/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General

>Birdboi still posting on /tg/
Now, how do we harass him?

What's my boy sandy up to? Where is the next mistborn? Stormlight?

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monthly user?

>reading 200+ FG novels
Holy...Based

I think that deserves a "like".

The scope is worlds user. Cradle is just one of many, and all the monarchs are basically limited gods.

That's the thing though, in other xianxia the one world would have trillions and trillions of people, even if it was only one of millions of worlds. And let's not fool ourselves, when lindon transcends cradle his power and opponents will be too abstract to be very interesting, where other xianxia have no problem continuously escalating.

/sffg/, is it a bad idea to make my "neville" a main cast member in the first book?

I have a scene that depends on her planned out, but it's hard making her a wimpy laughingstock for 90% of the story without making her annoying. Also, because that scene is a pivotal turning point in the MC's character arc I'm not sure if it will make people will mistake her for the love interest even though she's underaged

>/sffg/, is it a bad idea to make my "neville" a main cast member in the first book?
No, if you have an important character you shouldn't wait to just pull them out of your ass later.

>it's hard making her a wimpy laughingstock for 90% of the story without making her annoying

git gud fgt

>Also, because that scene is a pivotal turning point in the MC's character arc I'm not sure if it will make people will mistake her for the love interest even though she's underaged

nobody worthwhile is going to drop your book because of a possible loli.

He's busy liking post on Yea Forums

after a few months of searching and asking /sffg/ i have finally decided on a novel i want to read as my first book of 2019

Drum roll?

>it's hard making her a wimpy laughingstock for 90% of the story without making her annoying
Show why the other characters like her, or at least put up with her.

>but it's hard making her a wimpy laughingstock for 90% of the story without making her annoying.
That's only annoying in a male character.

>it’s an American author thinks noble women were worse of than slaves episode

What idiot?

i want to write a light novel, except not trashy

not going to post it here, someone here will try to convince me not to read the book and i will be convinced

cocktease

We don't and hope he comes back.

You brown nosers are starting to get on my tits

fuck off

I mean any superintelligent AI is a cosmic horror. but try Blindsight.

>Post good books with assassins
Age of Assassins was a fun read, it's exactly what I expected the Farseer books to be based on the titles.

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Take your tongue out of his arse first

Is it worth reading Planescape: Torment as a book? I've been playing the game, and while I'm certainly enjoying the story, I'm not enjoying the "game" aspect of it at all. I just don't enjoy video games anymore and it all feels so incredibly tedious. I'm getting ready to just drop it since I can't stand going through dialogue trees and doing quests and managing my inventory and all of that fucking crap anymore. I picked it up because I heard it had a great story but the "game" aspect is ruining it.

By the way I'm primarily considering the Rhyss Hess novelization that comes with the GOG release, since that's the one I have.

I really don't see the point of having a novel where all the freedom of choice is removed from you. The game is the way it's meant to be experienced, a book would cut out many, many things.

So we are not going to talk about Black company book?

>freedom of choice
That's actually another reason I'm not enjoying the game. I'd much rather just read a story than have to make choices about what to do all the time. From what I understand the novelization is of one particular path through the game. So to get more out of it than that, I'd actually have to play through the game multiple times, right? I'm not going to ever do that. I don't think I'll even make it through once.

whenever monthly reading user gets here, he's probably sleeping

Start talking already!

>Did you like the book?
>Will you read the rest of the series?
>Who's your favourite character? New waifu?
>Any other thoughts?

Since some people, myself included, disliked how the last nomination and voting process turned out I've decided to pick next months book personally. We will be reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer. Unlike Black Company the book is fully standalone since the author never bothered to release the sequels and the quality of the writing is beyond questioning.
jk, reply to this post with nominations.

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> I'd much rather just read a story than have to make choices about what to do all the time
These types of games are definitely not for you, stop playing them at once and never touch them again.

the host by stephenie meyer

Obviously. That's what I'm asking if it would be worth just reading the novelization instead. The story is the only aspect I'm enjoying.

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>>Did you like the book?'
Yeah, first one at least.
>>Will you read the rest of the series?
I have read some of them before, but probably not. Didn't like the direction series went.
>>Who's your favourite character? New waifu?
Soulcatcher, of course. And other Taken desu.
>>Any other thoughts?
Lady a boring shit.

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I nominate The Once and Future King since that's on my backlog.

And I told you that it would be an inferior form and wouldn't give you the whole story that people praise, just a part of it. I've played through PS:T three times and wouldn't read such a novel. You seem hellbent on doing so anyway but be aware that you'll still be missing out on things so don't judge the whole game by the book.

im looking for a survival themed book, anything like zombie outbreak but it's not zombie, probably like dinosaur in the last jurassic world movie, or other monstrous creature is fine, just not zombie

>Did you like the book?
Yea
>Will you read the rest of the series?
I’ve read the books in the North don’t want to continue though.
>Who's your favourite character?
Soulcatcher
> New waifu?
Storm ring combing time to die
>Any other thoughts?
I think the ten who were taken were squandered in the first book, did cook mean for it to be a series from the onset? I enjoyed the aspect of the company being ants amidst these feuding semi-gods and missed it in the following books.

still haven't finished with the black company book

i nominate this book

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Based

I Am Legend is technically about vampires and not zombies, but the cliches and tropes of all zombie apocalypse scenarios are established there.

nominating this because of the op
he can't be that bad

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i've read and watched that already

>I think the ten who were taken were squandered in the first book
My thoughts too.

Then all I got are comic books, sorry.

ending a bit contrived but whatever

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>nominations
Engine Summer by John Crowley. Short and actually stand alone.

Has Wolfe written anything that is not loaded with layers upon layers of symbolism? I read BotnS and I loved the prose in it, but I'm too retarded to actually understand it, same with The Wizard Knight.

can i nominate two?
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson and Starfish by peter watts

>can i nominate two?
It's not like I can stop you. However I'm going to test out moderating the nominations slightly harder this month and Seveneves is 900 fucking pages long.

I nominate We

Rolled 4 (1d6)

If I roll 6 we read Flowers for Algernon.

i thought the book was great, i was pretty confused in relation to what was going on in the larger world until the end.
>will you read the rest
the next two at least
>favorite waifu
darling is absolute best girl and all others a shit
>thoughts
i like how everything turned out in the end and it was surprisingly good.
yeah he sort of killed the ten off willy nilly near the end. kind of lessens the impact they had in the beginning of the book
>i have personally picked the next book...
>spoiler text
kek god dammit fuck off

Rolled 6 (1d6)

>4
Nice try kid, now watch me roll 6. Reply to the discussion post with your nomination or I'll likely forget it.

yes but wizard knight is a snoozefest

Nominating this month's read

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I thought Skysworn was the weakest by a good margin, Ghostwater and Underlord are both better.

>Did you like the book?
Somewhat. Cook's style is rather lacking. I found it somewhat confusing at first as he seemed to skip things a lot. Like Croaker would think he needed to go and talk to someone, and the next paragraph he was just talking to them.
>Will you read the rest of the series?
Not likely.
>Any other thoughts?
We are told directly and repeatedly that The Lady is evil, and also that the rebels are just as evil and it's super morally grey and everything. Except we don't really see any evidence of her evil beyond the Taken mostly being ruthless in putting down the rebels. What little we're told about the population doesn't make it sound notably bad.
Also at the end of the book Croaker finds out The Lady deliberately got everyone killed so they couldn't fuck her over, which is apparently so much more evil than whatever evil he thought she was already up to that he wants to get the fuck out of there.

Also I'm no expert on medieval warfare but I'm very dubious about the logistics of armies that size. Or how the company managed to keep their wizards secret when One Eye and Goblin spent the whole time magically dicking one each other in public.

Flowers for Algernon

i nominate ringworld by larry niven because it's been on my todo list for a long time.

Yeah, the ten were pretty underwhelming. Limper was pretty spooky, but even Soulcatcher wasn't actually interesting. And no one else did much. There was probably more about the elephant attack than most of them.

>Soulcatcher wasn't actually interesting
Fuck off lady

> nom
Wool Omnibus, Hugh Howey

They were both shit. Soulcatcher was slightly less disappointing.

Fuck off Stormbringer

>this year we will be facebook and rebbit
>like and upboat
Jesus. Soc is probably going crazy.

Did you like this, user? Was it all a lie made up by Baxter in his plot to kill George and steal his wife?

Wizard knight has layers upon layers of symbolism

You sound like a complete faggot

I failed to upload this image due to a jewish plot, I am sorry my dear Anons.

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Jesus Christ who was the canon that recommended Wolfblade to me, just hour after hour of some bimbo complaining about being a princess.
I'm going to kick your ass!

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torrentfreak.com/former-pirate-party-leader-asks-to-be-sued-over-ebook-site-has-wish-granted-190401/

>i want someone to sue me, i want to win so i have a legal precedent
what a mad lad. his site is pretty good actually

looks decent and works fine. tuebl.ca/

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Newfag into sffg here. Since the sticky is probably older than me lurking Yea Forums, my question is: what are the current favourites of this venerable general? Are the recs in op still valid?
Thank you kind strangers.

>sticky
I meant op obviously

thank you for posting this, now i can remove it from my reading list

its still relevant for the most part. mobilism.org and irc is where you get books. just read whatever you want and then ask people for similar stuff.

Scrape all the archived threads, calculate book mention counts and run sentiment analysis on those books. Proceed to show us the results. I know you can do it.
But Gene Wolfe and also the Smutgang desu

Patrick Rothfuss is The Man. You should read Kingkiller chronicle ASAP.

Try the strain trilogy by del toro

this desu, this should be a required reading
a lesson for me to always doubt anything relatively new and very popular

Everyone has their favourites, here are some of mine.
The Hyperion Cantos (minus the Endymion books)!
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell!
Chronicles of Amber!
Lord of Light!
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch! Ubik!
Nightfall!
The Doomed City!
Chasm City!
Shades of Grey!
House of Suns!
The Coldfire Trilogy!
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer!
Lud in the Mist!

Too many to list.

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These are my 3.5 stars or more books that I read over the years. Most were recommended to me by sffg or outer lit.

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cringe

>!
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Love the exclamation marks.

Chronicles of Amber and Guy Gavriel Kay's stuff

Yes indeed! Punctuated! Like! This! With! Emphasis!

Your fortune: Average Luck

Do you guys think that tomorrow the mods should ban anyone for a month who showed their upvotes score? They are obviously rebbit users.

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what the fuck

I'm sure masters of Rome is missing

It's the april fools event

George is a prick, but Bax is legitimately evil. The entire story is him manipulating people into doing what he wants and then presenting it in a harmless way to the audience. His saving grace is that at the end of story, he tells his two younger brothers to get along and not repeat what happened to him and George. The entire book is a reverse-metaphor of the Jacob/Esau and Cain/Abel stories.

Definitely one of the better "unreliable narrator" stories I've read.

you're not fooling anyone

your pic reminds me, what book has the best homosexual villains?

Your fortune: Godly Luck

id rather have back mlpol and all that garbage tbqh

fitlit should be permanent

Masters of Rome if you're a populare.

At least the selected fantasy chart is somewhat up to date, it was updated less than a year ago.

Can you like yourself?

We really should update the charts again, they aren't terrible, but we could improve them quite a bit.

No but you can like me

sure, if you're a narcisist

Also someone should make separate charts for webnovels, litRPG and other pseudo-SFF so they don't infect the current charts.

I'm considering getting back into fantasy novels. I used to like them a lot when I was in high school and middle school but drifted away. I'm somewhat concerned about how much these are politicized nowadays, given the current climate. Is this a substantial problem?

Yes, it is. What books did you like back in high school?

just dont touch anything written after 2010

The last thing I was into was The Wheel of Time, which I dropped at Book 9. This was over a decade ago, mind you. Some of my memories have faded.

You got pretty far in. Much further in than me.

Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. It's the first book in the series but it's best read as a standalone.

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It's not bad. Most books are really just dogshit because of poor writing and bad characterization.

I do remember the quality dropping much earlier and soldiering through for a while before I finally gave up. It's like the plot just stops moving and you read entire books where almost nothing happens. Thinking back on it, it's bizarre how long the series is. I think if I start reading fantasy again I'll avoid anything that's longer than three of four books.

Read the chronicles of Amber, that's only 5.

That's something I thought might be the case. There's been a massive upswing in politicization in the last few years. Perhaps I was just ignorant before, but I don't remember everything being forced into a political mold like it is now. You catch glimpses of an author's politics here or there, but books, movies, etc. didn't feel like they existed primarily as political diatribes before anything else.

If you've really been away you might not know the author died and someone else came in to finish it. I've read that things start moving again after the switch, but I can't bring myself to power through those middle books again to finally reach the end.

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Why don't you do it yourself?

>Did you like the book?
I loved it. Really liked the writing style too.
It is my favorite book but currently but might be the lack of decent books I've read recently.
>Will you read the rest of the series?
Did read them. Got worse continuously until the last was good again but still definitely worth it.
>Who's your favourite character?
Honestly Croaker. I just like his character as a whole.
>New waifu?
Not a waifu kind of guy, but Lady
>Any other thoughts?
>I think the ten who were taken were squandered in the first book, did cook mean for it to be a series from the onset? I enjoyed the aspect of the company being ants amidst these feuding semi-gods and missed it in the following books.
Pretty much this. I didn't mind that it changed later but I would've liked some more in service to Lady or some Taken. Maybe hunting surviving taken leading the rebel.

I did hear about that. I wouldn't be able to finish it, though. It's been so long that I don't remember enough to pick it back up. I'd have to start over at the beginning.

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You can read stuff after 2010. It's just that they have to be self-published. Less forced pandering in these books.

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Newfags really are a drag. Everyone in this general supposed to have read this years ago.

good stuff

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bbc.com/news/world-europe-47771706
dare I say
based?

No wonder Islam is taking over Europe.

>book burnings
>in 2019
Okay.

That's nice how the article moralizes at the end about how evil and Nazi-like it is, rather than just reporting the facts.

Looks like a bunch of weeb shit

user, you know that news reporting isn't about reporting facts and letting the reader make their own determinations, its about telling the reader what they're supposed to think about everything. How else will you be certain that the ignorant public does and thinks what you want them to?

Better be careful or growling will make the priests gay

Are you implying that a government run news organisation could have ulterior motives?

there is no way in hell that could be true, right?

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Yeah, that sounds nefarious and tin-foily. Everything is fine.

i nominate this

I would never imply such a thing, especially since if I did so they would libel me and blacklist me from internet platforms and financial services after demanding everyone I know disavow me or suffer similarly.

Governments exist to do what's best for the people so they would never do anything bad. Unless they're Nazis.

This. Upvoted!

nazis isnt bad

Uh, racist much? Did you not go to school? Any educated person knows that whi- I mean Nazis- are the most heinous force of evil that has ever existed in this universe. It's an obvious fact that doesn't need to be defended, and if you disagree you need to shut the fuck up.

List the 10 books you have left. Also, list your top 10 FR novels.

Or else.

>Catholics say they're good but you can't trust them because they diddle kids
Good and relevant point, BBC News.

I would also like to nominate The Wandering Inn, in fear that the good Patrician who did so will get ignored if he is alone.
We are not reddit normies. The length does not matter.

Because of the genres mentioned I've only read two litRPGs and I did not really like either, so it would be a quite small chart.

Birdboi dont got a tongue he got a beak and hes beautiful.

I've gone from wanting to kick wolfblade canon's ass to breaking his legs.

>birdfag reading comprehension

>The length does not matter
You'll have to do better than that if you want to convince me to allow a 1200 pages long text that is not even a book.

It sucks dick.
Childrens characters. Elaborate magick systems.
Its YA at best.

Some blog I read claimed that Sorceror's House is an "inversion" of Wizard Knight, e.g. in terms of the narrator's actions. I haven't read it so I can't comment but what you said sounds about right.

nazis are actually black get your facts straight

Would you eat the Fairy Fruit from Lud in the Mist?

b-but

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literal birdbrain

>its an American author thinks a noble having well maintained decorated armour is a sign of decadence episode

>its him again complaning about american author but not giving us the name and the book title

how shit is this?

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>female author
>2019
>rating below 4
there you go

>It's a "renaissance-era plate armour in a clearly medieval setting" episode

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I feel I must take the opportunity to nominate this excellent book. A sublime choice as no one else has read it, the binding collects a mere 264 pages, and the story is entirely self contained.
:3

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>>rating below 4
sometimes this is counter-intuitive

What pre-Tolkien fantasy are you expecting to become really popular soon? Gormenghast has always been on the verge of breaking into the mainstream but has always been on the threshold a little between mainstream and niche, I'd like to see something like House on the Borderland.

i know, but this one is coupled with the year 2019 and a female author

>It's a "fantasy is history" episode

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Seething yank

>1200 pages
I am actually suggesting that we read the entire thing, which is 12000 pages long, not 1200.
It is really good, trust me. Alright, have I convinced you yet?

It is on kindle unlimited

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>trying to use reverse psychology and our hatred of all things redbit to get your way with your book choice

>it is actually 12000
fug

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I don't know what that means

It's available there

Eh, fuck yourself. It's a comfy series.

it means kindle unlimited has that book

I'm not going to make it, am I

no we are not
but we have each other

>rating below 4

That's a negative here? Where everything popular (i.e. 4+ ratings) is immediately ripped apart?

And that's a lot

read

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It’s fine until they go to death cult elf island and the mc drowns his degeneracy in bisexual fuggin. Then gets better as soon as he leaves death cult elf island. Honestly bitch, calm the fuck down with that. Didn’t need to be half the books.

No one gives a shit what hot mess was before Tolkien, or during his time, we only care what came after.
Kys fucking crusty dino lover.

Why can't I find any protagonists like pic related in fantasy books? Even in those self published litRPG harems the protagonist is either a complete wimp or a "morally grey" which actually just means he's still a good guy who simply has cynical thoughts.

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conan novels, gor novels.

It's not - I've read both - but either way you take it Bax is out for revenge and to make a buck. George is a prick and so's he but only in the sense that he is more refined and cunning. Other than that he's an evil fuck no matter how you cut it and regardless of interpretation.

Rance is a meme protagonist. He's supposed to be a purposely unlikable asshole until the final few games where he finally starts to mature. Why would you want to read something with a protagonist like him?

Who hurt you? Wanna talk about it?

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Dunsany

Is the animal random?🦓

No. Internet has ruined people's attention span.

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Comfy = meme shit that no one could defend, I like, but wouldn't want to admit it because I wanna keep my reputation on an Anonymous Estonian Squash Juggling Forum

If you give me 1,500 likes I will post dinosaur.

What is it similar to?

One can dream.

>Some blog I read claimed that Sorceror's House is an "inversion" of Wizard Knight, e.g. in terms of the narrator's actions.

I can see that.

Wizard Knight is also framed as a letter from a man to his lost brother, but it's clear that Abel loves his brother while Bax spends most of the novel mocking George and driving him batshit with his letters. While Abel is honest and keeps his word in literally every single instance, Bax is deceitful the entire time, even when he's talking to the audience. Now that I think of it, Abel literally has bitches hanging off his dick 24/7, but he keeps it in his pants and stays faithful to his elf waifu. Bax fucks several women, even after pledging his love for his brother's wife, which was pretty fucked up on its own.

WizKnight was pretty cool. I dunno why people hate on it.

>The second book was a dumpster fire, the cover is awful and the writer is a hack but I'll still read this when it comes out in a couple of days.
What's wrong with me?

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Who hates Wizard Knight?

Brainlets

It's an edgy piece of isn't it?

So... /outerlit/? Maybe r/books?

His short stories man. You can read one on a cigarette break.

compared to his other stuff not really. borderline YA.

Words fail me

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So Vavasour of Thorns but for girls, gotcha.

We looking forward to his book anons?

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>shadman

>female protagonist
yikes

Princess of Mars was pretty shit. Change a few details and it'd sit comfortably in the parade of crappy isekai anime that come out every season. Carter goes to Mars for some reason and is super strong and beats up all the Martians and gets the hottest waifu on all of Mars.
Also the one language on the whole of Mars is "simple" so he learns it in a week, but this is in no way reflected in any of the dialogue.
Also his super strength from living in Earth's gravity means he struggles to even walk for a couple of days, but he can easily swordfight. And can BTFO giants who have been living for war for hundreds of years.

Complete shit. It shows that the author was a bartender before he started writing

what's wrong with crushing martian puss puss?

Why is it so rare to find a fantasy author or someone even remotely involved in the fantasy community in at least decent physical shape?

It was different but kinda meh.

I won’t since I read the premise of the other books and they sound terrible. Characters who die come back to life being the most notable red flag. Sounds like comic book tier stuff.

Silent

I didn’t like how croaker comes to the conclusion that lady is evil at the end. He’s already seen her do much worse when she took whisper. The portrayal of lady as a flirty evil queen was cringe. The magic was gay too. I don’t like people shooting things out of their mouths and dancing and screaming to get their spells going.

The more I think about it the more I disliked vs liked.

Overall good premise, poor execution.

Good choice

That's the first page. The fucking hook. We need a pink aisle for bookstores.

It was much less adolescent and cringy than his other series. Right up until the jade gates closed.

i'd nominate the MC to be the most annoying faggot of all time

Man, you guys don't Like posts any more than you like books. What a bunch of stingy faggots.

Can someone help me find the title for this book?

>Did you like the book?
Yes

>Will you read the rest of the series?
Read the first 3, going to stop here.

>Who's your favourite character?
Silent. Honorable mention to Elmo because he reminds me of Kruber from Vermintide.

>Any other thoughts?
Author relies too heavily on Goblin x One-eye wizard duels anytime the company has downtime. Would have liked to see more characterization for other members.

Daniel Black
Wild wastes

Quick lads, I need to get an amazon order up to 20 bucks

Name your very favorite science-fiction/ fantasy work with a one sentence justification!

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What are you talking about, that man is all muscle

*blocks your path*

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who the fuck names their kid china

>What's wrong with me?
Completionist. Took me a few years to break the habit. If it still gripped me I would have read book 2 and would be waiting on book 3, instead of dropping the series at book one.

I was going to mention that Jim Butcher lifts, but really...

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Sshh. Don't let the conanfags hear you. They will call you an artificially lowered testosterone tranny and say you drink plant milk.

...

Your saucy karma whoring will gain you nothing here friendo.

See

>"I'm 26, born in 1972 to hippie parents," he explains. "The story is that they looked through the dictionary for 'a beautiful word.' They liked the sound of China, and also the fact that it means 'friend' in Cockney rhyming slang -- you still sometimes hear people call each other 'my old china', meaning 'my mate'."

>"Basically, in Cockney Rhyming Slang," says Miéville, "a phrase that rhymes with the word in question comes to take its place, but then you get rid of the bit that actually rhymes. That's how come my name means friend: 'my old china' means 'my old mate' because 'china plate' rhymes with 'mate'.

You were the fag begging for likes cunt.

Commie author get ye gone.

It wasn't very well written and their relationship is mostly based on coincidence and and him being super duper.
I like Conan though. It's simple fun, and Howard's action writing is really good.
Also Carter spends the whole book drinking plant milk.

I hate commies but The City and The City was good shit. The other one I read was not, but not because chynah is a communist.

What do you all think of ebook readers? I was thinking of getting a Kindle. I hate those shitty mass market paperbacks that genre book often get published in. And it seems like it would make it easier to deal with self-published books.

Not as good as book
better than computer

I prefer them to paper books: I can make the text big to suit my shitty eyesight. Plus I can just download books I want to read.
My Kindle has lasted about five years and is fine.

I enjoy paper books more, but do most of my reading on a kindle. Don't have to store a physical book that you may never touch again that way

Books are cheaper on kindle

All right, thanks. It looks like they're releasing a new model next week so I'll just get that I guess.

prefer it for actual reading unless it's something with a lot of pictures/diagrams or some reference work i'd be flipping through.

i just read on tablets

> It looks like they're releasing a new model next week so I'll just get that I guess.
iirc there will a Voyage 2 so that will likely sit between the current Paperwhite and Oasis in price but it's mainly cosmetic changes. Also an update on their basic model with a better screen.

Matthew Woodring Stover is a martial artist.

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I was thinking of buying the updated basic model.

Why and when did harems become mandatory in litrpg?

Because they were initially written by / aimed at the anime audience.

>April 1st
>have to wait 2 weeks for book
>14 days
>other book comes out in 6 days
>have to wait 3 months to get ir
Being an audiobook fag is suffering.

Is there any light comedy sff worth reading besides discworld and DNA?

Which books are you waiting for?

try waldo rabbit. its pretty humorous. comedy comes from misunderstandings and misconceptions.

>Being an audiobook fag is suffering.
good.

Commie authors are better than liberal ones

Upvote if twitter thinks you're an arab

>Post good books with assassins
Though stuff.

I'll try this one. Does it have waifus? This is important.

Nice. I often see this book posted in this thread, probably by the same fucking faggot every fucking time, the maniac. I'll check out next time I'm looking for something to read.

huh. explains why the fight scenes were so good in heroes die.

>Did you like the book?
No
>Will you read the rest of the series?
No
>Who's your favourite character? New waifu?
Croaker, if I have to pick one
>Any other thoughts?
Contrary to popular belief a book is not good because it's gritty. Especially authors seem to have a problem understanding this.🐰

>What do you all think of ebook readers?
I have a Kobo Glo for reading books I pirate. It's convenient and far superiour to reading on your phone.

>waifufags
I hate all of you

test

Failed.

He's a faggot soiboi.

>:3
Hey catfag, what you reading recently?

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>birdboi posting his nation maps on /tg/ and not here
Why has he forsaken us? Pic related, it's his nation map.

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because this is not the map thread you cunt

Hai. Right now this. Liking so far :3 Before that I read Man of Two Worlds by the Herberts. It was dumb.

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But I want him back! I want our bird to come home!

This is cat country boyo

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>every territory claimed
Gay. G. A. Y.

boy, having landmasses at the poles sure does look fucking awful

The irony being the leftshits at the BBC have no problem outright BANNING books they don't like which is infinitely worse than some priests BURNING books they don't like.

Banning is better than burning.
When you burn the book is gone. The Vatican is probably getting rid of all the knowledge the aliens gave them to take over the world.

Bongs were a mistake.

Rex Nihilo

Can anyone recommend me some Raypunk literature if such a thing even exists? Thanks in advance

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think these priests confiscated other people's books and burned them. How is burning your privately-owned copy of a widely-available book worse than banning the sale of a book which will actually affect other people?

I'll try that, thank you.

>Cuckolding is an intrinsic part of this 'extreme' patriarchal nation's culture.
user played me

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The Thraxas series by Martin Millar/Scott

The only female authors worth reading are dead. Tanith Lee, C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett.

Thanks! I'll give it a go.

Good rec, but I've read that one.

I nominate Tooth and Claw.

>jennifer
You played yourself

Nah it's shit,the only good thing was the fat assed milf

Early voting today, yay! I'll post this in the next thread once I wake up.

Engine Summer,
by John Crowley. ~200 pages
>goodreads.com/book/show/1335568.Engine_Summer

We,
by Yevgeny Zamyatin. ~250 pages
>goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We

Flowers for Algernon,
by Daniel Keyes. ~225 pages
>goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon

Godsfire,
by Cynthia Felice. 250 pages
>goodreads.com/book/show/967895.Godsfire

Tooth and Claw,
by Jo Walton. 300 pages
>goodreads.com/book/show/344623.Tooth_and_Claw

Strawpoll: strawpoll.me/17723621

Disqualified:
>The Host
You cheeky fuck.
>The Once and Future King
Too long.
>The Shadow of What Was Lost
Marketed as first part of a trilogy, too long.
>The Black Prism
Too long and also >Brent Weeks.
>Seveneves
Too long.
>Starfish
Not stand-alone enough.
>Ringworld
Not stand-alone enough.
>Blood Song
Too long.
>Wool Omnibus
Too long, part of a series.
>The Wandering Inn
Way too long.

Now this is a long ass list of disqualified books. Partly because I decided to experiment and be anal about it and partly because the list of nominations is long. I'll write some guidelines and add them to the image before the next round.

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>Ringworld
>Not stand-alone enough.
Debatable.
Having sequels doesn't make the story any less self-contained.

I'm not voting for it, but Ringworld is total standalone. The sequels are milk-its-success books, not necessary continuations of the story.

>the fat assed milf
Don't recall her. We had the milf mistress in night angel trilogy.

If I read the host other people should suffer too.

>also >Brent Weeks.
Monthly reading user.. I used to respect you, didn't know you were a brent weeks hater..

>showing his likes

Karris has two sons and was in her forties

She was skinny brah...

fuck you're right,i read it years ago

I would probably have left it in if it were not for Starfish being disqualified for the same reason. Nominate it again next month and clarify that it's self contained.

Too long is the actual reason it was disqualified, simply being written by Brent Weeks is not enough.

Those aren't likes you hateful little gnome

I forgave Weeks for his adolescent assassin books, then got burned again by the pussy claws in his new series. Why should I give him a third chance?

Yeah. Tight pussy burned me too. Still want to know how the series ends.

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You seem upset that you have 0 likes.

urgh, my autism is giving me an impossible problem. I need a mythical creature that takes the form of a cannibalistic undead, but its true form is a rat, mouse or swarm thereof

the best solution I've found is the Wechuge, which is a human corpse possessed by a great animal spirit, but the sources I've seen make it crystal clear that the wechuge is made of ice, which for some reason is triggering my sense of overcomplication. I don't want to have to describe the mythology behind the Wechuge just to emphasize its rodent theme.

maybe I make a joke about it being made of ice but really it's made of mice....

Radiance might be what you're looking for. I haven't read it because the narration style rubs me the wrong way, but the author made probably the most underrated fantasy series I've ever read, so I'd give it a shot

Fuck you

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