Perhaps a little OT, but what is the fucking appeal of her? Is it attainability? Is it the fact that she was one of the original e-girls? Before social media became the all-consuming giant it is today.
Julian Ward
All I know is that from the many years of goodreads use, anything she likes is instantly questionable in quality for me.
Aaron Hill
Fpbp as always. Yea Forums incels just don't understand the depth of his work
Kevin James
>tfw just read a Japanese Lovecraftian S&S horror story
Funny coincidence. Way back when Soldier of Fortune was relevant i was making maps for it and had a map named exactly that. it was like tiny mall with like 6 stores that were almost empty and it had tentacles all over. the light would flicker and sometimes go out completely so player had to rely on hearing peoples footsteps.
Carson Bennett
Forget the hundreds of pages of filler disguised as "world building", Sanderson's greatest crime is that he is afraid of sex and violence. I can see why people call his work anime shit. I feel like I'm watching day time TV up until someone dies a horrific yet somehow boring death.
Josiah Wood
>Sanderson's greatest crime is that he is afraid of sex and violence. This might be the dumbest thing to complain about when it comes to Sanderson. I mean I love darker and grittier fantasy, but "sex and violence" doesn't automatically make something better or give it more depth. Hell in most cases it makes it worse since it tends to be gratuitous sex and violence (see: Game of Thrones). Sanderson is a hack, but the last thing his books need is "sex and violence."
>I finally found the one poster who agrees with me and appreciates my contributions!
Asher Rodriguez
Other peopeople agreed with me years ago.
Chase Harris
>peopeople Not even you believe that, which led to this mistake.
Ian Sanders
>Sanderson is a hack, but the last thing his books need is "sex and violence."
On the contrary, I feel like it's one of the critical parts of his books that is missing. I don't like gratuitous violence or sex. Especially sex, because it is often cringe. His books lack a certain edge, especially given some of the themes his books follow. They don't need to be grim dark, but they need something to enliven them, to steer them away from the soap opera props they feel like.
Evan Reyes
There was incest in the Red Knight? It's been years since I've read it.
Robert Foster
Any authors writing AI/robot-human relations stuff these days? Like actual stuff not "robots automatically want to kill everybody" or typical trope shit.
Joshua Harris
It's 4am and i'n fighring sleeo. I aill come back affer i sleep.
Adrian Cooper
The Footprints of God was pretty good. Maybe not exactly what you're looking for though.
Cameron Sullivan
Read knight? More like a white knight would preaches about the virtue of women.
Luke Carter
You are all midwits too stupid to appreciate Randi Darren's transcendent art. Good boy
I'm guessing you want to me add that. I'm considering either just posting the username and password or giving it to anyone who wants it. It's a bother to keep stuff updated.
Landon Long
I actually liked the red knight though.
Benjamin Hill
The mc's dad is also his uncle.
Jason Ross
Based. >tfw no redemption arc for incest king >tfw women end up ruling every country in the world
>you want to me add that don't care all that much desu, but it seems like a reasonable thing to do >just posting the username and password No, please don't do that, it will turn to shit
Isaac Morris
The problem is that the worlds and situations he portrays would create strife & chaos, and gray morality is inherent in them. Sex and violence would have to be an integral part of those worlds for them to be realistic.
Elijah Wilson
>reading The Wizard Knight >vague allusion to women he's fucked, still in a child's body >peasant girl rubbing her nipples on him
I get that Able is supposed to be reeling from what I presume is some kind of dreamtime with the Aelfs(I think?) after his arrival in this magical land. Any especially mystic part of the story, like his time with Disiri, is hazy and dream-like as a result. Still, what the fuck? I'm actually finding this difficult to read. Conversation often seems erratic and entirely unrelated to the events at hand, even with the mundane characters he encounters. Does it eventually smooth out or will I be scratching my head trying to make sense of this prose until the very end?
Okay, check this out. I didn't think it was possible at first, but after seeing this, I am kinda doubtful. I came across some amazon self-published books that looked a little weird. The covers were all similar, no author name, the blurb was kind of all the same style. I suspected that maybe it was a single person publishing a ton of books and he just didn't bother to put an author name and was in it for the cash, except there were too many books in too little span of time. I didn't want to believe, but after seeing this, I don't have doubts anymore. Machines are taking up writing books.
Check it out: (middle click to open on new tabs and just look at how similar they are)
What I think is happening is, an algorithm similar to this: talktotransformer.com/ that gets as input the blurb: >Featuring fantasy, adventure, action, and romance, this is a tale of a man on a quest. Includes spicy action with numerous orc babes, human warrior women, dragons, fierce rivals, and more. In addition, this story includes numerous erotic themes and scenes. 18+ only. And spits out a whole book. According to the site, >This site runs the largest released model, 774M, which is half the size of the full model. Which means there's an algorithm out there that's at least twice as powerful as this one.
No, you're not paranoid. I wonder how many people fall for it and actually buy those books. How dumb would you have to be to enjoy reading those? On the other hand, we have to consider a world in the near future in which these algorithms have gotten good enough that they've matched or surpassed the writing abilities of great authors. Then how will you poor aspiring writers make a living?
Isaac Hughes
>algorithms have gotten good enough that they've matched or surpassed the writing abilities of great authors I doubt this will ever happen, not with a mere algorithm, anyway. All they do is recombine elements and churn out low-quality copies of whatever the designer thinks will sell at the time. It's like saying that since McDonald's exists, no professional chef will ever be able to compete.
Josiah Harris
You aren't paranoid, just wrong, there isn't any current "algorithm" that can write at this level, this is probably multiple people writing under a collective pseudonym.
Ryan Ramirez
I just find it funny that scenes straight out of star trek threads on Yea Forums may be possible in the near future; "Computer, generate a fantasy novel, one hundred thousand words, plenty of GRI, and no female protagonist."
Eli Mitchell
But they don't sell anything! I could believe that if they had some reviews in each book, but it's all blank! No goodreads page, no amazon reviews, no page outside, nobody even heard of these people anywhere else. Even smut authors must have an outside group if they want the time they spend writing to pay-off. These people are ghosts that have enough time to write shit nobody else reads. And they have some nice covers too, if you put in the cost of the covers, they are probably loosing money.
Carter Foster
I was thinking it was maybe an operation like that fucked up YouTube trend of making videos like "Pregnant Elsa gets butt injections from Spiderman" that sneak into the autoplay queue of kids who's parents just plonk them down in front of a tablet and fuck off. Those are designed to manipulate SEO and YouTube's algorithm, these books don't seem to do the same. Like you said, there's zero engagement. Maybe it's just casting as wider a net as possible in hope of catching just a few suckers?
Colton Diaz
>tfw just finished Empire Star This will be tight.
Jonathan Bailey
>Maybe it's just casting as wider a net as possible in hope of catching just a few suckers? Unlikely. They are on the Kindle Unlimited program. They get like half a cent for page read (actually read, amazon distinguishes between page read, and just flipped). It's estimated that each book (av. about 300p) gets like $2 per person that completely reads it. Whoever is doing this isn't getting any money out of it.
Parker Lopez
>They get like half a cent for page read >gets like $2 per person that completely reads it. People earn less than this doing YouTube.
But youtube has many more views. An aspiring author on KU gets maybe 20 readers on his first book, if he does well. A good book might get 200 total. And only the most popular ever go past 1000 readers in a book. So they have to keep writing to get as many books as possible to multiply that. If a person can get maybe 1 book per month, averaging 50 readers per book, he gets like $1200 per year. Of course if he manages to get popular during this period and gets an average of 200 readers, then he gets almost $5000 per year.
In comparison, on youtube you can get many more videos per month.
Hunter Lopez
They seem too well-written to be some autistic NEET churning out work after work, so.,.. fuck, I'm stumped.
Asher Thompson
I'm telling you, dude, it's robots. Keep in mind that talktotransformer.com/ is an openAI version. Who knows what kind of more advanced AIs are hidden by the corporations that are actually researching this. It might even be amazon themselves. Perhaps the algorithm in this site is not powerful enough, but it's not hard to imagine it coupled with other structuring algorithms producing nicer results. Perhaps there's some story structure, it creates characters plot etc, and the algorithm fills in the holes with words.
We'll see some paper published about this yet. >deeplearning algorithms publish books, readers can't distinguish it from the real thing
Liam Moore
Money laundering? Steganographic messages?
Lucas Smith
>Am I paranoid? No, the idea is reasonable.
My question is, are the books coherent? Do they manage to continuously allude to some specific plot which progresses, or are they closer to what you would expect from a mentally ill person who is unable to logically relate past and future?
Because what AI really has trouble with is not stringing coherent sentences after each other, but to logically progress anything. Because the AI essentially doesn't know what is going on, it just string patterns together, which means every single sentence by itself is coherent, but not the thing as a whole.
Jordan Lewis
Just finished these two series. While they aren't masterpieces, they are fun and easy to read. Any suggestions for my next read?
A full-on GPT-2 clone was released a few days ago, so you are gonna see a lot more of these soon
Bentley Rivera
I can't wait until everything written is flooded everywhere with AI written stuff where then for anyone who cares has to find a curated marketplace instead that entirely excludes almost all, if not all, self-published, indie, lower authors, many middling authors, and is mostly only the most popular authors.
Shovelware? That was just the beginning.
Austin Williams
Don't hold your breath. As someone involved with AIs, they're nowhere near as sophisticated as you think they are.
We've basically hit a wall with what we can do with neural networks. Plus, NNs only really thrive on things where they can positively or negatively weight the outcome of a particular trial, then repeat that millions of times. An AI writing anything beyond a mishmash of existing text that is self-consistent and follows some sort of structure is basically impossible because it is untestable.
Logan Richardson
/sffg/, ive decided that now that the urge to write is gone, this is when I should start making it a routine.
given that my novel is usually so anxiety-producing should I work on it to desensitize myself, or work on other stuff just to build momentum?
you know, it doesn't need to be an algorithm. it could just be a group of writers sharing a pen name and writing stories concurrently.
in this day and age, it's not impossible that books could be generated by AI, but I can't even begin to imagine how you'd do something like that. you ever seen what happens when you make two chat bots talk to each other? it goes off the rails
Gavin Ramirez
Read the entire litrpg sheet and loved it. Now recommend me more based literature
Nathaniel Nguyen
Wtf are you currently reading /sffg/?
Henry Phillips
>litrpg sheet ???? There is a litrpg chart?
Alexander Morales
The self published chart is pretty much a litrpg chart
If I'm not mistaken 12 of those books have litrpg themes. (Maybe more?)
Logan Hall
It will work well for entirely formulaic fiction. Something that people like, presented only somewhat different. Again, the main part is the flooding to where people become frustrated and rely more and more on curators.
Carson Gomez
>>vague allusion to women he's fucked, still in a child's body What are you talking about? Disiri is the only woman Able fucks, this is actually pretty important to the story. The "haziness" is mostly about being in Aelfrice although Able probably has other reasons for not describing his sexual encounters with Disiri in graphic detail.
>peasant girl rubbing her nipples on him Able is basically gigachad, of course chicks get all up on him.
>Conversation often seems erratic and entirely unrelated to the events at hand, even with the mundane characters he encounters. I hear this complaint about Wolfe's dialogue in general and I honestly do not know what the fuck the problem is. I assume it is because Wolfe is quite adept about inserting various social context clues outside of the actual dialogue, and many posters here are autistic and/or have poor reading comprehension from reading Brandon Sanderson-tier books and getting headpats from mommy and teacher over how many pages they've read.
Wyatt Howard
>Tell us about a creature, monster or alien you've imagined!
Krikket; insectoid alien lifeform able to procreate with any know bio-organism in the universe. Spreads by mating and inserting eggs in the host; eggs will germinate with offspring dna and produce krikket hybrids while retaining core functionalities. Very powerful, high intelligence, and killing one will release pheromones that attract any nearby krikket several starsystems away. High quality genetic breeding material has just been made known, and the slayer of a krikket will find himself bred by hundreds of krikkets unless he manages to escape and somehow lose the scent of the victor
Camden Thompson
First example, I remembered. Doubtless there have been many more.
Novel was plagiarized from directly using passages from many others. The AI will make it more difficult to detect this, but I suppose it will be an arms race to also detect this.
Justin Moore
We already see this in these threads. There is overall little diversity in which books are asked about or recommended.The people making the charts are the attempted curators. There's so much and people simply don't know, and the overall amount read doesn't seem high, so it tends to fall back on a just a few. The entire thread itself serves this very purpose, as seen by the OP.
Owen Wood
>There is overall little diversity in which books are asked about or recommended. Why would there be? If someone you don't know anything about asks you for a book recommendation why suggest anything other than the most popular titles? With maybe a couple of hundred people posting how can you hope to have a conversation about anything slightly obscure?
Jeremiah Davis
im still working on my villain, the Mice King, but so far what im picturing is a tall, ratlike wight with four arms who summons micicles (mouse-shaped snow elementals) to coat his body like a suit of armor. The idea is inspired by the wechuge
my problem is i like ghost mice as an idea better than micicles, but ghost mouse armor is a bit too complicated when I have all this other stuff going on
John Davis
That's not an alien, that's your fap fuel.
Ayden Campbell
>Krikket That's a sport.
Isaiah Cook
The Tyullodrake is a Moa-sized bird with the head and feather structure of an Owl. As a means of self-defense and also to hunt prey, it produces a screech with a similar effect to a microwave crowd dispersal device. Except the screech increases the friction of air in the direction of the screech to the point at which a bolt of lightning is produced.
Luis Price
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Joseph Nguyen
Any good star wars books? Is there a Dan Abnett for SW like he is for warhammer?
Jose Gonzalez
Such are the limitations
Jason Thomas
>/SFFG/'s >It's literally just one person
Christopher Stewart
Am I an idiot if I think Lord of the Rings is boring? Halfway through the two towers and i'm falling asleep.
Asher Perry
I've been thinking about a digital wendigo/skinwalker that can only transmit its curse to people who see in AR after having cybereyes installed with a link directly to the cortex.
Austin Baker
You're either a pleb, or someone who has already surrounded yourself in derivative fantasy and find LotR to be basic and predictable because you're already familiar with the tropes it created.
Nicholas Kelly
I got halfway through Wheel of Time and other than that I've only read Song of Ice and Fire. Guess I'm a pleb.
Chase Morgan
All of these years later and Lord of the Rings is still the ultimate pleb filter.
Ryan Powell
Matthew Stover probably. Shatterpoint, Traitor, etc. He's never writing for Star Wars again though because he's not good at meeting deadlines. Also his non-SW work is better imo
Easton Brown
>doesn't know I own sffg and he is posting on my property
i want to read a comfy whimsical fantasy that makes me think of childhood stories like peter pan (which I have already read so something new ideally). any recommendations
The X-Wing Books and pic related Labyrinth of Evil and Dark Lord:The Rise of Darth Vader by James Luceno Darth Bane trilogy also the Jedi Academy Trilogy (fuck you a liked it)
Liveship traders books 1 and 2 is just full of infuriating characters. Kennit with his ridiculous no trust and constant mindbending and everyone around him not seeing what he really is. I wish the wizardwood bracelet would speak out more often. Malta and the whole spoiled nobles daughter shtick. Kyle and his babyrage outbursts.
Charles Taylor
Is The Expanse series any good? I watched the first episode of the show and liked the ideas but wasn't very impressed with the execution. Are the books better?
Landon Lee
Resist the status quo.
Joshua Bennett
I do by only read YA coming of age fantasy
John Fisher
Don't even go down that road. Go while we can still pretend it didn't happen.
Luke Nguyen
What
Austin Scott
About to start Discworld finally, never got around to reading any pratchett. I heard Mort was a good place to start, is that true?
Tyler Garcia
I suppose people would recommend Mort because it's a step above the first three books, but honestly if you're going to skip books I would just skip to Wyrd Sisters or Guards, Guards, because they're the point where the series starts to maintain consistent quality. Personally I say either read from the beginning or just pick a book you think sounds interesting and start there, because there's no overarching plot to worry about and that's how most casual readers get into the series anyway.
Daniel Jones
if you're the philosophical type, mort. If you're more into adventures, city watch. Wait a few seconds, someone is bound to post the reading order chart.
Carson Allen
I'm running out of good self published books to read. Halp.
Sebastian White
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Austin Clark
Undying Mercenaries is fun and entertaining without trying to be anything more.
Julian Torres
Naw. Lotr is utter boring shit. The hobbit is good though. Only high IQ persons see lotr and star wars for the derivative trash they are.
Julian Nguyen
Ok, I've added it.
Nolan Peterson
Are we being raided or ddos's? The site is so slow to posting updates.
Chase Phillips
Are we being raided or ddos's? The site is so slow to posting updates.
Levi Smith
Is Gene Wolfe the best sff has to offer?
Dylan Morris
I wanted to strangle half the cast, and slap everyone else who wasn't the wintrow. Malta needs a hysterectomy with no anaesthesia
It's a sorry thing when the best thing you can say about 99% of the cast is they got themselves into this
Lucas Fisher
there are spelling mistakes. unless their AI is programmed to mimic the editing amount of these shitty pump and dump online books, it's a human.
Christopher Reed
I wanted to strangle half the cast, and slap everyone else who wasn't the wintrow. Malta needs a hysterectomy with no anaesthesia
It's a sorry thing when the best thing you can say about 99% of the cast is they got themselves into this
Eli Cook
Posting is up, but images, thumbs, and boards are down according to blog.Yea Forums.org.
Samuel Morgan
The prequel books are immensely better than the films. The novelization of Episode III (by Matthew Stover) is particularly great.
Brody Jenkins
Posting is up, but images, thumbs, and boards are down according to blog.Yea Forums.org.
He is definitely up there, but there are a bunch of people who are on the same level and arguably even better. John Crowley, Mervyn Peake, Jack Vance, and some of the books in the selected fantasy chart are worth checking out if you are an /outerlit/er visiting /sffg/
Nicholas Ross
He is definitely up there, but there are a bunch of people who are on the same level and arguably even better. John Crowley, Mervyn Peake, Jack Vance, and some of the books in the selected fantasy chart are worth checking out if you are from /outerlit/
Jaxon Thomas
An alien with sleek black slimy skin, like a lizard and small vertically slit eyes, it lives in darkness, darkness is its home and when it comes out from the darkness it tends to reced back into it out of comfort. It enjoys certain thoughts I have, I know that the alien is poisonous, it has a green poisonous barb but it seems unwilling to use it unless provoked
Logan Long
Are the Xeelee books worth reading?
Cameron Howard
based
Juan Jones
Who has the rights for the Redwall series now? I'm legit scared of we getting Brian Herberted with it at some point.
Jacob Hill
I didn't like it when I tried to read it. But it was in a time where I was looking for hard sci-fi and that was just not it.
Oliver Price
Miles Cameron? Ddim yn gefnogwr.
Caleb Jackson
>TFW starting a bad book, but finishing it anyway because that's what a man does.
>Check the cast of the upcoming WoT TV series >Perrin is a nigger >Nynaeve is a nigger >Egwene is a pooinloo I'm not surprised. Guess they didn't want to catch flak for not having the six main characters for not ticking the magical 50/50 diversity quota. It's not like I was going to watch it anyway.
Redwall Abbey Company still has the right for it and they already expressed they have no intention of making new books without Jacques. Don't know for how long they will keep up though.
Connor Smith
Does it have any bearing on the plot?
Grayson Ortiz
Yes.
Ian Ortiz
the plot significantly diverges from the source material. so yes.
Brayden Wood
>Dune >Wheel of Time >The Witcher
New Sun will be the next one in line for the "new GoT" trend.
James Fisher
Yeah because it’s specifically mentioned that Rand sticks out from everyone else in two rivers who look the same. He’s the only one in the whole town who looks different. It’s important to his characterization.
Asher White
Well the author specifically mentions where the "black" people live in-universe and it certainly wasn't in their home town.
Aiden Sullivan
He still sticks out now. He's white.
Lincoln Martinez
That Harry Potter story allegedly written by an AI is unironically hilarious. Seeing this, I'm starting to suspect it might have been a hoax.
Summary: - I lost the court case. Amazon has a rock solid contract that is at will, and the judge decided to rule in their favor.
- I still feel good about the court stuff. I had a chance to talk and I felt like the judge listened to me. End of the day, it's Amazon's playground and they can kick anyone out for any reason.
- I'm going to be selling my books directly on my website. You'll be able to buy them and read them on your Kindle. I'll also make more money off of each sale than I would have on Amazon.
- Future books will be financed through Kickstarter.com . This will help determine which series I can/should work on and help get new fans because of Kickstarter's viral capabilities. I'm starting with Tamer 6.
- I'm going to have another thread asking for you guys to help me out with Kickstarter tier ideas. I'm really going to need your help setting it up and spreading the word.
- I should be able to do audio books through cdbaby.com This is also much more lucrative for me than through Amazon. I'll have tiers in the Kickstarter so we can fund the recordings.
- I'll probably have to use new narrators, but I'll pick great ones, and re-record earlier books so you can get used to their voices.
- There will be chances to buy paper and hard back copies of the books, and there will be chances to buy them singed through the kickstarter.
- I'll let you all know when the website and Kickstarter are set up. It's been a year of not working, and I'm anxious to get you guys some books again.
Landon Robinson
Who cares?
Anthony Sanchez
>Kikestarter >Not patreon Doomed from the start.
>different narrators DAMN, Luke Daniels is what made tamer great. He narrated a perfect Trel in every way. There's no way someone else can do it as well as Luke did.
I see I didn't get any (you)s. "Al" is Arabic for "The," the apostrophe is a cheap way to make a name sound oriental and exotic. This is the literary equivalent of doing a tattoo of some meaningless Japanese snit.
John Reed
Manchildren. I guess it's a socially acceptable way to say someone is developmentally stunted.
Ryan Adams
>a cheap way to make a name sound oriental and exotic So did it work? What would you have done instead? What should Jordan have named him?
Andrew Phillips
me, I want more Tamer
Matthew Bell
Just got back from final booksale of the summer. P decent result for $35, though half of it is outer/lit/.
Look up the names of prominent arabs or whatever. I cringe so hard whenever i see someone putting apostrophes in words to make them sound Arabic. "Rand the AThor" is fucking retarded
It seems like to me there's an especially strong affinity between self-published books and audiobooks. It's as if for many of them they are books for people who literally don't want to read. Seems like people post about it a lot. This includes litrpgs.
Nathan Moore
Physical costs money, degrades, takes up space, among many other problems. Avoid physical.
Every traditional publishing house puts out an audiobook along with an ebook and paperback these days. Times have changed, a lot of people don't have time to hold a book in their hand and read the words. They can listen while cooking, or washing, or doing some menial task that occupies your hands and eyes, but not your brain.
Self published has to release the audiobooks out of their pocket, that is the only difference. If you see someone asking for audiobooks, it's because the author didn't put it out as yet. Audiobooks also breed more life into books, than words can. Many books came alive from the audiobook when compared to the paper version. It's why authors take the hit and put out audiobooks, it's huge market.
Nathaniel Cook
You don't belong here
Carson Lee
Threadly reminder that all Chinkshit, Litrpg, and Harry Potter Fanfiction belongs on a different board entirely.
Burning Chrome, Johnny Mnemonic, Snow Crash, Neuromancer then Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive if you liked Neuromancer Factually incorrect What did you write?
Your logic, like your ability to socialize with women, is flawed. It isn't "old good, new bad"; it's "science fiction and fantasy good, illiterate furry porn fapbait bad"
Nolan Diaz
How does it feel to be a leech?
Parker Wilson
Pretty great! I appreciate your tax dollars being spent on me.
Evan King
>Publishing isn't even a billion dollar industry any more Jesus.
>What did you write? I'm working on a bildungsroman, a story of self discovery and growth of a young man from a depressed teenager living on a post-scarcity planet (every individual is taken care of by the government, thus they're fed and sheltered with absolutely nothing to work for) into a universe-changing force. There are many named characters in the story, from implausible, science-defying aliens to actual gods (actual, literal force-of-nature gods, not some technologically advanced aliens that pretend to be gods) Although there is a main character, I play with the idea that the main character's soul or essence, what animates his being, is split into many personas, who all work in tandem to achieve the same ultimate unknowable goal, though this will never be outright stated in the book. Although I'm proud of the plot itself, I'm more proud about my prose, seeing as I'm not a native english speaker.
The less safe people feel, the less they will want horror in their lives. We save horror by making the world a better place.
Luke Mitchell
Sounds like an utter disaster and that you greatly overestimate yourself. Best of luck!
Camden Bailey
>Best of luck! Thanks. I'm confident in my work because I'm well read and I'm not saying that simply out of conceit. I've read pretty much every important work of fiction out there because I genuinely enjoy this form of art over all others and I can distinguish between good art and bad art. Does this make everything I write objectively good? No, but I literally won't know unless I put my work out there for people to read.
>I'm confident in my work because I'm well read and I'm not saying that simply out of conceit. I've read pretty much every important work of fiction out there because I genuinely enjoy this form of art over all others and I can distinguish between good art and bad art. How much self published did you read to get into the mind of the those authors.
Dylan Butler
Agreed, I'm not even english native speaker, but I actually find his dialogues refreshing. When I finish reading Wolfe I always end up being dissapointed that next book isn't as cryptic and mysterious as Wolfe.
Jacob Jenkins
Hyperion
Wyatt Roberts
>implying other countries don't spend even more on social welfare and we aren't in one of those together.
Joshua Ortiz
Just finished the Silmarillion and I've got to say I enjoyed it much more than LoTR
I've only read Leviathan Wakes. It's constant action, kind of like a blockbuster in literature form. I thought it was a fun enough read, and the idea of the different types of humans and how each is affected by their environment was cool.
Chase Taylor
>Costs money These books averaged out to less than $1.50 per book, which is pretty much free for anyone with a decent job. Even outside of book sales, you can get very good condition books quite affordably. Even new books aren't that bad, same cost as 1-3 drinks on a night out generally. Not a significant expense. >Degrades My bookshelves are in rooms that don't have wildly inappropriate environmental conditions, and I only buy books in good condition. Many have lasted half a century or more, and still in perfectly readable condition. I doubt any of my current hard drives will be especially practical to use in 50+ years, if they function at all. >Take up space A valid concern for a student, someone just starting out their career, or in an industry that does not pay well. Fortunately shelf space is not a significant problem for me. Download or buy digital if you like, but physical certainly still has a place.
The author and publisher get nothing from it. It's literally a lost sale.
Anthony Richardson
Yes because if the makers of the show don't give a shit about keeping the characters the way they are in the books then they definitely won't give a shit about the plot. See: The Dark Tower film.
Aaron Fisher
How is that worse than piracy? Both are "lost sales" (unless you'd never pay full price so you were never a sale in the first place)
Cameron Davis
Pirates may still buy it afterwards new. People who buy used won't. Selling used ought to be illegal.
Dylan Cox
Most of the authors I buy used are dead, and I don't really care about the publishers or whoever benefits from their estate.
Jason Reed
Such a stupid logic you got there. When I really liked a used book I eventually bought a new one, specifically to help the author, same with videogames. At the end the best thing for an artist is for the people to have access to the art. Paulo Cohelo's books were pirated on russia because there wasn't a publisher interested in it there. The author took notice, talk to a couple of publishers there and now he is happy that his books get pirated. Piracy, lending, buying used, it all either helps or does not hinder an artist.
Wyatt Adams
>replying to retards posting b8 you must be new here
Eli Lewis
Oh, it's you again, Abdul.
Benjamin Ward
Thank you for the links, and interesting topic. A creature, monster or alien I've imagined. I have one in my head I would like to show you and describe but it wouldn't be as great but I will try. I think it would mostly look like if the tail of a xenomorph was a big horse shoe crab scorpion with a body as wide as a car a mouth on the underside of its body with shelly sharp appendages. Pointing in and to the sides that could move in sand and dig there too. Not sure what this thing would find to eat in a desert (humans). It would have legs like a crab sharp spikes along its legs and appendages maybe arms similar to a praying mantis the tail would be sharp and flat with weird sharp juts. Another mouth in front of its body too. I feel like its bottom mouth would be like a star fish's. Functioning like its mouth stomach and shitter. I feel like it would have small eyes near its mouth and back. This thing would move really fast in my head bursting out of sand and grabbing its food and crushing it. Also I imagine this thing being engineered, and made to kill. I wouldn't want to see this thing. I do think it would probably only exist as a small animal if it was real. This thing would be very impractical to have around as big as I discribed it. If you want a visual imagine this image but mixed with arthropod.
>nothing hinders an author What "logic" you have there as well.
Jose Smith
>At the end the best thing for an artist is for the people to have access to the art And here I thought the best thing for a full time creative was to be able to live off their work. My mistake!
Joseph Bailey
In wheel of time, was tarmon gai'don really the last battle, or just the do trying to escape again like the guy from the college suggested? Never been sure on it. Seems like it's just another turning but
Hunter Harris
It's only the last battle if they lose. That's how it works.
James Anderson
Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, brood of Morgoth or bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread nor danger, not Doom itself, shall defend him from Fëanor, and Fëanor's kin, whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: death we will deal him ere Day's ending, woe unto world's end! Our word hear thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountain hear in witness and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda!
Genre fiction—with a handful of exceptions—was pretty much made to be listened to on audibook while you're washing dishes or driving.
Brandon Nguyen
Thanks. I'll see if I can grab a copy soon.
Joshua James
What's some good fantasy with no humans?
Mason Miller
he is bad. liked red knight when i was like 15; went back to it a couple of years ago, and in like - the first 20 pages, protag is chatting to abbess, and says something like "im an atheist", and she: "oh - one of those - bad, pooh". dumb. v dumb. wanted to pull my hair out.
pls read charles taylor.
Austin Watson
I read the first 4 or so. They’re all pretty solid- even if the some characters are eye rollingly inclusive- but got turned off with the overall course of the series. They kept focusing on small scale human issues instead of the big wonderous alien mystery civilization the stories use as a backdrop.
Or to put it another way, you know how zombie movies are less about the zombies than the interactions of the human survivors? LW is the same thing but with aliens instead of zombies.
Jaxson Murphy
I've never read anything self published unless you count fan fiction as self publishing. Besides, what DOESN'T count as an utter disaster to you (people in general)? Remember that BotNS is "about" a guy who is sent on an (epic) journey as an exile of his guild, and is pretty much a harem story when read on the surface. But nobody who has read it can wholeheartedly say it's a simple, shallow story.
>Remember that BotNS is "about" a guy who is sent on an (epic) journey as an exile of his guild, and is pretty much a harem story when read on the surface. I’m not sure you know what a harem is. Also almost any story is “simple” when you describe it in two short statements.
Xavier Flores
Harem in the anime sense where every woman the protagonist encounters falls in love with him. Don't play dumb user. It's not befitting you.
Anthony White
Except every woman protagonist doesn't fall in love with him. They all either sleep with him once or twice- or are arguably raped by him- hate his guts, or otherwise end up leaving him. The only ones you could really say "loved" him are Thecla- and love is a strong word here-, Dorcas, and Valeria. Of which Thecla is dead, Dorcas left him, and only Valeria stayed.
A harem in any sense of the word-anime or otherwise- that makes not.
Jack Hall
Again you're judging the book (correctly) as someone who has read it and understood it. Any vague description of the book portrays Severian as the unlikely hero on the hero's journey from the low bottom to become the benevolent ruler of the world while having adventures in wild lands, sleeping with hot women and fighting in an epic war at the end.
If you aren't reading an entire novel every single day, then just what are you doing with your life?
James Johnson
Diaspora.
Jason Baker
>what are you doing with your life? Not shitposting, that is for sure.
Liam Morgan
Calling everything that you don't bother checking "Chinkshit" and "LitRPG" is like calling everyone who's not a Trump supporter an SJW. A few weeks ago, I literally saw someone recommend a meta-modern commentary on interpretation and morality with Joycean undertones, and someone called it LitRPG, because it was published as a webnovel. Disgusting.
Oliver Morgan
>I literally saw someone recommend a meta-modern commentary on interpretation and morality with Joycean undertones, and someone called it LitRPG, because it was published as a webnovel.
The "chinkshit and litrpg" user doesn't read. He also posts about conan non stop, and likes to attach the word "bugmen" to anyone that disagrees with him.
Xavier Baker
Recommend me some prehistoric kino with cavemen battling dinosaurs and monsters. No gay faggot shit.
Conan is disgusting Chinkshit and LitRPG are at least usually honest about what they are I would unironically like to murder those monkeys who attack modern escapist garbage, but think that their pulpy S&S is some sort of a literary masterpiece, or for that matter better in any sort of objective way. Some haremfag may release a book a month, but Moorcock wrote some books in 3 days, and still gets respect by the monkeys.
Owen Scott
To be entirely fair it matters little how much time goes into the production, merely the quality of the end product. That said, I have never seen an LN worth reading in my life.
Christian Morris
Anime is 100% about sex and relationships and any plot is background noise though
Jeremiah Rivera
I recommend a classic in that genre "Taken by the T-Rex" imagine the thriller movie taken but with dinosaurs involved.
Nathan Thompson
>Selling used ought to be illegal. You literally can't do that though and it applies to all industries in a similar manner.
Also, nothing wrong with piracy, just buy it if you liked it.
Is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy any good? Was the movie a loose adaptation or pretty accurate?
Logan Gonzalez
It was worse than loose. It was a leaking gaping asshole. The original TV adaptation is god-tier.
The books are great.
Luis Jones
slutcat adventures book when?
Henry Collins
Hitchhikers is very well regarded. The movie was only very loosely based on the books; I'd say about half of the movie resembles the books. The books are much more loose in structure. With the exception of the third book none of them have much of a plot, just a series of interconnected bizarre circumstances sustained by novelty and really strong prose.
Christian Richardson
How much do you crave Dick? What's the best Dick?
Justin White
My dick
Gavin Richardson
I made it through part 1 but couldn't stand any more. I can't believe people complain about LNs and web novels when that's an award winning published book.
Lincoln Gutierrez
>how much do you crave dick A lot >what's the best dick Big fat girldick with balls
Andrew Anderson
I listened to it as an audiobook while on a long drive, after hearing it recommended constantly. I was so confused that people said it was good that for an inordinately long time, I assumed there had to be some big twist. I was certain that choosing the annoying as fuck Wil Wheaton as narrator was an intentional move, and that eventually the protag would realize something along the lines of: - He's a sad piece of shit who embodies all the worst aspects of nerds. - So was his idol who created the VR game, with the addition of megalomania and being the most pathetic and loathsome kind of "nice guy" - That the competition was a monstrosity which directed the efforts and creative energies of generations away from fixing a dying world's problems and towards a megalomaniac's inane 80s pop culture fixation. - That the evil corporation sucked but was by far the lesser evil to the game itself, which was a disaster for the human race. - That upon winning, the best thing to do, the only meaningful thing in an existence defined up to that point by catering to a dead loser's whims, would be to irrevocably destroy the VR game. But nope, as I got nearer and nearer to the end and this became less and less likely, I carried on out of perverse curiosity and found that the ending did nothing but validate the character viewpoint. The endless monologues about dumb 80s shit weren't intentionally insufferable, designed to make people introspective about the unhealthiness of their own popculture obsession, rather they were entirely sincere. The author wasn't writing about some unjustifiably smug nerd asswipe developing into something else, he IS one of those asswipes and only wanted to celebrate them. I'm still mad at the people who recced that unimaginably trash book.
Leo James
Basically Ready Player One is the normie version of Litrpgs. But somehow its worse even if that doesn't seem possible.
Gabriel Reed
It seems that many of you won't read Armada by Ernest Cline after having read Ready Player One.
Nicholas Cook
I thought that, more than a nerd fantasy, the book was just for teenagers (or people with that mindset) obsessed with computer games. And if you write for teenagers, you write to please them.
Christopher Rogers
BTW, is John Scalzi as bad as Cline and Ann Leckie? I don't want to read another bad book this year.
Cameron Morales
>I don't want to read another bad book this year. You are but a little child. Look at this: >more than 400 1 stars on my goodreads
Logan Wright
The meme narrative here is that he is. Unknown how many people it actually is pushing this viewpoint. That's why it's bad to form opinions based on what's posted here because it's so easy to pretend to be many. Then also people just go along with stuff without even caring either way.
Jonathan Wood
>bragging about refusing to drop books they hate WEIRD FLEX, BUT OK!
Brayden Ortiz
>not being a completionist How can you call yourself a reader? How can you talk about tastes if you haven't suffered from the bitter and sour?
Kayden Lopez
There's a limited amount of time and I'd prefer to not spend on it on bad books. I already spend huge amounts of time on not worthwhile matters, such as this post.
Levi Morales
There's a mega in the OP for monthly reading books but why isn't one for the most recommended books in the thread? or some other sort of download.
Thomas Powell
Monthly reading is maintained by the monthly reading user. This general is a collective, and none of the collective feels like hand feeding people to find easily accessible books on the net.
Matthew Peterson
I've read plenty of bad books. I don't need to read all of them.
Cooper Price
This is why monopolies are bad and why tech companies like Amazon has to be broken up.
Gavin Green
>i want the government to tell people what they can and cannot do >i also want the government to step in after I dedicated years of life to a project and sacrificed so much to break it up and take it away from me I bet your favorite book is 1984
Gabriel Peterson
As bad as Leckie perhaps, in the sense that he had a pretty decent debut and then went into a downward spiral. As bad as Cline? No.
Josiah Johnson
And the only one you've read?
Luke Reed
>Tell us about a creature, monster or alien you've imagined! People that use magic too much in a story i'm working on turn into a warped and evil version of themselves, sometimes turning into giant beasts. Heroes can take a quest to hunt down these people since they are a literal engine of death that desires nothing but to kill and eat everything around it. The creatures don't seem to feel pain like we do and in some cases cutting off limbs and pinning it to the wall with swords just makes it work harder to get to something it can eat. Theres no point in them eating since they seem to live perfectly fine even if they dont eat, although they seem to get more restless if they dont. The true meaning of people that turn into these beasts is that they become a kind of demigod due to getting a deeper connection to the source of magic, but their mind is destroyed in the process of the transformation
Brandon Martin
In book seven of the series, our hero falls into an ice cavern where he finds the crew of a long lost space freighter trapped in the ice and the crew encased in suspended animation by a glowing sphere named Shirin who claims to have crash landed in the ice planet millions of years ago. The orb creates a body for itself by using a gravitational field to attract dense ice crystals and other stones to form a titan-esque serpent. As the hero learns of its intent to capture him as well, he must devise a plan to kill the being and escape so that the other members of his ship can find him and he can continue his mission
I'm just waiting until the next one. I read those in a day. Plus by the time the next one comes out I'll have forgotten a lot more so a reread won't feel as pointless
Jason Baker
I'm all caught up, and I generally liked the books, but around the crimson phoenix or whatever with the zombies was were it started to feel like it lost the thread or jumped the shark a little. It seemed to get better after that, but that section threw me off a bit.
Aaron Wood
He's awful.
Isaac Stewart
I enjoy Scalzi.
Austin Murphy
I was right, he was sitting on the ebook to get a simultaneously release of audio and ebook. He's trying to be more professional like traditional publishing.
Henry Sanchez
I don't remember a single characters name and I read all six books last week
Alexander Barnes
Stormlight Archive has borderline genocide and a flashback arc of a guy going into a blood rage, and burning down an entire city of civilians, including his own wife while he savored her screams and breathed in her smoke.
Sanderson does violence.
Asher Bennett
>didn't remember the mommy that is taking you aside for special training
Jaxon Wood
I've decided to give into the relentless shilling by the one guy constantly spamming in every single thread. I have just finished finish acquiring all but two* in the "SFFG Self Published Recommendation Chart" . Really should have put all the same authors together rather than all over the place.
I expect it almost all, if not all, to be unreadable trash. My background allows me to not dismiss it all out of hand though.
Since I don't have infinite time, I will only read a few pages from each work.
If it goes well, I'll put up a mega of all the books. If it doesn't, I don't want to promote it, but I probably will still upload if asked. Not even 20MB, so it's not much anyway.
*bunker core andrew seiple and cultivating chaos william arand Didn't see them after a little bit of looking. They are kindle unlimited, probably like all of these, but I don't want to bother with that right now and already have other books from them.
And that was my blog.
Jack Fisher
Looking for a plausible speculative SF set within the next 100 years, that isn't a shitty post-apoc and was written this millennium
But does he do rape, even implied in the past rape
Aiden Phillips
"plausible" is highly subjective. Also the years are arbitrary.
Zachary Flores
Shotafags
Ryan Ortiz
Yeah, aforementioned bloodrage guy intervened in a pillaging (I forget why, but it wasnt for moralfag reasons) and his soldiers were mad they couldn't have the women in that village when they've been able to before
Christopher Green
the aunt of the faggot he killed in Ghost land Adventure?
Wyatt Fisher
Re: subjective plausibility, you're not wrong
I just want something that takes into account current political climates, technological projections (e.g. Elon's 50 projects, energy shit, successful/failed singularity and it's repercussions, etc), early stage space colonization, etc. without taking the easy route and saying the bombs dropped resulting in a clean slate mad max world or going too far and having some crazy advanced bullshit that doesn't make sense. I want something grounded.
I want it to be set in the roughly near term cuz I could read it with it "hey I'd maybe live to see this" kind of way, and written semi-recently so the author knows all the bonkers shit that's been going on since Y2K to extrapolate from.
Most don't seem very optimistic about the near future. It's either mostly post-apocalyptic or set far enough ahead where all the problems of the past were more or less solved.
As such, nothing I've read or know of would meet those specifications.
Jonathan Butler
or at least dystopic from failure.
Dominic Nelson
i wanna know what happens with lindons sister now that turtle bro is in the valley.
Adrian Thompson
The main problem with this being a matter of scope. There are plenty of near-future novels but they probably wouldn't have the scope and breadth of world-building that you'd want.
Brody Kelly
If anything it's a tomgirl
Isaac Morgan
That's why I'm looking. I can't find anything focused where I'd like it to be. I have half a mind to write one myself but I'm dogshit at writing
Far as I can tell, we're heading towards some kind of vaguely dystopian cyberpunk future for the near term. Combine that with a fledgling human presence on the moon and mars, and it just seems like a setting ripe for storytelling
There's not enough Epic SF in the world. Fantasy gets all the doorstoppers
Matthew Stewart
how did orthos get there so quick? have they only traveled like fifty miles from the valley? why is he so based?
Dystopian is fine as long as it's reasonably plausible and not some tryhard grimdark horseshit If the future is a nightmare I'd like it to be justifiable and not just because the author wanted to write in a nightmare world
Eli Cox
>There's not enough Epic SF in the world. Fantasy gets all the doorstoppers Because sf has turned into political shit instead of technology/future speculation. Who wants to read a doorstopper about the current year but politics and it's labeled science fiction? I don't even put up with fantasy doing that, I won't take it from science fiction.
William Morris
THREADSLAVE
Nicholas Gray
He flew there like gamera. Just spinning off into the sunset.
Jason Thomas
What do you think about Paolo Bacigalupi's works? Too grimdark?
Tons of relevant short stories. I'm thinking going back through and categorizing for reasons like this, but effort.
There's stuff like The Martian, set in 2035, you may have or not seen the movie. Rather limited scope though.
Wyatt Cox
I honor your sacrifice. There's 2 such charts that I've seen shilled here recently though. Both look pretty awful but one looked substantially worse. Would be good to know which one you're looking into.
Jeremiah Bennett
Ready Player One is 2040s, but that's a different matter.
There's New York 2140.
Juan Rivera
A dragon advances. You expect him to be slow and take his time? He had somewhere to go and got there. You forgot how Lindon sat on him during the trials and how fast he was?
Christopher Edwards
I had to Google his name. Read the Windup Girl and I remember liking it, but haven't read anything else by him
Zachary Hill
I assume the other you mean is: or the one called Self-Published Book Chart shown in the mega at the top
Alexander Bailey
Remember speedy the turtle from the swan princess? Well orthos is faster than that.
Jason Parker
I like his short stories a lot more than his novels personally. He has a few other novels.
Grayson Fisher
The Culture is good, faggot.
Andrew Brown
I'll check them out Thanks user
Brayden Johnson
You're welcome.
James Rodriguez
>science fiction wasn't political until recently Congrats on outing yourself on never having read a book
Chase Russell
What they meant was "I didn't notice that science fiction has politics that I don't like until recently."
Easton Ross
Or that older SF reflected political attitudes of its time, which weren't as objectionable to him. Considering how the attitudes on certain subjects have shifted, even 10 years can make that pretty huge.
Luke Robinson
>what is reading comprehension I said who wants to read a doorstopper political book parading as scifi. There have always been political scifi, but they were never 900 pages long in the first book(I'm obviously talking about older scifi, seveneves was 700 pages I think?)
Tyler Hall
That's called Atlas Shrugged.
Chase Gonzalez
What they meant was "I didn't notice that science fiction was concerned with the shortage of human decency until I decided to be the bad guy because it makes my peepee look bigger."
Dominic Bennett
>implying I would read anything by her You know just mentioning her name was a bannable offense
Carter Cook
What's the best /sffg/ book for a hot-blooded, minority-hating, women-hating (but also fucking) chad like me?
Jackson Perez
The bible
Lincoln Ramirez
>He thinks it's one user,
Ethan Cruz
the suicide handbook
Julian White
Bakker
Asher Price
Blindsight
Jaxson Gray
Possible. My attitudes are pretty much identical to Democrat standard circa 2008, which is enough to make me a Nazi to 2019 Dems and a cuckfag to /pol/. Can't say I'd love to read a scifi book pushing the current popular ideological trends of either.
Gavin Cook
Are the bad guys the people who want to kill the members of various races they dislike, or the people who are applauding prepubescent child sexualization and genital mutilation as stunning and brave? You can't say both or some arch-intellectual will reply with the "muh enlightened centrist" meme.
Ethan Bell
It all started with such a promising premise.
Alexander Sanchez
I severely doubt your self-assessment. What a false dichotomy you've created.
Jaxon Robinson
I like the Expeditionary Force series and there is nothing you can do about it
Brandon Sanchez
Seconding user, I don't think you're a nazi by any means. I don't even think you've forgotten what you stood for, which is actually pretty amazing with everything going on, but I think you got off on the wrong foot with the trans rights movement the same way I did, and if you don't serious make an effort to play catch-up now you're going to lose sight of your beliefs.
to be honest, I don't blame you. Even though I believe in acceptance for the greater LGBT community, the movement itself has developed in a really haphazard and dangerous way and because of the political climate it's difficult to criticize anything when every other sentence is a political dogwhistle. It's probably going to take another generation or two for the situation to right itself, but I don't think that excuses us from trying to get there
The windup girl was good, but I haven't read anything else by him.