/lit/ - Literature

>What SF/F books are you currently reading
Pic related, i love it even more than the Southern Reach trilogy
>What is your favorite Leiber story?
never read him, but i'm planning to read The First book of Lankhmar

Just posting these before anyone complains that the links don't work.

>What SF/F books are you currently reading
On the last few pages of my reread of The Way of Kings, then on to Words of Radiance.

>What is your favorite Leiber story?
Never read anything by him. Does he have good fantasy stories?

>>6728231

>>6728231
>Does he have good fantasy stories?
Yeah man, his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories are cornerstone sword & sorcery.

>general
Fuck you. Stop trying to emulate your favorite subreddit here.

>>6728177
Just picked up UBIK today. I like how PKD manages to use semi-nonsensical aspects of soft sci-fi to forge a believable world, or at least one that can be related to.

>>6728231
Weaveworld should be in there.

>>6728259
I just checked and there's a ton of those, if I'd want to read one to get an insight to how they are should I start with the first or are there some particularly good ones?

>>6728231
The links work but they direct to thumbnails.

>>6728405
not when i follow them they don't

Damn, I'm always asleep when these are made

you people need to put more and better new questions in the OP, it's what sparks discussion

Asked in the last thread but never got a reply - where do I go with the Strugatsky Brothers after roadside picnic?

>>6728417
do you have any suggestions for questions?
i've been thinking of some questions that could be thrown around

>>6728405
Yeah that's what I meant. And they work fine on Chrome. Just thought to post them when I saw a new thread was made, no point to wait for people who use other browsers to complain and then post them, when I could just do it right away. Though it would be best if whoever made the charts posted them somewhere else where the pictures would show normally to everyone.

>>6728434
Whats a underrated book/series you believe deserves more acclaim
Whats your favorite SFF book pre 1950
Whats your favorite SFF book after 2010
Who writes the best war scenes
Favorite magic system
Favorite setting
Favorite protag
Best written female character

these are just quickly off the top of my head, I'd probably tweak them if I spent time thinking about them but basically stuff like that is what I'm put it the OPs, maybe 3 or so (along with what are you currently reading) in each one

Asked this in the last thread:
>>6697172
So, what other stories are set in the Conan universe? Kull and Bok Mar Ba or whatever, right?
Considering that the Hyborean Age is set before regular history, could you include Howard's Sonja stories among others as well?

>>6728430

Hard to Be a God

>>6728361
They're short stories that were written out of order (like a lot of pulp fantasy, Howard's Conan, Moorcock's Elric, etc.), and they got placed in chronological order for those paperback releases, so you can just read those in order (the 'Swords' series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser#Publication_history))

I only just got around to finishing the first one today actually, but I really enjoyed it.

>>6728476

>Who writes the best war scenes

Eddison.

>“In such case stood they, nor were Teshmar's folk more than twenty paces from the walls, when, sudden as nightlightning, flares were kindled along the walls, dazzling the Goblins and the Demons and brightly lighting them for those that manned the walls, who fell a-shooting at them with spears and arrows and a-slinging of stones. In the same moment opened a postern gate, whence sallied forth the Lord Corinius with an hundred and fifty stout lads of Witchland, shouting, "He that would sup of the crab of Witchland must deal with the nippers ere he essay the shell"; and charging Gaslark's army in the flank he cut them clean in two. As one wood fared forth Corinius, smiting on either hand with a two-edged axe with heft lapped with bronze; and greatly though the folk of Gaslark outnumbered him, yet were they so taken at unawares and confounded by the sudden onslaught of Corinius that they might not abide him but everywhere gave ground before his onslaught. And many were wounded and some were slain; and with these Teshmar of Goblinland, the master of Gaslark's ship. For smiting at Corinius and missing of his aim he louted forward with the blow, and Corinius hewed at him with his axe and the blow came on Teshmar's neck and so hewed off his head. Now Gaslark with the best of his fighting men was come some way past the postern, but whenas they fell to fighting he turned back straightway to meet Corinius, calling loudly on his men to rally against the Witches and drive them back within the walls. So when Gaslark was gotten through the press to within reach of Corinius, he thrust at Corinius with a spear, wounding him in the arm. But Corinius smote the spear-shaft asunder with his axe, and leapt upon Gaslark, giving him a great wound on the shoulder. And Gaslark took to his sword, and many blows they bandied that made either stagger, till Corinius struck Gaslark on the helm a great down-stroke of his axe, as one driveth a pile with a wooden mallet. And because of the good helm he wore, given by Lord Juss in days gone by as a gift of love and friendship, was Gaslark saved and his head not cloven asunder; for on that helm Corinius's axe might not bite. Yet with that great stroke were Gaslark's senses driven forth of him for a season, so that he fell senseless to the earth. And with his fall came dismay upon them of Goblinland.

>>6728476
>Best written female character
if you think that will produce anything but frothing at the mouth neckbeards, you're wrong

i'd be interested in some questions geared towards the history of the genres and their merit as literature but once again it would probably just attract angry faggots who don't want to admit certain canonical works would be classified as fantasy or whatever today

i'd be glad with more questions in general, though, regardless of quality
the previous two threads have been kind of slow and repetitive

GIVE HER THE D CROAKER YOU LIMP DICKED FAGGOT

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GIVE IT TO HER ASSSSDFSFSFSFSLFKSLGKDGLKDFGLK

>>6728476
>Favorite setting
I really like certain kind of city settings, the type like found in these:
>The Lies of Locke Lamora
>Braavos in ASOIAF
>Assassin's Creed 2
>Riften in Skyrim

Any other books set in that kind of a city with dark alleys, rooftops, canals or underground networks used in the story? And maybe thieves, assassins or other characters who act during the night.

>>6728514
Alright, well I'll add them to my reading list. Thanks.

>>6728608
>Assassin's Creed 2
The city is called Venice ffs, and it is real, it actually, literally exists on the planet you are inhabitating right now, please someone kill me.

>>6728623
I know it is, and I've visited it twice you asshole. I just thought the fact that all of the places I mentioned, expect maybe Riften, are so obviously based on Venice that it was hardly worth mentioning. And since I'm not looking for books set in Venice but fantasy books with a sort of dark vibe to the setting, the places I mentioned serve as a better example than the actual city.

I mean holy fucking shit, only on /lit/ would I ever see some smug idiot actually feeling superior for knowing that Venice exists and thinking someone wouldn't. It's not the capital but due to its cultural importance not knowing about it would equal to not knowing what is Rome, or London, or Berlin. Or a 'murican not knowing that New York or L.A. exists.

>>6728674
rip in piece oscar

>>6728719
oscar never died, he just went home.

>>6728722
i was actually surprised by how good the latest movie was

>>6728608
tfw Lynch writes about a city that's just like my hometown (venice) but has no fucking idea of what the city is like
The book is decent but i just cant appreciate it

>>6728733
what sorts of things does he get wrong?

>>6728741
it's not that he gets things wrong, it's just there are so many interesting places here that he could have put in the novels.
for example, there's a bridge called "Ponte delle tette" which translates to Boobs Bridge, basically in medieval venezia there were so many whores that they had to put them all in just one area because the city seemd like an open air orgy.
What i'm trying to say is that he probably never read about the city or its history, and it's a shame

>>6728733
Maybe that's because he isn't trying to make it like Venice, but a city that he himself created along the rest of his fantasy world. You know, he knows about Venice and has maybe never visited, or maybe has, but however he sees the city he's just picking some specific qualities of it and incorporating those qualities into a fantasy city which would fit into his story.

>>6728775
>there are so many interesting places here that he could have put in the novels
Just to reinforce my point, he can't or shouldn't just take real existing places and include those in his story. How stupid would it be to "create" a fantasy city and give it a new name, just to have it be just an exact copy of a real one.

>>6728476
>Favorite magic system
Kill yourself

Yo, I've read Moorcock's Elric series (at least the original collated short stories, not the novel-length things he wrote later), what should I go with next? More of his Eternal Champion cycle or branch out?

>>6728231
>>6728238
Is there a torrent somewhere that contains all of these in good quality?

>>6729160
No.

>>6728450
All good, man.

Maybe future OPs can simply post one of them or both in rapid succession, or even get a imgur link, either way.

>>6728848
No, kill YOURself faggot

Started reading Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer.

This fucking prose. All the traditional science fiction I grew up reading is so bland and dry comparatively. Wolfe is like art.

So if you guys finish a long old series like Black Company or Princes of Amber or Foundation where do you go to discuss it? Here's too general and most places only focus on recent series

>>6728500
Bump and:

What Conan short(!) story would you recommend for a first time reader to get an idea of the quality. Not the best one, not the worst, rather short so I can have a good idea if I'll like the rest.

>>6729160

>>6729160
Here's a download of the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks series ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Masterworks)) in a few different formats (epub, mobi, etc.)

http://bigfiles.net/yolaiflohecg

[change 'big' to 'huge']

>>6728537

>Eddison
>1922
>Predates The Hobbit

Seriously why the fuck we never hear about this guy?

Anyone else read Diana Rowland's White Trash Zombie series?

Anyone else love the low key, slice of life feel of the first one?

Anyone else hate how it instantly became a huge country wide conspiracy and Angel became a super spy in the next volumes?

>>6729369
bizarro fiction bores me like nothing else

>trying to begin my first ever serious Sci-Fi short story
>can't find a way to start it

>>6729415
WHERES THE FUCKING CRACK PIPE?

>>6729415

>>6729890
'It was a dark and stormy night' is usually a good place to start.

>>6729890
why not go for the third person point of view. "they say it all started...", similar in a way to Asimov's The Last Question

>>6729890
"Call me iShmael, cyborg sailor."

That feel when you don't like Malazan books, but love the Apsalar and Crokus. Not even the assassin angle, either. I just like their dynamics as characters.

Wish I could find books that focused on characters like that.

3/4 of the way through Urth of the New Sun. BotNS was great but this is a level even above that, Wolfe is brilliant at building up detail without being explicit about it. Much more interesting than writers who feel the need to spell everything out.

>>6728476
>Who writes the best war scenes
Bakker. Paul Kearney is also good.
>Favorite magic system
Not really impressed by magic systems. I guess I'll say Bakker again here.
>Favorite setting
Bas-Lag. Also Ararat in Felix Gilman's Thunderer & The Gears of the City novels.
>Favorite protag
Difficult question. First one that comes to mind is Roland of Gilead.
>Best written female character
Another difficult question. First one that comes to mind is Arya Stark.

>>6731199
Kearney is really good. In fact, I was going to mention him as an answer to the underrated thing, but I got lazy.

>>6730916
Blake is an awful painter

>>6728238
Forever War but not Forever Peace?

Anyone else love Cities in Flight?

>>6731199
>>6731232
>Kearney

my niggas

>>6730509
What book are you up to? Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates were the only books I ever remember Apsalar and Crokus showing their dynamic.

GoTM was pretty measly. It interested me enough to keep going, though. Deadhouse Gates was a god tier tragedy - he really caught lightning, there. Memories of Ice was forgettable for me for some reason, House of Chains even more so. Midnight Tides was fun as fuck, but Bonehunters felt stale and slow. I'm halfway through Reaper's Gale and it's been the worst one so far, but it's just picked back up, and I'm looking forward to that signature Erikson style explosive finish that makes sitting through all the boredom of the build up worth it.

Does Alternate History count as Fantasy/Sci-fi?
If yes what are some good Alternate History books?

>>6731488
Dont know if it has been translated to english tho

>>6731488
Not really unless it contains sci-fi or fantasy elements, but I'd be happy to allow suggestions in this thread.

>>6728268
Or any 4chan board, recently.

>>6729289

/tg/. It's like /lit/, but without the snobby elitism.

>>6730916
the last half of the urth of the new sun is great

Who's the Lansdale of Fantasy/Sci-fi?

I love this guy's style and prose and i really want to read some fantasy book with a similar vibe to his books

>>6732239
Maybe Parker's standalones

Should I read The Witcher or Malazan during the summer?
I can't read The Witcher in Polish but I can in another Slavic language, so I guess that would be better than reading it in English.

>>6732451
The Witcher, i read it in italian and really enjoy it

Not entirely sure if this is the proper thread for it, but I'm working on this story that involves fantasy elements in a post-atomic russia where their entire society has regressed back to the middle ages culturally and those that were affected by atomic radiation now have abilities in witchcraft. The plot mostly focuses on this traveling party who's searching for life in the wastleland called "The Red Legion" and their leader, Ta'al Vulstrum, is a cleric of the church of Leinism (practitioners of the ideals of soviet russia in a post-nuclear world)

>>6732524
>Ta'al Vulstrum

This name sounds really out of place. If your setting your story in Russia then you should have at least Russian sounding names, even if they weren't actual modern day names used there now. That just sounds like some epic high fantasy name from WoT or wherever.

Posted this in a previous thread, but it died soon enough.
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So I just finished DADOeS and I fail to see why people consider it essential, prototypical cyberpunk. It had as much "high tech, low life" as the goddamn Caves of Steel.

>>6732649
How would you define 'cyberpunk'?

>>6731199
"Fun" fact about the Unholy Consult: RSB turned in the final manuscript for the book in 2014, and he hasn't apparently even been assigned an editor yet by the publisher.

reading grim company by luke scull its almost exactly like the first law trilogy.

Anyone read the Lyonesse books by Jack Vance? Been wanting to read something by him before jumping into Dying Earth

So uh, how many other Cosmerefags frequent these threads? I need somebody to sperg with.

Who here's into Terry? I admit his 'witty' style of writing can get rather corny but I do love the setting he's painted. However, I always find the characters he'll never use again to be the most fascinating, which sucks.

>tfw you'll never get another monstrous regiment book

>>6733326
they're good. i recently read them all.

why the hesitance to read the dying earth? it's pretty accessible.

>>6733746
I have most of his books. Utter genius. Have you read the Long Earth?

>>6733372
Allomancerfag reporting in

Can you guys tell me what you think, and what I should add to the next vid in the series?
I think these are important issues with sci-fi and fantasy to be addressed before sjw and feminists take it out of control.
Please be gentle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34-zTOiL1Mw

>>6733783
I've heard of it, I think. It's like Good Omens, where it's not just Terry writing, yeah?

>>6734093
I will be nitpicking, please don't take this seriously. I'm going stream of consciousness.
1. Is that a Liturgy shirt?
2. The music is a bit loud and distracting, you could lower it a bit.
3. I feel like you should mention how many such fantasy novels that are described as 'racist' and 'sexist' could also be seen as period pieces that unintentionally date themselves and reveal societal cultures towards women, and thus have some cultural value through that.
4. An argument that I'm seeing now in SJW Circlewank is 'queer-coding', where villainous characters have gay traits. Think of all the campy, hedonistic, and decadent villains you've seen all the years.
5. I'm a tad disappointed you didn't mention the Earthsea series, which is pretty much the end-all be-all for people who cry that it's always Euro-based.
6. You should go a bit deeper on the Hypermasculinist fantasy thing, maybe on stuff like Conan (Where the main character is actually flawed), or maybe work that does match the stereotype that's commonly made fun of in fantasy circles, such as the Eye of Argon or the Gor series.

Overall, what you're doing works pretty well. 8/10.

>>6734106
Yes, but Long Earth takes a real departure from Pratchett's trademark humor. It's actually not really funny at all, but the setting itself is fascinating.

>>6734139
yeah it's Aesthethica
I have yet to read earthsea and am overall pretty new to fantasy, but I appreciate the criticism and will try to take it into account for part 2

>>6732793
yeah, pretty much

davarus cole = jezal dan luthar
halfmage = glokta
brodar kayne = logrn ninefingers

i still found it fun enough to read though, to kill time

>>6732524
Please give a quasi-plausible reason why magic exists in their univers. Begin with the Arthur C Clarke quote that magic is advanced tech or whatever and heavily imply that the magic is a result of some soviet quantum probability engine breaking down and magic leak through. Like the politburo tried to change the physical laws of the universe in their favor and instead fucked everything up and bamagic exists. Just some stupid deus ex where I don't have to cringe whenever I hear that radiation cause magic. Other than that. Cool concept yo.

>>6734093
it's horhay looees borheys

>found out tonight that a girl I know likes Rothfuss
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>6733802
Allomancy is gonna be some crazy fucking shit, bruh. I wanna see how FTL travel is going to work already.

>>6733753
I just dont want to read the work he's most known for right off the bat. Gene Wolfe is a big favorite of mine, and since Vance seems to be a big influence on him, I want to read through his other stuff as well.

>>6734500
At least you know girls who are into fantasy lit beyond Harry Potter and YA trash

>>6734612
I was surprised.

She's currently reading one of the Drizzt books but she commented on how it's taking her longer and longer to get through each book (because they're boring and it hasn't picked back up since early on) so she's also reading some 1800s lit book (I don't know the title) at the same time. I also don't know what else she reads but Rothfuss is her favorite author :((((((((((((((((((

>>What SF/F books are you currently reading

just finished book 3 in The Expanse series, if you haven't yet check it out!

>>6732786
That's not fun, it sucks cock. I wondered why it was taking so long.

>>6732793
It's basically a rip-off but still kinda fun. The Wolf (I think that's what he was called) was pretty cool. Didn't make me want to read the second book though, sadly. Might pick it up if I hear the series gets better.

>>6734566
>I just dont want to read the work he's most known for right off the bat.
Why not? You can read the other stuff after.

>>6732675
>high tech, low life

I'm not saying it had absolutely nothing to do with it. But usually you'd expect something like a huge criminal underworld, or some rebel/terrorist groups or whatever. Here it's just a bunch of escaped robots.

>>6735135
>high tech, low life

Well considering it's a supposedly an inspiration to the genre I can certainly see where people are getting this from.

They live in the slums of earth after most of the population has gone to mars, with high technology present such as the emotion machines, hover cars and the skinjobs. We have our artificial intelligence and our megacorporations, and our hero works a detective job.

Proto-genre objects are usually fairly lightly related, but in this case I would say it's quite a strong connection. As for your own expectations of a criminal underworld or a rebel group, I do believe the featured replicants are in fact a rebel group.

>>6732649
>capitalising "Do" "Of"
>not capitalising "Electric"

>>6734093
subbed.
like >>6734320
said you mispronounced our lord and savior, but ill sub anyways because this is nice work aside

This was a very, very good book, holy shit.

-Most of the POV character started a bit dull, but I found all of them entertaining eventually
-Very quick and witty humor, but never feels like a Joss Whedon movie
-Best action sequences I've read since Conan

Only major problem I had was sometimes the writing was awkward. Overall I can't wait to read the next two!

>>6735556
Meant to lowercase o. I fucked up.

>>6736446
When you finish the trilogy there are the three stand-alones, you should check those out as well. Personally I didn't like Best Served Cold or Red Country that much, but The Heroes is my favourite book by Abercrombie. It revolves around a war so liking it kinda depends on if you like military fantasy, but I think it was awesome.

LIVE

I've found increasingly that when I write science fiction it's much more like science fantasy. This is largely due to the heavy influence of Gene Wolfe on my writing. Who else, besides Wolfe, writes good science fantasy?

>>6736552
i didn't find Best Served Cold particularly memorable

The Heroes and Red Country i loved though, especially based Nicomo Cosca

SF is the best genre to be quite honest and people who dislike or talk down upon it tend to be unbearable uptight faggots.

>>6736446
Good news: the series gets substantially better with each book.

>>6736552
>>6739429
I loved both Best Served Cold and The Heroes. Red Country didn't do anything for me though.

Have you read the new Half a Whatever books?

>>6737915
You could try:
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
God's War by Kameron Hurley
The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan - though I'd recommend to read his Kovacs books first
Stephen King's Dark Tower series
The Age of Ra and The Age of Zeus by James Lovegrove (these are pretty much B-movie action films in book form, though)

None of these are anything like Gene Wolfe though, except for Morgan's setting being a human colonized planet an extremely long time in the future.

>>6740079
>>6737915
Also The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan.

What are some good fantasy books for someone who hates military fantasy?
I like Clark Ashton Smith,Wagner, Howard, Lieber and Borges but i hate LoTR

>>6740079
>Have you read the new Half a Whatever books?

No, the fact they're YA just puts me off. The setting sounds nice though. If I hear good things about them I might give them a go in the future, but so far no one really mentions them anywhere so I assume they're not that great.

>>6728361
all the stories have been collected into a two volume collection

>>6740079
>>6740208
I read them, they're alright if not particularly memorable. It's just some viking based zero-to-hero with political scheming type thing. The YA aspect does hold it back slightly I think. Second book has more interesting protagonists at any rate, might keep an eye out for the third.

>>6740265
>>6740208
I only read the first, myself. Probably won't bother with the second. Nothing really gripped me.

I wish he'd gone for a setting more different to First Law.

>>6740218
>muh two volume collections

>>6740193
why do you hate lotr? it's hardly military fantasy.

>>6740079
>Dark Tower
>sci-fant

>>6741030
>muh short stories

Anyone read Throne of the Crescent Moon? Halfway through and I think it has great characters and dialogue, but I wondet why no one talks about it.

>>6728231
>elric
God, that takes me back. Now I'm going to have to dig those books out and look through them. Beautiful cover art he had on that series, too.

>>6728231
Maybe should have Glen Cook's The Black Company under heroic/swords&sorcery.

Is not including kingkiller chronicle some /lit/ meme?

>>6728238

Jack Campbell and maybe William Dietz could both go in here. I know military sci-fi is kind of niche, though. Also the Honor Harrington books by David Weber.

>>6728775
>basically in medieval venezia there were so many whores that they had to put them all in just one area
If it's not in the first book, it's in one of the sequels, he describes how all the whores of the city came together to form their own organized crime ring, and they all basically operate off the same island iirc. An island of whores. Maybe he did research this?

>>6728775
>>6742473
The sequels are utter shit, though. Would not recommend reading them. The Lies of Locke Lamorra is great on its own.

>>6733372
>>6734500
I've read all the mistborn and stormlight archive books so far. Really enjoying them, but I don't see how he's going to live long enough to finish all these proposed works in the cosmere, despite his blazing fast writing. Though I cross my fingers that he does.

Why does everyone here seem to hate rothfuss? I thought his writing was great.

>>6741868
Hey Cosmere fag, I like to think of you as Brandon's assistant, Peter. It would be nice for you to get this over to him.

I got an Idea for a novel that anyone here can use but my top choice for Authors would be Brandon Sanderson, Brent Weeks or Jim Butcher.

>the Idea
Guy walks into some store in the most racist place in the USA.
He is black(it will really fuck with people's mind), somebody gives him some racist slur or some shit, and he shoots them.

People in store also has guns, they gun him down, he gets up and kills them all, even the children.
Police arrive, they gun him down, he gets back up kills them all.

Later he approaches the on scene TV Crew and makes an announcement on a Live Broadcast, telling everyone that anyone one insulting or attempting harm on his person will be executed.

The reporter says something along the lines of "What gives you the right to kill people, who he thinks insulted him?"

He shows a perfect 3d holographic image, that has strange characters/images. He then goes to explain that he has the "right" to do as he because because he is now the ruler of this solar system.

He says the image shown is the Deed of the Solar system and he just bought it off the being we called God, then goes to list other deities that are found throughout other faiths and through the ages, explaining they are one and the same being trying different ways of rule.

He says unlike our former creator, he likes to take a personal interest in his work.

After other forms of law enforcement and military fail at killing him, a tremor goes through the world as they try to reassess their life and their place in it.

Story follows the new god, has lost of heavy mysticism, magic/energy that defies the laws of physics and advance technology that we can't even comprehend, even when we are sat down and it's explained in depth.

What you guys think? Was thinking of it while I was taking a shower this morning.
One of you could pull it off?
Just want to see it written.

>>6742520
Has lots of heavy***
error

>>6742520
At first I thought this was a joke, because all of that 'gunning down' and 'deed' stuff sounded awful, but by the end there are some points worth exploring.

The 'all gods being one being' has been done before, but it could be worth exploring in the context of now having a new god for the first time.

The new god having a personal interest could be expanded into something worthwhile, with particular focus on the social affects.

The lead up would certainly need to be changed though, unless you're trying to make a young adult book that is screaming 'make me into a movie'.

>>6742744
I just explained it that way, because I was trying to get across as much of my thoughts as possible(I'm a former NEET, now wage slave, and I enjoy reading books... can't write them).

My idea was:
What if God was real and he sold Earth?
What if our new God didn't like the marionette show and came down here?
What if he fell into an altercation with someone and killed them because they bothered him?
What if after killing people that bothered him(town/city folk, law enforcement, military, etc) he semi-mini nukes the US continent?
What would the world do to cope with this revelations?

What I also wanted was a true GOD story.
No Mary Sue, secret ass pull BS, that some scientist analyzes a tape and sees where he draws his power from and separates him from it. Thus saving the day and mankind being true Gods could conquer all.
NO.

I'm talking full omnipotent, immortal all powerful, man from dust, GOD, who just tolerates us because we amuse him, unless we directly encroach on his personal space and annoyed him.

I read American Gods and the other books where the all is one or one source thing, it just hit me in the shower... and instead of doing my usual "imma write it down later" as I did with a bunch of other ideas...., I wrote it as soon as I came out the bathroom and posted it here later in the day so someone could get use of it.

Hope I could read it in a few years.
Would be nice for you to say thanks anon in the acknowledgements, would tickle that cold beating lump of desensitized flesh called muh heart.

4 chapters into Fellowship of the Ring

I'm not super used to reading something this dry. It's not that I'm not enjoying it, but like reading it feels more mentally exhausting to read a single chapter than like two of a usual fantasy book. Does it pick up or is this what its like for the rest of the book?

>>6742520
Your best bet would be to post on the 17thShard forum or contact Peter directly but good luck because Brandon has six trillion (never forget) wacky ideas of his own.

>>6743057
it picks up after rivendell but if you're finding it dry now you should just stop

>>6743224
Im enjoying it though. I just cant read too much

hey lit, im thinking about getting the night age
ngle trilogy. is it any good?

>>6743456
stupid phone, Night Angel

>>6743244
Once it really gets going I found it pretty remarkable. There are parts of Return of the King that feel nearly Biblical.

>>6743456
>>6743460
i hate to use the word edgy, but it's pretty darn edgy
but if you're into assassins and seedy underworld type stuff, and a sort-of Gary Stu protagonist, you might enjoy it

anyone read the wizards first rules series, and what you thought of it?

Can we share our own work here? Just curious. I realize there are plenty of critique threads, but those of us who deal in speculative fiction might find a friendlier audience here.

Of course, I realize that this invites everyone to share their work, and defeats the purpose of the thread being primarily about reading, so it might not be a good thing.

>people like this cuck

>>6741868
"Science fantasy" is a broad umbrella term for works that include elements of both sci-fi and fantasy, which The Dark Tower unquestionably does.

>>6743673
I will accept that but if it takes over the thread you're all getting the boot.

>>6743682
wonder which aryan man fathered his son

>>6743682
>"progressive" author
>all the women in his book exist to get dicked by the MC

>>6732524
sounds nice. I agree with this guy about the name though:
>>6732573

>>6744138
Simply losing the apostrophe would make it much better.

>>6743682
I cringe so hard thinking about how I used to like this guy back when I first read the books in early 2012 and didn't know any better

>>6740942
But the The Heroes is the best one, you should read that. Best Served Cold is the worst one, don't ignore the second just because it sucked.

>>6744322
We're talking about the new trilogy. Of course I've read The Heroes. Best Served Cold is fucking great and probably my favourite Abercrombie book.

Dunno if this is the thread to ask fellas. But can the martian still be obtained for free?

>>6744771
dont know, but it's a shit book anyway

>>6728177
>What SF/F books are you currently reading

Use of Weapons by Banks

>What is your favorite Leiber story?

Still on my shelf, haven't started any Leiber stuff yet.

>>6728476
>Whats a underrated book/series you believe deserves more acclaim

The End of Eternity

>Whats your favorite SFF book pre 1950

Not much pre-50's scifi I've read. maybe Heinlein's short stories. For fantasy it's probably

>Whats your favorite SFF book after 2010

Some of the D&D stuff is quite good, can't really pick out any favorites though.
Nothing from Sci-fi comes to mind. The last 2 Culture novels were written in 2010 and 2012, let's see how they are when I get there.

>Who writes the best war scenes

Graham McNeil I guess.

>Favorite magic system

D&D or The Dark Eye.

>Favorite setting

The Culture for Sci-fi, The Dark Eye for fantasy.

>Favorite protag

Andrew Harlan from The End of Eternity, very relatable. Most of Asimov's protagonists are very relatable, they're never supermen.

>Best written female character

Friday from the eponymous novel.

>T. H. White
>Gene Wolfe
>Tolkien

Anyone else as good as those guys when it comes to fantasy, /lit/?

Also any arthurian recommendations?

>>6745739
You read Wizard Knight yet?

>>6745756

No, just the full Solar Cycle and Fifth Head of Cerberus.

>>6745782
Wizars Knight is Genes take on Arthurian legend, read it.

Roadside Picnic

>>6745836
>your next task will be: spout a title that randomly comes to mind

>>6744693
Oh damn I didn't check which of my posts you replied to and mixed things up.

>Best Served Cold is fucking great and probably my favourite Abercrombie book
That's weird, I think it's the worst. I just hate how Abercrombie can only write one type of female protagonist, they're all too edgy and have nothing but "muh vengeance" going for them.

>>6744943
>For fantasy it's probably

Probably what?

>>6728608
Malazan book of the fallen

>>6745988
Really? Does much of the story have that kind of setting or is it just in some part of the books?

Hey /lit/ I want a long ass series I can sink my teeth into, any suggestions?

>>6746002
I don't know what that anon was referring to. That description doesn't describe Malaz, Darujhistan, Aren, Capustan, Black Coral, Lether, or the Hiroth village - i.e. most major cities in the novels. And the majority of the series takes place in non-urban settings.

So no, would not recommend for Venice-style stories.

>>6743657
started off good

as it progresses it becomes more and more clear the author is a delusional psychopath

Goddamnit I really like fantasy books but I can't stand having more than 1 POV and only 5% of the books only have 1 POV

life is suffering

>>6729298
The Tower of the Elephant

>>6746662
what kind of stuff do you like? epic/adventure, dark/gritty, mercenaries/underworld etc

>>6743682
Hasn't everyone talked about how his MC is a huge Mary Sue?

>>6747957
Most people are blind to it because so many Fantasy readers don't really know good writing, so they think Rothfuss is good because his language is pseudo-flowery.

>>6728476
>>6728848
The best magic system comes from the Nasuverse, because Nasu actually understands mysticism and doesn't 'scientify' it like other fantasy writers. Although he likes to explicate on semantically obscure stuff a lot, it really captures the feel of what its like to harness dense transcendent power. The highest order mages in the Nasuverse really feel like beings whose conception of normal reality has been so warped that they on the borderline between the transcendent and the immanent.

That's what I find the problem with a magic system is. Placing it in an empirical framework kind of kills the idea of Magic as touching what a philosophically idealist reality (in the Borges Tlon sense) would be like.

>>6745925
But all the rest of the POV characters in that book are based. Also I'm sucker for a revenge story. If I was talking objectively I would say The Heroes is technically better, but for personal preference I'd go with BSC.

>>6728177
Stanislaw Lem's Imaginary Magnitude.

Golem is probably the scariest story I have read in the world. It's a sermon about scientifically plausible philosophical pessimism. That makes it worse than all those 'proper' pessimists like Ligotti, Lovecraft and Schopenhauer. It also makes me want to be a computer.

Have anyone read the Lightbringer books by Brent Weeks?
How are they? Are they any good?

So uh weird topic I'm about to bring up but maybe people are more open to it since we're all on a pictureboard discussing taiwainese drawings

Anyone have recommendations for fantasy books to jerk off to? There's a scene in The Magicians where a chick gets raped by a 7 ft tall demigod and is forced to like it and I ended up fapping to it. It was weird and kinda refreshing to jerk off to pure text after years and years of visual porn

It seems most of the stuff I've read has young protags who fall in love with some chick and turn into super betas or sex just isn't mentioned at all so I'm looking for recommendations. I would figure considering the openess of the genre there would be some kinky shit out there

Are the Dragonlance books good?

>>6745946
the answer is given

>>6749274
>The Magicians

I have no contributions for you, anon, but would happily discuss this trilogy if anyone's interested.

For anyone unfamiliar with it, it's a pretty interesting read for anyone who grew up with Narnia and Harry Potter and really wished that they would find out they were a wizard or destined to be king of a magical fantasy land or whatever. It's a really bittersweet and sometimes outright vicious deconstruction of those dreams - magic doesn't solve your personal problems, being a wizard doesn't mean you are the hero and the chosen one, if you are an unhappy person who is eternallly disappointed with life, you will probably still be disappointed with Narnia. It's not without its flaws, but it's a pretty interesting read if you grew up on that kind of fiction.

>>6749274
Bakker has some pretty fucked up shit in his novels. I wouldn't jerk off to it myself but you sound like you might enjoy it.

Oh and Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan might also push your weird buttons.

Would like to re3commend to Spinward Fringe series of books. They're only on the kindle store but each book is about £2 and the firsat one is free.

Space opera with lots of interesting technology and intrigue going on.

>>>/reddit/

just stay there, you like it better anyway

>>6749008
Anyone?

>>6749008
>>6749381
No sorry

>>6749311
is not

>>6749502
Haha! That cat looks confused.

Maybe it was? Who knows how a cat thinks!

>>6729160
go to libgen.org. download each book as you read them
having mass collections of backlogs is the worst habit that 4chan implants

Just finished 'Grass' by Sheri S. Tepper, and I was rather disappointed with it. I read on because I was intrigued, but I didn't actually care. I thought the characters were awful and it never really made me think, despite appearing to have a lot of thinking material on theology.

Next i'm going to read 'The Word for World Is Forest' by Le Guin, not really sure what to expect but it's a nice short one before I finally get around to 'Dune', excited for that one.

Thought it was a funny coincidence these three books appear to take place on planets named after a biome/geographical feature.

>>6749502
well I haven't really read any pre-1950 fantasy except for the hobbit

>>6728231
No Titus Groan?

>>6750909
check again

>>6749274
You liked the Fox God scene too? I didn't fap to it but I did get a weird boner....

Other weird boners include:
>The Prince of Nothing Trilogy
>The Black Jewels trilogy
>Lolita lel, not fantasy per say but I did get weird boners
>American Gods
>The Broken Empire Series
>Casual Vacancy {spoiler] lel
>Cold Fire Trilogy... although I expected some hawt cat on priest sex..and they didn't deliver....
>The first law trilogy has scenes... but I can't recall if i got boners from them or not
If you want some hardcore shit, get Anita Blake Series after the Obsidian Butterfly books.

>>6742520
>>6742744
Anyone else thoughts on this?
Think you guys can make a novel out of it?

What are some good Sci-Fi books based around Starfighters?

>>6732239
Donald E. Westlake wrote some good pulpy sci-fi books.
If you like lansdale you'll love Westlake

Anyone read this? I find the premise interesting.

>>6751000
Ah, thank you.

>>6749324
I didn't like the first one very much outside of one really good scene that was my favorite from the whole trilogy because the characters were so unlikable, but I thought each book got better and they did actually do a damn good depiction of a depressed person. Overall it was probably a series I wouldve hated if I read them one by one with a years wait inbetween but reading them all at once was enjoyable

Did you see they're doing a TV show for it? I'll probably end up checking that out to see if its any good

>>6751026
Weird boner is a good way to describe it. Thanks for the recs, a few of those like American Gods Ive been meaning to read but some of the others I would've never heard of probably

I have read Broken Empire and First Law but don't remember too much there in the first, maybe a scene with Jorg and Chella at the end of emperor. Might've got a boner from Logan and the demon chick but damn it's been a long time, can't remember

I can't take this shit anymore, does Croaker get cucked? Im reading the books of the south and I just have this awful feeling Lady's gonna fuck one of the black dudes or something since Croaker won't just do with it with her

>>6746662
Cherryh has a lot of books with really narrow "you will only be told what this one character is aware of/thinking" perspective.

>>6729321

Because most people who read fantasy are literal children without the faintest understanding of the roots of the genre beyond "tolkien invented fantasy xD", or really without even a real interest in fantasy beyond slamming a bunch of mediocre best-sellers to waste time. without Eddison there would be no Tolkien, and for that matter probably no Conan, but apathy of modern audiences has condemned him to the same obscurity as Dunsany, Hodgson, or Lindsay.

based Hyperion artwork

Has any read The Prince of Nothing series? How is it?

>>6752759
nah, Croaker gets his dick wet. the result ain't too good though

>>6746662
Have you read Robin Hobb's farseer trilogy? It's all first person from one perspective.

>>6752830
I tried to. After 50 pages, and he was still introducing new characters roughly every couple of pages with horrible unpronounceable names, I quit.
I'm not a masochist. Masochists might enjoy his books, however.

>>6752830

it's okay. it definitely feels a bit like some guy read ASOIAF and was like "this is cool, but not grim or dark enough" and then put pen to paper, but it's considerably better written than plenty of contemporary stuff. My other big point of reference for it is Dune, oddly enough, it really captures the same weird "oriental" feel. The world in general is well built and has some genuine mystique/atmosphere to it. There's interesting villains. Hero is a bit of a dong but he's not like, Kvothe levels of annoying where you just want him to fuckoff out of the story already. My biggest peeve about it is the diacritical marks out the ass. You can hardly turn a page without reading about Ñíg'gërfâgghött, son of Kokhänbäłłz. It's much better than your average doorstopper epic but damn, dude needs to tone that down.

>>6752830
It made me feel dirty and question my sexuality... it also make me ask my self if i got a 10/10 qt trap/tranny from /lgbt/ would I fuck it and walk around public with it.

>>6752759
READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
croaker gets pussy and turns a god

Finally finished The Broken Empire.

Not sure how I feel about the epilogue, feels like Lawrence couldn't let Jorg go in the end, whatever his afterword says.

>>6749276
I couldn't get into them. I don't even know where the starting point is, if there is one, so I just started at book 1 of some kind of Dragonlance series and didn't manage to make it very far into it.

I lost interest after a half elf beheaded like 3 guys at once while doing a back flip.

Can anyone tell me which Arthur C. Clarke books are worth reading? I don't have Rendezvous with Rama or 2001 yet, but I have a lot of his small novels like Childhood's End (which I enjoyed). Are any of the others worth reading through?

>>6752857
>>6752985
Fucking hell

I didn't read the spoilered part since the first post seemed to be spoilery enough already. Before either though I got impatient and skipped ahead a bit and saw the part where they finally do it. I was content, then I saw that post say it goes bad/the result isnt good and now I have a bigger worry knot in my stomach than I did before

I wish I knew why the fuck I cared so much. What the hell does it matter to me if Croaker and Lady live happily ever after? They're not even real for christ sake. The book isn't even really about that type of romantic crap, its just one small part of it and Im reading like its the most important thing

I used to read manga in my teen years and I would laugh and laugh at the shippers and character pairings people obsessed over since it all seemed like the dumbest shit in the world. Flash forward and I'm in my mid 20s and I'm sitting here worried like a teenage girl wondering what's gonna happen between them

Now as I go back to reading I'm sitting here waiting for something bad to happen the whole time. I dont know why I had to turn into such a romantic faggot that cares about these things but its awful. Sorry for the blogpost

>>6752961
You should feel dirty, there are no females in the books
everyone is male
enjoy being a faggot
>muh black seed

>>6752818
Aside from Shrike fuckery, Hyperion sounds like quite a nice place to live.
Would've loved to see what the City of Poets was like in its heyday.

>>6749008
Yeah i read all three, finished the third one about a month ago. I guess they are okay, the writing is better than in The Night Angel and i definitely found them more enjoyable. The Lightbringer series feels kinda like a more edgy Sanderson.
In conclusion if you want a fun read with lots of action and a few pretty cool characters go ahead and try it.

>>6728674
>I know it is, and I've visited it twice you asshole.

Smelliest city on Earth, wasnt it? Like there is an open sewage drain near you, wherever you sit.

>>6752830
Yeah I love it, one of my favourite series. Not for everyone, though. Captures the "epic" feel more better than any other modern fantasy does. Bakker's normal "good guy" characters are pretty boring, but his psychopaths and freaks (which make up about half the POVs) are brilliant. Worldbuilding owes a lot to Tolkien on surface level but there's a much more complex history behind it, and the metaphysical aspects are deeper than any other fantasy novel I've come across. The major con would be the endless fucking philosophy. Shame the next book has been delayed for years due to a shit publisher.

>>6728623
>>6728674
>>6754067
>americans

>>6754117
European actually. And Venice does stink.

>>6754121
Europe isn't a country m8. Why the fuck would you identify as European?

>>6754121
Assassin's Creed 2 isnt even set in Venice what the fuck are you talking about?

>>6754124
Because an anonymous faggot on a Taiwanese shemale forum called me American.
And whichever nation in Europe I name, there will be a few people from the neighboring nations who will dismiss my posts based on internet slack-patriotism.

>>6754130
Dont care, havent played it. Just said Venice stinks, which it does.

>>6754121
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firenze

>>6754135
What the fuck are you on about mate.

What fucking country are you from?

I'm from the UK, yet if someone asks where I'm from I wouldn't say Europe because I'm not a mong

>>6754141
latvia

>>6754148
Wasn't so hard was it

>>6754141
You wouldnt say you are from Europe because of some trendy rebel phase your country is going through.

I am from Bulgaria, not Latvia as the other person claimed.
Now try to stay true to yourself and not dismiss my posts based on some poor gypsies you've seen in London who call themselves bulgarian as well, as if their stupidity affects me.

>>6754165
>Now try to stay true to yourself and not dismiss my posts based on some poor gypsies you've seen in London who call themselves bulgarian as well, as if their stupidity affects me.

Oh pull yourself together honestly. Why would I dismiss your posts based on where you're from? Even on /int/ where we constantly take the piss out of each other it doesn't work like that.

Grow up mate

>>6754175
>Oh pull yourself together honestly.
>Grow up mate.

What left you with the impression that I am upset?

>>6754178
>People might be mean to me if I tell them where I'm from ;_;

Also neither pull yourself together nor grow up imply you're upset, just that you're acting like an idiot.

You should be proud to be Bulgarian mate, not fucking cover it up because of gypsies.

What do you think of Ti con Zero by Calvino?

>>6754181
>People might be mean to me if I tell them where I'm from ;_;

Things I never said: Vol 2?
I explained why I'd rather say I am from Europe when accused of being American, instead of naming my nation.
Its based on historical precedence, not feelings. People seem to treat my posts better when they cant insult me based on nationality.

I am not a patriot or nationalists or any such thing, and I dont get upset by insults based on it, but I do get annoyed that the discussion moves from whatever was talked about to shit flinging /pol/ style.

>>6754197
>People seem to treat my posts better when they cant insult me based on nationality.

Who on earth do you talk that act like that? Even on 4chan you get banter but people are not spiteful.

>>6754165
qj kur putio

>>6754231
>Even on 4chan
Especially on 4chan.

>>6754248
Ha мaйкa ти y пyткaтa.

>>6754253
Maybe you just get easily offended and can't handle the bants tbh.

>>6754257
Things I never said: Vol 3.
I am not offended. I am only stating facts.
Very often people will drop whatever we were arguing with and start insulting me based on the place I was born instead.
This does nothing to offend me, but it does plenty to ruin the discussion.

Since I dont want my discussions ruined, like this one was for example, I'd rather not mention where I am from.

>>6754266
stop talking

>>6754266
Sorry my intent wasn't to have a go at you, I just think it's stupid hiding your nationality. People will insult you regardless of where you're from on 4chan, you just have to ignore it.

>>6744943
>>Whats a underrated book/series you believe deserves more acclaim
>The End of Eternity
Couldn't agree more

>>6754266
c u c k
u
c
k

sreji si venite, priqtel

>Finish Shadow Games, 1st "Book of the South"
>that fucking huge ass cliffhanger
>can't control myself, take a peek at the first page of the next one even though I wont be starting it until tomorrow
>Mfw first thing I see is the bottom right corner "Lady, Annalist, Captain"

Oh jesus fuck this is gonna be a wild ride isnt it

>>6754231
>Even on 4chan you get banter but people are not spiteful
Visit /pol/ sometime.

I don't personally have anything against /pol/ (like a lot of shitposters who will attribute everything in a certain topic or subject to be because of /pol/) so that is not an influencing variable, but lurk around for a bit and you'll notice a lot of shitposting against people strictly due to their country.

>X thread
>person replies with post related to X
>one or multiple replies to that person with ad-homs and other forms of shitposting based off their flag

>>6754420
Wait until the Books of Glittering Stone, anon.

Water sleeps.

I finished reading this about a year ago and I haven't really found another book that hooked me into it as much as this one in a long time. I have read some good books and some great books since then - but none that made me stay up really late on a work night to keep reading.

Any recommendations from /lit/ on something similar? I have also read the original Mistborn books, and though good, something about this one hooked me a lot more.

>>6754425
>Visit /pol/ sometime
There's your problem, /pol/ simply doesn't lend itself to a reasonable debate.

>>6754455
You could read Sanderson's other works.

I think we get Shadows of Self around October, then we'll get... Bands of Mourning(?) around February.

>>6754459
See, you're showing that inherent bias I was referring to in my previous post.

It's difficult to find a reasonable debate all across the website.

>>6754425
>Visit /pol/ sometime.

/pol/ is quite literally, without overestimating, just /b/ 2.0.
Many threads are spammed, most with few responses, everything is reposted all over the place, and if you disagree with the circlejerk you are insulted until you leave.

>>6754467
>/b/ 2.0
/v/ holds that honor, and always has.

>>6754475
/v/ holds that honor as a figure of speech, as a critique on it.
/pol/ is actually the same as /b/. Not as a joke, not as a critique, not overestimating.
If you showed me random screeencaps from both boards I wouldnt be able to tell which are from where.

>>6754117
Second post is me, I'm Finnish.

>>6754466
Oh I didn't even realize that he was going to continue the second Mistborn series. Last I looked into it he was still musing over the idea of keeping it a 1 off or not. Thats very exciting to hear that its coming out this year as well. Thanks anon!

I have looked into a few of his other works and I have kicked around the idea of picking up Legion as well as Steelheart. But I was kind of hoping for perhaps another author to explore as well.

>>6754478
/v/ has its too-large share of pure off-topic /b/-esque posting too, anon, but we can agree to disagree.

>>6754489
Yeah he decided to turn it into a trilogy a while back and then when he was writing the AoL sequel, he accidentally another sequel in the process. So for Mistborn, we know we'll have:
>original trilogy
>the four Mistborn Adventures books
>modern trilogy
>future trilogy
I have a feeling he'll end up writing Mistborn books in between modern and future, too.

>>6754504
Well he did give himself 300 years of wiggle room for stuff to happen in - so its possible.

>>6754510
And there's ~300 years in-between Mistborn -> Adventures (along with some other books as well) but he's a writing factory so it's bound to happen.

so it has been 6 years since i last read a book( i was like 16 and into generic fantasy like all the plebs).

i am bored and want some fun, while also improving my english since i am not an english speaker.

are the harry dresden books any fun( /v/ suggested me it)? the whole catch of an esoteric wizard detective sounds cool to me, better than "the chosen one saved the fantasy realm again" for sure.

i am ok with not extremely mature stuff but i am not in to read things that has been written for a mentally 14 years old stylewise (like the first 3 HP books for example).

>>6754433
Soldiers live, and wonder why

>>6754617
I think "water sleeps" is one of my favorite phrases or mottos in fiction. Something about it just gets me rock-hard, especially once you find out what it really means.

>tfw Sanderson, Butcher, Hearne and Weeks are months or years away from another release

>tfw you have to read shitty low end stuff to fill the time and void

>>6754857
>not reading hard sci-fi
It's like a whole new world.

>>6754879
Currently read Rogues, after that I am reading the Polity series, I also read the quantum thief and I have one more book each for the Shadow Ops and The long price quartet.

>Ctrl + F
>No Vectors by McDowell
>Nothing by Del Rey
/lit/, I r disappoint

>>6729890
In Neo West Philadelphia

Is Snow Crash worth a try if I usually prefer urban fantasy to science fiction? I've read the first few pages and I'm not super impressed.

>>6755097
Someone said it was about ninja pizza delivery guys.

>>6755104
that is pretty damn accurate so far. When I read it I felt like I was drowning in in ironic 90's culture. I secretly suspect Neil Stephenson is actually a pen name for one of the Strider brothers. To top it all off, the MC's name is Hero Protagonist, but he refers to himself in the narration as "The Deliverator"

How this is considered one of the greatest works of modern sci-fi is beyond me

I think I'm just going to go for urban fantasy.

should I give the yiddish policeman's union a shot? I like noir and I enjoyed the golem and the jinni, but I'm hesitant for no really good reason

>>6755070

Never heard of it. I'm working my way through classic sci-fi. Lem is next on the list.

>>6755125
Fuck, i thought Snow Crash might be better than Neuromancer but it doesn't sound like it.
I think cyberpunk might not be for me.

Has anyone ever seen these? Found a couple of them in my apartment complex's library. Was thinking of maybe trying to buy some online.

>>6755505
And yeah fuck idk why it keeps posting my pictures sideways.

>>6729890
>[name of character] was a spy

>>6755125
i don't think you'll like snow crash if you don't find hiro protagonist's name as funny, or at least amusing. neil stephenson's books aren't all that serious and they're usually full to the brim with references to everything. you sound like you're expecting it to be far too serious.

>>6755505
yeah i've seen a few before, haven't bought any though. they're at the local book store i go to.

>>6751026
>per say

>>6754194
Calvino is fantastic all around. The Complete Cosmicomics has t zero and a bunch of other stuff

>>6754124
Probably German. Germans have been brainwashed to identify as european before german to stamp out nationalism.

>>6728511
mah nigga

Bump

Are all Heinlein books written in 1st person? I've read The Puppet Masters, Starship Troopers, The Moon is a harsh Mistress and Friday and all were in 1st person. Not that I mind that, they were top notch, I'm just wondering though.

>>6755125
Snow Crash is not for you.

>>6755482
You probably shouldn't dismiss an entire sub-genre that easily.

>>6754857
This has to be bait.

>>6759170
>any opinion that doesn't mesh with my own is bait

o-okay

>>6729302
Do you have the same for SF Masterworks?

So is the Name of the Wind good? I get triggered by SJW shit though so I'll give it a miss if it's pushing an agenda.

Is the Dark Tower good? Only King I've read was
The Shining.

What is your favourite stand-alone fantasy or scifi novel?

I want a good read but I don't want to devote the rest of my life to it.

>>6761322
lmao u nerd

>>6761322
It's great. The only reason you see people on /lit/ criticising it is because they're trying to look cool.

It's a lot of fun and a refreshing take on the traditional fantasy story, with an unreliable narrator and a look at how stories and legends get distorted over time.

>>6761398
is the last "The Dark Tower" books that bad?

>>6728268
What the dick do generals have to do with reddit? We've had /vg/ for a long while.

Halfway through Fellowship and it's really, really picking up. Tom Bombadil chapters were fucking neato.

>>6761322
If you like generic babbys first Fantasy with a Gary Stu protag, then by all means.

>>6761379
They're worth a read. Interesting elements.

>>6743456
No, please don't. A friend bought that for me, suffice it to say we are longer friends.

>>6761784
Too late, ive already bought the Trilogy and im on the second book.
First one was ok. kinda interesting characters

This whole thread is pure ideology.

>>6749370
I'll bite, self promoter.

>>6728231
What's the difference between Epic Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery?

>>6728177
Just finished Echopraxia by Peter Watts.
I still don't see how Dan's mind growing sharper and faster is it coming undone and killing the conscious state. There was nothing to imply that except the afterword, but that was after Dan had already killed himself, and why would Portia revive brain cells it didn't need, right?

>>6762571
Difference between LOTR and Conan, if you want a list go to wikia or tvtropes.

>>6762583
Thanks. Forgot tvtropes existed.

>>6761322
>So is the Name of the Wind good?
I don't know, but you will probably enjoy it. If that counts as being good, then yes. It's the book that got me reading fantasy and scifi again, after years avoiding it.

>tfw you finish Pushing Ice

>>6761634
enjoy the landscapes

>>6759920
No, it's that you think anything outside of those four authors is "shitty low end" stuff.

>>6761322
It's mediocre. You'll probably enjoy it more if you're new to the genre.

>>6761379
It's very hit & miss but worth a try.

Someone who can think of good questions please make the next thread.

>>6742520
>>6742957
Are any writerfags gonna take a swing at this?

I want to know how long I will have to wait to get a copy.

>>6763764
>No, it's that you think anything outside of those four authors is "shitty low end" stuff.

Listfag here I read a bunch of shit and still got a lot more on my plate. It's just those 4 rarely leave me filled with a void after I finished their books.

>>6764011
Just wrote it but accidentally deleted the word document, sorry m8.

New thread
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>>6764130
>>6764011
My dog ate my copy. Really sorry man.