/lit/ - Literature

Confessions of a Crap Artist may be the most humane PKD novel I'd read yet. It transitions between three main characters and details their subjective reality (i.e., how they view the world, judgments, beliefs and opinions, etc.) about as intricately as possible in a textual format. I wonder if it was one of his harder books to write.

>Reaper's Gale
>both most likeable characters back in the same book
>can't decide who I enjoy more between Trull "parries Icarium" Sengar or Bugg/Mael.

>>11840157
Yeah no shit read the filename
I didn't make it anyway and I don't even know where to search the forums for an updated copy, if one exists.

>>11240264
>3 hours late
Please kill yourself for being an enormous newfag abortion reject who thinks repeating numbers in your post number mean anything at all whatsoever.
AN HERO
I BELIEVE IN YOU

>the painting of the Champion that Kaladin sees is from Nalthis
fucking NEAT

>>9945237
You are looking for Dichronauts by Greg Egan.

>>9670901
That's not how hard sci-fi is defined, you chalkboard.

>reread Warbreaker
>we'll never get the sequel

>finish reread of Warbreaker this morning
I'm pretty upset that Brandon has fucking abandoned Nalthis. He could write the sequel within a goddamn month I'm sure, and yet he keeps putting it off to write more YA NOBODY FUCKING ASKED FOR.

>rereading Warbreaker
>all the Mormonism early on about sex and low neck-lines and general T'Telir fashion
small amounts of ree

So, some of you read Xeelee: Endurance, right? I'm a bit confused on some parts. I'm not reading all of the stories but I've read a handful thus far.

In the first story, what was up with that ending? Was Virtual Poole somehow the same as Real Poole from Timelike Infinity because wormhole timey-wimey shit?
Also goddommit that story involving the descendants from Raft in Universe Beta was sad with its ending; also didn't even see a point in the story at all other than discussing the Scourge and such.
PeriAndry's Quest didn't seem to have a point to it, either.

Was Xeelee: Exultant any good?

>>8781201
>Are we certain there aren't other double shardholders?
Doubtful. Only around half of the Shards total are even still whole. Regardless, he was confirmed as strongest a while back. If that status quo changes, I doubt it would occur until the modern Mistborn trilogy.

>Remind me why he can't be aggressive
Because his personality is literally harmonious and Ruin/Preservation are nearly perfect at canceling each other out.

>>8781227
>Basically the Shards have joined to the extent (re: branderson) that if Sazed put them down they'd remain conjoined with the new intent.
Right. Ruin and Preservation formed a new Shard: Harmony.

>>8760654
Could you rephrase this? Sorry. I may not even be able to answer.

>>8658812
That Count to a Trillion plot sounds awfully similar to Revelation Space.

>>8658844
Books related to the thread topic, my little newfriend.

>>8322496
I think Vivenna was actually worth a shit. She's one of Sanderson's few decent femleads.

>>8309067
>no idea how to skill my party beyond using the skill sim to check for some diminishing returns and using the EOIV pastebin to figure out an idea of what skills are okay on which classes
>general and threads absolutely refuse to simply tell me how many points to put into which skills
I'm gonna fuck something up at any time AHHHHHHHH

>>8294286
Tavi Alwaysright.

>>8262256
Welcome to 4chan, friend, where the majority of posters are literal underage children and cannot comprehend somebody having an opinion which differs from theirs regarding any conceivable subject.

>>8255461
'Hoid' is a worldhopper but he's basically THE worldhopper. He isn't a Herald. Speaking of Heralds, we don't even know if the Heralds originated from Roshar themselves.

>>8255527
Hoid has been in every Cosmere story except for Shadows for Silence in the Forest of Hell and First of the Sun, as far as I'm aware. Even his appearance in Shadows is debatable between Sanderson and his main editor.

I don't know what you mean by SQW, anon. Also, Warbreaker takes place on Nalthis. Just call it by its planet name. It isn't its own universe.

>>8255534
As far as the original trilogy goes: he was an informant for Kelsier in the first book, leader of the Terris refugees in the second, and an informant again in the third book but spooked Vin so she didn't talk to him.

>>8256176
Don't bother with Hyperion.

>>8256716
I read a manga with a similar premise to that once.
We need a new thread, nerds.

>>8203670
>revelation space five
Chasm City and The Prefect are stand-alone. There are novels, novellas, and short stories within the universe itself but the trilogy of Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, and Absolution Gap is the only series.

Pushing Ice is nice. I enjoyed it overall and it presented interesting concepts although if you genuinely believe BLAME! has no story then you would likely believe Pushing Ice is bad because of its slow pacing.

>>8149864
>magical realism
So, sci-fantasy?

>>8135575
>Black Company
>teenagers
You need a lot of perseverance to get through that entire series which most teenagers don't have.
Teenagers likely wouldn't even understand Lovecraft.

>>7949566
Read the words on the image instead of looking at only the pictures.

>>7437537
>Irondruid chronicles, unbinding and binding natural chemicals/compounds
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is this any good? Concept sounds intriguing.

>>7437414
It's cool figuring out how magic will be able to fuel FTL travel, or wacky stuff like Kaladin breaking orbit, though.

Although some theories cause some serious genuine autism in some corners.