/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.22618331]

Ghost Pirate Edition

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[Anonymous No.22618347]

>>22618331
should i read The Aspect-Emperor if i got spoiled that the Great Ordeal ultimately fails?

[Anonymous No.22618351]

First for Barid Bel

[Anonymous No.22618368]

Just started The Book of Horn. What am i in for?

[Anonymous No.22618394]

9000 years ms paint

[Anonymous No.22618417]

About to finish Xenos from the Eisenhorn series. Should I keep reading it or is there other 40k recommendations? Honestly as much as I like Dan Abnett, he's overly descriptive in Xenos.

[Anonymous No.22618418]

>>22618394
There is a clear misunderstanding of the format. You are not supossed to put direct scenes from the book in the "got" section.

[Anonymous No.22618442]

>>22618418
fuck tyou

[Anonymous No.22618476]

>>22618368
The best aspects of New Sun and Long Sun smushed together with better characters and a more personal, emotional narrative.

[Anonymous No.22618483]

Bakker is quite simply King of Fantasy

[Anonymous No.22618678]

I just finished reading The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander, and I'm reminded now of how full of shit people are when they think this whole inclination fantasy authors have of taking the protagonist's love interest away from him is anything new. This garbage has been one of the most nasty thorns in the side of fantasy writing for a long damn time. And the saddest thing is that this wasn't really in any way a bad fantasy book until this part, aside from Eilonwy's annoying speech quirk and Hen Wen running away all the time.
Of course, by that time the Sons of Don had their chance to attack. You should have seen the golden banners. And such handsome warriors.” Eilonwy sighed. “It was—it was like—I don’t even know what it was like.”
“As soon as I saw Lord Gwydion,” Eilonwy put in, with an admiring glance at him, “I knew he was the one who should keep the sword. I must say I’m glad to have done with the clumsy thing.”
“Lord Gwydion,” Eilonwy called, as he rose to leave, “what was the Horned King’s secret name?” Gwydion’s lined face broke into a smile. “It must remain a secret,” he said, then patted the girl gently on the cheek. “But I assure you, it was not half as pretty as your own.”
Lloyd Alexander, you are a faggot.

[Anonymous No.22618773]

Saw this image on /v/and was wondering if any /sffg/ bros could help me work out exactly what books are featured on the left side?

[Anonymous No.22618779]

>>22618773
It's a lot of fanart/paintings and not all are from books. For instance there's Flash Gordon and Fire & Ice

[Anonymous No.22618783]

ASOIAF
What do you niggas think is going to go on with Sansa/The Vale in book 6?
Also do you think that Dany coming to Westeros would happen in book 6 or not happen until book 7?
IMO book 6 needs to be the culling book where most characters and sub-plots get killed off.

[Anonymous No.22618848]

First for fantasy/scifi written by middle-aged women

[Anonymous No.22618862]

>>22618783
>book 6

[Anonymous No.22618875]

Can someone critique an excerpt from my sci fi erotica short?

Do you get banned for posting sexually explicit, violent fiction here?

[Anonymous No.22618902]

>>22618875
How about you put it in a pastebin and ask the writing general?

[Anonymous No.22618904]

>>22618875
>>>/lit/wg/

[Anonymous No.22618937]

Cheers I’ve asked over there.

[Anonymous No.22619056]

has anything worth reading come out this year?

[Anonymous No.22619085]

>>22618773
>Saw this image on /v/and
oh they are having that thread again?
anyway, I can spot at least 3 Book of the New Sun covers, one Lord of the Rings one, a couple of pieces of art that aren't from any particular series (the orangey one with the bug skull titan looking thing is from Bruce Pennington, for example). Fire and Ice there in the middle and the obvious Jodorowsky Dune concept in the top right. There is a piece from Amano's VampD covers in the middle, too. What specifically are you look for?

[Anonymous No.22619244]

/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.22619297]

/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.22619313]

>>22618417

So many things in WH40k worth the read. Have two:

Guy Haley Shadowsword
Dan Abnett Double Eagle

[Anonymous No.22619428]

>>22618773
I sense some Terry Pratchett and that's pretty much the only thing worth mentioning.

[Anonymous No.22619510]

A chapter in and already realized where Silk is

[Anonymous No.22619522]

>>22619428
Go back.

[Anonymous No.22619529]

What should I read next?

[Anonymous No.22619534]

>>22619510
Can't wait for you to share more thoughts. I'm about half-way through Return to the Whorl.

[Anonymous No.22619596]

>>22619534
Let's just say that he's a hard R

[Anonymous No.22619619]

>>22619529
Read Reverend insanity

[Anonymous No.22619633]

>>22619619
I don't think I'd ever want to reread RI. In fact, you reread RI while reading it due to him going back in time. I think it'd be neat if there was an arc where he does stuff and then goes back in time and learns every one of his assumptions was wrong.

[Anonymous No.22619640]

>>22618331
>>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs)
>https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/guIyhAzS
I'm not clicking your dataminer botnet.

Post them here.

[Anonymous No.22619673]

>>22618331
Talking about ghost pirates I was reading Deep Sea Embers and goddamn the chinks really knows how to write absurd shit.
The Vanished is the coolest ghost ship I've read.

[Anonymous No.22619693]

Should I read sixth of dusk before sunlit man? I just bought sunlit man and it only just occured to me

[Anonymous No.22619715]

>>22619673
>ghost pirates
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE
That said, On Stranger Tides is a fun fantasy novel and I highly recommend it.

[Anonymous No.22619726]

>>22618773
The image on the top row, second from left is from Wayne Barlowe's Hell series. It's a good dark fantasy about a demon prince and his followers seeking redemption.

Far left row, towards the bottom the woman leaning on the door of the white house is from Dark Sun, the D&D campaign setting. The image to its immediate right is from Fire and Ice, an animated movie for which Frank Frazetta did the art.

[Anonymous No.22619739]

What book/series has the best love story in your opinion? Who do you think writes good love stories consistently?

[Anonymous No.22619763]

Would you willingly own a dragon? A real fucking dragon, not a fluffy and overly affectionate sweetheart that can just switch into a ferocious beast whenever the plot demands, I mean a real shit dragon. A living creature with a mouth full of knives and a genetic tendency for violence and arrogance that needs to continuously be fed to sustain its growth to the size of a building. You’ll need to tame it first so it doesn’t just kill you when it’s big enough, then train it. The upside is that despite its animalistic ferociousness, deep within is a strongly willed soul looking for somebody worthy of its emotional attachments. I’ll also shoot off some quick questions, answer them or don’t idc
>what colors do you think would look the best? Would you want multiple or just a single, dominant color?
>would you use your dragon as a steed and weapon in battle and war, or as a scholarly assistant in pursuit of knowledge?
>what time period would you want to live in? A modern age? Medieval? What consequences and bonuses could come with it?
>would you live in a world that hates dragons and shuns them as wild beasts, and live as an isolated drifter living among them? Or a world that’s fully integrated with them?

[Anonymous No.22619769]

>>22619763

[Anonymous No.22619772]

>>22619763
I will write a short story about dragon ownership as a joke about owning a pitbull. An unmarried queen will own the dragon, and use it occasionally to menace her neighboring lands, but will always insist it is safe. And then, one day, something minor will set it off and it will eat her and destroy her entire castle before having to be put down by a knight.

[Anonymous No.22619776]

>>22619763
Not only will it test you physically as you grow together, dragons also closely inspect the mental faculties of their companions. It will often attack you mentally, diluting your focus through some kind of hypnosis or psychic ability and test your fortitude against mental and magical threats. Could you withstand the constant company of such a demanding creature?

[Anonymous No.22619783]

>Would you own a pitbull?

[Anonymous No.22619789]

>>22619772
>An unmarried queen will own the dragon, and use it occasionally to menace her neighboring lands, but will always insist it is safe. And then, one day, something minor will set it off
That's just ASOIAF

[Anonymous No.22619795]

>>22619772
Alternate ending: It eats her infant heir(father unknown) and she continues to simp for it as her nobles put it down in defiance of her orders. Then after the dust settles she buys another dragon egg.

[Anonymous No.22619833]

>Kindle Customer
>1.0 out of 5 stars Really bad and boring
>Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2023
>Verified Purchase
>It's full of incest, rape, gay rape, a guy being raped by a dog, 90% of the book is just really badly written porn with the other 10% just being him torturing a guy and domestic abuse. Even looking past that it was really boring and extremely predictable to the point that it felt tiring just reading it. I had to stop at 88% through because it was just unbearably bad. I hate starting a book and not finishing it (ocd). The female characters had zero intelligence and were bland. Save yourself the trouble and avoid this mess

Should I read this?

[Anonymous No.22619854]

>>22619833
If you're horny and into rape just read Inside the Cave of Obscenity. Japs really know how to write despair kino rape

[Anonymous No.22619864]

does sufficiently advanced magic get better? is the progression any good? is the protagonist ever not a fag?
i might finish reading the first book anyway.. assuming it doesnt get worse

[Anonymous No.22619865]

>>22619313
Where the hell do you buy these books in paperback where they don't cost over $20?

[Anonymous No.22619869]

>>22619763
>>22619776
Wait this sounds like a woman

[Anonymous No.22619870]

>>22619864
>does sufficiently advanced magic get better?
lol no
>is the progression any good?
no, the author fucked up and the thing became like programming at some point
>is the protagonist ever not a fag?
no and his "coming out" scene was one of the most retarded shit I've read and bear in mind I do read webnovel made by chinks

[Anonymous No.22619892]

>>22619865

You can camp out on Amazon or Abe to look for them used. Sometimes deals pop up on very good condition. I generally try to buy used. Don't want to buy, you can always try the library and do the intralibrary loan thing.

FWIW:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30025464632&searchurl=ds%3D20%26kn%3Ddouble%2Beagle%2Babnett%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image1

[Anonymous No.22619965]

>>22619297
which of picrel can hang with HWFWM and DCC? i want to start a new series but i can't handle anything of lower tier than HWFWM.

also i took your recommendation of mother of learning and was disappointed.

[Anonymous No.22619970]

>>22619772
This but the dragon fucks her at the end.

[Anonymous No.22619974]

>>22619870
do you have any (western) recommendations?

[Anonymous No.22619976]

>>22619869
What? A woman would either just do >>22619772 or idealize a dragon, and turn it into the disgraces that get flaunted in modern media. Conventionally aesthetic, basic colored and a 2D personality with a few selfish traits and acts like a puppy or something. I’m talking about a bloodthirsty lizard pet that does your bidding and essentially becomes an esoteric extension of your mind and soul, becoming physically attached to your very presence in relation to it.

[Anonymous No.22619985]

>>22619965
DCC is shit. Series started good, then the protagonist become a laughing stock of his own story, and the author wanted to please his rebbit users by making the cat get more facetime.

[Anonymous No.22620055]

I'm going to start reading the Silmarillion today
Wish me luck bros

[Anonymous No.22620071]

>>22619985
i'm on book 5 i believe and it's probably unmatched, SO FAR
did you not try HWFWM? also on book 5 and it's been good
was also going to try azarinth healer, but im not seeing it on your list here

[Anonymous No.22620088]

>>22619985
YOUR MOTHER SHOULD HAVE DRIBBLED YOU OUT IN THAT TRUCK STOP BATHROOM FLOOR.

[Anonymous No.22620097]

>>22620071
Fights with monsters turned into a paypig farm. He had three books on earth where everything of importance could have been contained in half a book. The author also has a habit of ending a book on something interesting, then pretending like no such thing happened in the next, and starts to slog through the story. I also see he has other people talking like Jason, and the author is showing there stats and fights as a why to milk the series more.

>azarinth healer
It was okay. I guess. The author is trying to make a Rated R female Goku who wants to fight, eat and fuck. I read up to book two, which slowed way down in my opinion compared to book one.

>>22620088
I was raised by both parents, so I don't know why you feel to project your feelings and circumstances upon me.

[Anonymous No.22620135]

What book reads like a D&D campaign but in a sci-fi setting?

[Anonymous No.22620149]

>>22620135
Undying Mercenaries? Cradle? idk it depends on what you mean by D&D campaign and sci-fi setting.

[Anonymous No.22620168]

>>22620149
Just a group of people fucking off, exploring space on some dumb quest. I enjoy that classic fantasy setting trope and am looking for it in a different setting

[Anonymous No.22620170]

I sometimes buy Tolkien books at thrift shops for cheap
How do I cut the artwork pages out of the book and how do I display them?
Does anyone do this?

[Anonymous No.22620219]

>>22620135
>>22620168
The Sten Chronicles (they like blowing shit up)
The Fall of the Towers (1962-1965) and babel-17 (1966) by Samuel Delany (chuds beware, he's black)
Highroad Trilogy by Kate Elliott
Mageworlds by Debra Doyle
Star of the Guardians by Margaret Weis
Uuuuhhh dunno maybe Legion of Space by Jack Williamson

[Anonymous No.22620235]

>>22618773
That's all I got.

[Anonymous No.22620237]

90% through Mother of Learning Arc1
I have a feeling that Xvim Chao is a secret badass and probably could one-shot the Lich with his marble.

[Anonymous No.22620243]

>>22620237
based Xvim Chao appreciator

[Anonymous No.22620278]

>>22620237
Kino arc 1 ending incoming...
you severely underestimate the lich

[Anonymous No.22620297]

What's the Berserk of the book world?

[Anonymous No.22620299]

>>22620297
What's Berserk?

[Anonymous No.22620331]

>>22620278
I finished it just now.
rip the spiders......
It wasn't all that kino, imo. but it sure made me want to jump straight into the Arc 2.
I was going to read Blade Itself after I finished Arc 1 but guess not.

[Anonymous No.22620343]

>>22620299
The Dark Souls of manga

[Anonymous No.22620363]

>>22619965
>people read the /sffg/ recs fag but wont read my serious recs
this general is a FUCKING JOKE

[Anonymous No.22620368]

>>22620343
What's dark souls?

[Anonymous No.22620372]

>>22620363
These young juniors cannot see the puddle for the pond.

[Anonymous No.22620373]

>>22620368
The /sffg/ recommends of video games apparently https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/dark-souls-like

[Anonymous No.22620378]

>New Cosmere just came out
>Been reading TWoK for the last 3 months and i'm not even 50% in

[Anonymous No.22620393]

>>22620378
Reading isn't a race, if you are enjoying then you are doing it right, that being said Sanderson is shit and you deserve to be culled

[Anonymous No.22620397]

>>22620373
What's /sffg/?

[Anonymous No.22620408]

>>22620378
TWoK is very slow but the final act was preem KINO.
Don't rush, the rest of cosmere are not that good. lol.

[Anonymous No.22620415]

>>22620368
The berserk of video games

[Anonymous No.22620448]

>>22620219
>Samuel Delany (chuds beware, he's black)
Well more to the point, he's a kiddie rapist

[Anonymous No.22620542]

Has the The Lord of the Rings Reader's Companion enriched your reading of Lord of the Rings

[Anonymous No.22620554]

Just started Reverend Insanity. What am I in for /lit/bros???

[Anonymous No.22620587]

>>22620542
Isn't The Silmarillion the official LotR companion?

[Anonymous No.22620613]

>>22620554
>Reverend Insanity
wasn't it banned/cancelled?
I dread starting something with no ending.

[Anonymous No.22620614]

>>22620554
A series that lampoons xianxia that westoids misinterpreted and assumed was meant to be taken seriously.

[Anonymous No.22620623]

>>22620614
Then it had actual xianxia writers take it seriously, so now you see ludicrously materialistic, treacherous cultivators everywhere.

[Anonymous No.22620628]

For me, it's Jasmine Jae.

[Anonymous No.22620769]

>>22619772
Make sure she fucks it, or at least thirsts after that dragon dick.

Possibly she has a litter of dragon kin kids that are all total shits. And then complains about no prince wants her because they cant handle her.

[Anonymous No.22620776]

>>22619965

yeah, i couldn't see what the big deal was with mother of learning either, I dropped it like 3/4ths into book 1

>>22620769
pic for you

[Anonymous No.22620826]

I liked Reverend Insanity more when the emphasis was on creating a balanced team of pokemon instead of killer move spam and attainment cheating

[Anonymous No.22620870]

>>22620297
Between two fires

[Anonymous No.22620978]

>>22618165

>getting salt pillared avoids damnation
Is this a random theory for the sake of it or is it hinted at in later books?

the origin of the trinket is pretty intriguing, the making was shared by the inchoroi with the nonmen who above all desire oblivion, which the trinket might provide given that they are negations of reality or void.

the inchoroi also gave the tusk to the humans, who above all desire the presence of a godhood, 2 gifts to vastly different philosophical races but one having the most pivotal moment in their race's history

[Anonymous No.22621016]

Has anyone read Outcast in Another World?

I'd say its one of the better litrpgs currently running. The setting is interesting and Rob ends up insanely based and an absolute unit of a berserker archtype. Which rarely really gets explored to high levels in litrpg I find. (shoutouts to Path of the Berserker)

[Anonymous No.22621034]

Anybody read much Phyllis Eisenstein? Wondering about Sorcerer's Son and Born into Exile

[Anonymous No.22621036]

>>22620776
>that pic
Lmao

[Anonymous No.22621049]

>read extracts from murtagh
>the prose and writing style are actually good
we're going to have to move Paolini up a tier

[Anonymous No.22621054]

>>22620297
Song of ice and fire

[Anonymous No.22621059]

>>22620297
>>22620554
Great posts anons, very original but just started three body problem and i'm wondering when does it gets good? are the witcher books any good? Any books like LOTR?? 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 No.22621088]

>>22620235
Think the very bottom right might be from the Moebius graphic novel THE INCAL, or maybe from his AIRTIGHT GARAGE stuff. Definitely Moebius

Second from the left on the very top row is from "Inferno" a book of depictions of hell by artist Wayne Barlowe.

On the right hand side, the spaceship with the stripy square tubes I believe is a piece of concept art by Chris Foss for the unfinished Jodorowsky's DUNE.

[Anonymous No.22621097]

>>22621059
Check out The Blacktongue Thief by Chris Buehlmann

[Anonymous No.22621155]

>>22621059
>STOP DISCUSSING POPULAR THINGS

[Anonymous No.22621172]

>just skimread the latest cosmere book
>felt nothing during the lore dump sections
>used to get extremely hyped every time Adonalsium was so much as mentioned
why?

[Anonymous No.22621174]

>>22621172
>"Cosmere book"
Stopped reading right there.

[Anonymous No.22621188]

>>22620628
For me it's
Mylie Moore
Tiffany Blake
Asstyn Martyn
Monica Mazzeratie
Mya Blair
Julie Ginger
Virgo Peridot
Jessica Lust
Selah Rain
Lila Lovely
Roxee Robinson
Maria Bose
Stella Daniels
Millie Marx
Cherry Bardot
Kate Bailey
And of course Tara Tainton, Xev Bellringer, Bettie Bondage among others
I'm sure Steven Erikson agrees with me

[Anonymous No.22621215]

>>22620135
Deathstalker, right down to your DM blatantly ripping off stuff from other settings when he can't think of anything new.
I'd say A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe but it's not as clear in my memory.

[Anonymous No.22621237]

>>22619739
Sun Wolf and Starhawk

[Anonymous No.22621270]

>>22621172
eh its a side hustle, sando has planned to set one book on the therenody world though and it will focus on the night brigade, should be good

[Anonymous No.22621305]

>>22621270
And a real book, mind, not the half and half like the sunlit man, hope it is equal to the size of elantris

[Anonymous No.22621313]

Is Unfinished Tales any good for someone who has read the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion but isn't a Tolkien nerd?

[Anonymous No.22621400]

>>22620363
More than half of the stuff in the sffg recs ritualpost are just things that are popular. Of course people are going to read and talk about them here.

[Anonymous No.22621415]

>>22621400
I only read books written and/or starring hags

[Anonymous No.22621440]

>>22618331
>Read Perdido Street Station
>Chapter 14
>Dozens of pages are fictional version of quantum physics

[Anonymous No.22621484]

>>22620363
I think I see about 1% of the recs I make talked about by someone who read it after the rec

[Anonymous No.22621504]

>>22621313
No, read The Children of Hurin.

[Anonymous No.22621643]

>>22618783
Sansa is going to marry Sweetautist and be his surrogate mommyLysa while she rules the Vale and throws Pedofinger down the moon door.

[Anonymous No.22621650]

>>22618848
But are they any good.

[Anonymous No.22621713]

>>22620097
Kill yourself faggot

[Anonymous No.22621731]

Is there a good fiction that is NOT feminist? I am tired of reading about strong and independent women who don't need no man. We get that shit shoved down out throats all the time in real life. Can there be an author who does not inject a Mary Sue?

[Anonymous No.22621811]

>>22621731
Why are you so afraid of women, chud?

[Anonymous No.22621848]

>>22618773
>>22619726
>>22620235
>>22621088

[Anonymous No.22621860]

>>22621811

I am just tired of everyone "empowering" them in real life AND in fiction.

[Anonymous No.22621903]

>>22621860
Why do you hateewomen, chuddie? Both men and women can be inspiring

[Anonymous No.22621922]

>>22621731
Reverend Insanity

[Anonymous No.22621925]

Is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy overrated?

[Anonymous No.22621965]

>>22621925
I know everyone on 4chan dot org calls everything they don't like Reddit but seriously, hitchikers guide is peak reddit.

[Anonymous No.22621967]

>>22621731
Future is female polchud

[Anonymous No.22621979]

>>22621925
No, it's like monty python in that it was massively over quoted and referenced but that's died off lately so you'll probably be fine with it.

[Anonymous No.22622013]

Has anyone here read Ursula Le Guin's short story The Ascent of the North Face and can explain it to me? I am getting the impression that it's supposed to be a joke, but it seems more weird than funny to me. yes, I do understand that they're climbing a suburban house, but I don't get why that's funny. At first I thought they might be tiny thumbelinas but then it explicitly gives them normal human height.

[Anonymous No.22622074]

>start reading obscure book
>sffg starts posting about it nonstop

[Anonymous No.22622102]

>>22622074
We all like to think we're free thinkers but really all of us here are subtly influenced by the algorithm in the same ways.

[Anonymous No.22622104]

>>22621848
Is top left Chronicles of Amber?

[Anonymous No.22622109]

Fantasy about dark, gloomy forests?

[Anonymous No.22622127]

>>22622074
None of the ingredients in the pasta are obscure.

[Anonymous No.22622130]

I read through the Prince of Nothing series and got as far as The Judging Eye and dropped the series months ago and now I can't be assed to pick up The White Luck Warrior. There are too many books in this series and it feels like the last two books are just filler slog bullshit meant to extend shit longer than it needed to be.

You could have condensed this series down by a book or two and I might have actually been willing to finish it.

Fuck Bakker cucks. Now I don't even want to finish your fucking series. TIGHTEN IT UP BITCH. YOUR BOOK SERIES DOESN'T NEED TO BE 7-8+ NOVELS, I'VE GOT OTHER SHIT TO GET TO!

[Anonymous No.22622282]

Wildbow's most recent work, Pale, has recently finished. It's an urban fantasy and to be honest, it's his best work yet. Blows Worm out of the fucking water. Shits all over Ward (although that isn't hard), and is honestly a superior intro to the universe than Pact. Epilogues are over and Wildbow is on break right now, after over a decade of non-stop writing. So this is the best time to try it out before he moves on to a legitimate sci-fi novel or something.

Nobodies read Twig.

[Anonymous No.22622385]

>>22618331
YouTubers are now making better fiction than so called ' best-selling writers' .
hell, even the sunvanished twitter threads were better than anything written in the last 5 years.
how the hell did we get here ?

[Anonymous No.22622410]

Why is Sanderson like this?

[Anonymous No.22622424]

>>22622410
Like what? Industrious?

[Anonymous No.22622624]

>>22622385
Analog horror is some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Neck yourself.

[Anonymous No.22622630]

>>22622130
The entire series is shorter than Lord of the Rings, what are you, retarded?

[Anonymous No.22622662]

>>22622630
Don't care. LOTR is actually good.

[Anonymous No.22622704]

>>22622630
Lmao writelet

[Anonymous No.22622719]

>>22622410
Successful?

[Anonymous No.22622787]

Months ago, maybe even over an year, I came here to shit on the Belgariad. I shat on the plot contrivance of the main character refusing to talk about his many encounters with the big bad.

Then some anon told me "You fool! That was intentional! The main character was under compulsion". And I bought that, it made sense. So i decided to give it a chance, i powered through to the second book. And now this book has ANOTHER FUCKING PLOT ABOUT HOW THE MAIN CHARACTER KNOWS SOMETHING INCRIMINATING BUT REFUSES TO SAY WHAT HE KNOWS BECAUSE OF PLOT CONTRIVANCE

well done anon, you got me to waste 15 hours of my life on this shit. you got me.

[Anonymous No.22622849]

>>22622624
there's so many posts where people come in this thread with some excuse/hot take and almost ask permission to not read.
If they feel that way they can just do it without involving us lol

[Anonymous No.22622853]

I finished Peter F Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. They were fun to listen to and I liked the concept of the Starflier alien but sadly the whole thing is a plot device rather than the focus of the novels. It didn't feel like a mystery that you as the reader were meant to try and solve by yourself. I didn't feel like any of the reveals are things I should've been able to figure out by myself. Also, the author's fascination with whores is something I just don't get. Araminta was easily the worst part of the Void Trilogy books and Melanie sucks too. Am I supposed to find them attractive? Inspirational?

[Anonymous No.22623037]

>>22618783
What >>22621643 said. Sweetrobin is /ourguy/ and will plow fertile Northern pussy when he comes of age. Until then, Sansa will rule the Vale and Niggerfinger will die the same way as Lysa.
>Dany
I'd prefer she come in at book 7, and be hyped up in Westros as a threat after the devastation left by the others. I think the show got it right that she'll be a villain. But I think it'll be more like she comes in and is perceived as a scary foreign conqueror hellbent on ruling Westros with fire and blood, and less "zomg le heckin reddit bells! Aaaaaaa save me drogon I'm going craZzzyyyyy!". Putting aside David Lightbringer pedotheories about Dany, I think it's certain she'll get a taste for blood when she inevitably Harrenhal's Volantis.
Not sure where that leaves Euron though. Or the ironborn in general.
Book 6, if it ever comes out, will most likely cull the detritus characters. I think that's part of the reason Grum has had a hard time writing it. If nothing else, too many unnecessary POVs.

[Anonymous No.22623044]

>>22622853
>Am I supposed to find them attractive? Inspirational?
No you stupid retard. You were supposed to read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained and stop there.

>They were fun to listen to and I liked the concept of the Starflier alien but sadly the whole thing is a plot device rather than the focus of the novels. It didn't feel like a mystery that you as the reader were meant to try and solve by yourself.
What are you even talking about? Go read detective fiction for that.

[Anonymous No.22623067]

>>22619763
>Would you willingly own a dragon?
Probably not, but it would be cool.
>what colors do you think would look the best?
Erm... Red?
Would you want multiple or just a single, dominant color?
Multiple colors. But monochromatic if it's black.
>would you use your dragon as a steed and weapon in battle and war, or as a scholarly assistant in pursuit of knowledge?
Why not all of the above? Can a warrior not also be a scholar?
>what time period would you want to live in? A modern age? Medieval? What consequences and bonuses could come with it?
Medieval. I mean, people would fear and respect you. Like an sheikh in Dubai with a big ass tiger or whatever. Except a dragon would be more intelligent and destructive than that. I think ASOIAF makes a good argument though for dragons being incredibly hard to control.
>would you live in a world that hates dragons and shuns them as wild beasts, and live as an isolated drifter living among them? Or a world that’s fully integrated with them?
A world where there shunned would be my preference. Then again, I'd basically be a shitbull owner...

[Anonymous No.22623279]

>turn the page
>its a Kellhus segment

[Anonymous No.22623480]

>>22623044
>You were supposed to read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained and stop there.
A whore reporter is only a little bit less annoying than a whore real estate agent. Besides, the Void trilogy was fun until the end. Once everyone goes into the void I admit I lost interest
>Go read detective fiction for that.
Nigga one of the major characters is a literal detective. Is it really that strange for me to have expected the story about a group of characters uncovering an alien conspiracy to feel like detective fiction?

[Anonymous No.22623490]

>>22623480
It's a space opera, action and adventure story not a detective fiction.

[Anonymous No.22623743]

I miss those fags talking about The Wandering Inn, they showed more passion about the shit they read them 90% of this general

[Anonymous No.22623836]

>>22621049
I'm genuinely interested in his space opera books. I wonder how they are since I don't trust goodreads

[Anonymous No.22623892]

>>22623037
>book 7
You sweet, sweet delusional child....

[Anonymous No.22623899]

Is there any good way to search for books based on tags in a similar way to Royalroad for example? Goodreads kinda sucks desu

[Anonymous No.22623989]

Did anyone read this?
Lifecycle of Software Objects was such a beautiful story in my eyes.

[Anonymous No.22623994]

Pretty cozy so far ngl

[Anonymous No.22623997]

>>22620168
I occasionally rec Prince Roger/Empire of Man on here but no one ever fucking reads it. The premise is a Prince gets targeted for assassination and his ship crash lands onto a hostile alien world full of barbarians. The Prince and his team have to somehow survive and get back to the Empire, and of course he undergoes a lot of character growth along the way turning into a battle hardened leader from a somewhat soft (but underestimated) boy in the beginning. It’s just a fun story straight up. And the audio narrator for the series has a great manly voice btw very fitting.

[Anonymous No.22624002]

Anyone know any good fantasy inspired by the Arabian Nights? I've always loved that sort of near eastern folklore

[Anonymous No.22624006]

>>22623989
One of the best. I can't remember if Hell is the Absence of God is in that collection but I highly recommend it as well. Incredible short story

[Anonymous No.22624008]

>7 months of Infinite Realm to catch up on
>no desire to read the final full book of Paranoid Mage even though I loved it during the initial read (it did have several things I could complain about)

[Anonymous No.22624019]

>>22624006
It's not but I am going to read it now

[Anonymous No.22624029]

Given how much /lit/ bitches about modern fantasy, has anyone itt actually tried their hand at writing a fantasy novel?
I don't mean that in a "Oh yeah? If you think fantasy sucks now, let's see your masterpiece, Tolkien." I mean, if you're so dissatisfied with modern fantasy, have given a crack at writing a fantasy story with the elements you'd like to see?

[Anonymous No.22624048]

>>22624029
Yes I want to do what Tolkien did
I cannot do it

[Anonymous No.22624058]

>>22624048
Give it your best try, anon.
I am.

[Anonymous No.22624078]

>>22622853
i've read night's dawn and pandora's star/judas unchained
all the while i kept hearing pandora's star(commonwealth) series was better but i found the opposite to be true. night's dawn had a horrendously plodding beginning, i'll be the first to admit that. but once it gets going, i found myself loving everything about it.

commonwealth series was disappointing in so many more important ways. terrible pacing in terms of revelations, i kept checking what hour i was on, in disbelief that so much time has passed without anything important happening. after the fourth starflier agent who got away/got killed just in the nick of time i was losing my patience.
there's also ozzy's terrible fucking plotline of being innawoods that drags on for hours, for a payoff that amounts to a single infodump dialogue with absolutely zero impact on the overall plot
there's also ozzy's moralfagging about muh genocide against the prime aliums and how humanity would "lose its soul, man". which ended with humanity glassing dozens of star systems anyway, but the books making it sound as if humanity's hands are clean, for some reason.

there's also that horribly boring low tech railroad chase sequence against the starflier which seemed to go on for fucking ever. you can only be amazed that the starflier's train car's forcefield survived ANOTHER shot from ANOTHER powerful weapon so many times.
there's also the fact that the ultimate resolution was just shooting a couple of missiles and effortlessly swatting away a few prime ships. i can't believe the people who so confidently shat on night's dawn ending (which admittedly wasn't great) were trying to convince me that this one was better.

didn't read void trilogy because i was tired of hamilton's shit by then. night's dawn had a better setup for a sequel anyway.

[Anonymous No.22624082]

>>22624029
the best kind of fantasy is the fantasy that doesn't ever accept that it is fantasy, and thus good fantasy does not exist in the modern era as all fantasy is derivative of other, older fantasy and most fantasy writers are conscious of this and insecure about it.
there's obviously other aspect to fantasy that make it good, but the target of writing a good book should always be to write a good book, not write a good book for the genre you want it to be in.

[Anonymous No.22624096]

>>22624082
>the target of writing a good book should always be to write a good book, not write a good book for the genre you want it to be in.
Of course, but it's easier to summarize my story as "fantasy" rather than "a conflict-driven worldbuilding story combining inspiration from cold war ideological conflicts and nuclear policy and how different cultures can perceive the same objective events subjectively"

[Anonymous No.22624100]

>>22624096
why did you even reply to that mong, his post was barely related to yours, he just used it as a launching off point to go on a rant and make himself feel smart

[Anonymous No.22624102]

>>22624029
>has anyone itt actually tried their hand at writing a fantasy novel?
Yeah.

[Anonymous No.22624117]

>>22624102
give us the scoop

[Anonymous No.22624162]

>>22624117
No. I will do the respectable thing, and shill it when it's done while pretending I'm not the author.

[Anonymous No.22624194]

>>22624162
Are you going to self-publish or shop it through an agent?

[Anonymous No.22624247]

>>22624162
PLEASE get a proofreader at least and an editor if possible

[Anonymous No.22624251]

>>22624194
Self pub, and pay for all the editing myself (developmental, copy, and line). The last thing I want is to be hitched to a group of braindead female higher-ups telling me what things I need to keep or get rid of.

[Anonymous No.22624273]

>>22624029
Started writing mine this year, I surpassed 100k words last month with about half that again in world building notes and random scenes. I'm not a good writer but it's a story I want to tell.

[Anonymous No.22624308]

The No-God, part 1: Reign In Kell

[Anonymous No.22624353]

Bakkerbros: did some remaining Nonmen ally with the Consult? I'm reading WLW atm, and Sorweel has just seen a bunch of erratics policing the Sranc army that is tailing The Great Ordeal.

[Anonymous No.22624362]

>>22624353
We know they did from when Kellhus encounters the nonman at the very start of book 1. He talks about how he has ridden both for and against the no god. A lot of nonmen ended up joining the consult, either due to madness or because it gave the opportunity for the ultimate betrayal and depravity so they could remember.

[Anonymous No.22624384]

>>22624362
I actually forgot about that. I waited about a year between TPoN and TAE so I actually forgot about that part.

[Anonymous No.22624471]

>>22624058
Good luck to you

[Anonymous No.22624485]

>>22624029
I want to, but I'm not good at it/too busy for now. Maybe someday.
And it's not that all other fantasy sucks, some of it is inspirational (Black Company was a big one for me), but I want something that would cater to my my own specific wants and desires.

[Anonymous No.22624494]

I'm really struggling with God
So Melkor has done all of this evil shit
Well Iluvatar knows he is like this, it was all to plan
Iluvatar nonetheless is angry with him
I just can't think about it man
He's just hanging out in his fortress and corrupting shit and Iluvatar is just like 'yeah that's fine'

[Anonymous No.22624501]

>>22624494
Babies first problem of evil.
Do you take the Christian path of "God works in mysterious ways" and so on.
Do you take Pagan or Gnostic path that God(s) are not perfect and or are evil.

[Anonymous No.22624506]

>>22624501
WHY DID HE LET THE QUENDI GET CORRUPTED
There's no good that he could bring about from their misery

[Anonymous No.22624513]

>>22624506
Not his problem.

[Anonymous No.22624524]

>>22624494
Iluvatar is just the usual semitic desert demon influencing Tolkien's subcreation.

[Anonymous No.22624536]

>>22624494
presentiment doesn't preclude disappointment

[Anonymous No.22624678]

Nivens books are comfy to me, The Draco Tavern is super comfy right now

[Anonymous No.22624703]

Esmenet?

[Anonymous No.22624733]

>>22624703
No, that's Eva Green playing Queen Sibylla.

[Anonymous No.22624737]

>>22624733
Achamian?

[Anonymous No.22624752]

>>22624703
It's picrel for me

[Anonymous No.22624757]

>>22624703
>Esmenet
I always thought she was kinda Amano-coded in that movie
I'd kill to see a film with Amano on visual design, alas I think he's too old at this point.

[Anonymous No.22624766]

>>22624752
damn good choice

[Anonymous No.22624768]

>>22624757
isnt vampire hunter d like his style?

[Anonymous No.22624772]

>>22624768
>vampire hunter d
Speaking of which are the novels any good?

[Anonymous No.22624776]

>>22624768
technically both Angel's Egg and VampD (only the movie) are done in his style, but only on Angel's Egg did he serve in a key position. I was talking more like a live-action endeavor, anyway.
>>22624772
some of the better Japanese fantasy novels, yeah. I'd say they were easily top 5.

[Anonymous No.22624954]

Thoughts on Riftwar? Seems like a lot of books.

[Anonymous No.22624956]

>>22624029
Modern fantasy would be fine if authors didn't put faggots in their story

[Anonymous No.22624967]

>>22624703
Esmi's butt!

[Anonymous No.22625056]

>>22624772
No they're dreadful. Unfortunately nothing equals watching bloodlust.

[Anonymous No.22625081]

I'm reading Cordelia's Honor.
How come she doesn't seem more angry that Vorkosigan and his ilk killed all her crewmates?

[Anonymous No.22625085]

>>22623994
That was my main takeaway from the animu as well, I wish I was living in that house.

[Anonymous No.22625175]

>>22624772
The prose is absolutely dreadful. I want to like them but I just can't get past the shitness of it. Maybe it's a translation thing

[Anonymous No.22625345]

Is Fred Pohl any good?

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.22625350]

>>22618331
Black Sun Rising, Coldfire Trilogy #1 - C.S. Friedman (1991)

Damien Vyrce, a knight of the order of the Golden Flame, is a sorcerer in service to the Church. He has traveled far to the east to Jagganoth under orders to assist their patriarch. Upon his arrival he first visits the Fae Shoppe, which sells both items mundane and Worked (magical). He's immediately smitten with its proprietress, Ciani of Faraday. She's an adept, a person born with an innate connection to the Fae, which makes them natural sorcerers of far greater and exclusive ability. Soon after disaster strikes and Ciani has much of all that she is ripped from her. The only way for her to regain what was lost is to kill the one who did it to her. Damien, Ciani, and her sorcerer assistant Senzei Reese, set off in search of their quarry.

The main draw to me was the character dynamics. I don't remember when I last read such a contentious party who have so many competing emotions about their companions. That's especially the case for the character shown on the cover, who later joins, because at best he's a fallen hero, though it's probably more accurate to call him a villain. In reductive terms, he's an amoral vampire with a complex history. Somehow he's also the one who has the most character development, despite his age and desire to be set in his ways. Damien is extremely conflicted about his presence, though by the end there isn't much that he isn't conflicted about.

I also greatly enjoyed everything about the world. Unlike some other series, this one doesn't obfuscate. Everyone seems to know that humanity came to this planet, Erna, 1,200 years ago after 10s of millennia in cold sleep on a generation ship. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the planet, they had to make the Great Sacrifice and give up almost all of their technology. The animistic force that's omnipresent is called Fae and allows for emotions and beliefs to affect reality. It also allows for what's called magic for simplicity's sake. At the time of their arrival humanity were the only known sapient species. That didn't last long because humanity's intense beliefs caused a rapid evolution in several species and one in particular. If humanity was created in God's image, then this newly sapient species was created in humanity's image. War soon began. Elsewhere it wouldn't have been much of a conflict, but the problem with technology was if it wasn't fully understood and believed in, it often catastrophically failed.

I enjoyed everything about this except the plot, which I found to be too simple and convenient. It also failed to do enough with its setting and the backstories of its world and characters. The set-up for the next book also displeased me, but was more understandable. Simply put, I felt the plot was contrived and the weakest aspect by far. I had to think for a few days how to rate this, but there wasn't any doubt that I'd read the rest of the trilogy.

Rating: 3.5/5 (4)

[Anonymous No.22625365]

>>22615203
>What's your GR profile
>I hate searching the archive for your reviews
When I tried to respond to this, I got a 3 day autoban because of the pastebin-type site I used for it to autodelete it after a while. Apparently it was a banned url. So go the pitfalls of banned text. This system isn't anything new, but it's usually more often that it thinks it's spam. Anyway, you'll see this or not. I guess it doesn't matter as much now, but I'm only going to post this once.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/105024683

[Anonymous No.22625371]

Since Satan is the original Big Bad of Myth, doesn't it make sense that the best fantasy villains should be modelled off him?

[Anonymous No.22625396]

>>22625371
>Since Satan is the original Big Bad of Myth
But he's not though? Angry Manjew is older, Set is older, Tiamat is older.

[Anonymous No.22625403]

>>22625371
LOL do christcucks really
Fucking hell the ignorance

[Anonymous No.22625415]

>>22625371
No, it would be just another bible story with religious subtext, the less we have of it the better

[Anonymous No.22625422]

>>22625345
I thought Gateway was a straight up banger. Never did get around to the other books in the series though

[Anonymous No.22625436]

>>22624956
At least you're honest that your displeasure comes from your own bigotries and hangups.

[Anonymous No.22625467]

>>22625371
There are religions and cultures older than yours by thousands and thousands of years you Westoid shutin cuck.

Please consider broadening your mental horizons, kthnxbye.

[Anonymous No.22625508]

>>22625371
>the original
lol
Any monotheistic religion you know of today was fabricated by the same ancient desert tribe. Even within the confines of your laughable mythology, 'Satan' is a completely different construct than 'Lucifer' or 'the Devil'.

[Anonymous No.22625544]

>>22625436
Yeah, I don't want to read about fags
Very simple to understand

[Anonymous No.22625566]

>that guy in way of kings that goes ultra instinct in the big battle at the end
I thought you guys were memeing but it's true lol

[Anonymous No.22625617]

>>22618347
Yes

[Anonymous No.22625646]

Suffering.

[Anonymous No.22625653]

>>22625365
Goddamn nigga read almost 2000 books

[Anonymous No.22625656]

>>22624703
Eva Green is a bit more like Soulcatcher.

[Anonymous No.22625670]

>>22618331

[Anonymous No.22625698]

>>22625653
No, you jumped to conclusions.
Those aren't all books, let alone novels.
As my profile says, you need to look at the shelves.

[Anonymous No.22625702]

>>22625646
All the books are pretty much the same to me

[Anonymous No.22625714]

What are the best monster hunter fantasy books? Guy hunting vampires, werewolves and stuff I mean

[Anonymous No.22625759]

>>22625714
this guy has written heaps of that, it's quite fun from what I've read (this one)

[Anonymous No.22625777]

>>22625656
>Soulcatcher
Too hot.

[Anonymous No.22625828]

>>22625777
Soulcatcher is hot.

[Anonymous No.22625830]

>>22625828
No she is evil (in a wring way)

[Anonymous No.22625849]

>>22621903
he said women, not trannies like you

[Anonymous No.22625878]

>>22625830
That's besides the point. She is hot/attractive in terms of physical appearance.

[Anonymous No.22625921]

>>22625702
Same. That's more the problem than any "slog".
Been marathoning the series since April and damn is it getting tiresome. I at least want to finish this one before taking a break otherwise I'd probably use le slog as an excuse to never round off the series.

[Anonymous No.22625942]

>>22623989
Loved it. My favorite was Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.
I wonder if he'll ever write a novel.

[Anonymous No.22625961]

>>22625422
>>22625422
I also have this exact opinion

[Anonymous No.22626005]

>>22618483
Bakker is a nigger, he's a good writer though, it's a shame about his moral psychosis

[Anonymous No.22626013]

Reminder that Winds of Winter has taken so long to write, because George is trying to figure out the best way to integrate SWEETROBERT ARYAN's DBZ style power up.
Early leaks say that he will crush Little finger's head, Gregor Clegane style. He will then use the blood and brainmatter as lube to consummate his impromptu marriage to Sansa.
Screencap this, it will be trve

[Anonymous No.22626024]

>>22626013
Either that's a really long flag or that's a really small castle.

[Anonymous No.22626030]

>>22626013
God I wish a cute girl hugged me topless

[Anonymous No.22626034]

>>22626024
It's as long as the Lord of the Vale of ARYAN requires

[Anonymous No.22626038]

>>22625350
Your """reviews""" are SHIT. fuck off

[Anonymous No.22626235]

>>22621979
I'm onto the second book and it definitely is like Monty Python with people quoting everything but the actual thing being unfunny. I'll finish it and then move on to something else.

[Anonymous No.22626242]

>entering the submission grinder for short stories
God damn this is nerve wracking. Worst thing they can say is no, but this sucks.

The short story is literally just about a woman falling into a pool filled with metal eating bacteria

[Anonymous No.22626293]

>>22624078
I haven't read Night's Dawn. To be honest I only went back to read the commonwealth saga because I read most of the Void trilogy as a kid and it stuck in my mind because I discovered a fetish thanks to it. I listened to the void trilogy and then went back to read the Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained because I found the concept of the Starflier to be intriguing. I agree with most of what you wrote but I like the novels despite that. The novels do lack a sense of cohesion and sometimes it feels like Hamilton includes things because he thinks they're cool rather than because they are directly tied to the plot. Ozzy's plotline comes to mind here. The whores as well.
>there's also ozzy's moralfagging
Maybe I'm giving the author too much credit but I've always read a hint of scorn into his portrayal of the elites. In Ozzy's case, his moralfaggotry can be interpreted as a hedonistic trillionaire's pathetic callback to his hippie days. I see an arrogant asshole playing with the lives of billions because he wants to feel like he's still got values and that humanity has virtues and a destiny and it's not just a bunch of wagies being ruled over by immortal trillionaires and their legions of mediocre children.

All that said, I still enjoyed them. The parts that are told from Morning Light Mountain's POV are pretty cool. Especially that first contact bit.

[Anonymous No.22626670]

Fuck you for not telling me The Book of Horn is actually a family drama.

[Anonymous No.22626763]

>>22624485
>Black Company
hey, i listened audiobook of a first book, and i don't know , i have mixed feelings at this point if i want to read that
the most annoying part for me there is almost no world building, just characters and characters dont have names, just nicknames repeated too often

[Anonymous No.22626822]

>Black Company
God I hate the MC so much. I was almost glad whe he go way less focus in the second book.

[Anonymous No.22626995]

I forgot about Fire and Blood
I need to read that one day

[Anonymous No.22626999]

>>22626670
Well that's only like half of the story.

[Anonymous No.22627066]

>>22625714
Witcher
obviously

[Anonymous No.22627070]

>>22626995
there really isn't much of a reason to

[Anonymous No.22627154]

>>22627070
Do you like the ASOIAF books?
Why do you think it's not worth reading?

[Anonymous No.22627173]

>>22627154
>Do you like the ASOIAF books?
yes
>>22627154
>Why do you think it's not worth reading?
it's anthological and has zero bearing on the main series, it's just a colossal waste of time. you are literally reading a "history" of Westeros under the Targs, with the caveat that the dude who is telling it could be lying and you'll never get the real answers about what happened.

[Anonymous No.22627179]

Should I honestly read GOT even when I know it won't ever be finished?

[Anonymous No.22627188]

>>22627179
>>>/r/books

[Anonymous No.22627196]

I've watched the Foundation series, and although I disliked many of its stupid contrivances, I still liked it but mainly because of the Empire plotline. So, I decided to give the book a go.

As it turns out, the clonal genetic dynasty is completely a TV invention. The only plots are Terminus and the Foundation. I'm on part 5, Merchant Princes, but I feel zero excitement yet. Characters are superficially written, the plotlines that there are surprisingly as dull as their TV equivalent despite being greatly reimagined.

Am I being filtered? I don't see yet how it was hailed to the extent it was.

[Anonymous No.22627268]

> Typical monomyth Hero's journey in an apparently medieval fantasy setting with slight isekai influences; Swords, a church, a princess, a dragon, slayers, castles, Mordor-replica, ancient evils etc
> The currency of the setting is in fact conscious

What do you imagine it would read like?

[Anonymous No.22627310]

>>22624703
any sff books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.22627318]

>>22627310
what the fuck is this lmao?
also Book of the New Sun, but only Shadow of the Torturer

[Anonymous No.22627319]

>>22627310
H-Hot

[Anonymous No.22627342]

>>22627179
For the narrative investment, certainly not.
However, I gained a ton of insight and inspiration I was able to apply to my own writing. I'm trying my own hand at an ensemble cast worldbuilding fantasy story now.

[Anonymous No.22627363]

>>22625921
keep going. things get progressively better when sanderson takes over. seriously.

[Anonymous No.22627367]

Hugo Award winners came out, and, surprise, surprise, some no-name "female" writer and her shitty fan-fic got the top prize.

[Anonymous No.22627376]

>>22627367
link?

[Anonymous No.22627382]

>>22625942
His stories always make me feel so strange. I always feel scared and excited for the endings.

[Anonymous No.22627383]

>>22627376
he won't link it because he's lying.

[Anonymous No.22627408]

>>22624703
ever since she played Morgan Lefay in that Camelot tv series i always picture any book interpretation of morgana like her.
Allso i picture Zandramas from the Malloreon like her

[Anonymous No.22627425]

>>22627367
[Chorus]
I'm a Chuddie goober! (/pol/!)
You're a Chuddie goober! (/pol/!)
We're all Chuddie goobers! (/pol/!)
Chuddie chuddie gooner gooner! (/pol/!)

[Anonymous No.22627452]

>>22627310
Bro.. was this intended to be sweet, but the director was a social autist? lol

[Anonymous No.22627465]

>>22627452
no

[Anonymous No.22627493]

>>22627452
he knew what he was doing, the director is french btw

[Anonymous No.22627499]

>>22627493
havent seen it but remember /tv/ saying the boy is her reincarnated dead husband or something?

[Anonymous No.22627501]

>>22627452
The movie is about a woman who gives birth to an exact clone of her dead husband, it's fully intended to be sexual.

[Anonymous No.22627508]

>>22627493
>french btw
I would've never guessed.

[Anonymous No.22627519]

>>22627501
for what purpose? is it explained in-universe why this tech is allowed?

[Anonymous No.22627523]

>>22627376
https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/
it is a woman and the scare quotes are warranted but idk what he means by fan-fic.

[Anonymous No.22627526]

>>22627519
it's just science fiction shit and it is out of severe grief because it is technically "her fault" that he died

[Anonymous No.22627529]

>>22627523
>On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.
Do women really

[Anonymous No.22627543]

>>22627529
>a chicken possessed by a demon
holy cringe
>the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince
we are the spark that'll light the fire that'll burn the first order down

[Anonymous No.22627545]

>>22627501
>An angry Tommy demands answers from his mother, Rebecca, who gives him Tommy's original old laptop with photos of him and his original mother and father (the first ones he met before). Tommy throws his mother on the bed in confusion, and asks her who he is and why she did what she did. The sexual tension rises and they both end up having sex. From the blood on Rebecca's hand, it is implied that Tommy took her virginity in the process.

[Anonymous No.22627546]

>>22627501
Hollywood is something else. How do we make a movie on pedophilia without coming off as the freaks we actually are? Ah, I know, say the boy is an exact clone of her husband, and then everyone will just say it's a commentary on the struggle between her maternal instincts and feelings of romance. Anyway, make sure to get a nice shot of the kid staring at her ass.

[Anonymous No.22627558]

>>22623836
His space opera sequel got negged because he used an AI generated book cover

[Anonymous No.22627560]

>>22627558
>he used an AI generated book cover
lol

[Anonymous No.22627562]

>>22627558
Deserved

[Anonymous No.22627568]

>>22627523
>The Kaiju Preservation Society
god scalzi is such a fucking queer. i can just picture how smug he felt when coming up with this "quirky" drivel. imagine his faggot smirk every time he wrote some epic 4th wall breaking quippy reference to godzilla or some other such nonsense

[Anonymous No.22627570]

>>22627529
To be fair, when stories get boiled down to one or two sentences like this they almost all sound retarded (still not reading that shit tho).

[Anonymous No.22627574]

>>22627558
AI niggers in shambles. You love to see it.

[Anonymous No.22627576]

Are these hardbacks sewn or perfect bound?

[Anonymous No.22627582]

seething

[Anonymous No.22627587]

>>22627582
hahahahahahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.22627589]

>>22627582
Do women really

[Anonymous No.22627594]

>Gawyn over-dopes on forbidden magic drugs that will kill him as a price for power beyond mortal ken
>still gets completely BTFO by superior skill, screams that Demandred is cheating, Demandred tells him to his face he's full of shit when he's literally overdosing on magic roids, Gawyn cries "d-doesn't count", dies
>Galad just fighting normally with the fires of righteousness in his heart wounds Demandred fighting fair and square
>Lan, knowing he's not the main character of the show, manages to kill Demandred by fighting for what he knows is right
Gawyn is pathetic

[Anonymous No.22627595]

>>22627519
>is it explained in-universe why this tech is allowed?
it's set in the near-future
>>22627546
>Anyway, make sure to get a nice shot of the kid staring at her ass.
that's not all

[Anonymous No.22627601]

>>22627594
Gawyn is basically Jordan shitting on the simp knight trope. Galad is based.
I appreciated how the series softly foreshadowed Lan's win by having several scenes where he spars with Ashaman and encourages them to use their Power while they fight, supposedly to train them to use it while in a battle, but by implication also so Lan can train to fight against it.

[Anonymous No.22627604]

>>22627558
why gamble with AI when he could just pay 200-1000$ for a cover? doesnt make sense

[Anonymous No.22627646]

>>22627604
How much choice does the author even have over the cover? Would have thought that was the publishing house's choice

[Anonymous No.22627652]

>>22627604
>>22627558
He didn't use "AI art" he/the illustrator used stock art that was AI generated

[Anonymous No.22627659]

>>22627529
just read this on one of the goodreads reviews
>Characters say things like 'pretty sure' and 'seemed like a lot' and 'first of all no, and second of all no' and 'we were all obsessing about'
grim

[Anonymous No.22627700]

>>22627529
>chicken possessed by a demon
so quirky!

[Anonymous No.22627727]

>>22627724
>>22627724
>>22627724

[Anonymous No.22627735]

>>22627727
WAIT FOR THE BUMP LIMIT YOU FUCKING FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.22627805]

>>22625345
>>22625422
>>22625961
Fourth. The food security anxiety shit at the beginning feels a little dated but the rest of it is really solid scifi

[Anonymous No.22628028]

>>22627523
>hugo/nebula winner
>it is a woman
Checks outs

[Anonymous No.22628084]

>>22626763
Dialogues and characters are the strong point. Dialogues feel a bit more realistic that somebody reading out the text and characters felt interesting and intriguing.
>>22627367
>Hugo Award
The what? Could you repeat that?

[Anonymous No.22628089]

>>22627805
Did it fuck you up?

[Anonymous No.22628093]

>>22627735
>>22627727
true

[Anonymous No.22628167]

>>22627196
It was a different time. You've grown up in a world where writers have built upon the foundation (pardon my pun) of The Foundation.

[Anonymous No.22628213]

>>22627196
>I don't see yet how it was hailed to the extent it was.
Because it did everything first. You are being filtered because everything for the next 70 years has been influenced by the ideas.

[Anonymous No.22628396]

I am enjoying the Silmarillion

[Anonymous No.22628811]

>>22627196
Yeah, the first book is pretty boring; the only good thing about it is that it sets up the concept. I considered abandoning the series but I'm so glad I didn't; The Mule might be the most entertaining piece of sci-fi I've read

[Anonymous No.22628888]

>>22627659
Can't find this review. Is it real?

[Anonymous No.22628906]

>>22628888
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4709197612

[Anonymous No.22629014]

>>22628906
Thanks anon, I wonder why the review search didn't produce it