/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.22819191]

Why are Pagans like this? Edition.

>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/guIyhAzS
>Archive
>>/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg
>Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

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[Anonymous No.22819246]

>last
>current
>next

>last
Martial World - Depths of the Abyss. The penultimate chapter. The writing for this book dropped off a bit but there were many resolutions to dangling plot concerns. This is the longest xianxia I've read and in ~100 chapters, it'll all be over.
The last actual novel was Solar Lottery, about a society ran by random occurrence elevating a random person to the title and position of Quizmaster, which much power, and the corresponding publicized legal reaction of the previous Quizmaster employing an assassin, one at a time, against the new one. The assassin in this novel was thematic to PKD tales, being an android inhabited by ~12 different people employed through the previous Quizmaster, with the goal to assume control through random intervals, to throw off any attempts at prediction and ensure a successful assassination. It also held the concept of fiefdom to individuals in the background lore.
>current
Rereading Tales of the Dying Earth. I read it in 2015 and don't remember shit. As much as I enjoy shitting on Vancefags, I find myself having to look up words every other page--which has been a rather uncommon reading experience--which may be my biggest allure. I'm early on, wrapping up Guyal of Sfere's story. I also finished Mirai Nikki which was utter nonsense but Yuno is hot.
>next
lolidk maybe I'll finish MW. I'm thinking I'll read into Cugel's Saga and go from there with DE. I only ever read that far 8 years ago.

[Anonymous No.22819376]

Do we like Wheel of Time?

[Anonymous No.22819407]

>It all began when Pat Rothfuss was born to a marvelous set of parents. Throughout his formative years they encouraged him to do his best, gave him good advice, and were no doubt appropriately dismayed when he failed to live up to his full potential.
>In high-school Pat was something of a class clown. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a day and giving relationship advice to all his friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl. He also role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. He was pretty much a geek.
>Most of Pat's adult life has been spent in the University Wisconsin Stevens Point. In 1991 he started college in order to pursue a career in chemical engineering, then he considered clinical psychology. In 1993 he quit pretending he knew what he wanted to do with his life, changed his major to "undecided," and proceeded to study whatever amused him. He also began writing a book....
>For the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women. He also began writing a satirical advice column which he continues to this day: The College Survivial Guide. Through all of this he continued to work on his novel.
>In 2000 Pat went to grad school for English literature. Grad school sucked and Pat hated it. However, Pat learned that he loved to teach. He left in 2002 with his masters degree, shaking the dust from his feet and vowing never to return. During this period of time his novel was rejected by roughly every agent in the known universe.
>Now Pat teaches half-time at his old school as an assistant-sub-lecturer. He is underpaid but generally left alone to do as he sees fit with his classes. He is advisor for the college feminists, the fencing club, and, oddly enough, a sorority. He still roll-plays occasionally, but now he does it in an extremely sophisticated, debonair way.
>Through a series of lucky breaks, he has wound up with the best agent and editor imaginable, and the first book of his trilogy has been published under the title "The Name of the Wind."
>Though it has only been out since April 2007, it has already been sold in 26 foreign countries and won several awards.
>Pat has been described as "a rough, earthy iconoclast with a pipeline to the divine in everyone's subconscious." But honestly, that person was pretty drunk at the time, so you might want to take it with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous No.22819486]

>>22819376
i used to, but upon revisiting i no longer do.

[Anonymous No.22819506]

>>22819486
who would win?

[Anonymous No.22819551]

>>22819506
cats obviously you nin- -dog

[Anonymous No.22819562]

Kys anime tards

[Anonymous No.22819589]

fat sorcereress butts

[Anonymous No.22819639]

Why is femicide so romantic?

[Anonymous No.22819687]

>the Consult is just Cenobites from Hellraiser

[Anonymous No.22819708]

>>22819687
>DUDE WHAT IF CONAN WAS A HATEFUL CLOSET FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.22819746]

luv wolfe
simple as
nuthin like a cold carling at 9:30am and a third re-read of soldier of the mist
me and the senpai will be goin to greece soon, too

[Anonymous No.22819781]

>>22819708
also, what if jesus had a sword, and was also a faggot

[Anonymous No.22819813]

>>22819708
Cnaiur is not a faggot he's fucked more women than you have met. He even raped the emperor so who's the faggot now, bottom bitch boy?

[Anonymous No.22819898]

>>22819407

[Anonymous No.22819931]

>>22819898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu6MaN9tT_8
I read it in this voice

[Anonymous No.22820108]

>>22819407
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Svyl40_KaY

[Anonymous No.22820204]

terrible thread

[Anonymous No.22820398]

Why does rr, sh, and nu, ao3, asstr etc all have better shit than the majority of books posted in this thread?
Why do you all worship nyt like it's the second coming of christ? Was it cause your English teacher or someone you had a crush on shilled nyt to you? Or just because your librarian only stocked nyt best sellers in the fantasy section?
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/fantasy

[Anonymous No.22820414]

>>22820398
My theory is that most people here haven't developed any discipline, because they got addicted to reading goyslop, so, like the first post itt, they can't read through an entire xianxia series in a few sittings.
It's like how you can't lift heavy weights if you don't train. You can't do advanced math if you don't practice the basics, you can't write large programs if you don't practice with smaller ones. They have been completely mind-broken by trite formulaic goyslop, that they don't accept books that don't follow an extremely tired and basic formula (as well as prodding all the same liberal tendencies) as "real novels".

[Anonymous No.22820420]

>>22820414
They are the same kind of people that "reread" novels. Comfort is the mind killer.

[Anonymous No.22820423]

>>22820398
>rr, sh, and nu, ao3, asstr
>nyt
am I supposed to know what any of this shit means? Use words, retard.

[Anonymous No.22820507]

>>22819407
Jesus wept. The absolute pretentiousness and smugness on display.

[Anonymous No.22820524]

>>22819407
Imagine writing this about yourself.

[Anonymous No.22820530]

>>22819407
more like a fat ugly retard

[Anonymous No.22820561]

>>22820423
royal road
scribblehub
novelupdates
archive of our own
alt.sex.stories text repository
jew york times

[Anonymous No.22820564]

>>22819407
>For the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women.
So he wasted 7 years, good to know. At least he got laid and learned to pick locks.

[Anonymous No.22820582]

>>22819813
The more I hear about the second apocalypse, the more it sounds like a parody of edgy sexual violence in mudcore fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22820584]

anyone ever read kushiel's legacy? is it good? or is it goyslop

[Anonymous No.22820585]

>>22820564
>For the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women.
the cunt learned everything apart from how to finish a book

[Anonymous No.22820627]

>>22820585
No he tried to learn chemical enginnering, got btfo and filled his credits with nonsense.

[Anonymous No.22820647]

>>22820585
Never read him myself, but when I worked as a librarian specifically with hospital patients, elderly in care facilities and psychiatric patients, one of the customers was a guy connected to a respirator who wasn't interested in anything unless it was Rothfuss' next, long awaited book. By the look of him when I last saw him, he died while still waiting for that next book to be finished.

[Anonymous No.22820712]

Does anyone own this edition (Random House Worlds 2020)? Regarding The Stars Like Dust, Currents of Space and Pebble in the Sky.
I have the HarperVoyager edition from 2019 and the quality is dogshit. Read some review about pic rel where they talk about grammatical errors and some shit.
It's impossible to find a matching set that's in good condition and isn't overpriced like hell (at least if you live in the fucking EU)

[Anonymous No.22820718]

>>22820712
Here's the dogshit edition, if you haven't read it and intend to buy it, choose something else

[Anonymous No.22821075]

/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.22821078]

Would you rather only read royalroad and scribble hub for the rest of your life, or only read hugo awards and nyt best sellers for the rest of your life.
You can't stop/decrease your reading or kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22821080]

did the wandering inn shill die?

[Anonymous No.22821095]

>>22821078
The former would make me want to blind and deafen myself while the latter would make me go into a coma from boredom. The latter then, since at least I'd no longer be experiencing anything.

[Anonymous No.22821098]

Malazan is really fucking good, huh? I'll admit there's a couple things that annoy me so far, but nowhere near as much as any other massive sff series I've read before

[Anonymous No.22821112]

/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.22821120]

>>22821075
>>22821112
>Dan simmons
>Bakker
Both trash
>No Dan Abnett Eisenhorn triology
Update ur list faggot, you have trash taste.

[Anonymous No.22821123]

>>22821078
>(((hugo awards)))
>(((new york times)))
I trust that suffices as an answer

[Anonymous No.22821139]

>>22821080
>talking about the chapters of a book is shilling
im sure the author really needs the 4chan lit audience reading his book

[Anonymous No.22821190]

>>22821120
>>No Dan Abnett Eisenhorn triology
It's shit.

[Anonymous No.22821191]

All /sff/ without an overpowered female mc is trash.
https://www.kaguragames.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Scarlet-Demonslayer-Screenshot-0008.jpg

[Anonymous No.22821217]

>>22821191
>has sex with goblins
>cums
>gets bored
>kills them
Funny game

[Anonymous No.22821218]

>>22821139
how does he do it?

[Anonymous No.22821227]

>>22821191
>All /sff/ without an overpowered female mc is trash.
The more I think about this the truer it becomes. I can't think of a counter example for the life of me.

[Anonymous No.22821233]

>>22821218
Exist in a society where the majority of your audience has been fed the same goyslop drivel for the past 50 years. So anything that isn't kosher is like the finest dew to them.

[Anonymous No.22821274]

Any Sci-fi novels like Black Mirror? Specifically the episode about social media?

[Anonymous No.22821305]

>>22821274
most of PKD's collection, very twilight zone

[Anonymous No.22821332]

>>22821305
PKD dealt with social media?

[Anonymous No.22821346]

>>22821274
Wasn't there that King short a while back about some girl with her phone.

[Anonymous No.22821347]

>>22821332
yeah bro nobody ever thought about or predicted the concept of social media until it magically appeared in reality thanks to the longnose tribe

[Anonymous No.22821431]

>>22821347
PKD died in 1982, 7 years before the world wide web. It's definitely surprising to predict something that wouldn't exist for decades considering computers in the 80s weren't anything like they are now.

[Anonymous No.22821448]

>>22821075
>Reverend Insanity = Literally about an a-moral bugman killing/consooming/cultivating
>Lord of The Mysteries = Boring asian steampunk with a tarot magic system for card fags
>Neuromancer = Decent cyberspunk i'm putting together a team novel
>Hyperion = Interplanetary high tech trooning
>The Prince of Nothing = Bakker is for fags and fags are for Bakker.
>The Wandering Inn = Stay at home moms power fantasy with a main character whos most prominent power is complaining while being a pacivist.
>Between Two Fires = Heaven Vs hell but in medievil FRANCE!
>Mother of Learning = Time loop and like all of the subgenre goes literally nowhere over and over again, has a decent magic system and a main characters sister that is annoying as fuck.
>Cradle = Every second novel is a dud in the series with a birdbath of a main character. Only decent thing is the fights that get stale real quick because it does not take long to realise they are all ill conceived magical games of uno.
>I Shall Seal the Heavens = Proto xianxia at its worst, MC gets kidnapped into strong but lowly down on its luck sect. Que haughty young masters, saving face and swilling genseng infused tiger penis soup by the gallon.
>A Song of Ice and Fire = Fantastical medievil degeneracy where they caracters who should live die and the characters who whould die live. Also author is too busy getting fat and old to finish the series.
>The Poppy War = Fem-C gets accepted to 20th century china-esque martial academy and gets looked down upon while struggling to overcome amidst pseudo researched equally vintage china political bullshit.

[Anonymous No.22821452]

>>22821112
>Azarinth Healer = Starts good but fizzles hard midway. Author also makes the main character a low key lesbian because they clearly have no idea hat to do with their love life.
>Primal Hunter = MC+background is so impossibly nonsensical that he's not even cannon in his own setting.
>He Who Fights with Monsters = every character that isnt the MC is just there to be amazed at how smart Jason is while he tells them shit they already know before reminding them (incorrectly i might add) that 'Oh you have no idea".
>Dungeon Crawler Carl = The MC's sidekick (A cat named 'Princess Donut') is so much smarter than Carl (the MC) that every scene the two are in is eye-gougingly painful. This would not be so much of a problem if such scenes did not constitute the majority of the series.
>System Universe = After the initial premise is established it turns into how to pander to followers at a snails pace AKA; 'Filler McFiller Face - The Excessively Extended Sleep Inducing Saga'.
>Dissonance = MC gets god fucked more then once as he goes about becoming a man/bear/goat/pig/axolotl hybrid who also has many super sekret identities.
>Defiance of the Fall = Brain dead MC with very-much-just-barely opposed kingdom building with a wafer thin cultivation system
>Iron Prince = edgy school setting with even edgier MC who has lightning powers and no discernible challenges what so ever.

[Anonymous No.22821466]

>>22821431
yes brother i agree it's crazy to believe that those who have power over the mere peons would never use it for ill purpose

[Anonymous No.22821480]

>>22819376
I do. I won't speak for you though.

[Anonymous No.22821493]

The R stands for Rape
The Great Ordeal is trying to finish the book
The real cuck was not the wizard, but you, the reader
jk

[Anonymous No.22821496]

>>22819376
The first few books are alright.

[Anonymous No.22821508]

>>22821274
there's Blind Faith by Ben Elton

[Anonymous No.22821543]

>>22821493
The Great Ordeal failed
funny with the meta implications of The Great Ordeal being 4 years of nonstop shitposting and it failing by turning everyone off of this gay fucking spammed series

[Anonymous No.22821646]

reading through the mistborn trilogy and at the end of the Hero of Ages. Are the rest of Sandersons books any good or are they all at this level of autistic reddit mediocrity?

[Anonymous No.22821675]

>>22821646
that's what they're all like yeah, read one Sanderson book and you've read them all

[Anonymous No.22821787]

>>22821448
>>I Shall Seal the Heavens = Proto xianxia at its worst, MC gets kidnapped into strong but lowly down on its luck sect. Que haughty young masters, saving face and swilling genseng infused tiger penis soup by the gallon.
This is the only one I've read so I'll assume all your other quotes are nonsense as well.

[Anonymous No.22821836]

>>22821787
based

[Anonymous No.22821880]

>>22821787
You read machine translated slop. You can assume all you want.

[Anonymous No.22821914]

>>>/v/660503310

[Anonymous No.22822012]

>>22821914
any books that feature body cultivation GFs?

[Anonymous No.22822040]

>>22821332
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.

Social Media, VR, Mind control, biological weapons, hackers, nation state actors, consequences of extended life, etc.

[Anonymous No.22822289]

What are some good OA fantasy recs?

[Anonymous No.22822296]

>>22822289
What does OA mean in this context?

[Anonymous No.22822353]

>>22822296
Old Adult Fantasy

[Anonymous No.22822373]

>>22822353
I laughed.

[Anonymous No.22822397]

>>22821787
>It's ok to be a different color anon.
But its not ok to have shit taste.
By your own admittance you have not even read any of the others so it is more then safe to assume your literary experience is limited.
>Read more
>Be more
>Do bretter

[Anonymous No.22822408]

>>22821120
>hating Dan Simmons
reddit take, I'm revoking your 4chan pass

[Anonymous No.22822440]

Big fan of reddit honestly

[Anonymous No.22822501]

>dude nobody ever discusses simmons!

[Anonymous No.22822533]

Never posted here before but I'm looking fir a book where an absolute Chad goes on an epic journey to fuck a bitch and kills all swarthy people in his path, I also want it to be a sort of high brow historical fiction

Any recommendations

[Anonymous No.22822577]

>>22822533
Despite being historical fiction it can also have magic and daemons and shit

[Anonymous No.22822591]

>>22822533
Imaro should be up your alley. The setting is afro-centric so most of his enemies are swarthy- like him!

[Anonymous No.22822601]

One of those days again /sffg/?

[Anonymous No.22822609]

>>22822601
I hit my fucking head today at work.

[Anonymous No.22822611]

>>22822591
>The Quest for Cush
>lofi stoner metal intensifies

[Anonymous No.22822624]

>>22821448
>Lord of The Mysteries = Boring asian steampunk with a tarot magic system for card
Disagreed, the power system is great, and it picks up its pace after vol 1 ends.

[Anonymous No.22822640]

>>22822533

[Anonymous No.22822644]

>>22822640
He isn't a chad though. Gets fucked over too many times and is a cuck.

[Anonymous No.22822701]

>>22822533
Tale of Genji matches your preference if you're willing to forgo the killing swarthy part

[Anonymous No.22822712]

>>22819191
Im going to shill this novel : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/70672/zeroth-moment-my-cheat-skill-is-stupid-so-ill

I thought it was pretty good, give it a chance

[Anonymous No.22822739]

>>22819191
What are some books about exploring/traversing old/forgotten places? Stuff like The Night Land, and blame!

[Anonymous No.22822756]

>>22822739
My book, when it's finished. I have an entire story arc dedicated to a troupe of archaeologists, focusing on one character's transformation to a green academic to a rugged swashbuckling pulp hero.

[Anonymous No.22822764]

>>22822611
Lol he's got a little pygmy cuck to follow him around, looks like everything I want except the protagonist

[Anonymous No.22822770]

>>22822756
Tell me more, anon

[Anonymous No.22822779]

>>22822712
>my cheat skill
Abso-fucking-lutely not, fucking kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.22822783]

>>22820398
I have a lot of books to read before I have to start reading AI generated and machine translated books on those sites

[Anonymous No.22822789]

>>22820398
speaking as someone who has spent way too much time reading webnovels this year you clearly have absolutely abhorrent taste

[Anonymous No.22822794]

>>22822779
Read the first chapter anon, the novel isn't a power fantasy, its a more of a thriller

[Anonymous No.22822807]

>>22822770
It's the setting I was shilling with an infographic prime. Granted, the primer didn't cover the archaeologist story arc.
tl;dr is a satellite of matter from the moon's ring falls to a planet with early gunpower tech and shatters into several pieces. Turns out it's the magic version of plutonium and triggers an arms race between rival factions.
Meanwhile, a team of archaeologists from the part of the world with early gunpower tech and a nascent industrial revolution are being manipulated by their benefactors (Shadow Wizard Money Gang) to venture to forlorn corners of the continent and plunder its ancient forgotten ruins to uncover the secrets behind this space matter and how a similar event 2000 years ago collapsed a cluster of thriving civilizations and ushered in a dark age.
But really, it's all about the importance of family, whatever form it takes :^)

[Anonymous No.22822837]

>>22822794
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22822843]

>>22822353
Check out 'Gardens of the Milf' and 'The Blacked Company.'

[Anonymous No.22822950]

Has anyone here delved into Jerry Pouernelle's CoDominium universe? The Mote in God's Eye is one of my favorite novels, and I'm intrigued by the setting. I will probably start pic related after I finish re-reading the Dune series. Curious what your thoughts are

[Anonymous No.22822980]

>>22820524
What’s even better is that he gives all of his own books five stars on Goodreads

[Anonymous No.22823011]

Any books with similar vibes as pic related?

[Anonymous No.22823105]

>>22822950
it's in my ever expanding to read list

[Anonymous No.22823267]

>>22822353
>>22822843
>game of crones
>the blacked company

[Anonymous No.22823296]

Almost finish The Second Apocalypse. What is some lesser-known fantasy that is the opposite of grim dark? Something opposite in tone and atmosphere to Bakker, along the lines of MacDonald or Dunsany. I'm trying to find something tonally different to Bakker

[Anonymous No.22823354]

Why do some people call the series The Second Apocalypse and some call it Aspect-Emperor series?

[Anonymous No.22823417]

>>22823296
Pratchett.

[Anonymous No.22823420]

>>22823354
Because homosexuals are contrarian and they are samefagging.

[Anonymous No.22823425]

>>22819407
Oh my God if this guy was assigned as faculty advisor to my sorority I think I would have vomited.

[Anonymous No.22823447]

>>22823354
The Second Apocalypse is the name of the entire seven book series (and will include The No-God books, if they ever come out). The Second Apocalypse is separated into a three volumes collectively called The Prince of Nothing, and four volumes which are called The Aspect-Emperor. truth shines

[Anonymous No.22823465]

Finally got round to reading Roadside Picnic. Kind of overrated desu.

[Anonymous No.22823491]

>>22823465
Found that with The Doomed City desu

[Anonymous No.22823509]

Any cultivation novels where the female lead isn't just an accessory but does things with the protagonist?

[Anonymous No.22823550]

The Handmaids Tale is meant to be a brutal dystopia but it seems like some erotic fantasy
>noooo how bad would it be if we were breeding slaves and chad did nothing but fuck us haha

[Anonymous No.22823559]

Anyone read the Ash and Sand series? It's pretty good despite the terrible cover. Main character is a magic user in a world where magic is almost non-existent. MC has a pocket grove in his mind that fills up with all the people he kills. They can build infrastructure and force weapons etc for him and he can bring them over to the real world. I thought it was pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.22823583]

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.22823599]

>finish riyria revelations because I'm an easily pleased pleb
>Magnus gave me a hankering for dwarven stuff
>look around
>barely anything
for a one of the core fantasy races they sure are neglected

[Anonymous No.22823615]

>>22823509
this is not the chinese way

[Anonymous No.22823648]

>>22822712
>isekai
>gamelit
I hate both of those with a passion, i'm going to have to pass

[Anonymous No.22823675]

>>22823509
See>>22823615
Look at modern sjw and feminst writing full of strong bipoc womans

[Anonymous No.22823678]

>>22823583
they're good. hope you like mushrooms.
also recommend Veniss Underground by VanderMeer

[Anonymous No.22823781]

>>22823583
reddit author

[Anonymous No.22823786]

Best novels/short stories where the main character is a crazy and/or evil wizard? No Kellhus allowed

[Anonymous No.22823856]

>>22819407
That picture explains why The Wise Man's Fear mentions dark eyes on average once every page.

[Anonymous No.22823918]

>>22823856
>“There are three things all wise men avoid: a LitRPG webnovel, a translated xianxia novel, and an unfinished Patrick Rothfuss trilogy.”

[Anonymous No.22824040]

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/author-cait-corrain-goodreads-review-bombing-allegations-fallout-rcna129134
bros, we can't even trust goodreads reviews anymore...

[Anonymous No.22824057]

>>22823781
name a non-reddit author.

[Anonymous No.22824058]

>>22824040
What does one even hope to gain by review bombing other authors?
>Late Monday night, Corrain posted a statement to X confirming the allegations and apologizing for her actions. She said she suffered a "complete psychological breakdown" after starting new medication in November to treat her ongoing depression, alcoholism and substance abuse.
Oh she's crazy that explains it
>Many of them were also debut titles to be released in the first half of next year. Internet users also noted that the vast majority of targeted books were written by people of color.
Wait is she based?

[Anonymous No.22824073]

>>22824058
>the vast majority of targeted books were written by people of color.
Dangerously based.

[Anonymous No.22824122]

>>22824058
>Wait is she based?
no that's just her competition & because they got bigger advances from her publisher or some shit

[Anonymous No.22824155]

>>22824058
One look at her pictures on google tells me no

[Anonymous No.22824185]

>>22822843
>The Blacked Company
Mogaba and his warriors approve.

[Anonymous No.22824197]

>>22819191
You're still reading the same old trite? Get into real speculative fiction and finish Teatro Grottesco.

[Anonymous No.22824306]

>>22822644
>gets fucked over too many times
A story needs conflict you fucking idiot, not everything can be one of your progression VNs
>is a cuck
He also does plenty of cucking.

[Anonymous No.22824351]

[Anonymous No.22824427]

I love books so much

[Anonymous No.22824439]

>>22824427
I love you.

[Anonymous No.22824441]

>>22824427
go back

[Anonymous No.22824451]

>>22824439
Thanks anon you too.
>>22824441
To where? The library? Okay :)

[Anonymous No.22824456]

I'm sick bros what should I read today

[Anonymous No.22824459]

>>22819246
>only one last/current/next all thread
It's ogre.

[Anonymous No.22824473]

>>22824459
The original last/current/next guy had the right idea. You can't post it in every thread.

[Anonymous No.22824479]

>>22824456
Read an Edgar Allan Poe short story.

[Anonymous No.22824483]

>>22819246
>last
Hyperion by Dan Simone (I already posted my thoughts last thread)
>current
Deepness in the sky by Vernor Vinge (almost done, like 3hrs left audio book. Will post a review probably tonight)
>next
Finish The story of philosophy or start the art of seduction by Robert Greene
(I have never read Robert greene and I want to verify if he's cringe, opinions welcome on this.)
>>22824459
I can only read so fucking fast mane.
>>22824473
We need another comment bonfire like it for every other thread. Ideas?

Maybe we compile all last threads 'last, current, next' and ask people's rating or something about it. Maybe people suggest other good works by the author? Idk mane.

>>22824456
Edgar Allen like other anon or listen to hp lovecraft audio short stories.

[Anonymous No.22824497]

>>22824058
>is she based?
No. Articles are of course trying to make this a racial thing on her part, bc all bad things must be done by muh evil right wing racist whitey. In reality, it's because she was targeting her direct competition, other debut authors. That's a group which is a disproportionately female and non-white group, especially in her genre, YA. The whites are going to be disproportionately LGBTBBQ as well.

[Anonymous No.22824501]

>>22824306
Hey now, the average VN is substantially better than progression fantasy. Still not good, mind you, but much better.

[Anonymous No.22824519]

Ice and Fire will have a book end type of ending. We will have a Mormont back on the wall as Lord Cpmmander(Jorah), a Bartheon (Edric) legitimised by Aegon will be ruling Storm' end, Starks(potentially one of Brandon's bastards legitimise) will be ruling Winterfell, everything will be fixed with another union between a Stark(Sansa)and a Targaryen(Aegon) to mirror Rhaegar and Lyanna before the events of the first book

[Anonymous No.22824540]

>>22819376
>>22819407
>>22821075
>>22822408
>>22822533
>>22823296
>>22823465
>>22824351
>>22824519
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? 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.22824572]

In the middle. Yes. Ok. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, No. No. Stop at God Emperor. Yes. Yes. Sort of. Yes. Yes (try metro). Yes. Yes. 2024. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Lady. Book 3. Sorry to hear that. Yes. Book 2. No idea. In the middle. In the middle. Dunsany. Yes.

[Anonymous No.22824590]

>when does WoT gets good??
>>22824572
>Yes
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.22824604]

>>22824590
Yes.

[Anonymous No.22824610]

>>22824590
I actually said 'Ok' to that one

[Anonymous No.22824696]

>>22820108
Nice video. Is this you?

[Anonymous No.22824706]

>>22821078
Dafuq is royal road and scribblehub

[Anonymous No.22824732]

where would you guys get recs of what to read that isn't sff? i only know this general

[Anonymous No.22824832]

>>22824732
>>22824351

[Anonymous No.22824879]

>>22824832
Nobody wants to be recommended cultivation or litrpg crap.

[Anonymous No.22824881]

>>22824879
>>22824351

[Anonymous No.22824941]

>>22824732
If I like an author I look at his other work and the work that inspired him or work inspired by him. I've never run out of anything to read

[Anonymous No.22824954]

>>22820582
it's literally just fantasy for chuds who say "stacy has rejected me again, the west has fallen and billions must die" unironically

[Anonymous No.22824968]

>>22824954
what would you recommend instead?

[Anonymous No.22825044]

>>22824954
What would you not recommend?

[Anonymous No.22825115]

>>22822353
based gilf lover, the book is actually not that bad.
>>22822843
>The Blacked Company
i'm already suscribed to Grannylovesbbc.com
>>22823559
but does it have any cute hags? this is important

[Anonymous No.22825132]

>>22824968
Sneed
>>22825044
Chuck

[Anonymous No.22825198]

>>22824040
all the freaks in the YA adjacent circle are like this she was just stupid enough to do it herself instead of getting mates in on it

[Anonymous No.22825211]

>>22822397
>your literary experinence is limited because you only read 1/20 random webnovels out of the tens of thousands of "popular" webnovels + a few novels shilled on /sff/
Just some simple math would show that doesn't hold. Besides, judging from that post he only read the first few chapters of ISSTH.

[Anonymous No.22825214]

>>22822950
I read some of this book and didn't like it much. He just doesn't have the juice as a writer once the action heavy opening ends.

[Anonymous No.22825233]

This series is pretty good, not sure why it isn't more popular (other than the horrendous typesetting, seriously how do you fuck up your shit this much)
https://files.catbox.moe/3deec0.pdf (1)
https://files.catbox.moe/45bf3o.pdf (2)
https://files.catbox.moe/ar881s.pdf (3)
https://files.catbox.moe/zkrldy.pdf (4)

[Anonymous No.22825354]

shillers vs chinkslop enjoyers
who wins?

[Anonymous No.22825372]

>>22825354
If xianxia is chinkslop then hugo/nytbs is goyslop.

[Anonymous No.22825373]

>>22825354
same thing

[Anonymous No.22825376]

>>22825372
>nytbs
That is the definition of goyslop, hugo awards are kikeslop

[Anonymous No.22825379]

>>22825233
Damn that's a wild 1st chapter. Shortest revenge arc ever.

[Anonymous No.22825391]

>>22825233
Barely made it through the first paragraph.
>A young boy runs through the farm fields belonging to his family. Filled with energy, arms spread out wide to help keep balance when skipping over stones, already knowing where he heads towards. The origin of a musical theme in the distance. A harmonic melody produced by a simple but well-crafted flute. The boy comes to a stop once he reaches the spot where its lively tune charms the air.
Grim.

[Anonymous No.22825440]

>>22825233
>decide to google it
>harem
I'm going to have to pass

[Anonymous No.22825442]

>>22825440
well done lad

[Anonymous No.22825447]

>>22825391
We can save him.

>The boy dashed toward the edge of the family farm, leaving a trail of rippling corn stalks in his wake.

Now you.

[Anonymous No.22825467]

>>22825440
Harem is very very small (in terms of relavance to the story), not any of the main characters.

[Anonymous No.22825468]

>>22825233
Fuck your shitty incest pedo smut, man. Get therapy. But even more importantly, stop writing in present tense.

[Anonymous No.22825471]

>>22825468

[Anonymous No.22825475]

>>22825471
>I'm watching my shilling go awry, I decide to call the man a faggot, believing that it will draw the lurking lolicons to my defense

[Anonymous No.22825476]

Incest is wincest tho

[Anonymous No.22825478]

>>22825476

[Anonymous No.22825479]

>>22825476
>As they start to appear I am feeling bold. "maybe if I spend the next 4 hours posting people will take me seriously"

[Anonymous No.22825487]

>>22825467
I might try it later then

[Anonymous No.22825497]

>>22825233
After reading the first few paragraphs, I feel so much better about myself as a writer. I really could do worse.

[Anonymous No.22825508]

>>22825497
How many books have you written?

[Anonymous No.22825509]

>>22825508
Roughly 1/3 through my first :^)

[Anonymous No.22825513]

>>22825509
You have to go faster. King could write an entire novel in a day after getting wasted.

[Anonymous No.22825519]

>>22825513
Get you name out of my mouth, smoothskin. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bdc6ac3f394d3bc3ad10bd0f962f05ef9aff5604/176_260_5400_3244/master/5400.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none

[Anonymous No.22825521]

>>22825513
I'm not in a rush. Even in the long-shot scenario that I manage to get it trad published, it's not like I'd be able to quit my cushy day job and live off of my writing.

[Anonymous No.22825525]

>>22825521
Not with that speed. Think about all the chink authors who make a living with ai generated works.

[Anonymous No.22825532]

>>22825476
only if it is between mother/son or maybe grandma/grandson

[Anonymous No.22825537]

>>22825532
"spoiler" but the mom is killed in the first chapter.

[Anonymous No.22825546]

>>22825525
I don't think or care about them :^)
This is a fun little hobby for me.

[Anonymous No.22825551]

>>22825537
>"spoiler"
press ctrl+s, newfag

[Anonymous No.22825553]

>>22825532
Shit taste. Father + daughter is by far the best combination. Grandfather + granddaughter is alright too.

[Anonymous No.22825555]

Do you prefer hard worldbuilding, or soft worldbuilding?

[Anonymous No.22825558]

>>22825551
>spoil your pedoincest smut
No. Also those tags don't work on half the boards so I don't care to use them.

[Anonymous No.22825567]

>>22825555
Define each.

[Anonymous No.22825573]

>>22825567
think of the different states of your erection and the purpose it serves in the story of your life. now apply to that to sci-fi and fantasy fiction

[Anonymous No.22825583]

>>22825555
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bdc6ac3f394d3bc3ad10bd0f962f05ef9aff5604/176_260_5400_3244/master/5400.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none

[Anonymous No.22825597]

>>22825476
relatively speaking

[Anonymous No.22825600]

>>22825233
How common are 2000 page lolisho series?

[Anonymous No.22825612]

>>22825583

[Anonymous No.22825619]

>>22825612
I too hate the british.

[Anonymous No.22825637]

>>22825555
Neither of those terms have widely accepted definitions so I have no clue what you hope to gain by asking this. Every person who responds earnestly will have his own private definitions for each term and so no productive discussion can be had.

[Anonymous No.22825643]

>>22825558
They work on boards where spoiling stuff is actually a concern, which you probably would've realized if you had two brain cells to rub together.

[Anonymous No.22825647]

>>22825643
Doesn't work on /mu/

[Anonymous No.22825651]

>>22825637
The amount of times the word "worldbuilding" itself gets misused in just about every major fiction community drives me up a wall.

[Anonymous No.22825653]

Bakkerbros: I'm a hundred odd pages into The Unholy Consult. I'm still scratching my head as to why Kellhus leaves The Ordeal? I can understand why he had to reveal to Proyas that he was a fraud, but why the shit did he feel it necessary to leave them? I don't buy his current excuse that it was to protect Esmenet

[Anonymous No.22825656]

>>22825653
>I'm still scratching my head as to why Kellhus leaves The Ordeal?
because it failed lmao

[Anonymous No.22825659]

>>22825651
Consider the fact that having no widely accepted definition means that they cannot be missused? Is that too hard for your /lit/ brain to understand. Okay. I'll dumb it down.
Undefined word doesn't have definition, so can't be misused. Even more.
Unword not clear word.

[Anonymous No.22825660]

>he's so butthurt about Bakker-posting that he read all the books just to spam his le epic and totally edgy intentional spoiler every single opportunity he gets, within minutes of somebody else posting

[Anonymous No.22825663]

>>22825660
>cares about spoilers
You must be 18 years or older to post on this site.

[Anonymous No.22825664]

>>22825637
>>22825651
literal autism.

[Anonymous No.22825665]

>>22825660
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.22825666]

>>22825665
The oracle.

[Anonymous No.22825670]

>>22825665
GPT-sama

[Anonymous No.22825679]

>>22824483
Finished 'deepness in the sky' by Vernor Vinge.

5/5

This concludes my journey in 'The Zones of Thought', I have now read all three books.
(unless I read Joan D. Vinge's novel 'The Outcasts of Heaven Belt' or 'Babel' by Vernor Vinge.)

It was a rather long book and took longer to arrive at the peak action than any other in the series. It also had less enjoyable deviations than the others, but I also enjoy the doggos and the gossipers on the middle transcend net.

The characters are all really well portrayed and you do actually learn to like them and know all about them, like, not many books make me actually understand and care for this many characters.

Hell most books I couldn't name the characters, I literally finished hyperion 1-2 days ago and I only remember the consul, saia (the Hawaiian island girl?? I know I fucked it up), m letson?, the shrike doesn't fucking count.

I'm not saying hyperion characters were bad, I'm just saying that these characters really grew on you.

Vernor Vinge loves betrayels, secrets, manipulation, double agents, triple agents, twists and turns and plots on plots within plots. Okay maybe not that much but this book is classic Vinge in that way.

Suspense wise? A Fire Upon the deep is still miles ahead of this, that book had me literally frantically turning pages like a mad man at the end of the book to see what was happening.

Quick tier list
1, a fire upon the deep
2, children of the sky
3, a deepness in the sky
I feel bad about putting it at third. I really want to just put both of them at 2nd place.

Spoiler review
I'm going to really miss Pham, he actually feels so much more grounded than other MC heroes. He wants the focus so bad but gives it up etc. I suppose the ending of the book means he beat the emergents and headed into the core of the galaxy, this is where he was then rescued and brought into 'a fire upon the deep', I wish we knew what happened to him more. I wish we knew what happened to the spiders, I wish vernor Vinge had enough energy to write 10 more novels. It feels like a giant galaxy that could easily be expanded upon at every corner. Okay anyways, this book was certainly dark at some points, qiwis mom getting raped and murdered and her daughter reliving the experience of finding the video tapes over and over before being mindscrubbed was so quick in reference but it sticks with you so much. Pham nuwens back story and childhood, damn this book has sooo much content. My review is probably all over the place but there was a lot here.

I give up describing it. It was amazing.

[Anonymous No.22825690]

>>22825659
It's what it says on the tin. "Building the world your story inhabits." It's usually applied to fictional universes in sci-fi and fantasy, but those same principles also applied to non-SF/F fiction. Almost all works of fiction utilize some form of worldbuilding to establish the dynamics and atmosphere that govern the tone and themes of the story. Designing a fictional fantasy planet with its own history, cultures, cosmology, etc. is worldbuilding. So is setting a story entirely within a dive bar by a truck stop in Nebraska off I-80 circa 1987 and establishing the dynamics between the bar's employees, its regulars, and the history of the bar from the scorch mark by the fuse box to the neon sign advertising a beer that went out of production in 1979 to the torn, beer-stained pool table to the stall door that got broken in a bathroom fight 3 years ago.

[Anonymous No.22825695]

>>22825690
STOP GIVING ME (You)s YOU AUTISTIC NEWFAG!

[Anonymous No.22825710]

Enough worldbuilding, there needs to be more worlddestroying. What are the equivalents of the World Wars in your setting?

[Anonymous No.22825739]

Are there other books like Monster Hunter International? Maybe something like a "swat team" or something that has to clean up fucked up experiments. Would be nice if it's not about a choosen one and people can die but even normal hero stuff would be okay.

[Anonymous No.22825748]

>Mid roots is better than any novel i've read in the past 5 year
Granted I only read xianxia.

[Anonymous No.22825750]

>>22825679
where do you get these books for cheap?

[Anonymous No.22825754]

>>22825750
libgen, internet archive, the library

[Anonymous No.22825758]

>>22825748
>Mid roots
Roots?

[Anonymous No.22825764]

>>22825750
>>22825754
Don't forget Anna's Archive and Zlibrary

[Anonymous No.22825767]

>>22825764
Those are just libgen and ia mirrors.

[Anonymous No.22825771]

>>22825767
Not always

[Anonymous No.22825779]

>>22825771
Sometimes normal fags who don't know any better upload to zlib but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.22825788]

>>22825754
>reading on your computer
genuinely how the fuck do you do this? I tune out immediately when starting at an ebook on my monitor.

[Anonymous No.22825797]

>>22825710
The main conflict of my story, which is a multi-continent-spanning war of coalitions over magic plutonium.

[Anonymous No.22825800]

>>22825788
>/lit/

[Anonymous No.22825806]

>>22821120
>ur
opinion soundly discarded

[Anonymous No.22825807]

>>22825797
HAHAHHAHA

[Anonymous No.22825810]

>>22825750
I read 'A Fire Upon the deep' on my phone (note 20 ultra) and listened to the audio book while I read sometimes (often out pacing the narrator).

I read 'Children of the sky' and 'a deepness in the sky' as physical books from the library (I even did a purchase request for 'children of the sky' and they ordered it for me) and also listened to it as an audio book either while I was reading or by itself.

Like other anons said, ebooks from libgen etc. Audiobooks from audiobookbay.

And library card from my city taxes.

If you haven't been to your library, give it a shot, some are way better than others but I live in a town of 1mil USA and my library fucking rules. Has a sick app, 99 books can be checked out, all types of benefits.

>>22825788
Reading on an actual computer might be harder, it's been awhile since I tried. Maybe try with the audio book playing at the same time, you can even try to match the narrator speed to your own reading.

I tried a Kindle and read quite a few books that way, I enjoy a real book but Kindle or phone work as well.

[Anonymous No.22825813]

>>22825810
>>22825797
I can't decide which is funnier, the reddit spacing faggot who thinks that reading faster than a narrator talking is impressive or the magic plutonium wars.

[Anonymous No.22825815]

>>22825810
>phone reader
My nigga I am on my hands and knees begging you to wisen the fuck up and by an Ereader

[Anonymous No.22825832]

>>22825813
You wouldn't get it...

[Anonymous No.22825834]

>>22825813
I don't think it's impressive to read faster than a narrator, I'm just noting that you'll encounter this so you should use an audio book player that has adjustable speed playback if it bothers you.

Sometimes I don't find it distracting when the narrator is 10 pages behind my reading and it's just sort of background noise but I'm also play podcasts and shit 24/7 basically, I'm probably a zoomer.

>>22825815
I had a Kindle paper-white but gave it to a friend. I have lots of books at my library to read, and they order stuff for me. Although some books are out of publication :(.

I've looked at all the major brands, boox, paper-white etc etc. I really liked the kindle battery life and the size was just okay, but I kind of want something larger and can maybe do color. The e-reader space is lacking alot of innovation. I'm sort of hoping something new comes out so I don't just buy another Kindle.

[Anonymous No.22825836]

>>22825555
>worldbuilding
>>>/tg/

[Anonymous No.22825848]

>>22825836
>you can't discuss a basic component of fiction writing in /lit/, especially not the one dedicated to science fiction and fantasy

[Anonymous No.22825873]

>>22825848
“World-building” is a phrase I really wish would be retired. Not only is it sloppy and lazy, it has become trite.

[Anonymous No.22825877]

>>22825873
>retweets a photo/video of someones 7 year old daughter
Never change King.

[Anonymous No.22825878]

>>22825813
I don't think it's impressive to read faster than a narrator, I'm just noting that you'll encounter this so you should use an audio book player that has adjustable speed playback if it bothers you.

Sometimes I don't find it distracting when the narrator is 10 pages behind my reading and it's just sort of background noise but I also play podcasts and shit 24/7.

>>22825815
I had a Kindle paper-white but gave it to a friend. I have lots of books at my library to read, and they order stuff for me. Although some books are out of publication :(. Picrel.

I've looked at all the major brands, boox, paper-white etc etc. I really liked the kindle battery life and the size was just okay, but I kind of want something larger and can maybe do color. The e-reader space is lacking alot of innovation. I'm sort of hoping something new comes out so I don't just buy another Kindle.

[Anonymous No.22825909]

>>22825848
It's not a basic component though, it's explicitly something a gm does to accomadate for not knowing where the players want to take the story. They build the world before the fiction out of necessity.
It has no relation to competent fiction writing where the setting is revealed as and when it is relevant to the narrative.

[Anonymous No.22825912]

>>22825233
Looks like it was typeset in MS word 2013

[Anonymous No.22825916]

I clicked on the rr link here and got this ad
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/75025/clover-a-litrpg-apocalypse

[Anonymous No.22825919]

>>22825909
You don't know what worldbuilding is.
>>22825690

[Anonymous No.22825925]

Wwhen does Ilium get good? This book is needlessly expository about character's fates at the beginning.

[Anonymous No.22825929]

>>22825916
https://www.royalroadcdn.com/public/covers/AACAgv5IaRQ.png

[Anonymous No.22825931]

>>22825919
No I do and you don't.
You're trying to create a post-hoc definition that nobody else uses in order to score Internet debate points.

[Anonymous No.22825937]

>>22825690
that bar sounds comfy

[Anonymous No.22825943]

>>22825931
>"building a world" is a post-hoc definition of world-building

[Anonymous No.22825946]

>>22825653
>I don't buy his current excuse that it was to protect Esmenet
But that's not an excuse, it's the truth.
But it also allowed Kellhus not order the ordeal to resort to cannibalism leaving his reputation fully intact for the final battle and allowing him to further inflame his followers' fervor.

[Anonymous No.22825958]

>>22825943
No, "building a world" is a simple enough phrase to have many possible definitions. Which you are asserting don't exist.

[Anonymous No.22825973]

>>22825958
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldbuilding

[Anonymous No.22825982]

I have read nothing but fantasy romance novels with a femdom bent for the past week. This isn't even the McDonalds of fiction; I am literally just stuffing my face with a block of cheese like the disgusting animal I am

[Anonymous No.22825999]

>>22825982
This posts fully expresses that you're into self-degradation of all sorts, not only femdom.

[Anonymous No.22826011]

>>22825999
If you want to know the really sad part it's that I'm barely even paying attention to the kink and I'm just enjoying the fantasy of a world where men have intrinsic value

[Anonymous No.22826016]

Jack London got me in the mood to read some Sci-Fi. Anything like pic-related?

[Anonymous No.22826032]

>>22826016
Desolate Era

[Anonymous No.22826033]

>>22825937
>Driving cross-country in your 1981 impala
>It's long past dark
>Take exit, there's just a truck stop with a diner, a Super 8, and a dive
>After booking a room, you figure you could do with a drink, so you cross the parking lot
>The bar stands out like a dim beacon of weary hope against the suffocating darkness stretching with the plains unbroken 100 miles in every direction
>You push past the door with a faded Schlitz poster and are embraced by tobacco-dense warmth
>The jukebox is rasping 38 Special
>The barkeep is adjusting the antennas of the TV to minimize the grain on the Chiefs-Bears game
>You order a Coors light a cigarette
>You ear billiards snap behind you
>You look over your shoulder and see some Pat Benatar-looking girl stretched over a stained, slightly torn pool table, one shoulder hanging out of her Def Leppard shirt
>You ass two shots of bourbon to your tab and head over

[Anonymous No.22826042]

>>22826033
Damn those are a lot of silly spelling mistakes. Time for bed. Nighty night, /sffg/

[Anonymous No.22826102]

How self contained are Lovecraft's books?
Will I get lost if I read At the Mountains of Madness before Call of Cthulhu?

[Anonymous No.22826131]

>>22826102
they're all self-contained as far as I recall, except presumably "The Silver Key" and "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"

[Anonymous No.22826200]

>>22825663
You're the one doing blatantly annoying things just for a small bit of attention - as a child would.

[Anonymous No.22826206]

I've been reading Burning Chrome for weeks. It's agonising. I don't want to read it anymore.

[Anonymous No.22826218]

>>22826206
>Burning Chrome
Gibson prose is pretty bush league

[Anonymous No.22826220]

>>22826131
Thanks

[Anonymous No.22826249]

>>22826200
This doesn't change the fact that nothing is more childish than claiming a work is "spoiled" because you read the plot out of order. As if you have to be playing peak-a-boo for a book to be unspoiled.

[Anonymous No.22826253]

>>22825797
When will your book be available for purchase?

[Anonymous No.22826258]

Did the elf rape scene really sour people that much with Thomas Covenant and that's why it isn't as popular now compared to when it was originally published?

[Anonymous No.22826272]

>>22826258
Yes. Stop sexualizing rape, you fucking weirdo.

[Anonymous No.22826286]

>>22826272
Thank god, someone normal in /ssfg/.

[Anonymous No.22826292]

>>22826272
>>22826286
Isn't rape a sexual act? Stop sexualizing a sexual act?

[Anonymous No.22826295]

>>22826272

[Anonymous No.22826299]

>>22826292
Go rape your mother and tell her you just had sex.

[Anonymous No.22826308]

>>22826299
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.22826310]

>>22826272
>>22826299
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.22826322]

>>22826308
Rape is not sex nor is it a sexual act, it is assault involving sexual organs. But it's not different from me chopping off your dick. Is that sexual? Some would say yes, but those people are sick precisely because they sexualize everything.

[Anonymous No.22826335]

>>22826322
So you mean to say rape is not sex because sex is good and rape is bad? Insightful.

[Anonymous No.22826339]

>>22826335
You can't read because you are blinded by your own delusions. Insightful.

[Anonymous No.22826351]

>>22826339
And you are saying that aggravated sexual assault is not sexual, excuse me for being skeptical of your homebrewed semantics.

[Anonymous No.22826372]

Gimmie your best standalone science fiction novels that you've read this year. I don't want to delve into endless sequel bullshit.

[Anonymous No.22826373]

>>22826351
You are the one quibbling about semantics. According to you groping = sexual assault = sex.

[Anonymous No.22826392]

>>22826373
I never mentioned groping? You're the one saying that because a sexual act is forced and violent it's not a sexual act. I appreciate the desire to put on rose tinted glasses and see sexuality in a romantic way, but because you decide to trust your feelies doesn't make you right. Rather it makes you irrational (and angry to boot). Now I need to go, but I'll be there tomorrow if you decide to be there and won't renounce your terminally incorrect opinion.

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>>22826392
Is groping not sexual assault now? Stop changing the subject.

[Anonymous No.22826421]

This dude argues like a fucking woman

[Anonymous No.22826447]

How is the Gormenghast Trilogy?

[Anonymous No.22826507]

>>22826421
Only women care about "sexual assault" so it very likely is a gash or a fag that thinks of itself as a gash. Buttertranny maybe

[Anonymous No.22826516]

>>22826299
So having sex with your mother is ok if it isn't rape? According to you

[Anonymous No.22826571]

>>22826516
Of course it is okay to have consensual sex with whoever you want.

[Anonymous No.22826581]

>>22826571
>Women and faggots truly, genuinely believe this

[Anonymous No.22826597]

>>22826447
First two books are extremely good, third is okay, Boy in Darkness is amazing. I'd also recommend reading Peake's widow's biography on him, and then her Gormenghast novel if you like the original series.
Peake was on another level prose-wise. I've heard people say that because he was a painter, he can conjure extremely vivid and beautiful scenes through his words. He writes like somebody painting a detailed and somewhat surreal scene.

[Anonymous No.22826652]

>>22823296
Assassins Apprentice

[Anonymous No.22826695]

>>22825132
So you don't have anything better than bakker to suggest to me?

[Anonymous No.22826770]

>>22821233
So you're saying it has soul then?

[Anonymous No.22826978]

Could somebody please post the Bakker spurdo

[Anonymous No.22826985]

>>22826571
abhorrent post

[Anonymous No.22826989]

>>22820582
The anti-Bakker/le great ordeal failed :DDDDD brigade grossly overstates the amount of homoesexuality in the books. Sure, there's a lot of sexual violence but it's appropriate within its context. It does not reach levels were it could be considered an insincere parody.

[Anonymous No.22826994]

>>22826989
GREAT
PENDULOUS
PHALLUS

[Anonymous No.22827001]

Is wheel of time considered a harem?

[Anonymous No.22827003]

it's considered terrible

[Anonymous No.22827043]

>>22826258
It made me DNF

[Anonymous No.22827046]

>>22826258
QRD?

[Anonymous No.22827048]

>>22826989
Why does Kellhus rape Proyas

[Anonymous No.22827674]

>>22827048
It's spelled out in detail in the boom, I knew Bakker haters are illiterate.
Kellhus needed Proyas to stop believing in him and words were not enough because he had an infinite ability to rationalize them away as a test of his faith.

[Anonymous No.22827682]

>if you don't like my favorite obscure series, you're illiterate!!!

[Anonymous No.22827739]

>>22827674
I haven't read past Darkness. Why does Bakker use rape as a device like this?

[Anonymous No.22827852]

>>22827001
i don't know but i do know that min, el*yne and aviendha become increasingly more annoying the more they fall in love with rand

[Anonymous No.22827878]

Why are Kellhus's sons so autistic in The Aspie-Emperor series? Is it hereditary?

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