/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

[Anonymous No.22405888]

Lovecraftian edition.

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[Anonymous No.22405939]

>>22405888
I am sick of lovecraftian shit. Space squids is incredibly overdone and incredibly uninteresting. It's a dead horse. The idea of looking out into the cosmos and finding absolutely nothing at all is far more terrifying.

[Anonymous No.22405954]

>>22405939
you are boring and gay. Doesn't have to just be tentacles, it could also be big black cock

[Anonymous No.22405974]

>>22405939
>Space squids is incredibly overdone and incredibly uninteresting
What about Subaquatic Squids?

[Anonymous No.22406003]

Just finished this. It was pretty good. I would have reworked the Pirate Polycule section and not used second person pov. It was very readable while maintaining a nice flow, I was surprised that it only took one shift to read. I will read the rest, but they're not high on my list.

5/6 Stars

[Anonymous No.22406010]

>>22405939
Except most of the stories that feature outer space have no tentacled entities at all. Maybe read him before you bag the stereotypes made by secondaries.

[Anonymous No.22406014]

Do any of you niggers have any booktuber channels that you follow?

[Anonymous No.22406022]

>>22406014
Brittany!

[Anonymous No.22406025]

>>22406022
hate this goblin

[Anonymous No.22406027]

>>22406014
Books with Brittany actually features a lot of fantasy, despite people seething that she doesn’t like Bakker.
https://youtu.be/rMH-ESRjMkU?si=4VXsQqnKjP7L_A6t
>>22405888
Why don’t you get all the Malazan books plus the prequels and sequels and spin offs, bros?

[Anonymous No.22406042]

>>22406022
Non-gash channels would be preferable, please and thank you.

[Anonymous No.22406050]

>>22406027
The amount of gross makeup this whore has on her face in every pic I see makes it clear this bitch is only interested in vanity, simps and patreonbucks, instead of books.

[Anonymous No.22406053]

>>22406042

[Anonymous No.22406058]

>>22406042
This dude did a doctorate in fantasy fiction and works as an editor in the publishing industry, as well as being open to freelancing. I think he’s probably the best to follow if you’re interested in analysis of the nuts and bolts of fantasy, but he also discusses fandoms and adaptations of fantasy a lot.
https://youtu.be/li9tlx2KfS0?si=v-WpieFlHlYQjoda

[Anonymous No.22406063]

>>22406053
black lacy bra , freaky hoe

[Anonymous No.22406066]

>>22406050
How do you know that? She slogged through the Malazan series which is millions of words. Why would anyone do that unless they enjoyed it or cared about it? BookTube has no fucking money in it. It’s even more of an unpaid hobby than writing.

[Anonymous No.22406068]

>>22406053
I hate soft covers so much, bros

[Anonymous No.22406071]

>>22406014
I like Gregory Sadler's series on Speculative Fiction

[Anonymous No.22406072]

>>22406014
Thitherword is the only channel I follow that covers fantasy. Tends to be classic stuff - a lot of his videos aren't actually about books, which is something to keep in mind.

[Anonymous No.22406081]

>>22406071
He just reads off a piece of paper that lifts lines from Wikipedia then goes on about some anecdotes or some autistic philosophy that’s extraneous to the fictional works he discusses. It’s tiresome after watching them for a while.

[Anonymous No.22406085]

>>22406081
And i like that

[Anonymous No.22406105]

>buh muh butterface
You don’t have to be sexist, guys. She would have thought you were cute if you weren’t so filled with pretension and hate. She isn’t a surface level kinda gal. No need to be so bitter. Let women feel welcome in fantasy. They’re people too.

[Anonymous No.22406151]

>>22405939
name ten space squid novels

[Anonymous No.22406153]

>>22406105
>people
>with tattoos

[Anonymous No.22406155]

>>22406014
I like Fantasy Nuttwork and Media Death Cult.

[Anonymous No.22406158]

>>22406068
based tstssffg poster

[Anonymous No.22406166]

>>22406068
>worst edition of “Complete” Lovecraft with a gaudy cover, which doesn’t include a good sum of stories
>random hardbacks intermixed with SF, which look rotten because they were bought from a charity shop after some baby boomer died

[Anonymous No.22406172]

>>22406166
What's the best edition then?

[Anonymous No.22406173]

>>22406166
damn, jealous much?

[Anonymous No.22406189]

Any other omnibus you guys recommend?

[Anonymous No.22406203]

>>22406172
These. Look for the revised and corrected editions, which are easy to find if you look up Arkham House editions of these collections. Even Wikipedia tells you which ones they are and how many were printed. Most of the meme editions from big publishers use the free domain texts that weren’t restored to Lovecraft’s manuscripts, nor even corrected for obvious mistakes. A lot of his work was butchered by editors of magazines. Later on, Derleth began to shove his own worldview into Lovecraft until people thought it was the genuine article, which also caused issues; these are the Arkham House editions to avoid. Look for the ones that came after they were corrected.
More recent collections came out at Hippocampus Press with notes. They might be cheaper if you live in the States.

[Anonymous No.22406211]

>>22406027
>Why don’t you get all the Malazan books plus the prequels and sequels and spin offs, bros?
Because i only expend my hard earned money in physical books.

[Anonymous No.22406216]

>>22406211
The ones you neglect to read and which gather dust? A man who works has no time to read.

[Anonymous No.22406217]

>>22406203
>4+ volumes

[Anonymous No.22406219]

>>22406105
Lol simps and patreon cucks just got cucked

[Anonymous No.22406220]

I enjoy this omnibus.

Post the
>last book you read
>current book you are reading
>next book you plan to read

[Anonymous No.22406221]

>>22406217
That should give you an idea of how much the “complete fiction” from Barnes and Noble leaves out.

[Anonymous No.22406222]

>>22405939
I agree, I wish for more strong feminist roastie protagonists and less space squids and fucking straight white males.

[Anonymous No.22406224]

>>22406211
Having a job sucks. There is no time to go to used book stores and when there is all the interesting books were already sold. Can't buy online because you don't know when will it ever arrive. But the worse part is realizing you don't want to spend your money on books after all.

[Anonymous No.22406229]

>>22406224
>But the worse part is realizing you don't want to spend your money on books after all.
Why don’t you people find another hobby to pretend to care about? I have no idea why Literature attracts people who aren’t made of the right stuff…

[Anonymous No.22406230]

>>22406229
Is this bait?

[Anonymous No.22406231]

Just shipped our latest project, so I'm free if anyone needs a cheap editor

https://www.fiverr.com/matthewg42

[Anonymous No.22406233]

>>22406230
What's wrong with what he said?

[Anonymous No.22406235]

>>22406233
It implies book collecting and a real interest in literature are the same thing.

[Anonymous No.22406238]

>>22406235
Owning a physical copy of your hobby is nice.

[Anonymous No.22406241]

>>22406235
If you work so much you can’t even buy books, why would you be able to read them?
The best you could do is listen to audiobooks on the job, but that’s not the same.

[Anonymous No.22406246]

>>22406022
love the trashy/less professional versions of the malazan covers. can't believe they switched to the edgy new style ones and never finished the set so now i have 2 books which don't match

[Anonymous No.22406257]

>>22406220
>last book you read
The Mask of the Sorcerer
>current book you are reading
The Judging Eye
>next book you plan to read
Probably some non-fiction. Madness & Civilisation, most likely.

[Anonymous No.22406259]

>>22406238
Never said that it wasn't
>>22406241
I think that's obviously a factor when thinking of buying a book

[Anonymous No.22406260]

>>22406166
Post your shelf, faggot.

[Anonymous No.22406261]

>>22406220
Gene Wolfe is the author of all 3

[Anonymous No.22406267]

>>22406220
>City and the City (it was shit)
>SoaDD & Grimscribe (Nyctalops Trilogy reigns supreme)
>Iron Dragon’s Daughter

[Anonymous No.22406332]

Why didn't anyone tell me The Wizard Knight was an isekai?

[Anonymous No.22406338]

>>22406332
Wasn't it obvious? I think it's everyone first or second thought when thinking of one

[Anonymous No.22406342]

>>22406260

[Anonymous No.22406350]

>>22405939
The problem with space squids is that they were meant to represent a universe that just doesn't give a shit about us, and nowadays everyone with a brain knows the universe doesn't care if we're here or not.

[Anonymous No.22406353]

>>22406342
Actually not bad, I apologise.

[Anonymous No.22406359]

>>22406353
Although it's a bit rich to berate anon's Lovecraft volume when you've the fucking paperback movie edition of the Lord of the Rings.

[Anonymous No.22406367]

>>22406359
It’s my childhood copy from when the movies came out. I was eyeing the new hardcover sets but they don’t seem to add much inside the covers beyond art.

[Anonymous No.22406370]

>>22406342
How's the Vintage edition of Gormenghast compared to the illustrated version?

[Anonymous No.22406383]

>>22406370
No art, notes, intro, preface. It’s not that great at all. But people say the only Gormenghast book to heavily avoid would be the one written by his wife after his death. To my understanding, she just wrote a fanfiction based on one extant paragraph he wrote.

[Anonymous No.22406393]

>>22406220
>last book you read
Blindsight, breedy gud
>current book you are reading
Echopraxia (more of the same, but good enough I guess) and Island in the sea of time (sometimes I start to enjoy it until weaboo stuff happens, also mediocre prose at best)
>next book you plan to read
Prolly going with The three body problem, don't think I'll continue the Nantucket trilogy

[Anonymous No.22406401]

>>22406383
>But people say the only Gormenghast book to heavily avoid would be the one written by his wife after his death. To my understanding, she just wrote a fanfiction based on one extant paragraph he wrote.
I read Titus Awakes recently. It's definitely different from Peake's style but she wrote it with the tone of his novels in mind. It's quite poignant in parts and you can tell she wrote it still grieving his death. I have heard that you get more out of it if you read her biography on Peake beforehand, but cannot verify this as I've not read that.

[Anonymous No.22406442]

Will Bakker release his Second Apocalypse short stories in some kind of collection at some point?

[Anonymous No.22406454]

>>22404165
Yeah, I read it and enjoyed it well enough. Gets points for having a thematically unique sort of setting. Loses points for having a good 75% of the conflicts in the story be resolved by "and then the mc prevailed because he was literally just better at everything than everyone else"

[Anonymous No.22406478]

>>22405939
Lovecraft isnt about space squids or tentacles, its about cosmic horror and the fear of the unknown. You being afraid to enter a dark room because you dont know whats inside is basically lovecraftian horror.
People focus on squids because Dagon is the only Lovecraft story they ever read.

[Anonymous No.22406482]

>>22406342
>the fetishist
>by Coomer
Lmao

[Anonymous No.22406483]

>>22406189
Is he making a third book?

[Anonymous No.22406498]

Bakkerlads: In The Judging Eye, Esmenet feels that only her two youngest children 'love'. The non-retarded twin boy seems a psycho like his father. Does she mean that the retarded twin loves her because of his lack of godlike intellect, whereas the other twin loves not her, but his twin?

[Anonymous No.22406509]

So… this is the “Dark Souls of /sffg/”? Can you bros even take it on?

[Anonymous No.22406511]

>>22406509
nice post, retard

[Anonymous No.22406513]

>>22406511
Image didn’t upload.

[Anonymous No.22406568]

We cannot make true fantasy or horror now because we have lost any sense of medievalism or the Gothic.

[Anonymous No.22406620]

/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.22406621]

>>22405939
This. There's nothing fucking out there. Space is SO BORING holy shit

[Anonymous No.22406625]

/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.22406651]

Why was 80s horror so edgy and shocking?

[Anonymous No.22406701]

>>22406220
>last book you read
The Library at Mount Char
>current book you are reading
The King of Elfland's Daughter
>next book you plan to read
Flowers for Algernon

[Anonymous No.22406706]

>>22406478
Lovecraftian isn't the same as the actual works of Lovecraft. And modern Lovecraftian is definitely just about space tentacles.

[Anonymous No.22406709]

>>22406651
I mean, yeah, dude looks like a pedo alright.

[Anonymous No.22406796]

>>22406701
>current book you are reading
>The King of Elfland's Daughter
Fucking BASED Dunsany reader

[Anonymous No.22406847]

>>22406621
>There's nothing fucking out there.
ngl this simple fact is more horrifying than most people realize

[Anonymous No.22406849]

>>22406847
>ngl this simple fact is more horrifying than most people realize
That's the point of Lovecraft's entities anyway. That other anon thinks they're "real" and "physical" in the stories. It's obvious they're symbols of the size of the universe, which makes us more insignificant than a worm.

[Anonymous No.22406868]

>>22406220
I wake up and post the image I didn't post before bed. Perhaps if I were an obnoxious shitposting shitstain, the specimen of this general would read the books I like. That seems to be the trick.

>The Hydrogen Sonata
>started a reread of Martian Time-Slip but I feel like proper hard sci-fi since Culture lacks on some fronts, mainly the exploration of technology and fulfilling space battles
>no clue atm

[None !SFFG.n1h7M No.22407017]

>>22405888
Slow Time Between the Stars, The Far Reaches - John Scalzi (2023)
An AI starship with full autonomy and human knowledge is tasked with populating a suitable planet with humanity regardless of how long it may take. I wasn't able to appreciate the AI's mindset. This novelette doesn't have either the problems of Scalzi's recent work that hinders my enjoyment or the parts that I find quite fun. It makes me wonder when and if I'll particularly enjoy anything from Scalzi again. I certainly want to as I prefer liking things to not.

[Anonymous No.22407023]

>>22407017
and with that, starting tomorrow I resume posting what I've written about novellas for the rest of the month. I'm still open to suggestions for what I ought to read, though this the last time I'll ask.

[Anonymous No.22407049]

>>22406220
>Last
See >>22406003
>Current
Haven't decided yet, but I haven't read a coomer book in a while so probably the latest A Court of Thorns and Roses book.
>Next
Also haven't decided yet. I think I'm gonna go with either The Basilisk Throne by Greg Keyes, or the first set of Bauchelain and Corbal Broach novellas by Steven Erikson.

>>22406332
Because it's not Isekai, is portal fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22407051]

>>22407023
>>22407017
your """reviews""" are SHIT
FUCK OFF

[Anonymous No.22407053]

Which warren could destroy Kellhus?

[Anonymous No.22407068]

>>22407049
>it's not Isekai, is portal fantasy.
same shit

[Anonymous No.22407086]

>>22407068
They haven't been the same shit since like 2012.

[Anonymous No.22407101]

>>22407086
They share so many roots and similarities that it doesn't really matter.

[Anonymous No.22407114]

any "sword and sorcerery" kino similar to Conan The Barbarian?

[Anonymous No.22407115]

>>22407114
Lords of Dyscrasia. It's basically the dark souls of S&S

[Anonymous No.22407125]

>>22407115
That's not an endorsement, soulsfag

[Anonymous No.22407135]

>>22407125
Let's see your highly lauded novel series. Just give me one novel review. You do have a novel, right?

[Anonymous No.22407138]

>>22407115
The Dark Souls novel is the Dark Souls of S&S.

[Anonymous No.22407182]

>>22407017
>I wasn't able to appreciate the AI's mindset. This novelette doesn't have either the problems of Scalzi's recent work that hinders my enjoyment or the parts that I find quite fun
What? Did this "novelette" not have your favorite strong women of color overcoming their white male patriarchy l issues and no straight males getting cucked? Truly the worst kind of literature.

[Anonymous No.22407183]

>>22407138
Lets put it to a vote. Which opening most filters the faint of heart?

[Anonymous No.22407221]

>>22406220
>last book you read
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
>current book you are reading
Ship of Magic
>next book you plan to read
probably will continue with the liveship traders trilogy

[Anonymous No.22407240]

>>22407221
Did you enjoy Kadath? I loved the dreamy silliness of it.

[Anonymous No.22407268]

>>22407221
>The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Sad Lovecraft never wrote anything better than this. And to think it was unfinished...

[Anonymous No.22407296]

>>22405888
SF/FA authors I shelved this year because they are bad or boring:

Avram Davidson - Infuriating style, difficult to parse, constipated. Uses archaic/uncommon words to poor effect, they just clog up his narrative.

Karl Edward Wagner - Bought his rare and out-of-print (but reportedly much-loved) Kane series. It sucks. Reads like wish fulfillment. Main hero is 'morally grey' in the make of Moorecock, but Wagner can't really write. Why would I root for some 'antihero' thief and thug? You aint Fritz Leiber.

Ursula K Leguin - Tried Earthsea but got frustrated that the stakes seem so low (because its YA fiction). I need more danger, sex, and trauma. I'll probably still read this one in full some day. She is a much more capable writer than the other two above.

[Anonymous No.22407306]

>>22406068
>based nytbs poster

[Anonymous No.22407318]

>>22406620
ISSTH is much much much better as a starting xianxia than reverend insanity.
Against the Gods is better than all of these

[Anonymous No.22407327]

>>22407296
Filtered by based wagner

[Anonymous No.22407328]

>>22407135
>(((lindberg)))
Cmon now

[Anonymous No.22407333]

>>22407240
Not used to reading stories with no dialogue but I did enjoy it. The trip to the moon was a big "wtf am I reading" moment for me.
>>22407268
Didn't know that. What about it was unfinished?

[Anonymous No.22407334]

>>22407327
Maybe its just that the first story in the collection was lame.

You look him up online and he has some loyal and effusive fans... gotta be something there...

plus I paid enough for this copy like a retard on ebay.

[Anonymous No.22407335]

>>22405888
uh, i was a victim of being placed in Australia and starved to death. Context for me?

[Anonymous No.22407338]

>>22407333
>The trip to the moon
Yet when gokuck does it in a single chapter you clap like a seal.

[Anonymous No.22407365]

>>22407338
i have no idea what you are on about

[Anonymous No.22407445]

>>22406568
>now
fantasy is like an 80 year old genre, the idea that there's been some decline in it because of changing societal perception is nonsense

[Anonymous No.22407447]

>>22407296
>Lords of Dyscrasia
How can you dislike Kane? Are you a woman?
>I need more danger, sex, and trauma
oh ok that explains it

[Anonymous No.22407495]

>>22407182
What a fetish you've developed for yourself.

[Anonymous No.22407500]

>>22407296
I don't like LeGuin's fantasy. Her SF is much better.

[Anonymous No.22407535]

>>22407445
>an 80 year old genre
Far older than that, especially if you count the Arthurian tales or Celtic mythos that all of our chivalrous, violent fantasy is based on. Even medieval Germans loved Sigurd who is archetypal for slaying dragons, as in Beowulf.
>nonsense
Name one good fantasy book in the 21st century.

[Anonymous No.22407561]

What are some books that

[Anonymous No.22407586]

>>22407535
yeah amazing how a genre's older if you include stuff that isn't part of it

[Anonymous No.22407593]

>>22407318
Martial world is better. Issth has a very specific style that people either like it or hate it

[Anonymous No.22407596]

>>22407586
Even Gene Wolfe thought Homeric epics were fantasy.
"""Big Fat Fantasy""" novels are a new thing, but they will quickly die when people grow sick of the bloat and the rolls of skin on them. We need a lean fantasy. A hard fantasy. A dark fantasy. A Gothic fantasy. A tragic fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22407616]

>>22407495
Yeah you know all about fetishes

[Anonymous No.22407630]

>>22407596
You have source for that surely

[Anonymous No.22407639]

>>22407630
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm

[Anonymous No.22407658]

>>22407593
I think I read true martial world before martial world, cause of translation order or speed or something. Since they are largly unrelated I would actually recommend that order, as TMW is a great starting xianxia (one anon pointed out a few threads ago that TMW starts high and ends low while MW is the opposite).
I agree that these are more xianxia, but the average sff reader needs at least some real plotline/good arcs to 'get' xianxia without having to dive into a pure xianxia (which issth is, but as you say it is more stylized, with a specific kind of humor and, I would say more ("real") characters and more character driven than the average xianxia)

[Anonymous No.22407669]

>>22407658
I would not recommend TMW to anyone, I tried reading it and it felt like it was written by completely different person, the writing style was completely different and in my opinion it was trash (though I could only manage about 60 chapters, maybe it improves later on)

[Anonymous No.22407675]

>>22407669
I completely disagree, perhaps you were reading mtl

[Anonymous No.22407680]

Holy.... is it true, SFsistahs?

[Anonymous No.22407697]

>>22407680
sure why not

[Anonymous No.22407710]

>>22407675
Where did you read it? Can you provide a link to a "good" version?

[Anonymous No.22407713]

Reading the Bladed Faith by David Dalglish. No matter how often authors try to tell me that some fat chick is actually the most terrifying part of an organized rebellion because she can kill while smiling, I'm just not buying it.

[Anonymous No.22407735]

>>22407680
This is how you market things to the brain-rot generation.
>Do you like game?
>This like game!
>Now buy.

[Anonymous No.22407740]

>>22407735
Millennials read more than other demographics, yet they're the ones who created Dark Souls and Marvel universe slop. Riddle me that. Not a single one of them can write well either.

[Anonymous No.22407746]

>>22407735
I don't think marketing was better or more genuine in previous generations

[Anonymous No.22407753]

>>22407616
That's true.

[Anonymous No.22407755]

>>22407740
Dark souls was created by japanese and marvel is jewish

[Anonymous No.22407772]

12 Miles Below

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42367/12-miles-below

The world is in ruins.

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. Frozen derelicts of bygone eras span across massive ice wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within.

The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface. But it’s another disaster underground. Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The land itself shifts over time, more contraption than rock. And an ominous prophecy states that the key to everything waits on four heroes - but nobody knows who or where they are.

When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong, Keith Winterscar and his father get trapped together in a desperate fight for survival. Stumbling upon an ancient war of titanic scale; the two will need to set their differences aside while they struggle against Gods, legends, and the grand secrets of the realm that lies below.

[Anonymous No.22407774]

>>22407755
Then why are Millennials the main demographic to consume it? Gen X are too high and hate computer games anyway, Boomers are on life support machines or in holiday homes, and Zoomers/Alphas don't enjoy anything but the heroin of social media.

[Anonymous No.22407796]

>>22407774
Zoomers are too dumb to into computers and anything that does not have standard smartphone interface, this was caused by prolonged smartphone use at young age. Millenials did the same thing except they spent too much time on their computers.

[Anonymous No.22407802]

>>22407710
I read it on wuxiaworld while it was being translated (I just checked and it's not there anymore).
Here is a scrape from 1st kiss that is what I read.
epub + raw text for any format you want.
https://files.catbox.moe/0tioqy.zip

[Anonymous No.22407809]

>>22407746
It was definitely better because they didn't have it down to a science yet.

[Anonymous No.22407817]

I read the start of a lightnovel that was like some dude who spent 10000 years in a dream state practicing sword technique. Is there anything with that premise.
I don't like le old reincarnator who knows everything (or knows everything but still gets owned by people 1/1000000th his age and powerlevel for the plot which is cancer) , I just want someone who is so skilled at something it breaks world logic.

[Anonymous No.22407819]

What's the Dwarf Fortress of books?

[Anonymous No.22407823]

>>22407817
Cautious Hero

[Anonymous No.22407829]

>>22406706
>lovecraft derided for purple prose
>reads like a modern version of poe or a more ornate hemmingway
>best and most vivid work is his fantasy, which towers over most other works of fantasy written thereafter
>was mostly known for being an editor during his lifetime
Why is it that so many modern so-called “Lovecraftian” authors seem to have never read any of his stories.

[Anonymous No.22407831]

>>22407740
>Millennials read more than other demographics, yet they're the ones who created Dark Souls and Marvel universe slop.
That was Gen X

[Anonymous No.22407843]

>>22407817
>I don't like le old reincarnator who knows everything
>I just want someone who is so skilled at something it breaks world logic.
What about reincarnator who only knows a one thing (or two) ? Or what about someone who has many skills but is not a reincarnator?

[Anonymous No.22407854]

>decide to read Wuxia
>expect kung fu movie stuff
>get references to archaic poems in Literary Chinese
>extreme levels of ultranationalism and belligerence that would only make sense to a warrior from a city-state back in antiquity
>over the top and ludicrously violent fights that mostly happen because of Chinese autism, only for the people involved, who were just trying to murder each other not even a minute ago, immediately decide to swear oaths of brotherhood over wine
>poor peasant characters going into an inn and ordering copious amounts of wine, meat, side dishes, and all sorts of stuff, something that occured in Water Margin except the characters in Water Margin were wealthy bandits
>Acts of chivalry combined with acts of extreme autism
Wuxia novels are a trip. Not something you’ll easily find in the West.

[Anonymous No.22407856]

>>22407802
this is the same version I read, I am sorry maybe later it picks up but at least at early chapters is terrible and nothing like MW.

[Anonymous No.22407861]

>>22407823
>Cautious Hero
Exact opposite of what I'm asking for. 1 skill that is fairly common, but taken to an extreme.
>>22407843
>one thing
Then what is the point? Having memories and skills from another life and not using them is also annoying.

[Anonymous No.22407864]

>>22407854
That is why you should read xanxia instead of wuxia.

[Anonymous No.22407867]

>>22407864
Never said I didn’t like Wuxia. In fact, Wuxia is one of my favorite genres specifically because of the cultural autism that went into their creation.

[Anonymous No.22407870]

>>22407861
most reincarnators were average people or just neets with no real skills before being transported to another world

[Anonymous No.22407882]

What's the Dwarf Fortress of books?

[Anonymous No.22407887]

>>22407819
>>22407882
TWI
Lot's of characters. Insane one-man production.

[Anonymous No.22407894]

>>22407870
That's fine but unrelated and pointless. Beside most reincarnator novels either
1) have the reincarnator conform to the world, being no different from if they were just born there. This is most reincarnator xianxia, e.g. warlock of the magnus world
2) have the world conform to the reincarnator, either forced by the reincarnator or just lazy writing

Very rarely do novels play on a reincarnator's common sense with the world's common sense in any meaningful way. For more than a few chapters anyway.

[Anonymous No.22407900]

>goyslop
:/
>chinkslop
:O

[Anonymous No.22407904]

>>22407894
I would think that kingdom/dungeon building novels done well wouldn't fall to number 2, but I'm not very experienced, only read re:monster, blue core and the tree (of aeons?) shit from scibblehub (and a few other some other non reincarnator stuff).

>>22407900
1.4 billion possible authors, what are the Indians doing, other than shitting up youtube with bad interpretations of documentation and manpages?

[Anonymous No.22407918]

>>22407900
I think it's because there isn't every major /lit/ institution shilling the latter nonstop, despite shit like HP, LOTR and GOT being worse in many respects than random webnovels and "chinkshit".
Especially LOTR and HP where all good ideas have already been completely stripped out and put into better shit, GOT didn't have anything original though so idek why that shit is shilled so hard.

[Anonymous No.22407925]

>>22407918
>goyslop
:/
>chinkslop
|O

[Anonymous No.22407943]

Novel where the mc is a cultivator but he is on a planet/plane/galaxy where everyone else uses an rpg system. But he cultivates very slowly so he isn't OP. Not immortal until after he leaves the rpg plane.

[Anonymous No.22407954]

>>22406220
>last book you read
Pariah by Anthony Ryan. Pretty good first book, but saw hints of where it was going down the line and I'll probably tap out after book 2.
>current book you are reading
Sabriel by Garth Nix. Heard a lot about this book over the years, so I'm finally reading it. Like it well enough, but I'm mostly trying to make sense of the setting right now. A hundred pages in and it's not really clear what's going on with it.
>next book you plan to read
Martyr by Anthony Ryan. My expected stopping place for this trilogy.

[Anonymous No.22407961]

>>22407918
>I think it's because there isn't every major /lit/ institution shilling the latter nonstop
Yeah I understand contrarianism, it's a big thing on this website. Contrarians are the more tiresome people to deal with. They're every bit as brainless as the people who follow public opinion, because they're no less controlled by it. If the general public follow "the consensus" like a weather vane pointing with the wind, the contrarians are simply the ass-end of the weather vane, pointing the opposite way, no less controlled by the wind.

[Anonymous No.22407969]

>>22407943
Rather. Normal person mc, but goes into permadeath vmmorpg, after a few years it turns real and traps everybody inside (everyone who plays is already addicted to it and treats it like real life anyway). The mc just started playing right before and got the unique class cultivator. Barring plot devices, most of the other classes are powerful at the start, but deadends. Cultivators are also strong, but slow to start but eclipse everyone after coreformation and can become immortal like any cultivator novel. Eventually mc flys back to earth and takes his body because he needs it for spirit severing and it becomes a magical treasure clone that is just a strong as him.
>>22407961
>Intentionally missing the point to virtue signal about how smart you are as an enlightened centrist
You are the most tiresome type of person to "deal with"

[Anonymous No.22407990]

I refuse to read any book with a "mc"

[Anonymous No.22407998]

>>22407961
Don't you see that reading any of the thousands of books that aren't on a "best sellers" list is just the complete opposite of reading whatever shekelstein gave the thumbs up to? You are playing right into his hand
MEDS! NOW!

[Anonymous No.22408007]

>pfft, you refer to the protagonist as the "main character"? For shame.....

[Anonymous No.22408010]

Apologise, /sffg/...

[Anonymous No.22408021]

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/steven-eriksons-malazan-book-fallen-tor-publishing-group-books

[Anonymous No.22408037]

>>22408010
Apologies*

[Anonymous No.22408046]

>>22407680
I guess so

[Anonymous No.22408052]

>>22407990
>pro·tag·o·nist (pro-t4gùN-nVst) n. 1. The main character in a drama or other literary work.
>PROTO-, PROTON, from Greek protos, first, foremost
>agonist from Greek agein, to drive, lead, weigh.
>MAIN, from Old English mægen, power, from Germanic suffixed form *mag-inam, power.
This is why mcs are more OP than your average protagonist.
You are welcome for the free /lit/ lesson

[Anonymous No.22408103]

>>22407990
I want to read a drum and bass fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22408111]

>>22407894
mixing science and magic/cultivation is hard and does not really work, I have read a couple of fantasy novels where science got involved and the tone of story changed to this neither scifi or fantasy story, in the end science won and magic became just some very advanced quantum field science. Best not to mix the two.

>>22407904
Indias culture is too fragmented, there are just too many aspects of it and too many different people believing different things and even talking different languages, Chinese in this regard are a lot more united. Also indians are really bad at expressing themselves verbally (many reasons for this).

[Anonymous No.22408123]

>>22407680
here's another gay image

[Anonymous No.22408135]

>>22407969
nta but many webnovel authors have great (or at least good) cultivation mechanics however they cannot tell even simple story.

[Anonymous No.22408146]

>>22408135
True. But when you find them if they are popular it is easier to find someone who takes the premise and does it justice

[Anonymous No.22408164]

Battle of the SF generations!
Roll to see who you must read!
Read any book from your generation's deemed champions!
Which generation of SF is greatest?

[Anonymous No.22408183]

>>22408164
I ROLL REVEREND INSANITY.

[Anonymous No.22408192]

>>22408183
>3. Progressive
Suggestion for you if you can't decide.

[Anonymous No.22408193]

>>22408164
What ever I roll I will read Against the gods (Ni Tian Xie Shen)

[Anonymous No.22408219]

>>22408193
UOOOOOOOOOOOH JASMINE BELLY AND CHEST

[Anonymous No.22408229]

>>22408219
>The girl looked to be either twelve or thirteen years old and wore a messy dress. Her daintily cute and petite body was curled up like a frightened kitten. Below her skirt’s hem revealed two slender snow white legs but upon closer scrutiny, there was actually a distribution of little fine scars. She wore one black shoe on her foot, with the other shoe no where in sight. Her naked foot was like a delicate ice lotus and her exquisite toes were as clear and translucent as a jade carving.
>This girl was so beautiful, a monstrous beauty, so beautiful that she could probably steal souls. If he was not seeing her with his own eyes, he would never have believed that such a young girl could unexpectedly release such thrilling charm.

[Anonymous No.22408235]

Are there any rec charts for fantasy with age difference romance subplots?

Preferably with younger women and happy endings.

[Anonymous No.22408237]

>>22408235
I don't know why you think charts are the only acceptable sort of recommendations.

[Anonymous No.22408242]

>>22408235
No Game No Life

[Anonymous No.22408249]

>>22408229
what’s with the precious gemstone and beautiful plant allusions that are specifically used with feet in xianxia and wuxia novels?

[Anonymous No.22408251]

>>22408235
Based anon not allowed near any high schools anymore so he turned to books to cope. Same.

[Anonymous No.22408264]

Whether it's historic, low, or high fantasy the ideal heroine age is 12 with the protagonist being 16-25.

[Anonymous No.22408292]

>>22408264
I hate cultivation novels where the characters are thousands of years old but they age to their "desired age" which is 16-20
I love cultivation novels where the characters are thousands of years old but they age to their "desired age" which is max 12 for girls and cute boys

[Anonymous No.22408299]

>>22408264
>>22408251
>>22408235
You guys are based

[Anonymous No.22408306]

>>22407630
Do you have a source on that?

Source?

A source. I need a source.

Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.

No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.

You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.

Do you have a degree in that field?

A college degree? In that field?

Then your arguments are invalid.

No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.

Correlation does not equal causation.

CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.

You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.

Nope, still haven't.

I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.

[Anonymous No.22408310]

>>22408264
Not really. It's a 17-18 year old male protagonist with a 30-40 year old seductress and/or harem of demon sluts.

[Anonymous No.22408361]

>>22407680
Currently reading it, it’s pretty good but I wouldn’t say it’s “dark souls” especially since their themes are completely different. BOTNS has a strange theme of humanity to it where despite the hopelessness of urth’s situation those who are in the citadel still live as best they can, while dark souls feel the opposite as to where despite all you do and whatever strength you can muster the age of flame will fade away and all will fall to darkness

[Anonymous No.22408371]

>>22408235
>Are there any rec charts for fantasy with age difference romance subplots?
Yes
>Preferably with younger women and happy endings
Cringe and gay

[Anonymous No.22408381]

What's with all the pedos on /sff/ as of very recently

[Anonymous No.22408385]

>>22408371
I like all women from hebes to MILFs.

[Anonymous No.22408386]

>>22408371
>imagine her dropping does cheeks on your diamond dick
Need more older women younger men books.

[Anonymous No.22408396]

>>22408381
Probably some secondaries who thought Berserk was cool, so they came here with their lust for Loli butterfly girls and father on teen daughter incest. Fucking f/a/gs I swear.

[Anonymous No.22408397]

>>22408235
Read Greg Keyes.

[Anonymous No.22408401]

[Anonymous No.22408413]

There are five boards entirely dedicated to weeb shit and yet you still feel the need to spam it here. I will never understand you people

[Anonymous No.22408419]

>>22408386

[Anonymous No.22408423]

Japanese literature is good.

[Anonymous No.22408426]

>>22408423
Name one good book in japanese

[Anonymous No.22408429]

>>22408401
Notice the sheer lack of Steven Erikson on that chart. It pays to be a health nut boomer who shall give us another few series before he dies as a cyborg at 120.

[Anonymous No.22408433]

>>22408426
人間失格

[Anonymous No.22408434]

>>22408426
boku no pico

[Anonymous No.22408442]

>>22408426
Musashi and Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa is Zen-kino.

[Anonymous No.22408443]

>>22408426

[HI No.22408444]

Hi Buddy
Good luck with your war
I hope you find your dad

[Anonymous No.22408449]

>>22408219
>>22408229
She's older than 20, so it's fine even if she look only 12 or 10 sometimes, the author says. He keeps making underage girls as love interests

[Anonymous No.22408453]

>>22408371

[Anonymous No.22408460]

>>22408449
Which novel?

[Anonymous No.22408462]

>>22408453
Considering age of consent laws during the first half of the US, there must have been many cunny books that have been lost or destroyed

[Anonymous No.22408464]

>>22408460
Against the Gods (Ni Tian Xie Shen)

[Anonymous No.22408465]

>Lolita on the list
Disregarded. That book is dogshit.

[Anonymous No.22408469]

>>22408464
I know that, I mean which one does he have a 10-year-old girl. Unless that's well after he goes to the divine realm

[Anonymous No.22408470]

>>22408371
Sauce?

[Anonymous No.22408473]

>>22408426
Coin Locker Babies

[Anonymous No.22408486]

>>22408465

[Anonymous No.22408493]

>>22408469
It was another novel by the same author, the VRMMO one.

[Anonymous No.22408508]

>>22408493
Shura's Wrath?
I checked the wiki and it said she was 16, is that just her current age, is she young for most of it or does it immediately time skip 6 years.

[Anonymous No.22408517]

Morrowchads rise up(because Telvanni don't use stairs)

[Anonymous No.22408521]

>>22408123
TDS has broken so many smooth brains. I love it.

[Anonymous No.22408528]

>>22407296
>Reads like wish fulfillment
I think you might be retarded, anon.

[Anonymous No.22408529]

>>22406478
there are no squids in Dagon
t. literally just finished it seconds ago

[Anonymous No.22408530]

>>22408386
>imagine her dropping does cheeks on your diamond dick
Oh myyyy...
>Need more older women younger men books.
The Dagger and The Coin has one, Daniel Abraham's wife is older than him so he's always writing about older women.
Honestly i don't even look for reverse age-gap romances in fantasy anymore since they are so few of them, i'm just happy whenever i find a fantasy book with older women in a significante role.
>>22408419
I don't think Tampa counts, the teacher was in her twenties.
>>22408470
Manilla.

[Anonymous No.22408537]

>reading a isekai
>they mention a real world equivalent to 1 gold
>the monetary system immediately becomes complete nonsense with people getting paid £20k for single jobs
pretty funny desu, obviously don't care about these things enough to turn on a book but I guess that's why most people obfuscate it a bit

[Anonymous No.22408539]

>>22408426
I'll name my favorites. Can't comment on their translations, though.
三島由紀夫 潮騒 (Mishima Yukio; Sound of Waves)
夏目漱石 こころ (Natsume Souseki; Kokoro)
大江健三郎 性的人間 (Ooe Kenzaburo; Sexual Human)
吉川英治 宮本武蔵 (Eiji Yoshikawa; Miyamoto Musashi)
谷崎潤一郎 痴人の愛 (Tanizaki Junichirou; Naomi // Fool's Love)
石原慎太郎 太陽の季節 (Ishihara Shintarou; Season of the Sun)
島崎藤村 桜の実の熟する時 (Shimasaki Touson; When the Cherries Ripen)
川端康成 古都 (Kawabata Yasunari; The Old Capital)
大岡昇平 野火 (Oooka Shouhei; Fires on the Plain)
Dazai Osamu isn't as good as people say he is.

[Anonymous No.22408542]

>>22408537
>reading a isekai
Do zoomers really...?

[Anonymous No.22408543]

>>22408537
Reverend insanity doesn't have this problem.

[Anonymous No.22408544]

>>22408530
Is the character called Manilla?

[Anonymous No.22408547]

>>22408542
I'm older than that lol
Wanted to explore more of the fantasy slice of life subgenre and I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that it's actually pretty hard to write a good one

[Anonymous No.22408553]

There are some decent isekai. They're better than a lot of boomer fantasy shit like dune or wheel of time.

[Anonymous No.22408558]

My isekai 3x3 WIP

[Anonymous No.22408565]

>>22408385

[Anonymous No.22408566]

>>22408558
Why do all of them have little girls on the cover? I want adult fantasy, not children books.

[Anonymous No.22408575]

>>22408566
Bottom left is teenage protagonist and that is a goddess.

Bottom right is in his 20s and that's a goddess.

Middle is a college girl reincarnated as a child.(it's not body snatching, the girl died from sickness)

Top left is an adult who died and kept his memories after he was reincarnated.

Same with middle top.

All adult fiction.

[Anonymous No.22408580]

>>22408539
Unironically good post.

[Anonymous No.22408589]

>>22408539
>No Botchan
>No Kobo Abe
>No Shusaku Endo
>No Edogawa Rampo
Nonetheless a good list anon

[Anonymous No.22408590]

>>22408553
>They're better than a lot of boomer fantasy
>WoT
If your only standard for good booner fantasy is fucking WoT then you are a retard.
Dune isn't that good either.

[Anonymous No.22408595]

>>22408544
No, that's the name of the artist.

[Anonymous No.22408596]

>>22406220
>last book you read
The color out of space
>current book
Hyperion
>next
Not sure yet, prolly something short not necessarily sff

[Anonymous No.22408600]

What was your first real sci fi novel?

[Anonymous No.22408603]

>>22408595
Put off by the timing in this one. The initial gif posted had quite good anatomy of the shoulders and positioning of the arms.

[Anonymous No.22408607]

>>22408600
Jurassic Park I think

[Anonymous No.22408608]

>>22408590
I was just giving examples of popular boomer shit. I think they're both awful, I like isekai.

[Anonymous No.22408622]

>>22408590
I recommend not investing much time here because unfortunately that is a significant and consistent portion of this general's post contents.

[Anonymous No.22408624]

>>22408575
THEY ARE ALL IN LITTLE GIRL BODIES.
Why do jap fags think saying "is a goddess" means it's okay to have a 6 year old girl in a story looking for dick?

[Anonymous No.22408625]

>>22408537
>£20k for single jobs
He says with 10% inflation

[Anonymous No.22408636]

>the anon who likes to larp as a redditor has entered the thread

[Anonymous No.22408640]

>>22408636
Can you exit the thread and don't announce yourself ever again?

[Anonymous No.22408643]

>>22408622
The fact that 90% of what this general talks about was all shit I read the first year of middle school at the school library (HP, LOTR, hobbit, WoT, Eragon) is fucking pathetic.
But the 10% that talk about cunny and xianxia/cultivation make it worth.

[Anonymous No.22408646]

>>22408643
When the fuck have we ever talked about eragon

[Anonymous No.22408649]

>>22408646
Ok I threw that one in there for the meme kek. But it has been discussed.

[Anonymous No.22408652]

>>22408624
The only one in a little girl body is the WOMAN that reincarnated as a 5 year old girl.

[Anonymous No.22408657]

>>22408646
re: eragon
If you call your series a "cycle" then it doesn't deserve to be read by anyone with more than 6 braincells.
>>22408652
I will mouth Rudy's tiny boy penis

[Anonymous No.22408660]

>>22408603
That one is just a doodle, the full animation isn't done yet.

[Anonymous No.22408663]

>>22408600
I've been reading sff novels since I learned to read. I couldn't possibly tell you the first one.

[Anonymous No.22408670]

>>22408600
How'd this ugly bitch get so popular?

[Anonymous No.22408671]

>>22408600
Not novel, but any paper but I consider any paper that fell for the angular momentum meme to be "sci fi"

[Anonymous No.22408678]

>>22408600
Probably dragonball or 1984

[Anonymous No.22408683]

>>22408643
Yes, the average poster here hasn't even read belgariad, literally baby's first fantasy series.

[Anonymous No.22408688]

>>22408539
ベースド

[Anonymous No.22408690]

>>22408678
>dragonball
>Novel
The absolute state

[Anonymous No.22408693]

>>22408670
She was young, skinny, and took rough dicking.
She gave off that girl next door vibe. All the basement dwellers felt she was in their range.
Same reason Mia Khalifa got popular.

[Anonymous No.22408694]

>>22408678
>>>/a/dbs, spic.

[Anonymous No.22408695]

>>22408517
>tfw no TES novels about Telvanni chads

[Anonymous No.22408696]

>>22408690
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction

[Anonymous No.22408704]

>>22408694
If you guys are unaware the dragon ball super threads on /a/ are one of the funniest generals on this site.

[Anonymous No.22408720]

>>22408696
You are of those faggots who reviews manga in Goodreads right

[Anonymous No.22408723]

>>22408720
I don't use Amazon services.

[Anonymous No.22408734]

>>22408694
You seem jelous that none of your mc's will be even half as cool as a db side character
>>>/a/256346362

[Anonymous No.22408735]

>>22408643
>no one in this general is familiar with the tale of the spear-danes

[Anonymous No.22408739]

>>22408735
>no one in this general cares about ancient shit that gets hyped by literal boomer faggots
Good

[Anonymous No.22408741]

>>22408678
>>22408690
>>22408694
>>22408734
>Dragon Ball

[Anonymous No.22408744]

>more underage ESLs

[Anonymous No.22408752]

>>22408744
White people are not reading gookslop.

[Anonymous No.22408758]

>>22408752
Yes we established that DB fans are literal spics.

[Anonymous No.22408760]

That putrid smell has re-entered the thread....

[Anonymous No.22408785]

LOTR is highly rated because it's a kinda old series that influenced a good deal of modern (1960-80s) fantasy. It is not the best series ever written, 2 deep 5 me etc. I recommend that most people don't read it because (not only is everything it does very trite and played out at this point even outside of books, so don't think you will escape the decay if you don't read) there is definitely better shit out there that is more attuned to your preferences. If you are well-read and interested in where many fantasy tropes came from, but don't want to hunt down their actual origin then LOTR is a touchstone that will give you the general picture. But really don't go in expecting the best thing you've ever read or a world that can hold your imagination unless you have extreme autism.

[Anonymous No.22408799]

Based FUCK TOLKIEN glad us SJWs finally ruined his work.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/dec/19/artsfeatures.lordoftherings

[Anonymous No.22408804]

Tolkien was a bougie antifa faggot and a christcuck. And his family married into jewry and Tolkiens of today are mischlings writing holocaust plays.

He wrote some decent CHILDRENS fiction.

[Anonymous No.22408814]

>>22408799
That may come as a shock to you but, pure math, fantasy novels, prog rock etc. are all part of the real world. When you say that they aren't you are just forcing your preconceptions about what is important on other people. Shocking that a writer for the guardian thinks politics is the most important thing in the world, I'm sure he isn't biased by the hundreds of people around him talking about politics all day.

[Anonymous No.22408824]

Just remembered it's school holidays, no wonder the thread got so bad

[Anonymous No.22408833]

Sffg was always on the progressive side but never on the redscarepod tranny twitter progressive side

[Anonymous No.22408835]

I love children's fiction. I love Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, and of course Howard Pyle.

[Anonymous No.22408838]

>>22408824
What holiday is that? There's no federal holidays in the month of August, in the USA, anyway.

[Anonymous No.22408842]

>>22408835
I've read Dickins, Irving, and Twain, but not Alger or Pyle. Are they of the same quality as the other three? I remember reading the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and cracking up laughing at Irving's description of Ichabod Crane. Nobody told me what a wonderfully amusing writer he was.

[Anonymous No.22408843]

>LotR
Cringe
>Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends
Based and Redpilled

[Anonymous No.22408844]

Summary of a Bakker chapter:
>Le Cïty XĐ Year of the Tusg xdd 42069
>useless introspection for 30 pages
>final """""profound""""" summarising the characters thoughts, which sounds deep but usually has no relevance to the shit you just slogged through for the last 45 minutes

[Anonymous No.22408859]

Every weebshit title sounds like a videogame

>Kingdom Steampunk Rush Saga Warfare II Vol. I

[Anonymous No.22408867]

>>22408843
>femoid writer
Yikes

[Anonymous No.22408870]

>The Record of My Sex Life in a Different World
Pure modern pulp wish fulfillment. If you say you don't want you to are lying and it makes you a hypocrite, loses 1 point for lack of anything resembling a coherent plot, loses 1 point for being poorly written.
3/5

[Anonymous No.22408882]

>>22408842
Pyle peaks with The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, the rest of his stuff is of wildly varying quality. Men of Iron is your best bet to start with if you're interested in reading his other works.
Alger is a bit more contentious. I enjoyed Ragged Dick (I know) quite a lot, but most people find him boring and out-dated now. At the very least, read him so you can understand and pick out all of the references to his work scattered around late 19th and early 20th century American fiction.

[Anonymous No.22408902]

>>22408600
dystopia by Bernd_Lauert (pseudonym, hosted on asstr)
and some of the other ones in that directory, It's a collection of short stories in a world with a libertarian government where all actions involving other citizens must be consented to which is enforced by killer nanobots. The stories detail the lives of girls and boys who are not citizens but are bred en masse for slavery.
It's mostly smutty bondage scenarios. If you are a horny guy/girl who likes children and bdsm then this may be up your alley.

[Anonymous No.22408918]

>>22408843
Post something written in the current decade challenge. I'll start
Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4 by LivingSpoon
Mostly written this decade, but the first 34 chapters were written at the tail end of 2019
It's a Xianxia with a bit of LitRPG elements about a transmigrator who takes over the body of a AYM at a bigshot sect, who can now see through his cliché role and seriously cultivate and gather allies and disciples, and tries (unsuccessfully) not to offend anyone, so a protagonist won't kill him.

[Anonymous No.22408922]

>>22408867
What's wrong chuddie?
>>22408918
>Post something written in the current decade challenge.
Cringe

[Anonymous No.22408929]

>>22408922
You've posted this picture several times in the last few days. Are you trying to force a meme because Reverend Insanity was funny and made people laugh? You are like the autistic kid in class that makes the same type of joke (but worse) right after the popular kid says it.

[Anonymous No.22408944]

>>22408929
No, i just really like Dragon Prince.

[Anonymous No.22408946]

>>22406053
I want her to put my two nuts in her mouth

[Anonymous No.22408950]

>>22406066
>It’s even more of an unpaid hobby than writing.
Oh my sweet summer child

[Anonymous No.22408951]

>>22408946
I want to put "her" two nuts in my mouth

[Anonymous No.22408953]

>>22406066
ever heard of simpbux?

[Anonymous No.22408954]

>>22408944
Fuck off you lying fruit. Die in a fire.

[Anonymous No.22408955]

>>22406620
How was the Prince of Nothing?

[Anonymous No.22408962]

>>22408954
>lying
You are right, i only read it for the milfs and rape.

[Anonymous No.22408969]

>>22408955
Second only to The Aspect-Emperor in 21st century fantasy lit.

[Anonymous No.22408973]

>>22408962
I don't care why you read it. You ritualpost because you crave Yous. Admit it and get over it.

[Anonymous No.22408981]

What recently triggered RIfag? He used to post his image and fuck off, and now he sounds like every other 14-25yo fresh off the boat, accusing others of what he does and aggressively stirring shit the past few threads.

[Anonymous No.22408988]

>>22408517
Chinkslop beyond measure outlander!

[Anonymous No.22408996]

>>22408981
I upset him a few threads ago when I said I actually started reading it and felt the translation was terrible.

[Anonymous No.22409000]

>>22408951
Is... is that a man?

[Anonymous No.22409015]

>>22408981
He got outed as an ESL pajeet/brazillian

[Anonymous No.22409089]

>>22408973
This is like saying that last, current, next guy is a ritualposter. Dragon Prince guy isn't a ritualposter, they're just shilling a series they like.

[Anonymous No.22409090]

>>22409000
Count the teeth.

[Anonymous No.22409094]

>>22408973
>>22409089
>OH EM GEE PEOPLE MAKE THE SAME POSTS HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO MEE
>>>/r9k/

[Anonymous No.22409101]

>>22409094
You fuck off to r9k you gaping fatass.

[Anonymous No.22409157]

>>22408643
This general doesn't talk about HP, WoT, or Eragon very often. Most certainly not 90% of the posts. Not even Tolkien has a significant amount. Your "10%" chinkshit has dominated threads lately, even

[Anonymous No.22409158]

>>22409157
And that's a good thing.

[Anonymous No.22409174]

>>22409090
>implying men have different amount of teeth than women
At least say count the ribs.

[Anonymous No.22409218]

>>22409174
Men and women have the same amount of ribs

[Anonymous No.22409225]

>>22407772
you already posted this. These threads are already shitty enough without your self-indulgent faggotry.

[Anonymous No.22409251]

>>22409225
I laugh out loud every time I read the name Keith Winterscar. It's worth it.

[Anonymous No.22409292]

>>22408547
The key to slice of life is the characters and relationships, if you can write them well people will keep their interest.
Too many of them, especially asian ones, go down the route of ridiculously OP protagonist and young girls who don't talk a lot as their primary casts which is just not interesting to read.
It's an insane comparison but long running soaps like The Archers are basically the same genre as SoL and those live and die on characters since they've been going way too long for any dramatic plot to be truly attention grabbing.

[Anonymous No.22409323]

>/v/sff/ > /lit/sff/
Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.22409326]

>novelupdates
Imagine the loli tag, being accurate, ah aaaaah a-a-ahhh
You may say I'm a dreamer

[Anonymous No.22409332]

>>22409323
same posters

[Anonymous No.22409346]

Mimara's butt!

[Anonymous No.22409351]

Give me some recs for stories about sneaky spy MCs who have to infiltrate a place unseen.

[Anonymous No.22409356]

I've started to believe in aliens after reading so much science fiction and fantasy.

[Anonymous No.22409363]

>>22409356
I've started to hate the government, any kind of nationalism and fat rich jews after reading so much new Wave science fiction

[Anonymous No.22409370]

>writing story
>premise is so integral to plot realize half the plot is just "premise"
>a book that is just about building its own world as a plot is unsustainable

How do I fix it

[Anonymous No.22409398]

>>22408558
>The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom
I started reading this. Surprisingly good. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.22409404]

>>22409370
Providing explanations as the characters progress through the plot. Another way is by having character that don’t fully understand the underlying premise so you don’t have to explain initially and you can explain later as they discover it through some means. I’d still keep all the groundwork you’ve put for the premise off in a separate file or place so you can reference the work you’ve already done.

[Anonymous No.22409561]

I wanna read books about my favourite forgotten realms race: The Drow!

Lots of sex and debauchery good
No drizzt

[Anonymous No.22409622]

I

[Anonymous No.22409668]

>>22409561
i read salvatore's war of the spider queen series a long time ago and it was alright from what i recall
you get to read about menzoberranzan and there's not a single drizzt

[Anonymous No.22409674]

>>22409668
That literally only has his name. It's branded content. The purpose was to sell more copies. Idiots like you fell for that clearly. He didn't have any involvement.

[Anonymous No.22409680]

>>22409674
i had no idea who he was when i read it

[Anonymous No.22409687]

>>22407240
>>22407268
I like the travelogue segments a lot - which is most of it. Where he's describing how the dreamer travels through one charmingly described location to the next.
The battle scenes are jarringly terrible in comparison.

[Anonymous No.22409689]

>>22408996
> bad translation
>mtl
standard response from triggered haremshit fags.

[Anonymous No.22409691]

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.22409746]

Just finished A Memory Called Empire. It's pretty good. The plot is kinda iffy at places, but I enjoyed the worldbuilding a lot.

[Anonymous No.22409750]

>>22407017
> I prefer liking things to not.
You must be lost if you have this mindset and you're posting on this site, my friend.

[Anonymous No.22409847]

TRUTH SHINES

[Anonymous No.22409916]

TWI sissies
Where the fuck are the new chapters

[Anonymous No.22409968]

>>22409847
Not him but I usually never buy any book I’m not going to like, apart from I was younger and more naive. Now I like every book I read in full, apart from library books, which are me broadening out into shit I’d never buy.

[Anonymous No.22410045]

>>22409968
meant for >>22409750

[Anonymous No.22410143]

I am rescuing this thread from page 10 in the name of the Aspect-Emperor.

[Anonymous No.22410150]

>>22410143
we're over the bump limit dummy