>start reading Radix as suggested by an user here >MC is basically you Is fiction supposed to hurt?
Jeremiah Barnes
is there going to be a discussion about the book or anything, or is it just a recommendation?
Jack Reyes
I really miss Star Trek shows and Discovery fucking sucks. What are the best Star Trek-like novels? I don't mean one of those official Star Trek novels, licensed works suck 99% of the time. I mean something original with the same ST feel.
I've heard this has a similar feel to the 1981 movie Heavy Metal. Is this true? Also, was I supposed to understand what the fuck is going on in the first chapter?
Are you being ironic? I want to read something with Warcraft style Orcs and Trolls, but I always assumed actual Warcraft books would be mediocre at best.
Hunter Johnson
>Also, was I supposed to understand what the fuck is going on in the first chapter? the books are very disjointed at times they do come together though at various points and you will slap your forehead for not thinking about certain things because they seemed so obvious in hindsight. it gets better. but it keeps staying like that to varying degrees throughout the books.
Landon Reyes
>always assumed actual Warcraft books would be mediocre at best. the old ones are great. fantastic at points actually. the newer ones not so much. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft#Novels read up to and including stormrage. they are solid up to that point.
Julian Wood
Welp, lads it sucks. The characters feel incomplete or imported from his other sieres, the story and action is crap and it is laced with "you go girl" modern politics. What a shame.
Boys go to swim, decided to take a shortcut back As they head back home, they see a bunch of guys stalking around the graveyard What's going on here? We're volunteers and it's nona ya business Let me come along tho Violence as they discover grave robbers Then the main character saves a grave robber's life and is given a coin as a reward
Most of the book main plotlines are attached directly to stuff that happened in this one first chapter.
Ayden Allen
Meant for
William Hernandez
Thanks for the input lad, I'll check them out. There's even one about Arthas so now I'm hype.
You LIED to me /sffg/ The Dying Earth is listed here as science fiction but it's as Fantasy as it gets, wizards and shit everywhere.
Isaiah King
>reading anything from that author after the first Red Knight novel
Henry Wilson
Fug off. I posted my "do no read" list a bunch of times and you still read it. It's on you.
Elijah Barnes
It's 00:48 in the night as I'm writing this and the sun of dread has dawned upon me; Gene Wolfe is dead.
Jackson Williams
Have sex
Luis Hall
Having sex doesn't solve anything, it just gives you more problems than you stated with.
Jason Moore
The licensed work is generally pretty solid user, i recommend the destiny trilogy, basically a direct sequel to TNG, DS9 and VOY
Austin Perry
Like having to internalize and accept that you're a valid human and member of society and that all the years you spent believing that you could be content with being a reject because of external factors were a like and that you've really been alive and functioning and acceptable all along, for all the time you've wasted
Gabriel Lee
It's 00:57 in the night and I've never even heard about Gene Wolfe up until few weeks ago.
Mason James
The sex has to go well for this to happen. Usually this is not the case for someone who's spent all of their life not having it. The cycle begins again.
Aaron Martin
No, because if someone wants to fuck you and it's your first time and your dick won't get up, they're just going to try again tomorrow, and the second time's probably going to go better.
Jack Scott
>he actually believes this You never dealt with girls have you? They would laugh at you and go tell all their friends.
Angel White
Usually a little bit of discussion after the month is over.
Jason Green
Not all women are kind, neither are all women Stacys. It depends on what situation you get yourself into. My point is: someone who has never or has very rarely ever had sex should not throw themselves pele-mele into it. One has to be discerning enough to not have sex with someone who aggravates your obvious insecurities, but not so discerning that you never have sex because no one can measure up to your ideal. But we should be talking about scifi
Parker Hill
Is Lightbringer another meme like Kingkiller and Sanderson
Jace Reyes
I'm bringing you my opinions as a Real Sex Haver who has stuck his penis into a cisgendered woman.
Scifi's basically just a boat for the author to shove all of his fetishes into, anyways.
While we're talking about sci-fi, is there any sci-fi author with good prose? (Wolfe writes future fantasy and his prose sucks when he writes anything closer to sci-fi than that, so don't even try.)
Leo Gutierrez
Man the book of the month is wild. Just finished reading the first 30 or so pages and I have no idea what's going on.
It's my first time venturing in spec fiction though.
Caleb Russell
What are some free epub readers that you all would recommend?
Is this worth a read? Someone told me it was like Berserk but I'm not sure if I was getting memed.
Andrew Cruz
Try The Demon Prince's by Jack Vance, although as typical of Vance there isn't really a nice big ship and crew.
Christopher Gonzalez
>I've heard this has a similar feel to the 1981 movie Heavy Metal. Is this true? I can see why someone would make that claim, but I don't agree with it.
>Also, was I supposed to understand what the fuck is going on in the first chapter? Not really.
Cameron Jackson
Finished this last night, very good stuff. Are the other books in the series good?
It’s not like berserk, but if you want heavy Calvary charging a line of horrific monsters then it should scratch that itch for you.
Cameron Peterson
I know this is not (quite) the place, but what are /sffg/'s favourite fantasy and sci-fi games?
I usually play games more for its narrative/story/world, so I was curious to see what people here like. I've finally got around to playing the Zelda games lately and I was stunned by how whimsical and wonderful the entire world of the games felt.
Aiden Collins
Dark Souls, Morrowind, Deus Ex, and the first Mass Effect are all pretty great. I need to get around to playing Planescape Torment since I've heard it is quite good. The Desolate Hope is another one I've been meaning to play, but I'm mainly just interested in its art style.
John Young
>Fantasy Bloodborne/Morrowind >Sci-fi New Vegas
Alexander Barnes
Nier Automata is a pretty Yea Forums game
Joshua Sanders
>Is this worth a read? Can't you into greentext? It was shit, that is why you shouldn't read anything after red knight.
Gavin Roberts
Are you vexed that no knots were given to teenage space sluts?
Samuel Evans
A Deepness in the Sky is good, Children of the Sky sucks.
Kayden Garcia
My mind started wandering while I was reading and thinking if Ravna never got to the planet eventually she would have needs that need meeting.
Luis Martin
I don't play games. If I did I would be on Yea Forums
Oliver Martinez
Is Children poorly written or what? Seems like most people hate it because its all Tinish stuff but I liked that part of the book.
Gavin Thompson
Scifi - System Shock 2 Fantasy- Witcher series
Christopher Campbell
>I usually play games more for its narrative/story/world legacy of kain if you wanna know how to properly handle vampire lore and storytelling. check this out: youtube.com/watch?v=dWM_Vqh8qAg for scifi i would recommend something like x2 if you want to get really deep into space lore. you gotta look for it though. its hidden but everywhere. its a fucking comfy game.
holy shit. that look on her. she is batshit insane. and not the regular kind. shes one of those that would feed the guy she likes her menstrual blood and vaginal secretions without ever telling him. that look is the look of insanity.
Kayden Jenkins
that's hot, user
James Rodriguez
Yeah, that's pretty much what I want to read at the moment, thanks m8
I want to hear more than one opinion about it.
Brandon Green
It's nothing like Berserk. I can see some similarities with the band of the hawk since the main characters are mercenaries but that's about it. The author is into historical reenactments and it shows. A lot of detail into armors and weapons to an autistic degree. It is a bit gritty medieval blood fest but nothing edgy like Broken Empire.
Grayson Howard
>It is a bit gritty medieval blood fest but nothing edgy like Broken Empire. What is the difference between something being gritty and dark and being "edgy"? I mean, historically, humans were pretty fucked up, often far more than the average "edgy" work depict, so what exactly makes something "edgy"?
Evan Allen
>A lot of detail into armors and weapons to an autistic degree. That sounds kinda interesting desu
The way I see it, something is edgy mostly depending on how it is handled. Death, violence, rape, all of those can be edgy if they are mostly gratuitous, senseless, and do little to actually advance the plot.
Ian Thompson
Expect a fairly realistic siege warfare and soldiers getting butchered when overrun. By edgy I mean mustache twirling villains who eat babies while raping their mothers at the same time. Or needless gory deaths and such.
Landon Harris
Wow. That's really good writing for a video game. Why isn't this more common? That sounds like something straight from a classical author. The voice actors sound great too and were really into it by the looks of it.
Only people who have not dealt with crazy want to stick their dicks in crazy.
Isaac Smith
Relationship ended with SARAH J mASS now ARKADY MARTINE is my sff waifu
Jace Collins
Only people of weak will dont want to stick their dick in crazy
Isaiah Wright
Shill me something good with a single pov.
Robert Hall
>but what are /sffg/'s favourite fantasy The Witcher, Gothic, Arcanum and Morrowind. >and sci-fi games? Mass Effect, Starflight, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Homeworld.
yo /sffg/, what are some books where the roles are reversed. usually its a kid being trained in something be it sword fighting, wizardry or something else. are there any good books where the mc is actually the master/teacher?
Why is he bad? His writing is a bit pretentious but I liked City of Saints and Madmen. Hasn't read anything else by him though.
Jackson Robinson
It's a great novel and the sequels are also good I don't know anything about the author other than this series but I fucking loved it
Thomas Edwards
Did someone actually finish this?
I gave up around page 100. It felt like reading a terrible american sitcom full of boring characters and jokes that at most made me giggle. Am I missing out? I enjoyed American Gods and the depth of its mythology but Anansi Boys left a sour taste in my mouth. I couldn't believe how terrible it was, especially after reading so many glowing reviews from people whose taste I trust.
That's what the book does well. One of the most atmospheric and genuinely creepy novels I've read in recent years. The sequels have some severe pacing issues but keep the same tone with intense paranoia added to the mix.
Adrian Thompson
more like gay-man
Liam Turner
I hope I don't have nightmares tonight. I thought the pacing was weird, but that might have just been the frenzied midnight reading. Also doesn't have the same satisfaction (or hopefulness) of Roadside Picnic, but that might just be because its the first of a trilogy.
couple things: Why would They (the southern reach) allow the journals to just build up there in the lighthouse while also falsely briefing the explorers? Wouldn't they instantly lose all faith in the mission as soon as they explore such a prominent landmark? Were They even capable of getting people out of Area X whole? Why exactly did They not allow video cameras, exactly? no second or 3rd book spoilers pls
also "Area X" sounds way gayer than "the zone"
David Kelly
>were My sweet summer child.
Robert Howard
nevermind I read a plot synopsis and it sounds pretty bad
Samuel Brooks
Looking for some dark, 'mind srewing' scifi novel. Any recommendations?
Nathan Adams
It's science fantasy m8. The setting is sci-fi but the story reads like fantasy.
>reading the first page >Wolfe namedrop the title of the book How does he get away with it?
Charles Jackson
There's nothing very scifi about Dying Earth' setting. It's just set in the far future. Viriconium shares a lot more with scifi.
Joshua Green
The only fantasy series I've read in full is Lord of the Rings, I lost interest mid-way with other series. Recommend me a good standalone Fantasy book /sffg/, or a collection of short stories I guess, anything but a series.
Lud-in-the-Mist. Book of the New Sun (shut up it's one thing in four volumes).
Brayden Hughes
Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
Leo Edwards
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
Bentley James
I finished it, but it didn't really get better. To the end you have a lot more mythology. But the whole story just feels boring.
Sebastian Green
Never read anything by this guy but the premise sounds cool.
>Lud-in-the-Mist I keep forgetting this exists, I've been meaning to check it out. >Book of the New Sun I'll allow it; after all, Lord of the Rings is also sort of a single thing separated in 3 volumes.
Google tells me there are 2 versions of this, are they significantly different? Which one did you read?
user...
Brayden Evans
I did. It had some nice ideas going for it and it was passable overall, but it remains a debut novel. Meaning that I found it a little shallow and some characters were too simplistic; some of the character decisions and world-building choices didn't make sense. And the way the citizens of the empire are named just sounds stupid.
Try some stand-alone books by Alastair Reynolds.
Beyond the Aquila Rift Diamond Dogs
Hudson Anderson
Perdido Street Station if you want some urban fantasy. It's part of a trilogy but each book is standalone.
The Pastel City. The writing sometimes stalls but it's a pretty straight forward and fun story. Again, it's part of a series but each book is even more standalone than my first rec.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is excellent if you like historical fiction.
Also, I never heard about Broken Sword having two versions, what do you mean? Couldn't find anything on that.
Joseph Taylor
Blindsight
Luis Jackson
>if you want some urban fantasy I have never read urban fantasy but I'm open to suggestions, maybe a I should broaden my horizons.
>The Pastel City This does sound pretty fun
>Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Someone else recommended this to me one time I asked for books related to the fae, it's been on my wishlist for a while.
I found this article after looking at some Amazon reviews. There are some excerpts in there comparing the two versions but honestly, I'm not sure which I would prefer.
Carson Peterson
The first chapter can feel confusing but the first half of the first book is the most easy-to-follow part of the story overall
How brainlet-friendly is Neuromancer? As a reference, I can tell you that I had a pretty hard time following BotnS, and I'm sure I missed the point of it.
The first sequel, Authority, really messed with my head. I don't know why exactly, I think the idea of having to deal with layers of government secrecy and office bureaucracy while everyone around you loses their mind and you might be losing yours too just gave me so much anxiety.
It's pretty straight forward and I don't recall any points where I lost the plot. As long as you can keep up with the terminology he's inventing on the fly, you should be fine.
Juan Allen
Didnt you hear? there is a new /sffg/ waifu
Blake Reed
>he doesn't know about Mommy no! Miles
Ryan Murphy
Anything with the female main character going Rambo?
left version looks better, the paper is very nice too. i think sf masterworks is bigger but the paper quality is also nice, depends what you wants really.
Ayden Phillips
Joe Abercrombie's First Law
Sebastian Mitchell
One to the left has better print quality. The absolute best edition are the UK first editions with their aesthetic covers painted by Bruce Pennington.
Bentley Ross
What compels an adult male to read those books
Carter Walker
dark souls, thief, shadow of the colossus
Brayden Long
Doom, Wolfenstein New Order, I generally only like simplistic shooters. Earth Defence Force was cool. DOOM 2016 too. Shadow Warrior
The Ys games are nice.
Ian Brooks
He had tons of wives bro
Lucas Martin
lyl this thread
Connor Bell
if you're gonna rec historical fiction at least pick something good like Les Rois maudits instead of fucking masters of rome
Justin Wilson
I never go there, is everyone in Yea Forums retarded?
Juan Carter
pretty much
Joshua Perez
Yes, in its current state, it might actually be a board worse than Yea Forums.
Jose Turner
yes. worst board on 4ch.
Christopher Allen
Is that supposed to be a good thing or bad thing? I mean since he's not a towelhead he didn't have several wives at once.
Luis Moore
Good if he had them all at the same time bad otherwise.
Lucas Young
I always read that as an invitation. Asl? I only date braphogs fyi.
Josiah Johnson
>I don't know why exactly, I think the idea of having to deal with layers of government secrecy and office bureaucracy while everyone around you loses their mind and you might be losing yours too just gave me so much anxiety. Are you underage ban? You sound like those kids that watch pewpiedie fake scare video and jump in fright when he pretends to be scared. Fucking brainlet underage b&.
Brayden Miller
Yep. They are pedos too, and it's where the foot fetish fags plague spread from. They always begging for feet.
Nicholas Lewis
Finally finished all of Hayes First Earth books. Anyone know of any other series with slutfus? Got a strong desire to read more of those after Heresy Within.
Watch The Orville. It has a dodgy first few episodes but really becomes great mid first season with an even better second season.
Josiah Kelly
Cassandra Kresnov series by Joel Shepherd. The mc is an organic battle android and a nymphomaniac. She literally wants to fuck anything that moves.
David Gemmell's Hawk Queen, the only Gemmell book I've ever dropped, it's not that the book was bad but I couldn't handle the whore levels of the mc, you might like it.
How was it, what was it about and did it have a downer ending?
Ryan Brooks
is black company decent i found the writing style unusual and kinda difficult to follow should i give it a proper go lots people rave about it
Oliver Price
Friday by Heinlein
Cameron Lopez
I actually loved this book when I was a kid.
Eli Robinson
It's pretty good but it's not amazing or anything. Drop it if you're not feeling it.
Landon Clark
Not that user. I liked it, Black Thorn gets funnier and funnier as the series progresses. I also liked what the writer did with the world, he didn't go deep into autistic world building but it still felt rich and colorful. The ending was a sad one. Sword waifu dies. Overall I'd give it a solid 7.5/10
Ryder Anderson
>Les Sounds gr*ek
Isaiah Brooks
>Cassandra Kresnov series by Joel Shepherd. >David Gemmell's Hawk Queen How do you even find books like that?
Luis Young
I read the first book and din't care for it. Not awful, but I didn't feel any need to read more of them.
Ian Morales
Joel Shepherd wrote the Spiral Wars series, which is one of best recent science fiction series I've come across so I looked into the other series he wrote, Cassandra Kresnov being one of them.
David Gemmell is known for his heroic fantasy, I've read and liked a lot of his books, Rigante and Troy being the notably good ones. I tried Hawk Queen since he wrote it.
Christian Diaz
btw this thread is much worse now if you really want to suffer
Logan Ross
Fiasco
Christian Sanders
If you shit on the boomers and zoomers, which group do you belong to?
>t. cunny lover who imagines how their feet smell after a light jog
David Thomas
How would you know? pay your debts
Adrian Wright
Rendezvous with Rama, and Childhood's End are obvious choices for good standalone novels. They're both quite short, so they're not a massive investment of time, and Arthur C. Clarke is a classic. Rendezvous with Rama is about a small team of human naval officers being given a mission to explore a titanic presumably derelict alien ship which is passing through our solar system. Childhood's End is about Ayylmaos annexing earth, and becoming our benevolent dictators. They’re both interesting in their own ways.
Not really. You could try and find other self published books. Those usually have comedic fantasy / scifi. If you want I can put together some passable self pub that puts that comedic way of story telling. But I know you will call it shit anyways.
Brody Bell
Anything quite similar to this book? The most similar vibes have been from maybe PKD and Murakami.
I guess I'm asking if you guys have any recommendations for good metaphysical sci-fi that takes place in the form of technology/drugs/dreams.
>But I know you will call it shit anyways. that is a fair assessment.
Thomas Lee
Imagine actually reading children's lit. Go back to reddytplayerone.
Owen Flores
Breasts were flattened. Hani do not have obvious ones, a fact noted more than once in the previous book.
Leo Gray
>waldo rabbit >childrens lit wat
James Sullivan
>not resizing columns to fit perfectly Were you abused as a child?
Andrew Parker
Dumb frogposter
Jose Ramirez
>came in expecting Paksennarion but with no fantastical stuff >got something closer to Drake and Flint's Belisarius with more of a focus on the MC than the fighting I'm liking it for the most part, though I'm not quite used to it yet the priest character does make me hanker for books with comfy priests, which is a really niche thing as to how I picked it up finally got around to reading GGK just over a month ago, and now I've read all but his poetry, the LoTR homage trilogy, Ysabel and Tigana made me want more alt-history/universe stuff, and I'd had half an eye of this for a while, so no-brainer so what's stuff that someone who pretty much binged Kay's work would like? as for ranking 'em for your austistic pleasure >Children of Earth and Sky (pissed I read this before the Sarantine Mosaic) >Under Heaven >Lions of al-Rassan = Sailing to Sarantium (maybe the edge to Sarantium, barely) >River of Stars = Song for Arbonne >Lord of Emperors > > > >Last Light of the Sun (this left me cold - I like Cornwell's Saxon Stories/Last Kingdom stuff, so I can dig the period and setting)
The first 2 books are decent but it goes to utter shit in book 3. One of the worst final books I've ever read. I'm talking Blood Song sequel level drop off.
Andrew Davis
user you replied to, and I pretty much agree with it kinda loses it's way, badly, but overall I found it worth my time, but I don't like to leave a story unfinished, so I rarely drop stuff (ignore the other books set in that universe - I looked at some blurbs and ugh)
Adrian Cruz
The bibliography of Arthur C. Clarke.
Liam Peterson
I read Rendezvous with Rama and Childhoods End and liked both, Childhoods end more.
are there any decent portal fantasy books, or are they all garbage?
Camden Lee
The Wizard Knight
Angel Morgan
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant:The unbeliever
Xavier Baker
>You sound like those kids that watch pewpiedie fake scare video and jump in fright when he pretends to be scared Pewdiepie doesn't even do anymore and he's literally /our_boy/ now. youtube.com/watch?v=qPnTTA8BC8A
Nathaniel Perez
Yeah, same. I'll probably read either Space Odyssey or Fountains of Paradise next.
Aaron Gomez
Nom.
Jordan Adams
Lads, I think we got the wrong boomer, even if his taste is shit enough to qualify. Besides, he hasn't even read CoAurt ThoOFrns RoANDses past book 1 if you check his read list.
>the multilingual/edition bloat raising their book counts to insanity levels
Christian Richardson
Anyone know a good reading app on phone that can sort by series?
Isaac Jackson
Just use ReadEra.
Adrian Brooks
I use FBReader, but there's probably better options
Daniel Smith
Thanks user, that works.
Jaxson Hill
Is there such a thing as good D&D novel?
Sebastian Cook
anything not forgotten realms is pretty good. avoid forgotten realms at all costs.
Luis Bennett
some dragonlance stuff? >hasn't read dragonlance deathgate?
Levi Ortiz
Is it worth reading even though the movie spoiled the plot for me?
Connor Diaz
The movie is nothing like the book except for a few generalities. The book as written is pretty much un-filmable so they had to take some huge liberties to adapt it.
Carson Mitchell
Merchant Princes
Eli Wright
>being this OCD'd
Isaac Russell
So who is the fake scare cunts now?
William Rogers
>rothfuss author of 58 books What?
Juan Mitchell
Great, thanks.
Ayden Fisher
>The book as written is pretty much un-filmable explain plz
Owen Robinson
It's different editions/languages etc. obviously. You don't think gayman actually wrote 1261 books do you?
David Bailey
>check it up on google play >is free >opens a bunch of formats >no ads >only wants access to things it needs to funct-... >view network, full net access >why does an offline book reader need internet access >makers are from russia >23mb app Okay. No Thanks.
Nolan Thomas
The book in lots of internal monologues and external mindfuckery - think a sci-fi version of The Naked Lunch. For example the whole descent underground and everything to do with the lighthouse keeper is a mind fuck that would be nearly impossible to visualize on screen.
Eli Gonzalez
The fuck are you smoking? Readera didn't ask me for any permissions other than to access storage folders and no it's not using my network.
Chase Barnes
So it's the scifi version of malazan?
Gabriel Garcia
No, it's not that bad.
Brandon Morris
>going away tomorrow >have no fucking idea what I want to download to have to read ah so this is the problem with having read like 30 books this year
Isaiah Garcia
>not having a b-list of "I'll read them someday." books just for occasions like this. I have a list of 50+ books that I'm not super interested in reading right away but they'll do if I'm in a pinch and need something asap.
Austin Davis
Yeah I have like that many on my kindle but the trouble is I've already thought of them as books I don't really want to read so I find it hard to start them.
I'm talking about the film-ability. They can't put malazan properly to film.
Caleb Adams
Anyone read Psalms of Isaak? It's starting off interesting but not exactly gripping and its a series of five fairly long books so I'm not sure if I want to carry on or not
Brayden James
not the guy you are responding to but i use readera a lot. i also developed for android before.
photos and media is needed to read files from internal memory. storage is needed to read files from an sd card or if there is more than one partition on the devices for data. the network access is new to me but it could be because the author wants to support OPDS catalogs such as the one a calibre server creates. this is all fairly normal. network access and network connections are needed for local discovery apis. for example scanning your local network for a server so you dont actually need to remember the ip or host name. that being said. on my phone it only has the two storage permissions and works fine. never even asked about the other permissions besides preventing the device from sleeping.
Landon Powell
read neuromancer & mona lisa overdrive
where to go from here? atmospheric cyberpunk with cool speculative near-future technology is my genre fetish
Aiden Carter
update >just downloading fucking everything that looks remotely interesting because nothing is hooking me lol might find something good
Dominic Baker
Snow Crash, Synners, Transmetropolitan, or just read other Gibson novels. What did you think of Mona Lisa? If you liked it, give Count Zero a try.
Also, given that you enjoy the atmosphere, try giving Blame! and Eden a read. Two masterpieces of the genre (personally, Blame! is my favourite cyberpunk work).
Some user posted a cool list in another thread: The Artificial Kid Schismatrix Islands in the Net Holy Fire HeadCrash Ware Tetralogy A Song Called Youth/The Eclipse Trilogy Hardwired When Gravity Fails Synners Metrophage Mirrorshades (An anthology) The Shockwave Rider The Cold Cash War Dr. Adder Snow Crash The Diamond Age Cryptonomicon City Come A' Walkin'
Also Altered Carbon if you want some hard-boiled cyberpunk.
Jaxson Mitchell
Why are you so determined on harassing him?
Oliver Hill
Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty good SF. Game play is fun too
Samuel Cook
Not the guy you are responding to, but always a pleasure to meet another BLAME! connoisseur.
I haven;t read Eden of the East, tell me more about it, what makes it a great cyberpunk manga?
Damn, this is super thorough. I'll probably hit up Snow Crash next, since I'm a big VR enthusiast.
Thanks a lot! I also think I'd like BLAME! a lot.
Brayden Ward
you're just posting this to get bullied for the contents of every folder beginning with P aren't you?
Jordan Mitchell
Yeah, it’s a fun enough sci-fi fantasy mix. It drags a bit around the third book and the ending is pretty meh. Has some pretty great moments though.
Austin Russell
>ebook release delayed until several weeks after paperback >still send out hundreds of ARCs to random goodreads users this is happening more and more with new books, anyone managed to get onto the review copy mailing lists for a publisher?
Robert Jones
list some authors that do this because this is literally the first time im hearing about this. especially since amazon has a print on demand service that handles hard covers for you. they do all types and sizes. from pocket book to hardback.
Asher Young
Should I try and read the expanse books or just watch the show?
The author who wasn't daniel abraham kinda felt underwhelming
Zachary Powell
What the fuck I've had sex multiple times and I still feel like a stranger in this world and society. Did I have sex wrong?
Angel Baker
>While we're talking about sci-fi, is there any sci-fi author with good prose? Leigh Brackett. I've read her husband and it was the most trite, drab soup I've ever had the misfortune of laying my eyes on, but she is truly wonderful, huge surprise. Plots suck but I never read anything for the plot anyway, I'm not an adolescent or young adult.
Zachary Morales
spoiler that shit nigger.
Asher Adams
fao: anyone who has read the third stormlight book
is the murder at the end of the second a big deal? I never got around to the 3rd but I can kinda see it putting me off if it matters
Noah Perez
No it’s not.
Christopher Gomez
pocketbook
Brandon Lopez
3rd book is trash. Drop stormlight
Isaac Robinson
it's going on as an absolute last resort book and I've already got like 25 in a folder called "Need to Finish" ahead of it Hopefully the 4th will be out before I consider it but I'll probably break the kindle before then anyway
John Young
Well expect nothing good. I had low expectations coming in from the WoR and it still disappointed me.
Carson Rodriguez
>haven't read a fantasy novel that has hooked me and left me so absorbed I start to neglect basic hygiene and social interactions
Remember that time in Wise Man's Fear when Ambrose slipped a vaccine into Kvoth's beer causing him to develop a raging case of autism the day of a big interview? Good shit.
I like the books but that was just ridiculous
Christian Thomas
There's a French translation of Malazan being done right now by a fan who managed to get himself published professionally, apparently he does an excellent job. They release one volume every six months, and the third one just came out. Should I get into it? What are the pros and cons?
What? I don't remember this shit. What interview did Kvothe have at the University?
Justin Ross
Imagine being this snooty the third book was good. You can't tell me the last act wasn't blood pumping, especially Dalinar's scene with Odium.
Luis Ortiz
readmissions.
Brandon Sullivan
What did Kvothe end up doing under the influence?
Owen Campbell
Yes. Starts off fantastically well but doesn't quite hold that level throughout. Nevertheless, it's a good read, just temper your expectations a bit as it gets tamer as the story progresses.
Dominic Taylor
Buy a whole pie, take his shirt off, and tell Fela he wants to take her shirt off and suck on her tits. Luckily she understands something is horribly wrong and trades her timeslot with his so he has time for it to wear off. However, it still has residual side effects, so during the interview he threatens to set professor asshole on fire for calling him a racial slur
Andrew Martinez
>photos and media is needed to read files from internal memory. storage is needed to read files from an sd card or if there is more than one partition on the devices for data. I know. That's why I said it only wanted stuff it needed to function from. Then I saw network access.
>on my phone it only has the two storage permissions and works fine. never even asked about the other permissions besides preventing the device from sleeping. Use apk permission remover when installing apps. It shows everything.
Adam Mitchell
>Use apk permission remover when installing apps. It shows everything. on android 8+ you can see all permissions an app could request in the permissions settings. theres no need for any extra apks. the permission setting show you which permission an app can utilize and which are granted or rejected. go to an app, select show info, press the permissions tab and there are all permissions that have been granted in that list, if you press the three dots on the top right you can enable it to show you all the permissions that the app can use. permissions not shown in the settings are not granted. by default only storage should be granted.
Ayden Rogers
do you have usage statistics enabled? theres an option in the readera settings to enable usage statistics to be sent to the developer. it wont request internet permissions if that setting is disabled. it wont even use a single byte of data.
Asher Nguyen
It was a slog. Especially when you had to read through Ms schizophrenia Split personality. Also Sanderson is being forced by publishers to be "inclusive", so expect a wheelchair bound Knight errant.
Isaiah Thompson
Oh. So google built inma permissions remover in the os? Neato. But I will still install a firewall app and blacklist any app that I don't want internet access.
Landon Garcia
You can just restrict internet access manually, don't let the app use mobile data or wifi. It still works and you won't have any network issues that you're so worried about. Full network access is quite common among apps anyway, it's the apps that ask for contact data, location data, mic access, permission to make call/messages that are the scary ones.
Alexander Ward
>Sanderson is being forced by publishers to be "inclusive" wtf
Michael Turner
Fuck I remember now, I need a big tittie Fela gf
Cooper Jones
>Also Sanderson is being forced by publishers to be "inclusive" No publisher is doing any such thing, to Sanderson least of all. Mormon boys books are already sanitized to the extreme without the need for any intervention. You're just telling yourself that because you're probably some weeb trash that likes his books and can't accept that he's a shit writer. He tried writing a "complicated" character because he was always being criticized for his usual bland af 2d characters and ended up with the mess that is Shallan.
Adrian Brown
Are there any novels like Stand Still Stay Silent?
Any books with a similar feel to the Black Company series? More or less something about a roving band of mercenaries or fighters and their various adventures?
Inb4 Hammer’s Slammers. I’m reading through it right now and it’s good, but with the shift in characters it’s hard to really get into. I finished up what feels like the first set of stories starting with Jenne and ending with Hammer taking over as president and just can’t really get into caring about a new group of characters in the same universe right now.
In return I give you this gem I found in the fantasy section of Seattle Pop Culture museum.
If he was weeb trash he’d be singing the praises of Rofthuss. I’m not going to pretend that Sanderson is high literature, but there’s a lot worse you could be reading too.
That being said Shallan is fucking awful. Shallan is so terrible you could replace any of her chapters with another chapter of Kaladin moping about and it’d be an improvement.
Ryder Butler
I couldn't care less about complicated characters I just want plot twists and cool sequences
Caleb Long
I hate this fatass so much he's become like Perlman, all he does is shitpost about Trump on Twitter, and does stupid shit like running an LGBT bookshop whatever the fuck that is
Levi Bailey
Hey, if you were a hack who wrote himself into a literary corner wouldn’t you do everything you could to distract people from that fact?
Juan Adams
>Moonset found me squatting on the paving stones, groaning. Every batch of batter was looser than the last, and tasted fouler. By the time the sun came up, I was trying to bake brown water.
well /sffg/, I was complaining that I wasn't having fun writing. It's certainly something...
Connor Gutierrez
Are the other Hyperion novels worth it?
Landon Martinez
He can still wrap it up with the last book, make it 1500 pages and conclude the Chandrian stuff, show us the king killing and whatever happened that led him to hide as an innkeeper. These three are the only major plot points that need attention.
Jace Taylor
Try The Grey Bastards. I couldn't get past the first page because all the cussing made it seem really immature, but you might like it.
Zachary Fisher
It's time for real birdboi hours.
Easton Miller
Good luck with that. This whole series was suppose to be what, ten books? He’s already wrote two and hasn’t even moved him out of not hogwarts yet. That means in one book he’d need to move Kvothe out of school, team him up with a legendary band of adventures, have him learn all the other true names, bring the Chandrain stuff to a close, bring the Denna bullshit to a close, become a Kingkiller, and show his fall from grace in 1500 pages. Is that doable? Probably, but keep in mind how the current books have been paced.
Although, I guess the second half of the last book saw him go from relative nobody to a trusted-then untrusted-advisor to a king, who nailed a sex god, and mastered the art of sex crazed not quite ninjas. So maybe he could pull it off, if he wasn’t a hack.
Carson Butler
I'm 47% through Dune according to my Kindle and man I see the potential in this, but it's so boring when a character other than Jessica is the focus. No spoilers, but does it improve?
Sebastian Green
It has kind of a slow start but revs up quite, I'd say the Harkonen attack is when it really starts to get good.
Joshua White
As I rememer, yes, but it's been a while.
Ryder Edwards
Fall of Hyperion is, but mostly to close the story. The others are a dumpster-fire.
Jayden Rivera
Not that guy but if I read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, will the latter end in a cliffhanger of any kind? I have seen people say that only those 2 books in the Hyperion cantos are good, but starting a story that I don't intend to finish seems a bit odd.
Matthew Foster
anybody read pirate freedom? its kinda okay, I feel like it peaked when chris was just a sailor though and doing comfy sailor things. im on chapter 8. does it get a lot better later on?
Oliver Sullivan
It picks up in the second half but the whole Dune series is kind of a slow burn with a lot of politics and religion in it. If you wanted something trashier with more explosions I guess you can check out the Dune books written by the son. I hated them.
Gavin Hughes
I actually am in it for the politics and have liked what I've seen thus far. My only issue is that the current crop of characters, especially Paul, are uninteresting outside of Jessica and the now dead Duke Leto. Does Paul as a character improve and/or can I expect new characters to make this more interesting?
Christopher Miller
Does anyone else feel like this was supposed to end differently, but the author chickened out or the publishers changed it? Because the first 75% was laser focused and on point, but the last 25% meandered to an unsatisfying conclusion. How hard would it have been to keep Floyd in Paris so he could properly absolve Custine and wrap up Greta’s plot, rather than sending him to Tanglewood where he basically does nothing for 100 pages except explain sound waves? Reynolds abandoned so many of his earlier plot elements in favour of a mediocre chase, and he missed a lot of opportunities to give his characters some closure. It just felt really lacking. Hoping the other book of his I bought is more on point.
As the series grinds on (real spoiler) Duncan Idaho becomes a very central (and interesting) character.
Any books where the main character or characters are assholes but not the entire world around them too? It seems like it's always a package in grimderp fantasy for some stupid reason, just lessens the pov characters when everyone else is the same exact shit as well.
Both. The genres should never have been separated desu.
Elijah Howard
>No publisher is doing any such thing, to Sanderson least of all. It shows how much of a newfag you are. He was already forced to put in a gay character, and he will add disabled ones, and other "inclusive" shit later. Hope you enjoy, publishing houses are the bane of creative authors.
Luke Smith
>publishing houses are the bane of creative authors. Maybe, what does that have to do with Sanderson though? Ngl, you calling someone newfag while defending Sanderson's bullshit as publisher influence is peak comedy.
It's ironic that you're using my own picture against me. Because I'm not saying "sanderhack" you think I'm a rebbit user, newfag? When this general was made we discussed Sanderson every thread. There was a small minority always crying about Sanderson, but they were ignored. Sanderson discussion has fallen off because he is putting out YA books nobody asked for, and oath breaker was a shot show. Now you believe because you post "first for sanderfag" at the top of every thread, the entire general is anti Sanderson? Go fuck your deluded self. The minority autisticly screaming voice doesn't speak for the general.
>Sanderson discussion has fallen off because he is putting out YA books nobody asked for, and oath breaker was a shot show. Sanderson has been putting out trash YA right since the beginning, newfag. What do you think Mistborn is? Thanks to shit eating weebs like you that buy his books, he's the biggest name in fantasy. He doesn't have to give a shit about what any publisher wants him to put in his books, if he's putting in something it's because he wants to, pretending otherwise and believing he has been corrupted by publishers is nothing but your delusion.
He's ALWAYS been the hack that never quite grasped the meaning of "show don't tell". Massive infodumps, awful characters, autistic world building instead of plot and over the top anime sequences to top it all has been his shtick since day 1.
I found it to be good kind of like Latro, if Latro took place over centuries and he had magic powers
Gabriel Thomas
>ctrl f >stars my destination >not found
Luis Wright
>tfw reading a book that contains some romance >romance takes over the book and the interesting stuff that drew me in gets pushed to the side What is it with romance and it fucking up perfectly good books? Mind you, a lot of books have some romance that doesn't do this, but what is it about romance? On a moar positive note, I've read all that's available of the Foreigner series (pic related). Is Cherryh's other work similar to it?
>implying not just complaining for the sake of it what supposed book was it
Ayden Sullivan
sorry for late reply, went to /tg/ and didn't bother to check back til now because slow board Now I Rise second book in this series that posed the question, "what if Vlad the Impaler was a stronk wahmen?" first book wasn't especially cringy, though it's no high, refined art second book was all jerking off over Mehmet and muh feels (also Constantinople was shit and practically deserved to fall, baka Christfags) I came for fun times with pyschotic she-Vlad, not her and a literally gay Radu mooning after a conquerer
>The Destroyer >premise is about genociding elves >best part is the elf romance I am fine with it. Actually, I love it.
>second book was all jerking off over Mehmet and muh feels (also Constantinople was shit and practically deserved to fall, baka Christfags) >I came for fun times with pyschotic she-Vlad, not her and a literally gay Radu mooning after a conquerer Sounds like you are reading literature for womanfolk and complaining about its romance not appealing to you.
Michael Butler
>Dark, gritty, and seriously badass - Buzzfeed I would pay to NOT read this.
Ayden Reed
>elv loving if it works, it works; again, my problem is where everything else moves to the background >lit for women Oh god, have I fallen so far? All I wanted was light entertainment It should have fucking billed itself as romance instead of faking me out with glimpses of something half-decent. it's paranormal romance all over again >>buzzfeed that's awful and cringy, what the hell were they thinking. I never bother to look at the quotes on covers, anyway >pay I only buy books that I enjoy after reading them, so dodged a shekel-bullet there >go look at the first cover >New York Times bestseller I ignored all these red flags kill me now
Aiden Powell
>New York Times bestseller To be fair somehow every book ever published seems to get that accolade.
Caleb Cook
Thread slave get to it. I want to shit on old books.
Charles Clark
Zoomergang rise up
Kevin Carter
I'm retired, I'm sure the new thread user's got this.
Evan Torres
>Mistborn isn't YA though Bro...that's kinda cringe
Christopher Rivera
Who cares, I read fantasy for entertainment not some Iliad tier snooty shit. I want plot twists and action sequences that are memorable
Dominic Young
>Dune spoiler That's good to know, I'll keep at it then.
Benjamin Scott
You did it for a couple weeks and you're complaining? I made the threads for years. It's on page 8. Get your ass up and make the new thread.
Xavier Bell
>the autistic spreg who likes conan and renames images to Malazan and bean plants is also the "sanderfag a hack user" Not even surprised. Only someone with autism levels of obsession would be doing that shit for literal years. I bet you the maas fag too.
Josiah Parker
made a new general because none of you got around to it >t. lurker
Charles Reed
New fags. The old thread goes at the top of the previous threads pile.
Jack Miller
The best books are the 4th and the 5th books. Yep, it improves dramatically but it's a slooooog. I enjoyed every bit though, I'm a sucker for political-maneuvering-scheming player-of-words plots. I'm not much for explosions and shit.
Jackson Parker
Mistborn is in my top 5 best sff books of all time. I don't care what you ignorant idiots think.
