How do so many fantasy writers manage to overcome the little voice in their head that says "this is completely fucking awful. Don't even bother finishing that sentence. Give up"
Jaxon Butler
Gonna shill this book until I have someone else to talk about it with.
His half brother was a good boy who didn’t deserve to be murdered by an autistic fit.
Zachary Ramirez
Sets out to become a righteous man, kills the only righteous man he ever meets.
Joseph Diaz
Name a better animal companion than Gylf. You literally can't.
Justin Walker
>reading series >glance at amazon reviews for each book >lots of positive stuff >last book in series >all comments are about how rushed and unsatisfying the ending is FUCK WHY DID I LOOK
Dominic Hernandez
Because they know fantasyfrens have absolutely no taste and will read anything
Isaac Roberts
Maybe they are wrong?
Christian Moore
What series?
Aiden Jackson
I am too dumb to understand Book of the New Sun, is Fifth Head of Cerberus more accessible?
Lincoln Wood
You're not too dumb to understand, it's just written to need rereads to understand If you want something of his that doesn't require rereads, Wizard Knight is pretty alright The first half of The Wizard is iffy but the other 3/4s are pretty tight
truly litRPG is the genre fiction of late-stage capitalism.
Daniel Foster
Thanks for the suggestion friend, I've been meaning to start reading that one actually. Plot sounds a bit generic but I'm pretty sure Gene Wolfe manages to make it interesting.
Are there any series that have absolutely batshit metaphysical/lore to it similar to the Destiny series? I know Moorcock is insane and Elder Scrolls too, but I need more
I don't know anything about it or the author, but I took a look at the goodreads comments for it and feel little desire to give it a try.
Kevin Stewart
Seeing Nona exist on the page as an explicitly and canonically bisexual character meant so much to me. As a bi woman, Nona Grey makes me feel seen.
Oliver Richardson
Finished New Sun. I like it a lot more than I did when I was reading the early books. Still don't love it though. I wasn't keen on how obviously the series needs to be re-read, and I'm not sure how soon I should do that. Should I read Long/Short Sun first?
Ayden Gutierrez
Where did you get this meme?
Cameron Carter
From his grandpa.
Eli Sanders
Well, Long Sun comes before Short Sun, so take a guess.
Caleb Cook
It's like you don't give a fuck anymore monthly reading user. You used to try and post your image near the top, now you just put it anywhere.
Charles Johnson
I didn't read book 2, why would I read three? Authors these days are using too much damn filler.
Jack Lopez
Shut up faggot, leave monthly user alone, he's doing fine
Mason Hernandez
monthly reading is shit and no one actually reads the books. Most of the discussion is by people who already read the book
Daniel Collins
Who the fuck will read We? No one. So who gives a shit where he puts it. You guys tend to pick shitty books.
Brandon Stewart
I read the series twice over back-to-back. I think it's worth it to pick up all the nuances, but only if you actually liked it the first time around.
Ethan Murphy
I mean before re-reading New Sun. I liked it, I just didn't love it. I still don't understand Severian's character at all.
Asher Lee
Not by me. And clearly the last shill didn't do his job cause whenever I bring it up, there are, at most, one or two anons who have read it.
So, you know, get to downloading nig.
Tyler Parker
He’s stretching out the coming of age too long. Every character is taking too long to mature and become useful. Meanwhile nothing gets answered and the plot just becomes more convoluted. I’ll still read book three, but it better move forward some by then.
Adam Watson
I think it was his best work. Red Sister was good, much better than his previous "let's set fire to a nuke to make it blow up" series, and then Grey Sister was mediocre. I only read this one because I have the annoying tic of having to finish what I start.
Samuel Russell
>theseus destroyed >icarus array destroyed - one fifth of all power generation for earth permanently gone >bicamerals all dead >rorschach still on its way >portia on the loose on earth >zombie plague spreading >vampires able to overcome their built in fail safes
how exactly is Watts going to end the trilogy? unless he pulls some kind of deus ex machina nonsense then mankind is utterly fucked
Nah, take some time to let the first reading be absorbed, and once you finish the entire series, then take another dip in New Sun.
Ryan Miller
Anyone else getting burnt out on the fantasy genre?
Brayden Rogers
Is Wild Wastes the only western example of a harem/wish fulfillment fantasy where all the relevant girls are virgins?
Dylan Turner
I'm sure there are other ones but I think Wild Wastes is probably one of the more popular ones.
Jace Gutierrez
not all of them are though. but i think its a cultural thing in that particular series. it plays out after ww2 and the war in europe claimed most men so theres a huge discrepancy between male and females in the populus.
Carter Gray
Partly why I'm delving more into 1920s and Pre-Tolkien works. I'm tired of Tolkien and GRRM clones.
Jeremiah Gutierrez
Well, it's the only one I have read so far, I think.
I am quite sure that every single one of Vince's wives had never been with a man and only a couple of dryads had experience with each other.
Justin Hernandez
Wheel of Time
Leo Green
Wait shit you meant western as in the genre not the West, my bad
Nathaniel Allen
No, I did mean Western. I suppose WoT would count even if it takes a long time to get there, I couldn't even get through Eye of the World, unfortunately.
Adrian Davis
>near the top that was me when i was making the threads, he's just doing what he always do
Elijah Jenkins
Mononoke is overrated. Pic related and Porco Rosso are Miyazaki's best movies.
I'm not reading that trash. Not because shit was shilled means people will read. You think people read to kill a god? Or masters of rome?
Jayden Jackson
>Miyazaki's best movie was directed by Yoshifumi True, but Miyazaki shitposting belongs on
Mason Reyes
Yea, everything just seems to be the same old shit these days.
Juan Kelly
That's why you have to delve into the self published books.
Noah Russell
Why don't you be a real man and read it?
David Flores
The Witcher 3 is the best, most immersive fantasy game out there. It keeps me fed, I hate this drought of contemporary fantasy books.
Jacob Cox
>tfw it took you 4 years to come up with a plot and now you realize you need to scrap the whole thing to make it a mystery instead of an adventure in order for it not to suck
a little. its not the genre so much as it is that there's so little thats remotely readable
Ethan Parker
So do all the gods look to reap the world or is that just Ajokli? I want to know what happened to Sorweel. Is Yatwer a lying bitch?
Yes. All the gods reap the world. Kellhus just found the greediest one and made a deal with him. Sorweel despaired at what he saw, and gave himself over to Yatwer. He became her chosen warrior. But since that little shit doesn’t have a soul of his own, he wasn’t affected by the goddess’s glamour.
That’s why the gods can’t see the consult or the sranc. They have no souls so they can’t be seen.
Leo Ortiz
>not Dr Talos moron
Elijah Wright
Jonas>Thalos
Ayden Russell
Hedwig, mouse, molly, and if anime counts, iggy
odd that there aren't nearly as many loyal cats. I blame cultural stereotypes
Logan Clark
Kingdom Come Deliverence is the king of video game fantasy just like Masters of Rome is the king of literary fantasy.
Aaron Myers
Sexy Jolenta > everyone > gross Jolenta after having seen sexy Jolenta
Aaron Brown
Wise words
Hunter Bailey
>literal melon sized breasts >perfect skin >lips as plump as fresh pastries >waist just the right arm-wrappable size >hips, thighs and butt of 'perfect ampleness' >tiny ankles Jolenta was the incarnation of a fertility goddess
Austin Gomez
Yeah the problem with fantasy is when you have read all the "big" names it becomes harder and harder to find anything that isn't crap. The big thing that burned me out was learning all the new kingdom, race, class, title names every book.
Eli Nguyen
You have to read the ones with less than 500 ratings on goodreads
Ayden White
It'll probably end in humanity transcending against their will, like the end of echoproxia suggested.
Wyatt Myers
Gay devil dad was better than anyone
Chase Long
Rorschach is looking to wipe out humanity, not transcend it. Unless mankind picks up the pace a bit before it burns itself to the ground or before Rorschach does it for them there doesn't seem like much hope.
Joshua Adams
That's not necessarily the case.
Theseus went to examine Rorschach, and Rorschach fought back out of self defense to keep control over the information about its systems. Blindsight was essentially a book about two extremely intelligent entities in a chess game (Rorschach Vs. Sarasti/The Captain), both trying to figure out how they other ticks. In the end, Theseus blows itself up both to impede Rorschach, as well as give it nothing to work off of in terms of info (a fact that Echoproxia brings up a debate on, which is did that even work?)
Portia is more than likely a behind the lines solution. One of the reasons theorized by Siri was that the Scramblers are encroaching due to an attack on their systems (from analyzing too much useless data born from humanities consciousness), they probably want to nullify the threat, but they aren't spiteful or genocidal.
I personally think the aliens are peaceful in a fucked up sort of way. They want allies, but in order for that to happen, they need to get rid of the problem of human awareness.
Brody Nguyen
IIRC, at the end of Blindsight, Siri intimates that the Scramblers will deem humanity not worth fighting since Rorschach got blown the fuck up.
Portia is something else altogether, I think.
Hudson Watson
It's clear that Portia has marching orders to fuck up anything it can, just as an extra measure to weaken mankind before Rorschach arrives. It wasn't known that Portia would even be able to assemble herself before humans noticed and destroyed her but when you're an ultra-intelligent entity with insane amounts of resources at your control (like Rorschach) you might as well send an agent into the midst if you can. In this case the effort worked out and Portia is roaming around on Earth with a human host that she can make outwit vampires (though personally I thought Siri killing Valerie was a bit unbelievable even in the context of Portia rewiring him).
Interesting theory, but I think the whole 'Rorschach was actually the good guy all along' thing (even if subverted to the extent you suggest) is a bit of a banal twist.
Michael Miller
It's not left clear, that's true.
In Blindsight, they had mentioned that the Scramblers biology was fundamentally different from ours in that instead of a bunch of smaller parts working towards the same whole, they were a bunch of smaller parts competing with one another, which in doing so make up a whole, like a bunch of competing cancers. In a weird way, it'd make them less xenophobic than humans, because it would mean they actually thrive on competition, and in order to improve from competition, you need healthy competition.
I think they're trying to elevate humanity so that they have a safe 'competitor' they can cut their teeth on. It's possibly foreshadowed with what Valerie says at the end of Echoproxia, which is, "I just wish we could all get along." Which while referring to the vampires, the humans, or the scramblers, could just be Watts trying to get the sentiment across. It's all just a really alien, really twisted diplomatic mission.
Peter Watts's stories are dark, but I don't think the ending will be dark in the sense that humanity will be destroyed. It just might get twisted into something unrecognizable if powerful. Does that make Rorschach good? If goodness is a question, no I don't think it does. I just don't think it's xenophobic.
Liam King
>It's possibly foreshadowed with what Valerie says at the end of Echoproxia, which is, "I just wish we could all get along."
She was referring to other vampires. She never gave a shit about humans.
Valerie's entire plan was to rewire Portia into an agent that deprogrammed vampires' inherent anti-sociability, so they could finally form a society.
Christopher Ortiz
Was Jukka the ship's AI the whole time, or was it half-and-half?
Not sure I recall the scramblers being described like that, are you certain? Whereabouts in the book does it mention that?
As for the reference to the Valerie line at the end, I think she was talking to Portia, and by extension Rorschach since Portia is an emissary/proxy for her creator. Vampires in general are so far beyond baselines and even augmented humans like the Bicamerals that they're incredibly isolated. Couple that with the fact that vampires are hardwired to kill each other on site (but could they overcome this since Valerie was shown to be able to overcome the hardwired crucifix glitch?) then they have nothing even approaching an equal that they can interact with or feel the thrill of competing against. Portia/Rorschach represented something on their level which is why Valerie wanted to meet Portia in the first place and why she was talking to Portia through Bruks - vampires are notoriously tight lipped but she was practically having a gossip with Portia.
This is also a theory with good potential. Not my personal view but it fits with the text.
Implied that he was being controlled by The Captain the whole time. There's a line at the end when The Captain is making Sarasti type out stuff on a tablet and Siri asks "was it you the whole time?" and he responds with "pretty much"; paraphrasing obviously but I think it was more or less clear that Sarasti was almost nothing more than another type of computer that The Captain had at its disposal and had to rely on a lot since the quantum computer was disabled due to the noisy environment.
Jaxson Taylor
>that 3D porn-tier quality pic blindsight.space has the best blindsight artwork/animations
I think it was a meta thing on Watts's part, to be clear. Which was him trying to introduce the idea that a peaceful galaxy is not necessarily the one that's any less dreary and horrifying than destruction by an alien race.
it's in the ending bibliography >The curious nitpicker might be saying "Yeah, but without genes how do these guys evolve? How to they adapt to novel environments? How, as a species, do they cope with the unexpected?" And if Robert Cunningham were here today, he might say, "I'd swear half the immune system is actively targetting the other half. It's not just the immune system, either. Parts of the nervous system seem to be trying to, well, hack each other. I think they evolve intraorganismally, as insane as that sounds. The whole organism's at war with itself on the tissue level, it's got some kind of cellular Red Queen thing happening. Like setting up a colony of interacting tumors, and counting on fierce competition to keep any one of them from getting out of hand. Seems to serve the same role as sex and mutation does for us." And if you rolled your eyes at all that doubletalk, he might just blow smoke in your face and refer to one immunologist's interpretation of exactly those concepts, as exemplified in (of all things) The Matrix Revolutions93 . He might also point out that that the synaptic connections of your own brain are shaped by a similar kind of intraorganismal natural selection94, one catalysed by bits of parasitic DNA called retrotransposons.
I don't think they do it for the thrill, just their social systems mimic their biological systems. If at the base level, they survive by competing with themselves, then at the macro level, they will survive by competing with another system. It's not necessarily that they'd be at war with humanity constantly, it would probably look more like them exchanging information and possibilities, and then coming to a communal conclusion on how to proceed/develop. It'd be a sort of symbiotic relationship, although it might be more like those Spiders that keep frogs in their borrows to eat certain bugs, rather than something as romantic as two interstaller pals gabbing it up.
I think it's in a similar way. Jukka and the captain communicate and work in tandem, not unlike with what I described above. Although Jukka is also the convenient face for the captain, and I think also in place because of how intimidating he is, he's like the perfect overseer.
Parker King
This might be a dumb question, but has Birdboi actually released any of his writing?
Blake Jenkins
No and he never will.
Xavier Garcia
This nigga gets it. There was WAY more variety and creativity in fantasy pre-Tolkien.
Isaiah Thomas
Read the 5th poor man's flight book
It's incredibly cheesy to have huge interstellar wars where every single major turning point involves the main character fighting people in close range but man is it way more fun than spaceship battles or full on army stuff.
I wish space opera/mil scifi but about infantry was a bigger genre than it is.
Chase Cook
What are some good historical fiction? I finished the Masters of time series and im itching for more. Normal fantasy can't fill the void anymore bros
Noah Morales
Masters of Rome*
Hudson Barnes
I, Claudius
Dominic Taylor
I liked the first two books a lot, if nothing else it's nice reading contemporary fantasy that focuses on the action and doesn't slow down too much in between.
Jeremiah Cruz
Is the short story collection "Beyond the Aquila Rift" any good? Just dropped in a thread on Yea Forums about the adaptation of one of its stories which is apparently pretty interesting.
Benjamin Hall
Not read it but reynolds is a good writer
Ryder Ortiz
Have you read any Christian Cameron?
Oliver Cruz
Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
Luis Edwards
Dorothy Dunnet is good but her main character tends to be a bit of a Gary Stu.
David Garcia
Authors love protags with powerful magic and protags without magic are also fairly common but can anyone think of books where the protag has just weak/mediocre magic/powers?
Only one that comes to mind off the top of my head is spellslinger
Christian Collins
But they all read our waifu Maas.
Thomas Sanchez
I never read her, but I do want to see her slampiggie body used.
Sebastian Rogers
all he's ever going to do is maps
Jace Anderson
I want to be the one to use that slampig body.
Mason Sanders
Thought she was petite
Christian Morales
Fat Girl Angle Shots.
Cooper Nguyen
>But since that little shit doesn’t have a soul of his own, he wasn’t affected by the goddess’s glamour. Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I was wondering how he saw through it.
Liam Howard
PLEASE recc me some chinkshit or anything with an edgy main character dabbing on everyone. Im so desperate for something to read that im considering going back to martial god asura.
Alternatively recc me a spy novel. I really like night soldiers and the first half of A Single Spy but so much of the genre is incredible levels of hack and although I occaisonally enjoy Le Carre hes kind of dry. What are the best cold war spy books, ideally focusing on agents on the ground doing cloak and dagger shit?
Would also recommend the Wolfhound Century books by Peter Higgins, they're about this cop in fantasy Russia that's modernized to around the 1950s period who gets called to not-Moscow to hunt down a terrorist but he rapidly gets involved in much stranger things. It's got a strong strain of cold war paranoia/weirdness to it.
Anyone here actually reads science fiction or is the SF in SFFG only for show?
Robert Garcia
Konosuba
Michael Anderson
Many of us have read SF but it's the same old books. No one is writing good sci-fi anymore so there's not much to discuss.
James Smith
What's with all Watts spam in this thread? He's just another one of nu-scifi zomboids like Chiang and Bacigalupi, people who can't write characters, only concepts they pick up in scientific american backpages or whatever.
Samuel Davis
Not tryina bitch but what is so interesting about fantasy anyway.
Ayden Moore
Not tryina bitch but what is so interesting about sci-fi anyway.
The sci in it and the different dilemmas it presents. I personally find it kinda boring how everything in fantasy is "I cast the magic that does everything for me / I hit the thing with my steel until the story is fixed / I have vigurous sex with the lady for my incels out there".
Thomas Baker
Not to mention the freaking descriptions of trees and rivers and how there's always elves and orcs in every god damn tale.
Oliver Peterson
You are basically talking about one genre of fantasy - the classic Sword and Sorcery stuff. There's many many different types. Just like not every SF book is Hard Sci-Fi.
Owen Hall
Boosting for interest
Christopher Green
Perhaps you are right. After all, I'm ignorant to the strengths of the genre. Hence me asking.
Banks was the last good sci-fi author but since he died ... meh.
Jack Edwards
There's a reason why almost no one reads hard sci-fi. Hard sci-fi fags literally murdered the popularity of science fiction books.
Julian Parker
What else would I fucking seek in science fiction if not scientific shit? lol, laser guns, space jets and cucking my dad in a different timeline? you can't even defend fantasy you hypocrite faggot.
Benjamin Peterson
Just drop the sf and call it fantasy general.
Aaron Miller
>READING A COMPUTER MANUAL IS MUCH MORE ENTERTAINING Beyond cringe lol
Ian Edwards
I don't know why space fantasy and space operas and such aren't more common, it's like people are too dumb to rip o- I mean get inspired cross-medium. Hundreds of Harry Potter and LOTR derivates but not many Star Wars ones even when it's a much bigger IP.
Benjamin Cruz
>but not many Star Wars ones That's because Star Wars was ripping off the space opera that came before it.
Owen Campbell
And Tolkien was ripping off mythology, no one gives a shit what came first, I'm asking why there aren't similar things but in written form, you're not answering the question.
Juan Ramirez
Star Wars is Dune + Flash Gordon, m8.
Daniel Rivera
Space opera was very popular in the pulp era and a bit afterwards before the hard sci-fi incels murdered science fiction's popularity in general. That was my point about why there's not a ton of Star Wars rip offs: it's because space opera had already been run into the ground by the hard sci-fi geeks years before Star Wars was even made. It wasn't like how LOTR made epic fantasy the eventual dominant fantasy genre because nothing like LOTR had been made before then whereas there was LOTS of space opera before Star Wars. Not to mention Star Wars is a MOVIE franchise so of course it would have very little impact on the book side of science fiction.
Lincoln Jenkins
Seems weird it wouldn't see a revival when the genre became mainstream in other mediums. I guess the demographics are just too different, only women and weebs read these days. And somehow only the worst weebshit made it into literature, why did it have to be isekai aids of all the other possibly decent things.
Joseph Cox
sci isnt about characters. If i wanted well fleshed out realistic characters id read tolstoy
Carter Ross
blindsight/echopraxia redeem modern scifi. Bakker redeems modern fantasy. FACT
It's called scifi, science fiction, which is fictional science. It's not called science factual. When you read scifi it's for the what ifs of science. Speculating on the future of technology, not current day tech, but with politics in space!! Fucking kys I can't even enjoy scifi anymore because of fags like you and Stephenson.
Jayden Davis
>editor convinced Bakker to split TGO and TUC >both wound up being 5/10s instead of a thick, hard 9/10
>why did it have to be isekai aids of all the other possibly decent things. The world is getting shittier. You have your degree and qualifications but have to work 2 low pay jobs to survive. People want to escape, reality isn't fun anymore. When star wars first came out people could have 6 children and feed them, now you are single and struggling to feed your self. It's either blatant self insert fantasy, or suicide.
Liam Rivera
yeah no characters no good plotlines sorry bud
war and peace is masterfully plotted but characters drive it
Isaiah Lee
i agree, they really should have been one book. Bakker is one of the only fantasy authors who seems to have any interesting ideas though so I guess ill have to put up with it.
Xavier Ross
>how can an old bitch look so virginal >mommy I need you, it's been so long >that's a penis.gif >throb
Easton Taylor
I don't know if I'm too autistic for self-insertion or not autistic enough. I can't really imagine myself as a character someone else wrote, I'd rather read about interesting characters that have nothing to do with me than the same idealized boring faggot MC. Isekai especially might be the only genre I've hated every single fucking thing I've seen aside for one parodying it.
Matthew Gutierrez
Theres an issue with bindings when you hit close to 1k pages. That said, overlook are still cheap jews.
It really is a 9/10 if you read them back to back.
Landon James
I really enjoyed everything about the consult. Such fun villains.
Jose Myers
i dont get it
Aiden Evans
>Bakker redeems modern fantasy. FACT No. He's terrible. >GUYS, WHAT IF I MADE LORD OF THE RINGS, BUT MADE IT SUUUUPER EDGY AND SUUUUUPER PRETENTIOUS NOT TO MENTION INCREDIBLY BORING! I will commend him on making the Consult seem like the most evil "dark lords" in any epic fantasy series. Not-Mordor truly felt like a living hell on earth.
Landon Morgan
Is second apocalypse all grimdark all the time, everyone gets a bad end or was the ending more interesting than that?
Bentley Bennett
Its called the second apocalypse for a reason, senpai. Although one character arguably has a good end.
Gavin Ross
the villain?
Owen Hughes
>all grimdark all the time, everyone gets a bad end This is exactly what it is. The ending was literally, "INSTEAD OF THE GOOD GUYS WINNING, HOW ABOUT THE BAD GUYS WIN INSTEAD?" And then everyone clapped their hands at this amazing and totally unique subversion. I probably wouldn't be so hateful of the series if it wasn't so goddamn boring. I knew what I was getting into before I read it with all the rape monsters and the nihilism, but no one warned me how amazingly DULL huge swathes of the story would be. But to be fair it's not like Bakker is unique in that department when it comes to epic fantasy.
I was going to put "good guys" in 20,000 quotation marks.
Jayden Hill
what makes it pretentious?
Jose Anderson
Bakker does a lot of pseudo-philosophical musings in the second book.
Brandon Morgan
>but no one warned me how amazingly DULL huge swathes of the story would be We told you it was good to be a slog of slogs. Not our fault you disregarded our advice and sister paid the price,.
Josiah Anderson
No, it’s Akka. He gets his firstborn son born. The last living child born before the apocalypse. Also his cheating whore wife back, I guess.
Jackson James
I don't mean just the characters, remember some post here talking about how everyone in that setting is basically fucked no matter what and their souls are just food.
Isaiah Allen
man in the high castle
Daniel Cooper
Well if that’s the worst to you then aren’t the consult actually the good guys?
Juan Hughes
Didn't the whore get shanked?
Levi Allen
and that a good thing! seriously i found the philisophical stuff comfy. Especially juxtaposed with the graphic rape and violence. [\spoiler]
Tyler Martin
How would I know, I didn't read it. Do they manage to accomplish anything other than spoil and destroy themselves and everyone else to stop being tasty food? That's the impression I got anyway.
Eli Fisher
Recommend me some pre-Tolkien Fantasy books.
Kevin Perez
Dhalgren and Perdido Street Station, or just Harlan Ellison in general.
Yes. They manage to preserve themselves beyond the reach of the gods.
Hunter Richardson
The Bible except it's real.
Wyatt Barnes
The King of Elfland's Daughter The Charwoman's Shadow The Worm Ouroboros Mistress of Mistresses The Well At The World's End Titus Groan Phantastes Lud-in-the-Mist Jirel of Joiry
Did they have to be as edgy as humanly possible to achieve that?
Andrew Evans
>Jirel of Joiry Was just gonna suggest this, a underappreciated story.
Jack Cox
Ah yes that one religious book out of thousands just happens to be the right one because more sheep followed it then other religions mmmmmhhhhhmmmmmmmm yes real yes makes perfect sense
Christian Kelly
Just finished the Demolished Man. Fucking brilliant shit, Bester was so ahead of his time.
I never self insert, but I do always get drawn to a types of characters, especially the late 20s early 30s self destructive man PKD always seems to write about.
Xavier Gray
17 year old atheist detected.
Evan Lopez
I'll probably order it, then. Anything else by Reynolds that you would recommend?
Robert Kelly
Don't forget that it wasn't written until 200 years after the Romans executed the millennial rabbi for trying to implement communism.
Gabriel Torres
I see Mark Lawrence's name popping so much everywhere that I'm getting curious. Is he actually worth a read?
For reference, I don't like Martin, Sanderson, Rothfuss nor most contemporary RPG fueled mediaeval fantasy, but I won't deny something actually good.
Carter Parker
>Is he actually worth a read? No.
Jack Reed
House of Suns and Chasm City are my favorites, Revelation Space and The Prefect are not as good but still fun.
It's pretty good, easily Lawrence's best series yet. He has really improved.
Thomas Sanders
I’m also curious about this.
Kayden Evans
>tfw I used the rebblit bingo to farm new books >new one contains >Slice of Life >Self-Published SFF Novel >Middle Grade SFF Novel >LitRPG Who the fuck even reads this bullshit?
For starters, completely ignore the resident brainlet who is going to post his Amazon self published chart soon.
You can try >Cradle Highly popular chinkshit written by a western author
>Path of Flames >Ember Blade >Crimson Queen epic fantasy
>Amra Thetys Female thief
>Where Loyalties Lie Pirate Fantasy
>Construct by Luke Matthews Fantasy version of an AI gaining emotions and free will
>Into the Labyrinth More chinkshit by a western author
>Beyond Redemption New weird, highly original, hard to describe, go read it if you want something that's fresh and induces mindfuckery.
>Orconomics Comedy, satirical take on a capitalistic fantasy society.
>Another Stupid Spell More orc comedy
>Priest of Bones Peaky Blinders in a fantasy setting. MC returns from a war to re-establish his gang and take control of his territories.
>Traitor God MC returns to the city he fled from to fuck shit up after his best friend is murdered in cold blood.
Ryder Bennett
>rebblit Kys
Nathaniel Ramirez
/sffg/ doesn't read nearly enough to offer a remotely useful filter useful for collecting good books for a period longer than 7 months. This isn't just limited to /sffg/ as I walked into my local bookshop and had read 70% of the scifantasy shelves already.
Jacob Fisher
>Middle Grade SFF Novel What does that even mean? Children's and young adult books?
Jacob Cooper
>Middle Grade. Middle grade is fiction aimed at children aged roughly between the ages of eight and twelve. It's younger.
Daniel Allen
well the series as a whole hasn't ended yet but the first trilogy has a pretty dark end and the second has a very dark and kinda weirdly abrupt end.
Cooper Gonzalez
They executed him under the pressure of the pharisean jewish priests because those schmucksywere losing control over the population. Dont be daft.
Leo Ortiz
r/fantasy is dead. The mods went full sjw. I mean last month they banned a well known author because someone falsely accused him of sexual harassment on facebook. The sub has doubled in subscribers (270k to 540k) but the last bingo had only 40 more participants than the year before. It's another reading site aimed at young woke women now.
Luis Brooks
>talking about rebbit disgusting, who cares about that place
Kevin Davis
Dead thread.
Wyatt Russell
it's not even an hour between posts
why do we suddenly get so many dumbfucks in the last few threads? go back to where you belong, we don't want you here
Lincoln Cruz
>posting this while redditspacing Epik summer newfaggotry.
Mason Cox
Conanfags will love that book, based on the guy on the cover.
Lincoln Jones
>obviously giving a space for different section of reply >wah wah redditspacing
TSOD is also a good read by him, sci-fi Count of Monte Cristo
Mason Walker
i am phoneposting
Owen Brooks
Check my chart.
>For starters, completely ignore the resident brainlet who is going to post his Amazon self published chart soon. Well seeing as I was the only one rallying behind and pushing self published books in this general for years, when you and others called it shit. I don't see how I'm a brainlet when I read more than you.
>You can try >>Cradle Yes
>>Path of Flames >>Ember Blade >>Crimson Queen Never read any of these, but if you are suggesting chris wooding, you must have shit taste. Doesn't help path of flames looks like some lotr elric moorecock witcher combination.
>>Orconomics Was kinda funny but had too much table top shit in it. If you're one of those table top dungeon master cunts you will love it.
>>Another Stupid Spell The author kept finding more ways so the orc could be stupid. Doesn't help that you don't know if the catgirl is a tranny or not, seeing as they can hide their junk inside their body.
>>Priest of Bones oh its you. That user from a few months ago that was shilling this shit.
>people on failbook are actually your friend Can you ask them to come by your house and help you move a couch? Or to drop you somewhere out of town? I didn't think so.
You thoughtless are what's bringing down humanity. Not because a bunch of people like your post, or are friends with you means that they, on a personal face to face basis like, and are friendly towards you. You cunts need to be purged, your false socializing ways are bringing down the fabric of society.
Jayden Perez
>phonefag is also plastic korea pop user Makes sense....
Nathaniel Wright
>replying to obvious bait STOP SHITTING THE THREAD
You mean her managers have her pretend to be a Christian, while he fucks her doggie style and tells her to oink. These women are modern days slaves, and with the honor and shame system shit they got going on in Asia, they are quite easy to bully into your bed.
Xavier Perry
no she was a christian before this and she still is and nothing will convince me of that deluded sex fantasy of yours
Why are you kfags so deluded? I'm done with you. It's guys like you who believe everything a girl tells them. She is a virgin user, never even seen a penis. Your waifu is pure.
Nicholas Gomez
All those books are shit. Who reads this trash anyways?
Michael Myers
And what do you recommend?
Blake Morris
White line as a way to separate paragraphs has been a thing longer than you have been alive. (I know that at least the early e-books used it, wouldn't surprise me if it's older.) Read the rules, underb&.
Xavier Murphy
The Johannes Cabal, Jonathan Strange and Lord of Light book are worth reading. Fevre Dream and All Systems Red are good. 1984 is a walking spoiler but it's also enjoyable.
The ones to avoid are the Time Machine (just read the Invisible Man instead), Tevis -- his nebula nominated Mockingbird makes fucking YA look good which might indicate how shite that one is, the Mount Char one I dropped. Fforde writes great but I disliked Thursday Next from the plotlessness of it and the nursery book looks similar. Ian Tregillis I read his Alchemy Wars series and it simultaneously managed to be a GOAT and SHITE series at the same time (I guess more GOAT than shite though) but urban fantasy doesn't look like a promising genre. I avoid self published stuff, however.
But if you are looking for edgy main characters dabbing on everyone, no one is going to be doing any dabbing or anything edgy. Cabal's the closest, but he's not so much as edgy as he is an autist who likes science and necromancy more than people.
Kayden Smith
>Check my chart filled with litrpg and harem trash No thanks, I'd rather gouge my eyes out before reading that filth.
Brayden Ortiz
Wonder why litRPG is so fucking popular nowadays.
Lincoln Jones
>doing something for free is an excuse for doing a bad job Millennial work ethic, everyone.
Brody Bell
Then kys. I bet you're a cunny with a juicy camel toe that needs stuffing.
Matthew Wilson
Masters of Rome Stop pretending to be me, pseud.
Lucas Robinson
any decent survival in space that is a series?
Jackson Gray
>powerfantasy wishfulfillment aimed at men in an age where men are disparaged for being men gee i wonder why they could be popular
I just finished the Elric series, overall it’s easily a solid 9/10 when it’s not a crossover story with Moorcock’s other Eternal champions. Should I read through the Del Rey Conan Series next, or should I reread Dune in anticipation of the new covers for the sequels in June? I’m definitely leaning towards Conan, but I’m open to any suggestions that anons may have.
Bentley Turner
Any good books with good dragons that are a main focus of the work?
>The North are Scots >Wildlings are Highlanders >The Vale are Cambro-Normans >The Mountain Clans are a rather unflattering take on the welsh >Andals are the Norman/English >Dorne is sexy Cornwall >instead of Ireland we get generic fantasy vikings Fucking state
>that moment when you realise all of the main characters in GoT are filthy tyrants and lose all ability to empathise with them And so I stopped reading.
I think everyone that says this has no idea what the fuck the war of the Roses was or what happened in it and also probably has a mother who is also an aunt.
Carson Barnes
developing a theory that all good military scifi is written by authors who have never been in the military
Dominic Peterson
>Reading scfi for the SCIENCE wew lad
Jaxon Barnes
Novel Idea. It's a post catastrophe book. Something killed off all the women in a month period. Scientists are using the frozen ovas and artificial wombs to try and breed females again. Nothing is wasted if failed, stem cells are collected, budding ovaries are snatched. If grown to term eggs are harvested. All while racing against the clock because humanity is on a timer. Some people try to better neural uploads to work towards a goal even if humanity (males) die before their work is completed.
While all of this is happening, passable trannies are made into sex objects. They are made loose by the amounts of erect attentions shown them. A lot of trannies were outted when they didn't die like all other female looking humans out there. Even tranny dykes were outted when "males" dropped dead and it was shown they have vaginas and wombs (those were harvested of course). Trannies became a currency because men wanted sex, but didn't want to have sex with someone who looked like a guy. Humanity is slowly going down a road of degeneracy while the beings that caused all of this looks on in fascination.
What you think? I know someone is already going to steal it as soon as I hit post.
>It's the greatest fantasy writer worth a read? Gee i dunno,user
Isaiah Nelson
>or should I reread Dune in anticipation of the new covers for the sequels in June? Just play the porn game.it's way better and you can see Jessica getting punded
Gavin Wilson
Fuck, you ripped off my "The Assassination of the Assassin", didn't you?!? You're not Nora Roberts by any chance, are ya?
Chase Edwards
Any Royal Road users here? You recommended Royal Road to me, now I bring you my Webnovel. I decided to write stuff down instead of just dreaming it up and after weeks of working, I'm more than 40 chapters deep, 11 of which are published so far. royalroad.com/fiction/24290/tatzelwyrm
self pub really isn't that rare now, tonnes of shit finds a publisher now via self-pub success senlin ascends for instance was self-pub first
Evan Long
Into the Drowning Deep
Parker Brown
The shadow over Innsmouth
Hunter Lee
It's mostly for show. A certain percentage of fantasy fans are utter retards who have an irrational hatred for Sci-Fi. They won't allow any discussion of it at all without shitting themselves. Your post is a perfect example. Follow the reply chain for like 3 posts, and there's a guy raging about how Sci-Fi is "like reading a computer manual". They clearly hate us. What moron would create a join general between two genres which have almost entirely divided fanbases? I don't think I've ever met somebody who's both an avid Sci-Fi fan, and an avid fantasy fan. I'm not sure they even exist. Perhaps the occasional Sci-Fi/Fantasy thread could be interesting. We could have a little discussion about what we like about our respected genres, and perhaps build a few bridges along the way. But this general, this general is a horrid idea. This general achieves nothing but killing Sci-Fi discussion on Yea Forums. It's so effective in this position, that I don't think it would be a stretch to accuse it of being intentional. It'd be like making an Anarchism/Communism thread. They aren't going to get along. The larger population is going to squash the smaller one, and then you'll be left with one group having sole ownership over something that's meant to be collaborative. This thread is not a Sci-Fi general, and because of that, there is no Sci-Fi general. It’s sad, because sometimes I finish a Sci-Fi novel, and I’d really like to discuss it. Unfortunately, because this general is so highly populated with fantasy content, it usually hits the bump limit before a good discussion can begin. This thread's getting pretty close to being dead now, and I see one successful Sci-Fi discussions in this thread. There's another guy trying to start a discussion, asking about exploring new planets, but the thread will probably be dead by the time he gets a reply.
Popularity does not equal quality. Consider the intelligence of mainstream audiences, and then reconsider bragging about how popular your genre is with those mainstream audiences. Remember that Harry Potter, Fifty Shades of Grey, and Twilight, are some of the most popular pieces of literature ever written. Literature, even genre fiction, is supposed to be an art form. A story should come from the heart, it shouldn't be manufactured to rake in cash. If you think a genre is good purely because it pulls in a lot of money for the publishers, I think you've nullified your own opinion.
Thomas Rogers
Star Wars is essentially fantasy set in space, with wizards and all. Perhaps that’s why you think more Sci-Fi should be like Star Wars. If I were to write a fantasy book, I’d probably just end up using magic as an analogy for technology, and I would have essentially written a Sci-Fi novel that just so happens to be set in a fantasy universe. You probably wouldn’t like it if a load of Sci-Fi fans started hailing my novel as being the peak of fantasy, when they’ve barely read any fantasy at all. Also, because you seem to be incapable of going two sentences without screeching insults, I think you should kill yourself. Go find something tall, and take the quickest way to the bottom, you nut sucking cunt face.
There's plenty of technology based Sci-Fi to read, user. Hell, if you tell us what you’ve read, we might even be able to recommend you something.
Liam Martinez
Based and NewWavepilled
Adam Long
I read loads of both, though I prefer SciFi. Every time we've tried a split SF just dies, not enough people wanna talk.
Ryan Nguyen
Star Wars is actually a very "70s" kind of sci fi, heavily inspired/influenced by the drug addled new age shit and neomysticism of the time that was popular with writers. The thing, however, is that Lucas had actually competenct people around that turn it in an actually enjoyable story rather than the acid enhanced nonsense that was being shat out during the era.
Carter Martin
Does it have any harem or litrpg bullshit in it? If not I might give it a try.
Dominic Bailey
this sort of venting is therapeutic, user. good to see you out there expressing yourself.
Henry Lewis
THREADSLAVE
Justin Peterson
We're on page 1 Let the poor bastard rest
Aaron Mitchell
If you yell one more time while the thread is still on the first page I will find and kill you faggit, I'm not even joking.
Sebastian Powell
I'd still rather have a sparsely successful Sci-Fi general than artificially bolt it onto another thread in order to keep it alive. /g/ did the same thing, combining /cyb/ (for cyberpunk) and /sec/ (for cyber security). The result was the level of quality cyber security discussion plummeting, as the /cyb/ general was much larger. I don't think people are encouraged to write in-depth posts about their favourite topic, when 85% of the thread is people discussing something they have no interest in. I’m certainly not. I dropped /sec/ pretty much immediately, and while I still come here occasionally, I find it very hard to engage in /sffg/ as well.
I heard that George had outright admitted to being "inspired" by Dune, and Flash Gordon. I've never heard any other inspirations cited, although there is that WW2 film which has very similar cinematography.
This is what you write when you dislike a post, but you’re entirely incapable of providing valid criticism for it, so you try to spin the writer’s passion into being a negative. Come back when you actually have something to say.
Sebastian Adams
I don't think I've ever met a fantasy fan that didn't read sci-fi, or vice versa. Just post about books you've read. It's not like people talking about fantasy books get a lot of (you)s unless they're talking about something very popular anyway.