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You think AI might ever become serious writer material?

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 15:38:50 2023 No.22508128 >>22508114 First for Theodore Trout!

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 15:41:20 2023 No.22508137
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is it just me or is Half-Blood Prince noticeably better-written than the previous entries, particularly in terms of actual prose? what happened, did Joanne improve or did she hire a better ghostwriter

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 15:45:39 2023 No.22508152

>>22508114
>You think AI might ever become serious writer material?
I don't think so. A good writer has flair and style something AI is profoundly incapable of without just lifting it from elsewhere.

>>22508137
I guess the simple answer is it's darker.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 15:47:32 2023 No.22508158 File: 171 KB, 669x459, malaz3.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just started Malazan. What am l in for /sffg/bros?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 15:52:35 2023 No.22508178 >>22508152 but even the technicalities of the prose feel better, that hardly has anything to do with tone

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 15:54:51 2023 No.22508186 >>22507977 anon....

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 15:56:00 2023 No.22508191

>>22508158
Great post anon, very original 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? Should i read the Hyperion sequel???? 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?!?! Any books with chinks??!! 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 Tue Sep 19 15:56:17 2023 No.22508193 File: 166 KB, 950x561, Gardens of the Moon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508158 overwhelming beginning as gardens of the moon is one of the biggest filters around

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:17:00 2023 No.22508254 >>22508137 Order was also better written than the previous books, even though it suffered from garbage plotting. She just improved with time. The detective novels she writes these days are not half bad for what they are.

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:17:26 2023 No.22508256

>>22508158
There's a character guide and chapter by chapter summary on the wiki, which I found very useful when listening to the audiobook.
It suddenly stops halfway through book 9 though, which is when I dropped the series.

https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Gardens_of_the_Moon/Dramatis_Personae
Just don't read too far down as it has spoilers.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:19:28 2023 No.22508269 Any good sites to download ebooks? The ones in the sticky don't work or don't have what I'm looking for (Lord Foul's Bane).

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:21:25 2023 No.22508277 File: 1.20 MB, 1100x1420, Soulcatcher_by_Mikey_Patch.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508114

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:22:08 2023 No.22508282

>>22508114
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>>22508269
Bakker is KING
>Then the madness fell away. Once again it was the pure thunder of the charge. The strange camaraderie of men bent to a single, fatal purpose. Hummocks, scrub, and the bones of the Vulgar Holy War’s dead rushed beneath. The wind bled through chain links, tousled Thunyeri braids and Tydonni crests. Bright banners slapped against the sky. The heathen, wicked and foul, drew closer, ever closer. One last storm of arrows, these ones almost horizontal to the ground, punching against shield and armour. Some were struck from their saddles. Tongue tips were bitten off in the concussion of the fall. The unhorsed arched across the turf, screamed and swatted at the sky. Wounded mounts danced in frothing circles nearby. The rest thundered on, over grasses, through patches of blooming milkwort waving in the wind. They couched their lances, twenty thousand men draped in great mail hauberks over thick felt, with coifs across their faces and helms that swept down to their cheeks, riding chargers caparisoned in mail or iron plates. The fear dissolved into drunken speed, into the momentum, became so mingled with exhilaration as to be indistinguishable from it. They were addicted to the charge, the Men of the Tusk. Everything focused into the glittering tip of a lance. The target nearer, nearer … The rumble of hooves and drums drowned their kinsmen’s song. They crashed through a thin screen of sumac … Saw eyes whiten in sudden terror. Then impact. The jarring splinter of wood as lances speared through shield, through armour. Suddenly the ground became still and solid beneath them, and the air rang with wails and shouts. Hands drew sword and axe. Everywhere figures grappled and hacked. Horses reared. Blades pitched blood into the sky. And the Kianene fell, undone by their ferocity, crumpling beneath northern hands, dying beneath pale faces and merciless blue eyes. The heathen recoiled from the slaughter—and fled.
KINO

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:22:32 2023 No.22508283 >>22508269 This one https://pastebin.com/RKBxXpCX

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:36:22 2023 No.22508311 File: 738 KB, 913x1200, url(22).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508282 BASED A S E D

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:46:53 2023 No.22508333 Book of the Long Sun is lowkey brilliant but also exasperating.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:50:15 2023 No.22508337 File: 847 KB, 1024x1024, gjxvqmgqtao91.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508282 This unironically. Mogs all contemporary fantasy so hard you'll struggle to enjoy anything else afterwards.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:52:10 2023 No.22508344 >>22508193 How so?

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:54:31 2023 No.22508348

>>22508114
Best non-fantasy pulps? We all know about Conan and other related characters. But I'm constantly hearing about stories where dudes go on weird world-wide adventures in the early 20th century and I've never seen or heard of any specific ones.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:55:57 2023 No.22508352 >>22508348 Are you thinking of the lost world genre?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 16:57:18 2023 No.22508356 >>22508348 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:01:04 2023 No.22508362 >>22508269 It's on Anna's Archive

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:08:18 2023 No.22508384 >>22508348 Flashman, though its debatable if its actually low brow enough to qualify as pulp. Its exceptionally well written.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:19:23 2023 No.22508409 >>22508348 King Solomon's Mines

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:26:03 2023 No.22508423 File: 26 KB, 300x245, 1680154498846799.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508114 Any recs for a book series that features immortality as a central theme. Thanks in advance.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:43:29 2023 No.22508474 >>22508409 Is this a good read? Its not too old?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:45:02 2023 No.22508477 >>22508423 Do you mean that the character is immortal and only shows the present day or do you want something that spans centuries of time, if not millennia? A lot of far future SF has immortal characters, but that may not be what you mean.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:46:04 2023 No.22508482 >>22508282 Seriuosly is there another author that can write fightfightfight for hundreds of pages and still remain interesting? The entire Unholy Consult is one big fucking battle

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:48:56 2023 No.22508494

>>22508474
Gets recommended the literal origin of the lost world adventure genre and complains that it's toonold
You absolute fucking retard. A 10 year old could read and understandbkong solomon's mines
I'm sick of zoomer retards who need to be spoonfed instead of just searching shit up on google

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:54:06 2023 No.22508509
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Still trying to solicit conversation and feedback on these. Ebook versions are "pay what you want" (i.e. free if you want) on my site, no need to give me money if you really don't want to.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:54:16 2023 No.22508510 I am writing Native American based high fantasy. Hope you all will like it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:54:25 2023 No.22508512 >>22508509 fuck off shill

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:55:45 2023 No.22508514 >>22508512 I don't think you understand what the word "shill" means and I suggest you consult a dictionary so you look less like a fucking retard in the future.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:58:04 2023 No.22508522 >>22508514 shill

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:58:24 2023 No.22508527 >>22508522 retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 17:59:15 2023 No.22508532 >>22508509 No.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:02:31 2023 No.22508545 File: 2.59 MB, 1024x1984, IMG_8140.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Would you read a book with an AI cover?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:02:42 2023 No.22508548 >>22508509 kil urself nigge

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:25:51 2023 No.22508632 >>22508532 >>22508548 >resorting to samefagging to shitpost the thread into oblivion lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:27:50 2023 No.22508643 >>22508545 cover doesn't matter

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:33:13 2023 No.22508664 >>22508545 >he doesn't have his groin covered NGMI

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:38:15 2023 No.22508687 >>22508494 I wasn’t even that guy I’m just reading the thread. I was just wondering if it’s a good book or not take a chill pill bro. I’m not worried about “understanding it” lol I’m wondering if it’s some gay old book and not worth my time

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:45:05 2023 No.22508714 >>22508510 Unless the native americans are white it's seeming like a "no" already

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:51:03 2023 No.22508733 >>22508632 >samefagging you're a retard and your books are shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:54:09 2023 No.22508745 >>22508509 if you can't even be arsed to put your photo the right way up why the hell would anyone engage with you sincerely? Your trash is probably riddled with typos

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:55:59 2023 No.22508755 I did not enjoy Dr. Bloodmoney. It had some vaguely interesting plot setups but ultimately fell flat.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 18:59:58 2023 No.22508770 >>22508755 Surely the first time someone ever saids that about any one of Dick's novels

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:00:46 2023 No.22508773 >>22508770 Given the amount of material, some stinkers are expected.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:08:28 2023 No.22508798 >>22508477 More like a quest for immortality, preferably fantasy. For Tolkien wrote about Numenor and their ill-fated quest for the undying land.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:19:55 2023 No.22508834 >>22508733 nah they're awesome and you're mad >>22508745 >whining about picture rotation it's like a retard filter and you got caught in it, congrats also please stop samefagging it is just too obvious

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:28:28 2023 No.22508856 >>22508423 Lord of the Rings

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:28:41 2023 No.22508857 friendly reminder to (re)read Jeff Noon's Vurt this october for it's 30th anniversary it's unique, it's fun, it sure is nice to not be a cyberpunk dreamdruggie and live a sane boring life

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:41:49 2023 No.22508891 Read this. https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Gilbert_K_Chesterton/Orthodoxy/The_Ethics_of_Elfland_p6.html

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:42:38 2023 No.22508893 >>22508509 I'm halfway through book two and I have to say I'm enjoying it so far. Is this series your first attempt at writing novels? If so, what made you want to go for a trilogy right off the bat?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:44:46 2023 No.22508896 >>22508509 Too many men on the art. Looks like homo tripe.

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:46:46 2023 No.22508902

>>22508893
>I have to say I'm enjoying it so far
Awesome! Glad to hear it.

>Is this series your first attempt at writing novels
Yes - well, sort of. The first book is now in its second edition. The first version of it had a bunch of first time author mistakes and was significantly shorter (maybe 30-35K words less) than the other novels. I decided I needed to go back and redo it to bring the quality up to par with the others. I'm really happy that I took the time to do that.

>what made you want to go for a trilogy right off the bat?
It just seemed like the correct amount of space needed to tell the story that I wanted to tell. I also specifically wanted to have a sort of triple symmetry going on, where each book is 'themed' around (or at least focuses on) one of the three major nations in the world.

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:53:59 2023 No.22508924

>>22508902
>I decided I needed to go back and redo it to bring the quality up to par with the others. I'm really happy that I took the time to do that.

I was wondering about this. It was a pleasant surprise when it didn't come across like a first time author's work. Now I know why. Congrats on getting it all done. Reworking the first book shows a lot of discipline. If I ever get my own work off the ground I'd like to think I'll be that principled. Everything takes so much time.

>It just seemed like the correct amount of space needed to tell the story that I wanted to tell

FWIW it doesn't seem like too much. Pacing seems very good so far. I will have more feedback when I've finished the second and third book though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:56:22 2023 No.22508937 >>22508137 Not just you. HBP is arguably the best book in the series just in terms of tight pacing, suspense and climax. It's also a good combo of Harry Potter's whimsical tone with downright horror which is a plus

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 19:59:09 2023 No.22508942

>>22508924
>Everything takes so much time.
It really does, and it has to be a labor of love for you to stick with it long enough to get it done. Thanks for your kind words - it was definitely hard work but I am happy that I stuck with it.

>I will have more feedback when I've finished the second and third book
Will look forward to it! Also happy to answer any more questions if you end up having any, I'm in and out of these threads every so often.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:00:05 2023 No.22508945 >>22508856 See >>22508798

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:02:04 2023 No.22508950 >>22508945 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality_in_fiction

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:17:53 2023 No.22508993 >>22508942 >>22508902 shill

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:25:59 2023 No.22509008
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>>22508114
Just finished "The Stars, my Destination", enjoyable, I give it 7/10 (a bit too old and pulp maybe, also the french translation was trash). What now, Blindsight, The Mote in God's Eye, or A Fire Upon The Deep ? Can't choose between those 3

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:35:53 2023 No.22509038
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/SFFG/ Recommendations:

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

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

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:43:16 2023 No.22509049
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/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 Tue Sep 19 20:46:05 2023 No.22509057 >>22508509 am liking this but is it normal for me to sorta hate the main character? Quentin and the hangman are much more interesting to me

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 20:55:14 2023 No.22509073
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>>22509057
>am liking this but is it normal for me to sorta hate the main character? Quentin and the hangman are much more interesting to me
Yeah pretty much. I enjoyed writing those two characters a lot more than Jak. Jak is partially meant to be a parody of the hero's journey archetype. People like Quentin and Karzt ("the hangman") are a fleshed out part of the world, where Jak starts out almost as a blank slate so that he can be the eyes through which the reader sees the world.

I guess he does start out with certain traits that people might find appealing - he's hard working, thoughtful, doesn't give up, etc - but is definitely intended to lack the "charm" of pretty much every other character. I don't want to spoil it for you, but he does evolve as the novels progress - just maybe not in all the ways you would expect.

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 21:03:47 2023 No.22509103
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>>22509008
Just got through Blindsight and have read A fire upon the deep. Fire is way more comfy, less ship habitat focused and has larger scale world building. Blindsight is grim but has better mystery feeling to it. Both touch on many aspects of alternative conciousness. I'd say if you usually go for fantasy you'd enjoy fire upon more and if for thrillers then blindsight. Both were good but serve different moods.

Anyone got any kaiju/monster/fathomable cosmic horror related recs that manage to be taken seriously? Anything from medieval period with slight fantasy elements to hard scifi is acceptable apart from run of the mill godzillas, demon lord gook shit or dragons.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 21:13:48 2023 No.22509129 File: 615 KB, 591x788, RI.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508423 >>22508798 The whole story is about Fang Yuan and his warpath to immortality.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 21:20:05 2023 No.22509155 I am re-reading Chasm City.

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Anonymous Tue Sep 19 22:41:11 2023 No.22509394
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Elric of Melnibone Spoilers for Chapters 1-4 ahead

>has needed potions to survive all his life or dies within hours
>cousin makes it clear he wants to kill him to take the throne
>goes into battle with cousin by his side without potions because he... forgot
>gets shit pushed in and literally dies
>plot armor activates and he is saved by King Neptune from Spongebob
>gets second chance to kill cousin
>doesn't because reasons and exiles him instead but not immediately
>cousin escapes with his girl
>mfw

I am now at the point where I am rooting for Yyrkoon to kill this bitch for real next time, and go balls deep in sister pussy. I love the writing style, but fuck me does Michael make some dumb choices. Elric forgetting potions is as believable as Dracula walking into the sunlight because he forgot it'd kill him. Does this get better or worse?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 22:44:05 2023 No.22509408 >>22509394 It's pulp.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 22:44:46 2023 No.22509409 >>22509394 I've read through the whole thing and thought it was pretty rad. I just got through reading Fortress of the Pearl today myself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 22:46:26 2023 No.22509416 File: 727 KB, 768x768, 1674165538897629.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508545 Perhaps

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 22:51:12 2023 No.22509432 >book set in a desert >call it dune >dunes are in the desert fucking hacks

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 22:52:39 2023 No.22509437 File: 462 KB, 1593x1018, F2t0OPFWYA8iFsJ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508348 You could read of other characters created by Robert E Howard

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 22:53:54 2023 No.22509441 >>22509409 >Fortress of the Pearl Absolute banger ending

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:10:29 2023 No.22509483 >>22509469 Any books with black Queens?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:11:44 2023 No.22509488 File: 245 KB, 853x1280, 23715316_013_4993.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22509483 Forgot pic

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:12:00 2023 No.22509489 >>22509483 This but they're my submissive girlfriend

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:12:12 2023 No.22509490

>>22509441
Honestly the concept of people wanting something to be real so badly that it manifests in the dream world, and can be brought into reality by a dreamthief is so damn cool. And Elric just slaughtering the whole damn city after the high council refused the peaceful option out of arrogance was badass.

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:32:08 2023 No.22509557

>>22509038
Have any of you read between two fires? Because of this post, I decided to give it a shot. The intro was decent but the first chapter felt weird. It has that modern fantasy vibe that always filters me. I swear I'm cursed when it comes to modern fantasy, I simply cannot read anything. It's like they lack soul. They are famous writers and regarded by many but then why does the prose feel amateurish and without substance?

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:47:50 2023 No.22509588

>>22509557
I think it's a lack of consistency in their content as a whole, and an inability to meld archaic ways of speaking with modern ones in a manner that people can believe. Buehlman does an okay-ish job in Between Two Fires, but you can feel the struggle as you're reading it, and he curses a lot which doesn't help the matter one bit. His consistency is also lacking. There are some great highs in that book (like the Paris arc), but then it's as if the writer disappears, and I'm sitting there waiting for them to show up with something good again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:48:47 2023 No.22509590 >>22508834 if it's a retard filter you wouldn't have apologized the first time you got it wrong and uploaded it the wrong way around lmao and then proceeded to be a 20 IQ fuck and get it wrong every single shill attempt afterwards as well lmao

Anonymous Tue Sep 19 23:52:56 2023 No.22509602

I really love Lovecraft and I started reading War of the Worlds last night
Going to read Jules Verne one day
Does anyone else really love science fiction from the 19th and 20th century?
It feels way more exciting than modern science fiction
Like it was written in a time when people still dreamt about the future

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 00:00:37 2023 No.22509615 >>22509557 >why does the prose feel amateurish and without substance? Because all the characters talk like modern day new yorkers or as if they are in a CW teendrama

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 00:21:09 2023 No.22509663 >>22509602 You would probably like the Tripod series by John Christopher. It's a trilogy with a short auxilery prologue novelette. Don't let the fact that it's YA dissaude you.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 00:27:15 2023 No.22509693

>>22508509
Downloaded all three of these when you posted them before. Thought they'd be shit. Instead I spent every spare moment I had reading them until I was done. Do you have any plans on expanding this series? Writing side stories set in the same world, anything? I would be interested

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Alright Dresden Files #1 was absolute slop. But that pacing has me hooked, finished it in a weekend and I'm down to try more after struggling through 1,000 pagers all year.
The magic system didn't quite deliver. I'm a bit disappointed with how he was hinting at rules like having to invite people into homes, but then just barges his way into the suspect's wife's house. Or how he sets up the running water rule, then it never comes up again. I suppose there's chances for that as the series goes on, and the setup with the lightning worked well enough so it's not all bad. There's just generally a lot of magic going on and it did make it feel like he can always asspull something in a time of need.
But to reiterate on the pace: It was relentless, the guy gets battered every other scene and gets no sleep for the handful of days the story takes place over and the hits don't stop coming. I felt tired with him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 00:31:12 2023 No.22509713 File: 2.78 MB, 4080x3072, IMG_20230919_192354064.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I picked from 10 different books at random, and I rolled this. Let's see how it goes.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 00:53:38 2023 No.22509791

>>22509693
> Do you have any plans on expanding this series? Writing side stories set in the same world, anything? I would be interested

I'm glad you enjoyed it. At this time I don't have plans on expanding the series. The "main story" is clearly concluded in the final book, so I don't think it would make sense to write any direct sequels.

Side stories are a maybe, but probably not anytime soon. Certainly there is a lot more that could be told told with regards to some characters, or entirely new characters in parts of the world that we haven't seen much of. It would be nice to tell some more stories about Lantern City in particular.

Anyway, right now I'm working on a game which is set in the same world as the books. At a minimum I won't be writing anything else until that's done.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 00:54:49 2023 No.22509796 >>22509791 Stop samefagging it's fucking pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 01:02:25 2023 No.22509826 >>22509791 Not that anon, Is this game the same RPG Maker one you showed off years ago? Something like that anyway.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 01:09:24 2023 No.22509845

>>22509796
LOL, are you talking to yourself? You've been samefag-spamming this thread with retarded vitriol for like ten hours. Sorry I'm not giving you the attention you want, but I'm a big believer in Matthew 7:6. I'd rather reply to people who seem genuine, so this is the last bit of attention you're getting from me.

>>22509826
Hmm, maybe? It wasn't RPG Maker - it was an engine I wrote myself. Did it have a 2.5d-ish girl running around in real time? Blobber-style rpg combat with four frogs as placeholder graphics? That project has been on hiatus for a long time ever since I decided I wanted to focus on finishing my books (and book 1's audiobook, which is actually done and will be published soon).

I don't know if I'll revive that project. The thing I'm currently working on is a different idea - something kind of like a VN but with significantly more mechanics. I haven't yet buckled down though - I am sort of tempted to revive that old 2.5d thing and actually get it done.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 01:22:21 2023 No.22509884

>>22509845
>advertises
>responds to himself with compliments
>gaslights when called out
How retarded are you that you think we can't tell your posts aren't thinly veiled advertisements? Go be a nigger somewhere else. If your shit was good we'd eventually post it ourselves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 01:24:30 2023 No.22509891 >>22509884 I am one of the people who responded to him and I'm not him. Take meds schizo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 01:26:43 2023 No.22509898 >>22509891 I appreciate the effort, but imo it's better to just ignore people who act like that. It's like trying to convince a rabid barking dog to be reasonable - wasted effort. Just let him seethe in a corner by himself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 01:26:54 2023 No.22509900 >>22509891 Until the day this board gets IDs you're all the same faggots as far as I'm concerned. Except me, of course.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 01:57:06 2023 No.22509986 >>22508545 No. If you don't have enough faith in your book to hire an artist off fiverr for a personal cover then why would I give you my time?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 02:02:18 2023 No.22510002 >>22508545 Zero chance.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 02:14:28 2023 No.22510034 File: 306 KB, 1000x1500, A1S3FLfjfxL._SL1500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22509483 some of these writers are ok

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 02:54:03 2023 No.22510134 File: 155 KB, 427x318, 1667442579685012.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] As a whole, Fantasy is a Young Adult genre, yes or no?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 03:37:40 2023 No.22510270 no

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 03:38:59 2023 No.22510272 >>22510134 As a whole most every genre is now based on sales.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 03:43:39 2023 No.22510292 >>22509394 The recent comic book adaptation fixes the plot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 03:49:54 2023 No.22510306 File: 138 KB, 600x930, 4778469.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22510292 >fix well, that's one way of putting it

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 03:59:43 2023 No.22510331 >>22510306 I don't know what you're implying.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 04:26:17 2023 No.22510409
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>it's the year 2971 AD
>character listens to "ancient" classical music or rock
>"there was this ingenuous maneuver from World War II"
>"like the great leader Abraham Lincoln"

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 04:38:52 2023 No.22510441
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I just finished reading God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe, his only novel as he's primarily a fantasy artist. Had some interesting concepts to start with but it ended up feeling a bit tedious, maybe I just don't like reading about battles, they bore me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 04:45:03 2023 No.22510462 >>22510409 >It's the year 2023 >characters listens to "ancient" classic music >there was this ingenious maneuver from the battle of Thermopylae >like the great Julius Ceasar Stuff from 1000s of years ago is still referenced.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 04:55:07 2023 No.22510509

Don't only consider a single calendar. Expand your perspective.
Ab urbe condita 2776
Buddhist calendar 2567
Korean calendar 4356
Chinese Calendar 4660
Hebrew calendar 5784
Byzantine calendar 7532
Holocene calendar 12023
Unix time 1704067199
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Year_in_various_calendars

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 05:13:28 2023 No.22510549

>>22509704
Dresden gets the shit beat out of him every book. He's an underdog punching up. The books are basically the worst week of his life each year. The magic is kind of ass pulled in the first few novels but then it's just fire ball and thaumaturgy shit with some summoning and binding mixed in. I like them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 05:25:34 2023 No.22510571 >>22510462 In 1000 years surely there hasn't been any other notable people or events to reference?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 05:35:34 2023 No.22510596 >>22510571 Depends on the context. Making up one-use characters or events may not be as impactful or would have to provide additional context for then. It all just depends.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 05:43:29 2023 No.22510609 I just bought Mother of Learning on my kindle. What am I in for? I was bored.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 05:45:45 2023 No.22510615 >>22510609 Well over 10 million words / 40,000 pages of content.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 05:53:06 2023 No.22510629 what are some good novels that feature vampires? didnt see any in the charts

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 06:00:27 2023 No.22510640

>>22510629
There are more places to look than the charts. As for good, who knows.
>I want your personal recs!
No, and who's to say they'd be any better than for you personally.

https://www.tor.com/2020/10/14/seven-vampire-reading-recommendations-for-fans-of-what-we-do-in-the-shadows/

https://www.tor.com/2021/10/19/5-books-for-people-who-crave-more-vampires/

https://www.tor.com/2023/08/11/sink-your-teeth-into-these-5-books-about-vampires/

https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_type=lists&q=Vampire+

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 09:16:53 2023 No.22510985

>>22508937
same anon here, i'm now re-reading Hallows (it's been years since i touched these books) and it's just as good, if not better. the bit where Harry visits his paren't graves and home and the bit with Nagini as Bathilda were terrific and the latter is honest-to-god terrifying. after years of internalising the "dullest franchise" copypasta i have to say Rowling is definitely not as bad as some claim

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 09:46:37 2023 No.22511025 >>22509898 >>22509891 >>22509845 Shill faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 10:37:36 2023 No.22511105 Is gothic sci-fi a thing? Any recs?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 10:43:21 2023 No.22511113 >>22511105 isn't that (at least parts of) Warhammer 40k?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 10:49:11 2023 No.22511124 File: 124 KB, 632x1000, 811EKUAcQmL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I haven't read the Dune series yet, but why is this cover so mocked? I think it looks pretty cool and imposing

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:00:10 2023 No.22511141 File: 1010 KB, 3375x4275, 9781250176455.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Any Malazan reads here? Are the Ian Esslemont books important for a first time read or should I not both with them?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:22:48 2023 No.22511186 >>22511105 Frankenstein but beyond that it would depend on how you're defining gothic

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:24:16 2023 No.22511188 >>22510629 Read Empire of the Vampire for edgekino

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:28:18 2023 No.22511191 >>22508158 A saga that seems to expand only horizontally ad infinitum and prefers to have hundreds or characters, peoples and lands instead of focusing on anything. Also some kino sometimes

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:29:16 2023 No.22511193 >land is called perish >people perish there are we actually serious

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:33:33 2023 No.22511203

>>22508114
>You think AI might ever become serious writer material?
Obviously and it scares me. We'll be made truly redundant. What will be the point of making music or writing stories when an AI can do it far better than you and at a much faster rate?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:47:15 2023 No.22511230 >>22511193 >city called pale >it's dark all the time

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:47:55 2023 No.22511232 >westeros >easteros come on

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:58:49 2023 No.22511262

>>22508509
thanks for putting this out there for free. ofc you can just pirate whatever but I don't like doing illegal shit. am broke atm but I still like checking out lesser known indie stuff. anyhoo this is a rather good read so far (almost done with first one)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 11:59:29 2023 No.22511264 >>22511141 don't bother read the 10 main books first

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 12:07:06 2023 No.22511278 If I like Wells and Verne who else should I read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 12:34:39 2023 No.22511338 >>22511203 Without original content AI can't produce anything new. It can only replicate, it cannot create.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 12:39:28 2023 No.22511352

>>22509394
Stop reading. Muster the courage. Cut the losses. I read the whole saga just because the edition was very beautiful but apart from some cool stuff it really sucked. If you want to throd on prepare for almost no plot, only paper-thin characters and cartoon villains that never kill Elric while they can and always manage to escape so that they can get in the same situations over and over. Don't waste your time with this overhyped saga, or maybe just read the last book, which while still feeling like a gamebook without the game part at least is the best.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 12:39:50 2023 No.22511355
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Whether or not it had been wrought by a despicably horrid race of demented technicians in some wicked society of bygone demons, which must have inevitably collapsed from debauchery, or worse, was not the main cause of concern for Randolph Carter; instead, he wondered how long his face could take the pommelling of its swinging arc (what, with its large, barbed phallic head the size of his fist) over and over, until he felt almost so lightheaded he might have passed out, or grown mad with the constant torturous pain. Still, he could not cognise its sheer size and physiological impossibility; for certain, it seemed halfway between a hyena's pseudo-penis and an ungulate's cock, a horse's low-hanging member, say. Except it was natheless outrageously covered in grooves of ebonic, draconic scales covered (hither and thither) with matted, slimy dreadlocks of putrid-smelling fur, which seemed to be dripping with some excretions. It could have been sweat, or saliva, or pus. But that was not what terrified Randolph Carter to the ends of his sanity, for he looked with widened, trembling eyes, a scream half making its way up his choking, hoarse throat, as he saw those insane things slipping in and out, all over the long, swinging black cock. What had the insane gods thought when they fashioned this thing? Randolph Carter's tears fell and a scream welled in his gut, but could not come, as he saw those dreadful organs, or whatever they were, that looked half-tongues, half-probosces (for they had holes of their own that expanded like nostrils). These had protruded, and retreated back inside, fro a network of crusty holes (like barnacles, if only ever more horrid); little cells had lined the pus-dripping sides of that flopping terror-bludgeon. Randolph Carter finally screamed; it ruptured out of his chest and mouth like a clarion from hell. But, then, he felt the flying Nightgaunt ascend and tug at his shoulder blades with its talons, as the big cock flicked up into the dark night, then he saw with growing horror as that thing slammed back down into his face with such force he was almost concussed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 12:41:27 2023 No.22511358 >>22511338 There's more than enough content out there already to enable AI to generate endless amounts of variations. There's bound to be plenty of novel ideas generated by sheer numbers.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 12:42:48 2023 No.22511363
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His caterwaul stopped, for sure, but that was due to his mouth being veritably filled with the thing, whatever it was, as if to silence the fellow. His failing heart went a-thundering; his very own lips spread as far wide and open as possible, to the point of pain; his fear had grown to heights hitherto unknown; the man, at his wit's end, gagged, spluttered, and coughed. Within his lips and inside his cheeks, which filled to the point of swelling with vomit and saliva, he felt the maddening, terrible girth of that horrid organ-with-organs inside his mouth, expanding and pulsing, up and down like the rise and fall of a human chest! Had it breathed? O cruel, inconstant gods of anti-climax, what hath ye made! It finally unclasped itself from his mouth and swung back down, as some ooze dribbled down the side of his face; vomitus and other sickness, mostly pus, jettisoned out into the open air of the sky. A gurgling hell swelled in Randolph Carter's insides... What was it, anyway? He thought it must have upended all known evolutionary routes since fish walked the earth. If he listened carefully over the sound of the howling high gales, he half-thought to himself that he heard screams. Yes, he heard it above the roar of wind and flap of wings: the strange, faint screams emanating from the pseudo-barnacles! The cock was alive!

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 13:04:39 2023 No.22511402

>>22511141
They're for the most part not relevant, and none of them are necessary. They're their own series about completely different stuff.
If you really want to read them only do the first two and read them in publication order with Erikson's series.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 14:05:44 2023 No.22511551
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>>22511262
>thanks for putting this out there for free
No problem. I don't expect to make a bojillion dollars from writing books, and I'd rather give people the opportunity to read them and decide what it's worth to them, if anything. Besides - I wrote them because I wanted to tell stories, and there's no point in telling stories if nobody is listening to them..

>anyhoo this is a rather good read so far (almost done with first one)
That's great. Feel free to let me know what you think of the others when you finish them!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 14:07:38 2023 No.22511558 >>22511264 >>22511402 ty frens

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 14:10:58 2023 No.22511567 >>22510331 Comics went into OC territory with Cymoril becoming the dark queen of the Dragon Isle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 14:12:36 2023 No.22511573 File: 31 KB, 700x400, banner-agile-10.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22511338 I think you underestimate originality. Most people are satisfied getting more of what they like. Also, that AI might just need a really good human editor.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 14:13:43 2023 No.22511578 >>22508755 I have decided to read The Game Players of Titan next. >entire book is about The Game very 4chan-esque, ahead of its time newfags don't know about The Game

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 14:42:31 2023 No.22511637 >>22509704 If you enjoyed the first book you should love the rest of the series. Its a steady trend upwards to at least book 12.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 15:46:09 2023 No.22511802 Eric of Melnibone has way too much incest.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 15:47:40 2023 No.22511804 >>22511802 Picked the fuck up

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 15:47:57 2023 No.22511805 Can someone rec me a good Urban Fantasy series with a teenaged male protagonist and really high stakes?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:04:06 2023 No.22511841 File: 48 KB, 640x640, Martin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just here to celebrate GRRM's birthday. Here's to many more years of no Winds of Winter!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:04:48 2023 No.22511842 >>22511567 Ok, that's stupid. I only read up until elric gets the sword and the plotline up to that point was improved.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:05:47 2023 No.22511845 >>22511802 Okay let's go

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:10:02 2023 No.22511857 >>22511352 Any alternatives that cleansed your sword and sorcery palette?

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:27:10 2023 No.22511908

Moorcuck had some cool ideas and imagery but most of it won't seem special now because you've already been exposed to it through D&D, Warhams, and other rip-offs. He wasn't a great writer stylistically, actually getting worse with time. His stuff has mostly aged poorly. Maybe you'd still like it if you're a fan of D&D novelizations like Dragonlance.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:31:56 2023 No.22511925 >>22511805 Wildbow's Pact has a male protag who is as dumb as a teenager

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:33:10 2023 No.22511930
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There is nothing i hate more than authors that refuse to be descriptive about the characters in their story.
It's not more artistic to not include brief mentions of hair or eye color.
It just makes it more annoying to imagine the characters when reading.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:34:44 2023 No.22511933 >>22511805 The Zombie Knight is good. Takes place on a modern day fantasy earth called Eleg. Main character goes from saving people from gangs to adventuring around the world being a superhero.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:37:47 2023 No.22511942 >>22511930 I for one couldn't care less what people look like or what they wear

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:45:49 2023 No.22511974 >>22511942 Do you have aphantasia?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:46:40 2023 No.22511978 >>22511338 You think humans produce original content? LMFAO

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 16:52:03 2023 No.22511994 >>22511841 Happy birthday you fat fuck!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 17:13:48 2023 No.22512059 >>22511974 No, I can imagine things just fine. I'm just not a woman or a faggot so these things don't interest me. I like to read detailed descriptions of nature though

ChartMaker !!q5+P+/PyFx0 Wed Sep 20 17:21:46 2023 No.22512085
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Reading Dostoyevsky's The Idiot I came to the realisation that Brandon Sanderson took the idea and personality of Hoid/Wit from the character of Ferdyshtchenko. This is apparent from Part 1 Chapter 13, where Ferdyshtchenko even says:
>You see, excellency, all the world is witty and clever except myself. I am neither.
Also, his role in the parties was to:
>But these vulgarities seemed to please Nastasia Philipovna, although too often they were both rude and offensive. Those who wished to go to her house were forced to put up with Ferdishenko. Possibly the latter was not mistaken in imagining that he was received simply in order to annoy Totski, who disliked him extremely. Gania also was often made the butt of the jester’s sarcasms, who used this method of keeping in Nastasia Philipovna’s good graces.

Of course, none of Brandon Sanderson readers has noticed this because they don't read good books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 17:23:05 2023 No.22512091 >>22511278 Burroughs, Haggard and Doyle

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 17:56:25 2023 No.22512200 >>22511930 It's always funny when everybody besides the protagonist is described, and all you get from the protagonist is gender. I remember Bastion had that problem, Scorio was not at all described beyond "is male".

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 18:28:09 2023 No.22512282 I dont get why people are so afraid of AI writing when that trash is only able to produce the most generic, uninspired stories one can imagine. Is the epitome of non-descript MMO fantasy settings and bland characters.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 18:30:43 2023 No.22512291 >>22512282 Because LNs exist. There is a market of that slop.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 18:43:53 2023 No.22512331 >>22512200 The author expects you to take the cover as his description of Scorio, which I personally find strange. Then again cover motifs aren't that uncommon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 18:45:04 2023 No.22512334 >>22512331 It's a little weird when everybody else is described, is all. If it's generally minimalist, sure, but everybody's fairly clearly depicted except the protag.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 19:37:54 2023 No.22512510 File: 63 KB, 720x880, 1141254758563.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22511802 No such thing as too much incest, you can always have more

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 19:39:29 2023 No.22512516 >>22512510 What's a "boy mom"?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 19:44:06 2023 No.22512531 >>22512516 A mother of a boy, aka Male Human. Obviously. Can you read context, ESL-kun? A "girl's mother-in-law" means her son will get married.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 19:50:27 2023 No.22512555 >>22512531 She forgot the apostrophe s.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 19:57:13 2023 No.22512570

>>22511141
They add a lot to the world.
Night of knives some backstory and return of the crimson guard to explain a fair bit of what happens with other characters or you may get confused in later Erikson book.
Not essential
Personally I loved reading it all chronologically the first read through.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 19:59:29 2023 No.22512575 >>22512085 I noticed. He also clearly took aspects of him from wit in assassin's apprentice

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 20:07:37 2023 No.22512598
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Anyone here finished Almost Nowhere? I like the writing quite a lot so far, but it's SO LONG; it feels like I've been reading for ages and I'm only 40 percent in

I thought TNC was amazing, Floornight though I liked but thought it seemed rushed, like the author came up with some cool ideas but then abandoned them when he got bored of them. Hopefully the same does not happen in AN.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 20:40:44 2023 No.22512708 File: 128 KB, 1280x720, ludwig.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Books for this feel?

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 20:46:32 2023 No.22512728

>>22512282
>I dont get why people are so afraid of AI writing when that trash is only able to produce the most generic, uninspired stories one can imagine. Is the epitome of non-descript MMO fantasy settings and bland characters.
Because writing is a competition for recognition that has little bearing on quality. Flooding the market with more competition is bad even if it's obvious AI slop.
Like even before AI bad novels were all over stuff like KU and RR and that made it harder for the actually good stuff to emerge

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 20:56:47 2023 No.22512760 >>22512728 On a related note, because of AI Amazon now only allows 3 book uploads per day.

Anonymous Wed Sep 20 21:11:40 2023 No.22512797

/g/ here, I'm currently working on a family tree generator in JavaScript. It's sort of like a fantasy name generator only it will define every character down to their exact features and personalities and will show how they're all related, who's married to who, etc. I'm making it so that users will be able just click and button and spin up 100+ characters instantly.
I get that chatgpt can kinda do this already (sort of) but I think it'll be a fun side-project to occupy my time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 21:19:55 2023 No.22512828 >>22512797 I'm getting flashbacks of crusaders Kings and incest

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 21:20:41 2023 No.22512831 >>22512797 Post a link here once it's complete.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 21:42:54 2023 No.22512900 >>22512831 I might put it up on neocities once it's working. >>22512828 Actually yeah. I was wondering how GRRM keeps track of his characters and all of their ridiculous marriages, and I thought why not automate that shit?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 21:44:18 2023 No.22512905 >>22512900 >I was wondering how GRRM keeps track of his characters and all of their ridiculous marriages, He honest to god just asks his wiki writers when he forgets stuff lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 23:16:49 2023 No.22513131 >>22512905 Better than keeping everything a single box of files and then not being able to finish your work when it gets stolen while you host an orgy (Glen cook)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 23:20:30 2023 No.22513145 >>22513131 Source? Based as fuck if true

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 23:25:10 2023 No.22513153 >>22513131 Based. I have an autographed copy of Sweet Silver Blues.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 20 23:42:36 2023 No.22513217 >>22513131 Go on...

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 01:36:37 2023 No.22513501 File: 413 KB, 1570x883, faggotop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508509

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 01:39:27 2023 No.22513507 >>22508902 >>22508924 Holy Samefagging Batman!!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 02:42:01 2023 No.22513649 fantasy with similar vibe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnIgmfJ9TYg

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 03:28:56 2023 No.22513714 >>22509437 Isn’t Ace Jessel supposed to be black?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 03:36:25 2023 No.22513734 >>22511805 fate stay night oh wait you said good

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 03:40:57 2023 No.22513750 >just wanted to read war of the worlds >get the penguin classics edish thinking it'd be solid >every fucking sentence has an annoying footnote taking me out of being immersed

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 03:58:19 2023 No.22513789

>>22513145
>>22513153
>>22513217
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cook_bibliography

>A Path to Coldness of Heart (2012)
>Replaces The Wrath of Kings, whose manuscript was stolen, and also encompasses plot from three more titles Cook had originally planned for the main sequence. Cook speaks extensively of this in the citation interview:[2]

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 04:53:37 2023 No.22513891 >>22512708 Berserk

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 05:16:44 2023 No.22513932 >>22513891 See >>22508191

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 05:17:31 2023 No.22513935 Is Asimov genuinely good

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 05:33:25 2023 No.22513950 It just feels different reading scifi on a E-reader. It feels... right.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 05:44:26 2023 No.22513965 >>22513935 Yes. The original Robot and Foundation books are mentioned in every list of the all-time best sci-fi books for a reason.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 06:51:19 2023 No.22514052 >>22513932 I'm not reading your wall of slop

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 10:56:47 2023 No.22514433 >>22509394 Elric is garbage. Sword and Sorcery died with Howard anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 11:01:12 2023 No.22514439 >>22514433 Tolkiendrone who knows nothing about sword and sorcery filtered

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 11:28:30 2023 No.22514480 >>22513935 See >>22513932 >>22514433 Have sex and touch grass

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 11:43:08 2023 No.22514504 >>22508423 Karl Edward Wagners Kane books I guess. He's immortal (as in doesn't die from old age). The stories are basicly just Conan, but he's also a wizard and is a tad more evil, on an endless quest for more power.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 12:45:36 2023 No.22514621 File: 317 KB, 760x1023, 1693638604204152.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22508509 Picked up! >>22513501 >>22513507 You are clearly samefagging, lmao. Also this message led me to his books and I'm having fun with them so far so thanks LOL

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 12:59:29 2023 No.22514649 File: 1.03 MB, 1170x1143, 1692654497604701.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >/sffg/ recs fag got more people reading his shitpost recs than me with normal posts This general is a joke.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 13:47:51 2023 No.22514744
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Aliens probably would be too smart to care about us; if they did care about us, I think they should infiltrate our societies and control us, like in "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 13:59:39 2023 No.22514762

Magic in my setting is an academic topic. Students basically spend their entire lives studying the mystical arts to gain a better understanding of the metaphysical world. But I want to write a story with action and romcom shenanigans, which is kinda hard when the protagonists should be spending their time studying.

Any ideas?

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:17:48 2023 No.22514796

>>22514762
>action
Just have them go on quests where they have to use what they learned, or find artefacts/resources to get better.
>romcom shenanigans
Maybe you've never been to university, but many students and teachers have sex, on top of students just fucking each other. It's already there for you to write.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:34:12 2023 No.22514843

>>22514796
>Just have them go on quests where they have to use what they learned, or find artefacts/resources to get better.
Yeah, I thought of the same. I wanted them to explore the world (mostly so that I can show it off), but couldn't see how it would fit their schedules.

I've been to Uni. We never had enough time to go on vacations and quests.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:35:21 2023 No.22514847

With that said,
>Maybe you've never been to university, but many students and teachers have sex, on top of students just fucking each other. It's already there for you to write.

is absolutely correct. I'm just overthinking things. It's not like romcom shenanigans will take up their entire day.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:36:13 2023 No.22514849 >>22514762 >my setting is an academic topic Dropped

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:38:46 2023 No.22514855 >>22514762 Consider reading the umpteen type of books which do this, then refrain from repeating the bad traits that those books repeat.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:47:48 2023 No.22514872

>The lawsuit cites specific ChatGPT searches for each author, such as one for Martin that alleges the program generated “an infringing, unauthorized, and detailed outline for a prequel" to “A Game of Thrones” that was titled “A Dawn of Direwolves” and used “the same characters from Martin’s existing books in the series “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
GRRM suing chatgpt because it writes his book faster than he does

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:53:32 2023 No.22514887 >caring about GERM yikes

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 14:57:46 2023 No.22514898 >>22514855 Like which ones?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 15:02:40 2023 No.22514909 >>22514898 Search for "magic school" and "magic academy" tags on your favorite book websites.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 15:44:37 2023 No.22515011 I liked mask of the sorcerer you guys constantly shilled here. Now I'm willing to eat up book of the new sun due to constant shilling too. Wish me luck bros

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 16:17:52 2023 No.22515093 >>22515011 Read Dying Earth next bro

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 16:31:48 2023 No.22515120 >>22515113 >Gormenghast >anti-establishment

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 16:51:45 2023 No.22515174

>>22514872
>Human reads a book and writes something in similar vein (aka what every writer in history does)
>heh, it's called inspiration
>computer reads a book and writes something in similar vein
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Lmao artistcuckies seething unto destruction

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 16:54:57 2023 No.22515185 File: 88 KB, 986x600, KSHLSDRTKL2016.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22515011 Read kushiel's dart next

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 16:59:33 2023 No.22515202 >>22515185 QRD?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 17:27:00 2023 No.22515276 File: 55 KB, 604x750, 517Fvc6AToL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22515202 Hotwife epic fantasy kino with virginchad male mc

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:03:20 2023 No.22515366 >>22515276 >hotwife fuck off cuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:07:35 2023 No.22515382 File: 57 KB, 976x850, 1692395753502093.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've never made it past the first book of any series.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:10:20 2023 No.22515392
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I finished The Will of the Many by James Islington. It was okay. Characters all say random shit that isn't that clever and then the author exposits how it's all brilliant politicking by what is very obviously a bunch of retarded eighteen year olds.

The ending absolutely blows, though. You've got a magic system that works, you've got a setting that is still wide open, why are you throwing parallel world shit in there?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:30:53 2023 No.22515448 >>22509394 This is why Corum is the superior eternal champion. He's like if Elric wasn't a emo bitch boi.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:31:45 2023 No.22515451

>>22508193
Does it get worse? I recently started up Gardens and am pretty hooked through the first 2 chapters. I did do some research beforehand to try and get a basic understanding of some of the concepts without digging too deep, but nothings been overwhelming so far

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:35:36 2023 No.22515458 >>22515382 good. Sounds like you should read standalones only. As they are the best and not gay

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:42:14 2023 No.22515470 >>22515392 I know goodreads is a meme but I was surprised at how outrageously high rated it was on there last I checked

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:46:00 2023 No.22515484 File: 1.04 MB, 2552x1600, IMG_20230921_113726.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >all the Elric hate in this thread Is this a psyop? The only better S&S writers are Howard and Wagner

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 18:55:07 2023 No.22515510 >>22515470 It is pretty weird how high its rating is considering the male character is a prince and at no point is anything "queer" even remotely hinted at, let alone depicted onscreen.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:17:42 2023 No.22515614

>>22515484
There are a handful of tolkiendrones in this general who relentlessly seethe at moorcock
The kind retards who state that sword and sorcery died after Howard yet are so stupid that they ignore the guy who invented the term sword and sorcery did so twenty years after howards death. Bottom feeders with no knowledge of sword and sorcery who haven't even read a single Conan story yet alone fafhrd and the grey mouser or Kane or elric

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:22:01 2023 No.22515630 [DELETED]

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>>22515484
Some schizoanon has a hateboner for moorcock because he's a self proclaimed anarchist and had some left leaning vienes so everytime someone mentions him he goes apeshit and starts spamming. Also he believes writing it as MOREcock is funny so he's obviously underaged
>>22515448
For me it's Dorian Hawkmoon.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:23:24 2023 No.22515633

>>22515392
if I hadn't already given up on anything intelligent happening, my eyes would have rolled right out of their sockets when I got to the part where they fight using Rock-em-Sock-em robots. also
>magic system that works
"Hey we can move heavy objects, make light, and track stuff/make alarms" wow groundbreaking stuff

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:26:40 2023 No.22515646

>>22515614
I have never read nor Tolkien nor Howard. The Elric saga is not that good because of reasons that I found in the actual book, most of all bad characters and very bad plots. Maybe my expectations were too high, and all sword and sorcery is just comic-book level pulp. Is all the praise that Moorcock gets only relative to a genre that usually ranges from mindless light entertainment to wasted paper?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:31:48 2023 No.22515662 >>22515484 also can somebody explain to me if Arioch's propecy's plotline starting at the end of sailing to the past was developed anywhere?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:35:30 2023 No.22515678 >>22515662 What was the prophecy? I read it years ago and can't remember

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:35:53 2023 No.22515679 File: 187 KB, 617x399, esmenet.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22509483 Close-enough in The Aspect-Emperor

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:40:05 2023 No.22515691 >>22515646 None of the plots are bad or the characters. It's pulpy sword and sorcery that was groundbreaking in its era but not so much anymore because elric has been ripped off by countless authors You've been filtered. It's that simple

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:40:30 2023 No.22515694 >>22512085 Bold of you to assume Sandersoy has read Dosto

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:42:06 2023 No.22515700 >>22515633 I dunno, man. Doesn't have to be groundbreaking for me, the fact that it's basically just a magic pyramid scheme was pretty amusing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:49:52 2023 No.22515717 >>22515691 >groundbreaking in its era but not so much anymore So what you're saying is that it isn't a classic.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 19:51:45 2023 No.22515721

>>22515646
Other S&S authors don't have the same plot problems because they usually wrote shortform. Moorcuck did too, and some of the first story's problems are because it was a prequel. Once Moorcuck decided to go from writing short stories to the Runestaff Cinematic Universe it all went to shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 20:04:44 2023 No.22515762 >>22515678 Arioch says that something terrible will happen because of the statue moving, but I did not really get what the consequences were by reading the other books

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 20:14:27 2023 No.22515785

>>22515691
The main plot is developed pretty much only in the last book, all of the rest is disjointed random stuff with the same situations recurring over and over. The dialogues are extremely poor. Most characters are very thin. The antagonists are dumb cartoon villains that never kill the hero, who always manages to escape in the same way. If being filtered means to not be able to enjoy mediocre stuff meant as light entertainment probably I was filtered by my expectations. They were pretty high since everyone everywhere celebrates Moorcock as a titan of fantasy.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 20:17:13 2023 No.22515799

why does everyone keep praising rothfuss's prose to the high heavens? i seriously don't get it. he has some great passages here and there but most of it seems pretty normal. is simply not having stilted awkward prose enough to be considered amazing now?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 20:25:26 2023 No.22515824 File: 254 KB, 900x806, 93b.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22515276 >Hotwife >virginchad Why would anyone read about a woman having sex with other men besides her husband? Is this an american thing?

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 20:47:05 2023 No.22515895

>>22515762
Oh that, always thought that he meant that chaos now has a firm footing on elric's world and people will start to worship chaos gods again like retarded lizardmen which will lead to the entire world being engulfed by chaos. I could be reading too much into it and maybe moorcock just forgot about it, wouldn't be the first under developed idea on his eternal champion cycle

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:00:37 2023 No.22515926
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>buy a bunch of Wheel of Time books because I liked the first one
>they all degenerate into worse and worse garbage
>50-80% of each books is about women being catty and annoying, barely advancing the plot before you get to a couple male chapters that push the plot forward, then 10 more chapters of women doing nothing
Why do people recommend that shit Jesus.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:06:21 2023 No.22515938 >>22515824 Yes why would anyone read about filthy sluts who love taking cock truly a mystery

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:07:56 2023 No.22515944 >>22515926 You VILL eat ze boomerslop, you VILL read the entire Wheel of Time series and you VILL be happy

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:09:32 2023 No.22515949
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>>22515926
>50-80% of each books is about women being catty and annoying, barely advancing the plot before you get to a couple male chapters that push the plot forward, then 10 more chapters of women doing nothing
Moiraine and faile (cute nose!) being bitchy always makes me rock hard ngl

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:11:51 2023 No.22515953 >>22515944 >boomerslop Wot is gen x slop, boomerslop would be something like dragonlance, shannara or riftwar

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:13:18 2023 No.22515957 So far not entirely satisfied with the Long Sun series. I feel like the story is so thin and yet the chapters so long that it drags a bit. The drama feels very well balanced so it may be better on a second read.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:15:03 2023 No.22515961

>>22515944
I don't think I can handle it anymore.
I can't bring myself to read one more chapter about Nynaeve wanting to box someone's ears, giving a tongue lashing, swirling her shawl around her bosom, and muttering about men being wool headed fools.
I feel like I've read the same page a hundred times, I'm actually going insane.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:25:08 2023 No.22515995 >>22515926 I guess not liking "party adventure" type stories made me avoid the mine.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:28:14 2023 No.22516011 >>22514649 Anon don't worry no one is reading all that chinkshit

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:34:51 2023 No.22516033 see >>22515926 >>22508191

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:38:11 2023 No.22516044 >>22516033 Eye of the World is literally the best, maybe the only good, WoT book thoughever

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:39:54 2023 No.22516049 >>22515949 Shut up You would find a granny doing CBT on you hot you degenerate hagfag

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 21:41:14 2023 No.22516052 File: 95 KB, 349x500, tumblr_mc5djr6NMQ1qlda2ko3_400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22515995 Read belgariad and malloreon for the real jrpg party adventure experience

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 22:08:10 2023 No.22516108 >>22516044 Incredibly retarded statement.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 22:10:34 2023 No.22516116 >>22516108 Robert Jordan couldn't write, half the following books are literally copy pasted from other pages.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 22:25:53 2023 No.22516170 File: 39 KB, 656x679, 1695131487046767.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22516052 David Eddings >> Robert Jordan

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 22:43:51 2023 No.22516203 What are your favorite sci-fi/fantasy books that have released this year?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 22:44:05 2023 No.22516205 File: 488 KB, 1178x900, heinleinRanked.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thoughts on Heinlein? Currently halfway through Farmer in the Sky.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 22:49:47 2023 No.22516231 >>22516116 >doubling down

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 22:56:52 2023 No.22516257 >>22516052 I HATE "party adventure" I DONT WANNA READ THEM

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:00:12 2023 No.22516271 File: 1.69 MB, 2001x1125, Baldanders and Dr Talos.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22516203 >favorite sci-fi/fantasy books that have released this year? lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:03:23 2023 No.22516281 >>22516203 dungeon crawler carl 6

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:03:27 2023 No.22516283 File: 87 KB, 361x265, 1694219819551177.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22516203

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:17:47 2023 No.22516328 File: 82 KB, 330x453, Pepe cheers.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22516203 Unironically Succubus Summoner It's just a silly story about cute women

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:18:49 2023 No.22516329 >>22516203 As far as I know, the sort of book I want to read hasn't been published since the 80's.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:24:17 2023 No.22516353 File: 42 KB, 305x500, 1841490075.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22516203 >this year? Surely you meant from the 1980s

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:41:18 2023 No.22516402

>>22516353
>>22516329
>>22516328
>>22516283
>>22516281
>>22516271
Damn, that sucks. I'm asking because I went to barnes and nobles to see what contemporary sci-fi/fantasy is like. All the 'best-sellers' displayed prominently on their own shelf were things like:

'But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…'

or

'In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. Talk about a gut punch of a novel. …A provocative exploration of intersectional feminism, loyalty, gender and transphobia invites readers into an intricately woven web of magic, friendship and power.'

I was hoping you guys would know of some exceptions but apparently not.
RIP.

Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:47:44 2023 No.22516415
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>>22516203
The Basilisk Throne wins by default since it's the only recent book I've read. 4/6 it was okay, but the series shows a lot of promise and Greg Keyes is one of my favorite authors.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:57:18 2023 No.22516446 >>22516402 Just lower your expectations.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 21 23:58:30 2023 No.22516451 12 Miles Below? Neat story

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 00:25:32 2023 No.22516512 File: 98 KB, 666x1000, Imaro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22509483 Imaro is actually really good African inspired sword and sorcery, has some light genocide in it though.

Anonymous Fri Sep 22 00:41:52 2023 No.22516574

>>22516203
In order of publication, 5 stars for all
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Blade of Dream
A Harvest of Ash and Blood
Generation Ship (releases Oct 17th)
These Burning Stars (releases Oct 17th, write-up not yet posted)

For these and more that I've read and wrote about that were published in 2023: >>/lit/?task=search2&ghost=false&search_text=2023&search_tripcode=Sffg&search_ord=old

There's a bit more than the above on my Goodreads account for published in 2023.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 00:50:34 2023 No.22516602 >>22516402 Best sellers usually aren't suitable regardless. That's where you went wrong in the first place. Best sellers almost always going to for women these days and young adult at that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 01:22:13 2023 No.22516703 >cute girl at the counter complimented me on my choice of book I'm going to have sex one day. I can tell. I can FEEL IT IN THE FUCKING AIR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH SEEEEXXXXX

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 01:38:03 2023 No.22516754 >>22516703 did you at least ask her what did she think that way?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 01:48:07 2023 No.22516773 >>22508902 >>22508924 protip: make your ridiculous samefaggery much less obvious than this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 01:55:19 2023 No.22516787 >>22516754 No, I said 'oh, ok....' and left in silence.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 01:59:23 2023 No.22516796 >>22516703 Post the book I dare you

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:01:22 2023 No.22516802 >>22516796 I don't want to get spoiled x(

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:03:18 2023 No.22516809 >male protagonist is not an alpha male with tons of confidence and cockyness >americans hate it

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:08:36 2023 No.22516827 >>22516809 Based.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:12:44 2023 No.22516832 >>22516809 Why should we want anything else in genre fiction?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:14:09 2023 No.22516835 >>22516809 it's so funny to go into royalroad comments because the moment the mc isn't a ridiculously op mary sue you have people outright crying about it

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:38:49 2023 No.22516876 Please recommend me your favorite SF books, I just got finished reading Scott Westerfeld's Succession books and I'm hungry for something similar.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:46:27 2023 No.22516892 Are there sci-fi books with good concepts where the plot and characters aren't complete fucking dogshit?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:48:06 2023 No.22516897 >>22516892 Wouldn't that be most SF that isn't hard or puply?

Anonymous Fri Sep 22 02:52:31 2023 No.22516911
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>>22508114
He followed her into the pantheon. He was greeted with skin and blood.

Ilios, god of the sun, bearer of radiance, had been strung from the top of a branch, as if he was no more than a chandelier. His feathers had been plucked from his skin, and the skin itself had been flayed from the flesh, stretched out by a tangle of hooks and wires until it appeared like a mockery of wings. His pose had been transfigured to match the friezes that lined the arcade—other gods leaping into a chasm, billowing their wings in pursuit of demons. Stories of myth and legend. Unlike the paintings, Ilios was marred with broken ribs, jagged limbs, organs peeking through rotten flesh. He leaped over nothing but a dried lake of blood.
Sadik could only stare in horror. Someone had murdered a god.

His lord. His patron. His guiding light.

“It’s silent, isn’t it?”

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 03:01:13 2023 No.22516931 >>22508158 The naming/linguistic style of those places is like stale cornbread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 03:06:14 2023 No.22516943 >>22508509 Can you give me the synopsis? What are your books about?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 03:08:52 2023 No.22516956 >>22516809 spic influence

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 03:56:41 2023 No.22517062 >>22516892 Peter hamilton, be warned he likes blondes with big boobas

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 04:11:19 2023 No.22517091 malazan: slop of the fallen a song of ice and slop the chronicles of the slop company wheel of slop the prince of slop remembrance of earth's slop the sloplight archive the first slop the lord of the slop

Anonymous Fri Sep 22 04:19:23 2023 No.22517112
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>>22514621
Let me know what you think. And yeah, that guy just doesn't quit, lol. Dude is obsessed with me. It's creepy and flattering at the same time.

>>22516773
Give it a rest, retard. I know I said I wouldn't reply to you again, but just so people can see that you're spamming the thread with nonsense I'll post pic related.

>>22516943
Sure! Not sure if you want spoilers or not. I'll give a synopsis with some but not many.

Short version:
It's a coming of age story where a boy becomes a man during a time of war. He starts out naive, with simple goals like "keep the peace" and "save the innocent." He's obsessed with the idea of becoming a hero, and through this series finds out what that's actually like in the real world.

Long version:

I'm going to ramble a little here because, if you wanted a compact synopsis, you would have just read the one on Amazon or whatever.

The concept of "young man from a farm wants to become a hero" is a time-honored trope, but it's not all that's going on here. Really, these books are about war and intrigue. I play with magic vs technology tropes - one country is a sort of semi-theocracy-dictatorship which outlaws magic and enslaves nonhumans (mostly orcs). Another is a loosely-allied feudalistic society run by highly powered magical warlords who style themselves as living gods and mostly treat their people as expendable. These two nations have a cold war going on at the beginning of the series.

In the middle there's a much smaller neutral nation. Its capital is a castle on a bridge which spans a river in the southern-middle of the continent. It's the only feasible point on the continent where the two other nations can cross with an army, so it's in their interest to keep the cold war cold. They're much smaller and weaker than the other two nations, but they're able to maintain individually-more-powerful soldiers because unlike the west they do not ban magic, and unlike the east they don't hoard and guard magical secrets (quite as much, anyway). So they have this small, elite force which is both a standing army, but also hires out as mercenaries to either nation. The idea is that if there's some kind of incursion on either side - slavers heading east to capture slaves, or rogue wizards creating trouble in the west - the Chateau has both financial and existential reasons to deal with it.

Jak, the main character, wants to join this force ("the Cascadian Knights") and the series starts with his attempts to become strong enough to do so. Through him we get a ground level view of the conflict - its origins, the intrigues that surround it, etc.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 04:49:42 2023 No.22517190 >>22516574 >A Harvest of Ash and Blood what a horrible title

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 04:54:45 2023 No.22517197 >>22517190 This sounds like if you asked chatgpt to create a GRRM book title

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 06:48:38 2023 No.22517374 Any good fantasy books that somehow pull off the most iconic era of multiple civilizations at the same time?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 07:14:32 2023 No.22517396 >could call your knights literally anything >anything at all, even some conlang bullshit >goes for "Cascadian Knights" what, do they make style sheets

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 08:17:03 2023 No.22517472 File: 109 KB, 1080x556, Screenshot_20230922-161556.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22517396

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 09:17:39 2023 No.22517579 What's the best illustrated version of War of the Worlds?

Anonymous Fri Sep 22 10:25:55 2023 No.22517712

What is the best 4chan archive for /sffg/ ?

I wrote something earlier this year in a thread and i'm trying to find it. Can't remember exactly what I wrote but it included 'dear brave sir knight'. It was about a knight going to a witch's grave to get a necklace or a ring.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 10:34:37 2023 No.22517719 >>22517712 Nevermind, found it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 11:29:32 2023 No.22517810 >>22517472 doesn't mean it sounds good chief

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 15:54:23 2023 No.22518297 >>22517810 It sounds cool to me >>22517396 Not the author but conlang is universally fucking gay unless your name is tolkien

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 15:56:58 2023 No.22518305 Can you guys recommend me good novellas? Something quick and short to read, either fantasy o scifi. I recently read an Expanse novella and I'm in the mood to read short stories now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 16:00:08 2023 No.22518320 >>22518305 Novelty by John Crowley (Novelty is 4 novellas, Novelties and Souvenirs is the same novellas collected alongside short stories)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 16:00:41 2023 No.22518323 >>22518305 >Something quick and short to read, I don't like those. What is even the point of short stories when by the time I am ready to invest in it it's over? People who write short stories should be shot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 16:17:34 2023 No.22518359 >>22518323 All the best authors in the world disagreed with you. Check out Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 16:27:07 2023 No.22518380 >>22518305 I wrote about 31 works of short fiction last month. >>/lit/?task=search2&search_tripcode=Sffg

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 16:41:28 2023 No.22518414 >>22518359 It's ok, I guess it was something new in 1900s but today it's just a short story

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 22 17:05:27 2023 No.22518483 new >>22518480 >>22518480 new >>22518480 >>22518480

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