burn - James Patrick Kelly (2005)

Spur is a firefighter who awakens traumatized from nearly being burned alive by a suicide firebomber terrorist who until moments earlier had been his colleague, best friend, and brother-in-law. His marriage had already been troubled and he knows that divorce is now inevitable. He's a resident of the Transcendental State, as in the early 19th century movement, which has a consensual cultural quarantine covenant for all its new settlers. This is made possible by that fact that the entirety of the planet is owned by a single man, Jack Winter. He bought it in a fire sale, as the original colonizers who can trace their lineage back to the early generation ships, had ruined the environment. The solution for that is to make the whole planet a forest. While Spur is recuperating in a hospital that's mostly exempt from the quarantine he takes the opportunity to randomly call Upsiders, the term for anyone off-planet. There's at least a thousand inhabited worlds, so the choices are nearly endless. One of the calls actually goes through and then life isn't so simple any longer.

This novella has the interesting circumstances of both having won the 2007 Nebula award and being relatively badly rated, 3.41 as of this writing, on Goodreads. I fully understand how that's possible. I don't think it's so much that this is a polarizing work as it is that enjoying it requires a specific perspective and certain tolerances. It also helps that I've generally enjoyed Kelly's short fiction. This is a pastoral SF that as the author explains in the postword that allowed him to both carry out his grudge against David Thoreau and to write about the research he had been doing on wildfire fighting. As a result, almost all the science fiction technology and concepts are only mentioned and little else due to the ban on technology to promote a life of simplicity. Everything really is simply background for the accidental chain of events the protagonist sets in motion. There's not really any plot and the characters when they have any development is questionable because their motivations are mostly implied. Almost nothing is explained, which is intentional, so the reader will have to speculate as to why anything is happening. I find that to be a rather hit-or-miss approach, but for me it was a hit this time. This would've been better as a novel, but that wasn't what Kelly was contracted to write.

I had quite a bit of fun reading this despite its many shortcomings and it reminded me once again that I want to read more Pastoral SF. Any form of it really would be fine, regardless whether it's for or against it. The problem is as always finding an author who can write it in a way that I enjoy. I was pleasantly surprised by this as it turned out to be different than I thought it'd be and because of its relatively low rating. I wonder if it had a more favorable reception from its general readership at the time of its release.

Rating: 4/5

[Anonymous No.22354352]

>>22349911
I think Robert Jordan had a lezdom fetish.
>>22349972
True, but I'm looking more at dunmer cutes.
>>22329217
Soulcatcher is more interesting.

[Anonymous No.22354366]

>>22353294
There's a Gene Wolfe blurb on The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford. I haven't read it.

[sage No.22354377]

>>22354321
>nebula
>shitreads
fuck off

[Anonymous No.22354402]

>>22354321
your """reviews""" are SHIT
FUCK OFF

[Anonymous No.22354404]

>>22354281
Second decapitant.

[Anonymous No.22354430]

>>22354352
He had a mommy fetish

[Anonymous No.22354431]

>>22353571
>RI manga gets cancelled
>LotM gets an anime
The will of heaven is fickle and unjust, only strength can be trusted.

[Anonymous No.22354456]

>>22354431
RI manga was a fan project, no? It was also garbage and unnecessary. Regarding chink anime, have you watched any of their animes? They are complete garbage, I am not a big expert about animation/motion picture but chinks make really bad at anime, if they are making lotm anime consider that ruined already.

[Anonymous No.22354479]

>>22354404
so he's just stuck there chilling cheek to cheek with big nigga until archaeologists come find them or something? heh

[Anonymous No.22354493]

>>22354456
It varies, Mo Dao Zu Shi was amazingly animated, even though I didn't like the source material at all and the story was boring it was interesting just to watch it.

[Anonymous No.22354501]

>>22354479
My guess is another incursion into Golgotterath to retrieve his soul, mirroring the track of Nau-Cayûti and Seswatha recovering the Heron Spear.

[Anonymous No.22354502]

>>22354493
I have seen that and that exactly what I meant in my comment, they spent probably obscene amount of money on actual artists and animators so the animation quality is very high, but everything else, directing, script, dialog, story, characters basically everything other than animation was shit and this is the case with every chinese anime.

[Anonymous No.22354520]

>>22353267
Is it? anyone? bum for interest

[Anonymous No.22354532]

>>22354520
warosu

[Anonymous No.22354535]

>>22354520
I'm only 150 pages in anon, but I've seen a lot of YouTubers place it in their top 5. Unfortunately I've not seen it mentioned here once

[Anonymous No.22354543]

>>22354535
lurk a lot more

[Anonymous No.22354570]

>>22354535
anon i don't want to be a dick but that's a horrible sign

[Anonymous No.22354569]

>>22351969
>Earthsea
>too meandering
This guy liked George RR Bloatlord Martin's opus and Le Guin wove efficient and elegant prose comparable to literary greats. The actual wrinkle would be they are more philosophical and introspective than flash bang than the more heavily extrinsically motivated fantasy that predominates his list.

[Anonymous No.22354589]

>>22354532
ah yes right warosu, sure my bad.
what?

[Anonymous No.22354601]

>>22353959
>soon
Man this last month has been dry af between the breaks and the spinoff I miss not being caught up

[Anonymous No.22354621]

>>22354589
It sure is summer in here.

[Anonymous No.22354635]

>>22354570
I barely come on the sci fi/fantasy general, so maybe it is mentioned more. I'm basically making my way through the SF masterworks series anyway, and I would say almost every single one has been enjoyable. Just finished flowers for Algernon last week, felt so sad bros

[Anonymous No.22354645]

>>22354366
The Dragon Waiting by Ford is dense like Wolfe, but didn't seem similar in style at all. Good book though

[Anonymous No.22354650]

>>22354206
>female author

[Anonymous No.22354658]

>>22349999
Quads wasted on a terrible post. Sad!

[Anonymous No.22354686]

>>22354032
You're reading it right? See for yourself.

[Anonymous No.22354725]

>>22354635
interesting. thanks anon for be a normal human being and not making this board even shittier.

[Anonymous No.22354754]

>>22354501
but somebody needs to know it's even there to fetch.
besides, we all know who's gonna have to do it and if I were that bitter old fart I wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.22354755]

Why does 99% of stuff has to be a 10 part series or at least a trilogy?

[Anonymous No.22354768]

>>22354755
Money. Publishers many years ago realized there's more money to be made in long series and started demanding their authors write exactly that.

[Anonymous No.22354770]

>>22354206
>>22354287
Easiest skip ever.

[Anonymous No.22354771]

>>22354755
modern faggy publishers and milking for $$$
Back in the day guys would write a 180 page novel like The Deep by John Crowley, and it would be a better game of thrones than an unfinished game of thrones. Check >>22353294 out for a good standalone fantasy

[Anonymous No.22354788]

>>22340034
>>22339887
It's out now though.
It released today.

[Anonymous No.22354797]

>>22354788
>>22354274

[Anonymous No.22354813]

>>22354754
I'm imagining that decrepit old man would figure it out. His dreams have obviously started to wander and show him things that he shouldn't otherwise know.
But I doubt we will ever see TNG series.

[Anonymous No.22354941]

>>22354569
no you're exactly right, I was too tired/lazy to write it out

[Anonymous No.22354948]

>>22354725
you're welcome bro

[Anonymous No.22355006]

>>22354755
The profit rate on published fiction is pretty low, like sub 50% of anything published makes them money
So in niche areas like genre fiction if you have a hit on your hands you want to milk it for as much as possible.
Same deal as an author desu, if you're not a megastar you aren't making that much per book so you want to be locked into getting paid for as many books as possible because there's no guarantee you can successfully sell your next book idea

[Anonymous No.22355047]

>>22354650
>He doesn't know who Kate elliott is
Read more, newfag
>>22354287
>>22354770
What's wrong chuddy? Too scared of strong women who protect their families? I thought You /pol/fags loved """"trad""" families and all that shit

[Anonymous No.22355090]

>>22355047
>He doesn't know who Kate elliott is
I don't either. I think it's a good rule of thumb to avoid female authors because they tend to write for a female audience, which is all fine. Not everything has to be for everybody. But there are exceptions. Why would Kate Elliottt make that list?

[Anonymous No.22355106]

>>22354755
Honestly that's why I admired Sanderson for publishing standalones warbreaker and elantris early in his career. That was an era of milking and unfinished sprawl (much like our own) and it was refreshing to read books with endings.
Now of course he's got some kind of rebound sickness with his cosmere thing, but in that time and place he went against the grain.

[Anonymous No.22355139]

>>22355106
I'm not sure Sanderson knows what a standalone book actually is.

[Anonymous No.22355152]

>>22355139
Well he did back then. He can say now "hahaha! all along I was going to ..." but his stories had a beginning, a middle and an end, which was rare in the genre at the time. Whatever was in his head didn't prevent him from delivering this experience to the reader.

[Anonymous No.22355198]

>>22354635
I read Flowers for Algernon during my grade 11 year, some 35 years ago. It was required reading. There needs to be more sci-fi and fantasy in the education system.

[Anonymous No.22355217]

>>22355047
>>22355090
Clearly she is a roastie. That is more than enough information about her, rest is self explanatory.

[Anonymous No.22355233]

>>22355090
>think it's a good rule of thumb to avoid female authors because they tend to write for a female audience, which is all fine
Stop reading modern YA and read actual books.
>Why would Kate Elliottt make that list?
She was really famous back in the late nineties, early 00s thanks to Crown of Stars and the Crossroads trilogy.

[Anonymous No.22355250]

>>22349999
Belgariad/Malloreon, and Elenium/Tamuli, by David Eddings

[Anonymous No.22355268]

I refuse to read a even a single fantasy "series". Standalone or bust.

[Anonymous No.22355345]

>>22355250
Based

[Anonymous No.22355365]

>>22355233
>gender difference began with modern YA
Unconvincing. Kate Elliott dropped.

[Anonymous No.22355383]

>>22353959
>soon it will be ending
Shit, really?

[Anonymous No.22355393]

yIs Memory Sorrow and Thorn worth my time? I've seen it elevated in muh 'literary fantasy' tiers but from what I can tell, it seems pretty generic to me.

[Anonymous No.22355400]

I heard the house rapes the protagonist in the series, is this true?
Can the author get away with that with how amazon is nowadays with the censoring?

[Anonymous No.22355418]

Give me breast-positive fantasy, please. Fantasy featuring big breasts treated either with the respect they deserve or as comic relief.

[Anonymous No.22355430]

>>22349929
Almost all of it is terrible. Fighting is janky, and the graphics are trash.
>>22351499
It's not bad, but Skyrim is better.

[Anonymous No.22355436]

>>22349923
Shut up n'wah.
>>22354032
>>22353267
>>22355393
Great posts anon, very oiriginal but just started three body problem and i'm wondering when does it gets good? are the witcher books any good? Only played Witcher 3 and the netflix's series. Just started Eye of the World when does WoT gets good?? Any books like dark souls/berserk/Bloodborne??? Any books like FF/Dragon Quest/Tales of..??!! Any books with N'Wahs?Kvothe is a cuck, will slob Martin ever finish winds of winter??? Abercrombie is Reddit-tier?? Are the dune sequels worth it or should i stop with god emperor of dunc? Did severian fucked his grandma? Is severian a clone? Any books with chinks? Any books like fallout/metro? Any books where the mc gets cucked? Any books where the mc Doesn't get cucked?? Stormlight book 5 when? Will kaladin fuck the fairy?? is the Eisenhorn trilogy a good place to start with W40k??? Or should i watch 4hours YouTube vid about le EPIC lore??? Any books with young petite women? Any books with old thick women? Any books with MANLY men like David Gemmell? Soulcatcher or Lady who is the better waifu? When does malazan gets good?? I didn't finish highschool so i can´t understand Malazan?!?! When does ASOIAF gets good??!? When does Farseer gets good?? When does lightbringer gets good?? When does codex alera gets good??? When does Lord of The Isles gets good?? Dunsany is king or bakker??
Any books with incest?

[Anonymous No.22355437]

>>22355430
low tier bait

[Anonymous No.22355438]

>>22355437
yet you replied to it.

[Anonymous No.22355444]

Any books with this feel? Four (or three or five) niggas just chilling and saving the world

[Anonymous No.22355448]

>>22355438
I kneel

[Anonymous No.22355454]

>House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
give it to me straight, is it good or another meme book?

[Anonymous No.22355459]

>>22355444
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.22355461]

>Nooo you can't just ask if a book is good or not!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.22355462]

>>22355461
why not?

[Anonymous No.22355465]

>>22355444
Greatcoats but anything 3 musketeers inspired would also be good, iirc Howard Andrew Jones has a series in that vein
>>22355454
It's a good horror book and the gimmicks work well to service that, I'd suggest buying it physically though because of them

[Anonymous No.22355466]

>>22355454
100% meme book that got its recent popularity spike from twitch zoomers playing myhouse.wad

[Anonymous No.22355474]

>>22355436
>complains about supposed shitposts
>posts sneed

[Anonymous No.22355476]

>>22355466
Retard.

[Anonymous No.22355536]

>>22355474
Wealth beyond measure, Outlander.

[Anonymous No.22355617]

>>22355461
Yeah, why not?

[Anonymous No.22355620]

>>22355466
How would you even know this if you weren't one yourself?

[Anonymous No.22355706]

>>22355400
Nah it's tame 20-something maundering like lhe whole series. Not that that's such a bad thing if you're in the crosshairs. Wish he'd get on point.

[Anonymous No.22355820]

>>22355393
I personally loved Memory, Sorrow and Thorn but it has a very slow start, almost slice of life. I know not everyone enjoys it, but I think it is worth a read. It is pretty much everything Martin was shooting for, but is finished and was able to do it without getting bogged down.

[Anonymous No.22355844]

>>22355400
The elf is such a slut in the series. The author should stop stopping at saying rape occurred, and let us see it.

[Anonymous No.22355874]

>>22355844
Elf sluts make me coom.

[Anonymous No.22355889]

Any actually genuinely good fantasy books just about a party of adventurers dungeon diving? No big bad, no forced drama, nothing. Just exploration, treasure hunting, fun conversations, and friends.

[Anonymous No.22355934]

>>22355393
It's well known for being a slog for 250 pages but pays off if you push through.

[Anonymous No.22356130]

Don't go for faggoty ass modern """"Fantasy""""
Go for Classical Sci-fi
(Exceptions for modern fantasy are the ones that are actually good and by good authors)

[Anonymous No.22356132]

>>22356130
>(Exceptions for modern fantasy are the ones that are actually good and by good authors)
name one

[Anonymous No.22356141]

For me? It s classic fantasy. Dunsany is king.

[Anonymous No.22356146]

>>22356132
Anything by Anne Rice before her passing

[Anonymous No.22356263]

>>22349999
>Book of the New Sun.
Read immediately. Trust me on this. You will not regret it. BOTNS is a true achievement.
>The Silmarillion.
Read to fully understand the significance of LOTR. Tolkien intended it to be published concurrently.
>A Wizard of Earthsea
Wizard school, but nothing like Harry Potter. Universally acclaimed.
>Redwall series.
It's a kid's series like Harry Potter, but one I very fondly remember. They're best read in order of release.

[Anonymous No.22356266]

>>22350226
you won't convince me to read gay rape.
i don't care if the prose is good, the philosophy is interesting, the story cool, or whatever else - i'm am not interested, energized, captivated, or otherwise tantalized by gay rape.
>but it's only a little bit of gay rape
and i don't want to read it.
>you're missing out...
... on devoting my energy to reading something that doesn't involve gay rape.

[Anonymous No.22356292]

>>22356146
>roastie
stopped reading there

[Anonymous No.22356311]

>>22356292
>>Roastie
>implying
Sad!

[Anonymous No.22356343]

>>22356146
Looks like it's mostly vampire books she wrote. Not my kind of thing, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.22356450]

>>22356292
Have sex

[Anonymous No.22356458]

>>22349933
why would you pay for books when they are free?

[Anonymous No.22356472]

>>22355198
Most of what I was assigned reading in high school was scifi and fantasy. Lots of various short fiction authors, Borges, Asimov, Clement, and Vonnegut.

[Anonymous No.22356526]

>>22355889
The Hedge Wizard series.

[Anonymous No.22356568]

Is His dark materials trilogy a good read? Can you recommend it?

[Anonymous No.22356603]

>>22356472
didn't see any of those in high school. The only sci-fi that's in the English school system is 1984, although I've not been in school for 14 years now so who knows

[Anonymous No.22356615]

>>22356568
YA schlock

[Anonymous No.22356732]

Have any of you guys checked out Misty Vixen? It's some erotica writer who has made tons of books. I've read a few and put them all down before the end because I feel like I'm reading utter shit, but I put up with it because I was genuinely curious how bad it could get.
Did anyone else have this issue? Like you pick up a book and you can tell it's really bad and for god knows why you keep reading it?
Or on the contrary, did any of you find the books by Misty Vixen to be engaging or good in any way? Haven feels particularly fucking stupid. It's way too many things at the same time
>Zombie apocalypse
>Anthros because of the virus
>Humans who turn into fucking cats
>Lizards
>Octopuses
>Some just get bigger and are now "Goliaths" but can no longer mate with regular humans despite being humans just bigger
>Dryads.
>The virus can also turn you into a fucking dryad

Like, cmon. What is this SHIT? And this bitch made a whole fucking series about it.
When I read Raw up to the 5th book I was beginning to see a similar pattern. Way too much bullshit going on and the sex scenes are...
Let's just say this guy has been writing for a while and for some reason it doesn't feel like he's upped his game.

[Anonymous No.22356759]

>>22354788
I like how the book hasn't even cross 40 ratings on Goodreads but it's already on Libgen
god bless pirates

[Anonymous No.22356769]

>>22356603
I was in an accelerated program, a few months instead of a year, when I read those, which I'm glad I did as they got me into sff literature. I read 1984 in middle school, but I didn't care for it at all.

[Anonymous No.22356799]

I am once again asking for the epub links to Exodus of the long sun and the 3 books of the short sun... If any

[Anonymous No.22356805]

>>22356799
Search for the others on there as well little one
https://annas-archive.org/md5/2e8f41ded32d02d037f85b19717c84fa

[Anonymous No.22356834]

I can't read unless I know how many pages there are till the next chapter

[Anonymous No.22356840]

>>22356834
thankfully KOReader has this as an option for the bottom status bar

[Anonymous No.22356875]

Give an African American a book today, that's my message.

[Anonymous No.22356965]

Anyone check out the Calamitous Bob?

-LitRPG system that isn’t annoying or shit
-Reincarnation
-Building of an empire
-War
-Main character suffering from an illness that guarantees death
-Cool magic and shit

[Anonymous No.22356981]

>>22356263
>>The Silmarillion.
>Read to fully understand the significance of LOTR. Tolkien intended it to be published concurrently.

I've heard this and also that they refused it because it felt to "celtic" to the publisher but as far as i know the published Silmarillion is a amalgamation of different versions of its stories curated by good ol' Christopher and feel like a bit inconsistent. Unfinished tales is kind of a not edited Silmarillion. In other words a definitive, complete version of the Silmarillion wrote and completed in Tolkien's lifetime kind of doesn't exist, I fear. FEEL FREE to correct me eh.
I've to admit that i've never actually, start to finish, read the Silmarillion. For the most part I've read the cosmogonic part and the origin of the elves, men and dwarves. Kind of feel like a history manual read like this. Anyway i surely shall read the The History Of Middle-Earth because I don't disdain good literal analysis in regards of Tolkien. What are your opinion on the recent novels.

[Anonymous No.22356984]

>>22355436
I don't come here often anon, please be kind :(

[Anonymous No.22356987]

You are gonna get the Stormlight Archive tabletop rpg, right?

[Anonymous No.22356993]

>>22349999
>the last unicorn
>fucking boring

[Anonymous No.22356998]

>>22356987
i am not a faggot so no

[Anonymous No.22357000]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwXkJV_B-w

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/437303942/

[Anonymous No.22357038]

>>22356987
>Call to adventure
I like him but Brandon and his fans are so fkn corny

[Anonymous No.22357043]

I'm reading Jade City. It's ok.

[Anonymous No.22357044]

>>22356263
The Silmarillion is almost 100% a JRRT work. His final product would have looked a lot like the Silmarillion.
The other works finished by Christopher are worth reading if you love LOTR or fantasy in general. Good books. Not as good as Hobbit/LOTR/Silmarillion.

[Anonymous No.22357081]

>>22355436
>Three Body Problem
first book is more of a science lesson and grounded introduction to the TBP universe, books get progressively conceptually wackier from there.

[Anonymous No.22357082]

>>22357000
was shitting up /x/ with 4 generals at once not enough for you

[Anonymous No.22357085]

Is Imajica any good?

[Anonymous No.22357158]

Finished Between Two Fires, was very nice, though somewhat rushed at the end. It felt like a really good pace with room to build up some more tension/stakes, then had a "Rocks Fall" ending.
I'm reading The Only Good Indian and I'm nearing the halfway point and it's been hard to keep at it. The story so far had nothing important happen besides the MC pet dying in a suspicious way. The Author has kept the scene in the same 2 locations since the start, and goes into these weird ADHD tangents that doesnt contribute to the overall story, but suddenly snaps back as if it made some sort of insightful commentary.
Does anyone have good Lit Horror recommendations?

[Anonymous No.22357252]

>female protagonist
>girls love
why are americans on scribblehub and royalroad like this

[Anonymous No.22357280]

>>22357252
well you can't exactly right yuri with a male protagonist now can you?

[Anonymous No.22357304]

>>22357280
Sounds like a challenge

[Anonymous No.22357308]

>>22357280
>futanari and gender bender tags

[Anonymous No.22357317]

>>22357038
That's a good thing.

[Anonymous No.22357376]

>>22349911
I want a book with the setting, elements, soul of Japanese high fantasy but written by a western author. Does such a novel exist?

[Anonymous No.22357395]

>>22357044
>The Silmarillion is almost 100% a JRRT work.
It's mostly JRR Tolkien. Christopher had some liberties with the Quenta Silmarillion, by mix-and-matching texts together (particularly with the later chapters); and I wonder if Tolkien (the father) would have included also the Akallabeth and The Rings of Power texts.

[Anonymous No.22357417]

I'm very confused. Is this a stand alone or is there a whole series to read? I've seen people say it's the "Dark Souls" of fantasy and it sparked my interest instantly. Where do I start and what's the order?

[Anonymous No.22357426]

>>22357376
All of those are entirely lifted from Western fantasy you tard

[Anonymous No.22357431]

>>22357426
Western fantasy hasn't innovated in decades.

[Anonymous No.22357437]

>>22356987
I have the miniatures coming because I'm a warhammer fag, but I know that stormlight-based RPG would not only be boring as fuck, but nobody I know would play it because they don't have the patience to read anything more than 50 pages, let alone stormlight

[Anonymous No.22357438]

>>22357376
fuck off weeb

[Anonymous No.22357441]

>>22357417
>"Dark Souls" of fantasy
Lol no. Always a retarded thing to say. Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22357469]

>>22357441
Wtf I didn't even know that existed. Ty anon for showing me the light

[Anonymous No.22357478]

>>22357469
It's more of a generic fantasy title than a Souls story.

[Anonymous No.22357488]

>>22357478
How else are you supposed to write a full length book out of a game with an "atmospheric plot"

[Anonymous No.22357514]

>>22357488
you just write a fantasy survival novel with occasional quirky British merchants

[Anonymous No.22357536]

>>22357488
It had nothing from Souls other than 'bonfires' and the concept of respawning at them.

[Anonymous No.22357540]

>>22357431
So you want innovation while craving Jap fantasy which is literally 70s,80s rehashed western fantasy with zero new ideas ? Brainlet

[Anonymous No.22357559]

It's quite shocking how much the writing quality drops between Shadow and Claw

[Anonymous No.22357576]

>>22356965
You know people here are just gonna bitch about a female protagonist.

I read a bit when it was first posted on RR. I got up to the point she started collecting dragons as pets and immediately lost interest.

[Anonymous No.22357723]

>>22357417
It's part of the Solar Cycle
https://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=WolfeWiki.TheSolarCycle

[Anonymous No.22357948]

https://vocaroo.com/1z7cCSnY2fet

I read an excerpt from TWOW (The Forsaken). Do I have a shot at narrating?

[Anonymous No.22358029]

>>22357948
Not professionally. You're good, though. Keep at it.

[Anonymous No.22358046]

I have read 28 books by female authors this year but womameme authors is still a red flag, they have to be from trusted Anglo-Saxon women of good character and breeding.

[Anonymous No.22358058]

>>22358046
Which womyn authors would you recommend?

[Anonymous No.22358062]

>>22358046
Coomer trash

[Anonymous No.22358067]

>>22358058
I've been mostly choosing Diana Wynne Jones and Patricia C. Wrede for my soothing bedtime stories. I fell for the Ada Palmer troll so you shouldn't trust me too much.

[Anonymous No.22358105]

Kate Eliott, CJ Cherryh, CS Friedman- the latter's Coldfire Trilogy is kino

[Anonymous No.22358228]

>>22358105
Wait CS Friedman is a woman?

[Anonymous No.22358266]

>>22358228
The C stands for Celia

[Anonymous No.22358328]

>>22358228
Charles Sinclair Friedman
Charlton James Cherryh
Cameron Lazlo Moore
John Keaton Rowling
Kris Jean Bishop

[Anonymous No.22358352]

How is Helliconia? I had never heard of it but apparently it's a classic.

[Anonymous No.22358397]

>>22358228
Coldfire is basically yaoi, come on anon

[Anonymous No.22358450]

Reading pic related now, just came today. I just really enjoy this particular author, he has a few great short stories up you can read for free.vsvyt4

[Anonymous No.22358655]

>>22357081
not him and not having read TBP, but I read some reviews that say its science is immersion breakingly wrong.
true/false?

[Anonymous No.22358843]

>>22358397
It's bro Kino
>>22358046
I love female authors but womeme authors are real, but putting shit authors like Sarah j maas and Great authors like Carol berg or Sara douglass in the same bag just because they are women it's stupid and delusional.

[Anonymous No.22358945]

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