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Have you or are you planning to read any horror related books this month?

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>> No.16597806

What do I read if I want stuff like Nasu's works (Tsukihime, Fate/SN, KnK) but with less instances of retarded writing?

>> No.16597827

Fuck E William Brown

Also>>16597767
Why her nipples hard?

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Ship of Fools - Richard Paul Russo (2001)
~370 pages, science fiction horror in space.

Reading starts on the 18th in the discord, this thread, wherever.

/sffg/ ratings:
5 stars: 2
3 stars: 1

Download:
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>> No.16597928

>>16597827
She's high in the atmosphere and it's cold.
>>16597844
This looks fun. I finally submitted my application to join the group btw.

>> No.16598072

I'm currently reading the second book of the chronicles of the black company trilogy. I plan on at least finishing it but there are a lot more books on that series. Should i bother with then? and for that matter should I bother with the prequel/sequel/in between book that have been released more recently like Port of Shadows or tides elba? I'm liking the books so far but it's nothing mind blowing.

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BTFO

>> No.16598295

>>16597806
DI

>> No.16598366

>>16598122
Imagine being so insecure you have to invent a conspiracy to justify liking one genre over another.

>> No.16598458

>>16598072
Finish the trilogy at least. It gets worse and a bit silly after that but still worth reading if you're really into it.
Port of Shadows is great and worth reading if you want to know some of the backstory of the Dominion and the Lady, its on par with the first trilogy imo. You can read this at any point.
Silver Spike doesn't really add anything besides an end to the characters that leave the company in the third book.

>> No.16598543

What are the best audiobooks adaptions for books?

I really enjoyed the first law Joe Abercrombie series because Steven Pacey is an excellent performer.

Any other high quality readings?

>> No.16598656

>>16598122
Dude I like Conan too, but Howard blew his brains out. That alone disqualifies him not only from life but from chadness too.

>> No.16598760

>>16598366
>sciencefag seething
>>16598656
suicide is honourable

>> No.16598781

>>16598122
>(((Asimov)))
big think, such shock.

>> No.16598869

The goddamn fucking cat.

>> No.16598887

>>16598543
I liked Jonathan strange and Mr Norrell audiobooks.

>> No.16598922

>>16598543
Kate Reading & Michael Kramer are really good and do a lot of work together. they've done the wheel of time and all(?) of brandon sanderson books

>> No.16599038

>>16598543
Senlin Ascends
Spaceman of Bohemia
stuff read by John Lee

>> No.16599044
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What shit you cunts reading?

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>>16599044
Recently started The Fisherman. It has a slow start, but just finished chapter 3 and it's finally drawing me in.

>> No.16599067

>>16599061
This book was SHIT. Redditcore

>> No.16599075

>>16599067
What would you recommend instead?

>> No.16599099

>>16597844
Is it the closest we have to Event Horizon?

>> No.16599110

>>16599061
Good book, I was pleasantly surprised. The middle section is somewhat long, but it was my favorite part.

>> No.16599120

>>16599044
Death’s End, really like the first 2 three body problem books but i've heard this one shits the bed in the ending

>> No.16599144

>>16599044
Damn. I didn't know elephants were degenerate faggots too.

>> No.16599175

China Meiville is good and has made me sad that I do not have a bug gf

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>>16599110
Is the middle part the story told by the cafe owner about Dutchman's Creek? I've literally just started that section.
I'm joint reading it and listening to it via audiobook. Yesterday, I listened to the section where the two fishermen are in the dinner whilst it's lashing down with rain and the business owner has questioned them about the place they plan on going fishing. I was walking through some woodlands beside a river whilst listening to it - really added to the atmosphere of the scene.

>> No.16599237

>>16599075
Teatro Grottesco.

>> No.16599250

>>16599209
Yeah, the story about the settlement. It will be slow at first, but once it gets going it has some very good horror descriptions

>> No.16599261

>>16599237
I've read it and enjoyed it. Have vivid memories of reading a few chapters whilst the train I was travelling on was engulfed in an autumnal fog.

>> No.16599317

It's true what they say when you're young. Touching girls gives you cooties. I shared an icecream with a gril now I got herpes. Fuck girls and fuck fantasy that portrays them as delicate flowers.

>> No.16599360

>>16599175
>China Meiville is good
No Perdido Street Station is shit.
How can you accept that ending?

>> No.16599374

>>16599061
Dropped that shit with the first sentence, it's a joke

>> No.16599378

>>16599360
I gave up once he revealed the insectoid girlfriend. Good writer, but I couldn't accept such a reality. Does the book get better? I literally only got a few pages in.

>> No.16599384

Thoughts on Nevernight Chronicle series?

>> No.16599413

>>16599360
Ending seemed a little rushed but I liked it anyway, the best parts were the goings-on in the city. The fishmen going on strike and the body horror human trafficking were cool, and I liked the self-examination virus that made machines sentient.

>> No.16599430

>>16599378
>Does the book get better?
Fuck no. Meiville jerks his ebin writings skill way too hard. Before the grad battle he has side-characters lay some somewhat relevant wire work in the city for a good 20 pages delaying everything and blowing the already dragging story further out of proportion.
And the ending and resolution of the character arc the MC takes was frankly insulting to me.

>>16599413
It has cool elements yes. The interdimensional spiders for example are really cool and the sentient machine garbage pile was also quite good. Or cactus people. Pretty rad.
But all that stuff didn't make the main story any more bearable to me.

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Got this today - what am in for bros?

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>finished my unexpectedly grimdark book which was a nice treat
>started A Thousand Li
>6 chapters in and liking it more than I thought
It feels good probably because it's written in English right off the bat but I don't like the continuing adherence to gook names. I hate this shit when I read manhwa because the names are needlessly difficult to keep track of. It definitely feels similar to early Cradle and maybe a little DEra/CDragon with the setting/events/background thus far.
>tfw went ahead, sifted my wishlist (keeps track of backlog), and added about 15 more books to the ol' Kindle
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I CAN'T STOP READING

>> No.16599645

Started reading Between Two Fires by Buehlman, pretty comfy so far. A brawly soldier dude is travelling with a little girl who keeps being a cheeky little fuck in an endearing way. Setting is Middle Age France and there's a plague brought on to humans by some fallen angels to test them or whatever.

>> No.16599667

>>16599317
Your fault for simping to some thot, normie.

>> No.16599716

Just started the Red Wolf Conspiracy, why is it never brought up? Its comfy naval fantasy.

>> No.16599773

>>16599459
its very good

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>>16593977
Finished part 3 of the first book of Hyperion. And I can already tell that this story won't come to a clean conclusion in this book alone. It's probably going to end on a cliffhanger. I mean, 3 parts made it to the halfway mark. And 3 more characters still have to tell their story. So yeah, I'm already guessing that book 2 will be required reading.

I really liked the third part. It was the poet's story. Or at least part of the poet's story. I feel like he left out A LOT of information. That is assuming he's telling the truth about half of it. But the story he did tell was far more interesting than the last.

I still don't know what's happening. But the way the poet kept emphasizing the shrike being his muse, made me think back to how the soldier fell in love with the sim girl, before she turned into a shrike like being. It makes me wonder if that wasn't her plan from the beginning. She needs someone to become infatuated with her, before she can ascend or something? Like the shrike need someone to conjure them with their own thoughts? IDK. It's just an interesting parallel between her and the poet's muse. Both Shrike beings killing on a human's behalf.

They keep mentioning these time tombs. And supposedly they're going back into the past??? I think this is somehow connected to the muse thing. The simulation was described more like a dream than an accurate simulation. There must be some connection between dreaming, time and travel, and it involves death. Oh yeah, and then there is the death and the true death. Could it be that the shrike are some kind of semi-dead state that can move through time via dreams? Afterall, the soldier mentioned how dreamy his whole experience with the sim girl was. And that dream state came about after a near death experience. hmmmmmm

I liked the poet city, or whatever it was called. You guys are probably going to crucify me for saying this, but it gave me a Dark Souls feel. Just this ancient opulent city that was occupied by godlike beings, until it was quickly abandoned and left to weather away. While the remaining residents went mad, and slowly died off one by one.

Can't help but to think there was some George Carlin influence with the whole part about only being able to speak 9 words, and they're all curse words.

I'm surprised by how much of the "web" the author foresaw when he wrote this. Like, the book isn't super old. The internet was technically around when the book came out. But to project it's uses as far as he did is impressive. Or maybe he just made up magical mumbo jumbo and technology simply evolved to match it. Either way, it's pretty cool.

>> No.16599921

>only readily available copy of Dying Earth is some cheap soft cover abomination
Why? It makes it look all retarded with some elf woman chopping the head off her clone

>> No.16600052

have there been any good stand alone fantasy books in the last 10 years that weren't written by Guy Gavriel Kay or China Mieville?

>> No.16600361

>>16598869
Fucking moron

>> No.16600428

Just finished Snow Crash, can't decide whether or not it's good overall. The tone almost stopped me from reading it in the first 20 or so pages. Anyone else read any Neal Stephenson books?

>> No.16600706

>>16599061
Really good book, don't listen to the naysayers.

>> No.16600721

>>16598295
What's that?

>> No.16600724

>>16600428
Snow Crash is a very fun cheesy book. Diamond Age is a sequel (set in the same universe many years later), with a more serious tone. Loved both.

>> No.16600828

>>16600052
What you are asking is to be given random standalones.

>> No.16601194

What you guys expecting to come out in 2020?

>> No.16601244

>>16597767
Are Brandon Sanderson's WoT books better or worse than his usual writing? Asking because I'm finishing up Mistborn and it's basically the bare minimum standard that I would tolerate for the final WoT books.

>> No.16601283

>>16600052
Adrian Tchaikovsky has a few.

>> No.16601382

>>16601244
If you're reading WoT you have no standards

>> No.16601386

Do I need to read other stuff before Neuromancer?

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>>16597767
I have a question. Is there a book out there that has the idea of "Humanity is ok and rampant with cloning. During this, people have discovered the holy grail with Christ's blood still in it. Scientists use the dna to clone Jesus, but the clone turns into the antichrist since it is not the original jesus?"

>> No.16601435

>>16601386
no. if you want to you could read PKD's "do androids dream of electric sheep" for proto cyberpunk, or read asimov/clarke to see what cyberpunk was responding to. but you don't have to.

>> No.16601449

>>16597767
Can you stop reading Dune after Children or do you have to read God Emperor as well? I finished Messiah and recently and am gonna take a break from the series but depending on how I like Children might not go all in for a 4th book

>> No.16601637

Is Guy Gavriel Kay worth reading? Which book should I start with?

>> No.16601641

>>16601449
>can you stop reading dune?
Yes, ideally as soon as possible.

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thoughts?

>> No.16601690

>>16601669
The princess is insufferable. But other than her all the other POVs were good. Enjoyable and worth the read.

>> No.16601709

>>16601410
several, do your research

>> No.16601715

>>16601690
Currently on the third book. I really like Aspar POV chapters but I wish the party wasn't immediately split up at the beginning of the book when we just had them together at the end of Book 2

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Did anyone here ever watch PRISONERS OF GRAVITY?

>> No.16601805

>>16600721
I was half joking, it's Dies Irae. It's almost an exact copy of Fate.

>> No.16601810

>>16601449
Either you stop at Messiah, or go all the way through Children and God Emperor.

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>>16601449
God Emperor is the ending.

>> No.16601845

>>16601637
Just get some historic fiction or historical novels.

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>>16599919
Finished part 4. The jew's story. Or I guess he would be the scholar. I seriously thought his story was going to be boring, but then it ended up being the most emotional. I actually felt for his and his family's situation. There were a couple of emotional gut punches in his tale. Absolutely fascinating.

So more stuff about dreams have come up. But interestingly, this is the only chapter so far with a slight PoV shift.
Twice we get Rachel's perspective.(Sorry if I'm misspelling her name. Audiobook and all) The jew couldn't have known what happened to Rachel inside the Sphinx, and yet he gets a detailed account. That's part of the dream Rachel's mom had, and she never shared it in full with her husband. She only shared a bit of it. Enough to let the reader know that she knew what happened to Rachel. So while we are being told the story from the Father's perspective, we are getting the mother's perspective too. Also, in the mother's dream, the father is there with her. While in the Father's dream, he is alone. This suggests some kind of one-way connection. And it could account for how the father can tell events that he's never seen, without realizing that he's never seen it. Because he HAS seen it, but he doesn't know he's seen it.

I know that sounds crazy. But this whole story is crazy, and I'm just trying to make sense of it.

Anyway. I think the voice the jew calls god is actually his own voice from the future. Kind of a wild prediction, I know. Probably totally wrong. But I'm thinking this whole party will eventually enter the time tombs. Wherein, they will exist in all times at once through the medium of dreams. And the jew will reach out to himself and put himself on the journey to take Rachel to the time tombs.

The baby is important somehow. But I have no clue how. I guess she needs to reach a state where she regresses so far, that she's teatering on non-existence, and that will allow her to exist in all times through dreams. She's already like a walking time tomb herself.


So yeah, I'm still liking it. Wacky story. Hope it's leading somewhere nice. Pic semi-related.

>> No.16601938

I haven't really read anything since like, February. What notable stuff have I missed? Both big (I know there's a new Dresden book finally) and small would be appreciated.

>> No.16602029

>>16601938
New cradle book, 2 Dresden books.

>> No.16602218

>>16597806
Give Malazan a try.

>> No.16602227

>>16599044
I'm really wondering if elephants do this shit in wild too.

>> No.16602273
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I’m working on my fantasy book and I’m having a hard time feeling like it’s worth it.

>> No.16602296

>>16602227
Are you implying that they were trained to eat ass by humans?

>> No.16602441

>>16601386
Maybe the stories from Burning Chrome to know a bit about Molly's backstory, but it's not necessary.
>>16601637
I only read Tigana and I found his prose pretentious. Some people swear it's great.
The premise, straight out of some fairy tale, was dumbed down by the characters and their faggy feelings. A bunch of magic refugees/resistance fighters overly sentimental.
I plan to read Lions of Al Rassan some day because I like the Moorish Spain aesthetic a lot from reading Mio Cid, but I have too many better things to read.

>> No.16602500

>>16602273
figure out what's wrong with it and retool it. you may have to make deep cuts but that happens.

>> No.16602644

>>16601805
I actually tried to play it recently but I dropped it without even finishing the prologue because the insane edginess of it and the generic rock music they had playing over people dying in a battle they can't win. Is the whole VN like that?
>>16602218
I'll check it out, thanks.

>> No.16602709

>>16602644
It is over the top yeah, but the most interesting part of DI isn't its fight, but its characters, especially the villains. If you're able to, try to finish at least one route and decide whether you like the characters or not.

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books with this theme?

>> No.16602733

reading the wheel of time in french and its perfect that mf just describes every hand movement. What are other good books for language learning

>> No.16602773

>>16602709
Alright, will do. Thanks

>> No.16602795

>>16602713
Neuromancer, to some extent I guess.

>> No.16602855

>>16599716
I liked it but I had no interest in the rest of the series by the time I got to the ending.

>> No.16602860

>>16602733
Read that french series some anon talks about every now and then and bemoans not being translated

>> No.16602947 [DELETED] 

>>16597767
>discord
Thanks for that you trannies

>> No.16603020 [DELETED] 

>>16598760
>suicide is honourable
t. tranny

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okay /lit/ redpill me on fantasy.
Is Tolkien the peak of fantasy? If not who'd you consider top 3 with their best work?
Does good fantasy always has to come with forced worldbuilding?
Is Wheel of Time overrated?

>> No.16603056

>>16603040
No, stop being a retard and form your own opinions instead of parroting what other people think.

>> No.16603072

>>16603020
Samurai commited suicide and they were not trannies. Actually, they were more manly and 'redpilled' than your average chud. Educate yourself, /pol/.

>> No.16603078 [DELETED] 

>>16603072
Samurai were overrated garbage soldiers, proto-trannies.

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anyone read this? the old paperback covers caught my attention awhile back

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>>16603078
You seem to see trannies everywhere. Do you also see trannies in your dreams? Do you wake up with a hard pp and sticky stuff on our pants after having nightmares about those disgusting trannies forcing you to do yucky things?

>> No.16603108 [DELETED] 

>>16601709
Stop taking hormones and start acting like a person

>> No.16603124 [DELETED] 

>>16603107
>You seem to see trannies everywhere.
I answered your reply were you brought up trannies with samurai. I know it hurts but suicide makes you a faggot. Especially if you are a mommy's boy.

>> No.16603173 [DELETED] 

>>16603108
Stop being a chud before you rek yourself

>> No.16603174 [DELETED] 

>>16603173
go back to rebbit

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>>16602273
It's okay anon, you will find joy as long as you don't give up.

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>>16603194
What happened in the eleventh chapter?

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>>16603106
Yes, I have. Here’s the original (deluxe?) cover Morris made himself.
Volume I? In total it like 566 pages.

>> No.16603687

Who is the fucking choice of magic shill?
This is some YA shit isn't it? The protag is an underage ban, that is highly suspect. This Micheal Manning fellow is known for his kiddie books.

>> No.16604197

Who else burnt out on books?
I don't get hype for books any longer.

>> No.16604316

>>16604197
I sometimes get hype(rventilating) for breathing, but most of the time it's just regular boring breathing and yet I keep doing it anyway, so I know how you feel.

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Anybody else read Chateau Cascade? Legit the best fantasy novel I've read in years. Couldn't put it down

>> No.16604690

>>16604530
Of course you couldn't put it down. You're the author. if you put it down it would not have been completed.

>> No.16604709

>>16599459

>no I can't conquer the world with my lizardman slaves, it would make a girl I want to fuck sad

It's the worst Kane story

>> No.16604748

>>16598760
He commited suicide because he couldn't cope.

It came from a place of weaknees, not strength.

>> No.16604774

>>16604530
One of the worst things I've ever started

>> No.16604787

>>16603687
Book is shit. The King is Crazy.

>> No.16604928

>>16604530
Can confirm this is an undiscovered gem

>> No.16605031

>>16604928
>>16604530
Stop samefagging /advertising or the mods will have to get involved. Leave it as is, and just move on.

>> No.16605049

>>16602296
No, just boredom. Ever hear of "prison gay"? It's the same thing.

>> No.16605051

>>16602273
How many words is your manuscript up to?

>> No.16605065 [DELETED] 

>>16605031
Dilate

>> No.16605109

>>16599061
I quit that shit after 50 pages, unbearable King-tier crapola.

>> No.16605152

>>16604530
Why do they look like the sims 3 characters? Lmao, commission a better artist next time

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>>16605152
I don't think you know what sims 3 characters look like, anon

>> No.16605197

>>16605158
Well, they look only marginally less ugly. Especially the girl, the potato face is strong with her. I've played all sims games, still think 2 has the most aesthetic sims. 3 is potato face retards, 4 - just too cartoony.

>> No.16605252

>>16605197
I think you might be racist against Asian people lol

>> No.16605481

>>16597844
Part 1

A pleasurable melange of atmosphere and mystery that leaves me wanting to know much more.

> winged creature, severed chains, mysterious machinery activities, etc
"Spooky" stuff.

> protag allowed to live
Probably some important reason to be revealed, possibly not of the ruling class's own choosing.

> names
Lots of Italian/saint names, assumedly because of the Catholicism (?). Various other biblical names in various forms. Then some others.

> assuming MC is 30
Seems like a good assumption to me even without any basis for it.

> Wasteland and other places
The ship certainly has a lot of environs.

> no consensus of purpose or goal
Given the seeming religious parts, makes me wonder if it's related to the biblical wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.

> ruined Earth
Interesting that they knew where it was but no idea of how it was and or how long it had been that way, though apparently not long enough for the radiation to be no longer harmful.

> passion addict
Drugs for flavor or will it be more?

> 140 years old
If he's the oldest man, probably an outlier in age.

> conversion failure
Like a ship to random islands and being attacked by the natives.

> skate
Will they have more of a role later? I don't know.

> Cathedral: 1,476 feet long and and 410 feet high
Could easily fit the Statue of Liberty in there. Assuming 10 feet per story, that's a 40 story tall building. The ship must be rather sizable overall.

> 3 or 4 centuries ago
How long has it in total then? A millennia? More? Do they only actually guess? Their historians don't seem to be doing very well in preserving their history.

A Bourgeoise vs Proletariat setup.

> cut off all food and water
Serve or die.

I do quite enjoy reading about exploration such as this. Particularly the wonder and mystery of it.

> Father Veronica
Why Father? Did words change over time or is there some other reason?

> monster
I wouldn't be surprised if this is actually what they worship but they forgot about it or otherwise obscured. Maybe it's even on the ship. I assume the horror will come later, because not so much so far in the first part overall.

> harvesters
Depending on what "leviathan" means, especially if it's the biblical whale form rather than something more serpentine. I remember seeing something like metallic Dune worms that would devour a planet, but I don't remember what from.

> ghostlike form
SPOOKINESS

> Ossuary? Charnel house?
What a mysterious place.

> Locked up
and then when he is finally released, everything is different he'll be glad he was in there, safe from what was happening outside. Maybe.

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>>16597767
Reminder that the Discord listed in the op is controlled by a transgender pedophile & antifa/blm activist who bans anyone who doesn't share his politics. Join this one instead if you want to discuss sci fi / fantasy:

https://discord.gg/FXDaKEy

>> No.16605730 [DELETED] 

>>16605682
>joining any discords at all
no thanks, tranny

>> No.16605767 [DELETED] 

>>16605682
>>16604530
>first he shills his book and then his discord server
SHAMELESS!

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>>16605767
???

>> No.16605998 [DELETED] 

>>16605782
You told this person >>16605065 to dilate after they called you out rightfully for samefagging. And we all know that only the tranny lover loves to call people discord trannies and tell them to dilate, he also posts his discord whenever someone posts their own.

>> No.16606018

>>16597767

Trying to find a book about a young magician and its set in a city based on ancient Byzantium.

>> No.16606027

>>16605998
That poster is not me, retard.

>> No.16606318

>>16606018
Mask of the Sorcerer

>> No.16606635

>>16598458
Ok thanks, i guess i will do port of shadows after the second book finish the trilogy and go for something else next.

>> No.16606695

I just finished Lord of Light.
What was that bit at the end with Tak and Sam? Tak says something to him before leaving and Sam has a double-take. Is it implying he is Sugata? I'm confused by the authors intention here.

>> No.16606794

/sffg/, do you ever have the urge to write an extended scifi allegory for your own mental issues but then realize you don't know where it's going because you haven't gotten over those issues?

>> No.16606880

>>16606794
Books don't need endings, anon. Might make more sense as a short story or novella.

>> No.16606947

>>16606695
I don't think it was Sugata because after his enlightenment he wouldn't have wanted to go adventuring but rather teach. I think Sam had the inkling that Tak was his son.

>> No.16607134 [DELETED] 

>>16605031
Dilate

>> No.16607148

>>16606794
I'm doing it but with an absurdist fantasy setting

>> No.16607159

>>16601833
heretics of dune is amazing, it's a damn tragedy that he died not long after finishing chapterhouse, and it's a crime against humanity what his son and kevin j. anderson have done to his legacy.

>> No.16607209

>>16607134
are you vaginally obsessed or anally obsessed

>> No.16607234

>>16607148
shit, I'm literally doing the same thing.

I'm trying to figure out how to use a character's reaction to the apocalypse as a metaphor for my experiences with a mystery mental illness that may or may not be cyclothymia. The only problem is, I don't know where to go with it because I'm confident neither I nor my psychiatrist know exactly what's wrong with me or what I need to do about it.

>> No.16607242

Are all of PKD's endings so rushed ?

>> No.16607294

>>16607234
Mine is more to do with visualize the anxiety and depression periods with dreams, monsters and other absurdist images. Researching psychology helps and there are plenty of ideas to draw from the anecdotes in the field so maybe try doing that to figure out an ending.

>> No.16607561

>>16607294
maybe we can help each other.

originally, my idea was going to be a story that relates aspergers with the gnostic view of the universe and the asymmetries in the laws of physics (specifically in that all three are a perfect example of "it's not a bug, it's a feature"), but the problem is that my character's issue (and my issue) isn't just aspergers. It's more like she goes through phases where she develops temporary super-intelligence and is so addicted to them she can't enjoy being normal

>> No.16607562

>>16605031
Dilate

>> No.16607587

>>16607562
you don't even know what that word means, do you anon?

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>>16597767
>Finally get around to read Dune Messiah
>First few chapters involve wondering how a fish man has sex and a Bene Gesserit plot to get Paul to sleep with his sister
I was told the series gets weirder as it goes on but hot damn we went from politics to borderline erotica real fast.

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>>16601244
I use to give Sanderson shit, I still do really.
But fuck, how is the prologue of Mistborn barely interesting while Sanderson STRUGGLES to get anywhere with WoK?

I genuinely couldn't believe that it felt like it was better written, even though it came out well before The Way of Kings.

>> No.16609083

>>16606947
Ah, that makes sense. Cheers.

>> No.16609092

>>16602860
Anyone know which series this is?

>> No.16609312

>>16609092
Found it after a load of looking, it's "Gagner la guerre"

Also could try accursed kings because that's very good even in translation

>> No.16609317

>>16609312
Merci anon!

>> No.16609331

>>16604197
>Who else burnt out on books?
I burn out ever summer and then come back and read like 100 books between autumn and easter

Although I've increasingly got less tolerance for mediocre stuff which kinda sucks

>> No.16609741

>>16609331
I typically read 3-4 books each spring, 1-2 each fall/winter. Wish I could read more.

Recently started reading Dune, hope to get through God Emperor by the end of the year.

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16609753

Does anyone know of any good "green sci-fi" books or societies within science fiction that are ecologically focused? I'm thinking of world building similar to the eco faction in Anno 2070 to give a loose reference. If there's any /lit/ that describes green technology, focusing on renewables, biotech, sustainability, self-sufficiency, or similar technologies, I would like to hear about them.

>> No.16609786

>>16604197
I'm getting back into reading. I'm going for comfy old faves that I know I like again. But yeah I don't get hype for a lot of new books unless the authors have already put out good shit. Like I'm going to read John Crowley's Ka next. I've read part and it's good.

>> No.16609820

>>16608598
The wild ride is only warming up.

>> No.16609855

>>16609753
Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson. I guess it was inspired by Ernest Callenbach's Ectopia but I haven't read that one.

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Can anyone here give me their opinions on Guin Saga? 145 books, 130 of which were written by the original author. Seems like a lot of story.

>> No.16609882

>>16609855
*Ecotopia

>> No.16610011

>
Impossible to go down in history! I'm bored, it's long ... The explanations on neurosciences drag on, the author constantly philosophizes on psychology. Lots of clichés. The thriller is just an excuse. Too bad, because the presentation of the publisher had caught me. I don't know if I will be able to finish it.

frenchie filtered by bakker

>> No.16610107

Any opinions on Harlan Ellison? His interviews are amazing.

>> No.16610119

>>16610107
Ellison is a lot of fun, both as a person and as a writer. I miss that crazy fool.

>> No.16610121

>>16610107
I don't know how he did it but he was try hard faggot and based at the same time

>> No.16610159

>>16609856
It's good, but overwhelming majority isn't available in English. Also don't be fooled by number of volumes because the series WAS finished. It just has a really extensive epilogue.

>> No.16610187

>>16610159
Then you would recommend the 5 books that are available in English? Do they end on a huge cliffhanger?

>> No.16610194

>>16598543
>What are the best audiobooks adaptions for books?

Depends on what you're looking for. More recent Star Wars audiobooks are productions with sound effects and music tracks, for example. My personal favorite would probably be The Black Company because Marc Vietor has just that right gravely voice that doesn't grate on you with long listens. When the narrator actually CHANGES it's due to the writing and not some half-way swap.

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>>16609856
Something so gigantic can't be good.

>> No.16610249

>>16609856
>>16610237
There's 3 chapters of manga based on one of the books translated, so you can check it outt for yourself if you want.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/19546/1

>> No.16610268

>>16610249
Anon I'm asking about a book series and you're telling me to read a comic book adaptation? Nonsense. Might as well just tell everyone to watch the movie adaptations instead of reading the books and shut down /lit/.

>> No.16610280

>>16610268
No, I'm telling you to try a piece of related media for free so you can form your own opinion instead of having one spoonfed to you second hand.

>> No.16610294

>>16610280
Anon
>Hey how's book X
>I dunno lol watch the movie
>But I didn't ask about the movie
>Form your own opinion dude the movie is related
That's what you just said. "Related media" is completely irrelevant.

>> No.16610299

>>16610237
When you account for format differences, bunkobon being A6, you'd basically need 4-5 of those for a typical western novel equivalent. Tons of smaller books are for some reason more popular in Japan versus big tomes.

>> No.16610305

>>16610294
If the movie was free and 5 minutes long then that would be a great recommendation, yes.

>> No.16610314

>>16610294
It's literally a direct adaptation of the opening if one of the books you retarded faggot.

>> No.16610316

>>16610305
But I'm not asking about the movie, I'm asking about the book
A movie and a book are different products
Likewise a manga and a book are different products
Do you see?

>> No.16610338

>>16610299
>Tons of smaller books are for some reason more popular in Japan versus big tomes.
*rubs hands*

>> No.16610341

>>16610338
It's actually because they're intended to be read while commuting.

>> No.16610346

>>16610338
Books in Japan cost absolutely nothing because they're printed on recycled toilet paper

>> No.16610361

>>16610316
And someone already told you what they think of the book, so the only thing left is for you to form your own opinion and reading some quick chapters is a great way to do that. Instead of arguing here for 30 minutes you could have already finished doing that and gotten a better idea of what it's like. Do you take medication?

>> No.16610370

>>16610361
>reading some quick chapters
Reading quick chapters of a manga will let you form an opinion of the manga, yes. But I'm not interested in the manga.

>> No.16610392

I really enjoyed Abercrombie's books and i've read all of them. What's a good series to start reading that compares to his works?

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>>16610370

>> No.16610419

>>16610394
>go to /lit/
>ask about books
>lol read manga
>no
>lol you have autism
If I was interested in the manga I wouldn't be asking about the books. You do realize this is /lit/ and not /a/?

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>>16597767
the boobas! momma give me warmth!!!

>> No.16610429

>>16610370
It will give you an impression of the plot and characters, which are, according to anon, identical. They don't have to be the exact same to get a taste to know if it's for you or not. But I guess reading between the lines is too hard for someone on the spectrum.

>> No.16610434

>>16603687
Me. Read book 1 and book 2, don't read book 3.

>> No.16610440

>>16610429
Just because I'm interested in Japanese books doesn't mean I'm some pedo weeb who wants to read manga.

>> No.16610452

>>16610440
Autism and pedophilia overlap regularly.

>> No.16610469

>>16610440
So it took you like 7 posts to say that you simply don't like it? You were trying to do some weird shit with comparisons to movies making zero sense which only an autistic person with stunted social skills would do. Going through day to day life must be hard for you, my condolences.

>> No.16610480

I just finished Cradle series (by the way thanks to whoever recommended it to me, I had an impression it was some chinese manga stuff but was told to try it anyway)

What do I read now?

>> No.16610487

>>16610480
Absolutely nothing remotely similar to Cradle. Asking for recommendations without stating what you've read or what you want to read is kind of hard to answer.

>> No.16610513

>>16610469
Anon it makes perfect sense not to tell a person asking about books to go to another artform. Manga or movies or radio plays, take your pick of anything other than the book. It's all not the book. If someone asks you about the book, you don't tell them to go try something else.
Why is this so hard?

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>>16610487
>Absolutely nothing remotely similar to Cradle
Kill me now please.

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shit and you told me WoW books couldn't be written well

>> No.16610902

>>16610704
Yes, you played yourself by reading one.

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>tfw One Piece is better than most sff

>>16610480
Thousand Li is giving me similar Cradle vibes and makes me want to finally read Wintersteel even though I'll be disappointed.
>Thousand Li is literally Chinese people

>> No.16611310

>>16610912
>to finally read Wintersteel even though I'll be disappointed
Yes, after you read it you will have to live with the fact that next book is not out for at least 6 months and that is very dissapointing.

>> No.16611323

Alright nigras, I finished blindsight, need a new hard sci fi to read
Going to read over the thread for any suggestions already made, but give me more

>> No.16611359

>>16611310
Nah, Uncrowned and his subsequent shitty attitude toward critique is what disappointed me.
>>16611323
http://www.blindsight.space/

>> No.16611360

>>16609753
I like this and am going to look for one as well, don’t want a soft sci fi or fantasy though

>> No.16611372

>>16609753
The Windup Girl

>> No.16611398

>>16611372
Ty anon

>> No.16611475

>>16611359
Wintersteel is better than uncrowned

>> No.16611642

any books with an economics element to it?

>> No.16611663

>>16609855
>>16611360
>>16611372
Thanks Anons. I'm also open to some biopunk stories as well, as in a roundabout way that genre is somewhat related, if more on the darker side of the same technologies explored. If anyone can help me build a decent reading list for the genre I would definitely appreciate it.

>> No.16611690

>>16611663
I should note that I'm mostly focused on ecopunk/solarpunk as well as certain biopunk themes as they are relevant.

>> No.16612040

>>16601637
>Is Guy Gavriel Kay worth reading? Which book should I start with?
I love Lions of al Rassan. A Song for Arbonne is pretty good too, if you can look past the pseudo medieval courtly love shenanigans

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Currently reading this. I've read most of Abercrombie's novels, but I'm finding this one a bit of a bore honestly. Both Orso and Leo are uninteresting characters and not a whole lot seems to be going on.

>> No.16612143

Are there any post apocalyptic SF or fantasy books where Earth's catastrophe is just rising sea levels/global warming and perhaps some sickness or lack of resources that greatly decreased population? Maybe 1000 or 10000 years into the future.
Something with the aesthetics of Urth or Canticle for Leibowitz maybe, except it's less desert and more tropical islands I guess..

>>16611642
Spice & Wolf if you don't mind Weeb shit.

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>>16601926
I doubt anyone cares about my take on this book. But I'm already 4 parts deep, might as well finish it out.
So I just finished part 5, and it wasn't very good. I think they were going for a Noir detective thing with genders reversed. Where the hard detective is a woman, and then the most beautiful man she ever sees comes in asking for help. IDK, I never been into noir stuff, so it was all meh to me.

Still there was a lot of explaining about AIs and their involvement in the world, so that was interesting. I think the events of Jonny's case, is suppose to parallel what the pilgrims have to do at Hyperion. To use a simulation of the future, in order to create an entity of the past, who then dies and is carried inside a vessel, until they're eventually reborn into a new body. I don't know, maybe I'm completely wrong. The story is really straining my ability to comprehend. But I'm thinking that Rachel will be reborn somehow. But not exactly as the Rachel we knew. Rather, as someone else capable of far more.

I'm probably way off. Oh well. I'm still digging the story. Hopefully it won't remain *too* mysterious by the end. I need some things explained.

>> No.16612189

Will is a fucking badass. The god damn cat

>> No.16612447

>>16611359
Your critiques are irrelevant and rightfully unheeded.

>> No.16612628

>>16612143
Rifters series by Watts somewhat fits. Though it's not 100 years into the guture, more like 100-200 iirc

>> No.16612636

>>16612447
He doesn't monitor this thread so this is the wrong place to lick his boots.

>> No.16612682

>>16612628
Thanks, sounds interesting, but I'm more interested in very far future stuff.

>> No.16612746

>>16612636
It's meant to be in general, not just here. Anywhere and at anytime for any author.

>> No.16612840

>>16610692
His other series travelers gate is kind of similar. A little rough but not awful. I think he might pick it back up

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Anyone here have any beginners recommendations on sci-fi or horror books. Playing vidya all day is getting boring

>> No.16613092

>>16613022
Charts in OP

>> No.16613252

>>16610912
One piece is trash

>> No.16613483

>>16613022
Nightflyers. Single book, so not a huge investment. Written like a horror but in space.

>> No.16613613

>>16610392
Acts of caine

>> No.16613644 [DELETED] 

>>16597767
>General Discussion & Group Reads
>https://discord.com/invite/KWPCM7m

Hello! I noticed that there's a discord in the OP which must mean that discord links are allowed here. Unfortunately the one in OP is controlled by a pedophile. Fortunately, there is a better SFFG Discord:

http://discord.gg/FXDaKEy

>> No.16613664

>>16613644
Maybe if plead enough you'll be allowed back in.

>> No.16613776

>>16613022
Ship of Fools is a nice horror/SF book, although the ending is a bit of a letdown. Still fun overall.

>> No.16613825

>>16613022
roadside picnic, hyperion, or the dying earth for sci fi
the black company, the way of kings or tigana for fantasy

>> No.16613841 [DELETED] 

>>16597767
>General Discussion & Group Reads
>https://discord.com/invite/KWPCM7m

Hello! I noticed that there's a discord in the OP which must mean that discord links are allowed here. Unfortunately the one in OP is controlled by a pedophile. Fortunately, there is a better SFFG Discord:

http://discord.gg/FXDaKEy

>> No.16613882

>>16609753
Did a fagg/out/ really start a large fire because of faulty advice from /a/. The pictures are even from his own phone.

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>>16612168
ok. I finished Hyperion book 1. It left off on a cliffhanger as I predicted.A quite ridiculous cliffhanger. They really sang "We're off to see the wizard". What the fuck.

Um, so the last pilgrim's story wasn't all that interesting. But it was a nice bit of world building, and helped me understand the whole time debt thing better. I'm still not 100% on it, but I think I know enough now to make sense of the time loss through travel.
So yeah, I really don't have much to say about his story, other than "that happened". IDK, I feel like the book peaked with the jew's story. That's a tough act to follow.

I'm kind of excited to jump into the next book. The stage is all set for a lot of craziness to happen. I'm kind of expecting a bunch of war and fighting. Which I think some other anon was hinting at here. >>16594066 So I'm lowering my expectations going in. I honestly just want answers. I want to know what the grand plan is, and how it will all fall out.

>> No.16613912

>>16613883
You into grannies?

>> No.16613919

>>16613912
No. But the image is relevant to the story. If you know, you know.

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16613937

What is the consensus on Joe Abercrombie?

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Pretty good. I love a solid ending and it was enough to make up for how frayed my suspension of disbelief was by the end of Angier's memoir.

I think overall I enjoyed The Inverted World more, but The Prestige is definitely the better book.

>> No.16613975

>>16613938
Didn't that turn into a movie?

>>16613022
Metro 2033
Hull zero three

>> No.16613981

>>16609753
galactic north

>> No.16614003

>>16612143
New york 2140

>>16609753
Wind up girl

>> No.16614019 [DELETED] 

>>16597767
>General Discussion & Group Reads
>https://discord.com/invite/KWPCM7m

Hello! I noticed that there's a discord in the OP which must mean that discord links are allowed here. Unfortunately the one in OP is controlled by a pedophile. Fortunately, there is a better SFFG Discord:

http://discord.gg/FXDaKEy

>> No.16614109

>>16614003
Wind up girl is shit

>> No.16614115 [DELETED] 

The guy who runs the Discord in the op is a pedo. Join this one instead: discord.gg/FXDaKEy

>> No.16614130

>>16614115
I wish the both of you would go away. Discord is cancer for a site like this.
It takes discussion away from the site for 1. And 2, it allows a culture to grow separately from the site, to then impose its will on the site.

>> No.16614138

>>16614130
sage, report, ignore

>> No.16614143

>>16614138
ok, ok. Ignoring starting now.

>> No.16614146

>>16614109
You just jelly you can't get a qt perfect wind up waifu

>> No.16614151

>>16614138
Oh, but shouldn't be report the OP too? Like when the next thread is made, should we just report any OP with a discord link?

>> No.16614152

Imagine spamming thinking that you can get away with your regular shit.

>> No.16614156

>>16614151
That would be fair. Unfortunately the rule isn't being enforced fairly. Gee I wonder why

>> No.16614163

>>16614152
Dilate you retard

>> No.16614164

>>16614151
The op isn't spamming his link.

>> No.16614172

>>16614151
No because mods are also newfags and would not understand that being the reason why it would receive reports.

>> No.16614177

>>16614164
Spamming? It was posted, then deleted.

>> No.16614187

>>16614177
Then posted again. Hopefully it gets deleted again, and the poster gets banned.

>> No.16614189

Wtf? There is a book called murder hobo?
https://www.audible.com/pd/Something-Audiobook/B08KSFJC2R

>> No.16614194

>>16614187
Why is it allowed for one person but not another?

>> No.16614196

>>16614177
Three times

>> No.16614203

>>16614194
Because it would be punishing the entire general for one person's actions.
If the link could have been deleted without deleting the thread, it would have been done.

>> No.16614216

>>16613919
Read the book years ago, don't remember much.
I can't remember if there was granny fucking.

>> No.16614217

>>16614196
Yes. Because I refuse to accept that it's okay for one person to do but not another.

>> No.16614226

>>16614189
This looks like weapons grade shlock

>>16614194
Neither should be, but shilling mid-thread is 10x more obnoxious.

>> No.16614236

>>16614226
It's obnoxious that this faggot has been allowed to shill his thing. He's a mod here and he's abusing his power.

>> No.16614272

>>16614194
Why do we need a second discord? The spammer's mad that he got banned, that's the only reason his discord exists.

>> No.16614288

>>16614236
Ah. So you're just mad you can't bring up politics there like you can here.
Well we have a mod now, so don't think you will be getting away with off topic shit like you used to.

>> No.16614301

>>16614272
It's not spam. It was posted once. Abusive deletions don't count.
>>16614288
Yeah, I get it. You got a position here. Congrats bro.

>> No.16614312

>>16614216
In the final portion of the book, a story is told about a jump pilot, who experiences a lot of time debt due to his job. He falls in love with a girl who is "not yet 16" as the book described her about 10 times. Kind of weird that he wanted us to know she was 15 and the pilot was 19 at the time. But anyway many years passed between ship journeys. In the pilot's time, only about 10 months passed. But on the world where his love was, time still moved like normal. She was aging in about 11 year gaps. So he would reunite with her at 26, 37, 48, 69, and 70. Those aren't the exact intervals of time, but close enough. So in the end, they were still together when she was 70, and he was like 20-something. They still loved each other, and fucked and took a boat ride. The book even describes him kissing her wrinkles and caressing her stretch marks. Graphically describing her sinewy form, veiny hands, shorn hair, and the shapeless sweater she wore while out on the water. It was hilariously detailed granny fucking.

>> No.16614336
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16614336

>>16612143
Bumping for this request.
Any fiction or non fiction about rising sea levels or living conditions on Earth in the long(est) term? Something organic that doesn't rely on a nuclear holocaust or COVID-2631 AD and is not magical stuff like Jack Vance/Dying Earth.

>> No.16614359

/sffg/, I imagine I know the answer already, but is this premise way too similar to Homestuck

>a colony of isekai survivors become separated when a an artifact one of them found in the ruins activates, scattering them across the otherworld
>scattering them isn't the only thing the artifact did. It also set a countdown to the end of the world. If they want to survive, getting home isn't enough

>> No.16614366

>>16613981
Galactic south

>> No.16614377

>>16614301
>It was posted once. Abusive deletions don't count
Yeah dude if a janny deletes something that's a clear signal that it should be reposted.

>> No.16614380

>16614377
If they're enforcing the rules inconsistently, it absolutely is.

>> No.16614381

>>16614359
So the premise is basically 'you need to escape the game'?

>> No.16614384

>16614272
Wrong.

>> No.16614420

>>16614381
there's no game involved, nor game mechanics.

also, a slight difference is that the people experiencing this were already in the magical world when the story started. The artifact didn't send them to a different world, it just moved them around inside it

>> No.16614455

>>16614312
Ah yes. I remember now.

>> No.16614459

>>16614336
Read your fucking replies.

>> No.16614469

>>16614420
When you describe it like that, it doesn't sound that similar. I'm assuming you've lifted some elements and changed them slightly which is why you have misgivings

>> No.16614495

>>16597767
Why is there a discord link allowed in the op?

>> No.16614530

>>16614469
There's quite a lot in common when I picture it in my head. You've got a bunch of kids (admittedly traveling in groups) who are navigating a strange environment full of talking animals and monsters, using some kind of communication system engineered by a cynical blind dude while the apocalypse is going down around them that involves meteors, a war, godlike entities tied to the setting's elemental system and the shattering of space, all because someone dug ancient technology out of some mysterious ruins

honestly, I'm asking not because I'm not sure it's plagiarism. I'm asking because I don't have any other ideas how to make a self-contained story for my sequel, the themes for this story actually work together in an original way, and I'm hoping someone would tell me I'm just worrying too much

>> No.16614563

>>16614530
Eh. I'd say that's fine unless you also plan to use the adventure format.

As a fellow homeslice fan I can't not recommend 17776

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

>> No.16614592

>>16614530
I haven't read homestuck but plagiarism is illegal when copying word for word copyrighted material.
Stealing ideas is standard for anything creative. At worst you'll be considered a hack. At best you'll become the world's richest novelist.

>> No.16614606 [DELETED] 

Just testing something. Don't mind me. FXDaKEy

>> No.16614661

>>16614459
I asked about 1000 years and preferably far future stuff and I got 2 recs about the next 100-150 years.

>> No.16614742

There are currently 19 deleted posts in this thread.

>> No.16614764

>>16614742
Yeah, the board got taken over by an abusive/rogue mod apparently. Sucks.

>> No.16614783

>>16614764
Cry me a river.

>> No.16614794

>>16614783
Dilate, queer

>> No.16614822

>>16597767
'cutting down' - bot shaw.
it's a sf short story I read on the asimov science fiction magazine, about a man whose wife becomes so fat, her fat becomes sentiment and kills him in his sleep. Wonderful story I think about it almsot monthly, and I think reading it set part of my fat phobia.
Any other fiction that can trigger the fat phobia? I remember a robin hood book where the protag was cursed to become fat and I was very scared.

>> No.16614853

>>16614822
robin hob*

>> No.16614895

>>16612143
Drowned World

>> No.16614898

>>16614822
Thinner by stephen king (under his pseudonym) is the reverse, fat guy cursed to become a thin dude.

>> No.16614904

>>16614495
It's where people post nudes of your mom. Stop sperging about inconsequential shit.

>> No.16614919

>>16614904
It seems like that link is being allowed but others are being deleted. Doesn't seem inconsequential to me.

>> No.16614932

>>16614919
>hur-dur

People here don't even read OP. Move the fuck on you sperg.

>> No.16614936

>>16605481
Part 2

Seems my silly statements were wrong.
The sense of mystery continues, making for a compelling read where it's difficult to stop.
Church as the real historian? Maybe, it's suspicious what he did on his secret trips. Francis is indeed a loose end.
I'd say the rating depends on how part 3 goes. 4 wouldn't be wrong at this time.

The exploration reminded me more of dungeon delving or spelunking than exploring a ship. Faintly reminiscent of the movie Prometheus. It seems being the ship can be rather affecting on all its own. They seemed less concerned about what happens with the eyes than they ought to be.

> I don't think people understand the enormity of what we've found
I like this because I prefer the older meaning of "utter wickedness" and it seems to be play on that since most probably see it as "enormous" now.

The ship certainly is huge if it can take several hours to get from on location to another at moderate speed and that me be only a small part of it.

Random box is random. Any deeper meaning? Probably not.

> two of them are stalking each other through the ship
Probably something similar happened to the old woman.

Seems they still have various languages, for whatever reason.

> re-gen treatments
Explains the 140 year old.

> dark blue substance oozed from it
Toothpaste!

> photograph
Of Earth?

> women
Clones?

> wall produced water and food
Humans as pets/slaves/something else?

> the link is broken...I've made a different connection
The weirdest thing about this was the light coming on and directly shining down on him. How dramatic.

>> No.16614971 [DELETED] 

>>16614932
This is very abusive. You shouldn't be acting this way, especially as a mod. But, I'm not surprised.

>> No.16615011

>>16614151
>>16614163
>>16614177
>>16614194
>>16614217
>>16614236
>>16614301
>>16614380
>>16614495
>>16614764
>>16614794
>>16614919
>>16614971
Can you fuck off. You have literal autism, and you're throwing a fit because people don't wanna see you're off topic shit. Last (you) you're getting from me.

>> No.16615019

>>16615011
Please stop giving them the attention they so desperately want

>> No.16615044 [DELETED] 

>>16615011
I will fuck off when the rules are enforced fairly and exceptions stop being made for one particular guy who happens to be a mod here.

>> No.16615182

>>16614895
Thanks

>> No.16615197 [DELETED] 

>>16615011
Fuck off? Sure. When the rules are enforced fairly and exceptions stop being made for one particular guy who happens to be a mod here, I'll fuck off.

>> No.16615209 [DELETED] 

>>16614932
You deleted my reply to this. That doesn't mean you're right. It just makes you an asshole. Enforce the rules evenly or not at all. People can see what you're deleting on archived dot moe you know.

>> No.16615216 [DELETED] 

>>16615011
Fuck off? Fine. When the rules are enforced fairly and exceptions stop being made for one particular guy who happens to be a mod here, I'll fuck off.

>> No.16615260

>>16615209
>People can see what you're deleting on archived dot moe you know.
There's literally a link to the archives in the OP. This really highlights the fact that the OP doesn't matter, and you're sperging out over nothing.

>> No.16615266

>>16615044
>My hobbies include being Mad Online

>> No.16615281
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16615281

Recommend me some right wing fantasy works.

>> No.16615287

>>16615281
The Fifth Season

>> No.16615292

>>16615281
Starship Troopers

>> No.16615294

>>16615281
The Bible

>> No.16615303

>>16615260
It must matter if a janny is going through so much trouble to silence the guy trying to do the same as what's in the op.

>> No.16615421 [DELETED] 

>>16614932
Deleting my replies to this post makes you look weak and proves me right.

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16615442

Post a book that you read in the last year that you felt actually delivered on it's hype.

Also, fuck off topic arguing over whose got the smaller dick.

>> No.16615447

>>16615442
Gideon the Ninth deserved the hype. The sequel, no.

>> No.16615483

>>16600428
Diamond Age is very good. Seveneves is a cool premise but quite boring (very hard scifi). Snow Crash is at the other pole; it is supposed to be fun and light. The first 20 pages were the best bit so if you don't like that crazy pizza delivery scene you probably won't particularly enjoy the rest.

>> No.16615487

>>16615447
Really? I heard it has a lot of very cringey type humor and the characters talk like modern teenagers.

>> No.16615500

>>16600428
I enjoyed Snow Crash's sense of humor and have read it a couple times Big U and Cobweb are good, Diamond Age is my favorite. I dropped Cryptonomicon halfway thru. it was fine but I felt like I'd had enough after 500 pages and there was still another half a book to go.

>> No.16615501 [DELETED] 

>>16615011
>Can you fuck off.
Yes, as soon as you stop abusing your power and selectively enforcing the rules to your own benefit. Faggot.

>> No.16615503 [DELETED] 

>>16614932
>he's a trannitor
>on the internet
>on an anime imageboard
>he does it for free
>he takes his "job" very seriously
>he does it because it is the only amount of power & control he will ever have in his pathetic life
>he deletes threads he doesn't like because whenever he gets upset he has an asthma attack
>he deletes threads he doesn't like because they interfere with the large backlog of little girl chinese cartoons he still has to watch
>he will never have a real job
>he will never move out of his parent's house
>he will never be at a healthy weight
>he will never know how to cook anything besides a hot pocket
>he will never have a girlfriend
>he will never have any friends

>> No.16615507

>>16615487
What you've heard is true. It's glorious.

>> No.16615509 [DELETED] 

>>16615503
Holy fucking kek, my sides are detached and have become bigm

>> No.16615510

>>16607561
Not the guy you're responding to but super-intelligence is one of those things (like time travel) that is extremely difficult to write about. Just a general caution about that.

>> No.16615522

>>16615507
Well I'm past the age of that but I'm glad there's something that kids can identify with.

>> No.16615526

>>16615522
So mature. How do you cope with 4chan lmao

>> No.16615544

>>16613883
The ending of H1 was quite shit. H2 is a step change down in quality, and you should be aware that H3 is a step change of the same (or maybe greater) magnitude downwards from that one. Good luck.

>> No.16615548

>>16615522
You could've saved this exchange by letting us know you don't like books about teens.

>> No.16615565

>>16615548
Actually several of my favorite books have a largely teen cast. There's a difference between teens and meme spouting cringe though.

>> No.16615576

>>16615565
>There's a difference between teens and meme spouting cringe though.
Is there, though?

>> No.16615591 [DELETED] 

>>16614932
>he's a tranitor
>on the internet
>on an anime imageboard
>he does it for free
>he takes his "job" very seriously
>he does it because it is the only amount of power & control he will ever have in his pathetic life
>he deletes threads he doesn't like because whenever he gets upset he has an asthma attack
>he deletes threads he doesn't like because they interfere with the large backlog of little girl chinese cartoons he still has to watch
>he will never have a real job
>he will never move out of his parent's house
>he will never be at a healthy weight
>he will never know how to cook anything besides a hot pocket
>he will never have a girlfriend
>he will never have any friends

>> No.16615595 [DELETED] 

>>16615011
>Can you fuck off
Only when you start following the same rules as everyone else and stop deleting my posts calling you out for failing to do so.

>> No.16615597

>>16615576
Teens a hundred years ago weren't talking about the newest memes on 9gag or whatever site that stuff comes from now, so yeah.

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>>16615597
Yeah fads are a modern invention.

>> No.16615704

>>16615011
>>16615011
>Can you fuck off
I will do that when you start following the same rules as everyone else and stop deleting my posts calling you out for failing to do so.

>> No.16615710

>>16614932
You will never ever pass as female "alice"

>he's a janitor
>on the internet
>on an anime imageboard
>he does it for free
>he takes his "job" very seriously
>he does it because it is the only amount of power & control he will ever have in his pathetic life
>he deletes threads he doesn't like because whenever he gets upset he has an asthma attack
>he deletes threads he doesn't like because they interfere with the large backlog of little girl chinese cartoons he still has to watch
>he will never have a real job
>he will never move out of his parent's house
>he will never be at a healthy weight
>he will never know how to cook anything besides a hot pocket
>he will never have a girlfriend
>he will never have any friends

>> No.16615712

>>16615704
>>16615710
Are you the same dude autisming over hating manga earlier? I really hope there isn't more than one autist of that caliber here.

>> No.16615726

>>16615712
No I don't give a fuck about manga one way or the other, I just hate transgender people who become mods on the internet so they can abuse their power constantly like "alice" (aeos) is doing

>> No.16615729

>>16615710
Kek

>> No.16615735

>>16615726
Damn, so this place breeds multiple people like this. Impressive. They should make studies about /sffg/.

>> No.16616067

>entire thread full of some literal abortion reject FAS newfag pouting because he can't mindlessly spam his discord
god i hate newfags and hate how this is the only place I can discuss sff

>> No.16616107

4 more post till new thread.
Slave get ready and wipe the discord from the OP.

>> No.16616109

>>16616107
You can become a slave. Google search a generic fantasy image for the OP.

>> No.16616153

>>16616109
I was the goddamned slave for 5 years. Not going back.

Also bump limit.

>> No.16616161

i'll do it

new thread
>>16616158
>>16616158
>>16616158
>>16616158

>> No.16616550

>>16614151
Ban people who link or screenshot twitter,Reddit,Facebook,reset era,chapotraphouse,hoodsite,world star,tik tok, bunkerchan,2ch,8kun, Snapchat and etc