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[Anonymous No.23210675]

Sexy warrioress and monster edition.

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[Anonymous No.23210730]

Bakker: KING of the Fantasists.

[Anonymous No.23210733]

Read Beyond Apollo

[Anonymous No.23210734]

There is no schedule. This chapter wasn’t late, as such a concept does not exist.

We all realize we are pretty much done with this arc. It’s been quite a long ride, with its fair share of bumps along the way, something quite a few have loved to point out repeatedly. This made me realize it’s time for me to clarify something once more, especially as we have quite a lot of “newer” Patrons, or at least people have forgotten.

So let me make it clear once more: I don’t give a fuck about your opinions of the story.

I write the Primal Hunter for myself, first and foremost. I write the story how I like it, because I genuinely enjoy it. I started writing it purely for myself, putting out nearly two hundred chapters before I even considered putting anything up online, as that thought had never struck me. So don’t come in here telling me what I enjoy writing or what I should write.

The Primal Hunter is my story, and I’m not going to change that to appease a bunch of Patreon comments.

Let me make it clear. I still want comments. You can give feedback if you know how to not phrase it like an asshole, and I am grateful to all those who take the time to point out errors and spelling mistakes. That’s all good and genuinely helpful. I even revel in those bitching about cliffhangers. It’s not that I don’t want people to give their opinions on the chapter, just that a lot of commenters don’t seem to have been raised right and act like entitled toddlers when “giving their opinion.”

What I especially don’t like are people who are just complaining to complain. “This chapter was boring,”“Author is prolonging arc for more Patreon money,” “Bad chapter."

These are not fucking helpful, and fuck off with that shit, or I’ll make you fuck off. You think I “drag things out for Patreon money” How the hell does that even work? Do you think the story will just end after this arc? There is so much to do I am more likely to die than run out of content to write.

Also, let me clarify, I don’t even need a Patreon. Turns out that having a book do well on Amazon can earn you a lot of dough, and from that alone, I make seven figures a year. My primary reason for keeping a Patreon is to force myself to stick to a writing schedule and because I genuinely enjoy interacting with others who like the story, and I find all the discussions interesting and love reading them. But a bunch of complaining assholes can’t help but make this interaction less than pleasant, turning the comment sections into shit recently.

In the wise words of Michael Jordan: Stop it. Get some help.

If you don’t enjoy the story, just leave. That’s allowed. If you still don’t know how to act, I’ll gladly make you leave. I don’t need or want you and your ten dollars a month don’t entitle you to be a raging asshole.

Peace out, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Unless you’re one of the complaining assholes. If you are, please go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.23210744]

>>23210734
Ha ha, imagine being a self-published author making seven figures, millions, a year. So this is the power of having enough money not to care at all what your fans think, as with the major fantasy authors with unfinished series. This is a rather bold statement, but it doesn't seem to be hurting him at all.

As can be seen below, there are various others making a good bit as well from Patreon alone.
https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-earners/writing
https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-earners/adult-writing

Image is another high earning self-published author.

[Anonymous No.23210753]

Looking for authors similar to Jack Vance and Michael Moorcock
Really enjoyed The Dying Earth by Vance and the Corum series by Moorcock
Thanks in advance for the recs anons

[Anonymous No.23210804]

>>23210753
Terry Dowling
M. John Harrison
Darrell Schweitzer

[Anonymous No.23210815]

I would not read litrpg even if I had a Patreon that paid ME to do so.

[Anonymous No.23210818]

>>23210753
Schuyler Hernstrom

[Anonymous No.23210823]

>>23210815
So? Don't hype yourself up faggot. No one cares who you are.

[Anonymous No.23210831]

The hobbits sang songs about drinking and eating and taking a bath and whatnot. When they heard the songs of the elves they were astonished at it how beautiful they were. If they ever heard one of the valar singing a song they would probably cum and fart and shit and piss in their pants just from hearing like a second of it.

[Anonymous No.23210834]

>>23210734
>people are paying a monthly fee to read a chapter (if the writer even feels like putting out that much) of some shitty book on Patreon
solid grift

[Anonymous No.23210839]

>>23210831
Probably why Samwise creamed his pants when he went to Lórien. Irmo's shit hot fair-garden would be too much for Sam's simpleton gardener brain to comprehend.

[Anonymous No.23210873]

Is there any sffg with very good dialog

[Anonymous No.23210895]

Just finished The Judging Eye (first book of Aspect Emperor) and Kellhus didnt get a pov chapter. Will he get no more now that hes Gigabrain? His chapters were the most intriguing to me, because of the people-reading thing.

[Anonymous No.23210898]

>>23210818
Fake name

[Anonymous No.23210901]

what's some good audiobook sloppa where it doesn't matter if you get distracted and miss some stuff? shit you'd never read for real but works well as background noise.

[Anonymous No.23210906]

>>23210901
lovecraft

[Anonymous No.23210913]

>>23210901
cradle

[Anonymous No.23210918]

>>23210734
what the fuck. he types like an overread esl. how do people read his slop? is his writing prose at least good?

[Anonymous No.23210946]

>my name's Da Shi
>just don't worry, have a beer. simple as.

[Anonymous No.23210958]

>>23210946
>dark forest hypothesis
leave it to a chinaman to come up with one of the most cynical and bugman first contact hypothesis

[Anonymous No.23210976]

>>23210873
Lyonesse.

[Anonymous No.23210981]

Any good sword and sorcery comps?

[Anonymous No.23210987]

>>23210733
>plot is about a schizo on Venus
Sounds interesting enough.

[Anonymous No.23210989]

>>23210958
It was preceded by Greg Bear's idea, but for the most part yes.

[Anonymous No.23211001]

>>23210958
Yeah I think it's more likely either aliens are silent because there's actually none near us or the Star Trek prime directive is actually a basic desire for any sentient life that develops interstellar travel because I don't think there's really incentive to kill others when the universe is so large. Once you get advanced enough do you really need to expand xyz? You could just develop everything small. I think you'd be able to move past basic biological instincts.

[Anonymous No.23211006]

>>23210981
Yes. Lots.

[Anonymous No.23211088]

i can see making money on pagereads and sales on amazon but how does the chapter by chapter patreon grift get established? what's the path to this?

[Anonymous No.23211098]

>>23211006
Alright like what

[Anonymous No.23211118]

>>23211088
Unironically reddit.

[Anonymous No.23211132]

>>23211088
>chapter by chapter patreon grift
who the fuck would fall for that? i guess manga/comic fans - but at least youre getting art with that

[Anonymous No.23211160]

>>23210734
>There is no schedule.
but then
>My primary reason for keeping a Patreon is to force myself to stick to a writing schedule
???

[Anonymous No.23211178]

Is Guy Kay worth reading? I'm only interested because he assisted Christopher Tolkien in compiling The Silmarillion (although I'm not sure about how much input he actually had), but the synopsis for his most famous series sounds like isekai-shit. The last time I tried to read something like that was Amber by Zelazny and it was absolutely terribad.

[Anonymous No.23211194]

>>23210734
>>23211160
>Let me say this once again since apparently not it was not made clear when this Patreon began. THE PRIMAL HUNTER HAS NO SET SCHEDULE. The chapters are done as they're done and will be released when they're done. In case you haven't noticed I've been more than a little busy the last few months. If you haven't noticed WAKE UP ALREADY. I attended FantasyCon, AnthroCon, did a very complicated ending to an erotic fan-fiction short story, released additional chapters in October beyond my regular workload, DID my regular workload (which consists of chapters of The Primal Hunter every month despite conventions and other difficulties (one of those difficulties being MOVING IN TO AN APARTMENT)). In addition to that, people don't seem to realise how much work goes into these chapters...
Seems like a hard job.

[Anonymous No.23211199]

>>23211178
If I remember correctly, he wrote the destruction of Doriath chapter.

[Anonymous No.23211209]

>>23211178
Fionavar Tapestry is solid if you like muh Arthur lore

[Anonymous No.23211439]

I'm enjoying Quarantine by Egan, much more overall than I did the Orthogonal trilogy, of which my hopes were high.
Too bad this general sucks a fat one.

[Anonymous No.23211459]

Kind of saddening that absolute slop like Primal Hunter gets you big bucks on Amazon. 7 fucking figures.

I'm going to start writing my own take on this shit. How hard can it actually be?

[Anonymous No.23211522]

>>23210895
Without spoilers there is a little bit of kellhus pov later on and it's some of the best shit bakker wrote.

[Anonymous No.23211526]

>>23210958
The first contact with native peoples proves the dark forest theory. There is no argument against it.

[Anonymous No.23211527]

>>23210946
this book reads like shit. am i missing something about why this won so many awards?

[Anonymous No.23211599]

It sucks everyone is writing 12 million word paywalled ESL slop bro.

Maybe I can be your novella tonight?

[Anonymous No.23211602]

>>23211439
If you're the same anon, I told you that they shouldn't have been.

[Anonymous No.23211624]

>>23211599
They chose their market and so did you.

[Anonymous No.23211723]

>>23210643
Nice to see you

[Anonymous No.23211752]

>>23211194
Motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.23211757]

is fantasy sherlock holmes a thing?
you know a wizzard solving crimes or something like that?

[Anonymous No.23211813]

>>23211757
Speak with dead, locate person, teleport beside criminal and grab them, teleport to jail cell. Crime solved. Portals work as well.

[Anonymous No.23211822]

>>23211757
Wouldn't magic take the place of the deductions? Wouldn't be much resemblance then.

[Anonymous No.23211825]

>>23211757
sounds an awful lot like the Dresden Files.

[Anonymous No.23211826]

>>23211526
>human experience determines all other possible experiences
No.

[Anonymous No.23211846]

>>23210918
>how do people read his slop?
There is a lack of male oriented non pozzed fantasy.
Situation is so bad that even slop like primal hunter gets 50k a month in earnings lol. I have seen people (some not terrible writers either after reading their excerpts) complaining on /lit/ about not being able to make it and I have told them to write a non pozzed male oriented fantasy. No one ever listens.

[Anonymous No.23211857]

>>23211599
>too short
>not serialized
>too much religious undertones
>not power fantasy
>not progression fantasy
>has no magic system
>mc is low energy

[Anonymous No.23211859]

>>23210675
Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton, The Commonwealth Saga #0 (2002) revised US edition

I believe that it would be much better not to go into this book blind, or read it before Pandora's Star. The former is because you'll most likely have the wrong expectations, especially if you believe that the science fiction will be the focus, because it isn't. This is a coming of age family psychodrama with a lot of sex. By comparison to the following two books, I was surprised to find that Hamilton had toned it down relative to this prior book. I advise against reading it before Pandora's Star because it isn't a suitable introduction to the series. Reading this first may even discourage you from reading further even they have very little in common, as this one takes place in England in 2040.

The content of this book may offend a wide spectrum of sensibilities. Some examples are: teenagers having sex, age gap sex, graphically described sex, infidelity, women as sex objects, misogynistic attitudes and behaviors, dysfunctional families, severe emotional damage, English separatist domestic terrorists who proudly boast to be worse than the IRA during The Troubles, and several characters who support the aforementioned. It's often so melodramatic about it though like in a soap opera that it was difficult for me to take any of it seriously. On a different note, piracy won and copyright laws were abolished in 2010. Now that's fantastical.

There are four viewpoint characters, three of whom are members of the Baker family. Tim, the 18 year old son, Jeff, the 77 year old father, Sue, the ~37 year old mother, and Annabelle, Tim's 17 year old girlfriend. None of them are likeable, which seems intentional, and most of the other characters aren't much better. It's a lot of people who are in bad situations, whether because of their bad choices or not, or are fortunate and believe that behaving badly is their right. All four viewpoint characters are mentioned by name in the following two books, as are at least four others, though there are possibly several more if you allow for speculation based on first names alone. It's interesting, but their origins don't matter in terms of the story. I appreciate how it demonstrates continuity though.

Tim is the primary viewpoint character, and the bulk of the story follows him, though it's his father Jeff, who undergoes the first rejuvenation treatment to become young again. The central question is, how does that affect someone? When someone has a second coming of age, would they do anything differently from the first time? How does it affect the friendships of those who were your friends of a similar biological age, let alone becoming roughly the same apparent age as your son? What is allowable behavior and what isn't? Suffice to say, the title itself is a condemnation. Maybe this was intended to be a cautionary tale, but if it was, then that certainly didn't carry over to the next books.

Rating: 3.5/5 (3)

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.23211887]

>>23210675
Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton, The Commonwealth Saga #0 (2002) revised US edition

I believe that it would be much better not to go into this book blind, or read it before Pandora's Star. The former is because you'll most likely have the wrong expectations, especially if you believe that the science fiction will be the focus, because it isn't. This is a coming of age family psychodrama with a lot of sex. By comparison to the following two books, I was surprised to find that Hamilton had toned it down relative to this prior book. I advise against reading it before Pandora's Star because it isn't a suitable introduction to the series. Reading this first may even discourage you from reading further even they have very little in common, as this one takes place in England in 2040.

The content of this book may offend a wide spectrum of sensibilities. Some examples are: teenagers having sex, age gap sex, graphically described sex, infidelity, women as sex objects, misogynistic attitudes and behaviors, dysfunctional families, severe emotional damage, English separatist domestic terrorists who proudly boast to be worse than the IRA during The Troubles, and several characters who support the aforementioned. It's often so melodramatic about it though like in a soap opera that it was difficult for me to take any of it seriously. On a different note, piracy won and copyright laws were abolished in 2010. Now that's fantastical.

There are four viewpoint characters, three of whom are members of the Baker family. Tim, the 18 year old son, Jeff, the 77 year old father, Sue, the ~37 year old mother, and Annabelle, Tim's 17 year old girlfriend. None of them are likeable, which seems intentional, and most of the other characters aren't much better. It's a lot of people who are in bad situations, whether because of their bad choices or not, or are fortunate and believe that behaving badly is their right. All four viewpoint characters are mentioned by name in the following two books, as are at least four others, though there are possibly several more if you allow for speculation based on first names alone. It's interesting, but their origins don't matter in terms of the story. I appreciate how it demonstrates continuity though.

Tim is the primary viewpoint character, and the bulk of the story follows him, though it's his father Jeff, who undergoes the first rejuvenation treatment to become young again. The central question is, how does that affect someone? When someone has a second coming of age, would they do anything differently from the first time? How does it affect the friendships of those who were your friends of a similar biological age, let alone becoming roughly the same apparent age as your son? What is allowable behavior and what isn't? Suffice to say, the title itself is a condemnation. Maybe this was intended to be a cautionary tale, but if it was, then that certainly didn't carry over to the next books.

Rating: 3.5/5 (3)

[Anonymous No.23211914]

>>23211599
>is male
>wants to spend the night with me
Literally pozzed

[Anonymous No.23211917]

>>23210675

Good Lit-RPG

>Age of Stone
>Overgeared
>The Warlord
>The Mana Influx
>Red Mage
>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


Good Fantasy and sci-fi

>A Practical Guide To Sorcery
>Healer of Monsters
>Blame
>Tenebroum
>Sokaiseva
>I Am Not Chaotic Evil
>Violent Solutions
>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
>The Reality Dysfunction

[Anonymous No.23211942]

>>23211846
Because your definition of "non-pozzed" shifts by the minute, you idiot.

[Anonymous No.23211969]

>>23211942
It doesn't, I last revised it maybe 6 months ago.

>>23211887
>The content of this book may offend a wide spectrum of sensibilities. Some examples are: teenagers having sex, age gap sex, graphically described sex, infidelity, women as sex objects, misogynistic attitudes and behaviors, dysfunctional families, severe emotional damage
Lol what is this some trigger warning bullshit?

[Anonymous No.23211975]

>>23211969
More of an explanation why it's so lowly rated various places. Even the author said it's an unpleasant book about unpleasant people. Certainly there are some who are rather vocal about being triggered by cuckolding, sex, women, and much else here.

[Anonymous No.23211982]

>>23211826
Nice strawman.

[Anonymous No.23211988]

>>23210675
Is there a lotr edition with the illustrations of both Tolkien and Allan Lee?

[Anonymous No.23211989]

>>23211982
First contact with non-humans may not have any correlation with first contact of native peoples.

[Anonymous No.23211999]

>>23211969
Saying something is pozzed is a trigger warning.

[Anonymous No.23212014]

>>23211098
Swords Against Darkness collections from the 70s.
The Del Rey collections of Conan, Kull, Bran Mak Morn, and Solomon Kane.
Night Winds and Death Angel's Shadow by Karl Edward Wagner.
Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic Adventure.
Renegade Swords collections.
Try all those for starters.

[Anonymous No.23212021]

>>23211989
There's no reason to believe it won't. Even among animals non native species cause great harm and destruction.

[Anonymous No.23212024]

>>23211757
Bad Dreams and Broken Hearts by Misha Burnett.
Short story collection about a cop solving magical crimes in a fantasy world that's evolved to 1940s/1950s level technology.

[Anonymous No.23212086]

>>23212021
Again, that's only based on the example of a single planet. Any study that only has a single subject doesn't tell you much.

[Anonymous No.23212100]

>>23212086
There's no reason to believe otherwise.

[Anonymous No.23212107]

Found a book at Goodwill called "The Curse of the Spider-King." The cover has several knights on spider-back, looks pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.23212120]

>>23212100
There's no reason to believe. The best position is to admit a lack of knowledge, to be agnostic about it.

[Anonymous No.23212123]

>>23212120
You have a lack of knowledge, I don't.

[Anonymous No.23212132]

>>23212123
"I agree with the argument, therefore it's correct" isn't knowledge. That's feelings, not facts. As we all know, facts don't care about your feelings.

[Anonymous No.23212135]

>>23212132
Yeah I don't care about your feelings, I have evidence. You don't.

[Anonymous No.23212138]

>>23212135
A fictional narrative isn't evidence.

[Anonymous No.23212140]

>>23210901
Pandora's Star. The chapters are so protracted that you can keep up well on the road.

[Anonymous No.23212142]

>>23212138
I used history. Again, no reason to believe otherwise.

[Anonymous No.23212143]

>>23212142
History is irrelevant as there has never been an example of a dark forest situation in Earth's history.

[Anonymous No.23212144]

>>23212138
Don't argue with retards. It makes you retarded yourself.

[Anonymous No.23212159]

>>23210901
Any long running webnovel
Alternatively, listen to vtubers

[Anonymous No.23212163]

>>23212143
The recontact with natives is the closest example we have to a dark forest type situation. That was contact between groups of the same species, and yet it still had disastrous consequences for one group. A first contact between alien species who share zero genetic lineage with each other would be infinitely worse.

Now are we gonna get anywhere here low IQ, or are you going to continue responding with "nuh uh"?

[Anonymous No.23212172]

>>23212163
The Dark Forest isn't about first contact. It's about remaining hidden and eradicating anyone else found before they find you because they would do the same. Trisolaris failed the Dark Forest by responding to Earth. They should've just went to Earth unannounced and done everything in secret. This is even more pronounced in the later books where it's so very casual and more like janitorial duty than anything else.

[Anonymous No.23212182]

>>23212172
>It's about remaining hidden and eradicating anyone else found before they find you because they would do the same.
Yes and the case I gave is a good example for why this is a rational and plausible habit of the universe.

[Anonymous No.23212190]

>>23212182
It's not rational or plausible because it's entirely speculation. Nothing can be rational or plausible regarding this. It's entirely whatever you prefer to believe.

[Anonymous No.23212194]

>>23212190
It's completely rational, as per my example.

[Anonymous No.23212216]

>>23212194
I concede that you prefer to believe what you prefer to believe and have faith that your example is valid.

[Anonymous No.23212235]

>>23212216
No one has given a convincing argument otherwise.

[Anonymous No.23212243]

>>23212235
You can't be convinced.

[Anonymous No.23212297]

>>23211887
your """reviews""" are SHIT. fuck off

[Anonymous No.23212315]

Are there any stories about Ghosts and Aliens meeting?

[Anonymous No.23212329]

>>23212163
>A first contact between alien species who share zero genetic lineage with each other would be infinitely worse.
Says you. As this anon >>23212190 pointed out, it's all speculation - on everyone's part.
Said alien species are by definition surprisingly alien, and neither you nor anyone else has any idea of how these aliens would react to First Contact. I don't remember who said something along the lines that all of us are attributing a whole lot of motivations and preconceived notions to beings that we know absolutely nothing of.
Also one other thing that doesn't get mentioned often is that even if you tweak the Drakes Equation to be favorable to creation of life, said life would on average appear 20000 light years apart. That's 20k light years between each and every civilizations - you'd be hard pressed to communicate, let alone kill each other.
So, yeah, while you could have alien horrors like Scramblers from Blindsight, you could also end up with hot, blue skinned chicks who just want you to live and prosper (and maybe put two in the pink and one in the stink).

[Anonymous No.23212385]

>>23211857
Religious undertones are fine if you still have a pineal gland.

[Anonymous No.23212395]

>>23211887
Peter F. Hamilton might be the most accurately rated author in Anglo scifi. Neither overrated nor underrated. We know what he does well and where he makes us smack our foreheads. That's almost as fascinating as his ideas.

[Anonymous No.23212397]

>>23212329
There's also like 1000 different rational explanations to the Fermi paradox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_explanations_for_the_paradox

[Anonymous No.23212411]

>>23210989
Pretty clever marketing. Imagine titling a book "LaGrange Point" or, fuck it, why not "Fermi Paradox"? Not your theory? Not your problem.

[Anonymous No.23212415]

I've been getting back into reading again, due to me now working at a library and all, but I'm frustrated with myself because I feel I'm reading so slowly! Even though I read and write daily online (as well as editing Wikipedia), reading the books I've specifically picked out is so snail-paced. Will it get better, anons?

[Anonymous No.23212454]

why do the recent stories on clarkesworld/analog/science fic and fantasy make me cringe so?

[Anonymous No.23212466]

>>23212454
Because you believe the content to be cringe therefore you cringe. Why does the stove burn my hand so? Because it's hot. Why did you ask such a question? Because you're someone who would ask such a question. It is what it is.

[Anonymous No.23212485]

>>23212466
Perhaps I should revise my question. What happened to the old adventure sci-fi/fantasy short stories that used to fill every short story site? Now all I can find are emotional (but somehow floundering) short stories that make me cringe because of how they execute their premise, or sci-fi/fantasy that’s basically a literary short story you’d find on /lit/ but it involves robots or wizards. Not many of them are fun to read.

[Anonymous No.23212493]

Time for the re-re-re-read... Does anyone want to join me?

[Anonymous No.23212505]

>>23212485
They went out of fashion several decades ago. You can read those old issues if you do choose. There are plenty of them. Probably the turning point was the New Wave. There are a few from time to time, though they are definitely the exception now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_(science_fiction)

[Anonymous No.23212512]

>>23212454
Because they're pozzed.

[Anonymous No.23212528]

>>23212485
This also explains a lot.
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/history_of_sf

[Anonymous No.23212558]

>>23212397
The Fermi paradox is from the 50's, and if the last 50+ years have taught us anything is that life is fragile and takes an inordinate amount of time develop (doubly so for inteligent life). There might not be enough alien civilizations around for some sort of galactic blood royale.
Even if there were, we go back to discussing the motivations of alien species, all the while knowing nothing about them, let alone what makes them tick.

[Anonymous No.23212605]

>>23212493
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTDa-vG2MQ

[Anonymous No.23212627]

How do you live with the shame of not finishing a book you’re not enjoying at all?

[Anonymous No.23212630]

>>23212627
Easily.

[Anonymous No.23212634]

>>23212630
Really?

[Anonymous No.23212636]

>>23212627
By not believing it's shameful, because it isn't. You decided that for yourself that it was and nothing more.

[Anonymous No.23212639]

>>23212329
>So, yeah, while you could have alien horrors like Scramblers from Blindsight, you could also end up with hot, blue skinned chicks who just want you to live and prosper (and maybe put two in the pink and one in the stink)
To assume aliens would look anything like humans an extremely low IQ assumption. We share 40 to 50 percent of our genetic code with bananas. So then to assume aliens from thousands of light years away whom we share absolutely nothing with, would look anything like us is an utterly retarded assumption.

[Anonymous No.23212652]

>>23212627
I remind myself that life is way too short for shitty works and go do something more fun - like shooting.

[Anonymous No.23212654]

>>23212639
But if we’re so genetically similar to bananas … can I fuck them?

[Anonymous No.23212705]

>>23212639
Well first off, it was just a funny extreme position to illustrate my point. Secondly have you never heard of convergent evolution nigga? You know, how dolphins and sharks look similar, even with completely different evolutionary paths?
Besides while there is a will, there is a way - just look at >>23212654.

[Anonymous No.23212743]

>>23212705
Better example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

[Anonymous No.23212756]

>>23212493
I'm currently reading The Silmarillion. I plan to read all of Tolkien in chronological order. Maybe you'd join me instead?

[Anonymous No.23212762]

>>23211522
Thats good. Thanks. White Luck Warrior is good so far all though The Slog is a bit of a slog

[Anonymous No.23212880]

>>23212634
Yeah. Guess I'm just built different.

[Anonymous No.23212945]

So I had an idea and considering that I don't have unique ideas I would like to know if there are books featuring that already
>Something like a stargate that leads to a very different place
>a few expeditions didn't find anything of value other than it's definitly not on earth
>a few other expeditions disappeared
>but send something about spiders
>a new expedition is planned
>with scientist lead by a women who is an expert for spiders
>and a military escort
>now the reader expects them to antagonise each other at every turn, fighting for the lead, passive aggressive bullshit
>but they work together absolutely professional
>they find the spiders
>the scientists wants to try communicating with them
>it doesn't work well and they need to escape

So the main part about it is that scientist and military/security actually work together like you would expect it from professional adults.

[Anonymous No.23212975]

>>23212945
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

[Anonymous No.23213005]

>>23211757
Skulduggery Pleasant?

[Anonymous No.23213011]

>>23212975
Isn't that about Spiders being le good guys forcing humans to build a civilization so they can stay friends?

[Anonymous No.23213051]

>>23212945
Spiders are a rather common adversary. I'm certain you can find a lot.

[Anonymous No.23213108]

>>23213051
it's not even about the spiders, can't you read anon?

[Anonymous No.23213127]

>>23210675
Ok
PLEASE tell me this art is from something
Or at least rec me something with a similar vibe

[Anonymous No.23213141]

>>23213127
Red Sonja novels

[Anonymous No.23213144]

>>23212014
Thank you man, just got Swords Against Darkness and Renegade Swords

[Anonymous No.23213152]

>>23213141
>novels
arent they all comic books?

[Anonymous No.23213159]

>>23213144
Based.
>>23213152
Six novels were written in the 80s.

[Anonymous No.23213174]

>>23213159
>Six novels were written in the 80s.
This is interesting but is there anything else that is more available digitally?

[Anonymous No.23213182]

>>23213174
All six novels are online.
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=red+sonja+david+smith

[Anonymous No.23213221]

>>23213108
So the main original part is people work together without having problems with each other? I've never heard of such a thing! You've invented cooperation. Bravo!

[Anonymous No.23213233]

>>23213174

[Anonymous No.23213331]

>>23213182
>>23213233
Thanks lads
Female protagonist S&S (that isn't overtly feminist) is underrated

[Anonymous No.23213428]

Cumspren

[Anonymous No.23213518]

>>23213331
You should give this one a try and tell me if it's good.

[Anonymous No.23213544]

The MC in my fantasy series repeatedly rapes a woman. The scenes are very detailed and she's conflicted about it because she hates the MC but she also cums a lot from the rapes. The MC also kills a lot of people and tortures some people to death while he's raping them and these scenes are also very detailed.

I'm thinking about self-publishing the novel on platforms like Amazon. Should I be worried about the novels being censored or removed from the usual distribution platforms?

[Anonymous No.23213561]

>>23213544
amazon got ir rape scat porn stories with copyrighted characters on it. so I think you will be fine.

[Anonymous No.23213567]

>nifft the lean paperback STILL over a hundred burgerbucks on ebay

[Anonymous No.23213643]

>>23212512
Stop saying that word!

[Anonymous No.23213761]

>>23213544
>The MC in my fantasy series
>repeatedly rapes a woman. The scenes are very detailed and she's conflicted about it because she hates the MC but she also cums a lot from the rapes.
Pozzed

[Anonymous No.23213782]

>>23210734
I don't understand that even if you enjoy isekai/litrpg how you could not bail after the first trial arc.
>If you are retarded enough to pay this idiot you don't have a right to complain.

[Anonymous No.23213818]

>>23213643
The pozzed, oh how they fear. Sorry to say your condition is terminal. So sad. We hate what's happening to them, but they chose to be pozzed.

[Anonymous No.23213819]

>elves were the product of beautiful Eru, awakened in grace beneath the stars
>dorfies made in secret by the most retarded valar without Eru's knowledge in some cave to be stuntie labourers
>Imin the First and his band awoke and walked the vasts forests of Arda, flowers bloomed at his passing as they did with Vána
>some father of somebody awakes and literally begs for mercy because they were a mistake and needed eradicating, then they started digging holes or something
Dwarvecucks are such faggots, always were right from the start.

[Anonymous No.23214005]

why do people in jack vance’s dying earth speak like dwarf fortress characters?

[Anonymous No.23214086]

whats that book series litters hate?

by a guy with "baker" for a last name

[Anonymous No.23214095]

>>23214086

[Anonymous No.23214096]

>>23214095
yes, thanks

[Anonymous No.23214132]

Please, sincerely, cease existing.

[Anonymous No.23214169]

>>23214132
I kneel

[Anonymous No.23214280]

>>23213761
You mean "based"

[Anonymous No.23214336]

>mfw Frank got the idea for the gom jabbar from things he'd do to his own sons

[Anonymous No.23214344]

>>23213818
did you see that statue of a sphincter they want to put up in a California park as an aids memorial? 500k for a concrete anus, lol

[Anonymous No.23214354]

>>23214086
Its a shame really. His books are great, but its hard to talk about him here because of one (multiple?) spammer/ritual poster.

[Anonymous No.23214356]

>>23214344
Wouldn't it make more sense to make a statue of one of the first victims of AIDS? Or someone famous who died from it like Freddie Mercury?

[Anonymous No.23214441]

Anything like Crooked God Machine or Terminal World? Its a weird pair to name but I'm looking for, like, weird worlds with a bit of an early 1900s vibe to them. I know both go wild the further you look into them but I mean surface-level. Supernatural horror elements are also fine.

[Anonymous No.23214449]

>>23214336
https://www.historylink.org/File/21248

[Anonymous No.23214464]

>>23214449
>His paternal grandparents had come west in 1905 to join Burley Colony inKitsap County, one of manyutopian communesspringing up in Washington State beginning in the 1890s. The Burley communards printed their own currency, paid everyone an identical salary, and championed gender equality.

>He was hounded by creditors as he struggled alongside his wife Beverly to support a family.

>He had a checkered career at Tacoma's Lincoln High School, including dropped and failed classes.

>In 1938, worried about his parents' drinking and his 5-year-old sister's safety in the unstable home, he and Patty Lou took a bus to Salem, Oregon, where they sought refuge with an aunt and uncle.

>he suffered a head injury that resulted in an honorable discharge.

>He went back to California, where he discovered his wife and daughter had vanished.

>They moved often without leaving forwarding addresses, trying to elude lawyers representing Herbert's first wife, Flora, in her attempts to collect past-due child-support payments. Herbert's son Brian said that during his childhood the family lived in more than 20 different homes.

>Frank's interest in concepts such as ESP, genetic memory, and a collective unconscious. Herbert believed in communication with the dead and that Beverly -- who cast horoscopes, read palms, and threw the I Ching -- was a white witch who could predict future events and find lost objects.

>wife had just successfully sued him for back child-support payments, and his former employers had discovered they had co-signed a car loan with Herbert on a vehicle which was now wrecked.

>Jack Vance suggested the two writers and their families take a trip to Mexico

>Herbert told Stamets that his imagination was stimulated by using mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe while writing.

>The IRS was after unpaid taxes, and there were other creditors as well.

>Brian Herbert later wrote that his parents had "naively" run through the advance on the book without paying their debts

>Frank Herbert had limited contact with his younger son, Bruce, as an adult. He was unhappy when his son came out as gay, and even more upset when Bruce became a part of queer street theatre in the Bay Area. His father believed Bruce had chosen his sexual orientation, and wanted him to renounce it. Bruce died of AIDS in 1993,

>Beverly Herbert died in February 1984. In April, Herbert, now 63, went on tour to promote Heretics of Dune, the fifth in the series, and later told his son that he had fallen in love with Theresa Shackleford, a 27-year-old Los Angeles publicist who worked for his publisher, Putnam.

>On the plane from Los Angeles back to Seattle, Herbert believed he was picking up data from Theresa's brain as she thought of him. Simultaneously, he had "received a message" from his dead wife:

>There were two other women whom he also saw as romantic prospects, both in their forties. For a time, he was trying to decide among the three.

[Anonymous No.23214472]

>>23214441
Im a little drunk but I guess what I'm saying is looking for New Weird with decent horror elements and cool worldbuilding. Ideally early-late 1900s vibes.

[Anonymous No.23214502]

Letos Sareer (little desert) around his citadel was canonically 750,000km sq, plenty of space to maintain a small harem of sandworns if he ever got tired of philosophising and fancied some shia'hulussy.

[Anonymous No.23214506]

>>23214336
>>23214464
What was his problem?

[Anonymous No.23214525]

>>23214464
>tfw when Jack Vance tells you to flee the country to Mexico because of your debts and possible crimes

[Anonymous No.23214547]

>>23214280
No, pozzed. People who think women can cum are woke.

[Anonymous No.23214585]

I heard litrpg is made by AI

[Anonymous No.23214587]

Is the Three Body Problem good?
I don't read sci-fi but would like to get back into it

[Anonymous No.23214599]

>>23214587
somebody post the pasta

[Anonymous No.23214681]

>>23214356
the humiliation is the point

[Anonymous No.23214684]

>>23214441
>>23214472
try Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

[Anonymous No.23214698]

>>23214587
Yes, the Chinese translation is meh, but the books go hard.

[Anonymous No.23214751]

>>23214547
Anon...a woman cumming is how you know you've done a good job. It's *the* indicator of your sexual prowess as a man.

[Anonymous No.23214762]

>>23211118
thank you

[Anonymous No.23214837]

>>23214751
Women are biologically incapable of cumming or enjoying sex in general. Occasionally they'll lie to you and pretend they do because women are lying whores. For the woke ones this goes twice over. Proof: lesbian bed death.

[Anonymous No.23214861]

>>23214837
Maybe you're just shit in bed?

[Anonymous No.23214868]

What are some sci-fi/horror/fantasy books that take place in our world and the protagonist is a rational guy, maybe an investigator, who doesn't know about supernatural elements at the beginning of the story?
Some films/shows I can think of: Twin Peaks, Déjà Vu, Adjustment Bureau, Matrix, Tron Legacy, Ninth Gate, Angel Heart, Night of the Demon, Night of the Eagle.
I know some of those are book adaptations.
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.23214887]

>>23211757
Garrett PI series by Glen Cook, although it's more Sam Spade than Sherlock Holmes.

[Anonymous No.23214905]

In The Silmarillion, there is a part where the dark elf Eol, husband of Aredhel and father of Maeglin, is brought before the king of Gondolin to face judgement for following them into the secret entrance into Gondolin. He grabs a poisoned spear that was laying nearby and attempts to slay his son Maeglin but Maeglin's mother Aredhel jumps in the way and is slain.

Why keep a poisoned spear within grabbing reach of a prisoner brought before a court?

[Anonymous No.23214921]

>>23211001
You over complicate, they just don't use radios.

[Anonymous No.23214937]

>>23214464
I'm a lot more sympathetic to Brian Herbert after reading that. I'd sell out my father's legacy too if he was that much of a broke asshole.

[Anonymous No.23214939]

>spent 2 weeks researching authors and series that sound good
>downloaded ~1500 books (legally, of course)
>meticulously sorted through shit and fixed metadata
>haven't even read one chapter yet
*sips*
Yup, time to never read any of these. I feel like I'm one of you guys already.

[Anonymous No.23214944]

i'm 2 books late on my 52 challenge for the year

what are some of you favourite SF/F under 200 pages?

it's not cheating

[Anonymous No.23214952]

>>23211917
can you say more, describe them a little or whatever? i'm not against lit rpg but you make a bad point if you're trying to rally people

[Anonymous No.23214986]

>>23214587
>Is the Three Body Problem good?
it's mid but ambitious

[Anonymous No.23214996]

>>23214944
atrocity exhibition is 150 pages but its not really a quick read

[Anonymous No.23214999]

>>23214861
No. It's the woke pozzed mob.

[Anonymous No.23215074]

>>23214999
Them too

[Anonymous No.23215075]

>>23210730
>>23210733
>>23210753
>>23210815
>>23210901
>>23210946
>>23211178
>>23211917
>>23212297
>>23214086
>>23214095
>>23214587
Great post 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.23215083]

>>23215075
>incest
Mortal Instruments.

[Anonymous No.23215088]

Is there any quintessential sci fi chart? All I got is 50 different ones in the archives. I trust you gentlemen more than the average slop salesmen on the internets.

[Anonymous No.23215096]

>>23215088
>I trust you gentlemen
This general has been compromised with normalfags for more years than it has not been, and you won't receive recommendations beyond whatever the same top five bestselling popular series or books are, because that's all normalfags read.

[Anonymous No.23215109]

I'm about to read three body problem in chinese, good bye.

[Anonymous No.23215119]

>>23215109
Great post anon.

[Anonymous No.23215144]

>>23214939
Should've saved yourself the effort and downloaded the sff collection on /t/ that has tons of stuff rather than individually. Some collection at least. Imagine actually researching that long. Ha ha, what a guy if real.

[Anonymous No.23215152]

>>23214944
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
Planet of Exile
Great Work of Time

[Anonymous No.23215160]

>>23215088
When you say archive do you mean the mega in the OP? Have you looked at the stuff other than that?

[Anonymous No.23215173]

>>23214944
lol

[Anonymous No.23215174]

>>23215173
bragging about goodreads is dumb

[Anonymous No.23215176]

>>23215174
>50 books
lol

[Anonymous No.23215193]

>>23214599
The Chinese invented pasta.

[Anonymous No.23215199]

>>23215075
>any books with incest
stopped reading right there. nice try idiot

[Anonymous No.23215244]

>>23210895
Kellhus became way too complex, even for Bakker.

Do not expect too many PoVs from him.

[Anonymous No.23215381]

>>23211599
I considered it until I saw the atrocious AI sloppa advertisement trailer.

[Anonymous No.23215414]

>>23215174
>he says whule braingign about his goodeeads

[Anonymous No.23215450]

How purple do you like your prose lads? Here's an excerpt from chapter 118 of my erotic fantasy serial.

[Anonymous No.23215484]

>>23212627
I don't waste time on things I don't enjoy unless I'm paid.

[Anonymous No.23215490]

>>23215450
As purple as possible. This excerpt is extremely messy, though. You need an editor.

[Anonymous No.23215549]

Anyone read Void Star?

[Anonymous No.23215579]

[Anonymous No.23215660]

>>23214464
There goes any doubt in my mind that Frank Herbert was a libertarian.

[Anonymous No.23215681]

>>23215096
Seriously. Do these niggas even go thrifting anymore?

[Anonymous No.23215704]

>>23214464
>Vance suggested that they go to Mexico

What was Vance’s life like then?

[Anonymous No.23215719]

I wish Heinlein could've written a book with R.R. Martin.

[Anonymous No.23215789]

>>23215450
It reads like something a ritualistic serial killer would be doing. Something out of Hannibal or Dexter. Enjoy your eroguro I guess.

[Anonymous No.23215799]

>>23215681
Why would I want my choices to be so constrained?

[Anonymous No.23215806]

>>23215719
Why hasn't Sanderson written a book with Card and combined their Mormon powers? There are many mysteries indeed.

[Anonymous No.23215819]

I know this isn't directly related to sci-fi, but does anyone know of any other sites similar to Atomic Rockets (https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/)?


>>23215096
Fucking normalfags being all normal and shieeet.

[Anonymous No.23215873]

>>23215450
feels like this is the exact kind of slop that has either 7 or 0 figures a year

[Anonymous No.23215890]

When Bakker references "apartments" in Caraskand, what sort of buildings is he referencing? Did apartments exist in medieval eras? Or are they a specific kind of building?

[Anonymous No.23215913]

>>23215873
Mid 4-figures

[Anonymous No.23215987]

>>23210753
>similar to Jack Vance
Clark Ashton Smith was a huge influence on him.

[Anonymous No.23216019]

>>23215704
>What was Vance’s life like then?
He wrote an autobiography "This is Me, Jack Vance!" about it.
From what I recall rural but with some support from his grandfather after his father split then the great depression hit and he worked a lot of shit jobs and got tough, paid himself through college where he flirted with girls, went army where he narrowly missed being on Pearl Harbor, later went merchant marine and became a writer in his 40s.
I got the impression that he was "bohemian" mostly out of necessity for taking any job that came his way moreso than inclination.

[Anonymous No.23216128]

>>23215890
Apartments meaning the living quarters of nobility.

[Anonymous No.23216168]

>>23212945
So stargate SG1 ft. Annihilation ft. Children of time

[Anonymous No.23216340]

What is your favorite world/setting (where you would like to live)?

I really like Westeros. I can choose thousands of places where I would like to be a lord. Different geography/climate conditions/traditions/economy, which you can choose depending on my current mood.

[Anonymous No.23216345]

>>23216340
>on your current mood.
fix

[Anonymous No.23216367]

>>23214280
Pozzed because mc is a coomer, also pozzed because of unnecessary focus on women

[Anonymous No.23216426]

>>23215819
any recent sff works with this sort of onegai muscle vibe

[Anonymous No.23216613]

>>23211526
>be a native american
>accidentally transmit radio signal to spain
>spain destroys all trace of native americans because they represent an existential threat to europe
damn how did no one notice this

[Anonymous No.23216638]

uhh DCmetropolitanareasisters and Bakkerbrothers... what the fuck is this thing doing here?

Air Force memorial in Arlington, VA. I was driving there last night and saw it out along the horizon and sure as shit it reminded me of Golgotterath. It's actually 3 horns

[Anonymous No.23216660]

>>23216638
truth shines

[Anonymous No.23216681]

>>23210675
Whenever I read a sci-fi/fantasy book, I NEED to be aware and realize through the writings that the author is as enthusiastic and loving about his universe and characters as I hope he is. Otherwise, the whole thing falls apart. Never have I felt so bad and disappointed when reading this one series and halfway through I just realized the author just doesn't have all that much passion for it. I just gave up. The enthusiasm and care and love should be infectious to the reader.

[Anonymous No.23216692]

>>23215799
It's literally a search for forgotten treasure, not an Amazon bestseller list.

[Anonymous No.23216703]

>>23216692
That's nothing more than romanticism. It's no such thing.

[Anonymous No.23216715]

>>23216692
might be different in a big city but 2nd hand and charity shops here just have bestsellers nobody wants

[Anonymous No.23216716]

>>23216703
You say romanticism like it's a bad thing, but look where you are. I ask you where is yours?

[Anonymous No.23216717]

Bakkcuck bros...

[Anonymous No.23216750]

>>23215806
Card allegedly being a huge racist and sometimes asshole probably keeps Sanderson from working with him.
You know how close Sanderson is with the LGBTQ2SAAPI+++++ and colored communities, just wont work.

[Anonymous No.23216777]

>>23216426
Weebs are the worst.

>>23216681
Good luck finding writers like that.

[Anonymous No.23216814]

>>23216638
sorcerous tac-nuke NOW!!!!!

[Anonymous No.23216816]

Is Melnibone 3 syllables or 4?

Mel-knee-bone

Mel-nib-bone-eh

[Anonymous No.23216820]

>>23216717
zaudunyani sisters.... our response?

[Anonymous No.23216828]

>>23216816
The second one, sort of.
mel-nib-boh-neigh

[Anonymous No.23216876]

Any books with rape? But I want rape that is hot but isn't supposed to be, if you know what I mean.

[Anonymous No.23216879]

>>23216876
man just go on flist or something and then read a normal book after

[Anonymous No.23216885]

>>23216879
Na, I want to enjoy a legitimately good story and then be caught off guard with a spicy rape scene out of nowhere

[Anonymous No.23216962]

I am looking to read The Croning but I know it is like the conclusion to a series of short stories bound into anthologies but I cannot figure out how to read them, what am i supposed to read before Croning? Even if they're not explicitly necessary I'd rather read the preliminary stuff first so I understand it better.

[Anonymous No.23216990]

>>23216717
>workmanlike prose
Sandersons prose is that of a retarded american teenager.

[Anonymous No.23217015]

>>23216885
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.23217018]

>>23216750
>Card allegedly being a huge racist
And now I must read his works.

[Anonymous No.23217060]

>>23211132
>is on a literature board
>why would I contribute to an author's livelihood??
Not that I use Patreon, but this is a retarded thing to say.

[Anonymous No.23217097]

Finished empire of the damned. Overall I liked it but not as much as the first. I didn't much care for the perspective shifts and some of the consequences of the climactic battle felt pretty stupid so I'm looking forward to the next book to clarify things (hopefully) but on the other hand I enjoyed the expanded lore for the religion, vampires, and duskdancers. I think it's supposed to be a trilogy(?) so I'm curious how Kristoff is going to end it.

[Anonymous No.23217321]

>>23216717
Remember when Wired tried to cancel Sanderson for absolutely no reason? Truly desperate journo moment, they didn't even have anything other than "he's mormon and kinda bland"

[Anonymous No.23217325]

>>23217321
It was one of my favorite sff moments of last year. It was so bizarre that they even published it when it had absolutely nothing to say.

[Anonymous No.23217344]

>>23213819
>elf propaganda glorifies elves and gives short shrift to other races
Go figure.

[Anonymous No.23217416]

heh heh heh trying to cancel me, Wired-sama? Many have tried... *unsheathes shardblade*

[Anonymous No.23217420]

>>23217325
The editor in chief wrote it. He decided that it ought to be published and nothing could stop him. He said that it would've been a waste of time, money, and effort on his part if didn't. Mostly he did it so he could expense it. As it said, he put off publishing it until the end of the financial year. He certainly wasn't going to let it negatively affect his personal bottom line.

[Anonymous No.23217426]

>>23211846
well shit I can do that.
Better start writing that slop for the pay piggies.

No for real I think I might try doing this. I've never written anything beyond a school essay but after reading the first page of Primal Hunter I think I can do better.

I think I might try that old timey science fiction, planetary romance like the Barsom series and have some hero type get sent to some planet and start kicking ass and saving princess.I mean the princess of mars was one of the early Isekai so it checks that mark.

[Anonymous No.23217429]

>>23217426
based, you know what? I'm already getting ideas myself just from this post...

[Anonymous No.23217448]

>>23217429
Cool, see you on the other side brother.
I'm literally writing some notes down. Just putting down some ideas. I've never written a novel so I might try re-reading my princess of mars copy just to get some ideas.

I think instead of a planet I was thinking of a giant ass man made ring surrounding a sun but some war happened that destroyed everything and now it's like mars with city states and barbarians and other weird shit.. You can do all types of stuff. Like a tribe of all female clones that live underground and made a religion out of maintaining the engines that keeps everyone alive. With the ring being so massive, like the size of 500 earths or whatever, you can just keep coming up with new stuff for our hero to explore. And bang hot alien bitches like captain kirk.

[Anonymous No.23217464]

>>23217060
based paypiggy. i bet you also "bought" Star Citizen

[Anonymous No.23217491]

>>23215819
who’s this anabolic asian?

[Anonymous No.23217551]

>>23217426
>>23217429
>>23217448
>>23211846
>>23210918
Dunning–Kruger effect
You don't understand why he gets the money so you're already completely doomed before you've even started. You completely confirmed that's 100% true by stating what you plan to do which would fail spectacularly and you'd have no idea why and blame everything and everyone else other than yourself.

[Anonymous No.23217558]

>>23217551
epic reddit buzzword. you're in the right place. nothing but newfags here!

[Anonymous No.23217569]

>>23217551
Fuck you pal I'm already writing shit down and you can't stop me.

>It was a dark and stormy night.....

[Anonymous No.23217611]

>>23217569
It was a Dark and Stormy Night
Anon was quite afright
He feared he might
Take his life
by a knife
Strife

[Anonymous No.23217730]

Bounty hunter kino?

[Anonymous No.23217747]

>>23217730
Once again, Lord of the Mysteries

[Anonymous No.23217779]

>>23217551
retard take
>you just have to keep writing no matter how bad the quality
>https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33844/the-runesmith
>https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41656/chaotic-craftsman-worships-the-cube

[Anonymous No.23217824]

Got some new kino today

[Anonymous No.23217846]

>>23217779
No, that's not it at all either.

[Anonymous No.23217860]

This Jolenta charat intrigues me. I think I'll read the books.

[Anonymous No.23217941]

sandershit

[Anonymous No.23217948]

150 hours I'm never getting back

[Anonymous No.23217977]

I finally started reading Forgotten Realms novels after being told by so many people that they were shit. I fucking love it. It feels like I'm a kid again. This is what I've been looking for for so long. Maybe I should just stop reading anything written after 2010.

[Anonymous No.23217984]

>>23217977
yeah i wouldn't trust anyone's opinion on stuff like that
people always say star wars, d&d, and warhammer stuff is bad, but it's usually a lot better than random books
like yeah, if you've never read fantasy in your life, you should read the classics, but if you're just looking for stuff to read going for a HH novel over some female author YA fantasy slop is infinitely better
and salvatore was one of the best, imo, his books are super comfy

[Anonymous No.23218033]

[Anonymous No.23218035]

>le product makes me feel like a kid again!
go back

[Anonymous No.23218036]

>>23217977
I don't know if they are strictly "shit" but as that other anon said, there are a million superior fantasy novels even within the adventurer/high-fantasy ilk

[Anonymous No.23218048]

/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.23218050]

>>23217416
I unironically enjoy his slob

[Anonymous No.23218051]

/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.23218057]

>>23218048
>>23218051
was busy playing DRAGONS DOGMA 2 and forgot to post, see u faggots next thread.

[Anonymous No.23218061]

>>23218057
How is it? I hear it has melanin enriched inviduals in it?

[Anonymous No.23218062]

>>23217824
Kino? The premise is good, and I love the setting on it (planet, environment and technology). But Nomad is a pretty boring character, and you knew immediately that Aux will die when he says "You can use my life force for power!" on page 3.

Elegy is amazing tho, and the Cinder King is an interesting villain.

[Anonymous No.23218063]

>>23218062
>"You can use my life force for power!"
Kek sounds like a hero

[Anonymous No.23218083]

Please stop recommending Cradle guys it's the worst slop imaginable.

[Anonymous No.23218219]

>>23218083
It's just the slop of the month for this general.
I remember when The Library at Mount Char was all the rage.
That was one shitty novel.

[Anonymous No.23218229]

>>23218036
I don't know about that. Salvatore is a master of writing enjoyable action-adventure slop.

[Anonymous No.23218350]

>>23218062
Nomad (the MC?) is Sigzil from Stormlight but this is far-future Cosmere.

[Anonymous No.23218357]

Finished Ender's Saga finally. I think I liked Xenocide more than most people. Children of the Mind was just an okay ending.
I'm thinking of reading Ender's Shadow now, but I don't really want to get pulled in to the Shadow series as I understand it has a shitty ending.
I might have more of a stomach for Card's bullshit than most people though judging from how other people responded to Xenocide and Children of the Mind, so maybe I have nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous No.23218515]

>>23218350
I know, but that doesn't make him any more interesting. I don't like the idea of power creeping so hard that the only way to misdirect it, is by making them not be able to attack.

[Anonymous No.23218551]

I went to Half-Price Books and picked up "A Canticle for Leibowitz" and a very early 1996 edition of "A Game of Thrones" - neat!

[Anonymous No.23218573]

>>23218551
I updooted this post :DDD

[Anonymous No.23218742]

>>23217977
My thoughts exactly. I recently read the prism pentad and had a blast. It's not the best in the world and won't make anyone cum in their pants but I read all the books without feeling board so if a book manages to do that it's good enough for me.

[Anonymous No.23218811]

>read an "mmo but it's the real world" chinese webnovel
>dumb but has some amusement value
>author goes on a few weird tangents about Japan being full of smog unlike China (lmao)
>weird but whatever it's like 3 chapters out of 1200 and there's not really any notable geopolitical seethe in it otherwise
>get to final chapter
>it's a depiction of the MC having razed all of Japan before even dealing with the incoming big bad aliens
lmao effectively ruining the ending of your book just to seethe about Japan is next level.

[Anonymous No.23218829]

>>23218811
That also happens in the Poppy War.

[Anonymous No.23219028]

>>23218811
asians don't fuck around when it comes to racism

[Anonymous No.23219031]

>>23219028
The funny thing is that the ones who just treat Japanese as stand-in villains are usually less crazy about it. (and some clearly don't care at all)
But I half think it's down to pandering to particular reader groups on qidian.

[Anonymous No.23219081]

>>23219031
Look, I've read trash of all types, and you can be absolutely, 100% sure that everyone except the author's own race gets to take an endless series of potshots.

The Chinese think the Japanese are war criminals and the Koreans effeminate prettyboys out to steal their women, the Japanese think the Chinese are insects and the Koreans are barely even that, and the Koreans think the Chinese are lunatics set on invading Korea and the Japanese are war criminals. They all hate Africans, and the Chinese hate the Americans too.

The fun part is that all of them are right about the others.

[Anonymous No.23219215]

I'm writing a fantasy novel but the twist is that the MC (30-year-old man) gets a mentor who is an 11-year-old girl.

[Anonymous No.23219265]

>>23217491
I don't remember. You could try the image search.

>>23219081
>The fun part is that all of them are right about the others.
Hating burgers is damn near universal. I am surprised that British don't get that much hate.

>>23219215
>the MC (30-year-old man) gets a mentor who is an 11-year-old girl
No 3000 year old dragon in a body of a 11 year old girl? Just straight up a kid?

[Anonymous No.23219279]

>>23219265
I'm writing it based on the life of Pocahontas.

[Anonymous No.23219281]

>>23219081
I've actually read a lot of their trash and i'd say the Japanese basically ignore the existence of both countries outside of online netouyo comments about "Country K" being retarded and chinese tourists. It never really filters into their stories.
The Chinese treat the Koreans as a generic enemy that they will take over (historicals treat them as insidious infiltrators, moderns as a stepping-stone) and they either ignore the JPs because they don't want to deal with it, treat them as minor villain caricatures like "Majimoto wields a samurai sword and is evil and bad who will die and won't be mentioned anymore" or hardcore seethe about the entire country ad nauseam but still lust hard over japanese women and will mention the names of JAV pornstars they obsesss over.
The Koreans do seethe about both but are more likely to focus on seething over their own people. Usually over if they're nationalist or not and if they're on the side of the government or not, both kinds usually have a ton of weird "massacre X group of Koreans" hangups.

[Anonymous No.23219328]

>>23219279
>Pocahontas
Oh, so you are also giving it the interracial angle? He's gonna tap that brown pussy?
Respect.

[Anonymous No.23219464]

>>23219328
>30 year old having sex with an 11 year old
>Respect
So you're proud to be openly pedo and willing to tell others that you respect others being the same

[Anonymous No.23219468]

>>23219028
Hey, don't underestimate /pol/!

[Anonymous No.23219478]

>>23218551
Authors don't get anything if you buy used.

[Anonymous No.23219492]

I can't stop thinking about this book. I wondered why I'd never heard of it until a week ago, but then I read some reviews; I think it just filtered too many people to really catch on. And maybe the author doesn't have the right connections to win awards. Maybe being a gay filipino is too "white adjacent" and doesn't check off enough boxes for a nebula.
Pisses me off because the book is kino

[Anonymous No.23219495]

>>23219464
I'm not a pedo. I didn't say they have sex.

[Anonymous No.23219497]

>>23217491
Rosofia Lia

[Anonymous No.23219503]

>>23219495
>He's gonna tap that brown pussy
>I'm not the one who posted that!
I didn't say you were or I would've responded to your post.

[Anonymous No.23219509]

>>23219503
I know. I'm just clarifying.

[Anonymous No.23219514]

>Authors don't get anything if you buy used.

[Anonymous No.23219524]

>>23219464
I was just expressing my respect for your frankly unconventional story telling. If I am catching flak for barely mentioning it to you, the author, imagine the shit you'll get.

>>23219492
The novel looks pretty bland.

[Anonymous No.23219529]

>>23219524
>looks pretty bland
No clue where you're getting that from, but it definitely isn't

[Anonymous No.23219532]

https://www.sfadb.com/Simon_Jimenez
It's very highly regarded on Reddit and another sites. It won awards and was nominated for various others as seen in this link. If you didn't hear about it it's because you won't wete it was being talked about. Your opinion is definitely a very small minority here.

[Anonymous No.23219546]

>>23219524
You either responded to the wrong post or used the wrong pronouns because I'm not the writer, which is who responded to me.

[Anonymous No.23219589]

>>23219529
>No clue where you're getting that from
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

You gotta admit that it sounds pretty bland. Most likely it's neither ambitious nor profound and has some faggotry in it. I can't be bothered to check.

>>23219532
Why would I (or anyone else for that matter) care what those dregs of humanity over yonder at Reddit think about anything? Same with the awards in the current year. The novel must be pretty pozzed to even get nominated these days.

>>23219546
You were just giving off, you know, those vibes, so I assumed there was gonna be some hanky-panky in there somewhere.
And I totally understand your position - I too would deny authorship over such a risqué novel. Not to mention you are probably no Vladimir Nabokov.

[Anonymous No.23219630]

>>23219589
>I only read things based on whatever crap the publisher puts on the back
kinda sad. Easy way to miss great books, plenty of 'em have generic descriptions meant to hit a broad audience.
This one is pretty gay though so you'd probably hate it.

[Anonymous No.23219686]

>>23219589
>doesn't deny being pedo
Apparently you consider being pedo to be based rather than pozzed.

[Anonymous No.23219732]

>>23219630
Still not as sad as being a part of the Reddit hivemind (or thinking that said hive mind has any worthwhile opinions on anything).
Look man, after trawling for actually good books for the past few months, if the book looks like shit, smells like shit and tastes like shit - it is absolute and total shit.
If you take a look at the synopsis and the whole thing gives off pozzed vibes, it probably is (and I was right by your own admission). It's simple pattern recognition, trained on myriad synopsis of novels such as this.
It's not that the author like to take it in the ass, it's not that the characters in the novel like to take it in the ass, it's not even that you like to take it in the ass - it's the fact that everything has to revolve around taking it in the ass. In the current political climate, the authors asshole is like a black hole, exerting tremendous gravitational forces on his writing (and probably every other aspect of his life) making it unreadable.
The reason no one mentions that novel is that it's just another turd in the septic tank that is modern fantasy, nearly identical to every other turd in that category.

>>23219686
Apparently you are under the illusion that anyone cares about your opinion (here or in real life). I am not in the habit of explaining myself to someone like you.
Now screencap this and go whine about it on twitter.

[Anonymous No.23219747]

>>23219732
>can't even be bothered to deny it to save face even though he's a regular poster and his posts are obvious by his style
lol ok

[Anonymous No.23219787]

Cradle but good.

[Anonymous No.23219804]

>>23219686
Why do you care? especially on a site like 4chan?

[Anonymous No.23219819]

>>23219804
I don't care aside from getting replies.

[Anonymous No.23219843]

>>23219787
Regular Xianxia?

[Anonymous No.23220043]

>>23219843
Cradle has (an attempt at) plot, pacing, and human characters.

[Anonymous No.23220093]

>>23219492
What is it about?

[Anonymous No.23220282]

>>23219028
Anyone else thought it was weird in 3-Body Problem, when the Alien robot started cosplaying as a Japanese woman and bisecting terrified humans with a katana?
Like, why would the aliens care to make the robot look Japanese?

[Anonymous No.23220320]

>>23220043
It has shitty plot and Lindon is a shit character, progression is also shit. It is a shitty western ya teen drama with few xanxia elements here and there (poorly implemented)

[Anonymous No.23220337]

>>23216777
Books for this feel

[Anonymous No.23220362]

I just finished
>suffer the flesh
I enjoyed the non rape stuff and that it was short
is
>hogg
better or worse?

[Anonymous No.23220366]

>>23219686
Where the fuck do you think we are?

[Anonymous No.23220405]

>>23216367
Having sex with women is pozzed?

[Anonymous No.23220453]

>>23220405
The presence of sex in a fantasy action/adventure novel is pozzed.

[Anonymous No.23220456]

>>23211969
It's Hamilton. Hamilton is an arse kisser. Always has been, but it's become more and more apparent as Current Year moves forward and Hamilton doesn't want to be left behind.
>>23211942
>t. pozzed

[Anonymous No.23220519]

Can someone recommend me something like ASOIAF (multiple houses fighting for power) but actually good and less dark?

[Anonymous No.23220575]

>>23220519
Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.23220585]

>>23220366
A site with a considerable amount of moderation and frequent perma range bans.

[Anonymous No.23220689]

New!
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>>23220688
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