/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.23736319]

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Previous Thread: >>23718727

[Anonymous No.23736338]

If you want to know what happened, we have no idea, mods just admitted to some kind of "mistake"

>>>/a/270308316

[Anonymous No.23736408]

>>23736338
They wiped out several boards.

[Anonymous No.23736431]

Terrible

[Anonymous No.23736522]

>>23736319
Are there any books that blend quasi-medieval aesthetics and tropes with a sci-fi setting? No Warhammer or Dune.

[Anonymous No.23736592]

>sell more stories to Asimov Sci-Fi than any other author
>be unread by newfags on /sffg/ because normalfags won't leave their comfort zone of the top 3-5 bestselling authors on their favorite popularity lists

[Anonymous No.23736831]

Looking for books that are very lewd and rapey.

[Anonymous No.23736852]

Looking for books with no romance, magic progression and an mc who isn't retarded

[Anonymous No.23736912]

>>23736831
Kushiel's Dart, Phedre, the mc, is a literal whore (a courtesan) and the second main character and her eventual love interest is Joscelin, a celibate warrior monk.lot's of rape, BDSM,evil men fucking good women, and lot's of cucking/hotwifing.
Phedre looks like the girl from your wemb too

[Anonymous No.23737149]

>>23736831
Just go on tiktok and read whatever people are shilling

[Anonymous No.23737155]

[Anonymous No.23737218]

>>23736912
ah yes, female authors

[Anonymous No.23737234]

>>23736852
Blood Crest. honestly ignore the "gay vibes" if you're the guy who posted before, I promise they're actually anti-pedo/grooming vibes.

[Anonymous No.23737235]

How do you people stomach newer books? I can read up into the '80s with a few exceptions for extremely good scifi/fantasy written after that, but for the most part anything written after 1990 is for faggots.

[Anonymous No.23737245]

>>23737235
Try "Through Struggle, The Stars" by John Lumpkin

[Anonymous No.23737323]

who should i read if i love jack vances style of wrjting which i would describe as sort of whimsical and witty and classic feeling

[Anonymous No.23737333]

>>23737234
>Fan fiction
Hard pass.

[Anonymous No.23737351]

>>23737323
Saki
Lord Dunsany
Pg wodehouse

[Anonymous No.23737854]

could I have some urban fantasy reccs pls?

[Anonymous No.23738186]

>in the middle of sci-fi book about alien invasion
>suddenly there’s a random sex scene with one of the pov characters fondling his college fiancés boobs and taking her virginity
>actually getting into it
>remember the author looks like THIS
>lose boner

[Anonymous No.23738193]

>>23737854
The Library at Mount Char if you like weird shit (in a good way)

[Anonymous No.23738226]

>in the middle of sci-fi book about building wormholes or some shit
>suddenly there’s a random sex scene with one of the pov characters fondling her vat grown son
>actually getting into it
>remember the author looks like THIS
>bust all over my belly

[Anonymous No.23738236]

>>23738186
That’s the face of a prolific lover right there. The biggest kek is that through his beard he actually looks like the “No don’t do it, I’m a virgin!” guy.

[Anonymous No.23738242]

>>23738226
Wait you’re telling me a CAT wrote a novel?

[Anonymous No.23738246]

>>23738242
just the incest chapters

[Anonymous No.23738372]

Worst fantasy novel you've read recently?

[Anonymous No.23738391]

>>23738372
Empire of the East

[Anonymous No.23738396]

1) How are the Earthsea books?
2) How are the Vorkosigan books?

[Anonymous No.23738403]

Do you guys talk about writing your own sf/fantasy novels here too, or is this just for reading discussion? I wanted to post something about my story but I'm not sure this is the right place.

[Anonymous No.23738404]

>>23738391
why was it bad?

[Anonymous No.23738427]

>>23738403
You might be better off posting in one of the writing generals. If you post your own content here people will call you a shill.

[Anonymous No.23738467]

Anons I need your help! Just picked up a handful of books at my local store, but none of them quite fit what I'm looking for. I want to read something Blade Runner-esque. Cyberpunk dystopia, lots of neon lights, holograms, dark and rainy. Any books that set itself in these kinds of city settings other than of course BR itself?

[Anonymous No.23738481]

>>23738403
We do not, but tourists like yourself frequently come by here and give unsolicited blog posts about their fantasy/sci-fi projects. Go to the writing general, assuming it was reincarnated after the Kali Yuga wiped the board clean.

[Anonymous No.23738482]

>>23738467
Neuromancer.

[Anonymous No.23738491]

>>23738481
That's why I asked first.

[Anonymous No.23738493]

>>23738242
dogbros, our answer?

[Anonymous No.23738527]

>>23738467
Altered Carbon might fit. It's way better than the TV show

[Anonymous No.23738545]

>>23738467
Titanium Noir from last year was really good. I would say it swings way more noir than sci-fi/cyberpunk, but the theme and setting is certainly there. Think Chandler or Hammett but in the not-too-far future

[Anonymous No.23738668]

>>23738545
>Titanium Noir
YA woke slop. Why do people think this shit is any good?

[Anonymous No.23738669]

>>23737854
Dresden Files

[Anonymous No.23738691]

>>23738391
I enjoyed Saberhagen's Swords novels but not the Empire series

[Anonymous No.23738721]

>>23736522
I suppose what you are looking for is Science Fantasy. BotNS is great, although it's supposed to be more mesopotamian than medieval european

[Anonymous No.23738781]

This was so incredibly boring. The first half was an absolute slog. All these reviews calling it "beautiful" or the best book of that year are full of it. The second half does get better but it's just a basic urban fantasy setting. What a disappointment.

[Anonymous No.23738796]

>>23738545
cmon it's not really good. it's ok, good if you are into the genre. so worth checking out for this anon but i hope he doesn't get his expectations high

[Anonymous No.23738846]

>>23738781
>it's just a basic urban fantasy setting.
How do you figure?

[Anonymous No.23738866]

>>23738781
pseud

[Anonymous No.23738871]

>>23738482
>>23738527
>>23738545
Thank you, bros. Checking these out. Hoping for even more recc's though. There's something really inviting about Blade Runenr's atmosphere. Also, noir as a genre is totally wrapped up into that theming. What's better in a neon-lit concrete jungle than a good mystery?

[Anonymous No.23738883]

>>23738796
....oh shit. I am that anon. Qrd on the heat this title is receiving?

[Anonymous No.23738884]

>>23738781
I swear I thought I was going crazy when I read the sample a while back. Every article and review I saw about it beforehand was calling it the most beautiful thing since Helen of Troy, and it was literal cardboard.
>"The thingamabob has many stairs. The walls are this color. I walk up the stairs and see a big statue. It is a tall statue of a woman holding a beehive."
Fuuuck the fuck off, what are you twelve?

[Anonymous No.23738894]

>>23738871
Beyond Neuromancer, William Gibson has written a whole bunch of similar stuff, you'll not immediately run out of it if you end up liking his style.

[Anonymous No.23738902]

>>23738781
I'm sure all the acclaim comes from the fact that is a quality, apolitical work and not because the writer is a woman.

[Anonymous No.23738906]

I've read Jules and Wells. any other classic scifi writer I should check out?

[Anonymous No.23738948]

>>23736319
why are these OP images always so ugly and generic

[Anonymous No.23738983]

Just give me a good xianxia rec and I'll be on my way, no need for things to get dirty.

[Anonymous No.23739015]

>>23738983
A Will Eternal - if you want beginner friendly and funny
Reverend Insanity - best of the best
Cradle - western author

[Anonymous No.23739033]

>>23739015
Damn three I haven't read. A will eternal has been on my backlog forever, but I've already filtered RI and cradle for being slop.

[Anonymous No.23739053]

>>23738983
Start with condor heroes.

[Anonymous No.23739057]

>>23739053
not xianxia

[Anonymous No.23739059]

>>23739033
Cradle has a very reddit feel so I can understand filtering it, but RI is unironically kino

[Anonymous No.23739062]

>>23739059
But it's literally pokemon. The whole point is of xianxia is that you have all your power internal to your bodies

[Anonymous No.23739090]

>>23738846
On second thought it's not a "basic urban fantasy" but it's not really all that interesting. Big house with Greek statues and tides that come in. I was expecting something truly alien and interesting with the descriptions and the praise it got. Plot wise it was just Plato's the cave except there was a lil teensy twist.

>>23738884
This is what killed me reading it. It was just nonstop descriptions of statues and the worst was the naming of the chapters"twenty sixth day of the eight month in the year that the jammies deleted some boards because they do it for free" it can get tiring.

[Anonymous No.23739091]

Bros, I just finished the Farseer trilogy and I thought it was utter KINO. Should I dive into the rest of the series?

[Anonymous No.23739092]

>>23738668
>buzzwords instead of criticism

[Anonymous No.23739112]

>>23739062
Junior has eyes but cannot see Mt Tai

[Anonymous No.23739116]

>>23739112
>Mt Tai
Newfag, it's Taishan

[Anonymous No.23739129]

>>23739091
i quit after the 2nd book. it was great, but... i didn't think i could handle another full book of horsegirl miseryporn

[Anonymous No.23739134]

>>23738871
>>23738894
yes the Burning Chrome short story collection by Gibson (which has the short story itself called 'Burning Chrome') should also be up your alley.

[Anonymous No.23739137]

>>23738781
Definitely gutter trash.
>female and/or non-white author
I do not read that book.

[Anonymous No.23739166]

>>23739092
It's such unrepetant slop that it's literally not worth the time critiquing let alone reading, which I haven't.

[Anonymous No.23739175]

>>23738781
Author was a good looking hag before she became a manatee.

[Anonymous No.23739180]

Anyone have suggestions for fantasy books that represent women accurately and don't have any female warriors or strong leaders

[Anonymous No.23739223]

>>23739057
You gotta start with wuxia to learn the tropes

[Anonymous No.23739225]

>>23739166
I bet you wonder why no one takes you seriously

[Anonymous No.23739253]

>>23739092
>triggered by the truth
My post spoke for itself.

[Anonymous No.23739303]

>>23739225
triggered

[Anonymous No.23739363]

This was way better than I expected. I just started book 2 but there are something like 30 of them, I read aafter the inital 5 or so ghost writers took the job. Does anyone else read this series? What are the best, the worst, similar series etc.?

[Anonymous No.23739470]

>>23739180
Even Robert E Howard writing fantasy stories at the the very cusp of thr genre had strong women warriors and women leaders. Why do you resent the concept so much?

[Anonymous No.23739482]

This book is almost textbook cliche edgy atheism, which I don't believe in but I love every single thing about it at the same time

[Anonymous No.23739484]

>>23739253
Okay, how is it woke amd how cringy are the politics? Is it woke in the nigger way or the faggot way? Girlboss or trannies?

[Anonymous No.23739486]

>>23739470
Because women are not strong, and I don't care to entertain a world where they are the same way that I don't want to read a fantasy novel where men give birth. I don't need to explain further.

[Anonymous No.23739487]

>>23739470
Because he likes men.

[Anonymous No.23739490]

>>23738193
Are you OG lamc guy?

[Anonymous No.23739499]

>>23738372
The Eldritch Artisan

[Anonymous No.23739502]

>>23739486
I guarantee Kayla Harrison would beat the shit out of you. You aren't physically strong or good at fighting or anything particularly masculine.

[Anonymous No.23739506]

>>23739486
Tell us times you've been a strong leader in your life anon

[Anonymous No.23739510]

>>23739502
This is the kind of delusion feminism causes. She wouldn't have a chance. The average untrained male has a greater punching power than 99% of women and i've been lifting for over a decade.

[Anonymous No.23739525]

>>23739502
>I guarantee Kayla Harrison would beat the shit out of you.
God i wish.

[Anonymous No.23739528]

>>23739510
The disdain you have towards women is third world Pakistan tier. Go move to a Muslim country if you hate women so much. It's part of our pride as white western countries to love and value our women as human beings with rights and freedoms and the ability to stand strong for their beliefs

[Anonymous No.23739537]

>>23739528
shitty bait

[Anonymous No.23739548]

>>23739482
I read it a few months ago. it wasn't as good as I had hoped but it wasn't too bad. maybe it was Zelazny's writing I didn't like? who knows. I thought the fight scenes were quite bizarre. hell, the whole thing was bizarre. I didn't get a sense of cringey athiesm from it but I did get a sense of "look how religion can bend people's wills". anyway it just made me want to read Siddhartha again

[Anonymous No.23739555]

>>23738884
It reminds me of how The Goldfinch by Tartt was described as beautiful and Dickesian, except that back then there was a opposition by other critics who said that it was overrated and that it was far from a work by Dickens.

[Anonymous No.23739562]

So I’m new to /lit/ do you all like or hate Remembrance of Earths Past/Three Body Problem?

Just finished the second book, I’m enjoying it so far

[Anonymous No.23739564]

>>23739562
I like it alot.

[Anonymous No.23739565]

Would you guys pay premium money for a collection like this with illustrations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4118dPLtVU

[Anonymous No.23739582]

So anyways looking for fantasy recs that have women portrayed realistically, and are not fighters or leaders.

[Anonymous No.23739650]

>>23739510
Any /fit/ woman can beat the shit out of any average anon.

[Anonymous No.23739665]

>>23739137
>non-white author
>I do not read that
but you'll make every exception for Jews, amirite

[Anonymous No.23739703]

Any Warhammer 40K books where the writing is decent?

[Anonymous No.23739724]

>>23739548
You didn't get a sense of atheism from the whole story being about how Sam wants to destroy heaven and free humanity from religion?

[Anonymous No.23739767]

>>23739703
Haha, no. But the tier list for writers, from best to worst, is this: Chris Wright, Dan Abnett, ADB, John French, Ian St. Martin. Anything else is shit although sometimes they can spin something decent, Graham McNeill once wrote A Thousand Sons. Another thing, even the best writte a lot of shit (Wright and Abnett wrote a lot of dumb shit). The thing with 40k is, chose your faction and prey that one of the good author write something good for then at least once. Odds are you get some CS Goto tier hack.

There is also Peter Fehervari but that guy is 100% on a league of his own, not good or bad, just weird in his own way, the guy got a little in-universe 40k were he plays with his Dark Coil bullshit. I think it's interesting once but overall it's just more of the same.

[Anonymous No.23739785]

>>23739724
No, I don't see him arguing for athiesm, I see him talking about how organized religion (in this case the Hindu gods) can corrupt and sway large groups of people. That's what Sam was against, not religion itself. The Hindu gods were trying to suppress the people on the planet technologically, and Sam wasn't having that and so in a neat way he became the Buddha to try to stop the effect that the Hindu gods were having on the masses. If thinking "organized religion can be bad = athiesm" then OK, but I don't think that statement is true. I mean, none of the gods in this book were truly "divine" so perhaps that's Zelazny saying "athiesm is true". anyway we can all see it how we want anon, good night :^)

t. bachelors student in philosophy, riddled with debt, working at a coffee shop unironically

[Anonymous No.23739823]

>>23739724
I mean none of them are real gods. Sam's was tired of a bunch of tyranical spoiled fuckers doing whatever they wanted because they got to the top of the mountain first, not because there were good at something. If they did a good job I don't think he would had chosed that path, the whole planet was pretty fucked in the hands of a incompetent minority. Also while they played at being gods Nirriti was about to go space Hitler on everybody's ass. The message in my view was "you can only get so far with your bullshit, even if you are god, until people get tired of your shit".

Anyway 10/10 book the way Zelasny mix tech with magic is great. Ie it took me a while to realize garuda was a jet fighter. Side note, the unused art for a possible Lord of Light movie (picrel) made by Jack Kirby was used by the Canadian government in the real life Argo operation. Yes, canadian, the CIA did shit all irl.

[Anonymous No.23739909]

>>23739484
He hasn't read it. He's probably making an assumption based it's a novel written in the past few years and is bound to have something gross and icky that he doesn't like cuz it's not Trad or some bs like that

[Anonymous No.23739930]

that scene in a court of thorns and roses where feyre has to wear body paint and a skimpy see-through dress that leaves her legs, sides, stomach and backside completely bare was so hot

[Anonymous No.23739939]

>>23736912
this book was peak coomkino. women truly are the goated coomers

[Anonymous No.23739943]

>>23738906
Swift

[Anonymous No.23739945]

>>23736831
a court of thorns and roses

[Anonymous No.23739964]

>>23739724
One could argue that it is arguing for atheism in the most literal sense, but the book clearly has a sympathy for genuine spiritual practice. This is best evidenced by Sam's follower that becomes enlightened.

[Anonymous No.23739976]

>>23736831
Black Jewels by Anne Bishop

[Anonymous No.23740103]

>>23739703
just read the night lords trilogy and hold your nose if some fucky prose comes up

[Anonymous No.23740260]

What are y'all answers to this post? >>23740242

[Anonymous No.23740313]

>>23740260
If you consider the Black Company the good guys (sometimes) they do not but scheme. Fighting is the last resort for them.

[Anonymous No.23740341]

>>23740313
Because they realize a mercenary company needs to have brains to last. Also, TBC is way past their prime if their records are anything to go by.

[Anonymous No.23740370]

>>23740260
Lyonesse if you want fantasy. Vance on the whole was pretty keen on cunning protagonists

[Anonymous No.23740452]

Is count zero good

[Anonymous No.23740459]

>>23740452
No. Stop at Neuromancer. Mona Lisa Overdrive is even worse.

[Anonymous No.23740471]

>>23740459
Howabout his other book, The Peripherals?

[Anonymous No.23740813]

>>23739650
No they actually couldn't, this is why feminism is such a harmful lie. The various growth hormones present in men during and after development are so potent that even "fit" women would not even have a chance in a fight against an average untrained male.

[Anonymous No.23740865]

I like progression fantasy, but I can't read all these stories with female protagonists. They're always do passive and let the story happen to them rather than the other way around.
Anyone else feel this way?

[Anonymous No.23740873]

>>23739724
this is why /pol/chuds shouldn't read books

[Anonymous No.23740879]

>>23738983
Martial World is a typical xianxia.

Read Girlfriend in a Turquoise Pond (the real name is longer). It's a bit of a different take on a more standard xianxia setting. Don't read it as your first xianxia.
A western one that I enjoyed with a different take is Arrogant Young Master Template from Royalroad. The story isn't finished, on hiatus, and will probably never be finished, but it's a great read for the chapters that exist.
>>23739059
I didn't like Cradle either.

[Anonymous No.23740916]

>>23740879
>Martial World
read it, it's good. I've actually shilled all those novels you mentioned itt dozens of times except cradle

[Anonymous No.23740983]

>>23740813
No no no. You've got it all wrong. Not "fit" women, /fit/ "women".

[Anonymous No.23740984]

>>23740341
Weren't they always on the losing side pretty much?

[Anonymous No.23740987]

Female protags getting love triangled is lame

[Anonymous No.23741002]

>>23740987
Female protagonists getting cucked by the male protagonist is based though.

[Anonymous No.23741010]

>>23736592
Tell me his best novel and I'll read it.

[Anonymous No.23741054]

Are these any good?

[Anonymous No.23741110]

>>23739363
Is-Is that the guy from the UHF Rambo spoof on the cover?

[Anonymous No.23741261]

>>23738983
Tales of Herding Gods

[Anonymous No.23741318]

>>23739665
No, I might read chinks though.

[Anonymous No.23741322]

Thoughts on this? I'm thinking about reading it, seems interesting.

[Anonymous No.23741336]

>>23740813
Anon, how fucking well do you think you would do against a trained female athlete? Especially an MMA fighter? Do you really think anyone on this board would stand a chance against a woman who fights for a living? I can't even run half a mile without getting out of breath, how the fuck am I supposed to fight a /fit/ woman (female)?

[Anonymous No.23741342]

>>23740813
>average untrained male.
4Channers are way below "average"

[Anonymous No.23741361]

>>23740370
His Demon Princes series is sci-fi, but it's all about a protagonist who schemes and plots to assassinate the villains.

[Anonymous No.23741362]

>>23741336
I think I would win in a blowout, because the sexual dimorphism, when it comes to physical strength, between men and women is so large that even a highly trained woman is no match for any dude off the street

[Anonymous No.23741372]

>>23741336
Why are you so easily baited? Just ignore the chud.

[Anonymous No.23741378]

>>23741362
How hard can you hit? Can you make a dent in a wall? Are you accustomed to taking punches and kicks? Do you know how to escape from chokeholds and the like? These are all things the trained woman would have experience with.

[Anonymous No.23741380]

>>23741372
I am morbidly curious how far their delusions go.

[Anonymous No.23741388]

>>23741380
The only delusion here is that a woman could ever be remotely competent in a fight again a man. Feminism has you so divorced from reality. Even a trained professional female fighter would get her ass beat by Joe 6-pack off the streets.

[Anonymous No.23741395]

I know this might be a bit contentious, but are there any good sci-fi books that are sort of like Annihilation but less onions? I really like the concept and the surreal elements of the story, even if it's kind of shit.

[Anonymous No.23741405]

>>23741322
Read it and find out.

[Anonymous No.23741421]

>>23741388
>Joe 6-pack off the streets.
What about Joe Mcscrawnyskinnyneet who can barely even lift?

[Anonymous No.23741431]

>fantasy novel
>chuds malding because women can be stronger then le men

[Anonymous No.23741435]

>>23741421
>>23741431

[Anonymous No.23741439]

>>23741431
I remember someone complaining in these threads that a sci-fi novel had some alien whatever gender species.

[Anonymous No.23741448]

>>23741336
It depends on a few things. My gf is a bit heavier than me (I'm a thin dude) and I was suprised when we started play wrestling how easy it was for me to throw her around, and I was holding my strength back.

So let's assume a lady knows how to throw punches... A man would be able to punch much, much harder and could resist her through brute strength. If the lady knows techniques on jiu-jitsu or stuff like that (which the average man knows nothing about), then mayyyybe they could pin an average Joe down... Maybe. I'm not even sure about that but let's just grant that they could.

[Anonymous No.23741458]

>>23740879
I liked that Lin Ming cut contact with his childhood ex because she left him for a Young Master. I bet cuckfag would have had a meltdown and call Lin Ming a cuck.

[Anonymous No.23741474]

>>23738781
so many critiques to this and all of them wrong. the book has some really good elements in it, very concrete style that's not for everyone, like for example some people think dunsany is crap too (i'm not comparing this to anything by dunsany). but the first half is a solid, inmersive well written neat thing. then it doesn't hold up, the author shoehorns in some weird stuff that i can't explain other than by the fact that she is a woman and it all kinda goes to shit specially towards the end

[Anonymous No.23741484]

>>23741431
fag
>>23741435
hood classic

[Anonymous No.23741485]

>>23738781
>but it's just a basic urban fantasy setting
Ah yes. The basic urban fantasy setting of an endless magical house that is in the universe of half-formed ideas. Such a cliche.

I'm not even saying it's the greatest thing ever but it is good and interesting and definitely much better than the constant slop output of "muh strong womyn" that fantasy has nowadays.

[Anonymous No.23741558]

>>23741448
I watched a YouTube video of some huge strongman trying to learn wrestling or some similar martial art from an accomplished wrestler. At one point the wrestler got into an advantageous position, but the strongman just pushed himself up through sheer strength.
I wonder if such a disparity would happen between a man and a woman too.

[Anonymous No.23741562]

>>23738906
You can try Edgar Rice Burroughs or Arthur Conan Doyle if you consider Lost World/Barsoom Sci-Fi enough for you. I personally have issues wih the prose but E.E. Doc Smith is considered a bridge from the scientific romances of the 19th century through the radium age of the 20th. Try his Skylark of Space for a good beginning point.

[Anonymous No.23741585]

>>23741558
Absolutely, even in the most legitimate fighting arts like wrestling or jujitsu, size and strength is such an overwhelming advantage that the very best fighters would still struggle with someone less trained but significantly bigger and stronger than them

[Anonymous No.23741967]

>webnovels aren't complete slop dude

[Anonymous No.23741977]

>>23741967
It's a short story right? How many chapters can there be about a single use condom?

[Anonymous No.23741985]

>>23741977
>he doesn't know about the landfill society saga

[Anonymous No.23741987]

Has anyone read this? Had to dig through the Russian internet to find an actual epub

[Anonymous No.23742007]

>>23741987
i didn't like it much. very well written but it's kinda boring and pretentious and uneventful. it's a good book only if you are into crowley

[Anonymous No.23742035]

>>23736319
Books similar to Vorkosigan???

[Anonymous No.23742058]

>>23740984
Mostly yes, but they always get out alive after taking huge chunks from the enemy, that's were their reputation stands. It helps that the Company is loyal to it's brothers not their employer, which in return is balanced by the fact that the employer usually wants to get rid of them when the job is done.

[Anonymous No.23742066]

>>23741987
>Had to dig through the Russian internet
At least you found a copy. Picrel has no digital version and even the paperback is really hard to find. It doesn't help that I'm not from the USA, I don't know when if ever I will read this thing.

[Anonymous No.23742107]

>>23742066
Maybe it's not a good book and destiny is stopping you from reading.

[Anonymous No.23742458]

What are some good fantasy novels? pref under 300 pages xx and without sequels

[Anonymous No.23742539]

>>23742066
care to talk about that book and the author? looking at it Samurai Cat and it seems fun and interesting

[Anonymous No.23742552]

>>2374245
Low effort question, so here is my low effort answer.

The Goblin Emperor
Curse of Chalion
American Gods (anything by Neil Gaiman really)
The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.23742554]

>>23742552
meant for >>23742458

[Anonymous No.23742622]

>>23737854
both by Neil gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Neverwhere and sequels although i did not read sequels

[Anonymous No.23742811]

>>23742622
I don't read jewish authors, sorry

[Anonymous No.23742833]

>>23739091
>>23739129
female-brained faggots
a story where MC gets cucked by one of his mentor/father figures is as low as it gets
>>23741378
stupidest shit I've read today
even male professional boxers can't damage a proper concrete or brick wall that's built right
even the weakest woman that can still get out of bed on her own can damage paper-mache of a drywall

[Anonymous No.23742852]

Holy fucking kino. I need more historical isekai fantasy. I read Lu-Bu's son-in-law but MCs teleportation shtick is too strong.

[Anonymous No.23742856]

>>23741977
He's an XXXL condom, so he's only purchased to try and impress the cute cashier girl and is never worn.

[Anonymous No.23742863]

>>23741002
>Rand fucked 3 women
>they all agreed to marry him and be his wives
>had kids with 2/3 of them
>Egwene died a virgin
WoT's ending was alright.

[Anonymous No.23742865]

>>23741421
why do you libtards always stoop down to ad hominem?
he complains about books, and in bad books the female warriors compete with trained male warriors
it does not fucking matter if a top 0.1% can take down an average 4channer/redditor (most likely yeah), she will never be able to compete with top 50% of trained male warriors

[Anonymous No.23742881]

>>23736592
>finish his latest novelette
>afterword
>mentions how his best-selling work (pic related) doesn't allow him to live off of writing but still gets him royalties every year
>"But my car needed a new battery and filters and that sweet Chinese money helped"
Bless the Chinese for buying sci-fi stories I guess instead of Westernfags buying gayshit.

[Anonymous No.23742882]

There is absolutely nothing worth reading in the modern fantasy genre except for Bakker, is there?

[Anonymous No.23742903]

>female warriors in fantasy books written by women who had professional physical training (military etc.)
Eeewww girls have cooties
>two trilogies full of gay rape written by a closeted canadian fag
Wow so epic, peak fantasy bros...

[Anonymous No.23742912]

>>23736319
>Stephen King ranked above Robert E Howard
Into the trash it goes!

Also, your star wars novels tiers needs to be completely re-written, preferably with less books written in the past 10 years and more written in the 90's.

[Anonymous No.23742976]

>>23742863
Egwene and Gawyn fucked off page. I'm sorry but it's true. She tells him she won't fuck him until they're married and then a few chapters later you find out they went back to Two Rivers and got married off page. They fucked. Neither of them died virgins but at least their stupid twat genes died with them.

[Anonymous No.23742977]

>>23741484
dragons are cool
female warriors are not cool
I rest my case

[Anonymous No.23743041]

>>23742539
Naive guy magic guy tries to improve people's lives. He discovers that everyone is a bastard (imagine the world from Hard to Be a God), gets really tired of their shit and decides he's gonna burn half of them to teach some respect to the other half. Hijincks ensues, there is a sequel called The Nightmare of God. Legend says it is such a foul book the publisher tried to delete it from history and never let anyone print again, thus why is so hard to find.

[Anonymous No.23743049]

>>23741054
Anyone who reads the Kingkiller books now, before book 3 releases, is retarded.

[Anonymous No.23743059]

>>23741380
At least to the post limit

[Anonymous No.23743091]

>>23742863
I am still furious about BestGirl having a womb as barren as the Three-fold Land.

[Anonymous No.23743173]

When get -2 to STR, but +2 to magical power, therefore when the MC how'd to magic school most other students are girls. MC swims in pussy while Chad McEvil is training to become a useless warrior.

[Anonymous No.23743203]

>>23743173
Women*
Even auto correct discriminates against women. Smh.

[Anonymous No.23743220]

>>23741485
I already recanted my statement about the basic urban fantasy statement in another reply. The main problem is that it was boring to me.

[Anonymous No.23743269]

>>23736522
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.

[Anonymous No.23743276]

Is there a guide on how to plan out a fantasy series ahead of time?

[Anonymous No.23743288]

>>23743276
Write the ending forst, then write the beginning, then connect the two.

[Anonymous No.23743321]

>>23737854
Nightside by Simon Green
>>23738396
>1) How are the Earthsea books?
Kino
>2) How are the Vorkosigan books?
Also kino but obviously not every book is a masterpiece, Cordelia best mom
>>23739091
>Should I dive into the rest of the series?
Yes, the series peaks with "Fool's Fate", Rainwild is still pretty good and then Hobb gets tired of people asking for more Fitz novels so she just pulls an Arthur Conan Doyle and writes the Fitz and the Fool trilogy
>>23741395
>are there any good sci-fi books that are sort of like Annihilation but less onions?
Annihilation is literally a modern take of The Crystal World by J.G Ballard so start with that,

[Anonymous No.23743325]

>>23743276
Yeah, write the whole shit down. Or at least plan the key points, theme and how all it will end, you can make adjusments as you write every book but if you follow the master plan everything will fit smoothly.

[Anonymous No.23743335]

Does anyone have ebooks for the Spaceways series by John Cleve it's some pulpy stuff someone recommended me and I'm interested but struggling to find it.

[Anonymous No.23743396]

>>23743220
The plot is not amazing, but the atmosphere is kino and the realization of what the title character has lost is sad as fuck.

[Anonymous No.23743723]

>>23743335
there's a bunch on anna's archive but who knows what the quality is like

[Anonymous No.23743734]

>>23743269
I visualized the entire book as swarthy 'jeets running around in turbans, having Bollywood fights with one another. At no point did the writing make me visualize anything else.

[Anonymous No.23743746]

>>23743723

You got a big ass dick, thanks.

[Anonymous No.23743851]

>>23742977
Female warriors in ENF scenarios are insanely hot though

[Anonymous No.23743924]

>>23743734
See >>23740873

[Anonymous No.23743960]

>>23743851
What is an ENF scenario?

[Anonymous No.23743993]

>>23741987
dunno bout this one but I"m reading The Deep right now (his first novel) and enjoying it immensely. It has a very dour, Shadowgate-style atmosphere with some GoT political bullshit thrown in.

[Anonymous No.23744043]

I ordered Jack Vance's The Complete Lyonesse and Gene Wolfe's The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.23744053]

>>23743276
Sanderson might have something about fantasy series specifically in his videos. Idk, I don't watch him.
For story structure in general, read Into the Woods.

[Anonymous No.23744106]

>>23742852
Augustus Road/Road of Augustus

[Anonymous No.23744132]

Every time I reread ASoIaF I get struck by how George just doesn't understand any unit of measurement and makes everything fuck huge. It honestly distracts from the story how huge George makes everything.

[Anonymous No.23744142]

>>23744132
If you think that's bad, never read Cormac McCarhty. His characters see riders 80 miles away lol

[Anonymous No.23744160]

>>23744053
>that quote
Nobody has self-respect anymore

Finally got to read picrel, it was a good but weird one. There are three books here, two are good and one is pretty lame. The first is the title's story, a hardcore military sci-fi, quite liked. The second is Jack Crow's tale which is also good but pretty disconnected in tone from the first, it's basically an adventure space opera. Then you got the MC backstory which is simply stupid, an absolute cliché full of melodrama. Thank God that was over fast. Imo this could have worked as two separate novellas and without the "MC is a super special guy" part, just a regular soldier that is really good at his job fighting his own personal war and going mad in the process. It's weird people barely mention the second half, if you are not into that shit you will hate half of the book. I read some people saying those parts helps to build the climax but I think it just breaks the action for no good reason.

At least now I get the comparisons between this and The Subterrenean War series, and to be quite honest it does the same story but better. The first book basically fuses Jack and Felix into one guy that spends 90% of the story inside his armor getting PTSD without time for the P (man is shell-shocked from day one and the war doesn't pause for him) with less "war bad" and more "war is a racket".

[Anonymous No.23744177]

>>23744132
I remember some interviews about how he was frustrated that his TV/movie scripts were always toned down because of budgetary reasons so he decided to write big in AsoIaF, everything is huge on purpose and it got a shitton of characters as a big fuck you to producers making everything smaller. It cycles back to GoT production making everything small and fusing characters because of time and money, I mean look at how the Iron Throne is supposed to look, man got cucked by his own power fantasy.

[Anonymous No.23744247]

>>23744132
>>23744177
Huge things are partially explained in-universe as relicts from Age of Heroes like the Wall and major castles, or even from times before like blackstone structures of Dawn

[Anonymous No.23744262]

Anon recommend me a fantasy novel inspired by Buddhism specifically Tibetan Buddhism

[Anonymous No.23744273]

Sexy dragon mommy Mistinarperadnacles i wish there was more art of thou

[Anonymous No.23744370]

>>23744273
is she like a dragon who can shape shift into human form or...are you a scalie who wants to be hump dragonmoms?

[Anonymous No.23744375]

>>23744370
No she's just a dragon. It's her personality I find hot honestly.

[Anonymous No.23744421]

>>23744375
Oh ok cool Already looked her up and she's from Azure Bonds
Picked up!

[Anonymous No.23744437]

>>23744160
>mfw Felix goes all out in the end

[Anonymous No.23744507]

This doesn't get recommended enough here.
>5/5 post apocalypse scifi

[Anonymous No.23744681]

>>23744421
Good man

[Anonymous No.23744695]

>>23744132
Its there to hint at magic leaving the world. Back in the day people used to be able to raise gigantic castles and walls and shit.

[Anonymous No.23744724]

>>23736319
Need more authors on the level of PKD.

[Anonymous No.23744763]

[Anonymous No.23744764]

>>23744724
and by need more I meant please recommend me more, am tired

[Anonymous No.23744849]

>>23742865
That's why said girl has a gun

[Anonymous No.23744857]

>>23743321
thanks. I started the first Earthsea book last night and it's extremely comfy. After I read the first Earthsea I'll read the first Vorko book - but which book should I read first? Publication order or chronological order?

[Anonymous No.23744944]

>>23736831
sauce

[Anonymous No.23745050]

>>23743960
Female warrior MC has to disguise herself as a dancer/courtesan to sneak into the bad guys lair/fortress. Her outfit leaves her legs, stomach, sides, and backside completely bare

[Anonymous No.23745080]

>>23744724
N. K. Jemisin

[Anonymous No.23745109]

>>23744724
Try Philip Jose Farmer if you want more of that era's drug infused writing. I have a personal feti- preference for Flesh, but Riders of the Purple Wage is a great showcase of his work in short story format.

I haven't read them myself but I always hear glowing remarks about A.A. Attanasio in ways that make me think he's simmilar to PKD.

[Anonymous No.23745130]

>>23745050
Any books where this happens?

[Anonymous No.23745176]

>>23744177
>>23744247
>>23744695
I don't mind shit like the Iron throne being silly huge, but Westeros being the size of South America, the Wall being 700 feet tall, Winterfell being fucking enormous, all of these things are unnecessarily large and then actively take you out of the story when the plot makes these outrageous sizes irrelevant. I don't care if most of the North's troops are in the Riverlands you can't tell me the Ironborn conquered an area the size of France in a medieval blitzkrieg or that Theon was able to take let alone hold a castle the size of Winterfell with 20 men for any meaningful time when he doesn't have enough men to man the walls. I am fine with giant things if they were treated like giant things, but outside of the Wildlings struggling to scale the Wall with Jon, most of the time the impact of their size is actively undermined by what happens in the story.

[Anonymous No.23745187]

>>23744262
Lord of Light

>>23744273
>>23744421
I will be reading this on a flight today, if I think it is good I will draw her. If I think it is mediocre you will not hear about it. If I think it is bad I will call you gay.

[Anonymous No.23745342]

>>23745080
She keeps getting recommended. How /coom/ are her books?

[Anonymous No.23745375]

>>23743924
Not my fault Zelazny made a book about Indians.

[Anonymous No.23745561]

>>23745342
She's pure woke reddit slop, avoid at all costs

[Anonymous No.23745597]

>>23745561
Thanks, good to know.

[Anonymous No.23745630]

Anyone read this series? it any good?

[Anonymous No.23745658]

>>23745630
Yes

[Anonymous No.23745691]

>>23745658
thanks

[Anonymous No.23745694]

[Anonymous No.23745720]

trash fantasy that is at the same tome comfy?

[Anonymous No.23745721]

I'm getting an itch to begin reading Wheel of Time again. But I'm also getting the itch to read Memory, Sorrow & Thorn. So many books to read and so little time

[Anonymous No.23745733]

>>23744849
non sequitur

[Anonymous No.23745734]

>Gay author is also a paedophile

Why is this always the case

>>23745721

I'm reading both at the moment for first time I'm enjoying Wheel of Time a lot more but Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn has its moments it just feels super slow and for anything to really happen but I like a lot of the lore so far. I mainly checked out MS&T to see where Martin lifted ideas from for Ice and Fire but I'm liking it

[Anonymous No.23745735]

>>23745720
>trash
>comfy

[Anonymous No.23745754]

>>23745734
>Gay author is also a paedophile
>Writes shit like Hogg
>NABLA member
niggas in the 70s were just openly pedos and still getting published can you imagine that shit now

[Anonymous No.23745756]

>>23745754
nambla*

[Anonymous No.23745767]

This was alright. It's the beginning of a new series by the authors of the Expanse (James S.A. Corey is a pen name for two people). It's getting the full marketing push and getting shilled everywhere because it's the kind of thing publishers salivate over, a promised "epic" new series from authors with a "proven track record" of selling books and getting licensing deals.

It definitely feels like it's written with adaptation in mind. The book, which has the distinct feeling of being the first book in a series (like, the plot ends up taking it exactly where you already knew it would need to go to tee up planned sequels) manages to take the reader through a parade of (what will be) "visually impressive" set pieces. I think the highlight is interesting world building and creative designs for the many alien species. The characterization is thin except for a couple of characters who are obviously being set up for future stories. The scenario is simple yet thought provoking. If I described the premise thoroughly (which would be "spoilers" because it's not fully revealed until the middle of the book), you'd be able to guess pretty much all of the "twists" in the plot. Even though it didn't surprise me in that regard, I can tell I am still going to be thinking about the implications of this one for a long time. Despite all my minor criticisms here, I liked it better than it sounds like I'm saying.

[Anonymous No.23745786]

>>23742882
Came here to ask about the guy’s whereabouts.

As anyone heard anything?

[Anonymous No.23745862]

>>23745786
Nothing since an AMA with his brother in 2022 where he said he goes back and forth on finishing the series or not, but is apparently dealing with life issues atm

[Anonymous No.23745869]

>>23742863
BRING MY DEATH FOR I BRING YOURS

Any other books for this feeling? The scale of final battle was peak cinema.

[Anonymous No.23745877]

>>23745767
They fucked up the expanse. The first seasons of it were good.

[Anonymous No.23745898]

>>23745877
I also dropped it somewhere after the third season, but I don't give a fuck about TV shows right now, this is /lit/.

[Anonymous No.23745906]

>>23740260
Wheel of Time is a major example to the contrary, as is Way of Kings.
I guess the key to having a good guy schemer in fantasy is a Christian author.

[Anonymous No.23745909]

>>23745869
>Any other books for this feeling? The scale of final battle was peak cinema.
Still looking. WoT ending honestly really hamstrung my sci/fan reading cause nothing else quite scratches that itch.

[Anonymous No.23745997]

>>23745906
Both Trash, but Sanderson is still miles above the Jordan hack.

[Anonymous No.23746030]

>>23745694
Also recommend this book, especially with the rise of Ai today.

[Anonymous No.23746039]

>>23745862
When the fuck did his brother do an AMA? All I saw was a local newspaper interview.

[Anonymous No.23746094]

>>23744507
will read, you better hope i like it

[Anonymous No.23746122]

>>23746030
the rifters trilogy is probably more directly related to AI shit. potential spoilers just by the rec I guess.

[Anonymous No.23746135]

A masterpiece. I cried when the dakka got big, and killy. I laughed when Princess bit the spikies head off. When the boomdakka snazzwagon was left behind I shed another tear. A true roller coaster.

[Anonymous No.23746339]

Zoomer writing is kino
>Diana, again, was an extremely competitive child. I would need to think of more games in the future to make for her to better develop her thinking and motor skills. But thankfully she’s still a child, and her internal battery is like one in a brand new smartphone. It lasts a long time at first, but once it hits zero percent, out like a light she goes.

[Anonymous No.23746345]

>>23746039
Sorry it wasn't an AMA it was a blog post in which he addressed the question everyone had been asking

https://www.newsload.ca/post/insights-on-the-second-apocalypse-book-series

[Anonymous No.23746351]

>>23741985
>china
>landfill
Good one. He's off to the pacific garbage patch and when he sinks he will find cultivation records, most of which are useless cause he doesn't have a human body, but there is a soul cultivation record too and he cultivates that until he can create a body.

[Anonymous No.23746353]

Any modern fantasy and sci fi that acknowledges the gallantry of self sacrifice instead of condeming it?

[Anonymous No.23746355]

Any good /sff/ written entirely by ai yet?

[Anonymous No.23746358]

>>23746355
>good
>written by an AI
Even the most current GPT forgets that someone died ten pages ago and brings them back.

[Anonymous No.23746359]

>>23746353
literally 99% of it you mentally ill chud. Stop crying that a small subset of popular modern authors disagree with you, nitwit.

[Anonymous No.23746361]

>>23746358
>the most current chat GPT
So 10000x less powerful and 100x less inference time than corpo private models huh?

[Anonymous No.23746363]

>>23746359
have you removed yourself from the gene pool yet?

[Anonymous No.23746364]

>>23746358
So that's how disney does it.

[Anonymous No.23746368]

>>23746363
You first, why don't you blow yourself up in support of white nationalism or genocide yet?

[Anonymous No.23746369]

>>23746364
And Disney's stock is worth less than it was four years ago by more than two fold, without accounting for the currency being at least 25% more worthless.

[Anonymous No.23746370]

>>23746368
haven't*

[Anonymous No.23746371]

>>23746368
I'd rather support my wife and kids while I watch your little movement "I can't breed" itself out of existence.

[Anonymous No.23746373]

>>23746371
>Incel thinks he has a wife and kids
Absolutely delusional. Stop posting here, you aren't welcome
>>>/pol/
>>>/r9k/
>>>/lgbt/

[Anonymous No.23746385]

>>23746373
lol @ your "life"

[Anonymous No.23746394]

>hi I'm a commie tranny and I can't fathom that everyone doesn't live a meaningless hedonistic existence like I do
>I can't breed
LOL

[Anonymous No.23746398]

>>23746359
I notice you have not provided examples.
If it's literally 99% of them, then it should be very easy for you to name three.

[Anonymous No.23746403]

>>23746398
The Light of All That Falls
The Stormlight Archive
A Memory Called Empire

[Anonymous No.23746413]

>>23746398
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
The Fifth Season
Legacy of Orïsha
Need I go on

[Anonymous No.23746417]

>>23746403
>>23746413
maybe you could put this much effort into being normal or at least not a freak

[Anonymous No.23746421]

>>23746413
>Legacy of Orïsha
KEK stop trolling, you have not read that shit

[Anonymous No.23746436]

>>23746398
The book I "reviewed" in this thread, which came out earlier this month (The Mercy of Gods), is all about recognizing the need for self-sacrifice.

[Anonymous No.23746448]

>>23746436
No one gives a fuck about your "reviews"

[Anonymous No.23746459]

>all of Bakker's work is soft disclosure
>Luciferian glowniggers caught on to his cheeky story, which is why he's gone into seclusion
>he won't finish the series because it's based off clever inversions of IRL historical events
>Bakker literally doesn't know how to finish the series because those events haven't happened yet

IRL No-God soon...

[Anonymous No.23746465]

>>23746448
second

[Anonymous No.23746466]

Rand chapter
>pulls Callandor out of his ass, has a schizo episode, gets overconfident, challenges the dark one to a duel and nukes the entire battlefield including friendly forces

Egwene chapter
>my fat ass keeps breaking my chair haha
it's so tiresome... The white tower plot line is dogshit.

[Anonymous No.23746473]

>>23746466
The only Robert Jordan you should ever read is his Conan novellas.

[Anonymous No.23746508]

>>23746436
>puts reviews in ""
>>23746448
Even he doesn't care about his own reviews.

[Anonymous No.23746537]

>>23746394
Meaning is overrated

[Anonymous No.23746576]

>>23746459
wait, the series isn't finished? I thought it ended with book 7?

[Anonymous No.23746605]

>>23746576
I believe there was always supposed to be three trilogies, but the story as he envisioned since he was a teen only entailed up to what is in the 7 books we have now.

[Anonymous No.23746637]

>>23746361
Err, those are the most powerful models. Most corporations use something even worse.

[Anonymous No.23746638]

>>23744944
Aimi Kash

[Anonymous No.23746653]

Seems I have to start doing this again. This fucker is just milking people. He opened a royal road and does fuck all.

Fuck E William Brown and his pay pig enablers.

[Anonymous No.23746678]

>>23746537
universe 25 exemplar

[Anonymous No.23746718]

>>23746466
>my fat ass keeps breaking my chair haha
Does this actually happen? Asking for a friend haha...

[Anonymous No.23746726]

>>23744421
>>23730339
>Azure Bonds
IIRC, that was /vr/ before it was /lit/. And for the late 1980s I'm told it was good /vr/.
There are a few games out there with books that are actually better than the game; "Halo"'s prequels come to mind especially Cole Protocol.

[Anonymous No.23746729]

>>23746718
An evil sorcerer trolls her by making her chair constantly break when she sits on it but I don't think she ever blames her giant ass

[Anonymous No.23746738]

>>23737323
besides >>23737351, Clark Ashton Smith was another influence on Vance.

[Anonymous No.23746784]

>>23746738
>Clark Ashton Smith was another influence on Vance.
Very different writing styles though. Cas was not whimsical or airy. More melancholy and coagulated.

[Anonymous No.23746796]

Best sci fi/fantasy stories with the MC undergoing mind control?

[Anonymous No.23746840]

Books in the subsubgenre "post-apocalyptic space opera"
I want to read about space empires in decay

[Anonymous No.23746842]

>>23746784
They are fundamentally different, but Clarke can get 'jiggy' with it in his own way sometimes.

[Anonymous No.23746843]

Fellas is it ok to cry when finishing your re-read of Wheel of Time? Man I'm so happy for Rand and Lan to finally have peace favour their swords

[Anonymous No.23746861]

>>23746843
I would cry for all the time wasted, yes.

[Anonymous No.23746862]

>>23746843
>re-read of Wheel of Time
Do people do this? Why do people do this?

[Anonymous No.23746878]

>>23746840
>post apocalyptic space opera
Do you have any examples at all you've already read?
In some ways, Star Wars would count: a lot of the galaxy are despotic lords (Moffs and independent factions) trying to please the Emperor...but I know you aren't talking about Star Wars.

[Anonymous No.23747004]

>>23736522
Book of the New Sun and other Dying Earth works
>>23741322
One of the finest novels I've ever read
>>23746459
Let him cook
>>23746840
I'm currently reading Tuf Voyaging, it's great and kinda qualifies

[Anonymous No.23747019]

Should I get Shadow&Claw in paperback or hardcover, chuds? I like the 2021 cover design, seems to be cool in HC, but the HC version priced around 50% more than paperback version

[Anonymous No.23747032]

>>23746718
She has a really shitty chair in her tent and every time she sits on it there's a 50/50 chance of it collapsing and throwing her to the floor.
Might as well.

[Anonymous No.23747035]

>>23747019
>50% more
50% more of what?
$30 for a hardcover isn't bad, but if the paper back is going for $50, suddenly paying 50% more is a big deal.

[Anonymous No.23747041]

>>23746861
No time is ever wasted if you're enjoying yourself anon.

[Anonymous No.23747048]

>>23747019
Depends on whether you plan to actually read the book or not.

[Anonymous No.23747092]

>>23747035
I was thinking about this as well, but my budget was low this month
>>23747048
Of course, what kind of question is this? I have read shadow of torturer before and I took a liking of it, I never read the continuation of that book and decided to buy the 2 in 1 version one

[Anonymous No.23747104]

>>23747092
Some people buy books just to put them on a shelf. In that case a hardcover is better. Paperbacks are more enjoyable to actually read though.

[Anonymous No.23747120]

>>23747104
This may sounds naive but I think the people who let their books rot in their shelf are c level people or corpo manager with their self improvement slop written by some literalwho motivator on the brink of a divorce with his wife. I dont think there's a genreslop enjoyer who did the same thing to their book like those people.
But, very well, paperback sounds fine although it'll be good if I have a HC version one. I wont be able to buy the book until september either so there's a lot of time to decide things. Thanks

[Anonymous No.23747142]

>>23747120
the big brain move is to pirate everything on an e-reader and only buy books you find worthy of display

[Anonymous No.23747145]

>>23747142
yeah this
saves you a ton of money too, a shame I realized it so late

[Anonymous No.23747165]

>>23747142
I've hardly bought a single physical book in probably ten years because no one would see them anyway.
Digital piracy is just too easy and convenient.

[Anonymous No.23747175]

>>23747165
I've started buying nice collector's editions of books I deem worthy of preserving to hand down to my children and their children.

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>>23744857
>but which book should I read first? Publication order or chronological order?
Chronological, you can skip Falling Free because it happens like 200-300 years before Miles is born.
Bujold herself made a reading order too
>http://www.dendarii.com/reading_order.html
>>23744262
It's more Zen Buddhism but The Initiate Brother by Sean Russell, all of his books are very spiritual. his writing style is similar to Guy GavrielKay and Tad Williams
>>23746726
The novel came first, then it became and adventure novel and then they turned it into a crpg, that being said Forgotten Realms did novel adaptation of their videogames, The Pools of Radiance trilogy was fun

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>>23745734
I actually love MS&T much more than Wheel of Time, though I also enjoyed WOT. Which is why I'm kinda torn.

And yes, you can definitely see similarities and some things where Martin took inspiration from Tad Williams. Have you noticed any?

[Anonymous No.23747291]

>>23745754
marion zimmer bradley was diddling kids with her wiccan friends for years and nobody said anything either, the 70s were wild

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>>23744273
>>23744370
>>23744375
>>23744421
>>23745187
>dragonfuckers found /sffg/
finally i'm no longer the only dragonchad

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>>23746135
Are those ork books really good? I only read Rites of Passage from Brooks, it was interesting and even pretty good in some portions but it went for too long and the author clearly didn't knew where to go to fill enough pages to meet his quota. Then I heard he is a massive virtual signaling faggot on twitter which is never a good thing.

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>>23746842
I love how that tale ends with "and so you should shut up about your little drama". CAS seemed to write just because he loved and would toy with other genres and concepts just because. ie, Schizoid Creator it's a pretty funny one.

[Anonymous No.23747543]

What would be some HIGHLY ENTERTAINING scifi thriller?

[Anonymous No.23747570]

>>23746363
Don't feel like it

[Anonymous No.23747574]

>>23746678
?

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>>23746861
>>23746862
t. Darkfriends

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>>23747612
Friends of the dark don't exist, the Dragon was the true enemy of mankind, lets all go back to masturbating, smoking weed, and watching tv.

[Anonymous No.23747625]

>>23746840
Isaac Asimovs Foundation has some of this.

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>>23747104
An autist who hates the corners getting fucked from regular use, hardcovers are worth it unless they add like $20 to the cost.

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>>23747358
For me it's that little spot between the base of the tail and the anus.

[Anonymous No.23748291]

>>23746466
tWoT is an occult book series with all sacred information held within.

[Anonymous No.23748403]

>>23746339
it's terrible and it doesn't even make any sense

[Anonymous No.23748414]

>>23746466
Don't worry fren, soon you'll have the more dull Andor succession plotline, where Elayne gets herself carried around the city while in a bed (yes really), then in book 11 the white tower plot will resolve itself (in a way that throws back to something Siuane said in one of the early books which is cool)
Rand will continue to be based, and you have Maradonkino to look forward to

[Anonymous No.23748438]

>>23747574
calhoun. that's the only clue you get.

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>>23748451
>>23748451
>>23748451
New!

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>>23745561
You faggot. You ruined the joke.

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>>23743993
>>23741987
some of my favorite books