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Conan with fangs edition.

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>> No.23146769

Bakker?

>> No.23146773

>>23146740
I just bought the book of the new sun, I hope I will enjoy it, it has been a long time that I read fantasy

>> No.23146788

>>23146773
I also just bought this book. you're my bookbro now.

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My sincere thanks to the anons who picked up my post apocalyptic novella the other day when I released it. I just wanted to share this announcement I made for the book which links two reviews for anyone that was on the fence to please check out: https://tookys.substack.com/p/improvidence

>> No.23146798

>>23146773
>>23146788
And I just sold this book. Both of you are my bookwives (male) now. Prepare the honey of your unwashed anuses.

>> No.23146807

>>23146798
I was hesitant because I'm not really in the mood for scifi these days, but the first few chapters kept me happily in medieval-fantasy land.

>> No.23146827

>>23146740
hey bros i just want to all to know that despite all the stupid shit there is in these threads, i love you all. i enjoy coming here and i get some good out of it, and i think it is worth it

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>> No.23146926

>>23146793
Arthur Powell's
>Leaving some subjects open to interpretation is great but if you have a certain message that is being spoken by a character it needs to feel more complete.
This is what I was telling you. You didn't go far enough.

>The other minor issue I took was with how he is wrapping up the tale, suffice to say no spoilers but it was a confusing expose of female hypergamy that just felt misplaced.
Also what I was telling you. My suggestions at the end of the email though were a combination of jokes, trolling, and being serious because I knew that they wouldn't work and you wouldn't want to make those changes.

More than half of this isn't even about your book.

Alan Schmidt
This has far more "spoilers", both arguablely do, than anything I did.
> alarming speed in which one can lose your values and, worse, put crime and crime upon yourself as you desperately try to hide your own failings.
That's what I said it was about.

The difference is that they're both taking great pains to not say anything unkind or impolitic. Mostly they're trying to say as little of personal opinion as they can mostly summarize. I didn't look, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was part of book review trading, in which case the results are already predetermined. I don't think either would convince those on the fence as it were.

>> No.23146944

>>23146926
Great to see you again and have a great say /SFFG/ Review Troon!

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>>23146926
>female hypergamy

>> No.23147001

>>23146843
That title sounds so dumb, but I'll bite. What's it about?

>> No.23147009

Books like Haggard?

>> No.23147058

>>23147001
You must be new.

>> No.23147113

>>23147058
New to shit. What is this, a bot?

>> No.23147140

>>23146827
u 2

>> No.23147156

>>23147113
this thread is slow enough that all of the forced posts are some loser doing it manually

>> No.23147230

>>23146926
You don't want get on the bad side of Tooky's Tuggers bro - akin to Swifties in their fantacism.... probably give it a rest

>> No.23147259

>>23147230
Based on the archive results I don't think it matters all that much.
>>/lit/?task=search&search_text=Tooky

>> No.23147284

>>23147259
Tuggers... Do your worst.

>> No.23147351

>>23146793
Oh great the pedophile wants more attention. Take your cp elsewhere.

>> No.23147400

>>23147351
You think that's cp? I'll show you cp.
https://vimeo.com/282411996

>> No.23147402

>>23147351
Nice reverse psychology, anon

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Read Beyond Apollo

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Book 2 when?

>> No.23147722

What do you make of Asimov's prose? There's something very nostalgic about it without coming off as dated I just find it comfy without been too verbose or turgid despite Asimov being more about ideas and concepts than anything else.

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>>23146773
>>23146788
It's great, you're in for a treat.

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>>23147669
thought this nigga died
wtf is this

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I kept seeing Anons circle jerk over this book so I finally gave it a shot and now I come to join the circle jerk. About halfway through the first tale is when it started to click with me. Pretty cool how the individual tales also reveal bits of info about the mystery of Hyperion AND the state of humanity as well.

So are the sequels really not that great as other Anons say?

>> No.23147817

>>23146773
I also just bought it

>> No.23147892

>>23147813
It's two duologies. 2+2. First 2 are mostly considered good, second not so much.

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This was pricey for an ebook, but it does have a ton of stories from some based writers. And all the reviews for it say it's bussin.

>> No.23148008

>>23147813
Based. The Priest's story is fantastic. Also, Siri best girl.

>> No.23148101

>>23147113
>What is this, a bot?
Might as well be

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>> No.23148468

>>23147754
Baldanders is a big boy

>> No.23148474

do you guys think villehack's success with the dune movies will result in a decade of hollywood jews trying to adapt every somewhat popular sci-fi book they can get their hands on

>> No.23148479

>>23148474
Hyperionchads, our time is near

>> No.23148508

>>23147813
The later books are almost completely unrelated, even book 2 is more like a separate story set in the same universe than a sequel. Same kind of deal as Ender's Game or Altered Carbon.

>> No.23148548

>>23147799
He's still shitting out random chapters for other stuff on a more or less regular basis, but hasn't come back to Daniel or Alice in the better part of a decade. I can see why he pretty much abandoned Daniel, he wrote himself into a corner there and there's nowhere next to go. Alice seems like such a straightforward progression that it should write itself:
>book 1 she starts off as nobody and becomes a cabin girl fairly quickly, and the climax is an encounter in a disabled inner sphere ship
>Book 2 she should become a full crew member very early, and the climax should be an encounter with an inner sphere expeditionary force investigating rumors about her and the treasure ship
>Book 3 she becomes the captain of her own ship early on, and encounters the combined forces of the inner sphere in an all-out exterminatus fleet, she defeats them and crowns herself queen of the space nazis
There you go, complete trilogy, ezpz. If he still hasn't published MT in a year, I'm just going to do everyone a favor and have Claude 4 write the damn thing.

>> No.23148583

>>23148474
Hollywood is already looking at books again. People are done with comic book adaptations and there's barely anything left to remake that isn't way too recent. Don't get your hopes up though — you're competing with modern slop that the 'young adult' audience eats up, like Fourth Wing and shit. They already did that Hunger Games prequel book.

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I've been practicing drawing again recently strictly because I want to be able to draw scenes out of The Lord of Light because none of the existing fan art captures how I imagine it

>> No.23148611

>>23147722
His full length novels are terrible but his economic prose is very enjoyable in shorter works like the original Foundation Trilogy or End of Eternity
>>23147813
It is all downhill from the first one but it's still a fun ride. If you finish the second one just ask yourself if you want to continue on the carnival of big scifi ideas and if you do keep reading.
Much like the Dune series actually.
>>23146769
King

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>>23148609

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Good Fantasy and sci-fi

>The Murderbot Diaries
>Melody of Mana
>The Dragon Riders of Pern
>Warlock of The Magus World
>Ringworld
>Neuromancer
>12 Miles Below
>Berserk
>There Are Superheroes In This Story
>A Neets Guide To Becoming A God
>The Reality Dysfunction
>A Practical Guide To Sorcery
>Healer of Monsters
>Blame
>Tenebroum
>Sokaiseva
>I Am Not Chaotic Evil
>Violent Solutions


Good Lit-RPG

>The Nailmaker
>Cinnamon Bun
>Book of The Dead
>The Tutorial Is Too Hard
>The Reincarnation of Alysara
>Dawn of The Void
>Eight
>Hell Difficulty Tutorial
>Age of Stone
>Overgeared
>The Warlord
>The Mana Influx
>Red Mage

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What am I in for?

>> No.23148750

Any antihero black fantasy kino? Protagonist burning down villages, inducing Stockholm syndrome into the love interest, and maybe even a bit of subtle racism kino?

>> No.23148756

>>23148731
Garbage. I read the entire book at the end of last year and I barely remember anything about it.

>> No.23148827

>>23148583
Didn't that movie bomb though? Most post-Hunger Games YA movies haven't had much luck.

>> No.23148831

>>23148750
They're on the "Villain Protagonist" end of the spectrum, but:
Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Malus Darkblade

>> No.23148990

>>23148609
>>23148618
very based. I'm halfway through the book now and really enjoying it. I'd love to see Rild - I think he wore a lot of black.

>> No.23149080

>>23148750
Prince of Nothing, viz. Cnaiur.

>> No.23149093

>>23148750
Elric, from what I have heard.

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I'm a bit into pic related, I liked the beginning when he was dungeon crawling, not a huge fan of the magic school.

>> No.23149197

>>23149175
I'm guessing you're not going to like it when the protagonist randomly realizes he's gay two thirds of the way through then spends several chapters going on a date with another dude.

>> No.23149201

>>23149197
Can't tell if trolling.

>> No.23149203

>>23149201
I wish I was.

>> No.23149209

>>23149175
Fag shit

>> No.23149216

>>23147813
I agree with >>23148611, I thought dune and hyperion 1 were both great, second books are awful.
>>23148474
We are getting a neuromancer TV show, does that answer your question? Also take a look at 'Fahrenheit 451' movie couple years ago.
>>23148583
Is somewhat right but I think there is considerable space for both breakout romantsy YA stuff like 'a court of thorns and roses' or whatever and scifi book adaptations.

>> No.23149224

Why is there so much faggorty in fantasy books these days? No sane person wants to read about some faggots.

>> No.23149287

>>23149216
ACOTAR was getting a TV series last I checked. I only knew because my local Books A Million included it on their "page to screen" banner.

>> No.23149288

>>23149224
To attract more women to fantasy.
Women fucking love faggy boys getting it on

>> No.23149292

>>23149224
demographic change. it's normal.

>> No.23149295

>>23149175
>>23149201
He's not lying. The MC kisses some dude at the very end of the book and is revealed to be a faggot.
Andrew Rowe, the author, is a mod of /r/progressionfantasy and they fully endorse LGTV+ faggotry in books, along with other mod-authors like Bryce the unoriginal Iron Prince retard.

>> No.23149304

What's a good old captain and his ship (and a babe) scifi adventure books?

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What are we thinkin'?

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>>23149295
Disgusting, honestly.

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>>23149306

>> No.23149338

>>23149295
Gross.
Any prominent yurifag authors from there?

>> No.23149350

>>23146740
just read The Dispossessed by Ursula Leguin, really liked it. Next up, Hard to Be a God by Strugatsky Bros.

>> No.23149411

>>23148583
>Don't get your hopes up though
did i somehow gave the impression that i want hollywood adaptation of books i like? couldn't be further from the truth

>> No.23149441

>>23149292
>it's normal.
No it isn't, rabbi.

>> No.23149445

>>23148750
>black fantasy
Do you mean DARK fantasy or negro fantasy? If you mean Dark Fantasy then Karl Edward Wagner's Kane stories.

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>>23149441
I'm sure you call this 'normal'.

>> No.23149487

Fantasy with animals from the Pleistocene epoch?

>> No.23149489

>>23149454
Empires rising and falling? Yes that's normal.

>> No.23149496

>>23149489
And what typically follows the rise and fall of an empire?

>> No.23149571

>>23149496
Expulsion of jews?

>> No.23149596

>>23149571
Kek
>>23149496
Rabbi btfo

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>>23149292
Public Religion Research Institute
https://www.prri.org/research/generation-zs-views-on-generational-change-and-the-challenges-and-opportunities-ahead-a-political-and-cultural-glimpse-into-americas-future/

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>>23149609
Possibly more relevant bonus image

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>>23149609
Yup, nobody's seen this one before.
>>23149625
Daring today, aren't we?

>>23149571
>>23149596
No. Jewish expulsion is almost always accompanied by an economic downturn, so if anything, Jewish expulsion/exodus makes a pretty good marker for the decline of an empire, not the rise of one. You were trying to be clever, but it just blew up in your face.

What typically follows the rise of an empire is a minor change in the demography of its conquered territories, while the decline of an empire is followed by the scattering of the population due to economic struggle and infighting, leading to a sharp change in the demography of the (now fallen) empire's territories.

Either way, this is all a waste of time. You people never listen to actual historical facts, only to what you want to hear.

>> No.23149702

>>23149666
The Great American Diaspora due to the fall of the American Empire when?

>> No.23149774

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfkY3zZi9w
man, this narration is kino
any book with similar way of speech?
also recs on high fantasy stories with some guy coping with being turned into undead or with undead faction?

>> No.23149823

>>23148831
Malus lost my interest when he threw that tantrum at the end of the first book and killed all his companions. I was cool with all the other villain stuff he had done to that point, but that episode killed my ability to sympathize with him.

>> No.23149941

Did that anon with the AI character portraits ever finish his book and post it here? I thought it seemed interesting

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/SFFG/ Recommendations:

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

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

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/SFFG/ Recommendations: LITRPG Edition

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

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

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have you ever had hallucinations of yourself trying to correct your past shitpostings

>> No.23150243

>>23149411
Fair point.

>> No.23150257

>>23148827
You're right about the YA movies, but the hunger games prequel did pretty well iirc.

>> No.23150489

>>23149224
I do, about lesbians, that is. Lesbian romance and horror are the only genres that I enjoy, as far as reading purely for entertainment goes. If a fantasy book has neither, I literally can't bring myself to read it. I just don't enjoy anything else.

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>>23150489
>Lesbian romance and horror are the only genres that I enjoy
You'll love pic related then, you faggot.

>> No.23150698

>>23150489
Any lesbian kino recs? You'd think it would be easy to find good lesbian stories in this day and age but they keep being about BIPOC girls or bull dykes or being written like average fan fiction and it's quite troubling.

>> No.23150975

>tfw talk about lesbos killed the thread

>> No.23150978

>>23149666
>Jewish expulsion/exodus makes a pretty good marker for the decline of an empire, not the rise of one
You're so dumb you don't even know you just agreed with us. So yes, by the time juice are dealt with, the empire is in the shitter

>> No.23151004

>>23149666
>empire declines
>expel the jews
>empire rises

>> No.23151037

Sanderson has announced a 5th secret project.

>> No.23151052

>>23151037
Sanderson 5 Bakker 0

>> No.23151058

>>23151037
cool

>> No.23151061

>>23151037
Oh boy I hope it's more epic fantasy slop with magic systems.

>> No.23151067

>ProgressionFantasy/comments/1b7clvr/world_of_warcrafts_first_dungeon_designer_writes/
>dungeon dev for vanilla WoW writes books
neat(?)

>> No.23151103

>>23151067
Do you have a name?

>> No.23151110

>>23151103
john statts

>> No.23151171

>>23151067
Hopefully it's less dogshit than Metzen's writing.

>> No.23151172

>>23151110
Book of dungeons on rr. Not expecting much but I'll give it a try

>> No.23151200

>>23151171
Metzen was never a main/primary writer involved with the early Warcraft titles anyhow. He only ever got hired because he could kind of sort of draw okay and he didn't even know how heavily involved with vidya Blizzard was at the time.
But yes, Metzen was/is a bad writer.

Also ew from lurking that thread, looks like Andrew Rowe, the Arcane Ascension into Faggotry author was also a Blizz designer at some point.

>> No.23151202

>>23151172
2 chapters in and it's garbage.

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>>23147813
>You will never wed a islander dolphin princess and start a civil war against globohomo
Why even live?

>> No.23151229

>>23151067
wouldn’t he be a 50 year old trying to write for a sub 20 year old audience?

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>>23151229
>wouldn’t he be a 50 year old trying to write for a sub 20 year old audience?
how do you think the this (or anything) works?

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>>23151067
What kind of cretin would want to read this shit

>> No.23151469

>>23151445
>review anon
>coombrain posters
>lgbt posters

>> No.23151476

>>23149224
My favorite fantasy book has a gay couple and a graphic gay sex scene.

>> No.23151510

>>23151476
Normal for a gay person

>> No.23151530

>>23151037
Is he just going to call every new one off he writes a secret project now?

>> No.23151559

>>23151530
M A R K E T I N G
A
S
T
E
R

>> No.23151597

I had a sensitivity reader for my last manuscript. Publisher's demanded it ofcourse.

on the day we were going to have a meeting where she'd flag up the problematic issues with my work, I showed up about half and hour late with a half smoked cigar hanging out my mouth and a cup of coffee. withouth apologising I asked her to begin because I "had to be somewhere with more positive energy" in about an hour.

The intern fervently began explaining her thoughts using slides etc. while Im literally asleep on the chair, my eyes covered by oversized sunglasses. I woke up instinctively when after 45 minutes she said "and I suppose that's what I would change or take out of your book"

I took one last huff of the stogie and errupted in the most obnoxious laughter right in her face. "ITS MY BOOK, DO WHAT I WANT AHAHAHAHA. DONT LIKE IT? DONT BUY it AHAHAHHAHA"

>> No.23151606

>>23151597
Well writing out your daydreams is as good a place to start as any, anon. Good job.

>> No.23151610

>>23151597
>Boomer produced a lighter and lit his cigar. He took a long, single puff that seemed to go on forever. He let out a long stream of smoke that filled the room.
>“Fuck yeah,” he said.

>> No.23151655

>>23151606
it really happened I was the intern

>> No.23151706

>sanderson sold out to audible even while admitting they didn't give him what he wanted for other authors
Can Amazon be stopped?

>> No.23151844

>>23148548
>>23148548
>he wrote himself into a corner there
I don't see how, you can have a whole book about visiting the Fae Court and another about dealing with Olympian remnants and freeing Prometheus. Maybe another about Loki and the war in Asgard.

>> No.23151848

>>23151706
>Sanderson demands at least 70% of audiobook royalties for authors
What percentage of royalties, if any, do readers deserve?

>> No.23151971

>rereading The Clockwork Rocket
>keep adding a -baoth suffix to Yalda's name

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tags you cannot and will NEVER respect-
>Harem
>LGBT
>Slow burn
>Time loop
>Multiple PoV

>> No.23152510

>>23152470
>Western

>> No.23152520

>>23152470
Anything written by an author with the US/UK flag

>> No.23152560

>>23152520
ESL

>> No.23152575

>>23152560
t.amerilard

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Better taste than 95% of /sffg/

>> No.23152603

Have the Complete Chronicles of Conan centenery eddition, and want to buy the savage tales of Solomon Kane. Is the later any good (both the content and the format)?

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>>23152587
coffeesisters where we at? tea is for suckers.

>> No.23152747

>>23152587
Murtagh was such a disappointment. Thought the author might have developed as a writer over the past decade. God knows why he took such a long break only to pick up exactly where he left off.

>> No.23152776
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jesus christ

>> No.23152778

would

>> No.23152791

>would
embarrassing

>> No.23152796

>>23147907
Based.

>> No.23152803

>>23152587
>>23152722
join my hot chocolate gang. i drink it twice a day (made with sweetener so i can drink infinite amounts and live forever)

>> No.23152839

>>23152520
What do you read, then?

>> No.23152850

>>23152470
>Ongoing

>> No.23152879

>>23146740
I read Bridge of Birds. Good book.

>> No.23152990

>>23152587
>normalfag reads five popular community-approved series and believes he is unique
every thread
harry potter? may as well be a dumb fucking whore

>> No.23153029

>>23152990
>t. bad, bad, BAAAAD taste

>> No.23153037
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23153037

Is this series worth reading? I'm almost done with the first book. I really like the plot and the writing, but I hate the themes.

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23153071

Would he make a good Cnaiür?

>> No.23153076

>>23152470
slow burn can be good but reddit has comandeered it to excuse bad writing

>> No.23153082

>>23153037
Everything about it gets worse and goodkind gets thematically more insane as it goes on.

>> No.23153085

>Oriathon sweeps on through the forests of Infinity and all at once falls roaring over an Edge, whence Time has long ago recalled his hours to fight in his war with the gods; and falls unlit by the flash of nights and days, with his flood unmeasured by miles, into the deeps of nothing.
The fuck does "recalled his hours" even mean, you old kook???

>> No.23153098

>>23153071
Sure considering Cnaiur is literally just blatant Conan ripoff

>> No.23153163

>>23153098
Isn't 90% of s&s Conan ripoffs?

>> No.23153209

>>23153082
How so? I mean, at the point that I am in the story, I think Richard should just let everyone fucking die.

>> No.23153223

>>23153163
Yeah but Cnaiur is quite literally the actual character Conan only with some added cuckoldry. S&S rips off Howard but usually at least try to change some basic character traits of their main muscly protagonist. The only thing different about Cnaiur vs Conan is the fact is Conan is actually intelligent and not a cuck. That’s it. Otherwise it’s the same character

>> No.23153229

Is there any female protagonist S&S where the lead lady isn't a whore

>> No.23153249

>>23149224
go read the daily wire of you want right wing fantasy

>> No.23153250

>>23153229
Yes.

>> No.23153251

>>23152603
>Is the later any good (both the content and the format)?
Yes.

>> No.23153256

>>23153249
Got em.

>> No.23153261

>>23153250
Provide 5 examples or I don't believe you

>> No.23153278

>>23153209
Basically the further you get the more it turns into a mix of juvenile sex fantasy and Goodkind lecturing you about his politics, especially after 9/11 which made him go fully cuckoo.
It's not subtle stuff either you get things like a really contrived situation that's only there so Richard can prove that pacifism is wrong.

>> No.23153281

>>23153261
There's not even 5 good sword and sorcery books

>> No.23153293

>>23153037
>>23153082
I've read the first 4 books of this series, and I honestly enjoyed the romance and Goodkind's theme. A common critique is that he's heavy-handed on the messaging but the message itself is really why Goodkind wrote this series; it's central to the process.

Also, he's got some fun creatures and interesting use of magic. Good stuff. Include a bit of horror and rapes and murder to that and you've got an okay series.

>> No.23153300

>>23147001
>>23146843
One big book about what if Kellhus raised magical bugs.

>> No.23153306

>>23153261
The six Red Sonja novels.

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>>23153281
>There's not even 5 good sword and sorcery books

>> No.23153322

>>23153306
Sonja is a whore though

>> No.23153334

>>23153310
All you're doing here is showing that you're willingly reading shit out of some weird belief that your political opponents will be upset at you doing so.

>> No.23153357

>>23153278
>>23153293
I mean, it's all kinda retarded. The world, the politics, the villains. Whatever "fun stuff" that is in the story is kinda held back by the amount of stupid stuff.
Like Richard himself. He's just a woodsman, but somehow he doesn't need to learn anything in his journey. At no point to me is credible that this guy can just go out and be ready for all the stuff that goes his way. Not only the action things, but the moral "dilemmas" that pop up. I could go on about other characters and events, and I wouldn't even need to nitpick to see point out the wrongness of wanting to save this world.
I think the thing that really brought it all down to me was the First Rule itself. I thought Wizard's First Rule was "The first time a wizard rule" like a king or something like that. But no, it's just some retarded bullshit about everyone being sheeple and this tip top tier secret because it's the truth and the truth has power.

I just don't see myself reading past this book. The guy is a great writer, but what he puts on his stories are just wasted potential.

>> No.23153370

>>23153334
That's you, tranny.

>> No.23153373

>>23149306
The first almost half of the story is thrown away. I want to read the fucking story he started about the psychic corporate spies, not have it be a fakeout for another schizophrenic exploration of the subjectivities of perception. Write a separate novel about time going backwards, fucking hack, crackhead.

>> No.23153374

>>23153357
I mean Goodkind was brave with the choices he made with Richard toward the end of this book, you might want to continue. I stopped at book 4 because books 3 and 4 felt too similar.

>> No.23153385

>>23153357
It's all downhill from there. Goodkind is easily the worst of the epic fantasy writers, no reason to touch him unless you've already read literally everything else there is.

>> No.23153393

>>23153385
This. It was a calculated attempt to capitalize on the epic fantasy trend

>> No.23153467

>>23153163
the shit sword and sorcery, yes
but sword and sorcery is far more than just notconans

>> No.23153468

>>23153357
Yeah the world in those stories is barren cause Goodkind made it up as he went along. iirc, you have a small to medium-sized settlement on the west coast where Richard is from, almost cut off from the rest of the continent by forests. Somewhere in the middlish is a village of "mud people", generic stereotypes of tribals, and to the east is Rahl's empire, his palace and I'm pretty sure a major city but we barely learn of it.
Everywhere else is just kind of ????? until places pop up in later books, like a castle here or there, the city book 5 takes place in, the magical museum place in book 4.
I guess it gives them a dreamlike quality but if you like scratching the surface of a story it's going to quickly seem ridiculous (already somewhat does).

>> No.23153476

>>23153322
She's a good kind of whore.

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>>23152470
>tags

>> No.23153834

I love my boy Sandy so much.

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>>23152470
>Harem
>isekai
>LitRPG
even worse when it is all three
isekai by itself actually isn't so bad, like there are some good ones out there, but most of it is pure and utter TRASH

>> No.23154141

>>23153322
Oh no, the bikini clad berserker who's explicitly Conan approximated into a woman isn't a paragon of chastity.

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I heard that the Latro series is unfinished, is it still worth reading? Is the conclusion satisfying enough?

>> No.23154201

>>23154183
I wish I knew. What I do know is that's one of the coolest covers I've ever seen.

>> No.23154208

>>23153261
>The Erotic Escapades of Anon’s Mom
>The Grand Gay Groping of Anon’s Grandmother
>The Sensual Sexcapades of Slutty Sally, Sister of Anon
>The Anal Annihilation of Aunt Anon
>A Song of Ice and Fire

>> No.23154220

>>23153223
You forgot that Cnaiur is incredible miserable and unhappy unlike Conan.

>> No.23154377

>>23147892
>>23148008
>>23148508
>>23148611
>>23149216
I just finished it and what the hell? It ends right before what should be the climax? How can the sequel possibly be unrelated, seems like it needs to explain what happens like 5 minutes after the end of the first book? Even if it's meant to be an ambiguous ending, why doesn't it explain what happens to Masteen? Is there a time skip or something?

>> No.23154433

>>23148704
Terrible list

>> No.23154456

Who are the best immersive sci-fi/fantasy authors?

>> No.23154462

>>23154377
Fall of Hyperion is a direct sequel, don't worry

>> No.23154472

>>23153071
>>23153098
I always saw Cnair as a native American looking dude. Or maybe a Mongol of the Steppes...

>> No.23154493

>>23153076
>but reddit has comandeered it to excuse bad writing
name 1 book

>> No.23154500

>>23154462
ok that's a relief thanks

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23154505

Has anyone read tie-in novels for obscure old computer games? Like Gadget and Myst?

>> No.23154540

Are there any good recent lost world genre or is it dead dead?

>> No.23154575

>>23154456
Tolkien

>> No.23154605

>>23154377
It's a direct sequel but it will NOT been told in the same way as the first, no more cool flashbacks of stories.

Hello uninteresting politics, hello more questions and no answers for so long you will not care when about them anymore.

Give it a shot though maybe you'll like it. I gave the first 5/5 and the 2nd one 3/5.

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I can’t follow this for shit. Fucking changing scenes abruptly, adding new people in the crew constantly, I can’t remember who is who and where they are going or why. I am 65% in and so fucking annoyed with having to read chapter summaries every time I want to start a new reading session. I am generally uninterested in noir and my eye glaze over at the formula this repeats.

>> No.23154615

>>23154606
Try and listen to the audio book, maybe that will be easier for you.

I'm sort of amazed, I've seen this brought up maybe twice now that it goes too quickly etc. I didn't feel that way but I mostly listened to the audio book.

You can either have William Gibson himself read it or some audible guy, I chose some audible guy.

>> No.23154638

>>23154615
I do half audiobook, half reading in the physical book. That’s how I consume most books. I am listening to a narration by Robertson Dean, he is fine for me.

>> No.23154721

>>23154606
You aren't alone in feeling that way at all.
>>/lit/thread/21215835#p21217567
I could update that, but effort.

>> No.23154910

>>23154721
>>23154615
>>23154606
a common issue where people assume they have to fully grasp everything moment to moment. you need some confidence in yourself and the author. in this case, after a few transitions you should 'get it'

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>>23153037
I found a post here a couple threads ago that pretty much sums the series

>Wizard's First Rule - Fairly decent, generic fantasy.
>Stone of Tears - Same, but more interesting.
>Blood of the Fold - Same.
>Temple of the Winds - Meh.
>Soul of the Fire - Getting kinda weird here.
>Faith of the Fallen - What the fuck?
>The Pillars of Creation - What the FUCK?
>Naked Empire - WHAT THE FUCK.
>Chainfire - WHAT. THE. FUCK.
>Phantom - Why the fuck are you still reading this?
>Confessor - Hoo-fucking-ray it's over.

Basically anything after the first 4 books is where it slowly goes bizarre. The show's actually pretty decent if you're into xena/hercules

>> No.23155049

>>23149175
've finished it. It only has like 2 more parts where they do dungeon crawling and one where they do arena crawling. I like the crafting aspect of it, where the protagonist builds stuff and finds intricate solutions to the problems. It also has rich world-building and a narrative that is not predictable. I would still consider it a trash book (aka not worthy of being sold to the normies in a Barnes & Noble), but narrative-wise, it's above average for trash fantasy.

But the author lacks consistency. I wish instead of introducing so many gimmicks, he just stuck to a few and developed them fully.

Off the top of my mind, there are:

Finding a magic store
Crafting runes
Magic school with school divided by houses
Mana system
Cultivation system
Tower climbing/dungeon crawling
Successive arena fights
Pantheon of gods
Society that uses science in a magic world
Generic romance
Nobles and plebs divide
Special building for gifted students
The problem is he introduces the concept but then does nothing with it. Like you would think he would make commentary using nobles and plebs and show nobles sometimes being arrogant and the plebs having a good heart and hardworking attitude, but no. Just one character is insecure for like half a page. School houses are explained in the beginning but never used for anything substantial.

It's like he goes out of his way to introduce the gimmick but does not tell the stories that the gimmick inspires.

It's like if I described a really hot girl at the start of the book and mentioned that she is naked and wants to constantly fuck the protagonist... but then they never fuck, or date or even look at each other again.

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>>23154955
What did Disney mean by adapting this series?

>> No.23155072

>>23153841
This is why I love them. Theres someting special about trash books. I love trash gimmicks. Like I can just read the gimmicks I like and avoid all the extra bulshit. I love book writen in POV. I love book were theres no adventures and its just protagonist going around a place and doing slice of life stuff. No other genera gets slice of life but book. anime just uses slice of life as comedy and light romance. Its not its B roll all the way.

>> No.23155074

>>23153841
Portal fantasy is not bad. Isekai is a particular genre of portal fantasy that is trash.

>> No.23155094

>>23152520
BASED wuxia and xianxia enjoyer 你好吗,你要不要吃饭我的屌絲?

>> No.23155213

I'm personally getting kind of burned out on books that try to be series in general. Not that I especially any issue with ongoing narratives but but lately I just kind of feel like I want something more substantial than a short story but not something that's a 9 book epic from the word god.

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>>23155094
Political censorship aside I honestly want to like chink-genre-slop more, it has mysticism, combat and galactic scale superhuman bullshit. But there is so much repeated, redundant information and tropey writing that i just cannot.

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>>23155213
Unfortunately, it looks like you're finally going to have to start digging into the good stuff. Also, there's no reason why you can't just read the first book in a series and nothing else. Most series peak at book 1 anyway. Do you REALLY need to know what happens next?

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>> No.23155341

Is it just me or is Elric kind of boring? There's some cool world building, but the only way he interacts with it is by fighting someone or something and making friends who die along the way.

>> No.23155342

>last book
Mission of Gravity. This is considered to be the origination point of hard sci-fi. It involves humans sending a rocket to the planet Mesklin, having it crash under the absurd 700g (retconned to 250g through author later stating he botched the calculations) gravitic force at its strongest, and being assisted by the local civilization (very short, elongated worm-like creatures) into helping recover said rocket. The aliens are human in conversation but of course it explores how their culture is shaped by the insane gravity, e.g., they have no concept of "throw" or "jump" and a strong aversion to heights or looking down.
>current book
The Centauri Device. I'm a little past 60%. I like the name of the MC: John Truck. This book continues a trend I notice in a lot of older sci-fi around its time: the overwhelming presence of... I wouldn't even know what to call it. Non-sequiters? The concept of so much dialogue coming off as unrelated to its conversation, lacking in context; or people address others who aren't even there. Often in these scenarios I wonder just what the fuck was meant by trying to fill some arbitrary word count, or writing in a daze 100% of the time. This book contains a galactic civilization but only "billions" of people in the galaxy--a true sign of ye olden mid 1900s thinking.
And;
The Clockwork Rocket: Book One of the Orthogonal Trilogy. I read this in 2018 and a lot of it went over my head, from what my past comments tell me. I am trying it again and aside from the insane physics/equations/etc., I've been enjoying it moreso. This has to be the absolute hardest sci-fi in existence though, bar none. The supplementary material is insane. I wish I could find more books featuring progression and advancement of technology as a major plot point.

>> No.23155366

>>23153373
That's how PKD used to write. He had great ideas. He just didn't exactly implement any of them in his plots.
>>23154377
You'll find out about Masteen eventually, but long after you stop caring about him.
>>23155325
A fun read for the first 1/4 of the book and then it becomes unreadable.

>> No.23155383

>>23153373
>You don't just write whatever comes into your head while you're sitting there in front of the typewriter. When I wrote UBIK, I got about twelve pages done and couldn't think of anything else, so l just wrote whatever came into my mind. I wrote it from my unconscious: I let the right hemisphere of my brain do all the thinking, and I was as surprised as anybody as to what came out.
https://philipdick.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/ubik.htm

>> No.23155400

Are there any books that look deeply at a fiction religion and it's beliefs and practices, but without a narrative of "religion good/bad" just a author having fun with it and being creative.
Bonus if it's an alien/nonhuman religion but it's ok if not

>> No.23155433

>>23154606
there is such a crazy amount of lingo i cant believe it was commercially viable

>> No.23155589

I just got Fiasco and Futurological Congress by Stanislaw lem. What should I expect?

>> No.23155596

>>23155589
A great slow and sad scifi book, and a nice funny and corny scifi book.

>> No.23155601

>>23154955
temple of the wind aka
>bejita fucked my wife :)

>> No.23155647

>>23154606
Just slow down. Don't rush, Read at 1/2 of your pace. It worked for me.

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>>23155300
>Most series peak at book 1 anyway.
More importantly most series degrade, and if they do improve it's only marginal.

>> No.23155659

Welp, Hamilton has joined Reynolds in the “never buy again” tier.
Shame, he used to write passable SF, but now… “Salvation” has wokie turds throughout, from the “enlightened society” having all trans gene coding, to the gay orgies, to the political drivel characters argue about.
Officially, now a faggot.
Not going to slog through the rest for maybe one not-shit plot device.

>> No.23155661

>>23155400
None of these are particularly deep, but they do explore fictional religious practices. Ordered roughly by relevance to your question

Small Gods and Pyramids by Pratchett
Book of the Long Sun
Anathem
The Book of Skulls
Dune
Lord of Light
The Curse of Chalion

>> No.23155669

>>23155661
>anathem
>pratchett
>dune
>lord of light
Of those I’d say anathem has the most novel form of religion, the others are rather derivative of existing religions.
Deepest look too.
But I did very much enjoy lord of light, it’s an easy but still fun read.

>> No.23155689

>>23155661
>>23155669
Thanks fellas

>> No.23155723

>>23155659
And so we see that the conservative cannot add to society or entertainment, only detract from it.

>> No.23156048

good books you read last year anons?

>> No.23156067

>>23156048
Black Company

>> No.23156073

>>23153373
Hugest agree ever, I was a big PKD short story fan and ubik was the first hint that I'd hate anything VALIS related by him.

Amazing first half and then terrible terrible.

>> No.23156100

>>23153373
>>23156073
Pure filtered matter

>> No.23156127

>>23156048
Bloody Rose, Dark Crusade, and In A Lonely Place

>> No.23156193

What do you think they will remove or keep in the Swan Song TV adaptation. I got a feeling they will modernise it and make it about Ukraine vs Russia instead of giving it a Cold War backdrop. Maybe they will tone down Roland's sociopathic tendencies but I can't see them doing that since it is a big part of his character

>> No.23156205

>>23156048
The Demolished Man
Feersum Enjinn
Player of Games/The Hydrogen Sonata (some other Culture that I didn't like as much)
Reread a bunch of Dick

>> No.23156323

Trying to make sense of Asimov's chronology here. Does the Robots and ultimately Foundation stories take place in the universe Multivav rebooted at the end of The Last Question or are those an entirely seperate continuinty all together.

>> No.23156456
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>>23148704
Actually good sff:
>The Time Machine
>The Hobbit
>The Stars My Destination
>The Broken Sword
>Neuromancer
>The End of Eternity
>Shadow of the Torturer
>Swords and Deviltry
>Conan
>Dune
>Illuminatus!
>The Forever War
>Blind Voices
>Fevre Dream
>Berserk
>Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
>Wizard of Earthsea
>Titus Groan
>Bridge of Birds
>Soon I Will Be Invincible
>Spaceman Blues
>The Pastel City
>Cloud Atlas
>The Deep
>The Swords Trilogy
>Black Leopard Red Wolf
>Assassins Apprentice
>A Song of Ice and Fire
>The Darkness That Comes Before
>Jack Vance

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>>23155723
>And so we see that the conservative cannot add to society or entertainment, only detract from it.

>> No.23156510

Is it just me or does the prose in The Dark Forest feel off? Not sure if it's the translator or the author himself. Writing seems to be trying to be too detailed compared to the first book where even though there were scientific and technical terms, it was written to get straight to the point.

>> No.23156628

>>23156456
Good list but it's missing:
>The King of Elfland's Daughter
>Mythago Wood series
>Everything ever written by Clark Ashton Smith

>> No.23156660

>>23154505
Read the tie-in story for outpost 2, it was pretty good.

>> No.23156684

>>23156205
I read Feesum Enjinn last month
I thought it was a really good stand-alone
(Im also a big fan of Culture)

>> No.23156714

>>23154183
i only read the first book. the first book is definitely good, but i expected more considering how often it's shilled here and who the author is. idk, i wasn't engaged enough to keep going

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dude space spiders lmao

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>>23156800
Nothing wrong with space spiders

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23156881

How much money do you spend on books per month? Since the libraries here are very basic and mostly for children and women over 40, I have to buy everything. The last few months I did spend between 50-70 bucks on books per month. Which is very annoying when I end up with books that ain't good.

Also where do I start with Joe Abercrombie? Can I just read it down like this or should I skip certain books/ start with a different one? I heard a lot of good things about him but I don't want to get filtered by starting with his one bad book.

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>> No.23156975

>>23156889
>Arthur Shitfuck O'Queef

>> No.23156981

>>23155341
It's not just you. There's a wimpiness to the way Moorcock writes; even when he's writing action. I chalk it up to be him a faggot hippy wimp.

>> No.23156991

>>23156981
Nta but I feel this "wimpiness" for about 60% of the sffg I read. And about 30% is boomer compensation pickup truck and motorcycle masculine. Maybe 10% is somewhat normal.

>> No.23157018

>>23156991
>30% is boomer compensation pickup truck and motorcycle masculine
please lead me into this direction

>> No.23157032

>>23155723
Why are you talking like you're in a debate hall?
>>23155659
Am I alone in suspecting that Hamilton is one of those writers who are actually just a face for a writing team? I don't mean that as a compliment, exactly.

>> No.23157035

>>23146740
what are good "grimdark" edgy books, series, or sub-genres? i assume anything WH40K, or anything with dark elves, should be like that, but not sure if it's all garbage or if it's readable, couldn't find any guide in the recommendation charts

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23157038

>"Artemis by Andy Weir is his best book. Everything else is reddit."

>> No.23157044

>>23157035
i guess The Witcher is sort of like that, but i dropped the books when it started to be too much about Ciri and i got bored, i guess she becomes Space Hitler at some point but it was too boring to wait for that

>> No.23157046

>>23153229
Sigyn of Asgard is about a female Conan ripoff who stays chaste on her adventures because she's engaged to a farmer in her home village. It's kind of mediocre as Conan ripoffs go but a few of the stories are decently entertaining.

>> No.23157047

>>23157035
Xeelee. Everyone's a misanthropic rapist or something, and the aliens seem designed to fuck with anyone who takes comfort in intelligent design, even guided evolution. Can't say if they're good or not and there's probably a good reason you don't see them in stores anymore.

>> No.23157049

>>23153281
Spoken like a eunuch.

>> No.23157051

>>23156981
>I... I just killed a zombie... Life is so cruel.
>proceeds to kill the entire government and the military leadership because of one corrupt politician who tried to screw him over
I wish Elric was just a murderhobo or at least more like Cugel the Clever. He is the embodiment of the Nicest person you will ever meet and... Twisted fucking psychopath.

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>>23157047
>and there's probably a good reason you don't see them in stores anymore
I assure you whatever that reason it is not the quality of the work itself

>> No.23157063

>>23157035
there was some reddit online published book about an AI that keeps all of humanity safe in utopia, and it's about and edgy girl that likes to get tortured and resurrected by the AI, but i forgot the title

>> No.23157064

>>23157057
I wouldn't know. i can't find any copy for a reasonable price when I feel like looking. Would you say it's worth the trouble?

>> No.23157070

>>23155341
>>23156981
>>23156991
>>23157051
i never understood Elric, the reviews make it sound as if the protagonist is sickly and mopping, but he is sickly for like 3 pages, then gets a giga-sword, instantly transforms into a muscular-gigachad, and starts killing everything with a sword

which is fine, but not sure what the point of making him sickly in the first place was if you will just be like "ok nevermind, let's start to kill..."

>> No.23157078

>>23157035
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is kind of edgy grimmdark

>> No.23157081

>>23157064
I have no idea. I was merely contesting the notion that being sold = good. Plenty of shit is sold

>>23157063
Your description of Cugel does him no credit. Cugel is funny because he'll lie, cheat, steal and worse and act righteous doing so.

>> No.23157098

>>23156684
>I thought it was a really good stand-alone
Yes, it was great megastructure-lit and was nice to see where Nihei found a large portion of his influence for BLAME!

>> No.23157103

>>23157047
>Everyone's a misanthropic rapist or something
What gave you this half-assed impression?

>> No.23157126

>>23156881
I have no clue how much I spend a month since it varies wildly. It probably averages to around 100 bucks a month over three years maybe? Most months it's way less, but some months it's way more.

>> No.23157158

Are Chuck Dixon's Conan books good?

>> No.23157178

>>23157158
Chuck Sneedson

>> No.23157181

>>23154183
>Is the conclusion satisfying enough?
IMO, no, they all end abruptly.
But they're worth reading, especially if you're into the setting.

>> No.23157220

>>23157018
>Amazon
>Kindle store
>Sffg genre
>???
>Profit

>> No.23157234

>>23156881
Nothing. 100% piracy. It would be quite a lot if I paid full retail price for everything.

>> No.23157238
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>author rakes in money and realizes he doesn’t need to try anymore

jesus these last two books are mediocre

>> No.23157247

>>23156881
Not a pirate fag so I give Amazon 10 dollars a month (their selection is ok). Between that, overdrive and public domain, I'm pretty satisfied.

>> No.23157252

>>23157238
>jesus these last six books are mediocre
post-underlord is when he blogged about how he had to pump out a book every six months for max relevancy/revenue(profit)

>> No.23157310
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Any good books with feeling of decay, decline and with aesthetics of ruins? I have read The Silmarillion and Bakker (and even McKiernan's The Iron Tower).

>> No.23157313

>>23157310
The Book of the New Sun

>> No.23157321

>>23157220
>quite a lot if I paid full retail price for ev
I don't like reading on my monitor, I did it for one book but that wasn't nice.

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>>23157310
Basically this whole chart, it's time for you to become a dying earth enjoyer.

>> No.23157411 [DELETED] 

>>23157362
>gene wolfe
isn't that the dude who writes all of the law and order and the chicago p.d. and fire shows?

>> No.23157420

>>23157411
That's Dick Wolf

>> No.23157424

>>23157310

Gormenghast is essentially that well the first two books anyway. Also Elric of Melnibone.

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>>23157313
>>23157362
Thanks, I'm interested in the Dying Earth trope, but maybe something else? Poetic and tragic fantasy in the vein of Tolkien about the end of time?

>> No.23157488

>>23157440
>Thanks, I'm interested in the Dying Earth trope
Look around, then.

>> No.23157509

>>23157440
I think The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle would be what you're looking for.

Also, if you're looking for more "Tolkien-esque" stuff that doesn't necessarily have a feeling of decay and ruins:

>The King of Elfland's Daughter, Lord Dunsany
>The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison
>The Broken Sword, Poul Anderson
>The Lyonesse trilogy, Jack Vance

>> No.23157528

>>23157103
That part where a human woman is subject to experiments by a silver ghost or something and the humans that break into the facility have their way with her. or in other words: the internet, desu

>> No.23157541

>>23157321
You seem to have replied to the wrong post based on your quote. I've almost exclusively read on a Kindle since 2010.

>> No.23157552

>>23153300
Based

>> No.23157557

>>23157158
Yes.

>> No.23157561

>>23157541
>'
I replied to the right post, just had something marked I was unaware of.
I'm contemplating buying one but I'm worried that there will be a problem and I end up still having to buy all the books.

>> No.23157564

>>23157310
Zothique

>> No.23157578

>>23157528
>That part
This is a ~30 book/novella/short story universe. You need to be more specific. It sounds like you're using some comment or review you read as your entire knowledge-base.

>> No.23157583

>>23157440
maybe A Canticle for Leibowitz. it's fantastic but i'm not sure if it's exactly what you are looking for

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>>23157509
Ok, thanks, Beagle and Dunsany look interesting.

>>23157564
Already here >>23157362

>>23157583
I have heard about it, but I don't know. Are there vivid landscapes?

>> No.23157631

>>23149175
I read the first two books. Dropped on the third when you are introduced to a trans character. This character even says something along the lines of "please refer to me as they/them". This was a major red flag so I investigated the writer. He is a leftypol fag that moderates a fantasy subrreddit for writers if I remember correctly.

I recommend you don't read this series. You will regret it like I did.

>> No.23157635

>>23157578
What do you expect from me? I already said my information is second-hand. Wanna recommend me one in particular?

>> No.23157663

>>23157635
>I already said my information is second-hand
No you didn't.
>Wanna recommend me one in particular?
Not particularly. The scale and depth of context and material and topic ranges wildly, and I have no idea what your personal interests are or what you hope to gain when you read scifi, to give you a more personalized suggestion

>> No.23157667

>Last
The Broken Sword-Anderson
>Current
The Weird of the White Wolf-Moorcock
>Next
Starship Troopers-Heinlen

>> No.23157696

>>23146773
great series. Enjoy it and take your time with it.

>> No.23157774

>>23157667
Bro just wait till next thread at this point

>> No.23157797

>>23157774

Okay but next edition better be Michael Whelan appreciation art edition

>> No.23157806

>>23157252
i knew something felt off

>> No.23157931

>>23157561
>I'm contemplating buying one but I'm worried that there will be a problem and I end up still having to buy all the books.
explain in detail how this could happen

>> No.23157960

Sci Fi fused with fantasy is best.
No I don't care why the space wizard and the scientist are working together.
Yes I love that the space wizard is backing up the scientist while he uses his power armor to stomp some evil faggot.

>> No.23157978

>>23157663
One where I wouldn't want to shove the protagonist into traffic would be a good start.

>> No.23158005

>>23157978
I say this because I'm one of the guys reading Hamilton for some reason and his Commonwealth almost has it coming.

>> No.23158010

>>23157978
Baen Books

>> No.23158025

>>23158005
Commonweath saga is somewhat bearable, but avoid void trilogy and the fallers trilogy.

>> No.23158028

Any opinions on Vespertine? I think the author was banking on a vidya adaptation or something, the way her rules for the enemy monsters are so defined.

>> No.23158036

>>23157931
>I buy it
>use calibre to turn books into the right format
>put them on the kindle
>the kindle doesn't read them
>I have to buy books again

>> No.23158043

>>23158036
Are you a luddite or some kind of a hermit? Do you know how computer files work?

>> No.23158044

>>23158010
I've seen these guys in a thrift store. Seem interesting, thanks.

>> No.23158047

>>23158043
I don't know what you mean

>> No.23158051

>>23158036
That won't happen.

>> No.23158058

>>23158047
>buy e-books
>download files (ebooks)
>convert...
>conversion failed
>buy ebooks again

>> No.23158069

Recomend me some generic monomyth. I've pretty much everything that's mainstream.

>> No.23158076

>>23158051
how do you know?

>> No.23158079

>>23158069
>monomyth
What's that?

>> No.23158085

The real problem that Luddites had was that technology emasculated them, took away their sense of self, and provided additional competition. Before the machines they were special, with hard-earned skills, that gave them a place in society and a means to earn a well-paid living. After the machines, not only could unskilled men so their job, but so could women and children. They went from being the undisputed head of their household to losing control over their wife and children. Now they were just some random loser who expected too much.

>> No.23158086

>>23158076
troll

>> No.23158091

>>23158076
Because I've been doing it with Calibre for 14 years as stated.

>> No.23158124

>>23158079
Read Joseph Campbell to understand why we tell stories and what the stories we tell are.
Monomyth is the hero's journey.

>> No.23158158

>>23158086
no, just very worried
>>23158091
ok

>> No.23158173

>>23158158
You don't seem understand basic file operations like copy and paste. You cannot be serious therefore you must be a troll.

>> No.23158181

Is it me or is it kind wierd when the MC becomes the ruler at the end of a novel? Specially if he starts as a commoner like Rand Al'Thor or Belgarion.

>> No.23158193

>>23158173
I think you are trying to troll me.
>Download file from the internet
>convert it
>kindle can't read it because of some bullshit
>have to buy the paper book now

>> No.23158415

>>23158173
he sounds like one of those countless boomers that stares at the computer screen asking "what do I do?" when it literally tells you to click here. actually afraid of breaking the magical electrical box lol

>> No.23158454

>>23158415
He could also be a zoomer who doesn't how to save a file or know what a folder is.

>> No.23158487

Generation Notes:
Zoomers are now 12-27 years old.
Gen Alpha is old enough to where Gen Beta will be starting all too soon.
Millennials are 28-43.

>> No.23158590

>>23158454
I do know how to do all that but what does it change? I do not read on my pc so if the kindle can't read the files it doesn't matter.

>> No.23158602

>>23158454
It's likely Bakkerfag shitting up the thread as per usual.

>> No.23158682

Bakker is king.

>> No.23158907

>>23154606
I read this today.

It was pretty good. Didn't have the same trouble you did, but I have a habit of going back a few pages if I feel lost. The book probably would've hit me harder if everything about it (at least at a surface level) hadn't been taken and redone in a less coherent fashion by basically everyone for forty years.

But credit where credit is due: very cool. Got a bit worried towards the end, wasn't sure it'd stick the landing with the amount of pages it had left. It did land. Loved how everybody involved seemed to be having a genuinely awful time through the entire book, it's a very specific vibe I have trouble explaining.

>>23155433
I feel like a lot of it should be clear in context even if the terms are strange, but perhaps that's because my retard brain has been marinating in the works of people imitating the aesthetic of the book my entire life.

>> No.23158972

>>23158590
We do know all that but what it does change? I do not argue with the intentionally ignorant so if anon can't respond properly it doesn't matter

>> No.23159004

>>23158972
Dude it didn't work because he said it didn't work. That's been the internet meta for the last decade so accept it, fuckin' heckin' <derogatory buzzword>

>> No.23159213

I've read only Tolkien and I want to get into some new universe. Which one would you recommend for a beginner from these listed?
>Hyperion Cantos
>Malazan
>The Book of the New Sun
>The Black Company
>Dune

>> No.23159230

Make a new

>> No.23159319

>>23159213
Start with Dune.

>>Malazan
>>The Book of the New Sun
At the end.

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>>23159213
Fun fact

>> No.23159416

>>23159414
>>23159414
>>23159414
New