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>Post 'em, you edgelords.
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Lady a shit
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>Unpopular Opinions Edition
The third (and best) Harry Potter is a 7/10 book.
Mommyfags are based
>And I'd like to head off any bad-faith arguments of "innocent until proven guilty" but[sic] pointing out that that is the standard for criminal prosecution, not the standard for airing grievances in a public forum.
Fuck whoever made me aware of this reddit #metoo train wreck in the other thread, I can't stop reading it. I wonder how long until the few sane people calling out the mentally ill mods get banned.
>imagine being this retarded
milfpoosey
Having a fetish that makes you attracted to someone in the same mold as the only member of the opposite sex that interacts with you on a regular basis and only because she has to does not make you based user, it makes you a sad individual.
Eh, they locked the thread hours ago.
People were just calling them out politely and they still couldn't take it, the snowflakes.
Lady doesn’t have to lmao
What happened
Some author got accused of being an evil rapist and the mods immediately banned him and came out with gems like
>We try really really hard to be unbiased as moderators, but that doesn't make us the Neutral Planet from Futurama. Sometimes there is a right and a wrong side in life, and in this case, the right and wrong side are blindingly obvious.
Then shortly later it got proven to be complete bullshit, now they're trying to pretend nothing happened.
>but that doesn't make us the Neutral Planet from Futurama
What is it with these fucks and unnecessary pop culture references?
Some mad bastard started a smear campaign against Ed McDonald, author of Blackwing(great book btw). He did it by creating a fuck ton of accounts over the course of an year pretending to women that were harassed by Ed Mcdonald, the full works gave the accounts families and everything and then reached out to sjw fantasy bloggers posing as victims. Of course these bloggers ate up everything up and wrote blogs smearing Ed and decrying the presence of "rabid sexism" in fantasy circles. The reddit mods also banned the author from their fantasy subreddit citing the "evidence" even though he didn't do shit on the site itself.
Finally after a lot of digging people started realizing that it was a targeted smear campaign and all the accounts making allegations were fake accounts.
So, the Reddit mods and the sjw bloggers are in full damage control, back pedal mode right now. They're even playing the victim now *because* they were "manipulated" by this evil person and none of it is their fault.
not long till the 3rd book at least. fist two were the best fantasy I read last year.
Kek muh references
He himself basically apologized even though is life was about to be ruined by an online lynch mob driven by that shit #metoo movement. He gets no sympathy from me.
Faggot sounds like he deserved it.
Is Glen Cook’s post-apocalyptic naval warfare book gud?
why are you hating on Daniel Black?
>I would rather pirate hookers and buy books, though
Spoken like a true degenerate.
hentai is where it's at. female:cervix
Final proof that the Campbells did nothing wrong
What's it about?
Nothing against the book itself, just the posters who complain when women have bigger roles than in borderline porn, makes it harder to identify the actually woke books to avoid.
Post-apocalyptic horror with gods and magic.
Don't be put off by the grimdark tag, it doesn't have any of the usual bad grim dark tropes like shock value sequences and edgy characters.
Holding the maringot line against unholy abominations and eldritch powers creating them after about 100 years of a state of total war.
Anthony Ryan Okaying it makes me weary.
what if GRRM and From Software teamed up on a game? would it be good?
It would mean he has more things to help him procrastinate instead of writing his last two books.
No, sounds retarded.
But I bet if From Software and CD Projekt Red teamed up they could potentially make the greatest game of all time. Imagine Witcher with the combat mechanics of the Souls games instead of the hack and slash bullshit in the originals.
Old Bioware would have made the best Asoiaf game.
tbf to him he did write one REALLY good book.
not really, the setting doesn't fit the mechanics.
You don't like Dragon Safari?
Just finished pic related and goddamn was that a ride, the language used made it even better. And everyone was incredibly trusting while simultaneously being incredibly deceptive.
Is mask of the template good/decent? Saw it posted in the last thread and I am curious.
What a pussy.
I'd say that it is decently written monster girl smut.
>I'd say that it is decently written monster girl smut
Decent by monster girl smut standards, or decent by genre fiction standards?
thicc
A little bit of column A and B has some pretty good lewd scenes and delves into some deeper themes that isn't dicking a minotaur into submission without being absolutely retarded about it.
The Crippled God was such a massive fucking underwhelming disappointment I regret finishing the series now HOLY SHIT WHAT A JOKE THAT ENDING WAS AND NOT EVEN RESOLVING A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS IT'S LIKE I READ THE HYPERION CANTOS ALL OVER AGAI
Pretty much confirms everything I expected, I dropped the series in book 7 and later checked on some sub plot from an earlier book on the wiki and just saw it never gets mentioned again. That's when I knew I'll never be going back to this shit, nothing pisses me off more than set-up with no payoff, worst fucking sin when it comes to writing for me in any medium.
Michael Shea wrote basically a fan-fiction sequel to Eyes of the Overworld that received Vance's stamp of approval. So if you want to read more Dying Earth stuff in the same universe you might give that a read (even though Vance ended up writing his own sequel later that of course completely ignored Shea's sequel).
If it's his very first novel like it says on the cover there then probably not.
Tried to warn ya'll niggaz. There's no point in reading epic fantasy that goes past 3 books. 9 times out of 10 it becomes a bloated mess with a shit ending.
Are the sequels any good?
I'm about to finish Deadhouse Gates and go onto Memories of Ice.
At what book in the series does the disappointment begin?
Wheel of time has the opposite problem though, where it introduced so many sub plots it takes 5 million pages to resolve them all, but at least it tries to. A hundred or so named aes sedai might have been a mistake, them and a bunch of other tertiary characters, they eat up way too much space in the middle books. But still prefer that to just dumping shit like malazan does.
>with a shit ending
If only
hmm thanks might give that a read. meanwhile im thinking of reading The Worm Ouroboros, is it good? i've only seen the cover, haven even read the description
It's all downhill after Deadhouse Gates. But you might be tricked into thinking it's not because of all the shit Erikson throws at you. By the end though you realize all of that was a distraction to distract you from the fact Erikson didn't know what the hell he was doing.
>yfw in the very last book he's STILL introducing new, pointless characters
Haven't read it, but I've only ever seen praise for it.
The fucking last one because it doesn't resolve much of shit.
talk to me for a second about chapter length, what is short vs too long
Only Sci-fi I've ever read was the first Dune book, though I might pick up The Book of New Sun sooner or later. But what I'm really curious about is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: How do I get into it (since it was apparently a radio drama first), is it worth it, and do I have to have general knowledge of Sci-fi stuff to really appreciate the satire? I love Terry Prachett to death so I can handle British humor.
When I'm writing I just never think about it. To me, chapters are just more extreme scene changes and a means to encapsulate certain portions of the story. Sometimes they're 3k words long, sometimes they're 20k words long, it's just as long as it takes me to get to what I consider a good stopping point and resolve the main purpose of the chapter.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy isn't really "laugh-out-loud" in my opinion, but the humor the author went for can certainly be appreciated.
I'd say it's worth a read.
I want to shit on him but in his shoes I would just fuck around too
>behind pace on goodreads for the first time all year
>have absolutely nothing that's holding my attention
:(
Does anyone knows were I can get pdf of /sffg/ books for free?
i imagine plenty of people know
god why even build up icarium since book fucking two only to give mappo a BAD END
Can anyone tell?
I sent you a pm :3
>what's sticky
What's the 'monthly reading' for April gonna be?
>ywn be a fat fuck that lives off of your single overrated work
Why even live?
>It's a Perrin episode
It isn't giving me the smut of dubious quality I am looking for.
>it’s a post the same thing in every thread episode without any meaningful contribution
>it’s an egwene gets spanked until she cries episode
duly noted, thanks
>Tfw i'm 11 books ahead of schedule
Now i can shitpost for a few days
Please gib books to add to my collection.
Might as well ask: does someone have a download link to cebelius stuff? I have looked it everywhere and haven’t found anything other than malware.
Nothing personnel, Crippled God.
does sffg make any books
His actual first novel was a porno called "Swap Academy" IIRC.
I write books, but nothing I'd deem worth publishing. Too much pressure for quality, plus it's just a hobby and I already have a well paying job. Personally I prefer releasing works anonymously for the various fandoms around Yea Forums.
It's put to a vote at the end of the month.
Read only one book. Wasn't exactly bad but didn't interest me enough to read the sequels.
we should make one
>a novel by /sffg/
I wrote a single novel, never made an effort to publish it.
since then I've spent the past year and a half trying to write a second novel, but at this point I know in my heart that it's never going to happen. The plot I have took four years to take form and it's so horrible it makes me sick thinking about it. I can't bring myself to write it because of the shame and I can't bring myself to write something else because I've invested too much of myself into it that I can't take back. So now I sit here, poisoned by something that once brought me so much hope, praying that one morning I just won't wake up
I am in the same discord as birdboi. I have a map of his setting. Anyone want me to post it?
if he gives permission. it would be good to see at least one of us succeeding
I asked him. He said:
>I post them publicly, it does not matter, it is your choice.
The map that was one of the first things he posted about his story?
Why are his fans such faggy attention whores when the guy himself just wants to write his autistic book series?
You only have one mother in your live. All other thots come and go.
I think people admire him because his fantasy world actually brings joy to his life that he'll willingly share with everyone. It doesn't fill him with bitterness, pain and longing for a horizon he can never cross, so he gets to be a vicarious stand-in for people who just want to pretend for a few minutes that their lives aren't all that bad
Holy shit that is detailed.
this is fucking with my head. I can recognize several landmarks but I can't form the bigger picture
Two polar megacontinents m8
Fuck niggers
Fuck jews
Fuck trannies
And FUCK JANNIES
Who are the best short story writers in SF?
Grrm
Jack Vance, Fredric Brown and R. A. Lafferty are my personal favorites.
How do you people get your books? Do you buy them?
Ah...eeh, yeh, yeah we, uh , we buy them.
I see, where do you "buy" them then? Asking for a friend
For psychical books Half Price Books or bookfinder.com, Library Genesis for ebooks.
mobilism
library genesis
soulseek
>Library Genesis
Danke very mucho
After marathoning a bunch of older fantasy books and stories I'm finding it difficult to return to modern fantasy that insists on using first-person narration. Third-person narration is so much more superior it's not even funny.
I have these bookmarked, some dirt cheap finds are out there.
betterworldbooks.com
thriftbooks.com
wordery.com
What do u guys use for reading epubs?
calibre on pc, lithium on android.
Do you use a custom theme on calibre? If so, care to share?
I buy some, get some at the library and pirate some.
Yeah I do use one. Makes the epub look like a real book.
CSS
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background-size:1920px 1080px; /* Your resolution*/
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-attachment:fixed;
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I buy them. I can't stand reading off a screen; I need to hold a physical book.
Why do I feel their servers are going to get a raid soon....
doesnt matter. they make weekly backups with all the books that anyone can download.
theres an entire website dedicated to archiving and backing up anything on libgen. also several copycats with the exact same content due to said backups.
Ssrsly though, fuck jannies
Is there a way to get an optimal layout on an ebook? I can't stand the weird pagination I always end up with so I turn to pdfs
What went wrong?
When is the third one coming out?
Yeah. You can tweak it too look and act the way you want it to in the preferences. Not sure what you mean by "weird pagination" though, can you be more specific?
>we're gonna kill him
>not gonna tell you why though roflmao
Where are you, user?
Awww. Did your off-topic pol threads get deleted?
Poor froggy.
Are you.... ban evading atm?
writers were a lot more interesting back then, like Dunsany was a Baron and a chess champion, Tolkien was in WWI (though that was horrific than interesting).
maybe I should join the army and go on a trip around the world before I start writing, and marry a duchess or some rich girl.
This, never read an e-book or audiobook in my life.
I used to think the same but buying a Kindle was the best purchase I've ever made. Get one with a high enough dpi and it looks just like normal text and it's so much more convenient. The backlight is perfect for night time reading.
How's the Vorrh trilogy?
Not them, I have my own Kindle.
I thought one of the things that made e-ink better for reading was precisely that it isn't (or wasn't) backlit, so you're not stuck staring at a bright rectangle in a dark room. Did this change for any reason other than selling new models of Kindle?
The latest models have a light sensor to automatically adjust the back light so in the dark it dims itself. They can also be configured if you prefer a lighter or darker screen along with completely turning off the feature.
one of the characters is a short, hairy cyclops who was raised by robots powered by his semen.
that's really all there is to say on that matter
This is shit
It's not science fiction but i'm looking to read the Iliad, what is the best translated version?
Guys what are some good fantasy (no sci-fi please) audiobooks?
I just finished the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and I loved it, the story, characters and world were wonderful and the narration was outstanding.
Sadly, the rest of her books are read by some woman whose voice I absolutely cannot stand, so I'm abandoning that series of audiobooks.
Can any of you please recommend good ones?
Some I've listened to:
Riyria Chronicles and Revelations
Kingkiller
Eli Monpress
Farseer Trilogy
Tolkien's stuff
Gentleman Bastards
Ps: i dislike GRRM and I tried Mistborn but it wasn't for me
I hope someone can help, thanks!
BOTLS is misunderstood by people who wanted the same style as BOTNS. Both are great and should be read.
I guess you didn't like Daniel Black either, or any book where the character is transported to another world and has to survive.
Library at Mount Char.
Night Angel Trilogy Graphic Audio.
>urban fantasy
Jews niggers trannies and jannies can all be gassed, ofcourse. But daily reminder this entire site is a /pol/ site, like a neglected sewer that has flooded entire streets, alleys and ofcourse, the Yea Forums cellar. Now you either learn to live with the shit or you can leave.
Birdboi a cute
Lady a shit
Soulcatcher a waifu
Sanderson a waifu
>rural fantasy
>Jews niggers trannies and jannies can all be gassed, ofcourse. But daily reminder this entire site is a /pol/ site, like a neglected sewer that has flooded entire streets, alleys and ofcourse, the Yea Forums cellar. Now you either learn to live with the shit or you can leave.
Sure.
>Birdboi a cute
Maybe.
>Lady a shit
Yes!
>Soulcatcher a waifu
YES!
>Sanderson a waifu
wat
No, i love those kinds, that one is just shit.
>book where the character is transported to another world
isekai is a pretty bad genre though
Anons what should I read next
>Riyria Chronicles
>Kingkiller Chronicles
>Powder Mage trilogy
>Gentleman Bastards
>Stormlight Archive
>Kingkiller Chronicles
Not that one
What's wrong with it? I've heard pretty good things about it on reviews.
kkcor the riyria chronicles
Do you enjoy when a protagonist falls in love with a literal whore and she cucks him for 2 books (the only two books the author wrote in years because he is a lazy fat fuck)?
If you do, go right ahead.
Don't listen to incels like that think the love interest of the mc owes him anything just because he loves her.
They probably like to identify with the mc because he's a boywonder genius and they think they are as well and then get mad because the one girl the mc loves doesn't love him back. just like the relationship between them and their mothers
t. literal cuck / woman
>he's a boywonder genius
This is what put me off the books. It was nauseating, and I couldn't even get as far as a love interest.
nah, just not a neet incel permavirgin.
Women owe you nothing, especially not sex or love.
Fair enough point desu, but if you can look past it it's an enjoyable read
James Tiptree Jr.
Why do I feel you are from rebbit?
The "incel" meme phrase doesn't help.
Why are you pretending, trying to fit in? Just stop.
>Why are you pretending, trying to fit in? Just stop.
I'm not, I'm not even a regular on Yea Forums. You're still an incel fag though
>if you can look past it
Why would I even want to look past "the main character is an insufferable cunt"? And the shit about him pining after some girl would no doubt make him even more so.
Hawkwood's Voyage
RIP
2nd book barely has Denna and it's still a steaming shit heap and the author is never finishing a 3rd because he's literally too busy blogging about Drumpf. It really shows that he spent a decade or something autistically going over the first one then ran out of any material.
>Powder Mage trilogy
I vaguely heard of this. what's it like?
mages and guns
Neat
>I will call everyone who doesn't agree with me an incel
Nah, only those that think women owe you sex. If denna is your only point of criticism, you're an incel.
The book has plenty of other flaws that I agree with, crying about denna only shows you're a virgin all too obviously
>read badly written science fiction book because it's at least somewhat entertaining
>it keeps getting worse with each book
>finish all four of them anyway because what the hell I came so far, might as well see how it ends
>Bioware color-coded ending button out of nowhere
AHAHAHAHA HOLY FUCK
I could have stopped any time and now I have only myself to blame.
Why are genre fiction originals so much worse than game universe adaptations (ie Warhammer, Diablo, etc)?
Boring.
>crying about denna only shows you're a virgin all too obviously
And?
Why kill off the best character in the whole series (Trull) through some bullshit, have him do NOTHING with his Knight of Shadow status, and then have his built-up son do NOTHING as well
hmm
HMM
god i hate that i read the crippled god
why do nothing with icarias
why build up bugg to fucking the errant's shit up only to not happen
why reduce all of cutter x apsalar to three paragraphs
why do barely anything with curdle and telorast
why have draconus not even SEE korabas
FUCK
>shaming people for not having sex
uh, could you not please? This is a safe space.
Current best is: b-ok.org
>Powder Mage trilogy
this.
Are the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories worth reading beyond the first two collections?
I have a hard time processing this image, what is wrong with it?
I know the standards for genre fiction are low, but I'm not sure they're that low. Still, there are some obvious things that might help:
>IP holder has an interest in not just publishing shit in the hopes it might sell
>Existing world limits autistic world building exposition
>Static existing world limits power creep and super special chosen one saving the universe shit
its hueg
>browsing 4chen on a toaster / phone
>Read book because it came up in a previous thread
>Huehue, breddy good
>Look up author to see what else is there
>See bio on amazon
>See location
>Lives in my town
>....
g..g..guys, wat do?
Pic related
Ask for date.
kiss
I think I'd have to head over to fit to achieve twink mode first
I mean like visually. I'm having a hard time mentally processing what this whole place looks like.
any book / short stories which have vivid depictions of space, like just some massively vertigo inducing mad shit?
Gene Wolfe on his wedding day.
>he married his sister
what the fuck happened to him
He was contractually obligated to take on the likeness of the Pringles mascot.
Too many Pringles
Is that why there are so many incestuous overtones in his novels?
From my understanding the later stories aren't anywhere near as good as the earlier stories.
Food, age, alcohol, and
>writers were a lot more interesting back then
kek reminds me of an article I read recently about how boring writers make boring stories which is so much of fantasy and sci-fi these days is dull, derivative shit: no interesting writers who lead interesting lives.
Something good so none of that garbage.
This might be the most zoomer thing ever.
Recommend something then bro
This was so fucking cringy and bad I couldn't even finish it.
First book is fine, since Soulcatcherfu is there. Don't bother with the rest.
Since you only seem interested in modern epic fantasy I'd recommend Saga of the Forgotten Warrior by Barry Korea.
I hate the way he writes. I don't need or expect purple prose, but reading a book with an average sentence length of 7 words is simply too painful.
I haven't read any other Glen Cook books besides his Black Company stuff, but does he use the same (lack of) prose for all his novels?
>implying it's a bad thing
I like how he doesn't even go into detail about storming that one fortress.
How is that a good thing?
It's the perfect book to shove into one of those speed reader apps and finish it in a matter of hours at 1000 wpm.
His writing has no color, no life.
How is it a bad thing? When I read it I didn't have much trouble with short sentences, seems like a good fit for a physician/chronicler of a mercenary band. Though I have read translation so there is that.
middling. the magic power levels got way too out of control for my tastes, the baseline military becomes a bit of an afterthought. I really mostly just wanted fantasy sharpe.
It's lazy and dull. Yes you can spend too much time on details which is just as bad, but there is a happy middle-ground where you can write with sweeping broad-strokes while still giving enough details to color it perfectly. The second half of REH's Scarlet Citadel is a master class in that type of writing. He paints a very broad picture of what's happening, but still manages to give you enough details to explain what's happening while using amazing prose in an incredibly efficient yet entertaining way.
Underwhelming, to be honest.
You guys finished reading it yet?
The world they inhabit doesn't seem alive, it's a cardboard cutout modern fantasy with no meaningful culture or history.
It's honestly incredibly boring.
>alcohol
I thought alcohol aging you was just a meme, doesn't it just make you a little red and puffy?
It's not about the world desu, I didn't even care about that when I read it. I was interested in mercs and the Taken.
it isn't. the spare prose is why the whole thing works at all.
Should I?
None of ther mercs are interesting and I hate "mage" type characters, this just takes all the wonder and mystery out of magical systems.
>incel
Cringe
>tfw imagine every main character in every novel I read as an anime protagonist
If it's really that bad then it's time to move on to something else. It's not going anywhere, itll still be there when you feel like coming back to it. You're not chained to it so dont use it as an excuse to procrastinate. If you want to write, then write. If you dont, dont. Its that simple. You have to make up your mind, and if you decide to write then you need to be writing SOMETHING. Build a universe, explore with bad poetry, do a stream of conciousness short about your average afternoon, write a short comedic story, write smut; it doesn't matter, just write something. Dont be so afraid of failure that you sit in angsting stasis. And never be afraid to re-write something, no matter how much work you've put into it. Fucking lace up them Nikes and Just fucking Do It. I believe in you user. Have a neat picture and a great day.
"Magical systems" to begin with are gay. Reading older fantasy makes me wish modern fantasy didn't go so fucking retarded with magic. They definitely sucked all the mystery and outright terror from magic.
>magical systems
Why do I feel that I'm replaying to a special kind of person... Anyway, you do you. I liked the first book, but magic fizzled out after book 4 or so for several reasons.
You are literally autistic.
Although to be honest every character in my mind is an exaggerated dickensian caricature so ok.
it's not that bad user, i imagine every male main character as me
Starting 'Moon is a Harsh Mistress' this weekend off this rec.
Exactly what I was trying to say. Magic should be hidden, spectral and terrifying.
Agreed. This article explains it better than I could:
>pitbull protectors
Based.
It Ain't gonna grok itself is better. imho.
i liked it personally.
book 3 had a severe lack of lilith. so im glad she gets some more time in this.
wish the knight dude that was coming after alice would have gotten some screentime.
It felt like a break. There were like 3 chapters of waldo, the rest being melissa and lilith. It wasn't bad, it was just brief. Nothing much happened. It was like the book that will join the previous book to the next, instead of being a book by itself. And now we wait another 2 years.
What are some good non-english fantasy that always misses the radar and people don't talk much about it, be it in discussions or charts? I just found out about Walter Moers today and I'm sure there's even more good stuff hiding behind the language barrier.
>And now we wait another 2 years.
i dunno the last book was about 3 months or so ago. its decent for somene who does writing as a hobby. nelson chereta has a dayjob so 3 months for a full size novel is pretty good in my opinion.
>i dunno the last book was about 3 months or so ago
It was published in 2016.
a metric shit-ton of magical realism books
Frankenstein in Baghdad for Arabic science fiction/horror
Three Body Problem and Cat Country for Chinese science fiction
Well, I don't know who to believe. Anyway, I think we will be waiting a long time until the next one.
Three Body Problem is mentioned quite a lot, but I didn't know the other two. Thanks.
If you can list some of the magical realism books you mentioned, I actually don't read a lot of it and my knowledge of them is less than basic.
>Spanish
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Like Water for Chocolate
Ficciones
>African
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
The Famished Road
Wizard of the Crow
>Japanese
Murakami books
Kobo Abe books
>Chinese
Mo Yan books
>English Language (not what you originally asked for, but I'll include them anyway)
Beloved
Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
>birdboi is posting more maps again on discord
AAAAHHHH
what discord?
post them, come on
This, you cocktease.
Did he took some "inspiration" for that island northwest?
Someone called him out of it the second he posted it and he already removed it. Birdboi is very easy to bully.
He should add some islands there though. And also, what discord?
/tg/ worldbuilding discords, he spams a couple of them with his stuff
Metro 2033 is really good
I had the same problem for quite a while. Took me at least two and a half years of effort to finally break through. Pressing that submit button to put my writing online was one of the most difficult things I've ever done, and after I posted it I had to walk away from the computer and pace around my house in some kind of miniature psychotic episode before deciding to go to sleep and try to forget it ever happened. Checking my computer in the morning was also really fucking hard, but miraculously someone had left an extremely positive and poignant comment. I took a screenshot of it and look at it from time to time.
It helped that I had already scrapped three full-length novels before even thinking about posting something online, but that's the point. The important thing is you don't stop writing even if you hate it and every aspect of it makes you cringe. If you're not writing, you should at least be reading books with a critical eye. Jot down anything you find interesting, or copy any prose you find that perfectly describes something. Whenever I finish reading a book, I try to summarize the whole thing in my mind, following the entire journey from memory, which helps it stick in my mind.
I'm still extremely sensitive, and by no means think I have reached that apparently unattainable ideal of what my writing SHOULD look like that most perfectionists have, but it helps that I have a handful of fans who genuinely look forward to what I write, even if I don't think it's that great. Even if it's unattainable, what's important is I never stop trying to improve.
>worldbuilding
Gross.
Pic related looks like Vanu from Planetside.
I liked the movie, but that might have been because of the director. is the book really that ok?
The fuck do you think Birdboi is doing?
“But think,” said Orm slyly, “if you do not wed me I will not be christened, and then, if we may trust the priests, my soul is lost. You will answer heavily to your God for losing a human soul.” He whispered to Athelstane, “Also, I will burn down this house and throw you off the sea-cliffs.”
“Aye, daughter, we dare not lose a human soul,” said Athelstane very quickly.
Why is dinosaur fantasy humor so much more funny and infinitely less cringe than millennial fantasy "humor?"
According to birdboi:
>I am not satisfied with this, but I think this may be the best I can do as I am. I am ashamed.
I don't like him because he wrote political propaganda, not stories.
>I am ashamed.
Jesus christ
Well he is autistic and probably wants it to be perfect, something that's impossible to achieve.
And he comes back 15 minutes later and posts a better version. What can't this autist do?
It was officially published last year. There was some shit and it was taken off Amazon.
I loved it. Fuck all y'all.
After the first soft beard was on his cheeks, he got much heed from the elf women. Without awe of gods, and with few children, the elves knew not wedlock; but their nature was such that their women had more wish for lovemaking and their men less than among humans. Thus Skafloc found himself in great favour, and many a good time did he have.
Smashing that elf pussy like a champion.
Please stop with elves.
Invent some new races and cultures for your hero to interact with.
Sometimes when he was in company with other warriors, the sea maidens would rise from the foam, wringing out their long green hair as they came up on to the strand, and then there would be merriment. They were cool and wet to the touch and they smelled of kelp; afterward Skafloc would have a faint fishy taste on his lips; but he liked them well.
AND mermaid pussy.
Shut up, nerd. This story was written in 1954 and portrays elves as the amoral shits they were in myth.
Stop misappropiating Icelandic culture.
Idk, you tell me.
>*tips*
I'm sorry I triggered you, purple-haired one.
But I don't nor did I ever dye my hair, user.
Your hair is dyed purple on the inside.
That's not how hair follicles work user....
The third collection contains "lean times in lankhmar" and the fifth "collection" is a pretty good novel where rats attempt to conquer lankhmar. I dunno man. I liked all but the last two, which got weird, overly sexual, and pedoshitty. There's a story in Ice Magic where Fafhrd and Mouser are compelled to kill one another because a 13 year old girl appears and they fight over who gets to fuck her first.
All in all, I feel like the last two collections of stories are literally just shitposting in published short story form.
Anyone here reading pic related?
Why the fuck is the Laconian Empire so underwhelming?
>pissing off the other dimension beings pisses them off
>ok lets nuke them
>that went bad for us
>okay lets do it again
Didn't know Dan Abnett posted here
He only had 10,000 pages to settle things in a satisfying way.
I may be misremembering since it's been years since I last read Crippled God, but my favorite part was at the end where a character was asking Cotillion what exactly just happened and why it happened and Cotillion was like, "lol 2deep4u." That's when I realized I had been shammed.
>Short story
The Lady Who Sailed The Soul by Cordwainer Smith
>Books
try the Eschaton books by John C. Wright (first book is Count to a Trillion)
I think I just realized why my story is coming out so shitty /sffg/. All this time I was trying to create a story and have it mean something to me, when instead I should have been telling MY story. The MC is already a blatant self-insert, why should I bother coming up with interesting motivations for him when my own actually fall perfectly in line with the story I want to tell?
I feel liberated!
oh, right. I should be on topic in addition to I'm reading Xenocide right now. It's weird and interestin seeing a society where mental illnesses are revered instead of stigmatized. I know in underdeveloped countries and ancient times schizophrenia was seen as being sensitive to the voice of the gods, but I never really thought about what impact that would have on society.
Maybe because our society is now sort of starting to revel in aspergers, we're going to see the same thing
This trilogy was a bleedin' good read
Careful /sffg/ doesn't like it.
What does /sffg/ even like besides some feminist shit.
It's pretty infantile. Moving to downright children's books was the right decision for the author.
Dude subversion LOL
One of the few praises I have for Prince of Nothing being grimderp is it hits you over the head right away with how awful the world and everyone in it is. None of that GOTTA SUBVERT DEM EXPECTATIONS bullshit: you find out IN THE PROLOGUE this is going to be edgy, nihilistic nonsense.
>its a fantasy author disparages noble cavalry episode
That's a big ass Spain connected to a little ass spain
i've only watched the tv series, am i going to be missing anything if i just continue reading at book 4?
Mapfags really need to gtfo. This isn't the geography board or the map general.
Use this to get free books.
github.com
Birdboi a cute. I bet he got a big dick.
Its semi readable pulp with a few fun scenes
am i reading this right? any book that has a preview on amazon can just be downloaded?
>tfw no octopus gf
check the issues it's no longer working
You need a vpn to switch ips.
anything like "Who Goes There?" that /sffg/ has enjoyed?
So I just started Chronicals of The Black Company, and I'll be getting my hands on the other 3 collections soon, but I'm curious, is it completed? I know a new book came out last year but since Cook is mid-70's I don't want to have him Croak while wrapping things up.
it is yeah. the recent book fell between 1&2 in terms of continuity and also had a lot of material relating to older events re: the senjak family.
any good? wouldn't mind some dune style house on house fuckery.
i've been going through all the goodreads page of the fantasy books in my collection, none of them looks interesting to me, maybe only lightbringer
i read too much scifi this year so i want to read a fantasy
do you have any recs for an interesting fantasy book? also i dont like 'vague and rare magic' kind of book
before that user shows up again im going to do his job for him, this is his posts
>Empire of Silence is NOTW in space, check it out. And I mean they're 80% the same book with a different setting and different names, the author shamelessly ripped of NOTW, so if you wanted more of the same, this is it.
>That was probably me too, I shit on it because it's a blatant rip off of a bunch of different books, predominantly NoTW. The author literally lifted passages from NOTW.
the fuck, really? nevermind then.
Cool, so it'll just be like a bonus, essentially? I can dig it.
you can check the one star goodreads review, someone posted the comparison between notw and this book's passages
I want Lady to beat me up! Pow! Kapowie!
Thank you.
Like the other user said, it's Kingkiller Chronicle in space and although there's a bunch of things the writer lifted from Dune as well, house on house action is not one of them. The Vorkosigan Saga is another one he ripped off. It's 80% KKC and 20% the other two without a single original idea in the entire book. It's not just ideas either, the writer blatantly lifts entire passages from the aforementioned books.
Here's the 1 star review that other user is talking about which sums the book up quite well.
goodreads.com
>Lightbringer
Just no. Breeks is awful. I've tried his Night Angel books and it's the worst writing I've come across. I'd put hacks like Rothfuss 2 tiers above him in writing prowess, even amateurs who write web novels do a better job at writing power fantasies than he did in those books. Stay away.
I wish I could literally kill cunts like you who meme shit without reading. Kys and do me a favor. Fuck you.
you guys have any other suggestions?
If you want vidya tier structured and detailed magic just read sanderson.
Out of interest are there any other sci-fi series with decentralised feudal political systems at this kind of scale?
Prince of Nothing
Gentleman Bastards.
I'm 150 pages in. Best part so far was realizing who Timothy on laconia was
Ignore this stay the fuck away from Sanderson and also Breeks, their books are the ultimate newby traps filled with anime bullshit.
Try any of these:
Book of the New Sun
Dune
Blood Song(stop after book 1)
Tigana
Vorkosigan Saga
Rigante
Renegade(Spiral Wars)
Posts like these make me feel this general doesn't really read.
You post the same fucking books and authors ad nauseam. Don't you have anything else other than weeks, lynch, grrm, sanderson, conan, watts to suggest? The same fucking shit every fucking thread for literally fucking months.
>doesnt even post recs of his own
What a faggot
I don’t think you understand how shitty most fantasy books are
Just finished this and honestly, i wasn't impressed. Does it get better? I found the language and writing to be very average and not very engaging.
Wouldn't know, dropped it. Wasnt impressed either.
I thought it was rather good but the whole conceit of using the same pronoun to describe all sexes became very annoying very fast which may be what you mean by not engaging. The other two good are worse.
Thread slave, arrange us new quarters, pronto.
fuck you and die
Has anyone read the novelized Planescape: Torment books? I know there are two, the one being about 500 pages long and the other around 2000. Should I read both or just go with the latter since I hear that it's the definitive one?
Philip K. Dick.
Because even my college professors recommended it to me.