/lit/ - Literature

>>1741295

I'm not going to bite on the /lit/ snobbery, but I do have a question...

...why is the editor given, but no writer? Is it a compilation?

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

Some of /tg/ likes it, not all of /tg/.

/tg/ here. Hello, /b/. Get out of /lit/'s bathroom.

>>1741311
Yes,

Anything by CS Goto is golden.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

Not all of /tg/ likes that shit. I wish I could have the hours back from reading a 40k book on /tg/'s recommendation.

>Fear the Alien

It's got some good stories in there. Mistress Baeda's Gift, Faces and the Core are all decent. There's some proper crap, though, like Prometheus Requiem.

>>>/tg/14790016

Too fast to be a coincidence. It's a /b/ setup.

Anyway, how are you doing, /lit/?

HURRR HURRR

science fiction is not real literature guise. lemme go back to reading my depressing stories of people living boring shit lives in the 1800's.

am i a philosopher yet?
no?
GOD IS DEAD!
how bout now?

/tg/ recommended me the Black Company series, so I can't be too mad at them.

/tg/ actually has probably the best write and drawfaggotry of the boards, though.

strange.

Gav is best writer.
AGREE.

>>1741351
agreed.

Anyone read any good science fiction recently? I'm tired of reading Lovecraft. The harder the sci-fi the better. (Major classics: Foundation series, Ender's Game, Dune, etc. already read.)

>>1741326

Not too bad, yourself?

This is now a portal from /tg/ to /lit/.

>>1741351
We entertain ourselves by telling and writing collaborative stories. It's just that we use dice.

I'm with you guys, though. 40k is garbage. Even if this IS a troll thread.

Holy shit! There's a board where they talk about books....

>>1741377
Personally I think Hamilton does great sci-fi.

>>1741377
Dragon's Egg.

>Dragon's Egg

Ohh fuck yes. That was an excellent read.

>>1741377
Anything by Lem

>>1741377
Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
Ilium and Olympos also by Dan Simmons
Commonwealth Saga and Void Trilogy by Peter F. Hamliton
Orphanage Series by Robert Buetner
Mobile Suit Gundam (the novel) by Yoshiuko Tomino
Armor by John Steakly

what am i forgetting?

I got some short stories I can dump. Anyone up for some reading?

>follow portal to /lit/
>haven't been here in a long time
>whole front page is obvious "lol, itrollu" threads
OP is muckin' about.

ROIGHT YEW GITZ! TIME FO SUM DELICIOUS COPYPASTA OF SUM WRITEFAGGOTRY.

HERES SOME MORE.

>>1741377

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/reading.php#Fiction

>>1741351
also we got the shittiest drawfags too. Just saying.

>>1741459
Psssh, THAT one? This one is much better.

40k fluff is only good for making fun of for being ridiculous, barely anyone reads the books seriously and enjoys them

>>1741403
>Dan Simmons and Hyperion series.

I hope you meant the 2 first Hyperion books only and disregarded Endymion because if you didn't then laughinggirls.jpg is in order,

Here's a two part Humanity FUCK YEAH

There is nothing Ork-related worth reading by Black Library, except for Deff Skwadrun.

Fear the Alien is a shit book.

>>1741482
And the (better) second part.

>>1741469
BAH. that one sucks. NOW THIS ONE IS GOOD.

/tg/ what are you doing.

>>1741489
Pic that goes with it.

Assassin short stories

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VSMTX00M- War of the Roses

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5DQ9XL5C- Raven's Cut

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JIX48L78- Darkness Comes Together

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5D9O78HI- Coin of the Realm

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RS1NHXJM- Green Stones

>>1741495
storytime.

Helping with some Changeling.

Well now, if we're allowed to link things.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Shy%20Guardsman

YOU'LL READ IT ALL AND LOVE IT.

Bombardini

SEE THE MIGHT OF HUMANITY.

>>1741497

you nothing about assassin stories until you read the Vlad Taltos series

>>1741513
oh. I like that one.

>>1741521
I'll have to look into that.

The man... The hero.. The legend

I present the tale of Sameo the Paladin.

heres a good one

>>1741527
It's a pretty high magic fantasy. So high that just the poorest peasants can't do magic. So a lot of people can just chill his drink with magic and things like that.
Also the author got a pretty good concept about a few things like, how throwing knives work and things like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Taltos

I wholesomely and entirely understand that anything put out by the Black Library is inherently garabage, in relation to what can be considered 'good' literature.
Doesn't stop me from enjoying it, though.
It's more space opera than fantasy, more The Tempest or MacBeth than Henry the IVth (not that I'm claiming it's even close to Shakespearean in quality, just in... motif?). It's all decadent and spoiled and ugly and violent; and it's all so fun.
Reading it with any other emotion besides a tongue-in-cheek 'fuck yeah, aliens/heresy/daemons/Catholic Space Nazis' is asking for trouble

Oh look, an obvious troll thread.

There is nothing wrong with reading tie-in fiction if that is what you enjoy.

There is nothing wrong with reading science fiction if that is what you enjoy.

There is nothing wrong with reading fantasy if that is what you enjoy.

etc. etc. etc.

OLD MAN HENDERSON. you must read this.

>>1741533
Oh man, I remember that one, really high ranked on sup/tg/.
I wonder how many people are actually reading these.

PART 2

>>1741547
lol I donno.
I wonder how many people there are on this board anyways.
heres ozzmar the pally.

>>1741541
We're aware of that. We changed the troll thread into a story time thread. Sit back and bask in it's glow.

Alright, time for a Looooong one. This is a tale of a man.

And a larp.

part 2

>Damn flood detection.

>>1741558
it begins...

part 3

>>1741558
part 2

>>1741541
Everyone knows that goto cannot write for shit.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/C.S._Goto

>>1741566
Larp part 3

By the way, does /lit/ have something like sup/tg/ for its creative ventures? I figure you guys have to have even more writefaggotry going on than /tg/ does.

>>1741575
cough....

/sound of crickets chirping

>>1741570
There are a few bad authors in every genre. Including Warhammer tie-ins.

ohhh... /tg/ story time!

>>1741587
and http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Matthew_Ward

>>1741575
Larp story 4

Computer just crashed.

>>1741590
DAMN RIGHT ITS STORY TIME!
dumping 1 of 6

2 of 6

>>1741598
Larp the 5

3 of 6

4 of 6

>>1741607
Larp 6

5 of 6

aaaaaand number 6

>>1741614
Larp the last.

Shame I didn't save this one story the misadventures of a Chaotic Good dwarf. Guy was awesome.

>>1741622
got the name of the dwarf? I might be able to find it.

SOUND OFF. IS THERE ANYONE IN HERE BUT THE DUDES DUMPING THE STORYTIME?

>>1741595
No need to convince me.

As a fellow /tg/er I know all about Ward and Goto.

I'm more of an Abnett fan myself.

>>1741628
Perhaps they are busy reading instead of posting?

>>1741630
fuck yea abnett, him write gooder thin me.

>>1741636
goddamn I hope so.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14748343/

Was just flipping through sup/tg/. Hamlet made orky.

Looking through my thread folder to see if I can find anything interesting left. I really should organize this thing.

Pretty sure this one is actually /v/ but oh well.

Looks like you might have more then me.

aaaaand im out.

>>1741690
Oh baby, wasteland wanderer. Odd we don't have more of his stories captured. sup/tg/ has spoiled us I suppose.

I'm starting to get the feeling /lit/ is a bit slower moving than /tg/.

>>1741695
thusly.

this
>>1741580
but yea.

Can't find it in image file form, so here comes the story of Gav and Bob:

Gav Smith was part of the Imperial Guard. He was a Guardsman and this made Gav very happy. Gav liked being a Guardsman because then he could do the will of the Immortal God-Emperor and that was one of Gavs most favourite things to do in the whole world. Today it was Gavs turn to fetch the huge sack of potatoes from the food wagon and to peel them. Gav liked to do this because he also liked eating potato peal. The Commissar said Gav was a good Ogyrn because Gav did all the things that he was told to do. This made Gav very happy. The Commissar was not like other Commissars because he did not shout and shoot people for being scared of things like small spaces and the dark. This was good because Gav did not like small spaces and Gav was scared of the dark because that was when nightmares came to get you was in the dark. The Commissar was Gavs friend. The Commissar was not an Ogyrn like Gav and was really smart and could read and write and Gav could not do that because it was too hard, not even the Sarge could read long words. But the Commissar said that that was ok because Gav was better at killing orks than he was. This made Gav very happy because Gav liked to be useful.

'Do you want to help peel the potatoes Bob?' asked Gav.

Bob was one of Gavs friends. They had come from the same tribe on the planet Barakak. Gav missed his tribe. When the war against the Orks was over he would be able to go back home. Or if more than 10 years was over. It had been nearly 2 years and they had nearly won. The Commissar said this was because Gav and his friends were such good fighters and that they were making the Emperor happy by killing nasty orks. The Commissars name was Larrykin Von Kelvsetine but he said that Gav and his friends could call him Arry if they wanted to because they were all friends.

>>1741700
'Yes please.' Said Bob. Bob liked eating potato peel too.

For breakfast it was mash potato and mushy peas. Gav did not like mushy peas. Peas should come in a pod and they should not be mushy. Gav had used to grow peas for his tribe. Gav missed his tribe. But he had such wonderful friends here as well. It was good to have friends. Especially when you had to kill orks. Gav killed orks with a big las-cannon. The Commissar said it was a gift from the Emperor so Gav kept it clean and shiny and made sure that he did not put it down somewhere and forget where. But some times he did. But then the Commissar would come and tell him where he had lost it and then he would tell Gav to not do it again. But Gav always did even though he never meant to. This made Gav sorry. Bob killed orks with a las-cannon as well but Bob did not lose his so much. Gav sometimes wished he was as good at not loosing things as Bob was. The Commissar did not have a big shiny gun like Gav. All Arry had was a small long-las-rifle but that was ok because the Arry was very small. Commissar Arry was very clever because had been everywhere and done everything. Once he had stood on a landmine and one of his legs was made of metal. And it went clonk when he kicked a stone. Gav was happy that his foot is not made of metal because it sounds cold.

Bob liked having potato-peeling contests with Gav. Gav kept on loosing but Gav did not mind, because he was peeling potatoes for the Emperor.

>>1741704
Gav loved fighting. He wished he was better at it. Whenever he sparred with Bob, he always ended up knocked out. But he didn't mind. He knew that Bob was helping him get better. And the better he got, the better Gav could serve the Immortal Emperor.

Gav hated the small tank he had to ride in. Every time he was called to serve the Emperor, he had to ride in that scary, dark place. But it was all right, because Bob was there and he'd lead all the other Ogryn in a rousing chorus of "Da Empruh is Da Best". They only knew the chorus, anyway, but it helped the dark, tight place seem less scary.

The flashing lights always made Gav happy. That meant he was going to serve his Emperor! That meant the door would open and he'd be able to shoot his gun. Gav loved his gun. He loved when he fired it and the enemy died. He'd hold down the trigger and shout at the enemy, making them die in the name of his Emperor, his best friend Bob right beside him. He liked Bob. Bob was his best friend.

>>1741707
Gav had fought all kinds of enemies of the Emperor.

His favorite were the Greenskins, cause they seemed to like fighting as much as Gav did. He knew to go for the big ones, the one who was hitting all the others. It was a race, to see who would kill the big one first. Bob usually won. If you killed the big one, the regular Orks would be easier to beat.

The bugs scared Gav. They made him sick to his stomach, especially when he slammed the butt of his gun against their head and they blew up all over him. They smelled bad, and tasted bad. You couldn't cook bugs, not even the Stumpies could make them taste good. The pants stealers were the worst. Gav always made sure his belt was extra-tight when he fought pants stealers.

>>1741708
The humans who'd turned against the Emperor always made Gav extra angry. Why would they stop loving the Emperor? What did the Emperor do to them, except love them and protect them? Gav always loved killing bad humans. It made him feel good. Commissar Arry said that was good. Being angry against trayterrs was good. That made Gav happy. When Arry first told Gav that, he'd hugged Arry so hard he'd had to stay in the Medicae Hotel for a week. The food was really good when Gav visited.

Gav had only faced the metal heads once, but he knew that he never wanted to do it again. No matter how hard you hit them, they'd just get back up again. It wasn't fair. Every other enemy was kind enough to die when you showed them how bad they were. The metal heads were cheaters, coming back to life like that. Bob said that Arry said that his professor Kain at the big school was scared of the metal heads. Gav didn't believe him. Commissars aren't scared of anything, and Kain is some kind of Super Commissar. He must melt metal heads with his eyes or something.

Gav hated the Elders. They were like shiny bugs. You'd almost get your hands on them and they'd slip through your fingers. Their little arrows hurt, too. Bob was better at fighting Elders than Gav. He'd back them into a corner and crush their mushy bodies with his bare hands. 'Dey break easy once ya korner 'em.' Bob would say, shiny blood covering his uniform. That made Gav smile. He missed Bob. Bob always made him smile.

>>1741713
Gav was there the day that Arry died.

One day Gav and Bob and all their friends had gone for a walk. They were walking through a forest. Gav liked the forest because it smelled like home. Arry was walking at the back of them. He always did this to make sure none of them got lost. Gave once got lost. It had made him scared. Arry never got lost. He was really smart like that.

But then an ork all dressed like a tree shot him. Gave did not see it happen. He could not stop it. The sound of Arry dying had warned them all. They had killed the nasty orks with the big guns the Emperor had given them. But Arry was dead.

They took him back to the camp to see if the flesh fixer could fix him. He tried but Arry had already gone to the Emperor. This made the whole tribe sad. Everyone in the tribe liked Arry. Arry was smart.

They dug a hole for Arry to sleep in. Bob was the priest of the tribe so Bob said the death words over the place where Arry slept.

The whole tribe wept. They did not weep for Arry because Arry was with the Emperor. They wept for them selves because they had been left behind.

>>1741714
Losing Arry was bad. But losing Bob made Gav sadder than ever.

Bob was the reason Gav hated demons as much as he did. He'd fought them before, and he'd found them all to be so confusing. Some of them were easy, charging or shambling forward with big swords or small daggers. They broke easy. The skinny ones were like Elder, but they made Gav feel weird. Look at them was like looking at a girl Ogryn after Gav had learned what they were for. But they broke easier than the redskin or rotting demons, once you could stop them from dancing.

The last demons were the kind that took Bob. He hated them most of all. He hated their laughing at him.

They'd surprised them after Bob and Gav had been leading their new Commissar- Gav could never remember his name- into a church to the Emperor. Gav had a headache the whole time. They'd made the place bad. They'd broken statues of the Emperor and carved a weird flame all over the church.

>>1741718
That's when the demons had attacked. They'd burned the Commissar before any of Gav's group could reacte. They looked like water that had grown faces. Looking at those faces made Gav's nose bleed. Gav would never forget those faces.

Bob rushed into the thick of things, like he always did. Bob was always that way, charging forward for the Emperor, killing his enemies. Bob was good at that. He was a good friend.

The water demons were fast, really fast. They jumped back and burned Bob to a crisp, but Bob didn't die like the Commissar. Gav sometimes felt bad that he couldn't remember the Commissar's name. He hoped someone remembered the Commissar's name.

Bob caught one of the water demons with his hands and ripped it apart. It was pink before, and it had been happy. Laughing. Now the two pieces were blue, and they weren't happy anymore. They attacked Bob and bit at him. The other tribe had started killing the other water demons, but they were too late.

Bob's last words always made Gav sad. "I'm gonna miss the potatah skins..." Gav beat the blue water demons until he was slamming his hands into the floor of the church. He kept it up until he realized his hands were bleeding. He kept doing it until he realized he was crying. He kept crying until the General had found them.

Gav still misses Bob. Bob was a good friend.

>>1741700
; ;

>>1741719
Gav had never wanted to kill one of his friends. The General was a friend. But he wanted to kill the General once. He wanted to kill the General when he said that Bob needed to be burned.

The tribe had their ways. Bob needed to be honored and buried, like all good friends. But the General said that Bob's body was sick. That if they didn't burn it that those water demons could come back.

They burned Bob's body right there in that church. But not before Gav got his tribe together and gave him a short, proper funeral.

Gav was Bob's best friend. His other tribesmen let him give the last words.

"Bob wuz a good friend. He liked to fight. He liked potato skins. He was a good soldier fer da Empruh. Now he's wif dah Emprah." Then one of the General's friends burned Bob's body right there in the Emperor's church.

Now whenever Gav peels potatoes, he thinks of Bob. It doesn't hurt as bad anymore. Now he smiles and remembers how good a friend Bob was. Bob always mad Gav smile. Even when he was dead, he could make Gav smile.

Gav couldn't eat another potato skin. It didn't taste good anymore.

>>1741723
THEY KILLED BOB.

>>1741727
I found that one about the dwarf I mentioned earlier. It isn't really a writefag so I won't cuntpaste it, but I thought you might like it anyway.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12976701/

>>1741732
thanks. anyways. im off ta dinner. cya later.

I just leave this here

>>1741750

Oh god, I NEED TO READ THAT THREAD!

What board is it? /lit/? Is it on green oval? I searched rape factory and it didn't turn up! Agh!

>>1741755

It's a /tg/ thread. Enjoy:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14288873/

HUUUUUUUUUUUR

Seriously though, some of the inquisitor stuff wasn't bad.

>>1741758

AWESOME

>>1741775

and here is another one that you will like:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/11262498/

I'll just leave this here.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/921167/

>>1741780

I got a real kick out of that one

BUMP

>>1741403

Ugh. The Void Trilogy was fucking awful. But Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained were great.